In the steam-rising compartment, the hot water in the hot spring was gently stirred by bare fingers, and layers of ripples rushed towards the delicate petals floating on the water.
Her round toes tentatively touched the water surface, and when she found the water temperature to be moderately warm and acceptable, she immersed herself in the pool.
She took off her wet clothes and put them aside. Lu Zhi scooped up hot water and poured it over her fair shoulders. She leaned against the wall of the hot spring, letting the water cover her neck.
With a comfortable sigh, Lu Zhi tilted his head to wet his long hair. Just as he straightened up, he suddenly felt a chill on his head.
She half opened her beautiful eyes and looked upwards - her hideous red lips stretched to the back of her ears, and her eyes without any white in them stared at her every move.
Its breath fell on Lu Zhi's head again and again, and the cold air penetrated into her scalp, making her shiver with cold.
The mist became colder, and the hot spring pool became colder too.
A strong smell of blood wafted into Lu Zhi's nose. In Lu Zhi's peripheral vision, the hot spring pool beneath him was deep red, and the blood-red sea was filled with broken limbs.
"Hehe, the ghost bride! The ghost bride!!"
The cold little hand climbed onto her shoulder and she smelled a rotten smell mixed with a hint of bitter medicine.
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Babies, each as long as an arm's length, climbed onto Lu Zhi's shoulders, snuggled up to her and rubbed her neck affectionately, their smelly saliva dripping all over her body.
The cackling sound echoed throughout the compartment, which was both weird and terrifying.
Lu Zhi didn't like having a maid to help her bathe, so she ordered someone to wait outside.
There was quite a bit of noise in the hot spring, but no one outside noticed anything unusual. It must have been another dream.
A pair of cold hands held up Lu Zhi's face. The severely rotten head was so close to her that she could even see the wriggling maggots in the eye sockets.
"Ghost bride, can't escape!"
It smiled eerily, and if an ordinary woman heard the words it said, she would probably faint in the next second.
Lu Zhi raised her eyebrows when she heard that, raised her hand, grabbed the ghost baby that was grabbing her wet long hair and stuffing it into its mouth, and smashed it hard at the rotten corpse.
With a "bang", the rotten corpse was smashed away, and the dream shattered as Lu Zhi smacked his lips in exclamation.
The girl lying on the bank of the hot spring pool slowly opened her eyes. She naturally combed her thick waist-length hair and hummed a tuneless tune beautifully.
After changing into new clothes, Lu Zhi sat in front of the dressing table in the compartment, supporting her chin with her wet and dripping long hair, and looked intermittently at the maid behind her in the mirror who was wiping her hair.
Lu Zhi remembered what Shen Yuanshuo said, that she could go see her elder sister. But she was a little doubtful.
Mr. Shen may have reasons that he cannot explain to others for ordering Lu Yue to be placed under house arrest in Zhiyue Pavilion. Does Mr. Shen, a colleague of Mrs. Shen, know this?
On the other side, the two people that Lu Zhi was talking about started arguing again.
The porcelain cup filled with tea on the table was smashed heavily against the door by Master Shen. With a bang, broken porcelain pieces and warm tea splashed in the air.
Madam Shen stared at him with eyes wide open in disbelief, her lips trembling and she choked and shouted: "Shen Wangzhi! Who am I doing this for! How could you do this to me?!"
As she said this, she was about to reach out and hit Mr. Shen in the face.
"That's enough!" Master Shen slammed the table and stood up, raised his hand to hold her wrist, and glared angrily, "Shu Yi, Yuan Shuo is my son! How could I murder him!"
He let out a long sigh, as he couldn't bear to see his wife, whom he had loved for many years, burst into tears.
Mr. Shen walked to Madam Shen's side, waved his big hand and held her tightly in his arms, and said in a low voice: "Shuyi, I have already lost Yuanying, I can't lose Yuanshuo again."
"But I will never live without you!"
Mr. Shen frowned with a complicated expression, and after a moment of silence, he responded in a hoarse voice: "I will definitely not let him hurt you and your son."
As soon as the voice fell, Mrs. Shen burst into tears.
How could she not know what Wang Zhi was thinking? They had been married for half a year and they had been childhood sweethearts. She could see a little bit of the sorrow and joy of her partner.
