“Are you suggesting I silence them?”

Shen Yan Huan and Qiu Shi had spewed outrageous nonsense and naturally couldn’t be let off easily.

But…

Looking at the woman for a moment, Xie Jin Yan chuckled. “I never knew my Shijie thought of me so much.”

Why did those words sound so sarcastic?

Yu Qing Wu raised her eyes to meet his and smiled frankly. “Yes, I admit that I’m so eager to remind Your Highness because I’m desperate to personally kill my enemies.”

“But as Your Highness’s wife, I am one with you, and naturally, I should think of you as well.”

“What? Is it wrong for a wife to think of her husband?”

“Or is it that Your Highness prefers me to slap you at every turn, be sarcastic, and curse you to die?” Was he just so depraved?

Of course, Yu Qing Wu didn't say that last sentence.

But with just a look, Xie Jin Yan read her thoughts.

He stared at her intently, the smile on his face gradually fading, replaced by seriousness and a kind of anxious fear. He fixed his gaze on Yu Qing Wu’s pupils and asked, “Shijie, if one day you avenge your great hatred, would you still be willing to be my wife?”

Hearing that, Yu Qing Wu was slightly taken aback.

She hadn't expected that Xie Jin Yan, after staring at her for so long with such a questioning look, was actually thinking about this.

Gazing lightly at the man’s peerless handsome face, Yu Qing Wu’s mood suddenly became complicated.

She had never thought that Xie Jin Yan would also fear her leaving.

Or rather, she had never thought that the current Crown Prince would be so anxious about losing a small, orphaned girl like her.

Yu Qing Wu felt that perhaps she had really misunderstood Xie Jin Yan before, and that perhaps the ridiculous things Xie Jin Yan had done in the past were really just to lower the Yujia family and Xie Qi Yun’s guard.

But if all those things were a facade, how could she explain the red mark on his neck?

Thinking of this, Yu Qing Wu subconsciously looked at Xie Jin Yan’s neck again.

Seeing that mark, her heart couldn’t help but sting fiercely, and the fantasies and throbbing that had just ignited were suppressed again.

She pursed her lips, forced a strained smile, and replied, “I will always be Your Highness’s wife. I’m just afraid that Your Highness will have no use for me one day and will kick me aside to help your beloved take my place.”

“However, I don’t care anymore. I’ll just take things one step at a time. Maybe I’ll lose my life tomorrow.”

“So, I’ll kill as many enemies as I can. Killing one more is a bonus.”

Yu Qing Wu curled her lips, a hint of bitterness and confusion rising in her beautiful peach blossom eyes.

She didn’t lie to Xie Jin Yan. Although Xie Jin Yan had promised to protect her life, Qing Wu wasn’t sure if Xie Jin Yan could really protect her life.

For now, pleasing him was just a desperate gamble.

After speaking, Yu Qing Wu lowered her head, and the expression on her face returned to the previous aloofness and sarcasm.

There was also some helplessness…

“A Wu.” Xie Jin Yan reached out and placed his hand on her shoulder, suddenly pulling her into his arms. He paused, then stammered, “A Wu, I admit that yesterday during the day, I was indeed… a little too intimate with A Yue…”

Heh, so it was true!

Qing Wu’s body trembled slightly…

“But, there is a reason for me doing that.” Yu Qing Wu lowered her head, just as she was about to push him away, the man’s gentle voice came from her ear again, and the hand on her shoulder tightened.

As if afraid she would disappear, he held her tightly in his arms, stroking her shoulder through the fabric as he continued, “I suspect that A Yue’s husband, the previous cook, faked his death. Moreover, I suspect he is not from Wei, and even his name and identity are fabricated.”

“Even his appearance seems to have been intentionally altered.”

“Your Highness means that A Yue’s husband is likely a spy from another country? And that he is still stealing Wei’s intelligence after faking his death?” Before Xie Jin Yan could finish speaking, Yu Qing Wu had vaguely guessed a few things.

In an instant, those petty romantic feelings disappeared, and she was no longer in the mood to question whether he and A Yue were really having an affair.

Remembering the cook’s various performances when he was in the Shimen sect, as well as his eating habits and the jade pendant he regarded as a family heirloom, Yu Qing Wu suddenly understood and felt even more terrified.

After a moment of silence, she raised her head to look at Xie Jin Yan and said seriously, “Your Highness wants to use A Yue to lure him out? So you deliberately got close to A Yue?”

??

What was this woman’s reaction?

For some reason, Yu Qing Wu’s sudden businesslike attitude, not caring at all about who he was intimate with, made Xie Jin Yan feel uncomfortable.

He paused, nodded slightly at her, and replied in a low voice, “Yes, it seems that he still has some feelings for A Yue. Yesterday afternoon, after I hugged A Yue and… and was kissed by her, that cook really appeared. Moreover, he is also colluding with the Yujia family.”

“What?” Yu Qing Wu’s eyes widened, her expression horrified.

Her face gradually became unsightly, but at this moment, she directly ignored the fact that A Yue had kissed Xie Jin Yan and just looked at him with a serious expression, just like when she was doing tasks in the Shimen sect. She asked him, “Your Highness, what does the Yujia family want to do? Are they betraying the country, or… do they want to rebel?”

“Also, have you figured out which country that cook is a spy from, and what his identity is?”

“If it really doesn’t work, you can be intimate with A Yue again to probe his secrets…”

“…” She was actually letting him be intimate with other women just to probe the secrets of a spy!

Xie Jin Yan was immediately choked, feeling as if he had a fish bone stuck in his throat.

He looked at the woman in his arms in surprise for a long time before Xie Jin Yan laughed in anger. “Shijie, you actually sold your husband like this just to investigate a spy?”

“That’s right…”

“In the past, in order to complete missions, you also instigated me to seduce young girls…”

“Wasn’t… wasn’t that for official business?” Hearing this, Yu Qing Wu was immediately a little embarrassed.

However, thinking of the spy, the embarrassment on her face quickly disappeared, and she frowned slightly, reaching out to push Xie Jin Yan, urging, “Alright, Your Highness, state affairs are important, so don’t linger here. Hurry back to the Crown Prince’s residence and find out the spy’s background as soon as possible.”

A spy from another country infiltrating the capital and colluding with a general of the country was no small matter.

On a small scale, intelligence could be stolen, and on a large scale, it could cause war and lead to countless deaths.

Thinking of this, Yu Qing Wu frowned even deeper.

She seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and she broke free from Xie Jin Yan’s arms, hurrying into the inner hall.

Xie Jin Yan was at a loss, just about to follow and ask what was going on when Qing Wu came out again, holding a box in her hand. She handed it to him and said, “This is a dagger that Shifu gave me to defend myself. A Yue has always wanted it. Your Highness, give this to her, and you will surely please her.”