The daughter of the Marquis is too delicate, the abstinent prince pinches her waist and loves her

Chapter 209 Let's make peace here.
"Princess, it's late," Liuli reminded her.

"Mm." Mu Zhixing responded softly, got up and walked out.

Back at Yaoke Palace, Mu Zhixing dismissed the servants and took out the letter again to read it.

"Is Consort Xia a Zhu Luo?" A familiar voice rang out, and Mu Zhixing was suddenly startled.

She looked up at the roof beam where she heard the sound, her gaze turning cold as she stared at Sheng Xiao. "How dare you! You dare to peek at the princess's things?"

Sheng Xiao flipped down and looked at her, saying, "So, you're still my cousin."

Upon hearing this, Mu Zhixing paused slightly, then frowned and asked, "Who are you?"

Sheng Xiao took out a jet-black token from his sleeve, engraved with the Sheng family crest: "This subordinate is Sheng Yunqing's younger brother, Sheng Xiao."

Mu Zhixing raised an eyebrow slightly, slowly put away the letter, and raised her beautiful lips, saying, "Even if I have half Zhu Luo blood, I am still my father's flesh and blood. Even if my father knew, he would not punish me. But at a time when the two countries are at war, the guards personally appointed by my father are actually from the enemy country. Sheng Xiao, what are you trying to do? You tell me so rashly, aren't you afraid that I will inform on you?"

Sheng Xiao remained expressionless and said, "I know that the princess and my sister have some grudges. Since they are family, why don't we reconcile?"

Upon hearing this, Mu Zhixing's eyes turned cold: "On what grounds?"

"My eldest sister can cure love spells."

Mu Zhixing's gaze paused slightly, then she snorted coldly and said, "What good will this do me?"

"Is the love potion of Nightfall your unresolved issue?"

One sentence struck Mu Zhixing's heart. She slowly clenched her fist and fell silent.

Zhenbeihou Mansion.

Snowflakes drifted down from the gray sky, the pond was frozen over, and some snow fell from the eaves of the courtyard. The fireplace burning in the courtyard dispelled the surrounding chill.

Wearing a warm fox fur coat, Sheng Yunqing looked at the letter from the Western Shu Kingdom and said to Ye Jinchen beside her, "The time has come. I should set off for Western Shu."

Ye Jinchen raised an eyebrow: "Sheng Xiao has already found a way to save Jin Hua?"

Sheng Yunqing smiled and nodded: "This kid really didn't lie to me."

Upon hearing this, Ye Jinchen raised his hand and took her hand, saying, "I'll take care of it. Be careful."

Sheng Yunqing nodded.

"Ah!" Mu Hanxing, who was running and playing in the snow in the corridor, suddenly tripped and fell to the ground, crying loudly. This caused Chunrui, who was rushing over from behind, to also fall to the ground.

Seeing this, the girl stopped crying. Looking at Chunrui's disheveled appearance, she smiled happily again with tears still on her face.

Sheng Yunqing looked at the girl who was being helped up, his eyes revealing a deep meaning: "Take her with you."

Su Lan frowned and said, "Fairy Sister, Han Xing has already been stripped of her princess status. If you leave her in the Western Shu Kingdom, it will be a dead end for her..."

Sheng Yunqing let out a soft breath and said, "I just feel that this girl's mental state is sometimes good and sometimes bad. Maybe if we take her to her homeland, there will be a way to cure her."

Five days later, at the border.

"Halt! What are you doing?" The carriage was stopped by the Zhu Luo soldiers.

Su Lan lifted the curtain, took out the token given to her by Ye Jinchen, and said, "By order of the War King, I am going to Western Shu to gather military intelligence."

The soldier examined the token carefully, nodded respectfully, and said, "Let him pass!"

