Yu Yan was indeed a prince of Great Yan. When he heard the cold voice behind him, his expression only froze for a moment. Then, he calmly turned around and greeted the person, "Your Majesty."

Jin Wang slowly walked over and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Yu Yan's expression did not change, "This one just felt that the Imperial Concubine resembled an old friend, so I couldn't help but chat for a bit."

"Old friend?"

Jin Wang narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Ye Shu, who was sitting on the imperial carriage, with a questioning gaze.

"I don't know him." Ye Shu said firmly, "He mistook me for someone else."

Yu Yan, "..."

Yu Yan's gaze swept back and forth between the two of them. He sighed, "Alright... then I'll take it that this one has mistaken you for someone else. I'll take my leave first."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Ye Shu with a regretful expression.

Ye Shu, "..."

Yu Yan turned around and left. Jin Wang retracted his gaze and looked at Ye Shu once again.

Ye Shu forced a smile at him.

Were these emperors born in the year of the dog? They were messing with him the first time they met?!

The imperial carriage slowly drove towards the sleeping quarters. Ye Shu was held in Jin Wang's arms and lowered his head guiltily.

His premonition was right.

The Second Prince of Great Yan was indeed up to no good by coming here.

In the book, Yu Yan had no contact with the original owner of the body. But today, Yu Yan had mentioned the original owner's alias in front of him, proving that they had communicated with each other before.

Did the original owner collude with Yu Yan for the sake of rebellion?

If that was the case, then the purpose of this person coming to Changlu...

Ye Shu tried hard to recall, but he could not remember any details of the original owner's contact with Yu Yan.

His thoughts were in a mess and he did not notice when Jin Wang's hand had raised and dangerously touched his earlobe.

"What are you thinking about?" Jin Wang asked.

Ye Shu suddenly came back to his senses. He looked up and met Jin Wang's gaze. Then, he hurriedly looked away, "No, nothing."

Jin Wang played with Ye Shu's earlobe, his fingertips sweeping the small mole behind his ear from time to time. His tone was calm. "Yu Yan said that you look like an old friend of his?"

"…" Ye Shu said, "He got the wrong person."

Jin Wang snorted in a low voice, but his voice was still calm, "Since my beloved concubine has never met him, then the one who knows him... could it be Ye Xiang?"

Ye Shu's heart thumped.

Jin Wang was terrifyingly astute in this matter.

Ye Shu pretended to be calm. "I … I don't know him. Of course, Ye Xiang doesn't know him either."

His expression did not change, but in his heart, he was already cursing Great Yan's Second Prince half to death.

Yu Yan, that bastard. He had finally managed to coax Jin Wang to not pursue the matter of the assassination attempt. Now that he was adding to the chaos, this person was going to go crazy again.

Sure enough, these words were unable to convince Jin Wang.

However, he did not ask anything else. He just casually massaged the back of Ye Shu's neck.

Ye Shu was like a cat that had its weak spot pinched. He curled up in Jin Wang's arms, not daring to move an inch.

Soon, Ye Shu could no longer stand it. She pleaded carefully, "Your Majesty …"

Jin Wang sighed and lifted Ye Shu's chin, forcing him to look straight into his eyes. "A Shu, I don't like it when you lie."

Jin Wang had drunk quite a bit of wine at the state banquet tonight. His eyes were not as clear as they were in the past. Ye Shu could even smell the faint scent of alcohol on his body.

Ye Shu felt very wronged.

He really did not want to lie, but he really did not know why the original owner of this body would be communicating with Yu Yan.

After transmigrating, he had lost his memories. What could he do?

The two of them looked at each other silently. The atmosphere in the imperial carriage was somewhat tense.

They had arrived at the sleeping quarters.

The eunuchs lifted the curtains and wanted to help the two of them down.

Ye Shu was already feeling uncomfortable. He stood up and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Jin Wang.

