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Chu Xunzhen raised his hand and delivered a chop to Nangong Moli's neck. The next instant, Nangong Moli fainted and fell into Chu Xunzhen's arms.

Li Xun'an exclaimed in surprise, "Your Highness!"

Everyone's gaze froze, stunned.

Nangong Yue stared intently at her elder sister.

I wish I were the eldest sister, so I could be held in her arms. How wonderful that would be!

Li Xun'an's expression changed drastically, and he roared, "Princess, how could you harm the princess?"

Chu Xunzhen chuckled lightly: "Young Master Li, don't panic, the Second Princess is fine. Her emotions are too agitated, which is not good for her health. Moreover, your sister has committed a serious crime and should be imprisoned. In order to avoid the princess pleading for you, I, the county magistrate, have no choice but to resort to this tactic."

"The princess is my wife. I beg you, County Princess, to return my wife to me, or I will take this to the government office. That would damage the royal reputation." Li Xun'an looked at Chu Xunzhen and thought that although this woman was extremely beautiful, she was also extremely ruthless.

Chu Xunzhen glanced at the six eunuchs behind him and said to them, "Hold Li Xun'an down."

Li Xun'an was startled, and the next moment he realized that someone was pinching his wrist to take his pulse.

"Princess, what do you mean by this?"

Li Xun'an asked in a cold voice.

"You should be secretly happy that the county magistrate is giving you a free physical examination," said Eunuch Anshun with a forced smile.

Chu Xunzhen let go, walked straight to the still-shaken Li Shanshan, grabbed her hand, and took her pulse.

Li Shanshan struggled, but Chu Xunzhen frowned.

After a while, Chu Xunzhen let go.

Nangong Yue looked over and asked softly, "How is it?"

Chu Xunzhen shook his head, and Li Xunan's brows relaxed, as if he had completely relaxed.

"Your Highness, my younger sister has just returned from the countryside and was unaware that she should not wear the princess's old clothes. I beg you both to release my sister, and I, Li, will certainly apologize to the princess privately."

Upon hearing this, Chu Xunzhen coldly said, "Putting aside that moonlight gauze dress, why does the princess have red marks on her face from being slapped?"

Li Xun'an's expression changed.

Nangong Yue's face was cold as she stared intently at Li Xu'an and said, "You dare to hit the princess?"

"No, I would never dare to beat the princess."

Chu Xunzhen looked at Li Xunan.

With an ordinary appearance, ordinary temperament, and an ordinary family background, would a princess really choose someone like that? Or is it just that she has a silver tongue?

Chu Xunzhen walked into the inner room and looked around.

A wooden plank bed, a kang (heated brick bed) for cooking, firewood tied to the ground, and stools and tables were all extremely old.

"Sister, have you found anything?" Nangong Yue asked.

"No."

Chu Xunzhen answered, squatting down to look under the bed.

Upon closer inspection, they discovered something.

There was a mahogany box under the bed.

Nangong Yue also saw the box and immediately said, "Someone, bring out the box."

"Yes."

Li Xun'an's expression changed drastically. He said, "No! Your Highness, those are my belongings! How can you arbitrarily search my things? I will not stand for this! If you continue this robbery, I, Li Xun'an, will immediately report you to the authorities."

Upon hearing this, Chu Xunzhen sneered: "You assaulted the princess; you deserve to die a thousand deaths. If the matter is reported to the authorities, you will be the first to die."

Upon hearing this, Li Xun'an's expression turned ugly.

Chu Xunzhen discovered that the box actually had a lock.

The rosewood box features a soaring dragon design.

Chu Xunzhen's eyes lit up, and he said, "Found it, that's it. Eunuch Anshun, help me smash this box open."

Upon hearing this, Eunuch Anshun immediately stepped forward, raised his long sword, and in the next instant, slashed at the lock.

With a clang, the lock broke.

Chu Xunzhen opened the box, and the next instant, a bloody smell rushed towards him.

Everyone saw that inside the box was a bunch of black hair, intertwined with another bunch of long black hair, and the rubber band binding the two bunches of hair was actually made of blood-red intestines.

"vomit!"

A wave of nausea washed over everyone.

Inside the box were three clay figurines, engraved with formations.

