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Chapter 1601 Substitute Bride 5
Although Prince Qinghe's attitude was indeed somewhat cold, they did indeed share a room. It wasn't that he couldn't, nor did he seem to be trying to remain chaste for Consort Ding.

It doesn't seem like he's indifferent to women, but with so many beautiful girls around him, it's really strange that he hasn't touched a single one. You know, most men are sensual creatures and find it hard to resist getting close to women, especially when serving baths. Linlang doesn't believe those maids didn't try to seduce him. After all, if you could seduce the Prince of Qinghe, you could become a concubine, have a child, and if your son does well in the imperial examinations, he could get a title. When the Prince of Qinghe passes away, you could live with your child in a separate household and still be a nobleman. Your social standing would jump up instantly. That's very tempting, so who could resist seducing the Prince of Qinghe? Not to mention, in the past few months, Linlang has seen from the surveillance footage that many maids have tried to seduce the Prince of Qinghe, but he just hasn't been interested and hasn't paid any attention.

Linlang wondered if she had met someone who didn't like casual sex? Although such men were rare, they weren't nonexistent.

If Prince Qinghe is really that kind of person, then that's quite good. After all, she doesn't want Prince Qinghe to have other women, so she doesn't want to touch him anymore.

Now that Prince Qinghe doesn't have any other women and is quite handsome, she can still share a room with him.

Although Prince Qinghe shared a room with her, his attitude remained indifferent. Apart from occasional nights together, he slept in his own former palace and did not spend every night with Linlang. Linlang did not mind, after all, she did not want to be with someone every day and not have her own personal space. This situation was just right.

Linlang is currently quite free, as the Dowager Consort Qinghe is not yet very old, so she is still in charge of the Prince's residence. After Linlang entered the residence, she was not immediately handed over the management to her.

—Actually, it should be paid, because the old Prince of Qinghe has passed away, and the Dowager Princess of Qinghe is a widow. It is inconvenient for her to go out and entertain guests. In the past, there was no mistress in the mansion, so she could only act as the head of the household, which was unavoidable. Now that her daughter-in-law has entered the family, according to the usual customs of ordinary families, the power to manage the household would be transferred to the daughter-in-law, and then she would begin to take care of her old age.

However, the Dowager Consort Qinghe did not hand it over, clearly because she coveted this power. Since she did not want to hand it over, Linlang naturally would not try to take it from her, after all, she would rather be idle and not have to do anything.

Speaking of which, not only was Prince Qinghe indifferent to Linlang, but Princess Qinghe was also indifferent to her. It is estimated that she did not like her as her princess consort very much. She only came back because she needed to find a wife for her son immediately for some reason.

But they didn't make things difficult for her, and that was enough. After all, even blood relatives don't always like you. For example, the original owner's father only had a so-so affection for her, while Marquis Changning loved Li San Niang a little more. Moreover, this was a stranger with no blood relation, so it was normal for him not to be very enthusiastic.

Normally, regardless of whether a mother-in-law is good or bad, she will at least be outwardly warm towards her daughter-in-law when she first marries in and before any conflicts arise. However, it was rather strange that the Dowager Princess Qinghe didn't even show Linlang any warmth when her daughter-in-law first entered the family.

In short, this family is quite eccentric.

Because she had some free time, Linlang had time to investigate the situation in the manor. After all, she had entered the manor, and if there were people secretly plotting against her, they might start now, just like those who spread rumors.

In the original world, the original owner naturally knew who was spreading the rumors, so Linlang was currently watching these people to see who had instructed them to spread the rumors.

Linlang wondered if the original owner's death, if not an accident, might be related to the person who instructed her to spread rumors.

In fact, the original owner had investigated these people who spread rumors, but whether it was due to her lack of ability or the fact that these people were genuinely innocent, she couldn't find anything amiss. On the surface, these people seemed to know about Prince Qinghe and Consort Ding's affair and wanted to warn the original owner, without anyone instructing them. If that were the case, then the person behind it all was even more powerful—Linlang didn't believe these people were kindly trying to warn the original owner; someone was definitely behind it. If she couldn't figure out who was behind it, then it was possible that someone had even more powerful methods, capable of remotely brainwashing someone. In her previous world, Linlang had encountered someone with this ability.

If that's the case, then Linlang needs to be even more careful. After all, if the other party can brainwash someone remotely, then they can probably kill someone remotely as well.

The fact that the original owner and Li San Niang died several times, and the murderer could not be found, makes sense—someone had the ability to kill remotely, killing them and making their deaths seem inexplicable.

If that's the case, and the murderer isn't Consort Ding from the palace, then it will be difficult for Linlang to find the murderer. After all, there are so many people in the capital, in this vast sea of ​​people, who would want the original owner and Li San Niang dead?

First, she could rule out the possibility that this person had a grudge against Li San Niang or the original owner of this body. After all, no matter who became the Princess of Qinghe, the other party would kill them, which meant that the other party did not want anyone to become the Princess of Qinghe. Whoever became the Princess of Qinghe, she would kill them.

From this, we can infer that the other person is someone who likes Prince Qinghe, so they don't want Prince Qinghe to have other women.

Then, it is highly likely that this person only fell in love with Prince Qinghe after the original owner or Li Sanniang married into the family. Otherwise, if the other party had already fallen in love with Prince Qinghe when the Prince Qinghe Mansion was discussing marriage with the woman's family, then they could have had people spread rumors in front of the woman's family to make her refuse to marry into the Prince Qinghe Mansion. In that case, the Prince Qinghe they liked would not have been able to get married.

Even if the Marquis of Changning coveted the status and position of the Prince of Qinghe and still wanted to arrange the marriage after hearing the rumors, the other party would at least spread some rumors to test the waters. After all, what if it succeeded? It's impossible for there to be no reaction at all.

This is also why Linlang deduced that even if the murderer liked Prince Qinghe, it was only after the original owner of the body or Li Sanniang married into the Prince's mansion that he developed feelings for him.

At the same time, this also suggests that the murderer may not be Consort Ding. After all, Consort Ding had that kind of relationship with Prince Qinghe and the ability to interfere in other people's affairs. Wouldn't she have taken action long ago?

Even if Consort Ding may not have liked Prince Qinghe before, and it was Prince Qinghe who liked her unilaterally, which is why she entered the palace, it doesn't make sense that she only liked Prince Qinghe after he got married and that's why she wanted to interfere. If she really had the ability to remotely brainwash others and kill people, would she still be out of favor in the palace?

Therefore, even if Consort Ding did have a relationship with Prince Qinghe, she may not necessarily be the murderer.

Of course, she could continue to monitor Consort Ding to see if there was any contact between the two after Prince Qinghe's marriage, and whether, as she speculated, Consort Ding disliked Prince Qinghe before marriage but only came to like him after marriage, and then she did something underhanded.

Although she guessed that Consort Ding didn't have that ability, she couldn't say for sure. For example, what if Consort Ding didn't care about being favored in the palace, so even if she had the ability, it wouldn't be of any use, and she would only use it in the Qinghe Prince's Mansion? That was also possible. All aspects of things had to be considered.