Chapter 197: Meeting your lover here...in secret?

Xu Yanyi narrowed her eyes, suddenly turned around and walked quickly towards the table. Before Mu Nanzhou could react, he saw Xu Yanyi spreading out the rice paper with the help of the moonlight coming in from the window, holding three brushes neatly on her fingers and biting one in her mouth.

"You, do you want to paint a new picture?"

Mu Nanzhou was a little surprised. Xu Yanyi was good at playing the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but the late emperor was even better in these areas, especially painting. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was lifelike. Could Xu Yanyi imitate him?

Just thinking this, Mu Nanzhou walked over curiously. He was still wondering if he should take over and help paint a few strokes. After all, his painting was much better than Xu Yanyi's. Who knew that when he saw it, Mu Nanzhou was stunned: "You, you painted it?"

Xu Yanyi spat out the pen in her mouth, raised her head and rolled her eyes at him: "Or it could be you?"

“…”

Mu Nanzhou just felt his scalp tingling. He had seen many paintings by Xu Yanyi, and at best, they were not bad, but to reach such a level was truly unprecedented. Was she really hiding her talents before, or was she not Xu Yanyi?

If such a painter is pretending, he is really very good at it!

"It's done. Can you see if there's anything missing? I'm too lazy to take the painting apart again."

Xu Yanyi packed up the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, hammered himself on the back and rubbed his waist, "What are you doing standing there? Don't you remember what the painting looks like? Are you stupid?"

Mu Nanzhou came back to his senses and frowned: "When did you become so good at painting?"

Xu Yanyi rolled her eyes at him. She could draw better. If she wasn't afraid of surpassing the original and attracting too much attention, she would definitely not draw it like this.

“I’ve always been so good at drawing.”

Xu Yanyi yawned, and with great effort opened the scroll she had just packed and carried on her back. She put the two paintings together and compared the details one by one. Only when there were no problems did Xu Yanyi breathe a sigh of relief. She then neatly removed the frame of the original painting and mounted it on the new one. She also manually used some method to make the drawing paper look a little older.

So at first glance, they are exactly the same.

Mu Nanzhou was dumbfounded.

Xu Yanyi hung the new painting back to its original place and rolled up the old painting and put it back on her back.

She turned around and saw Mu Nanzhou staring at her. She frowned and said, "What? Just look at yourself and I know you don't understand me. You don't know that I'm so good at painting, right?"

She had to control herself from complaining in her heart, otherwise it would be bad if someone heard it.

Mu Nanzhou frowned, as if he had a lot of questions in his mind but couldn't ask a single question.

Xu Yanyi spoke directly: "Tell me, what is your intention in coming to me? If you want me to continue to help you be the Princess of Nanling, then you have to find a way to solve the public opinion problem yourself. Otherwise, I also have a way to solve the emperor. I will not marry Xie Dan!"

Hearing this, Mu Nanzhou came back to his senses. He pursed his thin lips. This woman is so arrogant!

Mu Nanzhou snorted: "I do have a way to solve the public opinion problem, but I need your cooperation!"

"I'll cooperate with you, but even if I still hold this crappy position as Princess of Nanling, I don't want to move back to Nanling Palace. When I look at you and Li Qiu'er, I feel like vomiting and can't eat." Xu Yanyi made no secret of her dislike for Mu Nanzhou.

Mu Nanzhou's face was gloomy: "I didn't ask you to come back and live here! Didn't you just get the Summer Resort back from the Queen Mother and use it as your princess residence?"

"That's not a trap, that's returning the property to its original owner!"

Xu Yanyi smiled slightly, "Also, I am just occupying the title of princess, but when I find out the truth about the rebels, I don't care whether you have found your first wife or not, we have to separate, don't hold me back!"

This is simply treating Mu Nanzhou like shit!

Mu Nanzhou was so angry that he gnashed his teeth. If someone hadn't asked him for help, or if he hadn't been sentimental, he wouldn't have done this!

After taking a deep breath, Mu Nanzhou said coldly: "Don't think that I love you very much! I have to drag you along!"

"Oh, that's good. I was so afraid that you would rekindle your old feelings for me. That would be terrible."

Xu Yanyi yawned, turned around and left.

Mu Nanzhou choked and blurted out: "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to go back to bed. I'll leave now. As for you, if you want to stay and do some extreme sports with the Queen Mother, I won't expose you."

Having said that, Xu Yanyi covered her face with the brocade handkerchief again, opened the door and went out quickly.

Mu Nanzhou suppressed his anger, turned around and jumped out of the rear window again, disappearing on the palace wall with extremely fast movements.

"Aunt Jinyu, do you want to go wash up?"

A eunuch saw Xu Yanyi still covering her face with a silk handkerchief.

Xu Yanyi nodded: "Of course, who dares to move when serving the Queen Mother? You should keep a close eye on her. The Queen Mother is sleeping soundly, don't wake her up."

"yes!"

"yes!"

The eunuchs responded quickly.

Xu Yanyi walked out quickly with her head down. She went around the grove and dragged out the fainted maid. Then she quickly changed their clothes and even considerately fixed her hair. Then she kicked her.

The maid opened her eyes slowly and said in confusion: "Where is this?"

Xu Yanyi had already hidden behind the rockery, but she happened to run into Mu Nanzhou's arms.

"Fuck! Why are you here again? You're haunting me!"

Xu Yanyi gritted her teeth.

Mu Nanzhou raised his eyebrows in contempt: "If I don't keep an eye on you, who knows what good things you will do next!"

"You can hear what's in my heart now, can't you just listen to it?"

Xu Yanyi lowered her voice and resisted the urge to step on him, staring closely at the palace maid who was still at a loss.

Mu Nanzhou whispered in her ear: "Do you think I don't know what you are up to? When I knew I could hear your inner thoughts, you basically cursed me in your heart in various ways!"

Amount...

See through?

Xu Yanyi's mouth twitched and she ignored him. If this guy was replaced by Master Yue, she would definitely be very happy!

Damn it!

Mentioning Zhan Qiyue again!

Mu Nanzhou subconsciously reached out and grabbed Xu Yanyi's small ear, causing her to scream in pain. The frightened palace maid who already felt it was strange came over quickly and asked, "Who's here?"

"Why, the king and the princess can't sleep, is there any problem with taking a walk here?"

Mu Nanzhou raised his chin proudly, and Xu Yanyi rolled her eyes in disgust.

The maid was startled and quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "This servant pays homage to the King of Nanling, pays homage to... pays homage to the Princess!"

Xu Yanyi nodded with satisfaction, and then acted surprised: "Hey, aren't you a maidservant of the Queen Mother? Why aren't you accompanying the Queen Mother in Cining Palace? Instead, you are outside Yuqing Palace. Are you meeting your lover here... secretly?"