Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Only then can you know your true face

It has to be said that Wei Huaien, who lives a double life, is more unpredictable than before. Xiao Qi just hesitated a little, and she had already turned his good-natured suspicion of wanting to make her happy into flattery.

Power frees her and fascinates her, but it also corrodes all her emotions. Without anyone realizing it, she becomes more indifferent, more ruthless, and more suspicious.

Perhaps because she could get too much loyalty, she easily began to question him, not even caring whether he would be sad.

"I dare not hide it."

Xiao Qi still knocked his head, and the wooden mask made a crisp and dull sound when it hit the stone bricks.

"The Xuan Yu Division has just been established. As the deputy secretary, I naturally have to deal with many trivial matters every day.

But I will never relax my master’s task of tracking down Marquis Dingyuan. Please give me some more time, and I will definitely find evidence that Marquis Dingyuan used poison.”

Wei Huai'en let out a "tsk" from the bottom of his heart.

Xiao Qi is a smart man and knows that what she wants to know most is whether he has forgotten who he is, whether he has taken her mission to heart, and whether he has been fascinated by the scenery of the Deputy Chief of Xuanyu Division.

As for whether Xiao Qi would feel sad because her "care" was actually a temptation, she didn't care.

She helped Xiao Qi up, took his hand and turned it over, blowing away the dust on it.

If she were just a prince, she would give gold, silver or other benefits to comfort people as a remedy for this kind of temptation.

But Xiao Qi is much easier to deal with than those people. As long as he is nicer to him and closer to him than others, he doesn't care about anything.

"I know you can do it well."

Wei Huai'en knew clearly how dangerous Dingyuan Hou's mansion was.

Several groups of dead soldiers and secret guards sent to spy had all gone without return. Before returning to the capital, she had almost given up on finding real evidence. She just wanted to slowly kill all the Duan Wang gang and avenge her brother.

"Xiao Qi, you have to be careful. Although Nanlin Mansion is far away, it is also the foundation of Marquis Dingyuan from the previous generation.

If you want to check, you can’t make a wrong step, you know?”

Xiao Qi accepted the promise, took off the fox mask and put it on the table. The surging heart that rushed to Huang'en Temple before the city gate closed was now cold.

What he didn't expect was that one day, his master would use his indifference towards outsiders on him.

Wei Huai'en went back to the house, leaving him alone in the courtyard, soaked in the coldness of the mountain.

Instead of going to the Zen room to rest outside, he climbed up the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, squeezed the secret guards away, and guarded her yard by himself.

"I want the best person, do you understand?

If you want to be by my side, fight for it step by step and climb to the position next to me bit by bit.

Maybe I will help you, maybe you can only rely on yourself."

It turned out that she had never changed and had developed this heartless heart since she was a teenager. Xiao Qi recalled every word she had ever said to him and smiled bitterly.

"Your Highness Princess, are you interested?"

In the past, he just wanted to stay by her side and be the person she couldn't live without, and he would even get upset because of her excessive closeness.

But in fact, she didn't care at all how much he missed her every day, she only cared about hatred and power.

He feels lonely.

She indeed fulfilled her promise and helped him enter the Xuan Yu Division. But did he just want a position next to her?

No, no. He wanted to get into her heart and make her invisible to others.

Didn't she tell him personally that he was no different from those men?

But why, when he could honestly face his inner admiration for her, she herself, like those people, could only see interests and calculations and turn a blind eye to his sincerity.

She didn't bring the fox mask into the house. Just like him, she looked at it a few more times if she liked it, and then left it behind casually.

It would be fine if he was still a chamberlain in charge of the East Palace, but he has become the deputy director of Xuanyu Division, and has become her entire hope in tracking down evidence.

He could no longer settle down as a slave.

But now he seems to have to do it all over again, and the distance between him and her is even further than the distance between the princess and the chambermaid.

With unsolvable confusion, he quietly left Huang'en Temple after dawn and plunged into Xuan Yu Division.

Dingyuanhou Mansion

"what are you doing here?"

Li Kong, who was peeking at the secret conversation between Yan Weiguang and Meng Kezhao in the corner, was easily discovered by Yan Weiguang. After Meng Kezhao left, Li Kong consciously walked up to Yan Weiguang and waited for his resignation.

"Slave... I just want to check on my master. I don't know if he has a guest."

