Ding Mujie originally planned to leave, but then he thought it would be better to give the servant a warning, so as to indirectly make Lin Dan stop, so he stopped and said, "This place is getting more and more remote, it is clearly the inner courtyard, how can it be a place for male guests to take a rest. Don't lead me the way recklessly."
The servant tried to suppress his panic and said, "Mr. Ding, how dare I fool you? If I offend the lady, I will not live any more."
Yes, if this boy bumped into a female guest, he would indeed be in big trouble. However, in his previous life, Ding Mujie was caught red-handed by the guests of the Jiang Mansion. He had no way to defend himself and was kidnapped by the Lin family before he could even find the servant to argue. Lin Dan got what he wanted and was overjoyed. He didn't even have time to thank the servant, so how could he even bother to associate himself with him? What's more, this is the Jiang Mansion. They have committed such a scandal themselves and yet they want to throw dirty water on Lord Jiang. They will offend more than one or two people. Even the Lin family didn't dare to provoke the Jiang family too much, let alone him, an ordinary citizen with no power or influence?
In his previous life, this servant managed to escape safely and later became the steward of the Jiang residence. But now, Ding Mujie can't do anything to him. He could have grabbed the servant and brought him to Prince Jiang to argue with him, exposing his lies and making the servant pay the price, but then what? What if the servant lets Lin Dan down by his own mouth? You know, Lin Dan is still waiting in Linshui Pavilion, and being blocked by someone will be a big trouble.
Although he didn't like Lin Dan's entanglement, he didn't hate her. After all, he owed Lin Dan more in his previous life. He married Lin Dan unwillingly, but treated her like a stranger and never took the initiative to care about her at all. Later, the Lin family encountered a disaster. In order to prevent Lin Dan from doing stupid things, he locked her up at home for five years. He watched her wither like a flower, and passed away silently just after her 25th birthday. He was thousands of miles away at the time and did not have the chance to come back to see her for the last time.
Similarly, he also let down Lin Wan, causing her to break off the engagement with disgrace and she had no choice but to marry King Kang as a concubine. She was eventually poisoned to death by King Kang's favorite concubine. He silently protected Lin Wan for half his life, but all he got was a tablet for her. He always remembered the skinny and emaciated Lin Wan holding his hand tightly and saying intermittently: "Mu Jie, if, I didn't have a sister, if, I could marry you, how nice it would be..." Before she finished her words, she left him first, making him cry bitterly.
Now he has finally returned to his dream, back to the time when nothing had happened. The only thing he wants to do is to change everyone's ending and rewrite those tragedies, rather than take revenge on anyone.
He looked at the servant deeply and said meaningfully, "This place is too remote and secluded, I always feel it is not appropriate. Anyway, it is a sunny day today, the wine will soon dry up, so it doesn't matter if you don't change your clothes. No matter why you brought me here, I don't want to ask, you can go now. It is not easy to be a servant, you should take care of yourself and don't offend anyone."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a teasing voice behind him: "What do you mean by taking care of yourself? But did this servant neglect Master Ding?"
When they looked back, they saw Prince Jiang standing among the flowers, looking at them with a smile. Ding Mujie's expression remained unchanged and he passed over the matter with a few words, but the servant was terrified and his face was as pale as gold paper, as if he was terribly frightened. Prince Jiang did not investigate further and accompanied Ding Mujie back to the front yard. After a while, he found an excuse to leave temporarily.
He came to the study, looked at the servant who was detained by two guards, and asked in a deep voice: "Tell me, what happened just now? Why did you take Ding Mujie to the backyard for no reason?"
The servant tried to argue at first, but after the guards broke several of his fingers, he burst into tears and confessed: "My Lord, it was the eldest daughter of the Lin family who bribed me to take Master Ding to Linshui Pavilion. I don't know what she was going to do!"
"The eldest lady of the Lin family, Lin Dan?" Prince Jiang pondered for a moment, his eyes flashing.
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Lin Dan was awakened by a burst of heat. She felt weak all over, her hands and feet were soft, and there was a fire burning in her stomach, making her feel very uncomfortable. She wanted to jump into the ice water to cool down, but she also wanted to moan and scream in pain. She was on the verge of losing control.
"Get out of here now!" A hoarse voice sounded in her ears, and she realized that she was lying on the couch side by side with a man. Judging from his flushed face and distracted eyes, he must have been drugged.
Oh no, I’ve been ambushed! Lin Dan didn't have time to think about who he was or where he came from before this thought popped up in his mind. She tried to get up, but found herself tied up tightly with a rope and unable to move. The man was not tied up, but the effect of the Chinese medicine was obvious. Just controlling his desire consumed his entire mind, so how could he untie her?
If Lin Dan asked him for help, he might pounce on her in the process of untying her and satisfy his animal desires.
Lin Dan took a deep breath and calmed himself down as quickly as possible. Although he felt confused as to where he was, he subconsciously adjusted his breathing and entered a state of cultivation. This body has martial arts skills and excellent aptitude, but it has not developed internal strength. Lin Dan didn't know who she was, but when she encountered danger and couldn't escape, her brain would automatically extract some useful information so that she could escape as soon as possible.
