After the Hou family's mistress went crazy, she became the favorite of the entire capital.

Lin Jinan soaked comfortably in the bathtub, her delicate and beautiful fingers gently touching the petals, and the petals sank when they met the water. I heard that the East Palace has a whole palace hot spring, which is extremely luxurious. She must give it a try when she becomes a concubine, so she doesn't have to torture herself in this small tub anymore.

Thinking of the good days ahead, she smiled happily.

Suddenly, there was the sound of something falling behind him, which disturbed Lin Jinan's interest.

She scolded her coldly: "Huaiyu, I don't need your service now. Stand back."

Things didn't fall again, but there was no sound of footsteps leaving, but suddenly there was the sound of tea being poured again.

Lin Jin'an reacted and turned around suddenly, and sure enough he saw Shu Yan sitting there drinking tea.

"Come……"

As soon as she said a word, the peanut that Shu Yan was twisting and playing with had already popped into her throat, causing her words to get stuck in her throat.

By the time Lin Jinan choked out the peanut kernel, tears were streaming down his face.

Thinking she was coughing, her face turned red, "You still dare to come."

"I'm just going home, why don't you dare to come?"

Shu Yan stood up and walked towards her step by step.

Lin Jinan subconsciously stepped back, but in the tub, she had no way out.

"Do you want to be the crown prince's concubine?"

Lin Jinan raised his eyebrows and sneered, "So this is what you came for?"

She became proud. Sure enough, seeing that she was about to live a good life, Shu Yan would be jealous of her.

"No."

Lin Jinan's smile froze at the corner of his mouth. "What did you say?"

Shu spoke in a light tone, with the same sense of oppression as the Lin family.

"I said, no."

Lin Jinan's face flushed, "You can't say it's true even if you don't say it? Who do you think you are? Now, I am...Lin Jin'an."

She just mouthed the last three words and didn't say them out loud, but Shu Yan could understand them.

The corners of her lips raised with pride, but in the blink of an eye, the pride froze at the corners of her lips.

Shu Yan, who was standing two feet away just now, was in front of her in the blink of an eye.

She opened her mouth to call someone, but Shu Yan had already grabbed her by the throat.

She struggled desperately in the water, and water stains in the bathtub splashed everywhere.

Shu Yan pulled half of her body out in disgust. Lin Jinan's eyes widened, full of horror. The feeling of suffocation in the throat became stronger and stronger with age, and his eyes were already filled with snowflakes.

She repeated her old trick, reached out and grabbed the hairpin from her hair, and stabbed it into Shu Yan's body.

However, that hand was firmly caught in mid-air by Shu Yan.

Humph.

A soft snort made Lin Jinan tremble instinctively.

The next moment, Lin Jinan felt a pain in his neck and his eyes widened in disbelief.

Shu Yan actually stuck the hairpin into her body with his backhand!
The distance was just five inches outside Qiunan's neck.

Lin Jinan was about to scream in pain, but Shu Yan grabbed his throat and choked his voice.

"I remember I told you that if you dare to harm the Lin family, I will be the first to let you go. Today, I am here to collect the debt."

Lin Jinan's face was full of horror, and his mouth opened and closed, but he couldn't make a sound.

"Good morning, have you rested?"

Lin Zhongxuan's voice came from the courtyard. Shu Yan's fingertips trembled and he let go.

"Brother, save me!" Lin Jin'an got the chance and shouted, and the next moment, Lin Zhongxuan kicked in the door.

Shu Yan's heart tightened, and he pulled Lin Jinan's clothes hanging beside him to cover his face, and then moved the screen blocking the bathtub inward. Lin Zhongxuan broke in and saw Lin Jinan with half of his shoulders exposed in the bathtub. He immediately avoided it, turned around and pulled off the tablecloth.

In the blink of an eye, Shu Yan had already climbed out of the back window, and before she landed, she was already being escorted into a familiar embrace.

With a cold face, He Wangzhou held her toes and gently jumped onto the wall with his strength.

Shu Yan was shocked that he actually knew martial arts!
When Lin Zhongxuan broke into the bathroom again, he had already thrown the tablecloth on Lin Jinan and climbed out through the back window. There was no sign of the visitor.

He personally checked around and found no suspicious traces except a man's footprints.

It's just that the trace disappeared after it reached the courtyard wall. Presumably the person had left, and if he chased it now, he wouldn't be able to catch anything.

He returned to the room and asked with a dark face: "Who came just now?"

Lin Jinan had already gotten out of the tub, the hairpin on his shoulder had been removed, and half of his clothes were stained red with blood.

"Brother, it hurts so much."

"I asked you who she is!"

Lin Zhongxuan had a ruthless look on his face, and there was a hint of urgency in his tone.

Lin Jin'an choked and gritted his teeth, "It's Shu Yan."

Shu Yan?

Lin Zhongxuan recalled it, and his deepest memory only stayed on the day of his sister's funeral. Other than that, he had no other impressions.

"How did the Shu family girl have the ability to enter the general's mansion? Can she still hurt you?"

When mentioning this, Lin Jinan was filled with resentment.

"She has been able to enter the general's mansion again and again. Shouldn't you ask yourself? Why did you ask me in turn? The guards in the mansion belong to you, brother, so what does it have to do with me! Why can't she hurt me? ? She stunned everyone with her sword dance at the palace banquet. How can she dance with a sword if she doesn’t know martial arts? What’s so surprising about hurting me? "

"I was injured and left so much blood, but you turned a blind eye and instead questioned me first?"

"My parents are like this, and so are you. Am I a biological child of the Lin family? Are you my family?"

"If I'm not the one, why don't you tell me so early, so that I don't have to occupy the title of young lady in your general's mansion and wrong others!"

Lin Jinan was hysterical and wanted to scold everyone in the Lin family.

Lin Zhongxuan was baffled by her outburst of resentment, but he remembered what he heard about the prince's marriage proposal when he just returned home, and his face suddenly darkened.

"Why, you think you can really be the crown prince's concubine, so you dare to speak to your brother like this?"

Lin Zhongxuan has also led troops to fight. Although his aura is not as strong as Lin Yi's, he is still somewhat intimidating.

Lin Jinan was frightened. He knew he couldn't touch her head-on, but he wanted to pretend to be weak.

But before he could pretend to be weak, Lin Zhongxuan had already strode away without even taking another look or asking a question.

Lin Zhongxuan is very upset now.

He could confirm that the person who was with Lin Jinan just now was a woman, but the shoe prints outside the window were clearly that of a man.

He always felt that the person just now was the female thief who broke into his father's study that day.

The fast pace suddenly stopped.

Shu Yan, that bride from the Marquis of Jing'an Mansion?

Lin Zhongxuan suddenly remembered Qiu Nan. She had always been by Lin Jinan's side and had also met Shu Yan, so he asked someone to call Qiu Nan for questioning.

The servant's expression was subtle, "Major General, Qiunan is dead."

After a while, Lin Zhongxuan rode away from the general's mansion and went straight to Yizhuang outside the capital.

He rushed to Yizhuang, picked up the village guard who had just fallen asleep, and asked him to take him to see Qiunan's body.

When the white cloth was lifted, the first thing Lin Zhongxuan saw was not the dozen or so random stab wounds on his body, but the hole in his neck that had been pierced by something unknown. (End of chapter)