My enemies became my companions

Chapter 65 Yin Tingxue's Secret
When he returned home, Chen Yi saw Yin Tingxue had already made tea.

She pushed the tea bowl in front of her.

"Drink."

Chen Yi drank the tea and then said:
“It’s an improvement over before.”

"If you do the same thing every day, you will definitely make progress."

Yin Tingxue responded, her brows slightly raised with a smile because of the compliment.

Chen Yi turned around and looked at her with a smile.

Yin Tingxue, who had been smiling just now, guessed something after seeing this scene. She couldn't help but look sad and looked at him fearfully.
"It's not night yet. It's not dark yet."

Chen Yi held her in his arms and asked grimly:

"Huh? You've grown wings so quickly. Are you not a good boy anymore?"

"No, no, it's just too early..."

Yin Tingxue glanced at him worriedly, fearing that he would get angry and treat her badly, so she quickly whispered:

"If you want, then... go take a shower first."

Anyway, no matter how unwilling I was, I had already completely obeyed him.

More than half an hour later.

Chen Yi hugged the daughter of King Xiang.

She was a little out of breath, her childish brows were slightly furrowed.

"Yintai... sounds nice, doesn't it?" Chen Yi muttered her name casually.

She didn't respond, but panted and wiped the sweat from her forehead weakly.

"Chen Yi..."

After a long while, she spoke softly.

"what happened?"

"Next time... could you... not say so many dirty words?" Yin Tingxue asked in a low voice, clutching the quilt and shrinking back.

"Oh, you don't like to hear it?"

Yin Tingxue nodded. Chen Yi always liked to humiliate her verbally, especially on the bed. She didn't like it. She felt so ashamed that her whole body turned red. It was like this for two days. Whenever she wanted to refute him, she would be severely bullied by him. She could only shake her head like a rattle, but he ignored her.

She came from a prominent family and didn't like doing that kind of thing, she even hated doing that kind of thing. But he still said those dirty words. When Yin Tingxue heard those words, her eyes were sore and she wanted to cry with shame.

"But I just like to talk about it, what should I do?" Chen Yi said shamelessly. Of course, in addition to liking to tease her, it was also because it could improve the efficiency of the dual cultivation of the Yin-Yang Art of Resentment. As long as she was so uncomfortable and humiliated every time, she could condense a true essence in ten days.

Yin Tingxue felt aggrieved, but could only shrink back and whispered:
"Then can you please say less?"

"Then talk less." Chen Yi rubbed her head and agreed.

She obediently pressed her little face against his chest.

After a long time, perhaps seeing that he was in a good mood, Yin Tingxue raised her face and asked:
"When will you take me back to Yintai Temple?"

"Didn't you say it's winter?"

"Can it be earlier?"

Yin Tingxue pondered for a while, then hesitantly whispered:

“…I miss home.”

She hesitated in her mind after saying this. She had already accepted her fate and would stay with him obediently. She also promised him that she would not run away and would stay with him in the future. So she was worried that Chen Yi would take this as a sign of her running away and deliberately wrongly accuse her and torture her.

Holding Yin Tingxue in his arms, Chen Yi thought for a while and sneered:
"How can you go back on your word? Or is this not your home? You are already married, this is your home."

Yin Tingxue subconsciously shrank inward, curled up in the corner, and looked up at him with trembling eyes.

Chen Yi thought she had given up, so he closed his eyes and said casually:

"A daughter who is married off is like water spilled. Some women never return to their parents' home in their entire lives."

There was silence in the bedroom for a moment.

Chen Yi was just about to let her fall asleep, so he hugged her tighter.

She suddenly spoke.

"But, if my daughter marries well, she will bring her husband back to her parents' home soon after the wedding night."

Chen Yi opened his eyes and looked at her. He had heard of this before. This was the custom for Dayu women to get married.
"so what?"

"I am married, but both places are my home. I consider this place as my home," Yin Tingxue hesitated for a while, then said carefully in a soft voice:
"Besides... I married well, and I want to take my husband back to my parents' home..."

