As Prince Jingnan and his wife left, the people of Nanzhao packed up their things and returned to the inn, and the onlookers on the side also left one after another.
Not far away, by the window on the second floor of the hotel, there were two men sitting. One of them was dressed seductively in red. He was the "Brother Yu" who had teased Lin Jinghan in the bar that day!
"Xiao Yu'er, is this the thorny beauty you have been thinking about finding these days? I don't know when you changed your taste and no longer like unmarried girls. Instead, you like this kind of beauty who is already married." The man on the side teased.
"Brother Yu" shook his head and looked in the direction where Lin Jinghan left, his eyes full of inquiry.
"No, no. When I met this beauty, I was sure she was still a girl. I just didn't expect that she was actually the Princess of Jingnan. The Princess of Jingnan is actually still a girl. It's really interesting. I am becoming more and more curious about her."
The man took out his fan and tapped Xiao Yu'er on the head. "Xiao Yu'er, please wake up. Last time, she could have sent you to jail by herself, but now she's with Prince Jingnan. I'm afraid you'll be discovered by the secret guards around Prince Jingnan before you can even get close to her."
There are countless beauties in the capital, I advise you to pick a different flower."
"I was careless last time." Xiao Yu'er slowly folded her five fingers together. "My Jade-faced Fox has never caught a prey that has escaped my grasp."
The news that Princess Jingnan challenged Princess Nanzhao in public quickly spread to every corner of the capital, triggering all kinds of speculation and various versions of the bloody love triangle story.
Among them, this version is the most widely circulated and the one that people believe the most: Princess Nanzhao wanted to compete with Princess Jingnan for the position of King Jingnan, and in order to defend her position, Princess Jingnan did not hesitate to duel with Princess Nanzhao in the street.
There were even casinos that opened bets on whether the princess of Nanzhao would marry a foreign prince, and who she would marry in the end...
"Wu Si, go and place your bet. Bet that Princess Nanzhao will marry into a foreign country." Lin Jinghan smiled and handed a stack of banknotes to Wu Si.
When Wu Si reached out to take the banknotes, Sikong Zhan also handed him a few banknotes. Although he did not say a word, Wu Si understood what he meant - the prince also wanted to bet on Princess Nanzhao's marriage.
Lin Jinghan glanced at the face value of the banknote and twitched her lips. "Your Highness, small gambling is fun, but big gambling is a waste of money!"
She had only taken ten silver notes of one thousand taels each, but this man had actually taken out a hundred thousand taels! He was determined to make the gambling house lose so much money that it would bleed!
"So, this time, we have to go to Jiuan Casino to place the bet." Seeing Lin Jinghan's puzzled expression, Sikong Zhan added,
"The Lin family."
"Oh..." Lin Jinghan nodded and teased again,
"Aren't you afraid that the Lin family will deliberately ruin Murong Huan's marriage in order to avoid losing money?"
Sikong Zhan scratched Lin Jinghan's nose and smiled very dotingly, "Then let's wait and see together."
On the other side, inside the palace.
The emperor received the news that Murong Shuo had taken Murong Qi to Prince Jingnan's mansion and seemed to have prepared a generous gift. He originally suspected that Prince Jingnan was behind the antidote issue, but Princess Jingnan slapped Murong Huan in the face in public today and forced her to marry, so the emperor completely gave up this idea.
Murong Huan had only provoked Princess Jingnan a few times and had not caused any substantial harm to her. However, even after severely injuring Murong Huan, Prince Jingnan still refused to let her go and even wanted to ruin her life.
Therefore, Murong Qi poisoned the Jingnan Army and even attempted to poison him. Given the King of Jingnan's vengeful character, there was no way he would give the antidote to Murong Qi.
This means that the person who entered the palace to steal the antidote was most likely Murong Shuo. As for his subsequent act of exchanging the city for the antidote, it was just an attempt to cover up his own mistake.
"No, I won't marry! I would rather die than marry a foreign prince!" Murong Huan felt pain in his body and even more pain in his heart. He smashed everything that could be smashed in the house.
"What if the person you marry is the one you've been thinking about day and night?" Murong Shuo stood there, motionless, letting his sister vent.
Murong Huan stopped his frantic smashing and smashing, enduring the piercing pain in his body, "Second brother, what did you say?"
Murong Shuo took out his fan and slowly waved it. "I say, if I ask you to marry the Prince of Jingnan, are you willing?"
"Yes!" Murong Huan's eyes flashed with a brilliant light, then dimmed after a moment.
"But I'm not in his heart at all. Will he be willing to marry me?"
Murong Shuo waved his fan, sweeping the debris aside and clearing a path between him and her. He walked closer to her and asked, "Huan'er, don't you have the confidence that he will fall in love with you as we spend time together?"
"Yes!" Murong Huan nodded firmly, then worriedly said, "But..."
Murong Shuo raised his hand and touched her hair, smiling lovingly, "No buts! Since he dares to force you to marry, then it's not up to him to decide whether to marry or not. Just wait and wait to become the Princess of Jingnan."
After leaving Murong Huan, Murong Shuo changed into night clothes, flew out quietly, and secretly met with a man - Baili Zhe.
"I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been having a wonderful time these days." Baili Zhe said jokingly.
Murong Shuo ignored his teasing.
"Since the Sixth Prince has the leisure to watch a joke, I guess the matter has been settled?"
He was actually not familiar with him, this was only the second time they met. He had heard that Baili Zhe appeared to be very friendly, so it seemed that the rumors were not entirely false.
"Of course, don't you see who is doing this?" Baili Zhe took out the mailbox and shook it.
"I wonder how things are going, His Royal Highness?"
Murong Shuo didn't want to waste any more time here, so he casually threw him a mailbox and said, "Follow the plan and don't hinder us!"
"Don't worry about cooperating with me." Bailizhe didn't care about Murong Shuo's attitude. He took the mailbox and threw it to him.
"By the way, don't forget to capture Lin Jinghan. I want her to disappear from the capital within ten days." Murong Shuo turned and left, leaving behind a final sentence.
"Within seven days, Sikong Zhan will definitely leave the capital. That is the best time for you to take action. Sixth Prince, you must seize it."
Baili Zhe changed his playful look and stared at Murong Shuo's back, thinking seriously about the meaning of his words.
After a long time, he withdrew his gaze, casually opened the bamboo tube in his hand, his eyes showing shock. After a moment, he returned to normal and flew away.
Early in the morning, after Lin Jinghan had packed up, she went to the Pingnan Marquis Mansion as agreed.
After handing over the visiting card, soon, the wife of Pingnan Marquis came out to greet them in person with her eldest daughter Lan Lingwei.
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