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MTL - Restart the Protagonist’s Way of Survival-Chapter 97 recommend
Xie Zhi flicked her brains: "Isn't this for you?"
"Huh? For me?"
Xie Zhi sat back on the mat again, picked up the water and took a sip: "Now you also know my secret, now you can rest assured, right?"
Yang Dejin let out an ah, Xie Zhi did not hesitate to reveal the truth she had hidden until now in order to reassure herself.
Yang Dejin said in a low voice: "As long as you can do it without telling it..." There is no need to reveal your true gender to others...
Xie Zhi knew what she was thinking, and said indifferently, "The only bargaining chip that can win your trust is my gender. I don't want any barriers between us."
And she knew that if Yang Dejin broke her true identity first, this person would never make a fuss about it.
In fact, a long time ago, Yang Dejin had already held a lot of grounds for herself, but she never blackmailed herself, and even helped herself a lot.
Even in the tense confrontation just now, Yang Dejin was only bluffing at best, and couldn't even think of threatening Bai Qingyang's affairs.
I don't know whether to say that she is kind or a little heartless?
Yang Dejin nodded approvingly: "I, I don't want a gap between us either."
She's really cute, Xie Zhi looked at her, and couldn't help but reached out and patted her head.
"What, what?!" Yang Dejin asked ferociously, knocking off her hand gently.
Xie Zhi withdrew his hand calmly: "Isn't it better to dry your hair?"
Yang Dejin snorted, pulled off the towel on the nape of her neck and wiped her hair, and blocked her unnatural expression by the way.
Strangely, once she accepted Xie Zhi's setting as a girl, she felt a little guilty for no reason.
Before knowing the truth, she was still immune to Xie Zhi's face because of her sexual orientation, but now that she knew that the other party was a woman like herself, she felt a little...
Forget it, forget it, it's not something a child should think about.
Yang Dejin began to force himself to recall whether she had pulled Xie Zhi to do some strange moves.
Hmm...does it count for them to go shopping together?
"Shall I wipe it for you?"
"Need not!"
"…Oh."
"..."
no! Yang Dejin couldn't let go of it no matter what, she wiped it randomly twice and then stopped.
"Hi, Xie Zhi." Yang Dejin shouted.
Xie Zhi: "What are your orders?"
"Why do I think you're not surprised at all?" Even though they were both of the same sex, Xie Zhi knew that he wasn't surprised at all, it was so strange.
"Your Highness's words are wrong, I'm a little surprised." Xie Zhi said, "After all, seeing a woman's ketone body without any preparation, anyone would feel it suddenly, right?"
"You..." Yang Dejin blushed, "I'm not talking about that, I'm saying you're not at all curious about my disguise as a man."
"After all, I am also a fellow."
"That's...indeed." Yang Dejin reluctantly accepted the statement, "I just had the illusion that you already knew I was a woman."
It really is an illusion.
"..."
Yang Dejin was holding the teacup and was about to drink it, but he noticed Xie Zhi's strange silence: "? Why didn't you speak?"
"No, it's just..."
Yang Dejin continued to drink water, and then heard the other party say: "It is true that I knew it a long time ago."
"puff-!!"
None of the copybooks and scriptures placed on the case were spared, Xie Zhi reacted quickly, stood up and took two steps back in an instant, trying not to let any water splash on his clothes.
? ? ?
Xie Zhi already knew about it? what do you know? Know you are a woman? ? !
"What, when?!"
Xie Zhi thought about it for a while: "Well... probably when you came to see me that time."
Yang Dejin revealed a puzzled look on his brows: "Which time, make it clear?"
"It's the two days after the exam is closed."
Thinking about it carefully, it was because he saw Yang Dejin's scratched hand that he began to have doubts. At that time, Xie Zhi almost immediately began to suspect that Yang Dejin's gender was female, and the process of getting along later only confirmed this inference.
"Scientific research..." Yang Dejin was in a daze. At this moment, it seemed that there was a whole galaxy running behind her head.
Isn't that all about spring? !
"Well, because I found that your hand bones are too small, and your Adam's apple is not prominent."
It was discovered so early...
Yang Dejin fell into a downturn.
Xie Zhi: "Well... what's wrong with you?" She sat down next to Yang Dejin.
"I was exposed so early, full of flaws, no suspense..."
Xie Zhi snorted, thinking that her self-esteem had been frustrated, she patted her on the shoulder: "Actually not, you hid it very well.
"Because I have the experience of pretending to be a man, so it is easier to recognize. And because of my duties, I am used to insight.
"It took me a long time to confirm that you are a woman. Others will definitely not be able to see it. Don't worry."
Yang Dejin looked at her tearfully: "This can comfort me, Xie Zhi, you are so kind."
Xie Zhi: "..." being praised by Yang Dejin for being kind...
"Ahem." Xie Zhi continued, "Besides, with our current reputation, it's hard for people to think you're a woman, right?"
Yang Dejin: "..." That's right.
