She gritted her teeth, noticing that the person behind her was still there. She pursed her lips and softly asked him, "I won't ask you anything else, I just want to know if you can take me away from here. I don't want to die here, do you understand?"
The butler nodded vigorously: "I understand, I understand everything. I will definitely take you away!"
"Let me apply the medicine for you," he said after a moment of silence.
"Forget it, just call Dong'er over for me. He needs someone to take care of him. If you come back late and smell of medicine, he'll definitely suspect you," Haitang added.
He went outside, found Dong'er, and left without a word. Instead of serving her in the dining room, he went to a secluded spot and said in a low voice, "Where are you! Come out! Haven't you been following me all this time? I've made up my mind!"
Upon hearing this, Shujian leaped up and appeared before him: "How is it?"
"I promise you, I'll do anything you ask, but there's one condition: after it's done, you have to let me and Haitang leave."
"Sure," Shujian nodded. "It's not difficult at all."
...
After several rounds of drinks, the banquet in the front hall was in full swing.
Zhu Jiayu disliked the smell of alcohol, so after turning her head to speak to Wei Qinglou, she got up and went back to her room.
A short while later, Rong Heng also made an excuse to go outside for some fresh air to sober up, and got up and left the hall.
Zhu Jiayu returned to the East Courtyard. Not long after, she turned around and stopped. Seeing Rong Heng following behind her, she smiled and said, "I didn't know that Young Master Rong was going the same way as me?"
“There are many things you don’t know,” Rong Heng said without trying to hide it from her, walking straight up to her side. “But right now, I also have something that I’m quite curious about.”
"You don't seem surprised to see that I'm not dead?" His scrutinizing gaze swept across her face.
His men witnessed Wei Qinglou's men retrieving the bloodstained arrows, and Wei Qinglou indeed believed him to be dead and abandoned the search for him.
Logically speaking, this is the first time he has appeared in front of her since his "death," yet she acted as if she didn't recognize him at all during the banquet, which truly impressed him.
But upon closer reflection, her gaze and expression were indeed excessively calm.
Zhu Jiayu looked at him in surprise, seemingly wondering how he could say such a thing. After a while, she said, "What is Young Master Rong saying? I don't understand."
Rong Heng smiled slightly: "Zhu Jiayu, do you really want me to personally unveil your veil?"
Zhu Jiayu believed that he was indeed capable of doing such a thing, and realized that pretending to be stupid would not solve the problem, so he said calmly, "Young Master Rong is wrong. It is naturally an accident that you did not die."
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