The more this happened, the more Mrs. Shen refused to face it.
She grabbed Mr. Shen's sleeve and asked, "What will happen if we burn the scroll?"
Mrs. Shen's questioning did not receive a response for a long time. She raised her eyes as if she had realized something, and met the man's mocking and contemptuous eyes, and her heart skipped a beat.
She suddenly took a few steps away from his arms. Even though Mrs. Shen had heard most of the truth from her husband, she would still be timid and frightened when facing it in reality.
Her lower back hit the edge of the table and the pain was so severe that cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She quickly supported herself by the edge of the table and forced herself to straighten up.
The corners of Shen Wangzhi's lips rose, and his evil smile gradually overlapped with the man in the painting in the study. He stood there and looked around, and finally his eyes fell back on the woman in front of him.
"You don't want him to die?" He said this, his tone hinting at persuasion, "Shu Yi, my most beloved child is dead, I don't want to leave you alone."
“Shen Wangzhi” had tears in his eyes, and he had actually imitated Mr. Shen’s previous expression 100%, which fell into the eyes of Mrs. Shen, who was already wavering.
It was no surprise to see the hesitation and pity in her eyes. The corner of Chen Wangzhi's mouth turned up more and more, and a tiny red mole appeared faintly under the end of his eye.
He tempted her again: "Shuyi, as long as you sacrifice the two new wives of the Lu family, I will be fine, and our son Yuan Shuo will be fine too."
Feeling the struggle and anger of another soul in his body, "Chen Wangzhi" covered his head in pain, his face distorted with pain, and he let out several hoarse growls.
"Shuyi, save me! Save me!!"
Under Mrs. Shen's terrified gaze, Mr. Shen collapsed to the ground, exhausted. She woke up belatedly and rushed forward, sobbing.
The maid who heard the noise knocked on the wooden door. After receiving the order, they filed in and hurriedly went to ask for the palace doctor.
There was chaos in the front yard again.
Here, Lu Zhi drooped her eyelids in boredom, her long hair was almost dried out, and she yawned countless times.
She had been feeling very sleepy recently, so she and Shen Yuanshuo turned off the lights and went to bed early.
Now the biological clock had arrived, and Lu Zhi rubbed her eyes with tears in her eyes.
She put on her cloak and embroidered shoes and walked into the inner room.
Lu Zhi couldn't see Chen Yuanying's presence, and she looked around nervously. She saw Chen Yuanshuo waving at her and walked away quickly.
With a stretch of his long arms, his beautiful wife is in his arms.
Chen Yuanshuo's brows were curled up with tiredness as he buried his head in the crook of her neck and rubbed it gently. The tip of his nose was filled with the faint fragrance of her after bath, which was refreshing.
He sniffed a few times calmly and said, "Are you very sleepy?"
When Lu Zhi came in, Shen Yuanshuo's drooped eyes instantly lit up, and he naturally noticed her sleepy look as she rubbed her eyes while walking.
"...Where's my brother?"
As she asked, she curled up in his arms and looked around with her eyes rolling. Her cute appearance amused Shen Yuanshuo, who laughed non-stop.
Chen Yuanshuo tapped her nose and said, "Let's go. Don't be afraid. If he dares to come again, your husband will kill him."
The things he got from Shen Yuanying were quite mixed, and Shen Yuanshuo's mind was in a mess. After a few breaths, he whispered, "Azhi, don't go to your sister-in-law for now. I'll send someone to check it out. Just be good, okay?"
It just so happened that the alarm bells in Lu Zhi's mind were ringing, and she felt a little repulsed by Lu Yue for some reason. Now that Chen Yuanshuo gave her a way out, she didn't need to make things difficult for herself and nodded obediently.
"Have you taken your medicine today?" Before turning off the lights, Lu Zhi straightened up from the bed with a somersault. Even though he was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, he was still thinking about him.
Shen Yuanshuo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He blew out the candle, lay down on the bed, held her in his arms, and patted her back gently with his big hand: "Don't worry, go to sleep."
The medicine bag placed next to the candlestick remained intact and not a single bag was missing.
Of course he didn't drink it.
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