Jin Wang picked him up and jumped off the imperial carriage, striding towards the sleeping quarters.

The eunuchs assessed the situation, but none of them dared to follow him into the sleeping quarters.

Jin Wang placed him on the dragon bed and then pressed his body down on top of him.

Yangxin Palace Hall was brightly lit.

Jin Wang looked down at Ye Shu from above.

This person rarely wore black clothes in front of Jin Wang. The dark red collar made his skin look extremely white. The black outer robe was tight at the waist, outlining his skinny figure.

"This is your last chance." Jin Wang said gently.

Ye Shu tilted his head to the side and insisted, "… I don't know him."

Jin Wang lifted Ye Shu's belt.

Ye Shu closed his eyes and began to tremble slightly, but he did not resist.

His Majesty had always been sensitive and easily angered. Since he had provoked this person, he was afraid that he would not have an easy time tonight.

He could only count himself unlucky.

That damned Yu Yan.

His complicated court attire was slowly removed. Ye Shu did not know how this person was going to torment him. He was so nervous that his lips were tightly pursed.

However, Jin Wang did not make any further movements.

After a while, Jin Wang straightened up.

The pressure on Ye Shu disappeared. Ye Shu raised his head and saw the latter casually hang the court robe he had taken off from him to the side.

Then, he lowered his head and lightly kissed Ye Shu's cheek, "Rest early. This Prince is going to take a bath."

"You — —" Without waiting for Ye Shu to say anything, Jin Wang turned and left the bedchamber.

Before he left, he did not forget to extinguish the candles in the hall.

Ye Shu was afraid of light when he slept.

.

In the bathtub, warm water sprayed out from the faucet above. Jin Wang leaned against the white jade wall and closed his eyes to rest.

After the eunuch finished reporting, Jin Wang opened his eyes, "That's all they said?"

"Yes." The eunuch knelt beside the bathtub and replied in a low voice.

"… You may leave."

The eunuch left the bathtub. Jin Wang laughed mockingly.

From the way Yu Yan looked at Ye Shu during the banquet, to the short exchange between the two outside Taiji Palace, he felt that there must be some kind of connection between the two.

Now, he was even more certain.

Qi Xuan … This was also the name Ye Shu had written in the secret letters he had sent to Xixia.

What was that guy up to now? Did he want to assassinate him again?

Actually, it was not difficult for Jin Wang to find out the truth.

He understood Ye Shu too well. He knew what to do to make him feel the most unbearable, and he knew how to force him to tell the truth.

But when he saw Ye Shu trembling in fear, he could not bear to do it.

It was the same every time. That person did not say a single word, but he was the first to soften.

… He wanted to treat him well.

By the time Jin Wang returned to his sleeping quarters, there was no sound in the hall.

A sliver of moonlight shone through the window and onto the ground, reflecting the silhouette of the youth lying peacefully on the bed.

Jin Wang lay on the bed and subconsciously wanted to pull him into his embrace.

The next moment, a hard object was pressed against Jin Wang's chest.

Jin Wang instinctively sensed danger. He looked up and saw Ye Shu's bright and clear eyes without the slightest hint of tiredness.

"Don't move." Ye Shu raised his hand and pushed the object in his hand forward.

With the help of the silhouette of the light, Jin Wang could see that it was a dagger.

Jin Wang's eyes flashed with a trace of gloominess.

He really wanted to kill him.

"You won't be able to dodge this time." Ye Shu held Jin Wang's shoulder with one hand, but his tone was surprisingly relaxed.

"If you had directly stabbed me, I'm afraid I really wouldn't have been able to dodge." Jin Wang's heart sank bit by bit, and he smiled coldly. "You shouldn't have given me time to react."

Ye Shu suddenly understood. "So that's how it is."

Ye Shu did not know martial arts. If he had directly attacked, Jin Wang might have been caught off guard, and he might have succeeded.

But that was impossible now.

