Chapter 526 Are You Willing to Join Me in the Game?
“Your Highness, is this passage really beneath my room?” Shao Wanru said with her hand on the window and half of her body leaned against Chu Liuchen. Although she had come up, she still felt weak all over. It was so horrifying that she had never thought of it.
There was a passage beneath her silence room. If it was known by others, what a horrifying news would it be?
“It has nothing to do with you for the time being!” Chu Liuchen said with a smile, feeling good with a girl’s soft and fragrant body in his arms.
“When will it have anything to do with me?” Shao Wanru asked sensitively and reached out to push Chu Liuchen. She felt that her feet had regained a little strength.
“Maybe it will never have anything to do with you, or maybe it will have something to do with you in the future!” Chu Liuchen said meaningfully. He let go of Shao Wanru’s slender waist so that she could breathe deeply.
“Does it have anything to do with Shao Yanru?” Shao Wanru pulled herself together and asked, rolling her fluid eyes.
“Yes, a little.” Chu Liuchen walked to the mat, sat down and reached out to wave to Shao Wanru. Shao Wanru walked over with dragging feet, sat down in front of Chu Liuchen, and then picked up the cup of tea he poured for her and drank it up.
The warm tea diluted the fear in her heart caused by not only the surrounding environment but also her horrified body and soul a moment ago.
After being reborn, she had thought that she could take a lot of things under her control. Even if she could not do that, she at least knew what she should do next. But only at that moment did she realize that what she knew was only the tip of the iceberg and far from enough. What she saw and could imagine were just the surface.
She had known that Shao Yanru was not simple long before. Nevertheless, she still underestimated her, although she only knew a little about her.
Shao Yanru, who had connections with each prince, was not simple. In this case, how could Duke Xing’s Mansion behind her be simple? She thought about it further. The title of Duke Xing belonged to her father at that time, but later it fell into the hands of her Second Uncle. There might be someone else’s trick and support behind it. At that time, her Second Uncle was just an ordinary childe from an aristocratic family!
If he had the support at that time, where the support was from was obvious!
As the warmth of tea spread to her heart, she suddenly figured out many things.
“Is the entrance to the passage in her main room?” Shao Wanru held the teacup, which had been refilled, and asked.
Her hands were very cold, but the tea was very warm. She felt her hands became warm slowly.
“Exactly!” Chu Liuchen elegantly shook his robe and said with a smile.
No wonder Shao Yanru insisted on living here. If she did not move away, Shao Yanru would not be able to live in her main room. No wonder Shao Yanru sent Qing’er away. No wonder she could hear some sounds from Shao Yanru’s room from time to time. Shao Yanru claimed that she had been cleaning up the room…
After figuring it out, she involuntarily shivered with fear.
If she gave this silence room Shao Yanru, the entrance would definitely be excavated here. If the news that there was a hole in her silence room went out, she would be doomed eternally. After all, she had lived here for more than two years. If something went wrong, she had to take the blame.
But now it was not the time to relax her vigilance completely. There was a hole in Shao Yanru’s room. If something happened in the future, she would still be the first suspect. Although the door of Shao Yanru’s main room was closed, she also lived in this courtyard. It was just a lock, and there were plenty of ways to get rid of it.
Others would only suspect what she was going to do, but would not think that the hole appeared after Shao Yanru had lived here for a few days.
“It doesn’t matter. It won’t be known by others. There are too many people involved in it!” Chu Liuchen said and suddenly smiled.
Shao Wanru nodded casually. It seemed to involve plenty of people indeed and would not be simply known by others in any case. However, at the thought that there was such a passage beneath her silence room, she could not feel at ease anyway.
“Your Highness, what if I think of a way to leave here now?” Shao Wanru asked tentatively.
“Beat the grass and frighten away the snake!” Chu Liuchen said, leaning back against the mat and squinting at Shao Wanru lazily.
“Will they make me leave?” Shao Wanru thought for a while and asked another question.
“Didn’t they do that before? But you didn’t leave!” Chu Liuchen said indifferently.
Shao Wanru felt her heart skipped a beat. She knew what he meant. She had stepped into the game and could not get away from it even if she wanted to.
“If I retreat at this time…” Shao Wanru said. After thinking for a moment, she felt that she could struggle a little.
“Since you are going to marry into my mansion, how can you really stay out of the game? Zhuozhuo, do want to break the agreement?” Chu Liuchen said, looking leisurely at her with a faint smile.
Shao Wanru suddenly felt that Chu Liuchen was watching her enter the game step by step, and felt inexplicably depressed.
“Your Highness, do you feel like watching me enter the game?”
“Don’t tell me that you are still unwilling to join the game with me.” Chu Liuchen turned his head and said lightly. He stared at Shao Wanru with a gentle smile, but it made Shao Wanru feel cold, “Zhuozhuo, do you want to break the agreement now?”
