Help! The innocent prince always tries to seduce me clumsily

In the evening of early May, the sky was filled with fiery clouds.

Jiangzhou is full of mist and rain. It hasn't rained in the past few days, but even if it doesn't rain in the land of ink and wash, the air is always humid.

While Chu Shitong was having dinner, Si Jingli stood aside, lowering his head and looking honest and aggrieved.

Looking at his expression, Chu Shitong was amused.

"Your Highness has become more and more cunning."

Si Jingli looked aggrieved, like an innocent dog being scolded by his owner, with slightly red eyes and a softened voice, none of which was enough to kill people in Jiangzhou, a city full of homosexuals.

"Chu Shitong, I didn't mean to lie to you. I...I was waiting to go to Quanzhou with you..."

"Ah."

Chu Shitong responded without saying anything extra.

He raised his hand, picked up a piece of side dish with chopsticks and started eating.

Si Jingli moved closer, stretched out his hand to pull Chu Shitong's sleeve, and secretly looked up at her.

"Are you angry?"

Chu Shitong teased him, "A little bit."

Si Jingli felt increasingly uneasy. This was the first time in such a long time that he was caught cheating Chu Shitong.

"I'm sorry..." He softened his voice, with a hint of tears in his voice, "I didn't mean to lie to you..."

Chu Shitong raised her eyes, her pupils as light as glass hiding a hint of smile, as she looked at the young master with red eyes pretending to cry, but no tears fell for a long time.

He looks just like a big-tailed wolf pretending to be soft.

But even though he knew he was pretending, Chu Shitong didn't want to make things difficult for him.

In her words, as for men, it doesn't matter if they make some small mistakes, as long as they are willing to spend time and effort on you.

"Okay, come and eat."

Si Jingli had thought of a lot of words to apologize, but after just saying one sentence, Chu Shitong seemed to have forgiven him. He asked in a daze: "You...forgive me?"

"Yeah." Chu Shitong smiled slightly and said, "If it's His Royal Highness, it doesn't matter if you lie to me a little."

So, Chu Shitong watched with satisfaction as the young master visibly felt more guilty because of his tolerance and magnanimity.

"I really didn't mean to lie to you... I just wanted to stay with you for a while longer..." Si Jingli's peach blossom eyes gradually became moist. It was clear that Chu Shitong had forgiven him, but the guilt in his heart was even deeper than before, "I'm sorry..."

Chu Shitong pretended to be generous, pulled him to sit next to him, and gently stroked his back and advised: "Okay, it's not a big deal, don't cry."

The more she persuaded him, the harder Si Jingli cried.

She didn't even eat a bite of the food and just hugged Chu Shitong and burst into tears.

Chu Shitong did it on purpose.

Knowing the young master's temper, being forceful would certainly not work. He might naturally get angry because of his questioning, and then Chu Shitong would have to coax him.

So she chose to take a soft approach, making Si Jingli, who was already sensitive, feel guilty, and she could also take the opportunity to pretend to be magnanimous.

As for whether or not I forgave you...

joke.

She, Chu Shitong, is the most vengeful person in the entire capital besides Si Jingli, okay?

"Okay, Your Highness, stop crying. I'm not angry, right?"

Chu Shitong hugged Si Jingli with a smile, and felt that at this moment, she seemed to really enjoy the feeling of pretending to be magnanimous for a moment.

It was as if he had become a saint who forgave everything, but in fact he was secretly holding a grudge and feeling happy.

Si Jingli cried for a long time before he stopped. Chu Shitong brought the tea to his lips and fed him, unable to help making a joke.

"Your Highness is such a crybaby. He cried from dusk till dark."

Si Jingli took two sips of tea and his face couldn't help but turn red. He wanted to lose his temper but was too embarrassed to do so, so he just lowered his head and kept silent.

He was in the wrong today, otherwise he would have been angry about the word "crybaby".

Chu Shitong raised the corners of his lips slightly and stopped talking.

The door was pushed open, and a figure who looked exactly like Chu Shitong walked into the room. Si Jingli looked over and was stunned for a moment.

The man was also very surprised to see Si Jingli. He hesitated at the door for a long time before walking forward with a somewhat evil smile.

"Why is His Royal Highness here? Didn't he go to Quanzhou?"

Even the voice and tone are the same.

Si Jingli looked at her in confusion, then turned to look at Chu Shitong beside him, and was a little confused for a moment.

"You...you..."

The man also had a bit of a bad temper. He stepped forward and held Si Jingli's shoulders. He glanced at Chu Shitong and said, "Who is this woman who looks exactly like me? Could she be the new love of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

Chu Shitong silently watched Qingyu being installed here.

