Nangong Yu'er's intelligence contained fragmented pieces of Li Xiangjun's past.
From the moment she abruptly appeared in Jingtian City as a child until the eve of her becoming the Emperor of Yan, when her name abruptly disappeared.
Judging from this information alone, He Yunxiao couldn't see anything wrong with it.
This made him feel a little better. At least there was no solid evidence against Li Xiangjun.
...
As night fell, He Yunxiao returned to his room, only to find Li Xiangjun sitting there smiling and waiting for him.
"Miss Li?"
Li Xiangjun laughed and said, "What, aren't you welcoming me?"
"No, no." He Yunxiao hurriedly greeted the guests, but he always seemed preoccupied.
He Yunxiao's absent-minded appearance naturally did not escape the keen eyes of the Yan Emperor.
"Lord He doesn't seem very happy," Li Xiangjun asked tentatively.
"Really?" He Yunxiao forced himself to stay alert.
Li Xiangjun squinted, "Heartbroken?"
"Pfft." He Yunxiao spat out a mouthful of tea onto the open ground.
"At least guess something plausible," He Yunxiao complained, wiping the tea from his lips.
Xiangjun shrugged. "It's hard to imagine anything other than a woman that could make you so distracted."
He Yunxiao felt quite ashamed. Had his reputation for being a womanizer already spread from Qi to Yan?
"I do sometimes struggle with important matters, you know."
"I can't tell." Li Xiangjun sat at the table, her small hand supporting her chin, staring wide-eyed at He Yunxiao.
He Yunxiao naturally wouldn't mention "Ziruo suspects you," but instead described the facts: "The peace negotiations ran into a slight mishap."
"A mishap? What mishap?"
He Yunxiao looked at Li Xiangjun with great surprise, thinking to himself: She doesn't know? As the Emperor of Yan, is she less aware of the progress of the peace negotiations than I am?
"Does the young lady know what the King of the Southwest did at the peace conference?"
"I can probably guess. Hasn't he always been against negotiating peace?"
He Yunxiao shook his head. "This time is different. Before the formal peace talks, our personnel and some personnel from Yan had reached an agreement on some demands."
Li Xiangjun nodded. "I know that. And then?"
"Then, at the meeting, the King of the Southwest made public the agreement we had reached in detail."
Li Xiangjun's eyes widened in surprise. "This... there's a mole!"
He Yunxiao nodded.
At this moment, Li Xiangjun suddenly realized something, then looked at He Yunxiao with disdain and said, "You suspect that I tampered with it?"
He Yunxiao said awkwardly, "I didn't, it was Miss Fan..."
Li Xiangjun slammed her hand on the table in anger, saying, "The leak hasn't been investigated yet, and both sides should share responsibility. My people could have leaked it, and your people could have too. What makes you so sure it's my side that's the problem!"
He Yunxiao felt a chill run down his spine. "I believe Miss Li."
"If you truly believed me, why did you look so gloomy when you came in? If I, Li Xiangjun, didn't want to negotiate, I could have simply closed the door to visitors. Why would I risk being punished by my grandfather by standing up for you? If I had known this would happen, I should have thrown your letter in the trash back then!"
"Miss Li..."
I'm leaving!
"Hey! Miss, please wait."
Li Xiangjun got up and walked towards the door, but He Yunxiao quickly stepped forward to stop her.
Unexpectedly, Li Xiangjun, with a dark face, resolutely walked out, bypassing He Yunxiao and leaving without looking back.
Seeing that the human wall couldn't stop him, He Yunxiao reached out and grabbed Li Xiangjun's small hand.
But as soon as the soft little hand entered my palm, it was pulled away by its owner.
Even grabbing hands didn't work, so He Yunxiao had to resort to his last trick: he stepped forward and hugged Li Xiangjun's slender waist.
With He Yunxiao's arms wrapped around her waist from behind, Li Xiangjun was completely unable to move. She tried to pry He Yunxiao's arms off her waist, but due to the vast difference in their strength, she couldn't budge them an inch.
"Let me go."
"Please listen to me first, young lady."
"I won't listen, let go first."
In an attempt to break free, Li Xiangjun even tried to stomp on He Yunxiao's feet with her small feet. However, it had little effect and was almost useless.
If any other female lead had been making such an unreasonable fuss, He Yunxiao would have slapped her on the butt long ago. Unfortunately, he wasn't familiar with Li Xiangjun, and doing so would have been inappropriate.
“Please listen to me, young lady. Zi Ruo is good at observation and has been a strategist for a long time. Her words are often reasonable, and I must listen to them.”
"You only believe her, not me, right?" Even when He Yunxiao hugged her from behind, Li Xiangjun still turned her face to the side and glared at him as she spoke.
“After all, I’ve known Ziruo for a long time,” He Yunxiao said.
"Let me go!" Li Xiangjun, who had been quiet for a while, started making a fuss again.
"Although I haven't known you for long, I've seen everything you've done. I, He Yunxiao, know you very well. However, the Qi delegation isn't just me, and it's not up to me to make the decisions. So, if I strongly support you, it will only cause Ziruo's dissatisfaction."
"Then what do you want?" Li Xiangjun stopped struggling, and her tone became much calmer.
He Yunxiao thought to himself that there was hope, and continued, "Young lady is intelligent. As long as we catch that mole, your innocence will be proven."
"Of course I can do that. But there's no need to prove it to others."
He Yunxiao said earnestly to the person in his arms, "You may not care about your innocence, but I do."
He Yunxiao's words came from behind Li Xiangjun and reached her ears, making her freeze and her heart pound.
For a fleeting moment, Li Xiangjun felt a pang of doubt.
However, she quickly suppressed this hesitation.
As a master manipulator, the Yan Emperor excelled at exploiting people's desires and hesitations. Having learned from countless past mistakes, the Yan Emperor would not allow even the slightest hesitation to ruin her plans.
Li Xiangjun remained silent for a while, suppressing a hint of hesitation, and then restored her emotions to the state she wanted.
“You can let me go now,” she said.
The older sister-in-law's body was exactly the same as Mengbao's, and He Yunxiao mistook her for someone else, unable to let go. After all, the last time he was intimate with Mengbao was more than half a month ago.
"Let go, I won't leave." Li Xiangjun's pretty face turned red after being held by He Yunxiao for a long time, and she bit her lip as she spoke.
He Yunxiao let go, and then found that Miss Li was still facing away from him.
"Miss Li?"
He Yunxiao walked around to Li Xiangjun's side, half-squatting down to observe her, and suddenly noticed that his sister-in-law's face was red.
Are you blushing?
Tsk tsk tsk, a hint of shyness mixed with the embarrassment of being observed, perfect.
Noticing Li Xiangjun's unfriendly gaze, He Yunxiao quickly activated the system. To his surprise, instead of dropping his haogandu (a unit of credit), it had actually increased from the thirties to a full fifty!
"Are you still looking? Is there something on my face?" someone said, expressing their dissatisfaction.
He Yunxiao quickly looked away. "In short, I will help Miss Li find the mole."
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