“How many days do you need?”
“Hm?”
“I asked how many days you need to recover from your injuries,” Xiao Junyan repeated patiently.
Lin Yanxi’s bright eyes darted around rapidly.
“One month!”
“You think I’m a three-year-old child?”
Lin Yanxi let out a breath.
“Seven days. Give me seven days to heal my injuries, then I’ll come treat you.”
“Fine. I’ll give you seven days.”
After a pause, he raised his voice and called out,
“Wei Xing!”
Wei Xing, who had been guarding the door the entire time, immediately burst in.
“Your Highness!”
“Escort her back to her residence.”
Wei Xing froze for a moment. Although he was dissatisfied that the prince was letting her off so easily, an order was an order. He could only obey.
Ignoring the injuries on Lin Yanxi’s back, he grabbed her up from the floor in one swift motion.
“Ow, ow, ow!” Lin Yanxi grimaced in pain. “Are you trying to hurt me to death? If I die, no one in this world will be able to cure your prince!”
Reluctantly, Wei Xing lowered his head slightly and made his movements much gentler.
In the end, under Wei Xing’s escort, Lin Yanxi successfully climbed back over the Lin Manor wall and returned to Xiyan Pavilion.
“If Miss Lin has no further business, I’ll take my leave now.”
Wei Xing couldn’t wait to get away. He didn’t want to spend another second around Lin Yanxi.
Suddenly, Lin Yanxi stopped him.
“Wait a second!”
She circled around Wei Xing twice, pinching her chin thoughtfully.
“So you people already knew my identity?”
“Naturally. From the moment you entered the prince’s manor, we already knew.”
Lin Yanxi sucked in a sharp breath and finally realized the truth.
“Oh, so that’s how you played it! No wonder entering the War Prince’s Manor went so smoothly. Turns out all of it was your doing behind the scenes!”
“If Miss Lin has nothing else, I’ll leave now.”
Without waiting for her response, Wei Xing flashed away and vaulted back over the wall, disappearing from the Lin Manor.
Lin Yanxi snorted.
“So what if you can climb walls!”
Then she suddenly remembered—
Did that mean everyone in the War Prince’s Manor also knew about her crawling through a dog hole tonight?
For a moment, Lin Yanxi felt the urge to die from embarrassment.
She had thought her plan was flawless, yet the entire time she had merely been dancing around in the palm of their hands. Her lifelong reputation was about to be ruined!
The wounds on her back had slowly dried and stopped bleeding. Suddenly, Lin Yanxi remembered the black-clothed man she had hidden away.
Ignoring the pain in her body, she hurried toward where he was hidden.
Without her antidote, he wouldn’t wake up for an entire night.
So at this moment, Shi Zhao was still unconscious, completely unaware of everything that had happened in the prince’s manor.
Finding Shi Zhao, Lin Yanxi angrily kicked him.
“I was even thinking of inviting you for drinks, and who knew you were actually a spy sent by the War Prince! If I’d known earlier, I should’ve just sent you to the afterlife with one needle. But it’s not too late now!”
She searched through her belongings for a while before pulling out her last remaining packet of poison.
Just as she was about to pour the entire packet into Shi Zhao’s mouth, she suddenly heard an unusual sound nearby.
Lin Yanxi’s hand paused.
She sensed the presence of deathly energy.
The death aura around her father had already been cleared away by her. So where was this deathly energy in the manor coming from?
Filled with doubt, she casually tossed aside the poison powder and headed toward the direction of the noise.
Not far from Xiyan Pavilion stood a long-abandoned courtyard. She could sense the death aura emanating from there.
But she had already inspected the entire Lin Manor before and even set up formations around it. Things like this should not exist within the estate.
Dragging her aching body along, she slowly approached the abandoned courtyard.
As though sensing someone’s approach, a cluster of deathly energy suddenly shot out from the courtyard toward her.
Lin Yanxi casually formed a hand seal and flicked her hand lightly. Instantly, the death aura vanished into thin air.
This was merely the lowest and weakest form of deathly energy—completely harmless to her. But if ordinary people were invaded by it, while it would not kill them immediately, it would slowly erode their life force until they eventually died.
She pushed open the courtyard gate and carefully examined the situation inside.
“Go away! Go away!”
A childish voice sounded from the corner of the courtyard.
Lin Yanxi frowned slightly. She recognized the voice immediately—it belonged to her younger brother, Lin Yichen, the boy who had loudly declared he wanted to beat her to death.
“Go away! All of you, go away! Don’t come near me!”
Fear made Lin Yichen’s voice tremble.
The tiny child was curled up in the corner of the courtyard with a vegetable basket covering himself, trying desperately to reduce his presence.
Lin Yanxi noticed a large amount of death aura surrounding him. The dark energy looked extremely excited, desperately trying to invade his body, but somehow unable to get close. All it could do was circle above his head.
Lin Yanxi was surprised.
She had never realized before that her younger brother possessed an extremely yin body constitution—a supreme tonic for deathly energy like this.
She looked up at the sky.
Tonight’s moon was exceptionally full. It was also the most yin-heavy time of the month. The aura emitted by Lin Yichen’s constitution was enough to make these deathly energies crash into walls trying to get close to him.
Lin Yichen trembled helplessly in the corner, muttering nonstop under his breath, completely immersed in his own fear.
Lin Yanxi walked over and lifted the vegetable basket covering him, immediately meeting his terrified and panicked eyes.
The moment Lin Yichen saw the dried blood stains on her body, he was so frightened he nearly lost his soul and screamed loudly.
“Ahhh!! Ghost! There’s a ghost!”
“Get away from me! Go away!”
Under the moonlight, the little boy’s face had gone completely pale with terror as he pointed a stick at Lin Yanxi.
“Go away! If you don’t leave, I’ll beat you to death!”
Lin Yanxi laughed mockingly.
“With your tiny little body? You want to beat me to death?”
Hearing her voice, Lin Yichen visibly froze.
He looked up at her again in shock.
“Lin Yanxi?”
Lin Yanxi smacked him directly on the head.
“I’m your sister. Call me ‘big sister’ and let me hear it.”
Fear was still obvious on Lin Yichen’s little face, but he stubbornly kept his mouth tightly shut, refusing to call her sister.
Lin Yanxi raised an eyebrow and nodded.
A naughty brat like this just needed a little scare before behaving.
“Fine, won’t call me? Then I’m leaving. Stay here alone and enjoy the night scenery.”
She deliberately took a few steps away as though preparing to leave, frightening Lin Yichen so badly that he hurriedly called out,
“W-Wait!”
“What?”
Lin Yichen opened his mouth, hesitated for a long time, yet couldn’t force out a single sentence.
“If you’re not talking, then forget it. It’s the middle of the night, and I’m sleepy. I’m going back.”
After saying that, she deliberately glanced at him.
The little boy still stood there biting his lips repeatedly, as though finally making up some kind of difficult decision.
In a timid voice, he finally whispered,
“Y-You should go…”
A flash of surprise crossed Lin Yanxi’s eyes.
This little brat actually didn’t ask her to stay with him?
Even though he was this terrified, he still refused to ask anyone for help?