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"Mistress."

Ling Xiao's body shook as beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

"Master, please forgive me. Your subordinate is willing to accept all punishment. Please don't chase your subordinate away. Also, Master, please …"

Ling Xiao sighed, looked at Ming Mou who had a pale complexion, and continued: "Master, on account of the fact that Ming Mou has followed you for so many years, please forgive her this time."

As he finished his sentence, another gust of wind from his palm struck. It was much stronger than the previous one and went straight for Ling Xiao's chest.

Ling Xiao's expression changed. He lowered his head and knelt straight without moving at all. He gritted his teeth and received the palm strike. He did not use any inner force to protect himself, but spat out two mouthfuls of blood.

"Scram!"

Xiao Chengjin turned his head and no longer looked at the two.

"Master!"

Ming Mou suddenly raised her mist-like eyes, and said with a resolute tone: "Since this subordinate followed by Master's side, I have never thought of leaving. Since master is unwilling to forgive this subordinate, then this subordinate will apologize with my death!"

With that, a shining dagger appeared in Ming Mou's hand.

Ling Xiao frowned and was about to speak, but stopped himself in the end. He turned his face away and could not bear to take another look.

He knew that unless Master changed her mind, Ming Mou's life would definitely be lost.

Xiao Chengjin walked towards the house without stopping, as if he did not hear Ming Mou's words.

Seeing the heartless figure, Ming Mou shut her eyes in despair, raised the dagger in her hand and stabbed it into her own chest.

However, the moment her dagger touched her skin, a hidden weapon came over. It didn't open the dagger in her hand but directly hit her wrist, causing the dagger to deviate. It didn't pierce any vital points but was also injured.

Ming Mou immediately let out a stuffy groan, and blankly stared at the closed door, unable to come back to her senses for a moment.

"There won't be a next time!"

The man in the room softly spoke four words. His voice was calm and emotionless.

"Thank you, Mistress."

Ming Mou's face instantly lit up, as if she had already forgotten about the pain on her body.

Seeing this, Ling Xiao could only helplessly shake his head.

Ming Mou had indeed been by Master's side for a few years, and had always done her best, never making the slightest mistake.

He shouldn't have, he shouldn't have revealed the matter of Third Miss's presence in the Prince Qi's Palace to the County Princess Ankang, wasn't he intentionally making things difficult for his master?

Ming Mou went down to bandage her wounds.

Ling Xiao was still kneeling on the ground and had not gotten up.

"Still not getting out?"

Xiao Chengjin's voice sounded again.

Hearing that, Ling Xiao immediately laughed: "Master, by stopping Ming Mou, you have naturally forgiven her, but you have not yet said that you will forgive this subordinate."

"Indeed not."

His voice was still as calm as before.

Ling Xiao frowned bitterly.

"Do you want this subordinate to die as well?"

"Get out, don't let This King see you."

"Yes, master. Your subordinate will leave now."

Ling Xiao hurriedly stood up, took a deep breath and went down to recuperate.

Master, you've done so much for me today...

The people of Madame Wang stayed over at the Lean on Dreams House for an entire night, but they did not see Mu Qianyu return.

Thus, Madame Wang was happy since it was early morning.

"That girl didn't return home at night. She must have been fooling around with some man."

He ordered Cui Chun: "Get Zheng Yong to bring a few more people out to find Third Miss. Just say that Third Miss didn't come back last night, and was kidnapped by some thief, and we'll get big guy to help us look for it."

"Yes, Madam. This servant will go now."

A hint of understanding flashed across Cui Chun's face, and she hurriedly retreated.

On the main street, only then did the small vendors set up their stalls. The commoners had just finished their breakfast and came out to take a walk after eating their fill.

"My Third Miss didn't return last night. I don't know what happened, but the Old Master and Madam ordered me to bring some people out to look for him. If any of you have seen my Third Miss, please send a message. With this shout, everyone knew that Third Miss of Zheng Family had not returned for the entire night. It was unknown if he was kidnapped by bandits or had a private meeting with someone.

Those who had seen Mu Qianyu, Xue Junyu and the others yesterday began to guess that it was none other than the Third Miss Zheng who had failed to follow the rules and went to do that thing.

There were also people who thought that the tea set that Xie Yu Princess had set her eyes on had been smashed apart by Third Miss Zheng and hence, sent people to tie him up with hatred in their hearts.

Instantly, Mu Qianyu became the center of discussion for the citizens once again. Moreover, the rumors spread more and more, and almost everyone knew about the Shengjing.

The Gu Ying was brought away by Luo Jin without a word, and did not tell the Zheng Family Mu Qianyu's location.

Until the evening, Zheng Yong had pretended to bring people to search for Mu Qianyu on the streets, purposely blowing up the matter and ruining Mu Qianyu's reputation.

But who would have thought that while he was leading everyone on the street to shout, a person in the uniform of a guard would suddenly stop him, and ask with a frown: "Are you the butler of Zheng Mansion?"

"May I know who this official is?"

Zheng Yong looked at the person in front of him with suspicion.

The guard came out with his identity card.

Zheng Yong was not an ignorant person, upon seeing that it was someone from the palace, he immediately said: "I am the butler of Zheng Mansion, what business might your highness have?"

"What are you doing here?"

The guard asked with a straight face.

"Reporting to Sir, our family's Third Miss has been missing since yesterday and did not return for two days and one night. Thus, this lowly one is bringing people to find our family's young miss."

The Zheng Yong purposely spoke loudly, insisting on using this matter to advertise.

"Since the Third Miss is missing, why didn't you inform the officials?"

The guard asked with a frown.

Zheng Yong continued: "We have already reported it to the official, but our wife is really worried, so we should still call this young one to bring some people to look for it."

Even at this time, he still did not forget to put gold on Madame Wang's face.

The guard's expression changed as he said coldly: "Is your wife really that concerned about the Third Miss? Then why did the Third Miss return to her residence last night with the door shut? No one will open the door for him."

"What?"

Zheng Yong was startled, he did not expect the guard to say these words.

No matter how much the profound strength gate closed, the Third Miss knocked on the door, and no one came to answer. In the end, I wanted to go to the County Princess Palace to rest, but met the Prince Li in the end.

The guard said expressionlessly.

Zheng Yong's face was ashen, he never expected that it would be like this, so he tried asking: "So that means my Young Miss is currently in the Prince Li's Palace?"

"Of course not."

The guard looked at him in displeasure and shouted, "Third Miss has not been married off, yet he is staying in the Prince Li Palace. This is naturally against the rules, do you think that the Duke would ruin Third Miss's reputation?"

"This little one doesn't dare."

Being shouted at by the guard, Zheng Yong was so scared that he immediately kneeled on the ground.

"Xian Consort had the intention of letting Third Miss stay in the palace for a few days, thus we accepted him into the palace. Now, you sent me to spread the news, so you don't have to make a ruckus here, and purposely tarnish Third Miss's reputation."