Fortunately, she ran fast enough that by the time Liu Yansong, at Lu Rou's urging, went back to school to retrieve the jade pendant from her, she had already run far away.
"Brother Song, do you think Zhu Qinghao did it on purpose? Why did she leave as soon as we arrived?"
Liu Yansong didn't think too much about it, patted her on the shoulder, and offered words of comfort:
"No, she's already off work, it's normal for her to go home. I'll come see her again tomorrow."
Seeing that he didn't seem to care, Lu Rou grew increasingly flustered and called out anxiously:
"How can this be? Your jade pendant..."
Liu Yansong was startled by her scream, frowned, and became somewhat irritated.
"Alright, that jade was originally an engagement gift given to me by the Zhu family, so I'll definitely keep it safe."
Seeing his expression change, Lu Rou realized she had been a bit too hasty, so she softened her tone.
"I'm sorry, Brother Song, I was just a little anxious. I was afraid that if Zhu Qinghao took the jade pendant back, the Zhu family would disown your marriage. I was only thinking of you..."
Liu Yansong hadn't thought of it that way before, but now that he heard this, he became a little anxious.
Over the years, he frequently visited the Zhu family and gained a certain understanding of their assets. In his view, these things were already his for the taking.
Therefore, this marriage must not have the slightest mishap.
So he left Lu Rou behind and hurriedly ran towards the Zhu family's villa.
He didn't expect that Zhu Qinghao wouldn't return to the villa. After arriving at the gate, she turned around abruptly and ran towards the Zhu family's old house in another direction.
The old house is a five-courtyard siheyuan (traditional courtyard house), but in order to keep a low profile, the old house was temporarily sealed off through connections, so no one has lived there for the past few years.
However, Zhu Qinghao did not come here to live, but for the secret room under the cellar, which contained half of the Zhu family's property.
Grandpa Zhu had told her this a long time ago, so after she crawled through the dog hole, she easily entered the secret room.
Looking at the piles of large boxes, she almost cried tears of joy.
Even if there's no secret within the jade pendant, as long as she's alive in this life, she'll never let her family die so tragically in a foreign land as they did in her previous life.
Because this secret room was known only to Old Master Zhu and her.
In the previous life, until the Zhu family was wiped out, the things inside never saw the light of day again. Many people suspected that the Zhu family still had something, but no one found it.
Zhu Qinghao suppressed her excitement, looked around, and finally took out a relatively sharp hairpin from a box of jewelry.
She closed her eyes, recalling the heartbreaking scenes she had witnessed as a ghost in her past life. Gathering her courage, she slashed her palm hard, and blood gushed out.
That huge gash made her face turn pale with pain.
But she didn't care about the pain at that moment. She took out the jade pendant and rubbed it on the wound, afraid of missing any spot. She smeared the entire jade pendant with her blood.
Just as she was getting so anxious that she could hardly breathe, she felt a flash of white light in front of her, which made her instinctively close her eyes.
When she opened her eyes again, she finally burst into tears.
It's true, it's true! The Zhu family is truly saved.
She silently repeated "go in" and "go out" several times before she finally felt a sense of reality about the existence of this space.
She gave herself half a minute to calm down before she began to observe the space within the jade pendant.
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