Chapter 108 A few years ago, when, where
Shen Lingyi looked at Zhu Xin who had climbed out of the water, raised her hand and slapped her: "It's you, it's all you who wanted to harm this concubine!"
"Concubine, this slave is trying to save you, even if it means harming you!"
Zhu Xin covered her face with grievance, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to Shen Lingyi: "Concubine, you were standing outside the railing at the time, and most of your body was about to fall into the water. I was worried that you would fall into the water, so I went to pull you over. Who knew that you would fall into the lake and drag me down with you!"
"Your Highness, I am wronged!"
Zhu Xin raised her hand to wipe her dripping hair, and choked with sobs to defend herself: "I came here to pick peaches for my master, and I saw Concubine Shen about to fall into the water. I couldn't just stand by and watch her die!"
"If it weren't for you, would this concubine have fallen into the water?" Shen Lingyi said excitedly.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince raised his hand and asked, "Whose maid are you?"
"Your Highness, I am a maidservant serving Concubine Shen in Prince Lin's mansion." Zhu Xin answered frankly.
"Go back. Don't say anything more about what happened today."
The prince said in a cold voice.
"Yes." Zhu Xin seemed frightened. She lifted her skirt and ran away trembling.
"You..." Shen Lingyi looked at her departing back, anxious and angry. She looked up and bumped into the cold face of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. She shuddered all over. On that summer day in June, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave.
"Come here, send the concubine back to the meditation room. She is not allowed to see anyone."
The prince said, turned around and left, and Shen Lingyi fainted immediately.
When she woke up again, Shen Lingyi looked at the dim room and sat up suddenly. Everything that happened in the afternoon came to her mind. She murmured, "It turned out to be a dream."
It's so scary.
"Concubine Shen, I have something unclear."
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was wearing a purple robe with python patterns embroidered on it. His sleeves fluttered in the flickering candlelight. His noble and arrogant face looked down upon everything, as if everything was in his hands.
At this moment, his eyes seemed to be filled with ten-thousand-year-old ice, which froze Shen Lingyi so much that she shivered all over.
"Your Highness is joking. If Your Highness doesn't know something, I don't know it either." Shen Lingyi always felt that it was not a good thing. Could it be true that she fell into the water and was rescued in the afternoon?
For a moment, Shen Lingyi couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality.
"Yeah?"
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince tapped his fingertips on the table, staring coldly at Shen Lingyi: "Then Concubine Shen, please explain to me why you can't swim?"
Shen Lingyi's pupils shrank. What happened in the afternoon was not a dream!
Shen Lingyi clenched her hands tightly. The room was dead silent, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Shen Lingyi even forgot how to breathe.
Soon, she said, "Your Highness, you may not know that a few years ago, when I was swimming, my legs cramped and I almost drowned. So, now I am afraid of water."
"A few years ago, when and where?" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's eyes were cold.
Shen Lingyi's lips moved, and just as she was about to speak, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's warning voice rang out: "I hate people deceiving me the most in my life. If I find out, I will tear you into pieces!"
Shen Lingyi shuddered all over, pursed her lips and said nothing, thinking of the maids who would disappear from time to time in the East Palace. She had inquired about it and knew that the maids were all tortured to death by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
"If she confesses, I might spare her life." The Crown Prince's words, which were clearly a warning, set Shen Lingyi on a collision course with heaven and man!
Finally, Shen Lingyi knelt down and said, "Please forgive me, Your Highness. I have done something wrong."
Shen Lingyi trembled, tears in her eyes as she said, "Your Highness, back then, I was also playing by the Nanping Lake in South City. I happened to see Your Highness lying by the grass, and I wanted to save Your Highness."
At that time, she originally wanted to use this man to frame Shen Lingshu, but when she saw him, she changed her mind!
The jade pendant on his body looked extraordinary, so Shen Lingyi wanted to claim the life-saving grace and wet herself. Before she could say anything, he woke up!
He immediately recognized himself as his savior, and when Shen Lingyi learned that he was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, she was so happy that she went crazy.
So many years have passed, and Shen Lingyi never thought that this lie would be exposed. After all, Shen Lingshu herself didn't even remember who she saved!
"Really?" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince looked at her coldly, "Why didn't you deny it when I acknowledged you as my savior?"
Shen Lingyi looked up blankly, and asked in confusion: "Your Highness, I have been guarding you by your side and driving away those wild dogs and people with bad intentions. Isn't that saving... people?"
The word "life" came to her lips, and Shen Lingyi changed her words. At this moment, the more vague it is, the better!
“…”
The prince stared at her without saying a word. Shen Lingyi felt a chill on her back. She held herself up, afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would see that she was guilty!
It is better for her to misunderstand the matter of saving people than to pretend to be a savior!
As long as she firmly believed in this, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would at most be annoyed with her but would not take her life.
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"Zhu Xin, why are you wet?"
Shen Lingshu, who was playing with the child, heard this and asked worriedly: "Hurry, go and have a look."
Her feet were still swollen and she couldn't walk.
"Master, I'm fine. I just accidentally fell into the lotus pond."
Zhu Xin shivered as she entered the room and spoke to Shen Lingshu, then was urged to take a shower.
After taking a bath and drinking a bowl of hot ginger soup, Zhu Xin felt like she was alive again. After entering the house, she was about to speak excitedly, but then she kept her distance: "Master, I just fell into the water. I don't know if I'm sick. I can't let the two young masters get sick."
Shen Lingshu signaled the nurse to take the child to the Zen room next door, and then asked: "Tell me, how did you get yourself into this state?"
Zhu Xin just came in all wet, with a coat on, but her wet hair was so painful to look at.
"master."
Zhu Xin said happily: "It's done!"
Shen Lingshu raised her eyebrows and only listened to Zhu Xin's excited words: "Master, you don't know how embarrassed the young lady was when she fell into the lake today. The lake was so shallow, and she stood up as soon as she stepped on it, but she kept shouting for help!"
When there are no outsiders around, Zhuxin still calls her "Miss".
Zhu Xin described it vividly: "Also, His Royal Highness's face was as gloomy as water!"
She told him what had just happened in the lotus pond, and Zhu Xin asked, "Master, do you think the young lady will fall out of favor in the future?"
After falling out of favor, Shen Lingyi can't bully her own master, right?
"It's hard to say."
Shen Lingshu shook her head. After she rescued the person, she was exhausted and collapsed in the grass after walking a few steps. Later, she fell seriously ill.
If Shen Lingyi was smart enough, she could have said that it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who took the initiative to misunderstand the fact that she was his savior.
"Master, how about it, did I do a good job? No one will doubt that we did this on purpose!" Zhu Xin's face was full of smiles, and he looked like he was asking for praise.
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