The carriage rolled across the border of Western Shu, a golden barrier enveloping it as it moved. Illusion talismans were affixed to the carriage, disguising it as a medicinal herb caravan, allowing it to avoid the battlegrounds between the two armies. The patrolling soldiers of Western Shu found no trace of it. Sheng Xiao had made prior arrangements at the capital's gates, allowing Sheng Yunqing and his party to enter the city posing as shamans to treat Gu poison.

Under layers of cover, Sheng Yunqing and the others successfully met with Sheng Xiao.

Sheng Yunqing removed her black cloak and stared blankly at Sheng Xiao's true face before her.

She raised her beautiful lips and said, "You look a lot like Hua'er."

Sheng Xiao was speechless. Upon seeing Sheng Yunqing, he didn't know what to say for a moment. After hesitating for a while, he asked softly, "Did the injury on your shoulder sever any tendons? Did it leave a scar?"

"After applying the medicine daily, I have fully recovered."

Upon hearing this, Sheng Xiao nodded and said, "The longer you stay here, the greater the risk. The Third Princess has already lent me the jade pendant. Let's not delay and go to the underground palace."

Sheng Yunqing nodded thoughtfully: "Mm."

In front of the underground palace of Mingyao Palace, through the changing seasons, the paper vines that had climbed up withered with the wind and snow.

Sheng Xiao tore off the withered branch, revealing the square groove in the stone gate, and took out the star-shaped jade pendant from his sleeve, embedding it inside.

After a long while without any movement, Sheng Yunqing frowned and said, "Could it be that only the Sunbeam Jade Pendant can be activated?"

"We still need the host's blood." A familiar voice sounded from behind.

Sheng Yunqing turned around, looked at Mu Zhixing dressed in Western Shu attire, and smiled, "Long time no see."

Mu Zhixing walked to the door, turned her head to Sheng Yunqing and said, "Your brother promised me that if he helped you this time, he would teach me how to remove the Gu. Is that true?"

"Of course I take it seriously."

As soon as she finished speaking, Mu Zhixing drew her fingers together and broke her palm, revealing a blue-white light in the star-shaped jade pendant she was holding.

Sheng Xiao gazed at that familiar light. Even with meticulous planning, there was a lapse. Although Mu Xiyang did not come that day, he must have brought blood beads made from Mu Xiyang's blood beforehand.

Mu Zhixing once again embedded the jade pendant into the stone door. A rumbling sound came, and as dust rolled down, the stone door slowly opened.

The underground palace is cold all year round, and although snow is falling heavily outside, it is not as eerie as the underground palace.

Mu Zhixing hid behind Sheng Yunqing and said, "The stars are cold..."

Sheng Yunqing took out a cinnabar pen and wrote a talisman to ward off the cold, then stuck it on Mu Hanxing's inner garment. Mu Hanxing immediately smiled and said, "Xingxing isn't cold anymore!"

The walls of the underground palace were covered with snow-white frost, and icicles hung down from above. Fluorite in the shadows glowed with a faint blue light, adding to the mysterious atmosphere.

“Here.” Sheng Xiao strode to a room, opened the crystal door, and inside the translucent ice crystal coffin, the girl’s delicate and beautiful face came into view.

Sheng Jinhua lay quietly, her long black hair frosted with ice, her slightly pale face looking serene and beautiful, her hands and feet covered with blooming gardenias.

Sheng Xiao raised his hand to stroke her face, his heart trembling slightly.

When he was a child, Mu Xiyang brought him to see her. Mu Xiyang said that Sheng Jinhua was sick and needed to rest in the underground palace, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

His gaze fell upon the iron chain hanging beneath the coffin. Following the chain to its source, he abruptly parted the flowers covering Sheng Jinhua's hands and feet, and a sudden shock ran through him.

Sheng Jinhua's hands and feet were pierced by four four-inch-long nails, which emitted a dark red light, firmly binding her inside the coffin.

Mu Xiyang had been lying to him since then!

No wonder he wanted to hold Sheng Jinhua's hand, but she said that her sister was too weak to move. It turns out she was hiding something terrible!