Shen Yao Xing was speechless. She tried to pull her hand out of his, but he gripped it tightly. Helplessly, she touched him with the hand holding the torch, “Let go.”

“Then you’re not allowed to stare at her.”

Sigh, “Alright, I know.”

Only then did Jiang Ming Yue release the hand covering her eyes, naturally pulling her to walk out.

Behind them, a red worm-like creature, similar to a leech, suddenly crawled out from the woman’s collar, its mouthparts biting into the woman’s neck. The unconscious person’s body trembled.

Outside the water prison

Shen Yao Xing: “Is this the ‘thing’ you said you wanted to show me?”

“Mm-hmm.”

Jiang Ming Yue was earnestly playing with her fingers.

Shen Yao Xing’s mood was complex. After a moment of silence, she said softly, “Thank you.”

The finger-playing motion paused. Jiang Ming Yue looked up, his thin, cool lips lightly pressed together.

“Do you… feel better now?” he asked.

Of course not, after all, she was still quite badly injured and in just as much pain.

Shen Yao Xing, who originally wanted to tell the truth, changed her words after seeing the young man’s expression, “Mm, much better.”

In the end, she couldn’t bear to shatter that expectant look in his eyes.

As soon as she finished speaking, she felt the hand gripping hers loosen a bit. Shen Yao Xing suddenly remembered someone and asked, “What about Meng Xin Yi? The two of them should be together, did you capture her too?”

Jiang Ming Yue lowered his eyes, pinching each of the girl’s soft fingertips one by one. The gloom in his eyes was like a flood, his tone lazy and unconcerned, “Her? She’s quite clever. When she saw the situation wasn’t good, she ran away alone.”

Shen Yao Xing was a bit skeptical, “Really?”

Jiang Ming Yue looked up, his eyes calm and showing no sign of anything unusual. He seemed displeased that she didn’t believe him again. He squeezed her fingertips hard, making her hiss in pain, and then let go of her hand.

“If you don’t believe me, you can go ask,” his voice was as cold as the dungeon.

Shen Yao Xing rubbed her sore fingers, vaguely feeling that he had reverted to how he was before, except there was more resentment in his eyes, as if accusing her of her distrust.

Ask? Who could she ask?

“That woman in the water prison was with them before. You can go ask her,” Jiang Ming Yue reminded her coolly.

He really didn’t look like he was lying. In fact, if Shen Yao Xing were to go ask now, it would show that she didn’t trust him at all.

It was like a multiple choice question. Shen Yao Xing raised her hand to gently touch her chest.

“No need to ask, I believe you.”

As soon as the words left her mouth, the young man’s eyes were instantly tinged with a smile. He took her hand again and led her out.

In the cell just one wall away from them, Meng Xin Yi lay motionless on the ground. The tendons in her hands and feet had been cut, and a pool of blood on the floor had already congealed. In her unconscious state, she vaguely heard the girl’s voice. She struggled to open her eyelids, and the conversation between the two became increasingly clear in her ears.

She opened her mouth to call out, but an ice-cold hand without body temperature gripped her throat. Only when the voices of their conversation faded into the distance did the owner of that hand release her and leave the cell.

Meng Xin Yi felt a deep sorrow in her heart, unable to imagine how she had ended up in such a situation.

That day, she had indeed been prepared. After Shen Yao Xing was shot with an arrow, she returned to the inn, gathered the four maps, and secretly left. That fool Diran didn’t know, but she understood very well that although the Shen family could threaten Shen Yao Xing, they couldn’t threaten Jiang Ming Yue. The reason he hadn’t acted for so long was only because of Yao Xing.

Now that Shen Yao Xing was dead, that person would definitely not let them go. So when Meng Xin Yi returned to the inn, she left without delay, even disguising herself along the way.

However, she never imagined that in less than a day, she would be discovered.

Meng Xin Yi knew why Jiang Ming Yue had only cut the tendons in her hands and feet instead of directly killing or torturing her. It was just in case Yao Xing had any suspicions.

Now she no longer had any value to be used.

……

After leaving the dungeon and coming into contact with the warm air outside, Shen Yao Xing felt a moment of daze, as if she hadn’t seen the sun in a very long time.

“I want to return to the capital soon.”

“Alright, we’ll return to the capital when your injuries are better.”

The young man agreed very readily.

A few more days passed, and Shen Yao Xing recovered quite well. As long as she didn’t use her inner energy or make too big movements, there was nothing wrong.

The two set out to return to the capital, not stopping much along the way. Except for occasionally brewing medicine and sleeping, the carriage hardly stopped at all. Fortunately, the interior of the carriage was comfortable enough that sitting for a whole day didn’t cause any soreness in the waist or back.

