Spring in the East Palace

"Since you are not afraid of the King Cobra, it would be a good idea to throw you to the wolves next time." Qin Chuyan sneered, speaking in an extremely cruel tone.

His boots kicked the dead king cobra on the ground, and the dark floor tiles were stained bright red, bloody and pungent.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is greeted by your humble servant." Shen Muyin came back to her senses and immediately paid her respects.

Qin Chuyan looked down at Shen Muyin and didn't let her stand up, and Shen Muyin didn't dare to stand up either.

Donggong is a madman. If you accidentally offend him, you never know what outrageous things he might do.

In front of the Eastern Palace, she was just the daughter of the prefect of Beijing, and her death was not a pity.

"You say that I am merciful?" Qin Chuyan pinched Shen Muyin's chin and asked with a sneer.

Shen Muyin secretly thought to himself that something was wrong, knowing that this person knew about the nonsense he had said in the Shen Mansion.

The Eastern Palace had many more spies than she thought.

This time, Shen Muyin just knelt on the ground obediently.

She glanced at the King Cobra with seven inches of its body cut off, and felt that she would not die as easily as the King Cobra.

You know, the lingchi execution in the Eastern Palace is no less severe than that in the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple.

The horror of being interrogated in these places in his previous life gradually consumed Shen Muyin.

Shen Muyin lowered his head again and saw Qin Chuyan's slender, bony fingers pressing on his neck.

This man's hands are very beautiful, so beautiful that they don't look like the hands of someone who has been holding a sword all year round, but rather like the hands of someone who has been playing music all year round.

But these hands are stained with countless blood and are definitely not gentle.

Shen Muyin knew that he would die here if he exerted a little force.

"Caught by a wolf?" Qin Chuyan sneered and asked again.

Shen Muyin closed his eyes and thought to himself, it’s over.

She didn't know how this madman would treat her.

"So, you are blaming me indirectly, saying that I am a wolf?" There was a hint of coldness in Qin Chuyan's eyes.

Shen Muyin silently complained in his heart.

Aren't the howling wolves in the back mountain better than Qin Chuyan? When Qin Chuyan goes crazy, even the wolves can't stop him.

But she was smart enough not to say this.

Shen Muyin said seriously: "Your Highness, I have absolutely no such thoughts. Please understand clearly."

"What did I say to you when you left Xiangshan Villa?" Qin Chuyan let go of Shen Muyin.

Shen Muyin was quiet for a moment, and immediately understood what Donggong meant. She lowered her head and looked guilty.

"Your Highness does not like being used by others." Shen Muyin responded.

After he finished speaking, Shen Muyin thought about how he would escape if this person from the East Palace went crazy.

But Qin Chuyan just looked at Shen Muyin meaningfully without saying anything.

Shen Muyin pondered for a moment and took the initiative to explain: "Your Highness, I was injured and it was the people of the East Palace who applied medicine to me. That was naturally Your Highness's grace. In addition, since Your Highness let me go, you would not want me to get into trouble. After all, Your Highness would not do useless work. So what I said was not a complete lie."

At most, it can be considered as climbing up the high branch of the Eastern Palace.

It's hard to climb the high branches in the Eastern Palace. This person came to cause trouble for me in the middle of the night.

But Shen Muyin knew that the two words "Donggong" could protect her here until her power developed.

"Shen Muyin, you are quite eloquent." Qin Chuyan was so angry that he laughed after hearing this.

There was a hint of profoundness in the way he looked at Shen Muyin.

This is the first person in such a long time who dares to justify himself in front of the East Palace. It's quite interesting.

But soon, Qin Chuyan's eyes darkened slightly, and he stared at Shen Muyin straightly.

A familiar image flashed through his mind, but it wasn't so real.

Before Shen Muyin could come to her senses, she was lifted up by Qin Chuyan and pressed down on the bed.

"Shen Muyin, have I ever seen you before?" Qin Chuyan asked directly.

The two of them were very close to each other, and she could smell the faint scent of ambergris on Qin Chuyan's body, which gradually calmed her thoughts.

Shen Muyin was slightly stunned by Dong Gong's words.

Subconsciously, she blurted out, "Your Highness and I just met yesterday at Xiangshan Villa."

Qin Chuyan stopped talking, but his eyes were always on Shen Muyin.

Shen Muyin didn't know how she had offended this man again, but soon, she realized that Qin Chuyan was asking about the past, not yesterday.

Ever?

Shen Muyin's thoughts were a little vague.

In his previous life, he lived in the Shen Mansion and almost never left it.

Naturally, Concubine Liu would not bring herself to the dinner party in the palace. The only daughter of a wealthy family, Shen Zhenzhen, was by Concubine Liu's side.

People in Kyoto knew Shen Muyin, but they knew that she was just someone the Shen family brought back for good fortune. Concubine Liu was even unwilling to acknowledge her identity.

Later, Shen Muyin left the Shen Mansion, committing the heinous crime of murdering the princess of the time.

She was transferred to the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice, where she was constantly interrogated and tortured in the Tianlao. She begged them to let her go.

In the end, it was Qin Chuyan who spoke up and left her body intact.

But she was in such a miserable state at that time that Qin Chuyan couldn't possibly remember her.

What's more, she has been reborn, so how could Qin Chuyan have any impression of her? It was probably just an illusion.

"Really?" Qin Chuyan suppressed his emotions and continued watching.

"Yes." Shen Muyin was very sure.

But the next moment, Shen Muyin's pupils widened, and countless images suddenly flooded into his mind.

Before she died, she learned from Shen Zhenzhen that she was the princess of the Pingxi Palace and her biological parents were Pingxi King Zhan Beifeng and Princess Qiao Suwan.

In her previous life, she had seen her parents from afar.

The relationship between Prince Pingxi and the royal family has always been good and they are close, so it is understandable that Donggong feels that he looks familiar.

Her face is very similar to Qiao Suwan's.

But she had been locked up in the Shen Mansion for years, never seeing the sun, so naturally outsiders had no way of knowing.

Suddenly, Qin Chuyan let go of Shen Muyin and said in an unhappy voice, "How dare you be distracted when I'm asking you questions? You want to climb the high branch of the East Palace, but now you're not afraid of me at all?"

Shen Muyin sat up straight and said seriously: "I'm afraid."

Of course afraid.

There is a saying in the State of Yan that if you provoke the Eastern Palace, it is better to go directly to the Ministry of Justice to be punished.

The Ministry of Justice was dumbfounded by the cruelty of the Eastern Palace's methods.

Just as Shen Muyin was carefully guessing what Donggong was thinking, suddenly, there was a violent knock on the door.

"Miss, Miss, are you okay?" Fennel's voice came anxiously.

The wooden board creaked when it was knocked.

Fennel was resting in a small cubicle outside the house. She was awakened by the noise inside the house.

Immediately, Fennel left the house and went outside, but saw several dead rats. Blood was dripping towards the East Garden where Shen Muyin lived.

Huixiang was worried that something might have happened to Shen Muyin, so she rushed over without thinking.

But she never expected that her master was now pinned down on the bed by Dong Gong, unable to move.

So Huixiang couldn't wait for Shen Muyin to answer and broke into the room.