"You just want that so - called Po Ring, don't you?"
Yun Xi tensed her body and stared intently at Zongzheng Fengyi, saying,
"I have a way to make Yi Zhen willingly get it for you."
"Ridiculous!"
Yi Zhen immediately snapped out coldly, looking at Yun Xi as if she were a madwoman,
"Who do you think you are? You think you can just tell this princess to get it and I'll do it? It's utterly laughable!"
Yun Xi turned to look at Yi Zhen expressionlessly, then slowly pulled out a smile bit by bit.
Her eyes, as clear as autumn water, were filled with mockery and disdain that seemed to see through everything.
It made Yi Zhen feel inexplicably flustered.
Naturally, Zongzheng Fengyi wasn't so easily convinced by Yun Xi. But since there was a win - win way, he was still willing to listen.
"Speak."
Zongzheng Fengyi said simply.
"You're crazy. Her words..."
Yi Zhen turned to Zongzheng Fengyi in disbelief, not expecting that he would actually believe Yun Xi's words. But before she could finish, she heard Yun Xi interrupt her word by word,
"Yi Zhen has feelings for my A Yuan!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone around was surprised and stared round - eyed. They all looked at Yi Zhen in disbelief.
"You... What are you talking nonsense about!?"
Yi Zhen visibly panicked.
The astonishment that was completely unexpected and the shame and annoyance of having her secret exposed were clearly visible in her eyes.
Zongzheng Fengyi's expression suddenly changed.
He scanned Yi Zhen several times with great interest, then said as if suddenly enlightened,
"So that's it. No wonder you hate Yun Xi so much."
"What? When you were sleeping with me that day, were you also thinking about your Uncle Wang..."
"Slap!"
Yi Zhen angrily slapped Zongzheng Fengyi in the face.
Her hand, which hadn't fully dropped yet, was trembling. Yi Zhen had completely lost her former noble and elegant demeanor. All she could think about was:
How did she know? How could this bitch know?
It must be A Yuan! It was A Yuan who told her! It must be, it must be... Otherwise, how could she know!
How could he? How could he? Damn it... A Yuan, you deserve to die too!
Yi Zhen's eyes were blood - red, full of venomous hatred and killing intent that almost overflowed from her eye sockets.
Zongzheng Fengyi narrowed his amber eyes dangerously. Now that he had something on Yi Zhen, he had the confidence and wouldn't take her anger anymore.
Without thinking, he slapped her back with a "slap!"
Yi Zhen staggered and immediately fell to the ground.
The two maidservants behind her were so frightened that they both let out a scream and rushed forward to support her.
Having never suffered such humiliation, Yi Zhen's beautiful eyes were almost spitting fire. She wished she could tear Zongzheng Fengyi to pieces alive. She roared,
"You... Ah!"
Zongzheng Fengyi grabbed her wrist with a force that almost crushed her bones. Yi Zhen didn't say another word after that.
Half - squatting down, Zongzheng Fengyi's eyes were cold and expressionless,
"Get your situation straight. It's you who's at a disadvantage now."
"Get that ring to me before noon tomorrow. Otherwise, don't blame me for spreading your disgusting and dirty thoughts! Guess... what will your dear father and mother think of you when they know about your thoughts?"
The excruciating pain in her wrist clearly spread to every sense organ in Yi Zhen's body. A thin layer of sweat had already appeared on her forehead, but Yi Zhen let out a "tss - " laugh,
"You say I'm in love. Where's the evidence?"
"For something without any evidence, what can you use to prove it!"
"It's very simple."
Yun Xi, who had been ignored beside them, calmly said,
"The secret door beside your bedroom bed. Isn't A Yuan's portrait inside?"
"Of course, you can go back and dispose of it. But... when you drugged A Yuan back then in an attempt to have an affair to relieve your lovesickness but failed in the end, did you ever wonder how the aphrodisiac on A Yuan was solved?"
Yun Xi's hand holding the gold bracelet - knife was a bit sore. She gently moved her arm and then continued,
"When you did those dirty things to A Yuan, you didn't expect that there was a third person present.
"She gave A Yuan the antidote and also picked up the intimate undergarment you forgot when you left in a hurry. On it... there's the character 'Yuan' you embroidered yourself."
Actually, Yun Xi made this up.
Yi Yuan only told her that a female official helped him solve the aphrodisiac after he ran away. As for the matter of Yi Zhen's undergarment and those details, Yun Xi secretly investigated later.
Yi Zhen had indeed lost that undergarment and never found it, but it wasn't in the hands of that female official. Its whereabouts had always been unknown. Yun Xi actually still didn't know who that female official was. She just wanted to deceive Yi Zhen with this. After all, if she couldn't deceive her, it would be herself who would be humiliated!
Yi Zhen was indeed deceived. In extreme shock, her whole body went limp.
If it weren't for the two maidservants holding her tightly, she would probably have fallen to the ground.
Zongzheng Fengyi let go of her hand in disgust and looked down at Yi Zhen haughtily,
"I suppose the Fourth Princess has nothing to say."
He clapped his hands and then continued,
"Then go back. We'll see about the ring at noon tomorrow."
After saying that, he coolly glanced at Yun Xi, smiled fakely and pointed at her hand that had already relaxed its grip on the bracelet, leaving a sentence,
"Put it away. This won't happen again."
After saying that, he even threw a bottle of wound medicine in and then turned around and left.
The noisy crowd finally disappeared again.
Only then did Yun Xi completely relax her tense body.
She needed to raise the Gu in her body. Every drop of blood and every piece of flesh was the nourishment for the Mind - Reading Gu. Yun Xi knew that Zongzheng Fengyi wouldn't joke about this, so she picked up the bottle and applied the medicine to her wound on her own.
Zongzheng Fengyi would soon find out that the ring was fake.
But... it had nothing to do with Yun Xi anymore.
By exposing Yi Zhen's long - buried secret today, besides self - protection, it had another function.
She hoped Yi Zhen wouldn't let her down.
The originally bright and thick fresh blood was now like a stream, cold to the touch and thin and hard to coagulate.
Yun Xi lowered her eyes: The Mind - Reading Gu should have already occupied the heart veins. It seemed... she was really going to die soon...
In the warm spring of March, all things were budding.
Yun Xi received the news the next day that Yi Yuan had died miserably in prison in the middle of the night.
She didn't know if it was Yi Zhen who did it.
But it was said that Emperor Zhaohuan received the news in the middle of the night and didn't go to the morning court the next day. No one knew where he had gone.
The court was still calm as usual. The palace was busy and festive preparing for Yi Zhen's wedding. And the Shen family was fully prepared, just waiting for the "east wind" of Yi Zhen's wedding ceremony.
Zongzheng Fengyi and the Holy Master rarely came to "chat" with Yun Xi anymore. The Mind - Reading Gu in Yun Xi's body had already formed. If it wasn't taken out within three days, both she and the Gu would die and cease to exist.
They were almost crazy looking for the Drunken Gu Ring.
Time was getting closer bit by bit. The day for Yi Zhen's wedding had arrived.
The red silk covered the steps. Amid the happy and lively music, Shen Zhai and the eldest young master of the Shen family still wearing the golden mask led their troops into the imperial city.
Wails and screams rose one after another. The imperial guards in the imperial city didn't know why they all suddenly had sharp abdominal pains, their lips turned blue, and it seemed that some unknown little bugs were swimming around in their bodies. Their hands and feet were so weak that they couldn't exert any strength at all.
The Shen family's army advanced like a hot knife through butter. They didn't spend much effort at all. In just a moment, they had killed their way into the main hall.