Chapter 196 It's good that you're alright.
Sure enough, the medicine's effects were getting weaker and weaker.
"Yes." He didn't show any anger at being exposed, and admitted it casually in his voice.
"Disgusting! You disgusting bitch!" Lord Qian grabbed a candlestick and threw it at Yun Rong. "I'm going to report you to the manager of the Red Chamber... and Young Master Baili too! He'll definitely have you torn apart by five horses, won't he?"
Yun Rong stared at the man's distorted expression, her eyes devoid of any emotion, icy coldness almost radiating chill. The candlestick she struck at him was inexplicably deflected and fell to the ground with a clang.
When Lord Qian's first attack failed, he threw everything around him, but none of it hit. Seeing the man approaching slowly and unhurriedly, he finally became frightened.
"What do you want to do? Don't come any closer!"
Is he a cultivator? Otherwise, how could he dodge it?
"Lord Qian, you said I've spent most of my life in the Red Chamber, so why has no one ever discovered my true gender?" Yun Rong walked up to the man, and a piece of white paper radiating light appeared in her palm as she opened her right hand.
"I...I...I..." Lord Qian was so nervous that his tongue seemed to be tied in knots, and he couldn't speak.
“Because those who know my identity are no longer here,” Yun Rong said, her left hand holding a pen, as black ink appeared on the white paper in her right palm. “But don’t worry, I won’t kill you, I’ll only draw you.”
The moment he finished speaking, the man vanished into thin air in the private room. The ink on the white paper seemed to come alive, undulating and gradually transforming into his likeness.
Yun Rong looked at the mess on the ground, slowly walked to the wooden door and opened it, as if nothing had happened, and walked to the right.
Colorful lights hung in the corridor, and every few steps there were incense burners on the walls emitting a mesmerizing fragrance. Laughter and cheerful voices came from behind the paper windows that shone through the light, yet they gave people an inexplicable sense of oppression.
He walked into a dimly lit room and closed the door.
"Are you sure she's out?" Yun Rong raised his hand, and a maid held up a porcelain bowl of medicine in front of him. He took it and drank it, and the prominent Adam's apple on his neck slowly disappeared.
"Yes, Miss Mu has come out and is now on the first floor of the lobby," the maid replied.
Yun Rong handed over the empty porcelain bowl, "Where is Baili Yicheng?"
Yuanyuan is really naughty; I told her not to come.
"Young Master Baili has also come to the Red Mansion to see you."
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Mu Jianjian, wearing a red dress and using a Qi-condensing talisman, sat at a table in a corner on the first floor, cracking sunflower seeds while constantly scanning the small groups of people gathered around her.
Previously, when I came to the Red Mansion, I was disciplined by the nanny in the courtyard. Later, after being taken in as an apprentice by the beautiful sister, I had to take care of her injuries. Now I have finally found an opportunity to come to the front courtyard.
"Cough cough." A woman walked past Mu Jianjian and smelled the strong scent of rouge on her, causing her to cough and choke.
Logically speaking, she should have disguised herself as a man to better infiltrate and gather intelligence, but Mu Jianjian couldn't find any men's clothes in the backyard, and she didn't want to knock out the steward and alert him, so she could only choose a red dress to wear.
"Why is this beauty all alone here?" A greasy, obese man swayed over to Mu Jianjian and sat down next to her with a "plop".
Mu Jianjian wiped her face, which was covered in red and green paint, and realized something was wrong.
Green eyeshadow paired with deathly Barbie pink lipstick, and even drawing freckles on the side of the face—can anyone have such a unique and extreme taste?
This bizarre makeup didn't attract the manager, but it actually attracted customers!
What a terrible thing to do.
"I'm ugly, so of course I don't have—" Mu Jianjian said coquettishly, but before she could finish speaking, a man appeared beside her and pulled her hand.
The speed was so fast that she couldn't react in time!
"Come with me." After leaning down beside her and saying this, the man threw a bag of money at the angry and dissatisfied fat man, and pulled the stunned Mu Jianjian towards the private room on the second floor.
The fat man was about to get angry and call for the manager, but when he saw the man throw money at him, he instinctively caught it, opened it, and found a bag of high-grade spirit stones inside!
His father often said that he was a spendthrift by visiting the Dream of the Red Chamber, but now he has gotten so many spirit stones just by chatting up a woman. He has clearly made a fortune!
Mu Jianjian followed the man into a private room on the second floor. The wooden door closed, and only the two of them were in the exquisite and bright room.
She recalled the voice she had just heard, her joy mixed with disbelief, "...Ye Xuanzhi?"
"Jianjian! Jianjian!" The unfamiliar man turned around, placed his hands on the girl's shoulders, and began to shake her frantically. "It really is you! Jianjian!"
The previously excited Mu Jianjian was instantly silenced by the shaking. "Okay...stop, I'm really dizzy...I told you to stop!"
Ye Xuanzhi listened to his rapidly beating heart and it took him a while to calm down. Hearing the girl yell at him, he felt a little aggrieved, "Brother used mystic arts to find you for a long time, and you still yell at me!"
Mu Jianjian: ...
I feel wronged.
"Ye Xuanzhi, I—" Mu Jianjian was about to say something when she realized that she had a lot to say and didn't know which one to say first.
"Jianjian, it's good that you're alright. It's good that you're alright." Ye Xuanzhi looked at the girl's face, which had been painted into an ugly mess, and felt heartbroken. He pulled her into his arms and hugged her tightly. "I'm sorry, back then... I couldn't save you."
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