"Prince Rui dares to humiliate me like this. I will never forgive him."

Duke Lin thought that he could use Shen Mi's identity to threaten Murong Che.

After all, this matter concerns the life and death of the Shen family, Jiang Xuan, Shen Mi, and the royal family of Liguo.

Little did he know that Murong Che was such a bad man that he actually gave him poison.

Now that he is being restrained by Murong Che, he can only swallow the humiliation and wait for the antidote in the next two months before finding another way.

In the second half of the night, thunder roared and heavy rain fell from the sky.

Raindrops dripped from the roof of the house, and when the wind blew, they floated wetly on the two people kneeling in front of the door.

In front of Prince Rui's mansion, Duke Lin knelt on the ground, holding his stomach with both hands. He was sweating profusely from the pain, spitting blood from his mouth, and his face was almost distorted.

After spitting out blood, he weakly raised his head and looked towards Prince Rui's Palace again.

Inside, there was silence and no movement.

The next day, the sky was slightly bright.

When Murong Che woke up, Fu Ying's voice was heard outside the door.

"Fourth Master, the Duke knelt at the door all night last night."

Murong Che got off the bed, the sunlight shone on his tall body, casting his shadow on the floor of the private room.

He raised his eyebrows slightly and sneered.

"do you died?"

Fu Ying shook her head, "He's not dead, but he looks like he's been tortured."

"There was a lot of blood vomited in front of the door, I'm afraid..."

"Fourth Master, the Duke is an important official in the court after all."

"It's not right to let him die like this."

The man in the room had a blank expression on his face and put on his black clothes casually.

With a wave of the wide robe, an exquisite blue box on the table fell into his sleeves.

He tightened the jade belt around his waist slightly and slowly pushed the door open.

"Let him go to the front hall."

Fu Ying nodded, "Yes, Fourth Master."

The front hall of Prince Rui's Mansion was still peaceful.

When Murong Che arrived, the maids and servants all lowered their heads and dared not utter a word.

Longjing tea was brewed on the table.

Murong Che sat down on the chair, playing with the teacup in his hand nonchalantly.

Not long after, Duke Lin, dressed in gorgeous clothes, walked in with Zhao.

Duke Lin knelt in front of Prince Rui's palace all night and was tortured all night.

The court physician said that if he didn't take the antidote, he would turn into a pool of blood in three days, so he could only surrender to Murong Che.

When he saw Murong Che's eyes as cold as ice, Duke Lin knelt down in front of him with a plop.

There was blood at the corner of his lips, sweat was dripping from his forehead, and his hair on his temples was wet with sweat. He looked very disheveled.

However, he has always been cunning and a real old fox. He naturally understands that in the current situation, he must surrender in order to have a chance of survival.

He whispered, "I offended His Royal Highness Prince Rui yesterday. I hope Your Highness can forgive me."

Murong Che said nothing, playing with the teacup in his hand, with an indiscernible emotion in his eyes, and looked at Duke Lin quietly.

Duke Lin knelt on the ground, his heart aching and his body trembling slightly.

Murong Che glanced at him quietly, suddenly smiled wickedly, and then put down the teacup in his hand.

"I thought this Duke was a tough guy, but I never thought he couldn't even withstand the poison of the Three Corpses Brain Soul Pill."

Duke Lin slowly raised his eyes and looked at Murong Che.

"Your Highness, please give me some medicine."

"Yesterday, I was confused and said the wrong thing, which offended King Rui. I hope Your Highness will forgive me."

"Don't worry, Your Highness. What I said yesterday is all nonsense."

"If Your Highness can give me the medicine, I will not reveal even a single word about the Shen family and Your Highness."

A low, hoarse laugh escaped from Murong Che's throat, as if he had heard some huge joke.

"If the Duke wants to leak it, I will be waiting."

"But I advise you not to shoot yourself in the foot."

He took out a blue box from his sleeve and threw it in front of the Duke of Protectorate.

"It would be such a pity to let you die."

"Besides, you still have a position in the court. If you die, I'm afraid it will take a while to find a suitable replacement."

