Xiao Yimo sent Ji Lingxue back to the palace. It was already dark. After bidding farewell to Xiao Yimo, Ji Lingxue lifted her skirt and walked quickly following the street lights. A pair of black boots stopped at the corner and he hugged Ji Lingxue's waist the moment she passed by.
Ji Lingxue's whole body froze. Just as she was about to call for help, she smelled a familiar scent of ink and a hint of alcohol.
Ji Lingxue looked up and met Xiao Yichen's ink-black eyes, "Your Highness..." She was a little surprised. Wasn't Xiao Yichen very busy recently? She heard from Xiao Yimo that Xiao Yichen had taken over the case of a missing girl in Beijing. Although there was no deadline for solving the case, the case had to be solved by the end of the year, otherwise no one would dare to travel at night.
Xiao Yichen grabbed Ji Lingxue's hands and pressed them against the wall behind them, blocking all her escape routes, and then his passionate kiss engulfed her breath and sanity.
Ji Lingxue found that her body no longer rejected Xiao Yichen. She was infected by his passion and let out a low moan, her eyes gradually becoming blurred.
Xiao Yichen suddenly ended the passionate kiss, leaned his head on Ji Lingxue's neck, and asked, "Where did you go?"
Ji Lingxue answered honestly, "The emperor came in the afternoon and asked me to take him to Qingfeng Yashe for dinner."
Xiao Yichen: "Are you happy?"
Ji Lingxue looked at Xiao Yichen, but the angle was wrong, she could only see Xiao Yichen's chin. This guy blocked her here, was he angry? Jealousy, it was rare, she really didn't make him jealous to death, when he had a concubine on the left and a concubine on the right, she was not angry.
After Ji Lingxue complained in her heart, she replied, "It is difficult to disobey the emperor's order." One could offend anyone but not the emperor.
Xiao Yichen was quite satisfied with Ji Lingxue's answer. It was good that this woman had no other thoughts, otherwise the punishment would be doubled.
Xiao Yichen said: "Ji Lingxue, you are my princess, please remember this."
Ji Lingxue raised her head and looked at Xiao Yichen, "Xiao Yichen, are you jealous today? You feel sour."
Xiao Yichen held up Ji Lingxue's face and kissed her on the lips, "Is it sour? Huh?"
Ji Lingxue blushed and dodged, then she heard Xiao Yichen say, "Ji Lingxue, I like you."
Ji Lingxue looked up, "You also said this to my sister, right?"
Xiao Yichen shook his head, "No, I'm only telling you."
Ji Lingxue rolled her eyes, obviously not believing what Xiao Yichen said.
Xiao Yichen raised his hand and tucked a strand of Ji Lingxue's hair behind her ear, saying, "When the matter is settled, I will send Ji Yuqing away from the palace."
Ji Lingxue: “…”
The two looked at each other, and it seemed that the winter night wind was not so cold.
Ji Lingxue suddenly felt her body lighten. Xiao Yichen picked her up and carried her sideways towards the room. Ji Yuqing, who was standing in the dark corner, saw the whole heartwarming scene. Her hands hanging in her wide sleeves gradually tightened.
There seemed to be sparks flashing in Ji Yuqing's eyes. "Prince, I love you wholeheartedly. In order to be with you, I learned music, chess, calligraphy and painting, I learned poetry and songs, and even learned chess, which I don't like at all. How could you betray me and get together with my silly sister?"
The scene of Xiao Yichen kissing Ji Lingxue flashed through Ji Yuqing's mind. She laughed and then burst into tears.
Just then a cold wind blew and a dark shadow stood in front of him.
Ji Yuqing was stunned for a moment, and it took her a while to recognize the other person, "It turned out to be you..."
On the other side, Ji Lingxue was carried back to the room by Xiao Yichen. Mo Xiang had already gone somewhere to avoid suspicion. She was put on the bed by Xiao Yichen, and his lips brushed across her forehead.
Xiao Yichen grabbed Ji Lingxue's calf and helped her take off her shoes and socks. Looking at Ji Lingxue's pale three-inch golden lotus, he used his hands to warm her up. "Why are your feet so cold? Have you been in the snow for a long time?"
Ji Lingxue was embarrassed. How could she know this? She had indeed chased and played with Xiao Si in the snow in front of Qingfeng Yashe for a while. If it weren't for Xiao Yimo's cough, she would not have stopped.
Xiao Yichen: "Your constitution is relatively cold, so you can't play in the snow for too long in the future."
Ji Lingxue nodded like a child who had done something wrong. After putting her warmed feet into the quilt, Ji Lingxue thought Xiao Yichen would get up and leave like before, but she didn't expect him to sit on the edge of the bed, take off his boots and socks, and sit side by side with her in the quilt, hugging her.
Xiao Yichen recalled many past events, "Xue'er, you were always crazy before, but are you pretending to be crazy?"
Ji Lingxue shook her head. "No, I was drugged, so I have been crazy and stupid. If Mo Xiang hadn't helped me detoxify, I would have died long ago."
Xiao Yichen's eyes turned cold and he asked, "Who would poison you?"
Ji Lingxue smiled calmly, "People who are jealous of me."
Xiao Yichen fell silent for a while. Having grown up in the palace, he could understand why the women in the mansion used all kinds of means to win favor. Fortunately, his mansion was relatively peaceful.
Xiao Yichen hugged Ji Lingxue tightly, "Don't worry, I won't let you suffer any grievances in the future."
