“Hahaha…” She threw back her head and laughed, feeling suddenly relieved and invigorated, the heavy burden that had been weighing on her heart for days instantly disappeared, and she laughed uncontrollably, “Still alive… he is still alive! I’m so happy! I can’t believe he’s still alive!”
“…” Fu Quan watched with confusion as this Red King’s daughter sat there, chanting and smiling like a fool at the same time, without knowing what to say.
“Great! Yuan… Yuan, he’s alive!”
Through a thick curtain, someone in the inner chamber was listening quietly as she was laughing.
“Coo.” The White Bird beside him purred lowly and raised her eyes to look at his face with a somewhat worried and fearful look. However, as Shi Ying sat in the deepest part of Yecheng Governor’s Palace, listening to the familiar silver bell sound of laughter from a wall away, his face was as calm as water, without the slightest ripple.
She laughed so cheerfully, so happily, like a string of silver chimes ringing in the eaves, swinging all the way up to the clouds, and it made one’s heart feel bright and cheerful to listen to it – I guess she must have endured a lot of torment and affliction in the past month or so. That’s why there is such joy in this moment when all the pressure has been relieved. It turns out that, in her heart, she really did treasure that shark more than anything else.
“But… why did Master hide it from me? And said that he was waiting for me to seek revenge on him?” After laughing for a while, Zhu Yan thought of this question and muttered, somewhat puzzled, “If Yuan didn’t die, I would have known about it sooner or later! Why would he say that on purpose?”
Behind the curtain, Shi Ying lowered his head slightly, looking at the jade slip in his hand, without expression. Chongming lifted his four eyes to look at him, with an insightful look.
“Forget it… Master has always been aloof and speak very little, so I guess he didn’t want to bother to say this to me?” Outside, Zhu Yan muttered again, “Letting Yuan run away, he probably felt very humiliated, so he wouldn’t want to say it? Really desperate to save his face…”
Chongming grunted, rolled up his four peculiar eyes to look at the person beside him, and pushed his hand with his beak – look, look, what have people thought of you? If you don’t say what’s in your heart, with that damned girl’s brashness, she might not be able to understand your thoughts even in her next life, right?
However, with a flick of his sleeve, Shi Ying shoved the muttering God-Bird aside and grimaced without speaking.
Outside, Zhu Yan mumbled a few words, not being able to figure out what was going on, and feeling a bit lucky, she patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief, “Great! Since Yuan isn’t dead, I don’t have to seek revenge on Master! Hey, to be honest, my legs are really weak when I think of fighting against Master.”
“Huh?” Fu Quan listened as she laughed while muttering to herself, his head full of confusion.
Behind the curtain, Chongming shook his head as he listened, his eyes displaying mockery.
“Originally, I was thinking that even if I couldn’t beat him, it would be good to be killed by Master.” Zhu Yan shook her head and sighed, “Now it seems like there’s no need to be killed.”
Her last sentence was extremely soft and gentle, but the man behind the curtain shuddered violently.
“Huh? The Princess has a Master?” Fu Quan heard nothing but a laugh and could only pretend, barely trying to pick up the conversation, “It must be a remarkable person, right?”
“It is.” Zhu Yan smiled, filled with pride, “My Master is the most powerful person in the entire Yunhuang!”
Behind the curtain, Shi Ying’s fingers slowly clenched on the jade slip, but still without speaking.
“Alas,” Zhu Yan sighed again outside, apprehensive at the thought of something else, “but when I see him again next time, he’s bound to beat me up again – I’ve made a big mess this time!”
Yes, who was the one that had been so angry the other day up to the point she shouted that she wanted to avenge Yuan and kill her Master? Oh yes, by the way, she will also be punished by him for her previous casual flattering lie! Gosh… she didn’t realize it at the time, but now that she recalls it, the look on her Master’s face at that time was really scary!
She shuddered in bewilderment at the thought.
Forget it, since the Master didn’t kill Yuan, there’s nothing else to be worried about. Anyway, she doesn’t have to seek revenge on him, and she doesn’t need to die… At most, she will take a few beatings and endure a little torment, and I guess Master will forgive her just like before.
She stood up with a heart full of delight and took the Wanted Notice back with a stretch of her hand, then said to Fu Quan, “Hey, it’s alright! By the way, when Bai Fenglin comes back, you tell him that I’m going on a trip to the Imperial Capital and want to ask him for a warrant to leave the city – go back and tell him to get it done and I’ll come back tomorrow to collect it.”
She spoke bluntly and simply called out the Governor, who ruled over Yecheng, as if he were just a commoner.
“The Princess wants to leave the city?” Fu Quan was a little surprised, but did not dare to question her, so he could only reply, “Yes, when the Lord Governor returns, I will definitely report back!”
“Very well then, thank you.” Zhu Yan was in a good mood and turned around with a smile on her face.
She turned around, ready to leave, the late-spring sunlight outside shining faintly through the curtains, making the young girl look as beautiful as if she had been walking among clouds of haze, bright and translucent.
Seeing that she was about to leave, inside the room, Chongming pushed Shi Ying’s arm hard with his beak, his four eyes bouncing around, so anxious that his mouth almost spoke human words. Yet the white clothed Priest sat deep in the darkness, holding the jade slip tightly in his hand, looking down at his hand, but still not saying a word.
The Red King’s young daughter was in a great mood and bounced out through the door. However, just as she reached the edge of the steps, she suddenly felt a strong wind coming from behind her!
“Who?” She was so startled that she didn’t have time to turn around, so she raised her hand without even thinking and made a seal – her magic had improved so much over the past few days that she was able to form a “Shield of Golden Soup” with just a wave of her hand. The only thing that she heard was a screeching sound, something hit the invisible barrier and fell to the ground with a heavy muffled thud, causing the whole ground to tremble.
