Chapter 132 Mutual Exposure

Shen Yu didn't know what had happened yet. Not long after he returned, the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace changed their expressions and hurriedly dispersed around Kunning Palace with their things.

Shen Yu was still wiping the table in the outer hall. The palace maids left in a hurry and did not say a word to Shen Yu the whole time.

Shen Yu didn't care much about it. He was thinking about his future plans and was still thinking about what to do after entering the inner hall.

That night, Kunning Palace was as quiet as usual. Shen Yu changed his clothes and climbed onto the roof of the inner hall of Kunning Palace with skillful movements.

He went to the place he often went to and stretched out his hand to grab the gray tile. He tried to lift it but failed. Shen Yu frowned secretly. He increased his strength a little, but he still couldn't lift the tile until cracks appeared on it.

Shen Yu frowned, and he shifted his gaze to another spot he had marked before. He held the edge of the tile with one hand, but still couldn't peel it off despite his efforts.

Shen Yu: “…”

He finally knew what the eunuchs and palace maids were doing in the afternoon. The gray tiles on the eaves all had traces of repairs. Wen Yu asked them to repair these gray tiles tightly so that not even a little light could penetrate.

Shen Yu withdrew his hand, stepped lightly, and jumped down from the eaves.

Wen Yu was sitting in the center of the inner hall at that time. His expression remained unchanged, and his eyes gradually became colder. He listened to the extremely faint sound above the eaves, and after the footsteps disappeared, he quickly walked to the edge of the window.

He squatted down and poked a small hole in the window paper with his finger to observe what was happening outside.

The person who jumped from his roof was obviously well prepared. He was dressed in black and moved with agility. He moved in the night, as if he had become one with the night.

Wen Yu stared at him motionlessly, and saw that the man in black did not hesitate at all. After leaving, he returned to the lower room where the palace maids rested as if he was familiar with the place.

Wen Yu narrowed her eyes.

It wasn't that he couldn't grasp the figure of the man in black. The inner hall was dark, but there were a few lanterns on the corridor outside the hall. Although the light was dim, it also revealed the figure of the man in black, who was obviously much taller than the others.

…Cuihua.

A cold flash flashed across Wen Yu's eyes, and he stood up and went back to bed. When he changed his clothes, he violently pulled the curtain next to him, and in just a few seconds, his entire figure was covered by the white gauze of the fallen curtain.

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Two days later, Shen Yu packed up his things and prepared to move to the inner hall. He didn't have much to pack, so he only brought a few daily clothes and the three thick books.

The golden book that Meiqiu gave him was useless, with nothing in it. However, because the cover was too gorgeous, it almost exposed Shen Yu's identity.

Shen Yu pushed the golden book to the bottom. He left the previous page and flipped through the red book, and saw another line of text appeared on it.

【A shameless person.】

“……”Shen Yu could never understand the contents of the red book.

The three sentences that appeared so far had no special connection either on the surface or in the deeper meaning. Shen Yu read them for a few seconds and then closed the book again.

This red book remained blank in the studio until recently when its contents began to emerge.

Shen Yu could sense the faint clues in it. The two books that Gou Mosheng gave him were the voice of someone. Now that the content began to emerge in the red book, perhaps on another level it also hinted that the owner of the red book was nearby.

Shen Yu made a mark on the red book, and he stuffed all three books into his package. On the way to the inner hall, he met the Qingyu palace maid who had served Wen Yu personally before.

Qingyu saw Shen Yu's expression change, and the emotion in her eyes was not very obvious, as if it was envy and unwillingness.

Shen Yu walked past her, and Qingyu suddenly reached out and grabbed Shen Yu's arm.

Shen Yu stopped and turned around to see Qingyu stammering a few times before saying to him, "My mission is now in your hands. Don't mess it up."

Shen Yuqian smiled and said, "Okay."

Qingyu seemed to want to say something. Her eyes flickered and after hesitating for a few seconds, she tensed up with embarrassment and quickly walked away from Shen Yu.

Shen Yu turned his head and looked at her for a while, then walked away with quick jade-green steps, and disappeared after turning around a small path.

Shen Yu withdrew his gaze, carried his bag, and pushed open the door of the inner hall.

The bed at the outermost of the inner hall had been tidied up and a thin mattress was placed on it. Shen Yu stretched out his hand and pinched the surface of the mattress. The silky texture was many times better than the thatched mat he had slept on before.

Wen Yu sat in front of the dressing table behind a beaded curtain, drawing his eyebrows in front of a bronze mirror. His eyes had not changed since the moment Shen Yu came in.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Shen Yu placed his package on the bed. He intentionally placed the three books in an inconspicuous corner, and then covered the books with a quilt.

Wen Yu hummed nonchalantly. He stopped drawing his eyebrows and pushed all the rouge on the table aside.

"Didn't you bring anything else in?" Wen Yu turned around.

Shen Yu said, "Madam, the eunuch at the door had already checked everything before I came in. Do you want to check it again?"

Wen Yu's eyes flashed across Shen Yu's coarse cloth clothes. He threw down his eyebrow pencil and said, "No need."

Shen Yu breathed a sigh of relief. He had just walked to the beaded curtain when he heard Wen Yu say, "I am a little tired. Go get some water and help me bathe and change clothes."

Shen Yu stopped walking, his expression slightly changed: "...I'm going?"

"If it's not you who should go?" Wen Yu raised his eyelids. The emotion in his dark pupils was calm, but contained a dark ups and downs for unknown reasons. "Hurry up, don't keep me waiting for you."

Shen Yu was silent for a few seconds, then said, "Yes."

After he finished speaking, he turned and left the inner hall.

Wen Yu watched his back disappear at the entrance of the inner hall, secretly pinching the skin in front of his throat with his palm. He turned his eyes to look into the bronze mirror, which reflected half of his face that had just been made up, with willow-shaped eyebrows and powdered black hair, and a face that looked quite feminine.

Wen Yu's eyes were filled with gloom. He inserted a long phoenix-tail hairpin into his hair, turned around and walked towards the bathing pool in the inner hall.

Soon Shen Yu poured the water into the bathtub. The bathtub was surrounded by special Chinese stones. Shen Yu poured the hot water into it, and mist rose and lingered, filling the room in a short while.

"My queen, the water has been poured." Shen Yu put down the wooden barrel and stepped aside.

Wen Yu walked into the room barefoot. He tested the water temperature and stopped in front of Shen Yu: "Change my clothes."

Shen Yu: “…”

Wen Yu stood in front of Shen Yu, his arms outstretched to his sides. His dark pupils seemed to be wandering, and finally fell on Shen Yu's brow through a layer of mist.

Shen Yu bowed his head and said nothing in this brief silence. After a moment, he took two steps forward, put his arms around Wen Yu's waist, and untied his belt with his fingertips.