She began to activate her Dantian instinctively, and in a moment, a ball of heat gathered in her abdomen. The heat catalyzed her desire, but also allowed her to regain some strength. She didn't have time to continue practicing, and she didn't dare to continue. A voice in her heart told her that if she practiced to a certain level, bad things would happen.
When she closed her eyes and entered a state of meditation, the man gritted his teeth and whispered in her ear: "Who are you and why are you here?" His tone was full of doubt, and it was obvious that he regarded Lin Dan as the culprit.
Lin Dan ignored him. Feeling that his body was filled with enough power, he opened his eyes and struggled slightly. There was a dull thud and the ropes that bound her broke into several pieces and fell to the ground with a rustling sound. She got up, and was first dizzy and shaky from the raging desire, before she managed to keep her balance.
The man stared at her in amazement, obviously shocked by her immense strength.
In order to stay awake, Lin Dan took off a golden hairpin and lifted the hem of her skirt, revealing her legs in white underwear.
The man thought she was completely controlled by the drug and wanted to take off her clothes, so he quickly scolded her: "I am Li Xian, the Prince of Zhuang. You'd better think clearly before you act. Can you afford the consequences of provoking the royal family?"
Li Xianzhong was given the palace's drug, the Soul-Losing Powder, which would initially make one's hands and feet weak and unable to move, and only when the lust accumulated to the extreme would one go crazy. But now he was in a weak situation and couldn't leave this place, so he naturally thought that Lin Dan had reached the point of madness.
Lin Dan didn't even give him a glance and stabbed the golden hairpin into her thigh. However, she seemed to have become accustomed to enduring pain, and this minor injury only made her frown, without helping to clear her mind at all. As a last resort, she had to stab her thigh many times until it was bleeding profusely.
To prevent others from noticing what was wrong, she tore off a piece of the curtain, wrapped the bleeding wound in layers, tied it tightly, and then let down her skirt to cover it. Every step she took, she felt a sharp pain in her legs. However, instead of causing her to fall down, the pain made her more awake.
While doing all this, the memories of the original owner gradually flooded into his mind, but they did not help Lin Dan figure out the current situation. She only knew that her name was Lin Dan, and that she was the granddaughter of General Dingguo Lin Ji and the legitimate daughter of General Yangwei Lin Tie. She drank two extra glasses of wine at the banquet hosted by the Jiang family and felt a little dizzy, so she came here to take a nap. When she opened her eyes again, she was drugged and tied up, and placed side by side with a young man.
After learning the man's identity, she almost immediately realized that this situation was not aimed at her, but at the Lin family and Prince Zhuang, so she said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, I am more afraid of provoking the prince than anyone else. I am Lin Dan, the eldest daughter of the Lin family."
Li Xian was frightened by the ferocity of her stabbing his thigh. It took him a while to realize that she was explaining to him. She didn't say a word else. Just revealing her identity was enough to let Li Xian know that no matter who she framed, she would never frame the prince.
The Lin family is full of loyal and brave people. Men from generation to generation have died defending the border. They only have the king and the country in their hearts, and no selfish thoughts. Therefore, successive monarchs have placed great trust in the Lin family and entrusted them with important tasks. In order to maintain a clean family tradition, the Lin family was only loyal to the monarch, never had close relations with any prince, and would not get involved in matters of seizing the throne.
If Lin Dan really had an affair with Prince Zhuang, even if she was caught on the spot, the Lin family would not let her marry into the palace, but would dress her in black clothes and send her to the temple to be a nun. She framed me and got nothing out of it.
Thinking of this, Li Xian no longer looked at her with the same wariness as before.
Lin Dan, however, had no way of trusting him. She picked up the rope on the ground, tied his hands and feet tightly to the bedposts, and explained, "To prevent you from losing control, I can only resort to this last resort. Since you are the King of Zhuang, you should know the consequences of provoking me."
Li Xian was a little angry at first, but he immediately calmed down after hearing this. Indeed, like Lin Dan, he couldn't afford to offend the Lin family. He never liked to compete with his father, so he was trusted by the other party. Seeing that the Crown Prince and Prince Kang were fighting openly and secretly, in order to prevent himself from being affected, he had submitted a memorial and prepared to go to the border to fight. In order to accumulate military merit and connections, he also needs the help of Lin Ji and Lin Tie.
If he had touched Lin Dan today, not only would Lin Ji and Lin Tie hate him to the core, but his father's opinion of him would also plummet. The image of a person who is not interested in worldly matters that he has worked so hard to create over the years would be shattered in an instant, and instead would leave his father with the impression that he is eager for quick success and is unscrupulous. Not only would he be unable to join the army in the future, he would also be detained in the imperial city and under guard, making it increasingly inconvenient for him to act. By then, both the Crown Prince and Prince Kang will regard him as their number one enemy and try their best to eradicate him, because his mother was once the most favored Concubine Shu, who was the most favored in the six palaces. Even though she has been dead for more than ten years, her father still misses her.
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