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She woke up on Duan Chengrui's bed.

He had never had such a good night's sleep before. Sleep was a place where even nightmares couldn't enter.

"You slept all day." Duan Chengrui's voice was accompanied by the gentle light of a candle.

Gu climbed out of bed. Her coat and cloak were beside her pillow.

After changing his clothes, Gu Danyan was still vexed over how she had been enchanted by the bewitching incense. However, she still stood up and walked to Duan Chenrui's side and sat in front of his desk, yawning lazily: "You've delayed me for an entire day, I still have a lot …"

"Those can all be taken slowly." Duan Chengrui looked at her seriously.

He didn't even understand that his subordinate had hurt her before, and he had heard Gu Danyan say that she didn't believe him.

But now, Gu Daiyan was lying in front of his table without any defenses in front of him.

"Your majesty is right." Gu Liuyan nodded seriously. She raised her hand and picked up another book she had never seen before: "Then I'll continue."

Duan Chengrui nodded and continued to process his documents. He did not hide anything and told Gu Danyan what he had done.

Duan Chengrui practically closed up and didn't come out, and within the estate, some gossip similarly leaked out.

Quite a number of maidservants had seen a beautiful woman living in Duan Chengrui's room, but no one knew who that person was. Both Chang Yiqin and Yue Qing were rejected and kept in their own rooms.

Spring came soon after. The entire Sky Flame was covered in a thin curtain of rain.

Qing Dai was left alone in the medicine house with no one interested. Along the way, Qi Lin, Yin Gou, or Meng Xu, came looking for his. The people they trusted were all easily dismissed by Qing Dai.

The day Gu Danyan returned, it was on a rainy night.

The two of them stood under the eaves of the house. Gu Pingyan glanced at the corners of his wet skirt and only slightly raised it before turning his head to look at Duan Chenrui. "I'll have to ask Your Highness for help in the future."

"I've already shown you everything, but you still haven't said what you want to do."

Duan Chengrui put away his umbrella and took off his cloak to look at her.

"I can tell you now." Gu Danyan turned around and placed his hand on Duan Chenrui's shoulder. Standing on his tiptoes, he whispered into his ear, "I want Meng Xu to use his own name to rope in the court officials. The justice court officials of the crown prince will bear the brunt of this disaster."

"Aren't you afraid that others might suspect you through Meng Xu?" Duan Chengrui frowned.

"Even if we find out, it would only be to find my father. He will definitely bring Meng Xu out for his own use." After Gu Liuyan finished speaking, he pointed at himself and said with a low smile, "Connecting with the Prime Minister's Estate naturally means that the mastermind is Duan Chengxuan."

"Aren't you afraid that others will think like this about Meng Xu? The Emperor might even suppress Meng Xu in the future because of Uncle Huang's achievements." Duan Chengrui was slightly surprised in his heart.

Why did this woman dare to put all her chips in Meng Xu's hands?

"When that time comes, the war for the crown prince will have already begun. What can the emperor do? We can't really uproot King Jing; at most, we can destroy the Prime Minister's Estate, and Meng Xu will be of use to you." Gu Liuyan's fingertip gently slid off his shoulder with a smile on her face: "Aunt wants Gu Zixun to kill me, and Su Yuwan also wants me to die, so none of them need to run."

Duan Chengrui frowned because of this.

During these ten days of interaction, Duan Chengrui had almost forgotten that Gu Danyan was a scheming woman.

"Prime Minister Gu is your father."

"But he can't be weak just because he is the prime minister. Do you remember what you once investigated him for? He was a greedy man who went against the law to win over court officials. He is not suitable for this position, so he should be sacrificed?" Gu Danyan frowned and sat on the steps, looking at the rain: "If you want to change Navy Tide, the first one to get rid of it would be a bug like father."

"So this is how you look after the overall situation." Duan Chengrui was slightly stunned. "Sometimes, I don't even know if it's for revenge, or for Navy Tide's future."

After being questioned, Gu Daiyan held his face and looked at him strangely: "There's no conflict between the two."

"Is that so?" However, Duan Chengrui felt it was strange, "If it was for Navy Tide, could it be that you shouldn't have pushed Imperial Uncle to the throne? Everyone has high hopes for him, whether he is in the court or on horseback. "

Gu Danyan couldn't think of a reason to refute and could only helplessly say, "I can't think of a reason to say that he's bad, but I think that Duan Chengxuan is extremely harsh on people and he is stubborn. How can he become the Emperor?"

After saying that, she hugged her leg and continued, "Although you are not exactly a popular figure nor are you very famous, you are still a genius of the emperor. Why are you belittling yourself?"

He was silent for a long time. The only sound that could be heard was the patter of the rain.

Duan Chengrui was looking at Gu Danyan's simple clothes and was faintly lost in thought. He opened his mouth, but in the end, he only uttered words with a smile on his face: "What you said makes sense."

"Your Highness should return as soon as possible. In half a month, I will bring Meng Xu to see you." Gu Liuyan was smiling as he looked at the blue daisies approaching under an umbrella in the rain.

Duan Chengrui didn't stay any longer and silently left the medicine house, returning to the Third Prince's estate.

When he returned, he saw Yue Qing holding an umbrella in the rain, waiting for him.

However, Duan Chengrui felt that his rare good mood had been broken, but he still allowed her to enter the room.

Yue Qing's clothes were mostly wet. She knelt in front of Duan Chengrui and only said one sentence, "Has Your Highness nurtured any other powers recently? Because of your favor to a girl in a brothel, the Wang Mansion was in an uproar. Madam's house was almost in a state of chaos and the roof of the courtyard was almost overturned. "

"She has already left, and she is not my power."

Duan Chengrui's words were vague. Yue Qing had obstructed him once before, so naturally, she could not tell the truth now.

Luckily, Yu Yuqing had full confidence in Duan Chengrui, so his heart suddenly sank.

Since it was not His Highness' power, His Highness was unwilling to tell her now, it was more like he was protecting her as his lover. After hesitating for a while, she still casually asked, "Then, how should I explain this matter? I can't say that I'm your lover. "

"She was born to be a woman of the martial world. She had once met This King, and now that I've passed by her, she's stayed for a few days." Duan Chengrui spoke the words that he had thought of long ago.

Yue Qing was speechless for a moment. Although she was always with His Highness, when His Highness was outside, she was unable to follow him.

"But... She's in your bedroom … " Yue Qing continued to probe.

"Her face is completely disfigured, and her enemies are chasing after her. You don't need to tell anyone else, you only need to fawn over them." Duan Chengrui heaved a long sigh as he spoke up to this point.

Yue Qing's heart was finally relieved. She nodded seriously. "I will naturally do it. Please rest assured, Your Highness."

"Go." Duan Chengrui waved his hand and continued to correct the documents with a gloomy expression.

Yue Qing was becoming more and more emotional.