I killed her.

After he finished, Huai Jin headed back to his new residence.

In front of the residence, a few servants were working together to put up a newly made signboard. The words "Princess Anping Residence", written by the emperor himself, shone brightly in the sunlight, almost dazzling the eyes of people.

"As the master, you sure make the customers wait."

Just as Huai Jin entered the front hall and didn't even have time to take a good look at her new residence, she bumped into the alcohol reeking Yuwen Fei.

"Why are you here?" Huai Jin frowned, and extended his hand to cover his nose.

Perhaps it was because she was really drunk, but when Yuwen Fei saw her expression of disdain, he also chuckled: "Come, I'll give you something."

"I'm not a thing!"

Hearing Yuwen Fei's description of himself, Lan Ling jumped out from behind him with an unconvinced look and corrected him. She didn't realize in the slightest that there was something wrong with her words.

rolled his eyes at the two of them, then directly went to the backyard, and asked Ran Mei about his own room, after which he closed the door and started to study a few pages of information he had obtained from Dan Hong.

These few pages of information were not anything special in that thick stack of information, and the people and events recorded on it were not important compared to the others. However, the reason why these few pages caught Huai Jin's attention was because of a woman's portrait.

The woman in the portrait was about fifteen years old. She had a little baby fat on her face and a bright smile on her face.

She had seen this woman before, the woman who had quarreled with the guards in the Mianan Temple.

And because of Dan Hong's detailed information, Huai Jin was able to know the woman's details clearly.

The woman's name was Su Geying. When she was fifteen, she made an engagement with Ruan Qinghe, but because Ruan Qinghe rushed to the capital to take the examination, their marriage was delayed by one year. It was precisely because they were delayed for another year and had no fate with each other.

This year, Ruan Qinghe's ranking in high school was set by the Ping Yang Grand Princess, and the Emperor personally bestowed marriage to him on the hunting grounds. When the Ruan Family learned of this matter, they immediately annulled the marriage between the two.

Su Geying who was annulled from the marriage, under the Su Family's arrangements, married to a local rich businessman, but on the day of the marriage, Su Geying escaped the marriage, and there was no news of him ever again.

Huai Jin looked at the portrait a few more times. Although there was a slight difference in age when she was fifteen, she could still vaguely recognize it.

The more he looked, the more he was sure that the woman he saw that day in Mianan Temple was Su Geying!

"Why are you looking at Su Geying's portrait?"

Unknowingly, Yuwen Fei had appeared in Huai Jin's room, and upon seeing the portrait in front of Huai Jin, he suddenly asked.

"You know this person?"

Huai Jin could not bother to look into the matter of him barging into her room. Right now, her interest was completely attracted by the matter between Ruan Qinghe and the woman.

"I do."

Yuwen Fei sat diagonally opposite of Huai Jin and introduced Su Geying's identity, "Three years ago, when Qing He and I were swimming in the lake outside, we coincidentally met someone who fell into the water so Qing He went into the water to save them. Brother Qing He only said that the girl was his hometown. When he found out that she had been sent to the brothel, he redeemed her and settled her properly. "

"And after that?" Huai Jin asked.

"After that — —" Yuwen Fei dragged his words, but suddenly changed the topic and asked Huai Jin, "Why are you asking this?"

Huai Jin told Yuwen Fei about how she met the young eunuch on the palace feast and how the empress dowager asked him to investigate the cause of death of the Grand Princess.

Yuwen Fei only frowned, and did not say a word after hearing it.

Just when Huai Jin thought that he would not speak anymore, Yuwen Fei suddenly got up and pulled Huai Jin away.

Ran Mei led a few maids carrying boxes of food and headed towards's Qing Lan Yuan, running into two people.

Yuwen Fei remained calm and did not explain anything as he dragged Huai Jin out of the residence.

"Yuwen Fei! What are you doing? "

Huai Jin walked while being pulled by Yuwen Fei, and she did not have the slightest intention to stop. The two of them passed through one alley after another, and only when they arrived at Wuan Lane did Yuwen Fei let go of Huai Jin's hand.

"Didn't you want to know whether Qing He killed Ping Yang or not?

Huai Jin did not understand what he meant. "Go and ask directly?" Was it that direct?

Yuwen Fei smiled at her, and went into Grand Princess Mansion first.

Inside the Grand Princess Mansion, Ruan Qinghe was instructing Ji An to send him out, but who knew that he would meet Yuwen Fei, who had brought Huai Jin here to confront him.

Yuwen Fei waved his long sleeves and blocked their path.

"It just so happens that Miss Su is here too, there's no need to rush off, there's also something I want to ask Brother Qing He about."

Seeing the two of them acting this way, Ruan Qinghe stopped Su Geying and understood the reason why they were here. He then called Ji An back and brought him to the hall.

Su Geying lowered her head and followed behind Ruan Qinghe respectfully.

In the front hall, Ruan Qinghe dismissed the servants, leaving behind four people.

Yuwen Fei had a rare serious look on his face, and went straight to the point and asked Ruan Qinghe if he was the one who killed him.

Ruan Qinghe also did not expect him to be so direct, and was stunned for a moment. In contrast, Su Geying who was at the side continuously defended Ruan Qinghe.

"Qing He isn't that kind of person, don't slander him!"

"Did I slander you?" Yuwen Fei did not look at her, and continued to ask.

After a long while, Ruan Qinghe finally let out a sigh of relief, pulled Su Geying to the side, and bowed to Yuwen Fei with a wave of his sleeves.

Yuwen Fei immediately pulled him up.

Seeing the two of them fighting back and forth, Huai Jin finally understood why Yuwen Fei had brought him here to seek confirmation of her suspicion that Ruan Qinghe had killed Ping Yang.

In the face of a gentleman like Ruan Qinghe, only then would they truly respect him.

"I was the one who harmed Ping Yang." After Ruan Qinghe said those words, he sat on his seat blankly, as if he had fallen into some sort of memory.