Chapter 677 The Eavesdropper is Him

Just when the man's fingertips were about to touch the fragile skin on her neck, Bai Qianqian, who was lying on the ground, suddenly let out a low moan of discomfort.

The man paused his hand movements, and moved his original movement to hold her shoulders, and then shook her gently.

"My lady, wake up."

Bai Qianqian only felt a tingling pain at the back of her neck. When she heard some movement, she struggled to open her eyes, and saw a strange black shadow in front of her in the dark room.

"Ah! How dare you!" Bai Qianqian screamed and slapped the man in the face.

The man's face was hit to the side, but he didn't look angry at all. He just withdrew his hand, stepped back a little, and lowered his eyes towards her.

"It's an emergency, and I mean no offense."

Hearing the man's voice and as her eyes adjusted to the darkness, Bai Qianqian finally recognized the man in front of her, but she frowned.

"You are... Chen Ke? Why are you here?"

As Helian Tuo's sweetheart, Bai Qianqian was familiar with Chen Ke. After all, before she entered the palace, every time she met the prince, Chen Ke would follow him. It was not an exaggeration to say that he was Helian Tuo's right-hand man.

Chen Ke was the one who took the initiative to arrange for Si Linglong to get the red flower that day.

When he heard her calling his name, his originally hard features softened a little. He turned his gaze from her face and whispered, "I accompanied the prince to the palace for a banquet today and have been guarding nearby. I heard something strange and rushed over."

Bai Qianqian looked around subconsciously, and felt the pain in the back of her neck, so she asked, "Where is the prince?"

She vaguely remembered that she was talking to the prince, but suddenly her neck felt numb...

Who hit her?

Could it be the prince...

Bai Qianqian was thinking this when she heard Chen Ke say, "The prince discovered someone was eavesdropping outside the house and went after that person."

When Bai Qianqian heard someone eavesdropping, her expression changed instantly.

She did not forget what she said to the prince before she fainted.

How much did that person hear?

However, regardless of whether that person heard it or not, Bai Qianqian and Helian Tuo's first thought was the same.

That person must die.

"Then what are you still doing here? Go and help the prince!" Bai Qianqian ordered Chen Ke in a bad mood.

She thought that the sudden knock-out must have been caused by the eavesdropper!

She had been impulsive before and had the urge to confess everything without caring about anything. But now that she had come to her senses, Bai Qianqian couldn't help but feel a chill down her spine as she recalled her previous plan. She no longer had the courage to blow herself up. She only hoped that the prince would get rid of the person who had eavesdropped.

Chen Ke was also stunned when he heard Bai Qianqian's unpleasant order.

After all, Bai Qianqian had always been gentle and close to him in the past, and had never spoken to him in such a tone.

As for the slap just now, he regarded it as a subconscious action when she just woke up and was not consciously aware. Naturally, he would not blame her.

But now, why?

Bai Qianqian looked at Chen Ke's somewhat stunned reaction and naturally knew that what she had just said was inappropriate, but she just couldn't control herself. She became impatient and didn't want to pretend to be gentle anymore.

After all, she couldn't even maintain her original appearance in front of the prince, so why should she continue to pretend in front of irrelevant people?

"Why are you looking at me? Why don't you go away quickly?" Bai Qianqian urged him again, then he lowered his head, straightened his clothes, and tried to get up from the ground.

It was just that she was already weak from taking medicine for days, and now she was beaten and lay on the cold floor for a while. When she struggled to stand up, her body shook violently.

Upon seeing this, Chen Ke quickly reached out to support the man.

The man's big hand was firmly on her shoulder, accompanied by his slightly rough breathing. Bai Qianqian felt uncomfortable all over and subconsciously reached out to push him away.

"How dare you! Why don't you retreat?"

She looked timid but had a look of disdain in her eyes as she looked at Chen Ke.

When Chen Ke's eyes met her disdain, they darkened. Finally, he took two steps back without saying a word and said, "My lady, please take care of yourself. I will leave now."

When he turned around and said this, his eyes were already cold.

Bai Qianqian watched him walk away, then took another look at the deserted house. Because the door was open, the cold night wind blew in. Bai Qianqian shivered, and her bloated and dizzy mind seemed to slowly become clear.

Her face became darker and darker, and after a long while she finally struggled and walked slowly out of the room.

She can't stay here any longer.

Bai Qianqian thought about it and walked around the yard again to make sure there was no one else around. Just at this moment, the dark clouds above her head were blown away by the wind, revealing the cold moonlight.

Bai Qianqian only saw a ray of reflection flash by in a corner of the window outside the house.

Thinking that someone might have been eavesdropping, Bai Qianqian immediately walked towards the reflection, bent down, fumbled in the grass, and finally found a piece of jade as thin as paper.

The jade piece was the size of a fingernail and was made of the finest black jade. It felt delicate and smooth to the touch, just like dragon scales.

In fact, it is indeed used as a dragon scale.

This thing is usually casually decorated on the dragon on the emperor's dragon robe.

She had seen the dragon robe decorated with this jade piece at a banquet not long ago.

Thinking of the possible identity of the eavesdropper, Bai Qianqian's legs suddenly went soft and she fell to the ground.

At this moment, Bai Qianqian felt that all the blood in her body had drained away in an instant.