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

Chapter 217 Don't Talk Nonsense
"I didn't know it was you back then!" Ye Jingnian retorted urgently.

Mu Zhixing was slightly taken aback, sniffed pitifully, and asked cautiously, "Really?"

“How foolish… You’d rather hurt yourself than ask…” Ye Jingnian pulled her close, pressing his forehead against hers, and said, “You don’t have to do anything, as long as you are Zhixing…”

Mu Zhixing's heart skipped a beat: "Your Highness..."

Ye Jingnian kissed her lips fiercely, his hot breath spreading through her.

He pinned her against the couch, whispered in her ear, his voice tinged with resentment, "But why... why is your name Mu Zhixing?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he gripped her wrist tightly and bit her earlobe, causing it to hurt.

"Hmm..." Mu Zhixing frowned, her eyes wet with tears.

"Your existence makes my hatred a joke." Ye Jingnian's eyes were bloodshot as he kissed away her tears and said, "You are truly my calamity."

"I don't know either..." Mu Zhixing's eyes were full of tears. She bit her lip in grievance, sniffed, and said, "I don't know why I'm called Mu Zhixing, or why I'm Mu Xiyang's sister. If I had known I would make you so unhappy, I shouldn't have gotten on your pleasure boat in the first place."

Upon hearing this, Ye Jingnian felt a pang of pain in his heart. He frowned and asked, "What did you say?"

She took a deep breath and exhaled tremblingly, saying, "The divination that night said there was a glimmer of hope in the southwest..." She seemed to be thinking, her expression blank for a moment, before continuing, "If I go around your pleasure boat and swim to the other side, it seems... to be the Prince Xian's residence..."

"You dare!" Ye Jingnian grabbed her arm, lowered his head and bit her neck hard. "Mu Zhixing, try spouting another lie!"

"Your Highness is still not satisfied with this? Does Your Highness wish that the moment A-Zhi jumps into the lake would be..."

Ye Jingnian fiercely sealed her lips with his, a hint of panic rising in his heart. He bit her lip until it hurt, and whispered between breaths, "Don't talk nonsense."

He gripped her wrist tightly, his voice hoarse as he said, "Mu Zhixing, whether it's fate or calamity, you belong to me."

He gently inhaled the fragrance of her neck, his phoenix eyes gleaming with an oppressive light: "As my wife and slave, you can only belong to me."

"Your Highness..." Mu Zhixing's wrist was pinched painfully, and she let out a hoarse sob.

"If you dare to disregard your own life, I will raze Western Shu to the ground!"

Mu Zhixing was startled and fell silent, staring blankly at the top of the tent, and said, "I understand."

Qinxue Palace.

“Princess, the Zhu Luo army camp is heavily guarded, and those twenty experts are highly skilled in mystic arts. The current battle is not like before, and our witchcraft no longer has an advantage.” Hongdie frowned as she looked at Mu Jiyue.

Mu Jiyue gritted her teeth, looked at Hongdie and the eleven maids behind her, and said, "Weren't you thirteen guards very impressive when you followed the eldest princess? You can't even handle this small matter?"

Hongdie slowly lowered her head, her expression somewhat troubled: "Among us thirteen guards, the most powerful is Sister Hongling... Besides... the eldest princess basically doesn't need us to lift a finger."

"Slap!" A sharp slap landed on Hongdie's face. Mu Jiyue gritted her teeth and glared at her, saying, "Useless trash! Are you mocking my incompetence?"

Red Butterfly looked nervous: "This subordinate dares not."

Mu Jiyue sneered and said, "Do I keep you here just to be decorations? Fight to the death and break into the Zhu Luo army camp and kill Mu Zhixing! If you fail, it's because you're incompetent. Just kill yourselves and don't drag me down with you!"

Upon hearing this, Red Butterfly's expression faltered slightly, and everyone exchanged glances, remaining silent for a moment before bowing their heads in unison: "Yes..."

Campfires flickered outside the military tents.

The twelve guards lay in ambush on the hilltop. Hongjian frowned as she looked at Hongdie and said, "Sister Hongdie, do we really have to force our way through? There are only twelve of us, and they are twenty masters of mystic arts, each of whom is on par with us in strength. How can we possibly defeat them..." Hongxiao gritted her teeth and said, "The Second Princess said that if the mission is not completed, we must end our own lives."

“We have practiced witchcraft since childhood and have no knowledge of martial arts. If we are not accompanied by a martial arts master when we are on the move, it is quite dangerous if we are not careful.”

"Are we really going to send ourselves to our deaths...?"

Hongdie narrowed her eyes slightly, slowly clenched her fist, and said, "The eldest princess would never have let us sisters die in vain back then."

"Yes, how could the Second Princess..."

"The Second Princess's talents are far inferior to those of the First Princess. Last time, she made a seven-day agreement with Crown Prince Zhu Luo without her consent. She was quite agreeable, but she was confined to her quarters, which implicated the entire Qinxue Palace. Even we suffered the pain of being whipped..."

"Alright," Red Butterfly said coldly, glancing at the campfire and snorting, "Since he's not a good leader, it's better not to listen to him."

"But... the second princess's poison that controls us can only be cured by the Moonlight Jade Pendant."

Upon hearing this, Red Butterfly narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "I do have another idea."

Two days later, at Qinxue Palace.

Mu Jiyue paced back and forth in front of the courtyard, gritting her teeth as she said, "Why is there not a sound at all..."

She turned and went back into the house, summoned the tracking Gu, chanted a spell, and a mirror appeared in front of her.

Looking in the mirror, twelve women in red, dressed in concealing black, were fleeing frantically through the forest.

Her pupils suddenly contracted, and her eyes flashed with rage: "Damn traitors, how dare they just escape like that? Have they forgotten the Heart-Eating Gu within them?"

Mu Jiyue formed hand seals and activated the incantation.

With a "poof," Red Butterfly's face turned deathly pale, and she spat out a mouthful of black blood, collapsing to her knees with a dazed look in her eyes.

"Sister Red Butterfly! Sister Red Butterfly!" A group of maids surrounded her, crying and calling out.

Red Butterfly smiled with relief, then frowned in distress, and said with difficulty, "Okay...okay...live..."

As soon as she finished speaking, her eyes closed limply.

"Red Butterfly!" Mu Jiyue slammed her hand on the table, gritting her teeth as she said, "She actually dared to transfer all the Heart-Eating Gu to herself... She'd rather die than let them lose their freedom! What a display of sisterly love!"

She suddenly felt a chill of fear, her legs went weak, and she sat down in the chair behind her, her eyes visibly filled with panic.

Now... am I just supposed to sit here and wait to die...?

There was the sound of armor rattling and scraping outside. Mu Jiyue's breath hitched. She quickly walked into the courtyard and saw that another squad of imperial guards had been added outside the gate, surrounding Qinxue Palace.

She ran to the door, grabbed the collar of the imperial guard beside her, and glared at him with reddened eyes: "What's going on?!"

The imperial guards coldly pushed her hand away, saying, "His Majesty has ordered that Qinxue Palace be strictly guarded until noon two days from now. Anyone who enters or leaves without authorization will be killed without mercy."

"Is Father Emperor planning to push me out?!"

The imperial guards, their faces grim, said, "His Majesty has ordered that no matter the cost, we must bring back the Third Princess!"