"Why isn't it outside the courtyard?"
A-Cai searched the vicinity in confusion. Just as she was about to return to report, she suddenly heard giggling and shrill conversation coming from the side room next door.
"Hehehe... No, no, Marquis..."
"Little vixen, you've been giving me flirtatious glances all the way here. I couldn't resist even on horseback, but that woman was so persistent that she insisted on setting off after only two hours of rest."
"Still dare to hide? Haha! I've been waiting for you so long! Today I've finally caught a chance to spend the night and teach you a lesson!"
"The Marquis..."
That familiar voice, with a tone and manner completely different from what I remembered, made Ah Cai's head buzz.
She felt her blood running cold, her mind went blank, and she had no idea what to do.
She took a deep breath and quietly poked a hole in the window.
The side room had clearly been cleaned.
The slender-waisted maid who had always been by the side of Marquis Pingyang lay on the bed, coyly resisting and looking at Marquis Pingyang with her clothes disheveled. Marquis Pingyang was even more anxious as he took off his outer robe, his eyes fixed on the slender-waisted maid.
That expression terrified A-Cai.
"My lord, how much longer until we reach the capital? Once we arrive, will you hand over that shrew Zhou Shiying to His Majesty and then marry me? I can't wait any longer."
"With her around, you can't even decide whether to take a concubine. What gives her the right to be so domineering? I'm forced to serve the Marquis as a maid, without even a proper title..."
"Rest assured, I will definitely keep my promise to you. She is a traitorous and vicious woman, without any gentleness of a woman. She is always careless and uncompromising. How can she be compared to you?"
"Just wait, in a few days, I will be able to hand her over to His Majesty as a hostage..."
boom--
Boom!!
A-Cai trembled all over, her face filled with disbelief: "This, how could this be... how could this happen..."
What earth-shattering secret did she overhear?!
The marquis did not go to rescue the young master.
Instead, they wanted to send the lady to His Majesty as a hostage!
How could he do this!
Tears streamed down A-Cai's face. Her mind was in a daze for a moment, but she quickly calmed down and ran towards Zhou Shiying.
She was going to pass this message on to the lady, that all of the Marquis of Pingyang's previous feigned affection was fake, fake, all that talk of his deep love and exclusive devotion to the lady, all that talk of a prodigal son returning home, it was all a lie.
However,
"ah--"
A-Cai hadn't run two steps when she alerted the guards standing watch nearby and was kicked to the ground.
Upon hearing the commotion, Marquis Pingyang immediately pulled up his trousers and came out. As soon as he stepped outside, he saw the maid A-Cai, who had been caught eavesdropping: "What are you doing here? What did you just hear?"
Ah Cai, who had been kicked to the ground, shook her head and said in a panic, "Marquis, I didn't, I didn't hear anything..."
"Didn't you hear me?" Marquis Pingyang narrowed his dangerous, sinister eyes. "Then why are you panicking?"
"Were you just about to go and inform the madam?"
"What are you trying to tell her? That I'm not going to rescue Zhou Cheng, but to send her as a hostage?"
"You bitch!"
Marquis Pingyang raised a hand and slapped A-Cai across the face.
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