Chapter Sixteen: Suspecting Yin and Huang

  After the little butterfly left, Fei Dian wandered back and forth by the pond, thinking that Yin Huan had actually sent guards to protect Yin Sheng, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something wasn't quite right...

  It dawned on Fei Dian, he finally figured out what was wrong! At that time, when Yin Sheng decided to go out with him, only the people from the Golden Temple should have known. Yin Huan should still be in the Lingxu Hall, if Yin Huan hadn't done anything fishy and hadn't sent anyone to monitor Yin Sheng, he absolutely wouldn't have known that Yin Sheng had gone out.

  Why did he send someone to monitor Yin Sheng? Does he want to know who all the people close to Yin Sheng are and then kill them? This... is really something an 8 or 9 year old child would do.

  Fei Yan felt increasingly chilled, and suddenly became worried about Yin Chen. She had heard her second sister say before that the "possessive desire" mentality could drive all living things to do terrifying things, even destroying them if they couldn't have them...

  Fei Yan didn't dare think about it anymore, and his feet involuntarily moved towards the Golden Temple.

  He walked with ease, took out the token of Yin Wu and screened off all those who wanted to stop him, and went straight into the side hall where Yin Sheng was resting.

  At this time, Yin Sheng was sleeping very soundly, with even breathing and long eyelashes trembling regularly with his breath. He had put aside all the pretenses of the day and at this moment he was just a simple and temperless child.

  Fei Dian thought to himself whether he should wait for him to wake up before telling him... In the end, Fei Dian's fervent heart in pursuit of the truth still surpassed his concern for a completely defenseless child, and he ruthlessly reached out to shake his body.

  Yin Chen stretched out his hand and slapped Fei Dian with a "slap", closing his eyes and shouting, "Get out!"

  After finishing speaking, he turned over and continued sleeping.

  Her left face was burning with pain, feeling both wronged and angry. She stood up and kicked Yin Chen's butt, "Yin Chen, get up for me!"

  Yin Sheng couldn't sleep anymore, woke up with a start, and turned to look at Fei Dian. His eyes were still hazy from sleep, and he looked at Fei Dian with a pitiful and innocent expression. Fei Dian suddenly felt his heart being whipped hard... He began to reflect on why he had treated a child like this. Why did he have to wake him up so late? Couldn't he just tell him in the morning? The poor child had to attend court during the day and follow him around at night to investigate cases... How despicable was he!

  Until the water vapor in Yin Sheng's eyes completely dissipated, Fei Dian was still there, holding a heart of guilt towards Yin Sheng, without noticing that Yin Sheng had already gotten down from bed, pulled out the sword hanging on the headboard, and gritted his teeth to say, "If I hadn't spared your life today, you would be surnamed Fei!"

  Then a sword stabbed over, Fei Dian hastily retreated, Yin Sheng chased after him, seemingly this time really getting serious.

  "You ignorant foolish mortal," Flying Lightning said as he fled, "My surname is not Flying!"

  "You stinky vixen, don't think that just because I tolerate you, you can act recklessly without any restraint!" Yin Sheng's sword-like eyebrows were cold and stern, "If it weren't for the sake of Wu Zong's face, I would have killed you long ago!"

  "Hmph, you people with the surname Yin are all vicious and murderous. I shouldn't have come all this way to tell you about the truth of Yin Huan!" Fei Yan hid behind a large pillar in the hall, still maintaining his noble demeanor, coldly saying to Yin Sheng.

  Yin Huan's words calmed Yin Sheng down, and he stopped advancing, grasping his sword.

  After a moment of silence, he sheathed his treasured sword and beckoned to the flying electric eel with a hook of his finger, commanding: "Come here."

  "Fēi diàn lěng hēng yī shēng," "nǐ ràng wǒ guò qù wǒ jiù guò qù le ma?"

  Translation:

  "Fei Dian snorted coldly, 'If you let me pass, I will pass?'"

  "Come here and tell me what you said about Huan'er, I won't kill you."

  "You say you won't kill me, so you won't?" Fei Dian narrowed his eyes suspiciously at him. "Although I've only known the Yin brothers for two days, I've already seen through your changeable and duplicitous nature - don't think you can deceive me again!"

  "Are you coming or not?!" Yin Chen said in a low voice, staring at Fei Dian with his eyes wide open, instantly revealing an overbearing aura that filled the entire Golden Hall with an irresistible imperial presence, causing Fei Dian's legs to weaken suddenly.

  However, the cold and elegant demeanor cultivated by his grandmother supported him to never give in. He pretended to be calm and walked to Yin Sheng's side, opening his mouth coldly: "I'm not because..."

  The latter half of the sentence was still in his mouth, when Fei Yan suddenly noticed that Yin Chen's chest, which was exposed under his unbuttoned shirt, had a scar... Why did he have a scar? Wasn't he the most noble emperor in the world? He should have been pampered and protected since childhood...

  Fei Yan thought for a moment, then wanted to see if it was indeed a scar, so he stretched out his hand without hesitation and pulled open his loose clothes, the scar clearly appearing before his eyes.

