His tone was gentle: "Your Highness, are you alright?"
Because Shen Ling walked too fast, and unlike Shen Ling, she didn't have any martial arts skills, she was panting heavily as she followed Shen Ling: "Your Highness, I told you that nothing could happen to His Highness in the palace, why did you have to be in such a hurry?"
Shen Ling lowered her eyes, smiled, and her bright eyes were especially endearing: "I'm not afraid of the impossible, but I'm afraid of the unexpected."
"I'm fine." Gu Mu naturally took the handkerchief that Chen Ling handed him and wiped his hands with the clean white handkerchief.
Although his hands weren't dirty, seeing such a large puddle of bodily fluids in the study still made him feel uneasy.
Sure enough, Youyou was initially worried about the princess and her attention was entirely on the princess, so she didn't notice the scene in the study at first.
At that moment, his gaze fell upon the pool of corpse water, and he couldn't help but cover his mouth.
His eyes were wide open, like copper bells.
After a while, having calmed down, he looked at the pool of bodily fluids and asked in an extremely disgusted tone, "What's that? It stinks!"
Shen Ling was alright, her complexion was normal.
After all, her attention was entirely on Gu Mu.
She slightly raised her hand, covered her nose with another handkerchief, and said with a charming smile, "We just heard screams coming from Your Highness's study, but now, Your Highness's study is full of people from the Prince's mansion."
“Then those screams must have come from someone else.” Shen Ling glanced around at the servants of the Prince’s mansion in the study. They all looked normal, as if they had just been tortured.
"No matter who it is, as long as His Highness is not injured, that's all that matters."
Shen Ling straightened Gu Mu's clothes with her hand before raising her head and looking intently into Gu Mu's eyes: "Your Highness is just worried and confused. Since Your Highness is alright, I will not disturb you any longer."
With that, Chen Ling turned and prepared to leave the study.
At this moment, Gu Mu had already found out the truth about Zhang Banxian.
The Zhang Banxian who is dead now is just a puppet put out by the real Zhang Banxian.
He was just an ordinary person playing the role of Zhang Bansian.
It seems that Zhang Banxian is hiding something deeper and more terrifying than anyone imagined.
Moreover, according to the elite soldiers sent out and the intelligence gathered by Eunuch Cheng, Zhang Banxian had already appeared in the martial arts world more than a decade ago.
It predates the parchment scrolls that appeared in the world along with the fallen spirits.
Since Zhang Banxian is already so terrifying, it's conceivable that if the sheepskin scroll were to devour people, its strength would also increase rapidly.
However, Gu Mu still needed to be wary of the parchment scroll.
They wouldn't use the sheepskin scroll to deal with Zhang Banxian unless absolutely necessary.
After all, who knows whether what's released will be a powerful weapon or a scourge?
Now that we've found out Zhang Bansian's true abilities...
Right now, Gu Mu has nothing else to do besides a pile of memorials to the emperor...
You can take your time reading the memorials...
But since the princess has already come,
Gu Mu grabbed Chen Ling's hand: "It's not considered disturbing, you can disturb even more."
Shen Ling paused for a moment, then turned around and looked at Gu Mu.
A conflicted look flashed across his face.
Immediately, the base of her ears turned slightly red.
Gu Mu lowered his head, leaned close to Chen Ling's ear, and said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Why don't we discuss how to renovate the palace I'm going to bestow upon you after you become the Empress?"
Shen Ling bit her lip, her eyes sparkling.
His Highness promised her that he would fill the palace he would bestow upon her in the future with the little tricks she loved as a child.
We also need to build a lawn for flying kites.
How long has it been...
This is the first time someone has told her that she can retain her natural instincts.
Shen Ling recalled that when she was a child, she was not even half a person tall when she was sent to her master's place.
Even though she clung to her mother's leg, crying and saying she didn't want to leave her mother.
But what I got in return was a heartless push away.
They said, "Ling'er, you are the only legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister's family. You will marry a prince in the future, and if you have the opportunity, you will assist him in becoming the emperor. How can you be like other children and just play around?"
They also said, "Ling'er, you must learn more skills and not be lazy. Only in this way will you have enough ability to protect yourself in the future."
Shen Ling recalled that the happiest thing in her childhood was probably flying kites with her brother, but that only happened a few times.
She is someone who had no childhood.
She had always been envious.
I used to think that the happiness I lost as a child would be even less likely to return as an adult.
Unexpectedly, His Highness understood her so well. He didn't mention bestowing pearls, jewels, fine clothes, gold, or a magnificent palace upon her.
It was simply a matter of making her empress, giving her the most precious title.
Give her a palace, to become her fairytale house.
"Thank you... Your Highness..." Shen Ling's tone was unusually touched.
No longer as cold and aloof as before due to prolonged restraint.
Gu Mu patted Chen Ling's head: "Then let's go back to the room and talk about how to repair the palace."
...
I woke up
The sun shone through the window, warming me.
Gu Mu slightly opened his eyes, turned over in bed, and looked at Shen Ling's profile not far away, feeling exceptionally beautiful.
This was the first night he and Shen Ling slept in the same room, and Gu Mu felt that their relationship had made great progress.
At that moment, a gust of wind blew into the room from outside the window.
The papers placed on the table, and some of which had fallen to the floor overnight, were scraped and rustled.
This sound also woke up Shen Ling, who hadn't been sleeping well the night before.
She slightly opened her eyes and met Gu Mu's gaze.
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