"It's okay. I'll immediately send people to investigate the situation of this temple to see if we can find the murderer by following the clues," said Helan Yanting.
Feng Yunshu nodded with a solemn look on her face. "First those two bounty killers, and then the temple was massacred. This matter is probably not that simple."
Helan Yanting's face was equally solemn. "I'll find out about this as soon as possible and wipe out these people."
"Your Highness, do you think this might be the work of the first wife's group?"
Helan Yanting looked thoughtful. "It's impossible for just the first wife alone to do all these. There may be more forces involved behind her."
Feng Yunshu recalled the red - robed woman she had met before. That woman was also a cultivator, but she practiced evil arts. It seemed that this era was no longer peaceful.
Could these things be related to the ancient monster Zhushan?
Thinking of this, Feng Yunshu suddenly remembered something more important. She looked up at Helan Yanting.
"Your Highness, there's another thing. I want to know the truth. I hope you won't hide it from me anymore."
"What is it?"
"Who are you really? Where do you come from?"
As Feng Yunshu's three soul - searching questions came out, Helan Yanting's face froze for a moment.
Seeing Helan Yanting's hesitant expression, Feng Yunshu was even more convinced of her speculation. "You've been hiding it from me, right? The real Helan Yanting died when he was twelve. So who are you exactly?"
"There's only one possibility. Your Highness, like me, you're also a reborn person, aren't you?"
After Feng Yunshu finished speaking, outside the tent, soldiers were coming and going from time to time. The voices of talking and footsteps were noisy. However, inside the tent, it was extremely quiet. Their breathing sounds became clearly audible, and even a pin drop could be clearly heard.
Helan Yanting looked at Feng Yunshu, his eyes becoming deeper.
At this moment, Feng Yunshu vaguely saw a trace of strangeness and distance in his expression.
Actually, it took her a long time to make the decision to ask this question. This matter was like a layer of window paper between them. If they didn't break it, they would never be able to fully trust each other face - to - face.
So Feng Yunshu finally summoned up the courage and asked. No matter what the result was, she thought she was in love with this man, and she would never have any prejudice against him because of his identity. She just wanted to know the truth.
Helan Yanting remained silent. Feng Yunshu waited for a long time but didn't hear him speak. A look of disappointment appeared on her face.
Doesn't he want to tell me? Doesn't he trust me?
Feng Yunshu was very anxious. At this time, Helan Yanting suddenly sighed.
"Madam, what you said is correct. I'm not the real Helan Yanting."
Feng Yunshu's heart skipped a beat. She waited for him to tell the truth.
However, his next words surprised her.
"Madam, I don't know if you'll believe me, but every word I say is true."
Here, Helan Yanting paused for a moment and then continued, "Although I'm not the real Helan Yanting, I don't know who I am. I have no memory of my real identity. I only vaguely feel that I don't belong here."
Hearing this, Feng Yunshu opened her eyes wide in surprise. "Your Highness, you said you don't remember anything? Really?"
Helan Yanting nodded. "Absolutely true."
"Then... how do you know you're not the real Helan Yanting?"
"I have all the memories of the real Helan Yanting in my mind. Although I'm not clear about my real identity, I can clearly feel that my subconscious words, actions and personality are completely different from the original Helan Yanting."
"Besides, when I just woke up, I was fished out of the lake. I heard from others that I had already died. The news had spread in the royal palace of the Dan Kingdom, and they were going to hold a funeral for me. But unexpectedly, I woke up again."
Feng Yunshu was lost in thought. She remembered the scene when she woke up in this different world. It seemed that history always repeated itself.
Now thinking back on what had happened at that time, Feng Yunshu suddenly understood many details. For example, why Helan Yanting didn't jump in fright like others when he saw her open her eyes and raise her hand in the coffin. He didn't say she was a zombie.
He was quite calm. He even reached out his hand and pulled her out of the coffin...
Including when they shared the same room on their wedding night, he didn't seem very surprised or suspicious about her strange behavior.
"So Your Highness, when you knew I wasn't the real young lady of the Feng family, you weren't that surprised because you're also a reborn person. In your opinion, this wasn't a big deal, so you believed my words without any doubt, right?"
Helan Yanting nodded slowly. "It's partly right, but not entirely."
"I've always been like this. I rarely show great emotional fluctuations. Moreover, in the past few years, I've had to play the role of a sickly person, which has further trained my ability to hide my emotions."
"So..." Feng Yunshu was stunned for a while. After digesting this huge amount of information, she looked at him and slowly said, "After going around in a big circle, we still haven't figured out Your Highness's real identity..."
Hearing this, Helan Yanting couldn't help asking, "I'm quite curious. How did you know I'm not the real Helan Yanting? When did you find out?"
"Not long after you suddenly disappeared. I thought you were really calculated by the emperor of the Dan Kingdom. So I asked my third senior brother and Xiaoling to send me to the underworld to find you. After the little king of hell showed me the Book of Life and Death, I found out that the real Helan Yanting's lifespan had already ended."
Helan Yanting nodded in understanding after hearing this. "I see. I didn't expect your third senior brother to have such an ability. But I seem to have heard that if a person whose lifespan isn't over enters the underworld, it will damage his body and lifespan. Have you been injured because of this, Madam?"
Feng Yunshu shook her head. "I wasn't injured. My third senior brother left me a bracelet for protection. Otherwise, there would really be a backlash."
"By the way, when did you set off to come here, Madam? Although I left the Dan Kingdom, I specially sent Yan Liu to secretly protect you. Why did Yan Liu always say that you were still in the national teacher's mansion?"
"Puppet art. What he saw was just a paper - man transformed."
"What about you, Your Highness? How did you manage to deceive everyone? Now everyone in the Dan Kingdom, including the emperor, thinks you're really dead. If my third senior brother hadn't seen the body with his own eyes and told me it wasn't you, I would also have thought you were in trouble..."
Hearing this, Helan Yanting suddenly smiled. He reached out and scraped the tip of Feng Yunshu's nose. "That's why I say our husband - and - wife understanding is really amazing. I also used the puppet art this time."
"The one who was arrested and thrown into the dungeon wasn't me. It was a death - row prisoner I had someone find in advance. I had him disguised. Then I used a specially trained echo - worm and put it in his hair to make people think he was still alive. In this way, I deceived everyone."