  Fei Dian even had the urge to touch that knife scar, so he reached out to touch it. Suddenly, a gust of cold wind came again, and Fei Dian had an experience before, knowing it was Yin Chen's slap, hastily retreating two steps to dodge.

  "Didn't you say you wouldn't kill me?" Fei Dian asked with a slight frown.

  "I only wanted to slap you, I didn't want to kill you," Yin Chen said calmly. "What? You now think you can seduce me and make me surrender eagerly?"

  Fei Yan didn't respond because he didn't know how to, so he maintained his noble demeanor with his nose in the air and calmly stared at Yin Chen, who had a mocking smile on his face.

  It was deep in the night, and the guards at the gate kept hearing the sounds of quarreling from inside the palace, but none of them dared to come in. After all, one was His Majesty who hated being disturbed while sleeping the most, and the other was a person with an unknown identity but possessed a token similar to that of Shadow Royal Physician. They wondered what kind of relationship His Majesty had with this person? There were also some guards with big imaginations, who instantly linked it to how His Majesty had married so many concubines yet never touched any of them, and for so many years, he slept alone in the Golden Palace... Could it be that His Majesty really...

  Yin Sheng and Fei Dian looked at each other silently for a long time, until Yin Sheng finally spoke up in his lazy, rascal-like tone, "Not denying it is the same as admitting it, I'm indeed irresistibly charming."

  "...You're overthinking it, I just found your scar interesting and wanted to take a look."

  "What? In your heart, I shouldn't be hurt, right?" Yin Sheng adjusted his clothes and smiled helplessly. "You're indeed a naive little demon, let's talk about Huan'er instead, what do you know?"

  "Hmm," Fei Dian nodded, "Just now I saw her maid by the pond where I met Wan Guifei, and she told me everything that happened that night."

  Fei Dian told Yin Sheng about the whole process of what happened to Xiao Die, and asked, "Do you think those two Ling Xū Temple guards who appeared later are suspicious? And why did Wan Chong fall into the water twice? Was she dead before she fell in the first time or after she fell in the second time? Ying Wu Zong said she didn't drown, do you believe him?"

  "It's naturally unquestionable if there's no clue," Yin Chen analyzed with his chin in his hand, "Huan'er just acted impulsively, I believe he wouldn't commit murder. As for me, I only found out about the news on the second day after Wang Jieyu's death, at that time I thought it was Guoshi who did it, so I didn't investigate carefully."

  "If I really found out who the murderer was, would you punish him?" Fei Dian asked.

  "Then let's see who he is. If I can't move, I'll have no choice but to disappoint the spirit of Empress Wan in heaven."

  "If the murderer is really Yin Huan, will you punish him?"

  Yin Sheng glanced at Fei Dian with a slanted gaze and said coldly, "I say that Huan Er is not the murderer, he absolutely won't be."

  "But how did you explain those three guards later? And tonight, how did Yin Huan know we went out?"

  "Now that you mention it, I recall being careless about tonight's events. I'm not familiar with the guards of Lingxu Hall, so I don't know if those two are really guards from Lingxu Hall. Similarly, you can't be certain that the three people who appeared by the pool were actually sent by Huan'er. What if someone is trying to frame Huan'er?"

  "Frame an 8 or 9 year old child? Flying Electric raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure framing a child is something someone who could kill Wan Guifei would do? Wouldn't it be better to frame the ancient fish princess or Rui Wang? After all, they both have private grudges against you."

  "It will never be Huang Er," Yin Sheng said firmly. "If you investigate to the end and it really is Huang Er, that can only prove that you've investigated wrongly or that you have ulterior motives and want to frame Huang Er."

  "It's simply inexplicable that you're so blindly doting on Yin Huan," Fei Dian said calmly. "In our Fox tribe's Yun You, even if the highest-ranking fox spirit harmed one of their own kind, they would receive the same punishment as a lower-ranking fox spirit."

  "What? Are you telling me that your elves are so equal and loving? Yin Sheng raised a hint of mockery, "If it's really like this, why do you still have to have a hierarchy? If you're truly equal, why do you always have an annoyingly arrogant face?"

  "He..." Fei Dian didn't know how to respond, at least two years ago, in Fei Dian's heart, all lives were equal, it was just that his own respect for Grandma made him completely unable to doubt Grandma's words, and finally became the kind of person Grandma wanted.

  He suddenly thought, was his reverence for Grandma the same as Yin Cheng's indulgence of Yin Huan? Both were blindly unreasonable and laughable in other people's eyes, yet they themselves didn't know.

  "What? You've been caught?" Yin Cheng asked, "You can go now, I want to sleep. You can investigate freely, I believe there's no evidence so I won't kill you for the time being. However, if you threaten Huán'er, I will make sure you die without a burial place."

  Yin Sheng finished speaking and turned around, no longer paying attention to Fei Dian. Fei Dian looked at his back as he walked towards the dragon bed, but ultimately didn't say anything.

  Fei Yan thought carefully, Wan Yong was just a female ghost he occasionally met, his strong desire to find out the truth in his heart was because he hated uncertainty.

  But what is his purpose of coming to the world after all? Isn't it for Yin Sheng?

  So... it seems there's no need to offend Yin Huan for Wan Cong and then offend Yin Sheng as well.