East Palace.

The prince first changed his clothes and tidied up his appearance, and then took Jiang Nan to a room similar to a study.

"Jiang Guoshi, do you still have memories of what happened when you were three or four years old?"

The prince first asked Jiang Nan to sit down and poured him a cup of tea.

Afterwards, he dug around on the bookshelf.

Jiang Nan didn't know why he asked such a question, so he shook his head and said, "I can't remember clearly."

"I have also forgotten a lot. After all, I was still young at that time. But...some things, once they happen, will never be forgotten for the rest of their lives."

The prince continued, "That probably happened when I was four years old."

"At that time, I had a good relationship with Huai Su, and we often played together in the Imperial Garden."

"One day, my mother bought two Western Region tea dogs."

"Jiang Guoshi, do you know this breed of dog?"

Jiang Nan nodded.

The Western Camellia Dog is a small breed of dog that looks well-behaved but has a ferocious temperament. Especially in its childhood, it bites everything it catches when it grinds its teeth.

It is said that they have the blood of monsters and beasts, but this kind of dog hates iron tools very much, and it can cause serious illness or death in severe cases.

Many dignitaries in Daxia like to keep this small dog as a pet.

"Because the two puppies were still young, they would bite the railings when they were grinding their teeth. So the queen ordered people to make two exquisite wooden cages to temporarily keep them inside."

"But within a few days, the wooden cage will be bitten by them."

"Later, Huaisu asked the maid to put the two puppies in the same cage."

"At the beginning, the two puppies fought with each other and there was no time to bite the cage."

The prince looked at Jiang Nan and emphasized: "At that time, I was four years old and Huai Su was only three years old."

"But Western Region Dogs are extremely spiritual - it didn't take long before they seemed to have a tacit understanding, formed an alliance, and destroyed the cage together."

"Later, Huaisu asked the maid who fed the puppies not to give the puppies even amounts of food every day. Give the first one a little more today and give the second one a little more tomorrow."

"Although the two puppies are smart, they started fighting again when faced with such uneven methods of separation."

"So until the two puppies grew up, they never broke a cage again."

The prince looked self-deprecating: "At that time, I thought Huai Su was so smart."

"But it wasn't until I succeeded in seizing the legitimate title, and was established as the crown prince, that I began to learn the art of killing the king from my father."

"I understand now that putting those two puppies in the same cage and letting them fight each other is the way of balance in the Imperial Art."

"The king is the cage, and the puppies are the officials and ministers. Let them fight with each other and be suspicious of each other, and they will have no time to figure out the king's thoughts."

"Even if they form an alliance, they can create gaps through uneven distribution of benefits."

Having said this, the prince couldn't help but swallowed his saliva, "Jiang Guoshi, can you understand my mood at that time?"

"Those tricks that play with people's hearts, those methods that I will use to manage the court in the future, are actually the leftover things that my own sister played with when she was three years old..."

The prince took a deep breath, and there was a hint of fear in his words.

Jiang Nan also had goosebumps all over his body.

He pondered for a long time and then said: "So this is the reason why His Highness is afraid of the princess?"

The prince shook his head: "But that's not the case. Although I am conceited, I am not so afraid of my sister who is a compatriot from the same mother."

"If Huaisu really has such talent, then she should have taken the throne!"

"Just like Empress Xuanwei, she led the Wutie Kingdom from a small country to conclude a contract with Daxia and develop to the present day. The throne of Wutie Kingdom is meant for those who are virtuous and capable."

"But...is it really Huaisu who did those things?"

As he spoke, the prince took out a pile of bamboo slips from the bookshelf and randomly turned over a bundle.

It is densely covered with words.

"On the 18th day of the first lunar month in the 431st year of the Wutie Calendar, the princess ordered her subordinates to purchase two pots of golden scale flowers. A few days later, she asked her maid who had given the two pots of flowers."

"In the 431st year of the Wutie calendar, on the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month, the princess and Princess Chen made an appointment for a poetry gathering. When the poetry gathering came, they could not remember the incident at all."

"..."

One after another.

This is the news returned by the spies the prince planted near Huaisu.

All recorded are Huaisu's inconsistent words and deeds before and after.

These messages give people a rather fragmented feeling.

Jiang Nan frowned. In the world of his previous life, this condition was generally called schizophrenia.

"As time goes by, I find that Huaisu's behavior is often contradictory."

The prince frowned: "Of course, this may be because she really has a bad memory, but until I asked Huaisu twice about the tea dogs in the Western Regions, the answers I got were different."

"The first time, Huaisu said she couldn't remember it at all."

"The second time, she said that her late uncle taught her to do this."

"At this point, I suspect that there is another soul... living in Huaisu's body."

Jiang Nan took a breath of air.

I originally thought he was a petty and jealous prince.

But I didn't expect...

The problem seems to be Princess Huaisu...

Of course, this must be based on the premise that what the prince said is true.

"So His Highness spread that ridiculous rumor just to legitimately spy on the princess... another person inside her body?" Jiang Nan frowned.

"Yes, I am afraid that it will kill Huaisu and harm Huaisu, so I dare not monitor him openly, and I dare not inform my father, the emperor, and my empress."

The prince said firmly, "Even if doing so will make Huaisu dissatisfied, even if she will be resentful, I must do it."

His face suddenly turned cold: "One day, I will find its flaw and make it lose its soul!"

This is why the prince decided to place spies around Huai Su no matter what.

"Your Highness, is the princess aware of this matter?" Jiang Nan asked.

The prince shook his head and said: "She probably doesn't know. She always thought it was because of her bad memory."

Jiang Nan nodded and stayed there for about half an hour.

He just said goodbye and left, and he didn't ask the prince again to remove the spies he had planted.

In other words, at this moment, in his heart, he believed a little bit of the prince's words.

After returning to Ning'an Palace, I learned from the maid that the princess was in the study.

Jiang Nan pushed the door open and saw Huaisu sitting at the desk.

"Jiang Nan, you are back."

She closed the book, her face was bloodless, giving people a haggard look.

"Princess, if you feel unwell, please rest more." Jiang Nan advised.

Everyone in the palace knew that Princess Huaisu had been frail since childhood and always looked sick.

"It doesn't matter, I've been in poor health since I was a child, and the imperial doctor couldn't see any abnormalities."

A smile appeared on Huaisu's pale face, and it seemed that she was already used to it.

Suddenly, Jiang Nan had a thought in his mind.

The art of [Tongyou] is unleashed!

The target...is none other than Princess Huaisu!

[Tongyou] is a technique for channeling ghosts and gods, reaching up to the blue and falling down to the nine ethereal places!

But it has no effect on living people.

Jiangnan has already tried this before.

However... on a living person like Princess Huaisu, the art of connecting to the underworld has a reaction!
Chapter completed!