Li Rong was shocked when she heard the news, and then asked coldly, "Where is Lord Xun?"

"In the long pavilion on the outskirts of the city."

"Immediately."

After Li Rong gave this order, she told the carriage to change direction and then got back into the carriage.

She seemed to be furious, holding the fan tightly, her face looked very ugly. Pei Wenxuan poured her a cup of tea and soothed her, "It's not surprising that Luo Juan hasn't seen anyone for so long. Your Highness, calm down."

"They are so outrageous!"

Li Rong shouted angrily: "Knowing that I was investigating this matter, they still dared to kill him directly. Do they think I am a vegetarian?"

"It is precisely because I know that you are investigating this matter."

Pei Wenxuan said calmly: "That's why they have to kill them."

Li Rong didn't say anything. She looked up at Pei Wenxuan, who had a frighteningly calm expression. "If your Inspection Office is successfully established, it will be too threatening to the noble families. They will force you to retreat at all costs. If you win this battle, your position in the Inspection Office will be secure in the future. If you lose, it will be difficult for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince or His Majesty to build a team to compete with the noble families in the future."

"Of course," Pei Wenxuan said slowly, "Your Highness and my future are over."

Pei Wenxuan spoke very calmly, as if he was talking about something unimportant. Li Rong slowly calmed down as he spoke. Such confrontations were not new. She had experienced them countless times in her previous life. However, she had not been with Pei Wenxuan like this for many years, tied together for life and death.

She couldn't help but look at Pei Wenxuan, sizing up the young man in his early twenties. Pei Wenxuan was leaning against the table, watching people coming and going outside the window, as if thinking about something. He noticed Li Rong's eyes, turned his head, and looked at Li Rong. Seeing Li Rong staring at him, he couldn't help but smile: "Your Highness, why are you looking at me?"

"I just remembered," Li Rong laughed, "It seems like this is the first time we are doing things like we are doing now."

"In the first year of our marriage, our relationship was pretty good," Li Rong tapped her palm with her fan, turned her head and looked out the window with a hint of nostalgia, "but I was still young at the time, and I didn't know much about court affairs, and I had never encountered such a big event."

"Later, when things got bad, we were already quarreling frequently. The only time I was moved by you was when I was in prison. At that time, I thought you would abandon me and Chuan'er and go to Concubine Rou."

As Li Rong spoke, she couldn't help but look over again and said with a smile, "Why didn't you run away at that time?"

Pei Wenxuan was silent. Li Rong didn't care much and continued, "Later, our relationship wasn't very good. We were on guard against each other and helped each other at the same time. We've never been as harmonious as we are now."

"What if I told you that I never thought of giving up on you?"

Pei Wenxuan suddenly spoke. Li Rong looked up in surprise and saw Pei Wenxuan looking at her calmly: "I have never broken the covenant we made in the last life."

So that year, Li Chuan deposed the crown prince and Li Rong was imprisoned. Although he was in a high position, he never thought of relying on others.

He subconsciously chose to go to jail without hesitation at the first moment, even though he had been arguing with Li Rong for many years, and watched the man make a promise to let her wait for him to come back.

Li Rong was speechless, her eyelashes trembling slightly, Pei Wenxuan smiled: "We have been through so many tests, isn't it natural for you to trust me in this life?"

"After all, except for me," Pei Wenxuan said seriously, "no one can guarantee that no matter what the circumstances, I will never betray Your Highness."

Hearing these words, Li Rong chuckled and said gently, "I don't believe in promises."

"I know." Pei Wenxuan also laughed, "I just said it casually."

"Then don't talk about it anymore," Li Rong sighed. "When you say it, I want to take it seriously, but I know in my heart that these words should not be taken seriously. It's painful to think about them, so it's better not to have heard them."

"I'm the one who doesn't know how to speak," Pei Wenxuan apologized quickly, "I'm sorry for bothering Your Highness."

The two chatted casually until they reached the outskirts of the city. As soon as the carriage stopped, Li Rong jumped off immediately. There were several people standing by the pavilion. Li Rong led Pei Wenxuan over and asked hurriedly, "Where are the people?"