Duke Lin looked at the box thrown in front of him, opened it in a panic, took out the pills inside with trembling hands, and stuffed them into his mouth.

His body was in so much pain that he just wanted to take the antidote quickly to relieve the pain.

However, as soon as he swallowed the pill, he was met with Murong Che's evil smile.

The man on the chair chuckled, reached out for the cup, and took a sip.

Hearing his smile, Duke Lin suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

"Your Highness Prince Rui, why are you looking at me like this?"

Putting the teacup in his hand lightly, Murong Che leaned back in the chair nonchalantly, with a wicked smile on his face.

"I am just laughing at the Duke's stupidity."

"You are so foolish to believe what the king says."

"I didn't expect that the Duke would trust me so much and swallow the medicine so quickly."

His face was evil and charming. "How do you know that what you gave to the Duke just now is definitely the antidote?"

"Maybe it's poison."

Being humiliated by him, Duke Lin clenched his fists, and looking at Murong Che's arrogant appearance, his face instantly turned red with anger.

The man on the chair was playing with the teacup in his hand with a meaningful look in his eyes.

"My Lord, you are already quite old now, so you should worry less about the things you should worry about."

"I don't know the Duke, so how could I know that the Duke knelt in my Prince Rui's mansion for a whole night, but... it was all a self-torture trick."

"Now, there are two kinds of poison buried in your body, both of which require antidotes."

"If you can't figure it out, or... have any evil intentions to attack the Shen family, I don't mind turning you into a pool of blood."

Duke Lin lay on the ground, beads of sweat dripping down his face.

He didn't expect that Murong Che gave him poison instead of antidote.

He trembled and suppressed all his anger.

He couldn't imagine how bad Murong Che was. He gritted his teeth, his voice filled with unwillingness, and he lay on the ground trembling.

"I will remember what Your Highness said today. I will never target the Shen family."

Murong Che raised his eyebrows, "I will wait and see. The Duke should be a sensible person."

As the cold voice fell, a maid came in from outside the hall carrying a box.

"Your Highness, what you want."

Murong Che reached out, took the box off the tray and threw it in front of the Duke.

"The antidote for both poisons is here."

"Two months later, you will come to my Rui Palace in person to get the antidote for another two months."

"If you want to report this matter to my father, I will do as you wish."

Duke Lin reached out his hand with trembling hands, picked up the box, and immediately bowed to Murong Che.

"Thank you, Your Highness, for not killing me."

After getting the antidote, he took Zhao out of Prince Rui's mansion.

Duke Lin looked at the box in his hand. When he opened the box, there was a pill inside. He was not sure whether it was poison or antidote.

He could only order the coachman in front to leave Prince Rui's Mansion quickly and rush to the Duke's Mansion.

He had to find the court doctor to confirm whether it was the antidote before he dared to take it.

At that time, the Shen family.

Shen Mi sat in front of the dressing table and inserted a hairpin into her hair.

Now counting the days, there are still twelve days left until the Qionghua Banquet.

Yun Lan pushed the door open and handed a letter to her.

"Miss, Master Yu has arrived in Yanjing City. I have arranged for him to stay in Wangjing Tower. This is his letter."

The letter was slowly opened, Shen Mi glanced at the contents of the letter, then reached out and burned the letter to ashes.

She looked at Yun Lan and said, "Find me some clothes. I'm going to see my senior brother."

"Yes, Miss." Yun Lan turned around and went to prepare clothes.

Shen Mi said, "By the way, where is Shen Shu now?"

Yun Lan pursed her lips: "It seems like I am drunk on Jiang Yue, with the prince."

"However, there are rumors in Yanjing that there is a woman following the prince, and it seems that the rumor is about Shen Shu."

"Miss, do you think Shen Shu will go to the Qionghua Banquet?"

Shen Mi smiled calmly, "It doesn't matter whether I go or not."

"It's the same result anyway."

She got up from the chair and took the clothes that Yunlan handed to her.

"Prepare the carriage, we are going to see our brother."

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