Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 244 Skylight

"Thank you for your concern, Yanniang. I promise I won't get sick again in the future." As long as the pillow was in hand, Shui Furong finally felt relieved and smiled a lot more easily. Before Yanniang could leave, Shui Furong said to her, "Take care, Yanniang. You've worked hard."

Ji Anni also hurriedly helped Yan Niang open the door, and stood by the door like a lady of etiquette, respectfully seeing Yan Niang off on her journey.

What they did seemed to be not "inviting" Yan Niang to leave, but "driving" her out.

Yan Niang knew she was not welcome, so she was too lazy to stay here for long. Before leaving, she passed by Ji Anni and whispered, "I'm afraid a little fox has been in this room. The whole room smells like a fox..."

In fact, the moment she entered the door, Yan Niang had already smelled the scent left by Prince Ming and the other two little ghosts.

Shui Furong could erase the traces of Prince Ming and his men, but she couldn't cover up the smell they left behind. Yan Niang was originally a fox demon, and her sense of smell was much more sensitive than that of ordinary people. She didn't need to use her eyes to see, she could tell who had been in the room just by using her nose. Ji Anni and Shui Furong wanted to hide it from her, but they were probably overestimating their own abilities.

However, Yan Niang's words "there is a little fox" were spoken very softly, as if she were talking to herself, and ordinary people could not hear any hidden meaning.

Only Ji Anni, who had witnessed the transformation of Prince Ming with her own eyes, could not take these words as a joke and let them go in one ear and out the other.

Yan Niang did not say "there is a fox", but "there is a little fox". The word "little" seemed to be specifically targeting Prince Ming.

Ji Anni's thoughts became confused. She was worried that the identity of Prince Ming would be discovered by Yan Niang, and she was also afraid that Yan Niang would know the inside story. The more confused she was, the more nervous her expression became.

Seeing her face wrinkled as if she had just eaten sour plums, Yan Niang couldn't help but laugh softly.

Yanniang's smile made her seem even more mysterious. Ji Anni was even more certain that Yanniang knew the identity of Prince Ming.

Did Prince Ming reveal his true colors in front of Yan Niang? Did Yan Niang also see Prince Ming's fox ears and tail?

Before Ji Anni could come up with an answer, Yan Niang's gentle voice floated into her ears again: "My Lady, Yan Niang is leaving now."

After saying that, he turned and left.

"Wait a minute!" Ji Anni shouted. She didn't know where she got the courage from, but the moment she saw Yan Niang turn around and leave, the voice burst out from her throat involuntarily.

Yan Niang was not walking fast. When Ji Anni called her, she slowly stopped and turned around to ask, "My queen, is there anything else you want to tell me?"

Ji Anni was most afraid of talking to Yan Niang, because the other person's eyes seemed to have seen through her long ago.

Since her identity has been seen through, there is no point in continuing to pretend to be So Ji.

Ji Anni took two steps forward and came to Yan Niang's side. She plucked up the courage to ask, "Yan Niang, who... who are you?"

Yan Niang was definitely more than just a palace maid. Whether it was the Queen Mother's reliance on Yan Niang, Concubine Baogui's fear of Yan Niang, or Hua Rong's doubts when she mentioned Yan Niang, all proved that Yan Niang was unusual.

Ji Anni waited for Yanniang to answer, but Yanniang just smiled and asked, "Who do you think I am, Madam?"

This question stopped Ji Anni in her tracks, because Yan Niang's question seemed to be testing Ji Anni.

"I... I don't know..." Ji Anni only knew that Yan Niang was weird, but she didn't know why. She had no idea about Yan Niang's identity.

Yan Niang leaned close to Ji Anni's ear and said slowly, "My queen, it doesn't really matter who Yan Niang is. What matters is that Yan Niang has a piece of advice for you..." She paused for a moment, and after Ji Anni had concentrated, she spoke word by word, "That is - never go near the Demon Suppression Temple. If you don't want this palace to become a sea of ​​blood."

Sea of ​​blood...these two words almost made Ji Anni break out in a cold sweat.

What secrets are hidden in the Demon Temple? Why did it lead to such serious consequences?

Yan Niang was indeed an insider, but she stopped at the point and was unwilling to reveal too much to Ji Anni.

"My Lady, although Yan Niang is not your friend, she is definitely not your enemy either. From now on, you must be careful of Yuan Rong. The pool of demon blood found in the Demon Temple has already made him impatient. If you show your true form again, that will be the time for him to capture you."

"I, I..." Ji Anni became even more confused and stuttered, "What is my true form? What revealed my true form?"

"Empress, don't you know yet?" Yan Niang's voice became even gloomier.

Ji Anni couldn't believe it and lied to herself, "I was just... just possessed by a monster..."

Yan Niang told her very clearly: "You are not possessed, but transformed. If you dare to approach the demon-suppressing temple, you will be transformed again. If you don't believe it, you can try it. My lady, the reason why Yan Niang told you this is just to hope that you don't destroy yourself."