In fact, she also wanted to know, if one day a person who looked exactly like her appeared, would anyone in the world be able to tell the real from the fake.

Chu Shitong didn’t care whether others could recognize her or not, but she did care a little whether Si Jingli could recognize her or not.

There was a hint of panic in Si Jingli's peach blossom eyes. He looked up at Chu Shitong who had just entered the room, then turned to look at Chu Shitong who had been beside him.

Bishui covered her mouth and laughed at the door.

Si Jingli looked back and forth for a long time before shaking off Qingyu's hand on his shoulder. He put on a stern face and said to Chu Shitong beside him, "All the counterfeits under your command have found their way to this prince. Chu Shitong, are you mute?"

Chu Shitong's frown finally relaxed a little.

Qingyu also returned to her original voice and asked curiously, "Your Highness, how did you guess that I'm not Your Highness?"

Si Jingli snorted coldly and said, "Looking at the look on your face, it would be strange if it was Chu Shitong."

"Huh? Why do you say that?" Qingyu was puzzled.

Si Jingli inexplicably felt a sense of superiority in recognizing the real person, and said, "Don't you know Chu Shitong yet? She is not as proactive as you. If it weren't for this prince chasing her, Chu Shitong would not have taken the initiative to tell me these things."

Chu Shitong: “…”

She speechlessly glanced at Si Jingli, who was as proud as a peacock, and glared at Qingyu who had ruined her reputation.

Two fools got together.

"Okay." Chu Shitong finally couldn't help but speak: "Your Highness, I came to Jiangzhou to investigate other things. I will be away for a while tomorrow. During this time, Qingyu will pretend to be me and investigate the case here."

"What are you looking for?"

"It's just some secrets in the palace." Chu Shitong covered it up casually, "Your Highness, do you want to stay here, or go with me?"

This sentence didn't sound like words, but rather like an invitation, or a bone thrown to a puppy as a token of friendship, which made Si Jingli's eyes light up instantly.

"Can I go with you?"

"Of course, but the place I'm going to is in the mountains and forests, which is very dangerous. It's okay for Your Highness to go with me, but you can't follow me into the mountains and forests. I will arrange a place for Your Highness to rest and wait for me."

Taking Si Jingli to the village near the underground palace was what Chu Shitong considered to be the biggest setback in his trust.

Si Jingli happily agreed: "Okay! I will definitely listen to you and not wander around!"

......

Late at night, the rain was drizzling.

Chu Shitong led his men onto the carriage and drove towards the foot of the Goddess Mountain in the dark.

The village is some distance away from Jiangzhou City, and it takes about two days to walk there.

Not long after Chu Shitong's carriage left, a carriage stopped in front of the inn.

The young servant hurriedly held an umbrella to welcome the distinguished guest. The visitor was tall, handsome and gentle. Even though he had concealed the news and came secretly and in a low-key manner, he could not hide his noble aura.

"Xiao Qi lives in this inn?"

"According to... the report four days ago, it was this inn, and the prince seemed to be here too."

"Hasn't there been any news from her in the past few days?"

"I guess His Royal Highness Prince Qi is keeping a close watch on things, so no news has leaked out."

"Ah."

......

There was a dull earthy smell, and the air was cool and carried the stagnant stench of decaying dead bodies.

In the dark passage of the underground palace, Nan Xue was holding a lamp and leading the way.

They had been sweeping the paths in the underground palace for a long time. Basically, all the traps had been removed. Except for the main room with the door sealed, almost all other places had been swept.

It was quiet all around, with only the sound of a few people's footsteps.

It was pitch dark, and the lights seemed unable to illuminate the huge size of the underground palace. One could only vaguely guess at the distance illuminated by the lights how luxurious this underground palace that never sees the sun was in the past.

The main room had two heavy red lacquered wooden doors, and the ground around it was streaked with poisonous stings and corpses.

Nan Xue said, "Your Highness, the figure that looked very similar to the princess was found here. The trap was set off at that time, so we were unable to catch up and take a closer look."

"Who saw it?" asked Chu Shitong.

Nan Xue glanced at the men around her and said, "We've seen almost everything."

The raccoon slave also raised his hand: "Your Highness, I saw it too, it really does look like a princess."

"Ah."

Chu Shitong felt something strange, but he couldn't remember what was strange. It seemed as if his whole body was a little light.

Nan Xue walked forward, pointed at a strange lock on the door, and said, "There is a lock on this red door. It can only be opened by turning the correct combination. I have tried many times and failed to open it."

