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As soon as Mu Xiaoling's voice fell, everyone's gaze seemed to drift towards Princess Qian Yang. The members of the Ling Kingdom's diplomatic mission looked at the emperor and his men with ridicule, and Xiao Qi was the most direct among them as she pointed at Qian Yang's nose and shouted, "You ugly bastard, you still dare to think about our prince? I'll watch the competition."

"You!" Qian Yang felt embarrassed, he wanted nothing more than to rip open Xiao Qi's mouth. Normally anyone who saw her would not be so respectful, so how could anyone embarrass her like this? This was detestable, when she married Ling Wang she would definitely kill Xiao Qi, and that commoner, who gave her the guts to make things difficult for the current Princess.

Qian Yang glared viciously at Mu Xiaoling.

Mu Xiaoling, on the other hand, didn't seem to notice. "Your Highness, are you going to compete with me?"

Even though Qian Yang wanted nothing more than to kill this woman named Feng Mu, he could still clearly see her beheading the tiger. With such a rare talent for driving away beasts, how could she possibly win against him?

However, if she didn't fight, how would she be able to take this lying down?

"How dare you!" How could the empress dowager bear such a loss? "Someone …"

"Muhou!" The emperor's sudden outburst shocked the empress dowager. Her face had already turned red from anger, so much so that it looked like it was about to burst. She hadn't seen an emperor like this in a long time, so she was a little scared.

The emperor took a deep breath. Since he had already lost face in another country, he could not help but tremble. "Imperial Mother, your body is not feeling well. Hurry and bring Imperial Mother back to the Palace to rest. Qianyang has always been filial, please wait on me."

"What, you!" The empress dowager didn't dare believe it, and her fingers trembled as she pointed at the emperor. What did she mean by her body being unwell? It was obvious that she was going to be placed under house arrest. She was the empress dowager!

However, she forgot that the empress dowager's authority came from the emperor. With a glare from the emperor, how could any of the imperial guards dare not go up? They forced the empress dowager and Princess Qianyang away from this place, one in front of the other.

The Emperor heaved a sigh of relief and said to Mu Xiaoling, "Lady Feng, this matter is indeed my fault. I haven't thought it through properly. You should just leave the elixir for now."

Mu Xiaoling cupped his hands in gratitude towards the Emperor. He didn't seem to be affected in the slightest by the food and drinks.

However, before the banquet had even finished, two guards rushed over.

One of the reports said, "Your majesty, we've found Young Master Du."

The emperor frowned, "Oh, where is he? Why isn't he here?"

The guard swallowed hard and lowered his head even more. "He's dead."

The emperor's expression changed as he knocked down the dishes and wine on the table. "Investigate! Quickly find out the truth for this emperor, or else we will meet head on!"

The guard ran away. The other guard remembered what he had to say and wished that he could hide himself. However, the matter was not small and he could not hide himself, so he tremblingly said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, the Li Family's Patriarch is dead."

The emperor's actions halted as he cleaved the table into two with a single palm. He bellowed, "What's going on!?"

"This subordinate doesn't know, but just now the Li family's Patriarch said he wanted to go to the latrine, so this subordinate will accompany him from behind. However, I waited outside the latrine for a long time and didn't see the Li family's Patriarch come out.

The emperor felt his vision go black and he fainted.

The scene was in chaos again.

After sending two major cases in succession, the people of the Meng Clan, as one of the suspects, naturally couldn't leave the palace. They had no choice but to return to the side hall.

Mu Xiaoling sat on the bed as she recalled the events of the day.

There were four great families in Yan Country: the Mu Family, the Li Family, the Du Family, and the Emperor's Xin Family.

Most of them were spread out among the other three families, and the balance had long been broken. Now that the Li Family's Patriarch was dead, the Du Family's Young Master was dead, and only the Emperor's Xin family was left unscathed.

If the three great families were to fall into chaos, the Yan Kingdom would soon be destroyed.

Mu Xiaoling sighed. At this moment, the window was blown open by a gust of wind.

The weather was not bad tonight, and there was no wind, so how could the wind blow the windows open? Just then, a black shadow approached and she took out her dagger. A ray of silver light shot out, piercing towards the black shadow's abdomen.

If this hit, even if the opponent didn't die, he would at least be heavily injured.

However, the other side seemed to have known of her movements. She gently supported her hand and easily blocked Mu Xiaoling's attack. Then, she tightly hugged her body.

A familiar fragrance filled his nose. Mu Xiaoling could feel the heartbeats of the person behind her, as though they were the same as before. "Xiao Yu, what are you doing here?"

"Naturally …" Xiao Yu whispered into her ear and laughed softly, "I missed you."

"I really don't know how we can get to know each other so well." Mu Xiaoling sniggered as she lifted her foot to try and step on Xiao Yu's foot, but Xiao Yu acted as if he knew what she was doing as he slowly let go of her hand and retreated to the side of the table.

"It's not too late to know." Xiao Yu sat on the chair and said with a light smile.

Mu Xiaoling stared at Xiao Yu with a complicated expression on her face. The two of them had known each other because of a transaction that they had calculated together. At that time, she was extremely vigilant of this person.

Xiao Yu could have killed her, but instead he had saved her.

It was because of this that she'd decided to abandon her past and treat Xiao Yu as the first friend she'd made in this world. However, at that moment, Xiao Yu disappeared …

Since he had already left, why would he appear before her eyes like a stranger? Was it not good?

Mu Xiaoling couldn't answer and could only silently look at Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu asked, "Aren't you curious how I became Prince Ling of Ling?"

Mu Xiaoling sat back on the bed. "You can say that?"

Xiao Yu said, "Before I was locked in the Soul Refining Sect, I had released a trace of my primordial spirit, which was reincarnated. This life just so happens to be Duke Ling, and when I left that day, I coincidentally met him who was about to send him out to Yan Nation.

Xiao Yu did not mention that experts like him, even if it was just a strand of his primordial spirit, were more than a hundred times stronger than the world's highest level martial spirit.

Mu Xiaoling turned her face away. "That's enough. I've finished speaking. You can leave now."

"Mu Xiaoling." Xiao Yu looked back at her, opened his mouth, and called out the other party's name. He said in an extremely convinced manner, "Be my concubine."

Mu Xiaoling frowned. "What did you say?"

"I told you to be my consort." Xiao Yu smiled, "Because I've noticed that there's no one in this world who can be as interesting as you and suit my tastes. I want you to be my woman."