“Of course not!” Shao Wanru said without hesitation. After saying that, she realized the meaning of her words, blushed slightly and moved aside uneasily.
With the delight spread from the corners of his mouth to his eyes, which contained dazzling ripples, Chu Liuchen reached out to hold Shao Wanru’s slightly cold hand and pull it hard. Shao Wanru fell down on his chest.
“Your Highness, how should we deal with it now?” Shao Wanru said, reaching out in an attempt to push him away. However, the current posture made it hard for her to put forth her strength. After giving him a push in a weird posture, she gave up since she was unable to do that.
“Just wait and see!” Chu Liuchen said with a light smile.
It meant that they should sit on top of the mountain to watch the tigers fight. The mantis stalked the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind!
“What should I do?” Shao Wanru asked subconsciously.
“Just wait and see!” He said slowly as before. The hairpin on her beautiful hair was pulled off by Chu Liuchen, and her dark hair was streaming loose above Chu Liuchen. Smelling the faint fragrance of her hair, Chu Liuchen closed his eyes slightly.
He told her to wait and see, which meant that she would not be in danger for the time being. Shao Wanru let out a sigh of relief and thought about every detail of it carefully. Feeling her hair touched a few times, she inexplicably sorted it out.
Even if Shao Yanru knew something, it was impossible for her to know everything about it. She should know about the entrance, and even it was her idea to excavate the entrance here. Even if something really happened after the passage was completed, Shao Wanru would be the only suspect. It should be what Shao Yanru thought.
The passage excavated in the Yuhui Nunnery should be related to someone in the Yuhui Nunnery. The most suspicious ones in the Yuhui Nunnery were the former emperor’s concubines. The former emperor’s concubines were just some women of no use at all. Moreover, the former emperor had passed away many years ago. Even if there was something left, shouldn’t it have been taken away long ago?
If the former emperor had left something important enough to attract covetous eyes, those imperial concubines should have been searched when being sent here. It seemed a bit unreal to search for it now.
As she thought of what she and Chu Liuchen saw in the dark, an idea suddenly came to her mind. Why did those imperial concubines intend to contact the outside world so urgently? What was their purpose?
“What do the former emperor’s concubines intend to do?” Shao Wanru couldn’t help asking after a long while.
“Of course they have a vain hope!” Chu Liuchen closed his eyes and said lightly. The faint fragrance from Shao Wanru made him relax and feel drowsy. He reached out to pull her closer to his chest and leaned his head on Shao Wanru’s head.
“Someone thinks that I have been living a good life under the rule of my uncle. In this case, why not find another son of the former emperor?”
He said that in an extremely leisurely tone with a hint of sarcasm, as if he were an outsider.
Shao Wanru suddenly woke up and tried hard to look up at Chu Liuchen. The moon tonight was not bright, but she could still see Chu Liuchen’s countenance as pretty as that of a fairy.
He looked pale and weak, but almost as fair as jade porcelain which was exquisite but fragile!
Of course, it was just the appearance. Shao Wanru blinked her long eyelashes and did not know what to say for a moment. She subconsciously reached out to gently touch his face, which was as white as jade.
But the next moment, she immediately withdrew her hands as if she was frightened. She closed her eyes and didn’t move, as if she just did that inadvertently. She buried her head in Chu Liuchen’s arms, and felt her heart beat wildly.
She actually reached out to touch the face of this moody evil man on her own initiative, although he was half asleep just now.
Shao Wanru felt that she really went crazy. Who was he? He was the Crown Prince, who had defeated all his opponents in the future and ascended the throne. As someone able to win the emperor’s favor as his nephew, how could he be weak enough to allow her sympathy for him?
Or even if he was indeed sick and weak, he was not as weak as she thought! Why did she touch his face unexpectedly?
Even in the darkness, she felt that her face was blushing and burning hot.
Chu Liuchen had opened his eyes. He slightly lowered his eyes to look at the girl in front of him who closed her eyes tightly and buried her head in his arms like a frightened bunny. However, she did not find that her pink ears had already exposed her thoughts. She was obviously uneasy and too shy to raise her head, but still attempted to pretend to be calm.
At this moment, should he tease her by continuing the former topic or talk about something else lest she really get angry from embarrassment? Nevertheless, seeing her shy and pitiful face, he decided to let her go this time!
So he reached out to embrace her again and said casually, “Go down the mountain when it’s time to leave. Don’t stay here any longer, and don’t come to this place in the future.”
His words were too meaningful. Shao Wanru was too shy to raise her head, but fortunately, he dropped the topic and said something else. With the blush on her face fading a little, Shao Wanru pulled herself together and asked, “Will anything happen in the passage recently?”
“Nothing will happen!” Chu Liuchen said and nodded, “But don’t sleep alone in silence room from now on. Ask Qing’er to keep you in company!”
There were some people in the passage beneath the silence room. Although she knew that they did not dare to act rashly, there was no harm in being cautious.