"Your Highness, please follow us."

The man responded and led the way into the woods nearby. Not long after Li Rong followed him, she saw a group of people standing around a place. Xun Chuan was standing beside them wearing a mask and clenching his fists.

Li Rong walked forward and asked coldly, "What's going on?"

As she approached, she smelled a foul odor. Before she turned around, Pei Wenxuan stepped forward and blocked Li Rong's sight: "Your Highness, there is no need to look."

“Get out of the way!”

Li Rong pushed Pei Wenxuan away and saw more than a dozen bodies that had been dug out.

Li Rong looked at the corpses scattered all over the floor, then turned to look at Xun Chuan beside her: "Has the body been autopsied?"

"I've checked them." Xun Chuan said hoarsely, "I've also confirmed the identities of all the witnesses involved in the case."

"All dead?"

Li Rong spoke in disbelief, and Xun Chuan nodded: "They are all dead, not a single one is left. I have been investigating these days, and I found that they left Beijing one after another on the same day. Before leaving Beijing, they left a large sum of money for their families, saying that they were going back to the northwest. I followed them along the way and found that they did not stay at any post station or teahouse on the road. I carefully inquired at the place where they last appeared, and kept narrowing the scope, and finally found this place."

Li Rong didn't say anything. She was silent for a moment, then she said, "Cleaning up the body and putting it in the charity house. How did you find this place?"

"There was a scholar at the long pavilion not far away. He happened to be seeing off a friend at the long pavilion that day, and he saw a group of people driving a group of people into the woods. They looked suspicious. I asked the teahouse owner about the whereabouts of the guests he could find, and found this scholar."

"Where are the people?"

"It's under control."

Li Rong felt relieved after hearing these words. She thought for a moment and then said, "Let someone continue the investigation based on the scholar's confession and then go to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Li Rong pursed her lips and said, "Let him find someone to let me go to the Ministry of Justice to see Lord Qin once."

Hearing this, Xun Chuan froze. She looked up at Li Rong. Although she didn't say anything, Li Rong understood what she meant.

"You come with me, but..."

Li Rong started to speak, but before she could finish, Xun Chuan interrupted her: "I understand, Your Highness, don't worry."

Qin Zhenzhen has already died in front of the princess's mansion. No one can take the responsibility for deceiving the emperor and breaking the law.

Li Rong responded and Xun Chuan asked someone to make the arrangements.

Li Rong stood by for a while, looking at the corpses quietly. After a while, she turned around and said, "Let's go."

Pei Wenxuan accompanied her, followed her, and got into the carriage together.

After getting on the carriage, Li Rong closed her eyes, and after a moment she smelled a fragrance lingering around her nose. Then she realized that it was Pei Wenxuan who took out the incense burner from the drawer and lit the incense.

Li Rong laughed: "You still have the leisure and elegance to do this?"

"You are not used to seeing these things," Pei Wenxuan said calmly, "This incense can calm your mind."

Pei Wenxuan covered the incense burner after he finished speaking, and then he sat down next to Li Rong. Before Li Rong could react, he had already rolled up his sleeves, put his hand behind her neck, and placed it on her shoulder, and then used his other hand to press her head on his shoulder.

This posture seemed to completely isolate her from the outside world. The only smell at her nose was the scent of incense mixed with the faint fragrance of his body. These smells and his warmth isolated everything and created an unusually warm and peaceful world for her.

"Close your eyes," Pei Wenxuan said gently, "Don't think about anything. I'm with you."

"Pei Wenxuan," Li Rong closed her eyes as he said, but she still said, "This is not the first time I have seen a dead body. You don't have to take care of me like this."

"I remember that in the tenth year of Kangping, you and I went to the Ministry of Justice together once," Li Rong leaned against Pei Wenxuan and listened to him slowly recounting the past. "You watched the execution of the prisoner, and I saw your hands were shaking. In order to avoid being noticed, you hid your hands in your sleeves and bent them on the armrests. You kept that posture for the whole afternoon."

