Um?
She touched it with her hand and felt a slight difference in texture.
A bad feeling welled up inside her, and she slowly scratched a crack open with her fingernail.
It really is a human skin mask!
She was terrified!
Who is this person?!
Could it be that I slept with the wrong person?!
To be on the safe side, she decisively took a needle from under the pillow and inserted it directly into his sleeping acupoint, making him sleep even more soundly.
Then he slowly removed his human skin mask.
A familiar face, one she had disliked countless times, suddenly appeared before her eyes.
She was terrified, sat up clutching the blanket, and glared angrily at the prince's face.
My whole body was trembling!
That despicable and shameless Chu Heng actually impersonated her senior brother to deceive her?!
She quickly got up, dressed herself, took out a dagger from her dressing table box, and was about to stab him in the heart.
But she suddenly stopped.
She recalled the familiar scent of agarwood on her senior brother's body when they had just been intimate.
This is the scent I gave to Doctor Gu when I was young, after we suggested mixing the antidote into the candles. My senior brother was surrounded by the scent of candles every night, and gradually he also developed this fragrance.
Later, she discovered that Crown Prince Chu Heng also had this agarwood fragrance on him. At that time, she thought that Chu Heng had spent too much time with his senior brother and had been tainted by it.
at the same time……
My senior brother was plagued by bad luck in his childhood.
Chu Heng was also plagued by bad luck.
My senior brother is nearing the end.
Chu Heng's days are numbered.
The two of them are so alike... and they've never been seen together in front of her!
Could it be... that these two people were actually the same person?!
Her heart was in turmoil.
She then recalled how Chu Heng had eagerly come to propose to her, even preparing a blank imperial decree for marriage, just waiting for her to nod and fill in her name.
But I firmly refused, and refused several times.
She even looked down on him in front of her senior!
Then she turned around and said she wanted to marry him, but he still wouldn't agree!
This is so embarrassing, it's a disgrace to my grandmother's family!
The most terrifying thing is that I just... forced myself on her!
Even a slap in the face can't be this satisfying!
How will she ever face anyone again?!
She gritted her teeth, glaring at him mercilessly, before relentlessly withdrawing the dagger.
If Chu Heng is her senior brother, how could she possibly do that?!
She angrily began packing her valuables, rolling up the banknotes she had painstakingly earned over the years and stuffing them into her bundle.
Then, carrying his bundle, he climbed over the wall and left the Yun Mansion.
She finally understood why the masked guard Jia Nan looked so much like Nan Zhuo; they were actually the same person!
Knowing that Nan Zhuo was definitely hiding in the shadows, she didn't alert him. Instead, she went directly to the Xuan Prince's residence, found Granny Qin, and reasoned with her until she finally got the definite answer from Granny Qin: the Xuan Prince's heir had actually died ten years ago while saving the Crown Prince.
For so many years, the Crown Prince has always pretended to be the Crown Prince in front of Princess Xuan in order to stabilize her condition and prevent her from doing anything foolish.
So, when I first met him in Sanyang Village, Taizhou that year, was he disguised as Yuan Bai to escape pursuit? Was his chance appearance in the capital due to the official position held by the Crown Prince of Xuan? Or was he simply impersonating the Crown Prince of Xuan to conceal the truth from me?
Having figured all this out, You Ran, feeling utterly lost and disoriented, rode a horse from sunset to sunrise, finally collapsing from exhaustion onto a barren field.
What she didn't know was that that night, and for the next few days, the Yun family searched almost the entire capital city for her.
Over there, when Chu Heng woke up, he touched the mask with a strip still stuck to his forehead, knowing that he had been exposed and that the little girl was furious and had gone missing.
He returned to the palace, filled in the blank name on the imperial decree of marriage, solemnly took it to the Yun residence, confessed everything to Yun Yue and his wife and Su Youchen, and promised that he would never betray her again in this life.
Although he was brutally beaten by Su Youchen, what worried him even more was that You Ran might never be found again after disappearing.
He knew how much power You Ran possessed!
Sure enough, ten days later, the Yun family received a letter. You Ran said that she had settled down somewhere and was very safe. She told her family not to worry about her or look for her. She also made clear arrangements for all the shops and estates she had left in the capital, leaving some for her third sister as dowry and others for her brother as betrothal gifts...
Upon hearing the news, Chu Heng immediately rushed to the town where the letter had been sent, but he couldn't find anyone there at all.
For the next few years, he searched tirelessly, rushing to any clue he received, but to no avail.
...
Five years have passed in the blink of an eye.
In the south, in an inconspicuous little village.
In an inconspicuous little bamboo house at the entrance of the village.
A five-year-old child was sitting in a grand chair, taking the pulse of a girl in front of him in a very professional manner.
Then he said in a serious tone, "Sister Lin, you just have a slight cold. Just drink more hot water and sweat it out. You don't need to take any medicine."
The girl immediately reached out and pinched his cheek. "Oh, my little darling! I love it when you listen to me. Say a few more words!"
The boy pursed his lips and looked at a patient in line behind him. "Next."
Miss Lin still wouldn't let go, "Oh dear, I've been queuing for two hours, don't be so heartless!"
A twig reached over and quickly struck the back of her hand. "I already said, five coins only get you one pinch on the cheek! If you pinch it again, Sister Lin will have to pay another five coins!"
Miss Lin had no choice but to let go, and when she looked at the little girl with the same features and face as the boy, who was holding a willow branch, she wished she could rush over and hug her.
The girl neither dodged nor flinched, but stretched out her hands and chuckled, "Come on, give me a hug, ten coins!"
Miss Lin pinched her flat purse, stomped her foot, and stormed off in a huff.
Well, I've already had some good fortune today!
I'm going to town today to sell the handkerchiefs she embroidered; I'm sure I'll get a good price!
She screamed as she went out.
The boy calmly took the pulse of the next patient, sitting as still as a mountain.
The little girl curiously ran to the door to take a look, and a moment later, she rushed into the back room, shouting loudly, "Mother, a patient has come!"
The five or six aunts and uncles queuing outside all twitched at the corners of their mouths.
So those who were lining up for "medical treatment" weren't patients at all?
Oh well, they're used to it anyway.
A short while later, the girl led a woman dressed in coarse cloth into the back room through the curtain.
The woman was carrying a basket of dried herbs. She put it down before walking outside.
The little girl pointed to a man lying outside the door and said, "Mother, you said that you can pick up sick pigs and dogs, but you can't pick up sick people. I didn't pick them up."
The man's lips twitched violently; was he being called worse than a pig or a dog?
He weakly opened his eyes; the sunlight was so intense that he couldn't see the person standing in front of him at all.
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