Am I dead and hallucinating?
Su Muyao subconsciously called out, "Big sister?" Her voice was hoarse.
Su Ruojin quickly grabbed her hand, "Mu Yao, it's me."
Su Muyao blinked her still slightly swollen eyes, and called out again, seemingly in disbelief, "Big sister?"
"Yes, Mu Yao, it's me. You're at the Prince's residence now. You're alright."
Su Muyao slowly regained consciousness, her eyes darted around, and when she realized that she was no longer in the dungeon, she understood that it was her older sister who had saved her.
Su Muyao closed her eyes, and tears welled up in her eyes.
Su Ruojin felt a lump in her throat and took out a handkerchief to wipe Su Muyao's eyes. "Muyao, don't be sad. You're safe now. It's alright, it's alright. Big sister will take good care of you."
"Don't cry, it's bad if your tears get on your wound. Don't blame me if you become ugly later."
Hearing her older sister say that, Su Muyao stopped crying, but when she tried to laugh, it aggravated the wound on her face.
Suddenly, she remembered something and quickly said, "Big sister... hairpin..."
She instinctively reached for the hairpin in her hair, but the moment she moved, a sharp pain shot through her hand, causing Mu Yao to gasp.
"Don't move, you just had surgery on your hand, let me take it." Su Ruojin understood what she meant and reached out to take the only plum blossom hairpin left in Su Muyao's hair.
Upon seeing the hairpin, Su Ruojin understood.
This was a gift she gave to Mu Yao, but it contained a sleeping potion so that Mu Yao could protect herself if she encountered danger.
Fortunately, it was a wooden hairpin, which others didn't value, and thus it has been preserved to this day.
Su Ruojin opened the hairpin and took out the note inside, which read: Under the pine and cypress trees of the Deng residence.
Su Ruojin handed the note to Hu Qing.
Hu Qing took the note and turned to leave.
In the entire Deng mansion, there was only one pine and cypress tree outside Deng Yi's study. Deng Yi never expected that what he had been looking for was actually buried outside his study.
"Big sister...it's my fault, cough cough." Thinking of Deng Yi, Su Muyao's eyes reddened again.
"Mu Yao, you've done very well. You haven't fully recovered yet, so it's not good for you to talk too much. Why don't you rest for a few days, and then we can talk again, okay?"
Su Muyao nodded obediently.
At this moment, Shen Yu came in carrying a bowl. "Mu Yao, come on, have some porridge."
Shen Yu had something on his mind and couldn't sleep well all night. He finally managed to fall asleep for a while, but soon woke up again.
He and Yanluo stayed in Muyao's room together. When they saw that she had woken up, they rushed to the kitchen to bring her some porridge.
Su Ruojin reached out to take the porridge, but Shen Yu quickly said, "I dare not trouble Your Highness, let me do it."
Su Muyao was terrified when she saw the prince about to feed her porridge.
"No... I wouldn't dare trouble the young master." After saying that, she blushed and looked at Su Ruojin for help.
Su Ruojin had already noticed that Shen Yu had changed how he addressed her. Oh, when did this young master Shen start having feelings for Mu Yao?
However, Shen Yu is paired with Mu Yao...
Hmm, that seems pretty good too.
Shen Yu is the heir of the Marquis of Anguo. Although he seems somewhat cynical and uninterested in officialdom, his harem is clean and tidy, and he has never had any concubines.
For this reason alone, Shen Yu was someone many noble ladies in the capital wanted to marry.
Thinking back to before, when Shen Yu carried Mu Yao out of the Qingya Garden dungeon, it was Shen Yu who rescued her.
Seeing Mu Yao's pleading eyes and her reddened eyes, Su Ruojin looked at Yanluo, "Yanluo, come and feed Mu Yao some porridge. Young Master Shen, is it convenient for us to talk?"
When Shen Yu heard that Su Ruojin wanted to talk to him, he had no choice but to hand the bowl to Yan Luo.
Su Muyao visibly breathed a sigh of relief and began to sip the porridge that Yan Luo had fed her.
Upon entering the adjacent room, Su Ruojin looked at Shen Yu and slowly asked a question.
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