"I don't remember."

"Then you came out and vomited. Su Rongqing stood beside you, comforting you and serving you tea and water."

Li Rong stopped talking. She listened quietly, and then she heard Pei Wenxuan say, "When I came back that day, I kept thinking that I should have held your hand, lit some incense, and talked to you. Maybe you would have felt better."

"In my last life, I didn't do many things well or achieve them."

Pei Wenxuan said, looking down at Li Rong: "If there is anything I haven't done well in this life, Your Highness, remember to tell me."

Li Rong leaned against him quietly, listening to his heartbeat. Pei Wenxuan asked in confusion: "Your Highness?"

"Very good."

She spoke, but didn't say much.

She thought about Pei Wenxuan's words, and finally found out the details of what Pei Wenxuan said from the distant memories of her previous life.

But after finding it, I couldn't help but think of Su Rongqing back then.

She suddenly realized the difference between Su Rongqing and Pei Wenxuan. Su Rongqing tried his best to treat her, but was also respectful and polite. In Su Rongqing's eyes, she seemed to be born cold and strong, so he never thought that she would be afraid, nor did he ever think that she needed someone to support her occasionally.

Su Rongqing will always just stand behind her, like a shadow, he is there when she turns around, yet so close yet so far away.

Her feelings towards Su Rongqing were different from Pei Wenxuan's back then. She always thought that it was because she met Su Rongqing too late, so it was difficult for her to have the same feelings as a young man.

Only now did she understand that it was because Pei Wenxuan's kindness to him was unreserved and sincere.

It was an unintentional kiss under the night sky, it was talking about the future with fingers intertwined and laughing on the bed, it was that with just the slightest movement from her, he could know what she really wanted.

However, Su Rongqing's kindness to her was always far away.

Accompanying each other for more than ten years, never going beyond a single step. Even an occasional kiss is cold and desperate.

Li Rong closed her eyes, not daring to think too much. Pei Wenxuan held the person in his arms and said slowly, "I didn't want you to see these, but you have to. Then I will make you some calming incense. You can always carry it with you. If you encounter such a situation, you must bring me with you."

"Let's forget about the last life. In this life, I will always be with Your Highness and will not let Your Highness suffer any injustice."

Pei Wenxuan was talking, but there was no response from Li Rong. He looked down and saw that Li Rong seemed to be asleep.

He couldn't help but smile when he saw her sleeping peacefully against him.

He looked at her for a while and wanted to kiss her forehead, but was afraid that she would wake up. Finally, hesitating for a moment, he lowered his head and kissed her hair gently.

Li Rong leaned on him and slept all the way until they entered the city. After entering the city, the two of them went straight to the Ministry of Justice. It was already night when they arrived at the Ministry of Justice. They had their meal in the carriage. Not long after the meal, Li Chuan's people sent a message saying that everything had been arranged.

After all, Li Chuan had been in the court for many years and had many more people he could use than Li Rong. After Li Chuan arranged the people, Li Rong immediately got off the carriage. She led the people to the gate of the Ministry of Justice and saw a man in a black robe waiting there.

Li Rong was quite surprised. She had some guesses in her mind and hurried forward. The other person turned around, revealing his still young face in the night.

"Sister," Li Chuan looked at Li Rong and said seriously, "I'll go in with you."

The author has something to say: [Official Tucao of the Little Theater Cannon Fodder]

Lord Qin (waving his hand): "Your Highness, you finally remembered me?"

Luo Juan + Witness: "Before the readers had time to figure out what we were doing, we were already offline..."

Enemy: "Your Highness, why hasn't he come yet? I'm in a hurry to get off work and eat a box lunch."

Pei Wenxuan: "I'm sorry, everyone. I've slowed down the progress because of my love life."

Everyone: "...Can I request that the male protagonist be offline?"

Pei Wenxuan: "Do you know that in the movie, the male protagonist is usually called... the son of luck? Whoever wants to kill him will die, understand?"

Everyone: “…”