When she said this, Yin Tingxue herself didn't believe it. Marrying well? Could this be considered a good marriage? She was forced to be a concubine by the person she feared the most, and her virginity was broken. She was also tortured to the point that she couldn't get up, but what else could she do? She had to accept her fate and be obedient. She was already sad enough and didn't want to be sadder.

She felt really wronged that her innocence was gone. But even if she still held a grudge, she didn't dare to speak it out. She couldn't go against him, because she didn't know how he would punish her.

How nice it would be if she could escape without any consequences. How nice it would be if he would not bear a grudge against her or retaliate against her if she escaped. Yin Tingxue sometimes thought so, but quickly stopped this dangerous idea.

"What a lie!" Chen Yi scratched her nose.

"It's not a lie..." Yin Tingxue lowered her red face.

Chen Yi knew she was lying.

"I can tell if you're lying. Don't lie. Do you understand?"

After Chen Yi warned her in a bad tone, the girl in his arms trembled slightly. He then said gently:

"I'll still promise you that I'll go back in two or three days, before the winter solstice."

Yin Tingxue smiled.

Perhaps because she was happy, she took the initiative to talk about Yintai Temple in a low voice.

"My mother said that I was the daughter of Yintai Temple. I didn't understand it at first, but after my mother left, I began to feel it a little bit."

"What do you feel?"

"Yintai Temple, there are many people living in it," she paused and glanced at Chen Yi, "I'll tell you, don't laugh at me."

"Ah."

"There are Sister Bodhisattva and Aunt Fengshu in Yintai Temple. One day, I suddenly heard them talking. They were complaining about the servants being lazy and not taking care of the temple since my mother died."

"Oh?"

Chen Yi was surprised for a moment, and then he thought of the stone statue of Bodhisattva in Yintai Temple and the maple tree in the yard. It turned out that in the eyes of this girl, they all had three souls and seven spirits?
He suddenly remembered his childhood when he would also talk to himself while holding his toys.

Yin Tingxue saw his expression and guessed something:

"I'm not just talking to myself. They really can talk. Otherwise, I wouldn't be... the Pure Saint."

The speaker may not have intended it, but the listener may have taken it to heart. Chen Yi narrowed his eyes.

It seems that the daughter of King Xiang still has many secrets hidden in her.

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The next day.

The mansion of the noble family is guarded by two stone lions, and the road in front of the gate is wide and clean.

The Lin Mansion welcomed an unexpected guest today.

Elder Lin, who usually wore a Taoist robe, changed into official clothes at home and sat upright in the hall.

A eunuch led a man in a black cloak and slowly walked into the hall.

"It's been a while since we last met. I wonder why the prince wants to talk to an old man like me today?"

Elder Lin bowed but did not stand up.

King Jing took off his cloak and sat down on a chair beside him. The servants of the Lin Mansion quickly served him tea.

"Master Lin, I don't like to talk nonsense. Please dismiss the servants first."

After hearing King Jing's words, Lord Lin was not angry, but just waved his hand and asked the servants to leave.

"The Prime Minister's case."

After the servant left, King Jing uttered three words.

Elder Lin frowned and leaned forward.

"The news has long been circulating that Captain Chen has reopened the case of the Prime Minister, causing panic in the court. The Lord must know about this."

King Jing paused, then reminded:

"Before Prime Minister Zhang was executed, he praised Elder Lin many times... as a talent who could assist the country."

Elder Lin frowned.
"I did hear that Captain Chen reopened the case of the Prime Minister, which was inappropriate, but this matter has nothing to do with the Lin Mansion."

As he was about to become an immortal, after years of accumulated merits, Elder Lin had long been unwilling to meddle in the affairs of the court. He had seen Chen Yi reopen the case of the Prime Minister, but at the moment he had not harmed the Lin Party, and had only been making things difficult for the Ding'an Party. Elder Lin was also unwilling to meddle in the affairs of the court.

However, King Jing's next words made Elder Lin look alert:
"I wonder if Lord Lin knows that it was the Queen Mother's idea to reopen the Prime Minister's case."

(End of this chapter)