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She had never once forgotten an unborn rhinoceros.

"I am not a saint who has left the mortal world, nor am I a hero who saves the nation from danger. I am just curious about the enigma of longevity, and I want to personally send these two people to atone for their crimes. "Your Highness Duke Jing."

Gu Danyan's entire body tensed up when he said those last four words word by word.

Perhaps some men could write off the so-called past, but she was born to be a woman, and her emotions were deep. She would not go against common sense, and would instead choose to follow the rules.

Duan Chengxuan had a calm and collected expression. "You're also Princess Erdan."

"Therefore, I have already ordered Lai Xuan to go all out, burn down the border gates of the city, and clear the way for Er Dan." At this moment, she even stood up uneasily, and walked up to Duan Chengxuan and held onto the front of his shirt. "I have no qualms about what I've done."

His eyes were only an inch away from her, yet when that person approached, Duan Chengxuan pulled her into his embrace, and just barely supported her by pressing the back of her head into his neck. His eyes were ice-cold as he said, "Duan Chengrui told me that when you were taken away, you broke the wooden board of the carriage with your bare hands, and even set the carriage on fire."

It was almost impossible to move due to being pressed down. Gu Pingyan could only feel all the grievances rushing up his head. He could only ruthlessly tug at the material on his clothes as his chest heaved up and down violently, but he couldn't say a single word.

Duan Chengxuan, however, had already obtained the best answer.

Even then, when Duan Chengrui mentioned this in his reply, he had even written a few words with a sense of justice, "You are simply not worthy of her."

But he still felt that he was the happiest man in the world.

After obediently placing the person in his embrace onto his lap, Duan Chengxuan could feel her shoulders lightly trembling. He could only hold his tighter and say, "Let me help you."

"Didn't you find me to argue with?"

"Who would quarrel with a child's mother?" He only turned his head to kiss her hair and said in a low voice, "Leave everything to me. I've already sent Zhang Liangshan to investigate the mysteries of longevity and sent a message regarding the insect poison to Er Dan. I believe Aizi will have a solution."

Gu Pingyan's trembling shoulders gradually eased up and down. He didn't know how long he had been rubbing the child's delicate hands in the nape of his neck, but it was only when his back was slightly uncomfortable due to his hunched body, or when the silver bracelet on his wrist was strangled between his skin and flesh that she raised her head and rested her chin on his shoulder. She relaxed her body and let those powerful arms tightly wrap around her.

"You always come and fight with me."

"Only by quarreling with you will you know what you want to do, troublesome woman." Duan Chengxuan half-truthfully complained, while his other hand ingratiatingly rubbed her back. "In the future, whatever you want to do, you have to tell Darling."

"Wait until you are willing to go to Aldan and be his consort." Gu Danyan raised her arms around his neck and sniffed the faint smell of soap in her nose. Perhaps it was the faint smell of medicine that she had spent too much time with, but she was a bit tired: "Although I don't know what you are planning, I don't think you can continue to sit on this throne."

"Then I can only be your consort." Duan Chengxuan effortlessly carried her up, and with one hand, he lifted her up. He felt the person in his embrace tightly grip onto his waist to prevent him from falling down, and he only patted the place where there was more flesh, in exchange for Gu Tianyan angrily tightening his neck. "Who would let a hooligan be a Prince Consort?"

"Don't tell me you want to find another hooligan?" Duan Chengxuan patted her by the waist and brought her to the bed. Looking at Gu Daiyan's slightly red eyes, he helplessly asked, "You didn't sleep well?"

"Same here." Gu Danyan could naturally see Wu Qing in front of her. He confidently rolled to the side of the bed and waited for the curtains of the bed to be pulled down and his warm chest to be pressed against her back. Only then did he fall into a deep sleep.

There was no better place to return to than Duan Chengxuan's embrace.

In his dreams, he even saw the dried wood of Phoenix Cry Garden, the city in which blood flowed like rivers in the distance, and the slender palm in the rain. In the end, he saw Gu Danyan standing in front of the tombstone in the middle of the flower field, raising a huge smile and looking at him: "It's impossible for a living person to have a tombstone."

The petals slowly drifted into the empty darkness.

When Duan Chengxuan woke up, it was already late into the night, and the person in his embrace seemed to have turned around in another direction. He struggled out of his embrace and slept soundly under the blanket, and before he took off his shoes and clothes, he could only organize everything by himself.

Dreams are negative.

As Duan Chengxuan thought like this, he spread the blanket in her embrace onto his shoulder without leaving a trace, then silently got up and put down the curtains. Only a guard remained outside the door, and when he saw the door open, he could only respectfully pay his respects, "I'm fine. It's just that Gu Cheng and Su Yuwan wanted to meet you just now."

"Have you investigated everything that had happened that year?"

It's already completely clear that Su Yuwan and Mu Qing once had a group of people secretly helping them from behind. Now it's clear that Gu Cheng wanted to get rid of you back then, so he wanted to continue instigating them. Unfortunately, Princess Ling'er had gone over, and Gu Cheng's subordinates were afraid of being recognized. Chenyi lowered his voice.

That year, Duan Chengxuan hadn't truly killed Su Yu Wan, and that was all he wanted to investigate.

He didn't believe that Su Yu Wan and Mu Qing could be so meticulous at their age. After all, no matter what, very few children could completely hide their emotions, but Su Yu Wan and Mu Qing were fearless when it came to doing it.

He had only found out the truth today, but he had made Gu Danyan feel jealous for nothing.

Waving his hand to make it unnecessary for others to speak further, Duan Chengxuan had just left the courtyard when two guards stepped forward to stop him. Duan Chengxuan merely said in a low voice, "Didn't Gu Cheng want to bring Su Yuwan to see me?"

"Please wait a moment, Your Highness." The guard didn't dare to raise his head and quickly left.

Now that he was under someone else's roof, Duan Chengxuan didn't want to go back and wake Gu Daiyan up. He could only wait by the door until the guard came over with a lantern and Gu Cheng and Su Yuwan, who had hastily changed clothes, arrived.

The moment Su Yuwan saw Duan Chengxuan, she wanted to stop, but Gu Cheng impatiently tugged on the iron chain tied around her neck, causing them to stagger forward a few steps before finally trembling in front of Duan Chengxuan.

"It was you who asked Su Yuwan to poison Gu Sheng. At that time, you already started to suspect Gu Sheng, didn't you?" Duan Cheng Xuan went straight to the point.

Gu Cheng didn't think that Duan Chengxuan would actually ask about it first, so he didn't try to hide it in the slightest. "Since Your Highness already knows about it, I'm willing to tell you one more thing. Su Yu Wan is my daughter to begin with."

Su Yu Wan's eyes shrunk as expected, "I …" "I don't know."

Duan Chengxuan's expression turned completely gloomy. Thus, the girl that her master's mistress had been yearning for that year had been a chess piece of Gu Cheng from the very beginning. Unfortunately, Su Yuwan had not known about this at all back then.

"When did you know your identity?"

"After you leave with Gu Danyan." Su Yu Wan took a small step back and said with a smile that was uglier than crying: "I never thought that my father really was an emperor."