The subordinates around her stared at Chu Shitong intently, as if they were all waiting for her arrival. Their dark eyes looked like a gaze from the darkness under the light.

Chu Shitong felt a little uncomfortable with these looks, so he stepped forward to take a look. It was a very common kind of lock that needed to be turned, and it could only be opened with the correct combination.

The password is related to the content on the wheel, which may be text or numbers.

There are words on the wheels of this lock. There are ten wheels, and forty words on each wheel. You have to accurately spell out the correct ten-character sentence with four hundred words to open it.

Chu Shitong slowly turned the wheel and read through these four hundred seemingly unrelated words.

A cold wind blew from somewhere and Chu Shitong shivered. Suddenly, a woman's voice came to his ears, soft and pleasant.

"When the number of days in the sky is about to end, there will be no moon in the long night."

Chu Shitong was stunned. The woman's voice seemed to be right next to her ear. She was startled and immediately looked around.

But besides Nan Xue, there were his subordinates who were staring at him not far behind him.

They said nothing, and their silence looked like soulless puppets.

Nan Xue seemed to have noticed something strange about Chu Shitong. She stared at her and asked, "What's wrong, Your Highness?"

Chu Shitong felt inexplicably uneasy and asked tentatively, "Did you...hear a woman's voice just now?"

Nan Xue shook her head, "No."

Chu Shitong glanced at his subordinates behind him, and they all spoke in a cold voice.

"Your Highness, please unlock the door."

The sound was so calm, like the sound of an icy knife next to Chu Shitong's ear, that his heartbeat quickened suddenly and he felt a little suffocated.

Chu Shitong thought of the woman's words and guessed that this might be the code.

I gently spun the wheel and found the words, putting them together to form a sentence.

With a "click", the lock opened.

Nanxue stepped forward to take the lock, and Li Nu led people to open the door.

At the door was a residence, which seemed to be a bedroom. There was a thick layer of dust on the floor and the screen was old. A light was on in front of a dressing table not far away, and a woman in red was sitting in front of the dressing table, drawing her eyebrows.

It was quiet all around, with only my own strong heartbeat in my ears.

Chu Shitong approached slowly. The dusty smell in the room was lingering and a bit choking.

She coughed lightly a few times, and when she raised her head, her eyes fell on the bronze mirror on the dressing table, which reflected the woman's face.

That face was almost exactly the same as Chu Shitong's, absolutely genuine, and her beauty was breathtaking.

Chu Shitong felt that the sound of the wind in his ears seemed to have stopped at this moment.

She stepped forward step by step, and an indescribable sense of strangeness arose in her heart.

When the woman heard the voice, she looked up and saw Chu Shitong behind her. The expression on her beautiful face was slightly dull, and then she turned around and looked at the person behind her in disbelief.

Chu Shitong's throat stopped, his body stiffened, and he couldn't utter a word.

Maybe she should call her "Mother." Or maybe she should call her "Princess," but all the words she had thought of before were utterly lost at this moment, and she couldn't even utter a single word.

Xuan Wu Yue's face did not show any trace of time. When she looked at her, her beautiful eyes were slightly moist and an extremely gentle smile appeared on her face, which instantly made Chu Shitong believe what Li Nu and Nan Xue had said.

Xuan Wu Yue is gentle, so gentle that just one glance at her can make one's hard, cold heart melt into a piece of soft cotton.

Chu Shitong had never seen such tenderness. In her heart, her mother always seemed to be as cold, resentful, and mean as Yun Xiangrong.

"Is it...my Tong'er?"

Xuan Wu Yue only said one sentence, and Chu Shitong couldn't hold back her tears.

She did not see hatred or disgust in Xuan Wu Yue's eyes, but instead saw joy and kindness of reunion after a long separation.

"mother......"

Chu Shitong couldn't help but throw himself into her arms and burst into tears in the warm embrace.

Xuan Wu Yue hugged her, the curve of her mouth was stiff: "Tong'er, mother finally sees you."

Chu Shitong didn't notice it, but was so immersed in the reunion that he couldn't help crying, as if all the hardships of more than ten years had turned into grievances at this moment.

The bedroom was empty, with the cries of mother and daughter echoing.

The others stood in the distance, watching this scene.

The raccoon servant said, "The princess hasn't aged at all. She's as pretty as ever."

"Yes." Nan Xue agreed.

Chu Shitong seemed to be suddenly awakened in Xuan Wu Yue's arms.

The blood in the body began to flow backwards at this moment, and the emotion and mother-daughter love in the heart completely disappeared.

Isn't Li Nu blind? How did she see Xuan Wu Yue?