He was almost dizzy by the news he overheard, but he had to say things against his will to please Yan Weiguang.

"What did you hear?"

Yan Weiguang poured the tea from Meng Kezhao's tea cup into a pot of green bamboo, turned his back to him and continued to ask.

"The slave dare not eavesdrop on the master's conversation!"

Li Kong immediately knelt on the ground, secretly clenching his fists in his sleeves.

He heard that Yan Weiguang wanted to marry Miss Meng San and asked Meng Kezhao to find an opportunity for him to let them meet.

He even wanted to vomit from the conspiracy he heard. Miss Meng San is the biological sister of this bastard Meng Kezhao! Why can he push his biological sister into the fire pit just because of a few words of favor?

The secrets in the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion are like mud. Yan Weiguang, how dare he drag Miss Meng San into the devil's cave? How dare he?

"Does this mean I heard everything?"

Yan Weiguang turned around, grabbed his face and pulled him up, fully seeing the resentment he couldn't hide.

"Li Kong, when did you meet Meng Keshu?"

The blood drained from Li Kong's face, and his eyes burned red because of the anger that he no longer wanted to please.

"You don't deserve to call her by her name!"

It doesn't matter when Yan Weiguang knew it or how he knew it. He would not allow the people in his back house to have different thoughts towards outsiders.

Facing the word of death, Li Kong couldn't even feel the fear, and even felt a kind of happiness that he could finally stop pretending.

"Yan Weiguang, you want to marry her? Bah! Stop dreaming! She won't agree to marry a rotten person like you! You don't deserve it, you don't deserve it at all!"

"Bang!"

Li Kong was kicked in the chest by Yan Weiguang and hit the door frame hard. He was then picked up by Yan Weiguang who rushed forward and grabbed him by the collar.

"I don't deserve it, so do you? Believe it or not, I will kill you today!"

Yan Weiguang stared angrily, obviously so angry at Li Kong's lack of fear that he was about to lose his mind.

"You're just a man's favorite, but you dare to covet the young lady of the Meng family? You hate me so much, you want me to kill you so you can be clean? You're dreaming!

Let me tell you, even if you only have one breath left, you still want to watch me marry your Meng Keshu in my yard, let her see the way you beg for mercy under me, and let her even look at you.

It’s disgusting!”

"Then kill me, kill me!"

Li Kong shouted hoarsely, his whole body trembling from the insult that pierced his heart.

"I'm cheap, but at least I know I'm cheap! Yan Weiguang, do you think you can do whatever you want with the title of Marquis of Dingyuan? Apart from this position, how are you better than me!

Can you count how many girls you tortured to death in your backyard? You are rotten, rotten! If you don’t kill me today, I will crawl and tell her to stay away from you! You are like this

It’s not even worthy of carrying her shoes!”

"Because those people are meticulous!"

Li Kong's neck was pinched by Yan Weiguang. When he closed his eyes in relief, he realized that Yan Weiguang didn't use any strength at all.

"Am I such a bad person in your eyes? Li Kong, how dare you..."

Yan Weiguang's words stopped suddenly. He realized that he had accidentally said something he shouldn't have said. He quickly let go of Li Kong, walked out and called the secret guards to monitor the backyard, and no one was allowed in or out.

Li Kong sat on the threshold and leaned against the door frame, feeling a tight pain in his chest.

He looked coldly at Yan Weiguang who was standing not far away, his eyes full of hatred and hatred, piercing Yan Weiguang like a sword, making him not know how to get closer.

"Li Kong."

He still spoke, but instead of the angry slander that wanted to trample the other person into the mud, he had the caution of wanting to make amends after a quarrel.

"I thought you knew I treated you differently. I thought..." I thought you treated me sincerely, at least a little bit.

"Yan Weiguang, kill him if you want. I don't owe you anything."

Li Kong thought he was going to talk about his kindness for saving his life again, so he stopped him with disgust.

"I should have died a long time ago."

He looked up at the sun, completely ignoring whether his eyes would be burned.

"Originally, I might have been able to live like this for the rest of my life. Anyway, I had such a lowly fate. But I met her, and from that moment on, I could no longer bear to live like this."

Yan Weiguang frowned deeply, anger taking over his reason again.

But Li Kong closed his eyes and faced him, and said something like cold water being poured from head to toe.
To be continued...