"How dare you, you idiot! Are you planning to rip my head off?"
He seriously suspected that this woman was seeking revenge for personal gain.
Shen Ningzhu curled her lips, her pretty face fell, and she really wanted to hit him in the head. But Jiang Xuanyan in the mirror saw her face clearly.
Now, I am even more certain that she did it on purpose.
"You are so unrepentant and still want to see that maid. It's simply wishful thinking."
Shen Ningzhu was stunned.
Is this bastard really so pretentious?
She had already slowed down her speed dozens of times when combing his hair. It was just two strands of hair that were broken. It wasn't like they wouldn't grow back anymore. Was there any need to be so serious about it?
"I……"
"Shut up, I don't want to listen."
Jiang Xuanyan shouted loudly, and an old nanny quickly walked into the room. After bowing, she stepped forward and took the comb from Shen Ningzhu's hand, and tied Jiang Xuanyan's hair in a few seconds.
The man stood up and coldly instructed the maid to teach Chen Ningzhu how to serve others, then strode away.
Shen Ningzhu chased after him and called out to him, asking him about Liu Zhiyi's whereabouts, but Jiang Xuanyan seemed to have not heard him, leaving him with only a cold back.
She wanted to chase him again, but was blocked by the nanny.
"My dear, please stop chasing me. It's better to complete the task His Highness has assigned you as soon as possible, lest it be too late and His Highness get angry and blame you."
Chen Ningzhu bit her lips tightly, looked at Zhiyuan and Zhiyi in the room, and said expectantly:
"Do you know where Xiaoyi is?"
The two shook their heads in confusion.
Seeing this, the light in Shen Ningzhu's eyes gradually disappeared, and soon, his expression became firm again.
After getting herself ready, she went to the nanny. "Please teach me now, nanny. I will definitely learn well."
When you live under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.
If the bastard wants her to learn, then she will learn. After she learns it, she will go to him to ask about Xiaoyi's whereabouts. Then she will see what he has to say.
Chen Ningzhu is smart and diligent, so she can learn many things just by being demonstrated.
In just two sticks of incense, the nanny told her with a smile that she had learned everything she needed to learn.
Chen Ningzhu was overjoyed. Without even saying a word, she rushed out of the door and ran all the way to the prince's main courtyard.
Fortunately, she was lucky.
Before she even entered the yard, she saw Jiang Xuanyan's figure from afar. She wanted to call him to wait, but she was afraid that he would think she was rude and impolite and find another excuse to bully her.
I had to hold back my shouting and quickly chased after him.
When they reached a rockery, she saw the other person turn in, and she hurried to follow.
After I got there, I found that there was a secret passage.
Chen Ningzhu froze in place, glanced around in panic, and seeing that there was no one around, she stood there in confusion for a moment.
Logically speaking, this kind of place is not where she should come. After all, the more she knows, the faster she will die. But... maybe Xiaoyi is hidden here by him.
If that were the case, she would have to go through mountains of swords and seas of fire.
Liu Zhiyi is the only relative she cares about in this strange dynasty.
If she hadn't accompanied her to the outdoor live broadcast, she wouldn't have traveled through time. If she hadn't been afraid that she would be hurt by Jiang Xuanyan, and hadn't stood in front of her to save her, she wouldn't have been kicked, and she wouldn't be missing like she is now.
Shen Ningzhu endured the soreness in her eyes and rushed in with her head held high.
The secret passage is very deep, and the light becomes darker the further you go inside.
Shen Ningzhu didn't care about being afraid and even quickened her pace.
Suddenly, a faint sound came from the front. Shen Ningzhu's heart tightened, and her steps became faster. Finally, with the weak light from the tunnel, she could see the situation ahead clearly.
That is...
Water dungeon, underground dungeon, rack, countless torture instruments, and more than a dozen haggard, half-dead women?
Some were in water dungeons, locked with chains as thick as their arms.
Some were on the rack, their hands and feet also chained, and some were probably already dead, their bodies curled up in a strange arc in a corner of the dungeon.
The water in that dungeon was very turbid.
The water level seemed to rise and fall. Every once in a while, it would rise above the head of the woman in the cell, and after a while, it would slowly fall.
Seeing this scene, Shen Ningzhu recalled the scene yesterday when she was pushed into the lotus pond by Jiang Xuanyan.
The horror of being on the verge of death, the tightness in her chest that felt like it was about to explode, the discomfort of suffocating, played over and over in her mind like a movie, making her heart tremble uncontrollably.
I don't know when, but my forehead was covered with a layer of fine cold sweat.
At this moment, a suppressed groan of pain was heard.
Shen Ningzhu was surprised to find that Jiang Xuanyan was standing in front of a torture rack with a sharp dagger in his hand.
The dagger, shining with a cold light, was inserted into the shoulder of the woman on the rack, slowly pushed in inch by inch.
The woman screamed with every push, but Jiang Xuanyan acted as if he didn't hear anything and continued pushing until the entire blade was embedded in the woman's body.
Then, pull it out suddenly.
"puff--"
In an instant, bright red blood splattered onto the bluestone floor, staining Jiang Xuanyan's fair and slender fingers red.
He slowly took out the handkerchief from his arms, wiped each finger carefully and methodically, and threw the handkerchief on the ground.
His tone was sinister, "Anyone who knows the secret must die."
Each word struck Shen Ningzhu hard in the heart, scaring her so much that she subconsciously took a step back.
Unfortunately, he stepped on a dead branch, and it made a "crackling" sound.
Shen Ningzhu's pupils suddenly shrank—it was over.
Sure enough, Jiang Xuanyan inside turned around suddenly, "Who?"
The pair of phoenix eyes were full of murderous intent, sinister and cold. Fortunately, he couldn't see Shen Ningzhu from that angle. But Shen Ningzhu had long lost the courage to stay.
He ran out of the secret passage with all his strength.
Not daring to stop, she ran back to Meixiang Garden in one breath, rushed into her boudoir, and closed the door tightly with her backhand.
His body was shaking like a sieve, and he was still terrified, wondering if he would be discovered or killed. When he looked up, he found that Liu Zhiyi was sitting at the table in the room.
He was holding a handful of melon seeds in his hand and one in his mouth, halfway through eating it.
Seeing her rush in, he stopped in fright.
"Xiaoyi, why are you here? Are you okay? Let me see if your injury has healed. Does it still hurt?"
Seeing her losing control, Liu Zhiyi quickly put down the melon seeds and walked over to her, holding her and saying,
"What's wrong with you, what the hell?"
Chen Ningzhu was stunned. It was just a ghost, right? No, Jiang Xuanyan was much scarier than a ghost. He was simply the king of ghosts, Yama.
The dungeon she had just entered was a living hell.
There wasn't a single piece of good flesh on those people's bodies. Looking back carefully at the corpses on the ground now, it seemed as if they had been skinned, their tendons pulled out, and their bones dismantled.
Suddenly I remembered a rumor from the past.
When Jiang Xuanyan was twelve years old, he personally skinned and extracted the tendons of the enemies he captured on the battlefield and made human skin lanterns and war drums.
Chen Ningzhu thought those were just rumors and could not be trusted.
Today, it seems that this may have happened.
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