Ji Lingxue smiled, and Xiao Yichen's face moved closer and closer, until the distance between them was only an inch. He could touch her lips with a single move of his lips, "It's getting late, let's..." go to bed together.
Xiao Yichen had only said half of his words when he suddenly heard the nervous voice of the secret guard at the door, "My Lord, this is bad. There's a fire in the study!"
The rare warm moment was ruined. Xiao Yichen kissed Ji Lingxue's red lips unsatisfied, turned over, put on his shoes and socks, and rushed out.
Ji Lingxue lay on her back on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze. Was she expecting something just now...
A gust of cold wind blew open the tightly closed window, and Ji Lingxue heard the sound of fighting coming from outside. It seemed that someone broke in and was stopped by An Ge in the dark.
Ji Lingxue turned over and got out of bed. This night was destined to be a little restless.
Ji Lingxue walked to the window, and An Ge bowed to her respectfully, "My master is frightened."
Ji Lingxue hummed and asked, "Has the assassin been caught?"
An Ge shook her head. "I am responsible for your safety, Princess. As long as the assassin is out of my sight, I will not go out of my way to chase the assassin, in case someone takes advantage of the situation."
Ji Lingxue nodded. Xiao Yichen's trained people were pretty good. She looked in the direction of the study and saw thick smoke rising in the darkness.
Ji Lingxue said: "Let's go to the study and take a look."
The fire in the study had been under control long ago, with only one window on fire. Due to the wind direction, there was a lot of smoke.
When Ji Lingxue arrived, Xiao Yichen and his men were cleaning up. Ji Lingxue asked, "Nothing is missing, right?"
Xiao Yichen shook his head. "We have just started cleaning up the scene, and we don't know if anything has been lost. If nothing is wrong, go back and have a rest. I'm afraid it will take all night to clean up this area."
He was not worried about someone stealing secrets. Since the last time he discovered someone breaking into the room, he had moved all the important documents.
Ji Lingxue nodded, turned and went to the kitchen, and called Mo Xiang to make a midnight snack.
On the other side, in Ji Yuqing's room, she was holding a few pieces of paper in her hands, with a hint of coldness flashing in her eyes.
The informant in the palace just disappeared, and sent these pieces of paper to her as a welfare. It is said that these pieces of paper are enough to control Ji Lingxue and send her to hell.
Ji Yuqing folded the paper slowly, with a hint of viciousness in her eyes, "Ji Lingxue, you won't be happy for a few days, I will send you to hell with my own hands."
Before the informant left, he left a message: "That person said, Concubine, you'd better move faster and don't make him wait too long."
Ji Yuqing opened the door and walked out, heading towards the kitchen.
Ji Lingxue had just finished mixing the flour in the kitchen when she saw Ji Yuqing coming over with a smile on her face. "Sister, it's so late. What are you doing? Do you need my help?"
Ji Lingxue looked up at Ji Yuqing and said, "Sister, are you okay? The prince's study was set on fire. Why do you look so happy?"
Ji Yuqing's smile froze and her facial expression became a little distorted, "What do you mean?" The implication of her words was, could it be that she set the fire
Ji Lingxue shrugged, "It's nothing, I just want to remind my sister that smiling should be considered in the right context."
The corners of Ji Yuqing's mouth twitched. She was in a good mood tonight and didn't bother with Ji Lingxue.
"Sister, what midnight snack are you planning to make? Give me one too." She leaned forward to take a look into the pot.
Ji Lingxue nodded, "Okay, sister, if you are not afraid of getting fat, just eat more."
Ji Yuqing snorted, turned and left.
Mo Xiang said: "Princess, does the concubine treat us as servants in the palace?" The tone of the command made people feel very uncomfortable.
Ji Lingxue shook her head indifferently and thought more about Ji Yuqing's smile tonight.
Ji Lingxue made pumpkin pie and brought the hot pumpkin pie to Xiao Yichen. Xiao Yichen's mood, which had been gloomy all night, finally improved. There has always been a thief in the palace, and it is difficult to prevent a thief from within the palace. This made Xiao Yichen quite helpless. He had already cleared out a group of people, and it seemed that more had to be cleared out.
Ji Lingxue said: "Didn't the arsonist be caught?" There were so many secret guards in the palace, how could no one have seen it.
Xiao Yichen said: "It happened during the secret guards' shifts again. This arsonist is really good at seizing the opportunity to hide himself."
Ji Lingxue said, "Then the thief might be among the secret guards."
Xiao Yichen nodded and said to Ji Lingxue, "You go and rest first. I still have some things to deal with here."
Ji Lingxue nodded, went to the kitchen to get the pumpkin pie and went to Ji Yuqing. Ji Yuqing looked at the pumpkin pie in the food box that Ji Lingxue brought, and said, "Sister, this pumpkin pie is so oily. I have a bad stomach and I'm afraid I'll have diarrhea if I eat it. You should take it back and eat it yourself."
Ji Lingxue nodded, sat in front of Ji Yuqing and ate the pumpkin pie one bite at a time.
Ji Yuqing pouted in disdain, "Sister, how did the fire start in the prince's study? The smoke was so thick that it blew into my room. I was originally asleep, but I was woken up by the smoke."
Ji Lingxue said: "The prince is still investigating the cause of the fire. If you want to know, you can go and ask the prince now."
Ji Yuqing changed the subject, "I heard that my sister has a very powerful secret guard by her side?"
Ji Lingxue nodded, "Yeah, what's wrong?"
Ji Yuqing smiled and said, "The prince is so good to me. He has secret guards around him to protect me, but I have nothing around me."
(End of this chapter)