Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 227 Escape
Lu Jinshu's back hit the wall so hard that the originally flat wall was cracked.

A small piece of wall peeled off, revealing a secret door hidden behind the wall.

But at this moment Yan Ciwan had no intention of caring about anything else. Her eyes were red, and like a trapped beast forced into a desperate situation, she stared at the person in front of her and spoke again.

"You're lying to me!"

Lu Jinshu was forced to raise his head and look directly into the other person's eyes.

He clearly saw the fear and hope in her eyes, which seemed about to be shattered.

He had never seen her like this before, and he couldn't bear it, so he said softly: "You can treat me as a liar, if that makes you feel better."

Tears gradually welled up in Yan Ciwan's eyes. She had never doubted her father and always thought that the person who murdered her was Yan Tingyu.

She even thought about writing a letter to her father to tell him about her experience, hoping that he would send someone to rescue her.

She laughed with tears in her eyes. How stupid she was!

In fact, she should have thought of this a long time ago. Wulanqi was the personal guard of the King of Xizhou. Without his approval, how could Wulan Shisan and the others dare to kill her?
The entire wedding procession was arranged by the King of Xizhou, and the team was full of the King of Xizhou's men. No matter how powerful Yan Tingyu was, it was impossible for him to recruit so many people for his own use.

The truth had already been revealed. She was blinded by family affection. She thought that even if the whole world betrayed her, her father would never hurt her.

But why?

Yan Ciwan angrily questioned: "Why did Aye treat me like this? Did he believe Yan Tingyu's words and think that I was the child of A Niang and someone else?"

Lu Jinshu raised his right hand, took off the mask on her face, wiped the tears from her eyes, and said slowly: "The prince will not tell me this kind of private information that is difficult to talk about. He just told me that from now on, there will be no Yan Ciwan in the Xizhou Palace."

Yan Ciwan suddenly felt a severe pain in the left side of his chest.

She let go of Lu Jinshu and pressed hard on her left chest. There was a scar there, left by Yan Tingyu when he attacked her.

The wound has healed now, but the pain of a knife piercing her chest still hits her like a tidal wave.

She arched her back involuntarily and slowly bent down.

She choked up and said, "I don't believe it, I don't believe it."

She didn't believe that her father could really have the heart to kill her, and she didn't believe that her mother would betray her father and have an affair with someone else.

She didn't believe that the intimacy of the past seventeen years was all fake.

A pair of hands reached out and held her shoulders firmly.

She heard Lu Jinshu speak softly in her ear.

"Let's stay here. It's just you and me here. We can forget everything outside, so we won't feel any pain."

Yan Ciwan sniffed hard and tried his best to swallow back the tears.

She uttered two words with difficulty.

"No."

Lu Jinshu's fingers slowly closed together, and his fingertips seemed to dig into her shoulders.

His adoptive father raised him and treated him like his own son, so he would never betray him.

But every detail of his sixteen years with Yan Ciwan was imprinted in his mind. Those vivid and intense memories would never be forgotten until his death.

He didn't want to kill her, but he couldn't disobey his adoptive father's order. At this moment, in this isolated secret room, the thought of escape in Lu Jinshu's heart continued to grow. As long as he didn't face it, he didn't have to make a choice.

Lu Jinshu coaxed in a very gentle voice: "You have to think clearly. Once you get out, you will be hunted down by your most trusted relative."

Yan Ciwan raised her head, her eyes filled with tears, as if she would break down and cry at any time, but she held back.

"I believe in my mother's character. She would never betray my father. There must be something else going on. I want to get out. I want to find out the truth and clear my mother and myself. I also want to save my grandmother. I still have a lot of things to do. I can't be trapped here and die!"

At the end of her speech, she wiped her eyes fiercely, and her eyes became extremely firm.

She cannot retreat just because the road ahead is difficult, and she cannot give up her entire future just because of others' denial.

Lu Jinshu looked into her eyes, and the light rekindled in those sad eyes.

Tears cannot extinguish the flame of hope; setbacks will only make her stronger.

At this moment, he wanted to tell her that the King of Xizhou not only allowed Yan Tingyu to murder her, but also ordered people to kill all the maids and servants close to her after she left Xizhou. Even if she could prove that the princess had never had an affair with anyone else, she would never be able to return to Xizhou. She had nothing left, so she might as well hide here and live on.

In the end, he said nothing and silently let Yan Ciwan go.

Because he knew very well that escaping would not solve the problem, and this was the last chance he gave himself on impulse. If Yan Ciwan was willing to stay for him, he would risk his life to protect her. He could bear it even if it meant becoming an enemy of his adoptive father.

But unfortunately, Yan Ciwan was unwilling.

Even though she was almost collapsed after suffering a huge blow, she was still unwilling to choose to escape.

Now that the impulse has disappeared, Lu Jinshu has regained his rationality. He has been guarding Yan Ciwan for the past sixteen years because of his adoptive father's orders. The only person he is truly loyal to from the beginning to the end is his adoptive father.

Yan Ciwan forced herself to temporarily forget everything about her father. The most important thing now was to leave here as soon as possible. She had to concentrate and not be distracted by other things.

She pulled out her knife and scraped off all the paint on the wall, revealing a secret door.

The door surface is smooth and flat, and is embedded in the wall perfectly.

Yan Ciwan pushed the door hard but failed to open it.

She searched carefully around the secret door and found that the place where the secret door connected to the ground was a little loose. She poked it twice with the Ning knife, breaking up the soil there, revealing a small hole about three inches long.

She reached into the small hole and pulled out a metal ring.

She grabbed the ring and pulled it out, pulling out a long chain. The secret door then slowly opened upwards, revealing a deep well.

There was a rope ladder hanging on the inner wall of the shaft. Yan Ciwan tried stepping on it twice. The rope ladder had not been used for a long time and was a little loose, so it had to be used with caution.

Yan Ciwan grabbed the rope ladder and looked down. It was dark and deep below. She looked up and found that it was also dark above.

She guessed that if she climbed higher, she might be able to reach the fourth floor of the mirage.

But she had already confirmed that the old lady was not in the mirage, so there was no need for her to continue exploring the mirage. So she decided to go down, leave the mirage as soon as possible and then meet up with Xiao Wang.

Yan Ciwan climbed down the rope ladder little by little, and above her was Lu Jinshu following closely.

The shaft was very long, and neither of them spoke. The atmosphere was unusually quiet.

After a long time, Yan Ciwan heard a slight sound of water. She stopped and looked down carefully, and found that there was a faint light of water floating at the bottom of the well.

It turns out that the bottom of the well is not the ground, but a pool.

(End of this chapter)