As long as Jin Wang wanted to, he could break this person's hand at any time before the dagger stabbed him.

Ye Shu had no way to resist.

The two of them were in a deadlock in silence. After a while, Ye Shu suddenly let go of his hand and casually threw the object in his hand off the bed.

That object just happened to roll under the moonlight, and Jin Wang finally saw that it was only a scabbard.

What was the meaning of this?

Jin Wang vaguely understood something and turned his head to ask. Ye Shu suddenly hooked his arm around his neck and leaned closer. "I wanted to tell you that if I really wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have needed to ask for help from a foreign prince."

They were very intimate and hugged each other to sleep every night. If Ye Shu really wanted to kill Jin Wang, he had countless ways to secretly kill him.

There was no need for him to travel thousands of miles to find a foreign prince to come to the capital to assassinate him.

Jin Wang's expression did not soften. "Even if you can kill me, you won't be able to escape from the Imperial City without outside help."

"… …"

That made sense.

You emperors always think too much.

Ye Shu sighed and decided that he could not beat around the bush with this person.

He raised his head and kissed Jin Wang's lips, and his voice softened. "I really didn't want to betray you. Can you trust me just this once?"

"Then Yu Yan … …"

Ye Shu was dissatisfied. "Can you stop talking about him? I'm coaxing you!"

I'm coaxing you.

These words struck Jin Wang's heart without any warning, leaving a lingering echo in his mind.

Jin Wang opened his mouth, but no words came out.

Ye Shu looked into his eyes and said seriously, "You used to ask me what it would take for me to believe you.

I also want to ask you what it would take for you to believe me. "

"Jin Wang, I don't want to continue suspecting each other. It's very tiring."

"You have secrets that you're hiding from me, and I have things that I can't tell you for the time being. But I've never wanted to hurt you."

He knew what Jin Wang was afraid of.

Colluding with foreign enemies was the crux of Jin Wang's heart.

This person did not pursue the previous assassination, but that did not mean that he did not care about his betrayal.

On the contrary, he cared a lot about it.

But even so, he did not hurt him.

He gave Ye Shu all his gentleness, tolerance, and compromise.

Ye Shu understood.

So today, he wanted to give him something in return.

Ye Shu leaned forward and kissed him again, his hand slowly sliding down.

Jin Wang's breath caught and he grabbed his hand. "Don't … …"

"I already knew that it's useless to say so much to you. It's better to do something practical."

Ye Shu knelt in front of Jin Wang and smiled at him. His eyes were clear and bright. "This time, it's voluntary."

The moonlight was like water, and the layers of gauze covered the ambiguous sounds.

After a long time, Ye Shu lay in Jin Wang's arms, exhausted. He said angrily, "If you take so long again, you'll have to settle it yourself."

Jin Wang: "… …"

Could he be blamed for this?

Jin Wang pulled him into his arms and gently kissed his hair.

Ye Shu whispered, "You're not angry anymore, right?"

Jin Wang didn't answer.

Ye Shu looked up and glared at him. "I've already coaxed you like this. You're not still angry, are you?"

"I'm not angry." Jin Wang pulled him closer and sighed. "I really can't do anything about you."

From the moment Ye Shu kissed him, Jin Wang couldn't get angry anymore.

His Majesty was just that principled.

The person in his arms gradually calmed down. Jin Wang suddenly asked, "You're coaxing me because you're worried that I'll get angry and torment you again?"

"Yes."

Ye Shu leaned into his arms drowsily and said tiredly, "You're so petty. If you keep getting angry, won't I be the one to suffer?"

Jin Wang chuckled. Just as he was about to answer, Ye Shu said, "But there's also another reason."

"What reason?"

Ye Shu rubbed against Jin Wang's arms like a little animal. He found a comfortable position and closed his eyes in satisfaction. "I don't want to see you unhappy."

I don't want to see you unhappy.

So I'm willing to coax you.

It's that simple.