I subconsciously tried to dodge his hand, but he grabbed my wrist very firmly, and pulled me up. However, my legs were still weak, and my body leaned forward uncontrollably and fell into his arms.

When a young man came in serving tea, he saw me grabbing Fang Yian's belt and bending my knees to fall into his arms.

The other party froze in place, unable to move forward or backward. After being stunned for a while, he lowered his head and brought in the tea tray. He pretended that he saw nothing and wanted to leave.

Fang Yian held my waist, and his fingers seemed to be deliberately tightening, so I was able to stand up straighter. I took the opportunity to loosen his belt, and at the same time I heard him ask the young man, "Why do you take the initiative to serve tea now?"

The young man's body stiffened and he quickly turned back, bowed and replied, "To answer godfather, it was Sixth Brother who said you were entertaining guests and might order tea, so he asked his son to bring it to you." His face looked like an adult, but his voice was shrill and a little weak, like a teenager who hasn't changed his voice. Although he was dressed in casual clothes, I guessed that he might be the little eunuch who had always served Fang Yian.

"So it wasn't you who made the decision." Fang Yian chuckled and raised his other hand to wave in the air. I only saw a flash of silver light, and the young man at the door fell to the ground silently, knocking over the low table beside him. The tea tray, teacups and teapots that had just been put down fell to the ground, making a clanging sound.

He lowered his eyes to look at me who was already scared silly, and smiled even more, "What the hell were you playing with silver needles for? Now someone's dead."

I looked up at him, shocked. He was so brazen in blaming me! He was indeed the spy chief. He was too vicious!

When He Zhao came back from outside, the acupoints that had been pressed on me had been unblocked, and I was sitting aside sulking.

Fang Yian explained to him calmly, "Just now I just wanted to test her skills. The little girl is still a little young and her skills are not very good. The silver needle she threw didn't hurt me, but it hit Xiao Xiazi who happened to be serving tea."

"So that's how it is. No wonder the kid saw someone being carried out when he came in." He Zhao came to my side and said softly, "You weren't scared, were you?"

I glanced at him and was about to speak when Fang Yian interrupted me, "Take this opportunity to let me take care of this girl for a few days so that you can concentrate. Maybe when I'm in a better mood, I can make her my goddaughter and give her some dowry when you two do good things in the future."

He Zhao's eyebrows moved slightly at the first half of the sentence, but when he heard the second half, he could no longer hide his joy. He pulled me and bowed to Fang Yian, "Thank you for your help, foster father. However, Xingye has been spoiled since she was a child and doesn't know how to serve others. If she stays with foster father, if something goes wrong, it will cause unnecessary trouble."

"With me watching over her, there can't be any trouble. You dare to let Zi Yan teach her? Don't you trust me to teach her for a few days?" While speaking, Fang Yian stared at me with a threatening look and even a bit of boasting.

He Zhao prostrated himself on the ground with a very respectful attitude, while I raised my head and looked back at Fang Yian calmly. If He Zhao hadn't been holding my hand, I would have stood up long ago.

To be honest, I have been in this world for almost a year. Before that, I was a princess. Apart from entering the palace, I only knelt to Situ Jue's mother in the palace, and never knelt to anyone. But the person I like has a special situation, and his adoptive father is obviously not a normal person. I have already imagined how to escape from here.

I was distracted for a while, thinking about this and that, and even thinking about breaking up with him. I like him as a person and his mysteriousness, but I am not willing to endure the feeling of being in danger just because of this liking. I am just an ordinary person who just wants to live a good life.

Suddenly I heard him calling my name, and then I realized that Fang Yian had already gone out. At this time, someone outside brought in a set of men's clothes.

"In the next few days, you will stay with your foster father. Your name is Xiao Xia Zi, and your full name is Xia Zhusheng." He held my face and stared at me intently. "You need to change your appearance, bone structure and voice at the same time. You can't perform such a complete disguise by yourself now, so I will help you. It may be a little painful... just bear with it..."

I frowned, very resistant, "Does it have to be this way?"

"As long as we pass this test, we can be together openly." The light in his eyes burned me, and I felt a little pain in my heart. I thought he probably didn't trust Fang Yian as respectfully as he seemed on the surface, otherwise he wouldn't have asked others to come in and see him under the pretext of serving tea while he was away.

He learned both civil and martial arts and sold them to the imperial family. But he did not climb up the official career path, and it would not be easy to retire from a special organization like the Imperial Dragon Guard, so he was in awe of Fang Yian and compromised.

There's nothing I can do. I chose this person myself. If I want to live a comfortable life, I should stay in the Zhenbei Palace and not go out.

Happiness and pain coexist. Once you make a choice, you have to bear the consequences.

I didn't say anything else, just nodded and hummed, and he immediately hugged me in his arms. The strength of the hug seemed to almost break my ribs.

But it really hurts. It feels even more painful than the first time Zi Yan opened my heart with a foot-long needle.

When everything was over, I felt like I had just been pulled out of the water, my muscles and bones seemed to have been crushed and stretched. He Zhao helped me put on my clothes and helped me stand up. I realized that I seemed to have grown taller. When I stood side by side with him before, my forehead just touched his chin, but now my eyes were facing his lips.

"Could it be that my body has also turned into a man's?" I subconsciously scratched my chest, and after feeling the soft flesh, I wanted to check inside my pants again.

He Zhao was amused by my action. "I just adjusted your bone structure by changing the eight extraordinary meridians. How can I really turn you into a man? Besides, you are just pretending to be..."

He didn't say the word "eunuch" out loud, perhaps because of some taboo.

He continued to instruct, "The voice of speaking is not completely changed, you still have to be careful to imitate it, it's different in the palace. But my foster father said that he will accompany the emperor to Luqing Palace soon, there are fewer people and less things to do there. Once the matter in the capital is settled, I will come to find you, be careful, be smart, and don't make him angry."

He spoke the last sentence almost in my ear, in a low whisper, just to me alone. It was a warning about my life safety, but he chose to use this love tone.

I leaned on his chest, my body still a little weak, and asked softly, "If you fight with your godfather, can you beat him?"

He laughed out loud, as if I had asked a very stupid question, but I refused to give in and continued to ask, "Have you ever thought about challenging him? Taking his place?"

"I don't have such big ambitions. I just wanted to survive before, and now I want to live a good life with you." He stretched out his hand to pull my chin up and let me look at him. "But you should not be a person who is greedy for power. Do you want to stay in the capital?"

"Of course not, I was just asking." I pushed his hand away, lowered my head to him again, listened to his heartbeat, and hugged him tighter around his waist. "I just want to be with you, that's enough."

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