Spring in the East Palace

Then, Qin Chuyan let go of Shen Muyin's hand, and Shen Muyin immediately fell to the ground, gasping for breath, and he really felt like he had struggled back from hell.

Qin Chuyan was clearly smiling, but when he looked at you, there was no emotion in his eyes, and he was extremely cold.

"What if I can't sleep?" Qin Chuyan asked Shen Muyin.

Shen Muyin calmed down and said, "It won't be too late for the prince to kill me later."

This was said frankly, as if he was 100% sure about the matter.

Qin Chuyan looked at Shen Muyin indifferently, then flicked his sleeves and sat directly on the couch.

Li Dequan immediately handed over a cup of calming tea. Qin Chuyan was a little disgusted and took a sip before throwing it aside.

But Qin Chuyan's eyes were fixed on Shen Muyin. Shen Muyin knelt quietly, but she didn't know how long she could hold on.

The poison of sandalwood had a very strong backlash. Shen Muyin had to hold on and cut his arm with a blade. Only the stinging pain could make him conscious.

"So you want to tell me that you broke into the villa just to help me sleep?" Qin Chuyan sneered and asked impolitely.

Shen Muyin didn't answer immediately, her mind was working quickly.

Because Shen Muyin knew very well that if he admitted it, he would be lying.

There was no way Qin Chuyan couldn't have failed to hear it, she would die anyway.

If she told the truth, she would also die. She used the East Palace Villa as a refuge and disturbed Qin Chuyan's rest. She was not much different from those assassins who broke in, and might even be worse off.

Thinking of the experience of being tortured in the Heavenly Prison in his previous life, Shen Muyin didn't want to recall it again in this life.

After a moment of silence, Shen Muyin calmed down and looked at Chunxiang.

Chunxiang was so frightened by Shen Muyin's gaze that she almost screamed on the spot.

After all, this is the East Palace Villa, which has already made Chunxiang collapse.

"What's the matter? Your little servant is here, so it's inconvenient for you to speak?" Qin Chuyan asked casually and indifferently while playing with the teacup in his hand.

It is indeed not convenient to speak.

The moment Qin Chuyan let go of his hand, Shen Muyin felt the relief of having escaped death.

She immediately realized that she would not be able to go far if she fought alone.

But if the Eastern Palace is involved, then it would be like having a golden ticket to immunity from death.

As someone who had died once, what else did she have to be afraid of?

As for Chunxiang, Shen Muyin had no plan to keep her, but she knew that she couldn't do anything in case of alerting the enemy.

So Shen Muyin looked at Qin Chuyan, seeming to want to say something but hesitant.

Qin Chuyan raised his hand, and two secret guards suddenly walked in from outside the courtyard and silently dragged away Chunxiang, who had been pressed on the mute point.

The fear in Chunxiang's eyes was as if she had seen death.

Qin Chuyan returned to Shen Muyin at some point and said condescendingly: "I will give you one chance. If what you say does not satisfy me, I will throw you to the wolves."

Li Dequan listened with his eyelids twitching. He was really afraid that the man in the East Palace would do this.

But he did not step forward. It was an instinctive intuition that the eldest daughter of the governor of Beijing might not be such a simple person.

Shen Muyin spoke calmly.

"Your Highness, I had no choice but to break into the East Palace." Shen Muyin weighed every word carefully. "I didn't grow up in the capital until yesterday, when my father sent someone to pick me up. But yesterday, my adoptive parents' family of forty people were suddenly wiped out, and they died silently. I was hidden in a secret room by my adoptive father, and I was lucky enough to escape."

As she spoke, Shen Muyin's tone seemed to become much more sad: "But I stayed at Xiangshan Temple today, and I met an assassin. I was frightened and panicked, and Chunxiang took me to the back mountain. I more or less heard that His Highness raised wolves in the back mountain and was not allowed to enter, but Chunxiang insisted that I go in, so I had no choice but to break into His Highness's villa."

After the words fell, Shen Muyin kowtowed: "Please forgive me, Your Highness. I did not mean to offend you. It's just that I'm afraid that I may not be able to return to the capital."

Anyone who sees a delicate girl kneeling down and begging him like this will feel soft-hearted.

But who is Qin Chuyan? This man who is famous for his cruelty in the Great Zhou Dynasty was completely indifferent.

"The second branch of the Shen family wants to kill you?" Qin Chuyan looked at Shen Muyin with a half-smile.

Shen Muyin didn't expect Qin Chuyan to be so direct. She was suddenly put in a passive position, not knowing whether to admit it or not.

"Did the second house arrange for you to be a servant?" Qin Chuyan asked again.

"Yes." Shen Muyin said in a low voice.

Qin Chuyan was still looking down at Shen Muyin. Suddenly, his bony fingers pinched Shen Muyin's chin, and Shen Muyin almost screamed in pain.

"Do you think I have the mood to care about the dirty business of the Shen family?" Qin Chuyan asked word by word.

The next second, Shen Muyin felt that his jaw was about to be broken by Qin Chuyan, this madman.

It's not just that he is moody, but he doesn't take human life seriously at all. Everyone here is just an ant and their death is not a pity.

She began to regret trespassing into the villa.

In the previous life, this person left his body intact, probably just because he was in a good mood, not out of pity.

"Throw it to the wolves." Qin Chuyan said coldly.

Li Dequan: “…”

The girl was being asked to speak her mind peacefully, why did you suddenly turn around and throw her to feed the wolves?

The secret guard had already stepped forward, and Shen Muyin held on: "Your Highness, it is not a pity for your servant to feed the wolves, but Your Highness wants to fall asleep, and no one can cure it except you."

"What an arrogant tone! I will give you half an hour. If I cannot fall asleep, I will whip your corpse and hang it on the city gate. You are guilty of deceiving the emperor and you deserve to be killed." Qin Chuyan looked at Shen Muyin coldly.

Almost as soon as Qin Chuyan finished speaking, the secret guard put Shen Muyin down.

Shen Muyin let out a long sigh, she forced herself to stand up and walked towards Qin Chuyan.

Just walking these few steps, Shen Muyin was sweating profusely.

Qin Chuyan looked at Shen Muyin coldly throughout the whole process, as if he wanted to know what tricks she could play.

"Manager Li, are there any silver needles in the other courtyard?" Shen Muyin suppressed his panic and asked Li Dequan.

"Yes, I'll get it for you." Li Dequan nodded.

After a while, a full set of silver needles was handed to Shen Muyin.

Shen Muyin held his breath to stop his fingertips from shaking.

This is not arrogance, but Shen Muyin knows very well that when Xu Chong was in the Xu Mansion, he was proficient in medicine.

No one knew that Xu Zhong was the famous ghost hand in the world, but he injured his hand in an accident and retired from martial arts from then on.

Xu Zhong taught this medical skill to Shen Muyin one by one.

However, Xu Zhong warned Shen Muyin not to reveal it unless necessary to avoid fatal disaster.

Today, it is a helpless move.

Shen Muyin accurately inserted the silver needle into Qin Chuyan's acupuncture points. She acted quickly and decisively without any hesitation.