Volume 1: This Heart's Bent Chapter 10: I'm Too Beautiful!

  In the blink of an eye.

  Just as Chu Gang felt a slight stinging sensation, Tai Shi Lan's dagger had already been withdrawn into her sleeve.

  Luckily, human thorn is much shorter and thicker than ordinary three-edged thorn.

  She calmly picked up her underwear package, stuffed it into her cloak, pulled out her captured hand, and casually wiped her fingers on Rong Chu's sleeve before walking back.

  Just then, they ran into the pale-faced Tuo Bo brothers, who exchanged a look with Rong Chu and thought that the Duke of Jin seemed a bit dazed, but didn't dare ask him anything, so they turned to look at Tai Shi Lan instead.

  Tai Shi Lan didn't even glance at them.

  "Oh, I'm too beautiful, he's stunned."

  “……”

  The Bieber brothers took a tumble...

  Tai Shi Lan took a few steps back, turned around, and saw that Rong Chu had already returned to normal, chatting with the Yi brothers. She seemed to have forgotten her previous actions and words. However, Tai Shi Lan was secretly shocked - she remembered that when Yi Shizhu used his "forgetfulness" move, he was stunned for a long time before regaining consciousness, and even then, his thinking was very slow. Moreover, Yi Shizhu hadn't been directly stabbed by the spearhead.

  But the person in front of her, after being hit, was only momentarily dazed and immediately returned to reality, with her thinking flowing smoothly without any influence. If she hadn't quickly withdrawn her hand, it's likely that he would have discovered something was off.

  A very frightening reaction.

  Tai Shi Lan immediately put Rong Chu on the "temporary avoidance" list.

  Yi Shi Zhu had long since fled in terror, and the women who were supposed to kill Yi Shi Lan tonight also looked at her with terrified eyes, avoiding her like a ghost.

  Tai Shi Lan did not continue to pursue, missing the best opportunity. Now he can't use Ren Jian Ci, let alone "Yi Shi Lan" is still "alive". Arbitrarily accusing Yi Shi Zhu would not gain an advantage.

  On the other side, Rong Chu accompanied by the brothers of the Yi family returned to the front hall once again. Tai Shi Lan felt that since that one glance, Rong Chu hadn't looked at him again and he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief in his heart.

  Indeed, after "forgetting" in Chinese, no memories will be left behind.

  She didn't see it.

  Chu Yong's back figure suddenly opened his palm and looked at his own palm.

  Jade white palm, a subtle mark, bright red like blood.

  He smiled immediately.

  It's profound in meaning.

  Rong Chu left, and Tai Bo hurriedly followed him to the front hall. He glared at Tai Shi Zhu fiercely before hastily leaving. Tai Shi Zhu stood frozen in place, his face deathly pale, knowing that today's strange behavior would require a great deal of effort to explain clearly.

  Her face changed again immediately.

  Opposite, Tai Shi Lan suddenly took out a green glass eight treasure golden hairpin from her sleeve. Yi Shi Zhu took one look and recognized it as the ornament he had arranged for someone to put in Yi Shi Tao's sleeve, preparing to frame him.

  At this moment, when this thing was brought out in this way, Wei Shi Zhu immediately knew that his plan had been seen through.

  All the young masters and ladies are here now, and Mrs. Hua from afar has also brought people to rush over hastily. Seeing that reinforcements were arriving and their side had a large number of people, Hua Shijun let out a sigh of relief and was about to speak.

  Tai Shi Lan fiddled with the expensive jewelry, expressionless, and suddenly let go.

  A golden hairpin fell to the ground, its tip piercing the earth with a faint sound, and was stuck in the muddy soil.

  Tai Shi Lan's boots slowly stepped on it.

  Grind, mill.

  Four faces were silent, more than a dozen pairs of eyes stared straight at Tai Shi's feet, the heel turned decisively and slowly, the glass pearl on the sole made a slight cracking sound, a little green and silver powder squeezed out from the boot edge, sprinkled on the dark land.

