When the prince is reborn, he will only hit me if he doesn't hit the wall!

Xu Mingxi turned his back and took a deep breath, trying to stay calm. When he turned around, he pretended to be confused and asked in confusion, "What's wrong with the prince? Why did you call me?"

Qin Zhaolie glanced at her and said calmly, "Stand at the door and close it. Come in when I call you."

Xu Mingxi seemed confused and nodded: "Yeah."

As he said, I closed the study door.

He clasped his hands on his abdomen, looking unconcerned, but in fact he was listening to every move inside.

If she guessed correctly, Qin Zhaolie was checking the things in his secret box.

Sure enough, there was an extremely subtle sound of mechanism coming from the house, which would not be noticeable unless one listened carefully.

On a cold, snowy day, Xu Mingxi's hands were wet and slippery with sweat.

She did not take the jade seals and letter paper with her, but she did not know whether Qin Zhaolie had any backup plans.

Will they find out that she has touched those things?

After an unknown amount of time, Qin Zhaolie's voice sounded again: "Come in."

Xu Mingxi pushed the door open and walked in. Just as he raised his foot and took a step towards him, a green jade porcelain teacup suddenly shattered at his feet.

Xu Mingxi was so shocked that he couldn't help but shrink. When he looked up, he saw Qin Zhaolie sitting behind the desk with indifference in his eyes, as if nothing had happened.

It was as if the teacup appeared out of thin air at her feet.

"You hid it very well. I really underestimated you, Xu Mingxi."

Qin Zhaolie's voice was cold to the bone, he lowered his eyelids and looked at her impatiently.

"What is the prince saying?" Xu Mingxi was so scared that she started to cry. She clutched the hem of her skirt tightly with both hands, her long eyelashes wet, and looked at Qin Zhaolie, as if she didn't understand what he meant.

"I didn't know that my princess' heart had long been separated from mine, and that she was lurking by my side just for show?"

"Xi'er took advantage of my physical condition and sneaked into my study today. She must have a big plan!"

There was a lot of sarcasm in Qin Zhaolie's words.

Xu Mingxi wiped away her tears and sobbed, "I didn't have any plans. I was just hungry, so I asked my maid to look for food. When she didn't come back for a long time, I went out to look for her, and that's how I met the assassin by chance!"

"I saw him enter your study and tried to stop him, but he ran too fast and I didn't catch him. It was an accident. Why are you accusing me so wrongly?"

Like an ordinary young girl who is ignorant of the world, she was misunderstood by her lover and cried in a wronged and arrogant manner.

Qin Zhaolie rolled Su Yu forward, pinched her small chin, forced her to bend slightly, and looked at him. In his dark and silent eyes, there was only her tiny reflection: "Oh, is there really an assassin? If what you said, the assassin escaped from the window, why didn't he leave even a footprint on the window? There are only two possibilities. One is that he didn't escape from the window, and someone let him go through the main door!"

"Second, there is no assassin at all!"

Xu Mingxi was not afraid either, and retorted, his tone rising: "Am I a fool? Even if I want to cooperate with the assassin, I have to choose today!"

"I have just been granted the management rights of the palace and have only been here for a few days. I don't know anything about the patrols and guards. How could I rashly order others to steal things from your study? There are no traces? Then what are these footprints all over the floor? How can you be sure that one of them is not an assassin?!"

She did it cleverly, unknowingly shifting the focus in an effort to "direct others."

She waved away Qin Zhaolie's hand, straightened her back, and said confidently with tears in her eyes:

"Aren't there guards at your door? Are they fools? Haven't they ever fought against assassins? You slander me like this. You have never liked me, right? Do you hate me now?"

"I was wondering why you made my sister a concubine, you want her to be the principal wife!"

Xu Mingxi took advantage of the situation and used his trump card - being unreasonable.

The words came out one after another, and Qin Zhaolie's temples were throbbing because of her crying.

What Xu Mingxi said also makes sense...

The incident happened suddenly, and he hadn't even asked the guard at the door...

I heard the other side crying and saying bluntly: "If I really want to steal something, I will find out who you are, the palace guard, before I come!"

Qin Zhaolie was speechless at such brainless and straightforward remarks. Only she could say whatever she thought without any scruples.