“Huh?” She stared in fixation and couldn’t help but exclaim, “A four… four-eyed bird?”
Sure enough, there were four bloody red eyes staring at her through the transparent barrier, glaring in anger and malice. A moment ago, Chongming, who had transformed into the size of a snow sculpture, rushed out of the inner chamber and tried to go up and grab her coat, but ended up hitting the shield head-on, almost flattening her entire head.
“Oh… sorry!” Zhu Yan hastily waved her hand to remove the shield and scooped it up in her hands, lifting her fingers and straightening Chongming’s beak that had been knocked askew, “How come you are here?”
The Divine Bird pecked her angrily on the back of her hand, and she stifled a yelp of pain.
“Who would have thought you’d be here? And coming up to nibble on me without a word! I hit you by mistake!” Zhu Yan muttered in indignation, when she suddenly remembered something, and abruptly became pale; she blurted out, “Oh! Since you are here, wouldn’t that mean that Master is… he is also…”
Halfway through the sentence, she couldn’t continue, staring blankly into the depths of the inner room with her mouth wide open. Behind the heavy curtain, deep into the darkness, sat a young man dressed in white robes, watching her silently, his eyes sharp, his face as still as an ancient well, without a trace of expression.
In that instant, the only thing she felt was a weakness in her legs, and she almost fell kneeling on the spot.
However, after the initial moment of shock, her mind regained a bit of awareness and she put up a small flattering smile on her face, coughed, and pushed her feet forward a little, trying to beg for forgiveness and apologize properly.
Yes, since you have caused trouble and annoyed your Master, you can’t hide your head for the rest of your life, can you? Since it was only a matter of time before you would have to pass this hurdle, it was better to take a chance on it today, so you might as well go over there and beg for forgiveness. Given the way Master had treated you in the past, it might be just as good to endure it and take a beating.
“Ah… this is…” As a trusted confidant, Fu Quan naturally knew that the Lord Governor had recently received a distinguished guest in the inner courtyard, however, the other person’s identity was mysterious and the Lord Governor never allowed his servants to go in. He was not sure whether he should stop the Princess or not, but this was the first time he had seen the guest’s appearance.
However, on the other hand, Zhu Yan had just walked into the room with a smile on her face, and before she could think of what to say, Shi Ying had already stood up from the sofa, and without lifting his feet, he was already standing in front of her in an instant.
“Master, Master…” Zhu Yan subconsciously inhaled a breath of cold air and took a step behind, yet her back hit against an invisible wall and she could no longer retreat – she only felt a sharp chill down her spine: what does he… want? The first thing she did was to look at him with a sullen face and stare at him like that, was he going to hit her again?
Her heart jumped in fright and her face went white as she looked at Fu Quan next to her searching for help. Yet strangely enough in that brief moment, the attendant who was so close suddenly disappeared from her view!
Zhu Yan took a deep breath, knowing that Master had already set up a Heavenly Net to isolate everything around them, so she could only helplessly retract her gaze, grit her teeth, fiercely lowered her head, flung both knees to the ground with a thorn-like attitude, and bowed her head, loudly begging for forgiveness: “Master… Master, spare my life! I know I was wrong!”
After those words, she held her breath and waited for the reply, calculating that if the Master would ask her “what she had done wrong”, she would immediately respond, “I deserve to die for hitting the Master and speaking out against him!”
Yet there was silence in her ears and a surprising lack of movement.
She thought her Master was still angry, her stomach chilled, not daring to look up, she hurriedly lowered her head and shouted a second time: “Your disciple knows that she was wrong! Please… beg Master’s forgiveness! If you want to beat or scold, I will never complain!”
However, the words fell silent. Shi Ying unexpectedly remained motionless.
Zhu Yan’s heart was pounding as she felt cold sweat pouring out all over her body, soaking her undergarment. With her head bowed down, she noticed a white shadow moving in the corner of her eyes and felt happy, thinking that her Master was going to pull her up. However, when she looked up, she found that it was actually Chongming flying up and tugging at her lapel with his beak to pull her up desperately. The four eyes of the divine bird looked at her, their crimson-red pupils filled with anxiety.
What’s going on? Was he telling herself not to do that? Master… Why didn’t Master say anything yet? In order to make her Master rest his anger, she performed such a big courteous speech as soon as she came forward – to know that after leaving Jiuyi Mountain, she had hardly ever kneeled to anyone else, even when her father wanted to break her legs in his rage, she would never yield. At this moment, she had made such a huge sacrifice, almost to the point of losing her face and backbone, but he still refused to forgive her?
Zhu Yan cautiously raised her head, only to meet a pair of silent eyes.
Shi Ying stood next to her, still not saying anything, nor did he ask her “where the mistake was” as she expected, but only looked at her in silence – that look was so strange and sharp that it made Zhu Yan’s heart go cold, with an inexplicable fear.
Oh no! Master… Master seems to be really angry this time?
The cooing of Chongming in her ears turned to anxiety, tugging hard at her, trying to pull her up. However, with a slight frown and a flick of his robe sleeve, Shi Ying instantly brushed the meddlesome God-Bird aside, then took a step closer, held out his hand towards her, and finally spoke three words, “Give it back to me.”
Zhu Yan subconsciously shivered and stammered, “Wha… what to give back to you?”
“Jade Bone.” Shi Ying’s voice was cold and collected.
“No!” Zhu Yan was instantly shocked and shrank back a little, blurting out, “You obviously… obviously gave it to me already! You… You gave it to me when you were thirteen years old! How can you take it back from me now?”
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