Inside the formation, the three clay figures stood.

A clay woman dressed in a gorgeous dress stands in the middle, while another clay woman holds the gorgeously dressed clay figure with one hand and a clay figure dressed as a scholar with the other.

"Is this witchcraft?"

Nangong Yue's pupils contracted, and she said subconsciously.

"No!" Chu Xunzhen shook his head, his gaze solemn, and said, "This is a luck-stealing technique."

Li Xun'an turned pale with fright and knelt on the ground with a thud, saying, "Your Highness, this box isn't mine, it's not mine! I don't know why it was under my bed!"

Nangong Yue snorted coldly: "Save those words for Lord Zhou. Anshun, take him to the government office."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Nangong Yue looked at the three little clay figures with a solemn expression. When he saw the birth date and time of the woman in the most gorgeous dress, which was the same as his second sister's birth date and time, he trembled with anger.

"Sister, do you know how to break this spell?"

Chu Xunzhen shook his head and said, "I don't know how, but there is one person who can definitely solve it."

"Who? Sister, do you know where he is?"

"The Master of the Gu Sect."

Nangong Yue froze, her smile freezing on her face.

He blinked and asked, "But according to legend, the leader of the Gu Sect is skilled in Gu techniques, but I've never heard of him knowing any mystical arts."

Chu Xunzhen nodded and said, "That's right! But he knows the person who solved the problem."

Nangong Yue remained silent for a long while, seemingly deep in thought, before finally speaking slowly, "Was my elder sister's previous abnormal behavior due to this formation?"

Chu Xunzhen nodded solemnly and said to Nangong Yue, "This formation is no ordinary formation; it is an unconventional formation. The person who sets up this formation must be an extremely skilled individual."

"Sister, do you have someone in mind?"

Nangong Yue asked curiously.

"No, but this person is meticulous. Logically speaking, if he wanted the Second Princess to like Li Xun'an, he could have used a love potion on the two of them, but he didn't. Instead, he used the Eight Characters Array to restrain them."

"How to restrain them?"

Anshun's grandfather, out of curiosity, voiced what everyone was thinking.

Chu Xunzhen wasn't annoyed. Instead, she explained to everyone, "Look, this is a clay figure representing the princess. The female clay figure in the middle should be Li Shanshan. She plays a role as a middleman. As long as she conveys information about Li Xun'an, the princess will obey her. As for Li Xun'an, he has no karmic ties to her. All the karma has been borne by Li Shanshan."

Nangong Yue's gaze sharpened, and she asked solemnly, "If the formation continues to operate for a long time, what will happen to these three people?"

Chu Xunzhen looked at the array plate and said, "The first to suffer will be the Second Princess. She is the daughter of the Emperor, a Dragon Princess, and carries the Dragon's Luck. Although she is not as powerful as a prince, she is still much stronger than ordinary people. When the Dragon's Luck is broken, it will be the time for her to die and perish. Next will be the woman who transfers the luck. Every time she mentions Li Xun'an, she is stealing the Princess's luck. The Princess will become mentally unstable and unable to act according to her own heart."

Nangong Yue spoke up: "The worse the princess's life gets, the faster her luck will dissipate?"

Chu Xunzhen glanced at Nangong Yue, finding him even more intelligent. He nodded and said, "That's right! When Li Xun'an's luck reaches its peak, which is also when the princess has no luck left, the princess will die a gruesome death. As for Li Shanshan, she will also die a tragic death. I'm afraid the ultimate beneficiary will be Li Xun'an."

Nangong Yue paused for a moment, then immediately ordered her men to investigate Li Xun'an's background.

"It wasn't me, it wasn't me. A woman gave me this box and taught me this method to marry the princess. Please, sir, spare my life!"

Chu Xunzhen asked in a cold voice, "Who was the woman who gave you the box?"

"I don't know her name. She was wearing a veil, but her voice sounded very young. She must be about the same age as you, County Princess." Li Xun'an trembled with fear, wishing she could tell him everything she knew.

"Wait, I remember now, when the wind blew, her veil was lifted, and she was..."

Before Li Xun'an could finish speaking, his body began to tremble violently, and in the next instant, everyone was horrified.