After refusing marriage, she was pampered by the prince who acted as a shield.

Chapter 284: Bewitching Pill

"Boss, you know him well. He's a good-for-nothing lecher. When he heard that Li Jingyang was coming, he just threw the official seal into Li Jingyang's hand and went to a woman's bed."

"He hasn't come out for so long, could he have died in bed?"

"No, that's not it. This afternoon, someone saw him walking down the street with a woman in his arms."

"That damned bastard, he doesn't even care about important matters anymore."

On the rooftop, several men in black exchanged glances, one of them made a hand gesture, and then leaped away.

The letters that the people from the yamen and the clinic had sent out had already reached Lin Rusi's hands.

She slammed the letter on the table, her anger rising like never before: "This bastard, it's bad enough that he's wreaking havoc in Suzhou, but he even dared to betray the country! He's utterly despicable!"

Lin Rusi paced back and forth in the room several times in anger, feeling that she couldn't shake off the frustration in her heart.

"This bastard deserves to be torn to pieces! The soldiers at the front risked their lives to protect the peace in the rear, and he dared to betray the country! He dared to betray the country!"

She kicked the chair hard, her voice filled with anger: "He's helping someone else carry a knife and slash at the necks of our soldiers."

Recalling the fierce battles on the frontier and the resulting peasant uprisings, Lin Rusi gritted her teeth, her jaw grinding: "If I don't kill him, it will be impossible to quell the hatred in my heart."

After she finished speaking, she let out a long breath and tried to calm herself down.

She then folded the letter and put it away, then walked out of the room: "Where is the Prince?"

"The Prefect of Lingzhou has arrived, and the Prince is speaking with him in the study," the guard reported respectfully.

Lin Ru thought for a moment, then decided not to bother Li Jingyang: "Do you have any spare manpower right now?"

"Yes, Your Highness."

"very good."

She turned back into the house, quickly wrote a few lines, folded the paper, and then went out: "Give this letter to Ye Ruoruo. You should be able to find out where she is."

"Yes." The guard didn't ask any further questions, took the letter, and left quickly.

Lin Rusi looked up at the gray sky, without a single star in sight.

Hopefully, Ye Ruoruo didn't go too far, and the time spent on the road wasn't too long.

As if by divine intervention, even the heavens heard her prayers. Just two days later, when Lin Ruosi woke up, Ye Ruoruo was sitting smilingly at the head of her bed.

"Ye Ruoruo?" Lin Rusi looked at the woman who was so close to her in shock.

Is she still half asleep?

How come I woke up to see the person I've been thinking about day and night?

"Surprised? Unexpected?" Ye Ruoruo looked at her with a smile, as if she had seen something very interesting, and mischievously pinched her cheek.

A slight stinging sensation on her face brought her back to her senses.

"Really you?"

Lin Rusi sat up excitedly and said, "You received my message? How come you came so quickly?"

Ye Ruoruo made way for her to get dressed, then sat down at the round table in the middle of the room, resting her chin on her hand and smiling at her: "Isn't it a coincidence? I happened to be in Lingzhou when I received the letter. I knew about what you and the prince had gotten into, and I was just about to come and see."

"Actually, I arrived last night, but I saw you were so busy that you didn't even have time to drink water, so I didn't want to bother you. Here you go."

As she spoke, seeing that Lin Rusi had already put on her clothes, she took out a bottle from her bosom and placed it on the table: "Here's what you wanted."

Lin Rusi approached and took the bottle: "You've really helped me a lot this time."

"Whenever I showed up, wasn't I a huge help to you?"

Ye Ruoruo looked at her with a grin: "I heard that the little girl we rescued last time has found her sweetheart now?"

"Tell me in detail, was it Li Jingyang who acted as matchmaker?"

"That girl likes to stick to you so much. If it weren't for your good relationship, Li Jingyang would probably have had her tied up and thrown into the mountains to be eaten by wolves."

"Hahaha, that's hilarious! You have no idea how dark Li Jingyang's face was those few days. It was rare to see him so embarrassed, and I think I can be happy for years to come."

"By the way, I heard that the girl's sweetheart is quite an important figure, someone even Li Jingyang can't take lightly. Is that true?"

“If that’s the case, then I have to say something for that girl, cough cough…” Ye Ruoruo cleared her throat, mimicking Su Xiangqing’s tone: “I love how you can’t stand me but can’t do anything about it, hahaha…”

Ye Ruoruo seems to really enjoy watching Li Jingyang's jokes lately, and she keeps talking about them nonstop.

From the moment Lin Rusi received the bottle until she finished washing up and started eating breakfast, she didn't stop talking.

Are you hungry? Here, have a bite to eat.

Helpless, Lin Rusi picked up a small steamed bun and used it to shut her up: "It's only been a short time since we last met, how come you've become such a chatterbox?"

Lin Rusi felt that after returning this time, based on Su Xiangqing's ability to always make Li Jingyang frown, Ye Ruoruo would become her best friend.

Ye Ruoruo focused on the steamed bun in her mouth and, without being polite, took some porridge from the food box and sipped it.

She arrived early, and Li Jingyang's guards knew that there was someone in Lin Rusi's room and that they had a good relationship with her, so when they brought breakfast, they naturally brought two portions as well.

"By the way, what do you need the Mind-Binding Pill for?" Ye Ruoruo stared at her curiously.

The Mind-Control Pill can control a person's mind for a short period of time, allowing them to answer any question.

"A couple of days ago, someone pretended to be a refugee and tried to sneak into the city." Lin Rusi recounted the events of that day in detail.

"It really was a spy."

Ye Ruoruo was immediately surprised: "How did you realize that something was wrong with them?"

Lin Rusi finished the porridge in her bowl in a few gulps, wiped her mouth, and said, "They may have only seen what refugees look like, but they have never actually come into contact with refugees."

A person who is truly down on their luck has no light in their eyes and is completely exhausted; their eyes cannot be faked.

"That's it?" Ye Ruoruo's eyes widened, somewhat incredulous.

"of course not."

Lin Rusi recalled the scene that day and explained in a low voice: "A group of people who had been starving for several days were about to enter the city. All they could think about was getting a full meal. They wouldn't be in the mood to praise people in a flowery way. People who are starving to the extreme can't say so much nonsense."

"Oh, this."

Ye Ruoruo, munching on a steamed bun, asked, "Is there any more?"

"besides……"

Lin Rusi smiled slightly and said coldly, "Ruo Ruo, do you think a group of ordinary refugees from the mountains could accurately identify my identity at a glance?"

Ye Ruoruo carefully recalled the scene of seeing her last night.

Lin Rusi took off the gorgeous clothes she wore in Beijing and changed into very ordinary clothes. With her hair tied up, she held an account book in her hand and mingled with the workers, calculating something. Even she was stunned for a while before she realized who this was, let alone a refugee who had run away from the mountains.

"That makes sense." Ye Ruoruo was speechless.

If she still couldn't see the other person's unusual behavior after all this, then she wouldn't be Lin Rusi.

After finishing breakfast, Lin Rusi took the Mind-Control Pill and told Ye Ruoruo, who was tired from the journey, to rest a while, while she went to find Li Jingyang.