Qin Zhaolie thoroughly doubted whether Xu Mingxi had the brains to collude with outsiders.

He hadn't really searched or questioned anyone yet, but Xu Mingxi's sudden appearance in the study was indeed suspicious! No wonder he first suspected Xu Mingxi.

Then I saw her taking off the bracelets on her hands, the hairpins, jade hairpins, earrings on her head... and even taking off her clothes!

"You, what are you doing? What do you look like?"

"What am I like? Since you want to change your princess, I will help you. These things were given by you, so I will give them all back to you! You can give them to whomever you want, I have no right to interfere! I want to go back! Back to Xu Mansion, so that others can see that Prince Qi wants to change his princess only a few days after getting married!"

"I never said I wanted to change the princess!"

Qin Zhaolie was most troubled by her unreasonable behavior. Sometimes Xu Mingxi became willful and capricious, which really made him unable to cope with her.

Although she was just using him, it was not advisable to create unnecessary trouble at the moment. It would not be good for him if there was unrest in the rear house.

Qin Zhaolie softened his tone: "Xi'er, it was my fault just now. I was just asking a few questions as usual. I never doubted you."

Xu Mingxi stopped, looked at her in astonishment, and sobbed: "You, you tested me? You cheated me? So, that's why you were so mean to me?"

"Qin Zhaolie, you actually don't believe me about our relationship over the years!"

Now, it was Xu Mingxi's turn to take the initiative: "I found a painkiller for you. If I want to get something from you, why not just stand by and wait for you to die? You can't get what you want! You still need to do this!"

The words were rough but the truth was there. Qin Zhaolie also wondered if he was too suspicious. Xu Mingxi was so simple-minded that everything he thought and did was revealed on the surface. It seemed unlikely that he was an accomplice of the assassin.

"It's my fault. I'm also worried that Xi'er might go astray... and be deceived by others."

Xu Mingxi seemed to believe his words and blinked his dark eyes: "I'm so smart, who can fool me?"

Qin Zhaolie opened his mouth, his lips parted for a long while, he seemed to be about to say something, and finally chose to close his mouth again.

That's it.

"I misunderstood Xi'er today. It's getting late. Xi'er, go back and get some rest."

"You don't doubt me anymore?"

Xu Mingxi asked out of the blue.

Qin Zhaolie replied perfunctorily, "Just as Xi'er said, Xi'er is so smart, who can deceive you?"

Xu Mingxi then showed a harmless smile: "You are right."

"By the way, could Your Majesty come back with me tomorrow? It has been delayed for several days."

"The prince is in poor health, you can go back with the concubine tomorrow. You can go to the palace storehouse to choose what you need."

Xu Mingxi opened the door, still pouting, and walked out reluctantly with a wronged look on her face.

About ten steps away from the study, Xu Mingxi made sure that no one was paying attention to her whereabouts. She suppressed her aggrieved and innocent look and regained her calmness and indifference. She wiped the tears from her face with her five fingers, glanced at the door of Qin Zhaolie's study, and spat.

"You are nothing more than that, Qin Zhaolie. You believed it after a little bit of acting."

From the moment he threw the cup at her as soon as she entered the study, Xu Mingxi knew that Qin Zhaolie was testing her.

Xu Mingxi knew Qin Zhaolie's temper too well. If he was really sure that she was the one who did it, then what he would throw at her would not be as simple as a teacup.

As soon as they enter the door, they will probably be killed and silenced.

Xu Mingxi was thinking about his future plans when he met Jin'er on his way back to the hospital.

Jin Er's face was filled with shame: "Princess, I..."

"You don't have to say more, Jin'er. It's not your fault. It's me who was too impatient."

Today's plan failed, but she would not give up.

The sky was getting light and birds were chirping outside the window.

Xu Mingxi didn't care whether Qin Zhaolie was willing to go back with him. He unceremoniously picked up a lot of gifts from the warehouse and went straight back to the Xu Mansion with Xu Yuqiong.

However, when they just arrived at the gate of Xu's mansion, they didn't see Xu Guanghai coming to greet them, but they got an unexpected news from the servants: Xu Guanghai was going to get married again!

It’s that Zou Miao!