After leaving these words, Yan Niang turned around and left with a determined mind.

Ji Anni wanted to catch up and find out what was going on, but she didn't have the courage to take a step. Her legs felt like they were filled with lead and nailed to the ground. Before this, she herself had suspected that she was a monster and not a human. She asked Yun Zhen, but Yun Zhen was evasive and refused to tell the truth, so she always had a glimmer of hope in her heart, thinking that she would not be so unlucky to become a monster. But now after listening to Yan Niang's words, all the self-comforting lies she had told before were shattered.

This was not because she believed Yan Niang's words, but because everything Yan Niang told her coincided with her guess in her heart, and she had no choice but to believe it. Only this answer could explain the transformation of Prince Ming, the encounter with ghosts in the Demon Temple, Yun Zhen's hesitant attitude, and the reason why she was injured by the peach wood sword.

Monster...what a simple answer. After recognizing this reality, I feel much more relaxed.

According to Yan Niang, as long as she didn't go to the Demon Temple, she wouldn't transform. If she did, she would be captured by Taoist Yuan Rong.

Although she still knew nothing about Yanniang's identity, she believed that Yanniang had good intentions based on her actions. Strangely enough, she always felt a strange sense of familiarity with Yanniang.

That familiar feeling is like smelling the same scent...

After watching Yan Niang leave, Ji Anni stood in the corridor for a few seconds. After she calmed down, her stiff body could finally move. She returned to her room in a depressed mood. When she pushed the door open and entered the room, she solemnly reminded herself that she must act calm and must not let Shui Furong see her abnormality. But when she looked up, she found that Shui Furong's face was even more bleak than hers, as if she had been struck by lightning, and as black as the bottom of a pot.

Ji Anni walked over worriedly and asked, "Furong, what's wrong?"

Shui Furong didn't say anything, but roughly stuffed the pillow in her hand into Ji Anni's arms. This action seemed to mean that Ji Anni should see it for herself.

This is just a pillow core. The leather outside had long been stripped off by Shui Furong and thrown on the ground.

Ji Annie turned the pillow over and over again, but didn't see anything unusual.

It is precisely because there is no abnormality that is the most abnormal thing.

Because according to Shui Furong, there should be a blood-red soul-capturing seal on the pillow core.

But now, not to mention the curse mark, not even a scar can be seen.

This time, Annie finally understood the reason for Shui Furong's expression.

No one would be willing to see the clues that were so hard to find turned into nothing.

No wonder I talked with Yan Niang for so long outside the door, and Shui Furong, who was always curious, didn't come out to join in the fun. It turned out that Shui Furong was shocked when she saw the curse disappear, and she has been in a daze since just now.

Why did the curse suddenly disappear? Ji Anni guessed, "Is it because the vengeful spirit disappeared?"

I still remember Yun Zhen said that if the vengeful spirit is reincarnated, the curse will disappear.

Shui Furong was not so optimistic and said, "How could it disappear so easily..."

"Why is that?" Ji Anni had no doubt that it was Yizhen who leaked the secret.

Shui Furong shook her head. He also didn't know why the curse disappeared.

In fact, it was not that the curse mark disappeared, but that the pillow was replaced by Yanniang. The real pillow with the curse mark had been burned long ago, and Yanniang took another pillow, cut a hole in it according to the way Shui Furong cut it, and gave this fake one to Shui Furong.

Whether Shui Furong believed it or not, the curse seal had been burned, the clue was cut off, and Yan Niang did not leave any hidden dangers.

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On the second day of house arrest, Ji Anni was devastated because she learned her true identity, and Shui Furong was devastated because she learned that the curse had disappeared. They no longer had the energy to play "Two Little Bees". They either stared at the sky in annoyance or fell asleep on the bed in depression.

That night, in the middle of the night, Ji Anni was dreaming when she suddenly heard a chaotic sound of footsteps outside the house.

Wenhuayuan is a quiet place, it is impossible for so many people to come for a night stroll?

Ji Anni turned over in a daze and continued to sleep, treating the noises as dreams.

Before she could fall asleep, someone grabbed her shoulders and shook her violently. The shaking sensation was like an earthquake. Ji Anni couldn't fall asleep even though she wanted to. She let out a sad "woo..." sound out of exhaustion.

"Xiao Zhao, get up quickly! Get up quickly!" Shui Furong, the cause of the earthquake, was still shaking Ji Anni desperately.

"What's wrong?" Ji Anni rubbed her eyes.

"Xiao Zhao, come and have a look!" Shui Furong pushed open the rear window and pointed at the red light outside the window and shouted, "Something happened!"

Ji Anni finally came to her senses, sat up and looked out the window.

On the grassland outside the window, countless torches were moving quickly like a long dragon, as if searching for and chasing something.

"Is there an assassin?" Ji Anni lost all desire to sleep. She jumped out of bed and squeezed side by side with Shui Furong to watch the fun.