  The faces of the four people were also pale, and the face of Cuī Shì Zhú was especially wonderful - this golden hairpin came from the "Fú Lǜ Xuān" in the capital. Fú Lǜ Xuān is a royal exclusive jewelry store, specializing in providing jewelry for the palace and royal relatives, and it's not easy to take on external customers. It's a symbol of identity for the ladies of the capital, so whoever gets a piece of "Fú Lǜ Xuān" jewelry can show off for years. Therefore, this hairpin is also an extremely important treasure for her, and if she hadn't wanted to overthrow Cuī Shì Zhú and his sister in one move, she wouldn't have taken it out.

  She took out this golden hairpin, never thinking that she wouldn't get it back, and didn't expect the other person to make a move that would leave her defeated.

  Everyone was shocked at the same time, and their attention was drawn to Tai Shi Lan's movements again, staring only at the crushed hairpin, while Yi Shi Tao stared at Tai Shi Lan's boots.

  He suddenly remembered that his sister had asked him to move to the outer room and then changed her clothes, he was anxious at that time and didn't think much about it. Only now did he recall that the clothes his sister was wearing earlier seemed to be men's clothing?

  Tai Shi Lan put on the cloak that Yi Shi Lan had placed on the bed, but she couldn't change her shoes. She noticed Yi Shi Tao's strange gaze, but didn't pay attention to it at all.

  She never intended to keep doing Xibei goods for a long time anyway.

  After a good while, Tai Shi Lan loosened her foot on the ground, and now the jade pearl powder and mud were mixed together. This root of priceless jewelry was beyond recovery, even if gods came down to earth.

  Tai Shi Lan was expressionless, just like stepping on an ant, and walked over the pile of colored mud with a long stride.

  Not saying a word, yet extremely contemptuous.

  Leaving behind a bunch of "brothers and sisters", Zhang Dàmǒu (a nickname) was drinking the cool evening breeze that made one's mouth water.

  Tai Shi Lan felt that having a "younger brother" like Wei Shi Tao was sometimes quite a good thing.

  "Sister! I'll help you to the An Tang!" Yan Shi Tao escaped with his life, and having vented a bit of anger, was in high spirits as he followed closely behind, carefully guiding Tai Shi Lan towards the direction of the An Tang.

  It's good that she didn't even know how to get to her own nunnery, revealing her true nature.

  "That's the rear residence, what are you doing here?" Tai Shi Lan countered with one sentence, and he stayed behind for some use.

  As expected, she didn't go far before seeing Yu Lin hurrying back. At this moment, after the incident had passed, even including Yu Shi Zhu and her sisters, they all realized the strangeness of "Yu Shi Lan". Immediately afterwards, they heard Yu Shi Tao shouting loudly and quarreling with a group of people.

  "She suddenly has short hair? Her hair was cut by Sister Shizhu and her crew!"

  "Doesn't sound right? Shi Zhu sister poured chili water for Shi Lan sister!"

  "Acting differently? Shi Zhu sister bullied Shi Lan sister, she must fight back, you all saw it just now, and she even tried to frame us!"

  Yi Shi's loud voice, along with Yi Shi Zhu and others' angry and hateful "Nonsense! Rubbish! Bastard!" and other shrill curses, all tangled together. Under the flickering flames, some people had pale faces and gnashing teeth, some were on the verge of collapse, some were indifferent, and some were full of suspicion... Meanwhile, Tai Shi Lan had long since walked away.

  Tai Shi stood on the threshold of the hut, looking around and furrowing his brow.

  Is this dilapidated old house really where Yu Shilan lives?

  The Fu family is extravagant everywhere, but for Miss Fu, it's really harsh.

  Tai Shi Lan stepped inside, and the room was simple with only a bed, a couch, and a table, even simpler than a traditional nun's dwelling.

  Tai Shi Lan planned to rest here for a while, wait until the matter subsided and the guards dispersed, then slip away quietly.

  She didn't bring her small suitcase with her because it was too eye-catching, and hid it in a dilapidated earth cellar outside Anzhou City. After leaving Anzhou, she picked up her luggage and changed places to roam the four seas.

  Tai Shi Lan is not considered a very ambitious person, absolutely unlike the usual transmigrators who have grand ambitions, either wanting to turn the world upside down or use modern technology to drive ancient productivity and historical progress, but she has a bad habit, she doesn't like being inferior to others.

