My Lady is well

The light in the cave was dim, his face was sullen, and Shen Yueyao lowered her brows.

I just avoided the cold look in his eyes, and naturally didn't notice the slight twitch of his mouth.

"What should I do now? Jing Ruzhang is waiting outside to catch me."

Shen Yueyao's heart sank. It turned out that Jing Ruzhang was also lying to her and set the ambush here instead of in Zhongzheng Palace.

Well, how could someone like him reveal his plan so easily?

Jing Lince held her small chin, looked into her cold eyes, and raised a playful smile at the corner of his mouth.

"You are here. The East Palace is heavily guarded and a safe place. What do you want to do here?"

Shen Yueyao met his gaze directly, not wanting to show timidity, and tried her best to sound calm.

"I want to escape."

Jing Lince looked at her with raised eyebrows, with a hint of disdain in his eyes.

"Escape? Escape from the palace? By you?"

"I can't escape by myself, but what if I add this?"

She lifted the gold tassel on the gilded token and held it out before him.

“What if we add this?”

Jing Lince glanced at her and looked at her face for a few seconds.

The shrill cries outside the cave continued, and Shen Yueyao looked at him with increasingly gloomy eyes.

"In that case, why don't we cooperate?"

Shen Yueyao had a slight look of surprise on her face. Her life was now in his hands, and she really didn't know what use she still had.

He asked in a deep voice: "What do you want to do?"

Shen Yueyao stared at him with a slightly teasing look in his eyes.

"..."

Jing Lince spread out his hands, asked the guard beside him for a knife, and put it on her neck. The cold touch on her jaw made her head lean back unconsciously.

Jing Lince said sternly with impatience between his brows.

"What are you doing? Swords have no eyes. Let's go."

Shen Yueyao grasped the hem of her skirt tightly with her fingertips, her long eyelashes trembled slightly twice, and she whispered.

"It's useless to threaten Jing Ruzhang with me. He won't let you go for a woman."

"How will you know if you don't try?"

Shen Yueyao walked out with a knife at her neck. Outside the rockery was a clear blue lake.

The fine and dense rain gently hit the surface of the lake, splashing countless tiny ripples.

Jing Ruzhang was standing on the lakeshore in a military uniform, with tiny raindrops hanging on his brows and eyelashes, but his eyes were extremely cold and resolute.

Jing Lince held a long knife, placed it on Shen Yueyao's neck, and walked slowly with her.

The situation was hopeless, but there was not much sadness on his face, he still looked cynical.

Jing Ruzhan paused, his pupils trembled slightly, he was dazed for a moment, then he reacted.

How could she be here?!

His mind was full of thoughts, and he vaguely guessed it. His heart sank an inch, and his left hand tightly grasped the sword at his waist.

There was no change in his expression, he just raised his eyelids and spoke sternly.

"When did you learn to use women as a shield?"

Jing Lince had a sinister smile on his face: "Isn't this forced by the situation?"

"What? You think you can get away with just a woman?"

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and Shen Yueyao's clothes were soon soaked. A gust of wind blew, and the coolness slowly swept over her.

Jing Lince laughed grimly. He glanced at the battle situation around him. There were corpses everywhere and the water in the lake was stained bright red.

There was a sense of desolation in his eyes and his voice became shrill.

"Hehehe... You are truly my good father. Looking at the situation today, you must have known about it a long time ago, right? It's really a big show."

He glanced at the person in front of him, his brows lowered, as if he couldn't bear to face such a bloody scene.

He tightened the knife in his hand, bringing the blade close to her fair neck, forcing her to look up and meet Jing Ruzhan's indifferent and distant eyes.

"I want to see if you are as cruel as him."

Shen Yueyao frowned and whispered, "I've said it before, you can't threaten him with me."

Jing Lince whispered in her ear.

"Is it?"

He said to Jing Ruzhang.

"Your Highness, how about we make a deal?"

Jing Ruzhang refused with a cold look on his face.

"Father said that as long as you put down your weapon, he will spare your life. As for the rest, it is absolutely impossible."

"So, you don't care about her life or death at all?"

Jing Ruzhang was silent for a moment and said, "Do you think I need a woman like her by my side? Do you like her? I'll give her to you."

Shen Yueyao curled her fingers into her palms, a chill spread into her heart, and her shoulders trembled slightly.

Although I had expected it, I didn't have any expectations.

But when she heard that she was like a disposable item in his heart, she still couldn't remain calm.

Her eyes dimmed, a faint mist formed in her pupils, she lowered her head and chuckled self-deprecatingly.

For a moment, disgust, humiliation, and unwillingness all combined to crush her.

Fortunately, she did not let herself sink into this overwhelming negative emotion for too long.

Raising her face, she still had a calm expression, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and gave Jing Ruzhang a half-smile.

Jing Lince took in her expression and challenged her.

"Really? It's a pity to lose such a beautiful girl. Since you don't want her, how about giving her to my men?"

Jing Ruzhang's fingers gripping the scabbard made a creaking sound, and a hint of ruthlessness flashed across his eyes.

Shen Yueyao's eyes trembled, and she uttered coldly through her teeth.

"Jing Lince, you are shameless!"

Jing Lince ignored her and only spoke to the people on the other side.

"If you are really indifferent and won't take any action, what are you waiting for?"

His knife lightly scratched Shen Yueyao's neck, leaving a trace of bright red.

Shen Yueyao was frightened. The sudden pain made her frown and glance at the person behind her.

Suddenly, an arrow flew straight towards her from the front.

The person behind him suddenly had his pupils shrink and an expression of disbelief appeared on his face.

He quickly raised the knife across Shen Yueyao's neck to block the arrow that was about to pierce her throat.

Shen Yueyao opened her eyes wide in panic, took a short and spasmodic breath, and her eyebrows twitched slightly twice.

She turned her head to look at Jing Lince. His eyes were full of sadness and his thin lips were tightly pursed.

Shen Yueyao trembled her lips and asked in a low voice: "Why did you save me?"

He sighed and said, "Qionghua told me that you humiliated her outside Lanyue Palace. No matter what, your words of burning incense and worshipping Buddha left her a glimmer of hope."

Shen Yueyao lowered her head and said, "If it weren't for the prince, she wouldn't understand."

Xiaoyang has an unruly tradition that the new King of Xiaoyang can inherit everything from the old King of Xiaoyang, including his wives and concubines.

But Xiaoyang believed in Buddhism very much. If she became a nun, she would be free and could escape the disaster.

She said this not out of compassion. With her intelligence quotient, the other party might not understand even if she told them, so she just wanted to tease him.

After a while, he said, "Maybe we share the same suffering, we are both abandoned people."

"..."

After hearing this, Shen Yueyao felt a little upset.

Jing Ruzhang turned sideways, with a captivating cold light in his eyes, and asked sternly.

"Who shot the arrow?"