After nearly ten days of travel, they finally returned to the capital. When the carriage drove through the city gates, only the afterglow of the sun remained on the horizon, and there was a constant stream of pedestrians on the streets, not much different from when they left the capital.

“Do you want to return to the Yin family first?” Shen Yao Xing shifted her gaze from outside the carriage window to the young man’s face.

Jiang Ming Yue looked at her for a while, his thin lips parting slightly: “Are you planning to marry the Yin family’s young master or marry me, Jiang Ming Yue?”

Hm? Shen Yao Xing was a bit confused. How did the topic suddenly turn to this?

“Aren’t they both you?” Is there a difference?

Jiang Ming Yue reached out to affectionately tuck her hair that had fallen on her shoulder behind her, “It’s different. Young Master Yin is Young Master Yin, and I am me.”

He couldn’t bear the thought that in the future, everyone would only know that the Shen family’s young miss had married the Yin family’s young master, rather than him, Jiang Ming Yue.

Zhaozaho belongs solely to him, Jiang Ming Yue.

“If you care about it, I can talk to Mother about it.” She didn’t mind either way.

Jiang Ming Yue raised his lips in a smile, gently leaning against the girl, inhaling her unique scent. The emotions in his eyes were surging as if about to burst forth.

When the carriage stopped at the Shen mansion, the sun had completely set. After parting with Jiang Ming Yue, Shen Yao Xing had just entered the gate when she saw Butler Luo hurrying to welcome her.

“Young Miss, you’re finally back!” Butler Luo was so excited that his eyes turned red. Like an old nanny, he looked her over from head to toe, “This old servant heard that Young Miss was injured. Where were you hurt? Are you better now? It must have been very painful…”

“Uncle Luo, I’m fine.” Shen Yao Xing’s voice was as lively as ever. She even demonstrated a set of martial arts moves to show that she was healthy, comforting him not to worry.

“Good, good, good. It’s good that you’re alright.” Butler Luo smiled kindly and indulgently.

Shen Yao Xing wiped the fine sweat from her forehead, “Uncle Luo, is everything alright in the mansion? Where’s Mother?”

“It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s all over now. The Madam is in the study at this hour. Young Miss, you don’t know, it was really scary when the incident happened. The soldiers surrounded the entire Shen mansion. Fortunately…”

Butler Luo talked on and on, until he mentioned that the situation took a big turn when the Great General led troops to attack the city, and the Crown Princess had also secretly deployed people in the capital, coordinating from both inside and outside for smooth progress.

Shen Yao Xing went to the study to see Mother Shen first thing, reported her safety, and then Mother Shen told her to go back to her room and rest early, saying there were things to discuss with her when daylight came.

Having traveled for so many days, Shen Yao Xing indeed wanted to quickly wash off the dust from her journey. After bathing, she read a storybook for a while and was about to retire, when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

“Who is it?” Her hand paused as she was taking off her outer clothes. Shen Yao Xing frowned and turned her head towards the door.

“…The master has a letter to deliver to Miss Shen.”

It was Jiang Ming Yue’s “person”.

Shen Yao Xing quickly went to open the door and frowned at the black-clothed man outside, asking, “Did something happen?”

The black-clothed man didn’t speak, just handed her the letter in his hand.

Shen Yao Xing took it, thinking that being sought out in the middle of the night must be for something important. But when she opened the letter and looked, it read: What are you doing?

Shen Yao Xing: ???

After reading it several times, Shen Yao Xing’s face was full of black lines. She finally confirmed that this person was really too idle.

Playing human messenger in the middle of the night instead of sleeping!

Taking a deep breath, Shen Yao Xing gritted her teeth and said, “You go back and tell him that I’m going to sleep, and he should go to sleep early too.”

The black-clothed man remained unmoved, “The master wants Miss Shen to reply.”

His mechanical voice suggested that he couldn’t leave unless she replied.

Shen Yao Xing acted quickly, scribbling the words on paper, then chased the person away. But in less than a quarter of an hour, there was another knock on the door.

This time the letter read: I can’t sleep.

So just because you can’t sleep, you have to keep me from sleeping too? Before she could reply, there was another person outside, also holding a letter.

When she opened the letter, Shen Yao Xing could almost imagine the young man’s expression as he wrote. The few words carried a lingering entanglement, just like his gaze when he looked at her daily.

The letter: Can I come see you?

Shen Yao Xing tugged at the corner of her mouth and coldly and heartlessly wielded her brush on the paper.

No.

Author’s note: Well, they’re about to get married soon, hehe, and big brother is about to make an appearance again!

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