Xiao Yao was startled, realizing she had let slip.
Her master had told her not to tell anyone these things.
"It's nothing... I, I followed my master since I was young," she stammered.
Seeing him still holding her wrist, Xiao Yao frowned and shook her hand forcefully.
"Prince Xuan, don't you find this strange? Your fiancée is not far away, yet you come to another girl's room to be intimate with her..."
"Am I being intimate with you? Do you think you're worthy of that?" he sneered.
Xiao Yao really wanted to slap that sarcastic smile off his lips!
"If not intimate, then why are you holding my hand?"
"I am merely interrogating a prisoner."
"You are the prisoner!" That dog of a man! He was going too far!
"A disciple of Jian Wuying is a prisoner in my eyes."
"Then lock me up!" Why was he bullying her here?
"Very well, I shall lock you up. As for what else is in your room, or... who, I cannot be responsible."
A mischievous glint appeared in Feng Yexuan's eyes as he turned towards the door. "Leng Ji!"
"No! No! Don't lock me up, I... I was just joking! Your Highness!"
"Your Highness!" The voice from outside was not Leng Ji's, but another guard.
"Your Highness, Guard Leng said there was an urgent matter and he left. What are your orders?"
Xiao Yao was incredibly anxious. "Your Highness, I was truly joking, please don't lock me up, alright? Let's talk!"
It didn't matter if she was locked up; she believed Feng Jinrui would find a way to save her.
They were good friends, after all, and Feng Jinrui wouldn't abandon her in trouble.
However, if she were locked up, Fu Ning on the bed would inevitably be discovered.
If she fell into the hands of that Empress, Fu Ning would likely be in grave danger.
Although Xiao Yao didn't know what Fu Ning had gone through, before she completely fainted, she had said Xiao Yao was not a good person.
Xiao Yao didn't even need to think; the person she was referring to must be the Empress, Chu Qianli.
It was likely that the poison on her body was also administered by Chu Qianli.
Returning would be a dead end!
"No one can joke in front of me," Feng Yexuan's gaze turned icy.
Xiao Yao couldn't understand if he was serious or just trying to scare her.
She quickly said, "Your Highness, if you don't believe me, I can leave now."
"You can really leave?"
Feng Yexuan stared into her eyes, and before she could speak, he suddenly smiled. "I mean, you leaving alone."
Xiao Yao was stunned; she couldn't respond to that.
Feng Yexuan knew.
This girl, having started to save someone, would definitely not abandon her patient.
Just like... that dead woman.
His mood inexplicably grew heavier.
He released his hand.
"It's fine, guard outside."
The guard outside immediately responded, "Yes!"
Footsteps receded.
Leng Ji wasn't here; he must have gone out personally to find Fu Ning.
Feng Yexuan's mood was indescribably complex.
The situation had completely deviated from everyone's expectations.
In short, after Li'er returned this time, everything seemed to have changed.
It had become… tasteless.
Feng Yexuan said nothing more, picked up the cup on the table, and took a shallow sip of the chrysanthemum tea mixed with medicine.
It tasted the same.
His gaze involuntarily fell on Xiao Yao again.
"When exactly did you meet Jian Wuying, and under what circumstances?"
"I said, since I was young..."
Feng Yexuan's eyes suddenly darkened, and his voice became extremely cold: "Are you testing my patience?"