  She is a person who would not even sleep on the lower bunk, let alone stay in a gloomy and depressing mansion, bowing to everyone she meets and constantly asking for peace.

  He flipped the quilt off the bed and fell onto the mattress with a thud, hitting his head on the pillow, and faintly heard a cracking sound.

  Tai Shi Lan flipped her hand over, touched the hard pillow, and felt a seam at the bottom. She immediately hugged the pillow and slammed it to the ground.

  The pillow burst open and rolled out a small box, with a golden lid inlaid with pearls and jade, extremely luxurious, which was quite out of place with this dilapidated hut.

  The box was not sealed, and when it hit the ground, the lid came off, spilling out some papers.

  Tai Shi Lan picked it up and took a look, but it was just some boudoir poetry and the like. Tai Shi Lan had never been someone with a strong curiosity, so she casually flipped through a few pages before preparing to put it aside. Suddenly, she discovered a few scraps of paper, among which one corner had an imprint on the bottom that made her pause for a moment. She thought for a bit, then reached out and pressed her hand onto the pile of scraps.

  The torn paper slowly restored, and what appeared in front of her was a crumpled letter with dark golden marks on it. The shape was strange, with dragon scales, horse body, feathered crown, and flames all over its body. Taishi Lan thought it looked like the "Qiong" mentioned in the Shan Hai Jing, which could eat dragon brains and was the ancestor of Qilin. Did this other world also have the Shan Hai Jing?

  But what's strange isn't the Shan Hai Jing's exotic beast markings, but this marking itself, as if she had seen it somewhere before, and recently at that. No matter how hard she thought, she couldn't recall where she had seen it; she had only been here for a few short days, avoiding people along the way, so how could she have possibly seen such an unusual pattern?

  Can't think of anything so I'd better stop thinking, flipping through the paper notes, this sheet with a seal on it, isn't a poem from Yu Shi Lan's boudoir, but a letter.

  "...You are inconvenienced today, I am willing to enter the palace for you. In the future, I will definitely repay you with a thousand times more affection... Don't worry, I will instruct the officials in the palace to exempt you from being summoned for imperial concubinage..."

  Tai Shi's eyebrows furrowed slightly.

  Isn't it that Yu Shilan's entry into the palace wasn't so simple, but rather she went to collude with someone inside? It seems that the other person is still her lover, otherwise how could they say "mutual affection" and also mention making arrangements to avoid serving in bed? But this statement is strange, what kind of place is the imperial palace? There's always entry but no exit, yet this person speaks as if it's certain that Yu Shilan will leave the palace in the future. What makes him speak like this?

  It's possible to give a greeting in the palace and avoid being on duty with Empress Lan, this person's status is probably not low either, being from the capital region and being close to the Emperor.

  How many more secrets does Rui Xi Lan have on her body?

  Tai Shi Lan folded the letter paper and was about to put it back in the box, but suddenly had a change of heart and tucked it into his own inner pocket.

  She flipped through the rest of the things, including several manuscripts by Yu Shi Lan, which detailed her relationships with her sisters and mentioned how she had helped Yu Shi Zhu showcase her talents and attract a suitor. It also mentioned how the palace had originally chosen Yu Shi Zhu as a potential bride for the emperor, but somehow Yu Shi Lan had been selected instead after taking a trip to the temple with her sister. Additionally, it described how they had gone on an outing to admire chrysanthemums together and afterwards contracted a strange illness that was difficult to speak of.

  Tai Shi Lan's tone was full of resentment and doubt, but she never mentioned confronting Tai Shi Zhu or seeking the truth. Tai Shi Lan recalled Tai Shi Zhu's evaluation of her and thought to herself that this woman was indeed weak, knowing that things were fake, yet having no courage to confront or retaliate.

  Having wisdom but no courage still can't make a stand in this ever-changing society.

  Busy for half the night, Ta Shi Lan was also tired. Hearing that the government had not yet calmed down, she lay down. She didn't believe that Yi Shi Zhu and others would take action again at this moment, and they would wait until daytime to talk.

  In a daze between half asleep and half awake, she suddenly felt someone approaching.