To a certain extent, they were quite safe in Nantong's skin.
Xie Zhi: "I did know about it a long time ago, but I never mentioned it, just because I was afraid that you would get excited."
Yang Dejin: "Uh...I'm sorry, I treated you like that just now."
"It's okay, it's human nature." Xie Zhi shook his head, "Every family has their own scriptures that are difficult to recite, and I didn't enter the court because I wanted to be an official."
"Is it because you were recommended to join the Ministry of Criminal Justice?" Yang Dejin answered naturally.
Xie Zhi paused and narrowed his eyes slightly: "You even know this..." That happened several years ago.
"Ah... I, of course I want to treat my horse boy... no! The staff know everything, what's so strange?!" Accidentally leaked the knowledge of the original book.
Xie Zhi: "You're right. I was indeed recommended to the court, not long after the teacher passed away."
Yang Dejin: "Who recommended you?"
Xie Zhi: "Why, you didn't find out who it was?"
Yang Dejin: "...Yes."
Xie Zhi smiled: "I don't know either."
"Did no one tell you?"
"No." Xie Zhi shook his head, "After joining the job, I asked many people, but they didn't know."
Yang Dejin: "No one knows?"
To recommend Xie Zhi, who was still unknown at that time, to the imperial court, the recommender must have a high status, but no one knows who promoted Xie Zhi, which is too strange.
When Xie Zhi entered the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Prime Minister Bai had just passed away. Who would find Bai Xun's student at this juncture? What is the purpose?
"But thanks to that unknown person, I had the opportunity to investigate the teacher's case."
"But you have suffered so much, is it worth it to deal with a group of men?"
"My original intention was to reverse the case for the teacher, and to return Prime Minister Bai Xun's innocence. Besides, I don't ask for anything, so there is no question of whether it is worth it or not." Xie Zhi replied, "Even if I can't get it." I don’t know the truth of the year, but as long as there is no evidence of his treason in the clues I dug up, everything I do is meaningful.”
Xie Zhi is also someone who has experienced reopening. She has not been able to solve the case for so long. Now, she really can't say anything big.
Although she couldn't prove that Bai Xun didn't commit treason, no one could prove that Bai Xun had really done what everyone accused him of.
"As expected of Mr. Xie..." Yang Dejin sighed softly.
"Isn't it the same, Your Highness?"
Yang Dejin: "I... I don't even know why I became like this..."
This is the truth. The original work did not explain why Prince Yu is a woman and why she disguised herself as a man. When Yang Dejin came back to her senses, she had already replaced the original owner and became Prince Yu.
The real reason, I'm afraid even the original owner doesn't know it?
"Does the late emperor know the identity of His Highness?"
"Eh? Ah... this...maybe, you know?"
Yang Dejin was caught off guard by this question and didn't even think about how to answer it. Xie Zhi looked at her with more thoughtful eyes.
"How much do you remember about your life before being brought back by His Majesty the late Emperor?"
Yang Dejin: "Uh huh..." You are embarrassing me! How could I know what Yang Dejin was like living in the folk? !
"Can not remember."
"Do you remember where you first met the late emperor? I heard that the late emperor brought you back from Fengtian Temple."
"Oh! I remember this, it is indeed in Fengtian Temple." Yang Dejin replied.
Fengtian Temple, a place name that appeared in the original book.
After Prince Yu recognized his ancestors and returned to his clan, he would go to this place to offer incense every year. The book did not mention why.
Hearing what Xie Zhi said, it was very likely that it was the place where the late emperor met young Yang Dejin for the first time, so that's why the original owner went to pay respects every year.
Yang Dejin admitted without thinking.
What Yang Dejin didn't realize was that after listening to her answer, Xie Zhi's eyes became more thoughtful.
Yang Dejin was recognized by the former emperor as a member of the royal family by virtue of a token of the concubine De, but he never said that Yang Dejin was brought into the palace from the temple by him.
Prince Yu did go to Fengtian Temple to offer incense every year, but that was also requested by the late emperor. He believed that Prince Yu's return was thanks to the protection of the gods.
This Yang Dejin didn't have the memory of the previous Prince Yu, so if he cheated easily, all his secrets would be revealed. So with her vigilance and wanting to maintain her current state, how did she manage to stay unexposed for so long? really worrying...
Thinking about it, Xie Zhi sighed.
"What's wrong, did I remember it wrong?" Yang Dejin said uneasy, "I had a high fever at the end of the year, and it took a long time for me to recover. I don't remember much about the past."
Xie Zhi: ...It's pretty good at making it up, maybe even if the truth is revealed, it can be fooled.
"No, you remember it very clearly."
The author has something to say:
Xie Zhi: If Yang Dejin is not nominated for this year's Hundred Flowers Queen, then I don't really approve of it.
I am a ruthless mainline machine, and of course love is also about talking (by the way, at the beginning of the story, Yang Dejin returned to Beijing from Fengtian Temple to worship)