Imprisoning the Black Moonlight

After a day and a half, the next afternoon, Yao Gongyue looked at the large boxes filling the living room, pursed her lips, and said, "Alright, Dasen, move them away. Remember, you must personally oversee the destruction of all of them before you come back."

The housekeeper didn't understand why the young mistress suddenly wanted to destroy everything, but he didn't dare to ask too many questions. He guessed that the master had angered her again, and she was venting her anger by making a scene.

The gentleman is the same; why bother with the young mistress when he has nothing better to do? He can't win against her anyway, and in the end, he'll have to rack his brains to coax her. Why bother? Young people really know how to cause trouble.

That's what he thought, but he still had to agree verbally and personally followed the truck out of the manor.

Yao Gongyue went up to the second floor, looked around again and again to make sure she hadn't forgotten anything that concerned her, before leaving the house as if nothing had happened.

Hong Jin, I hope this helps you understand my determination to leave.

……

In the stillness of the night, under a deep, dark sky, the white gauze curtains cast shadows of branches swaying in the wind outside. Suddenly, the person sleeping in the bed slowly opened their eyes.

There was a phone next to the pillow, the video call was still going on, and you could clearly see Hong Jin's handsome profile as he was busy with his head down.

It's already past 1 a.m., does he really think he's made of iron?

Take a deep breath, pretend to roll over, and cover the phone camera with the blanket.

"Baby, baby?"

The night was so quiet that even the man's gentle, tentative tone on the other end of the phone was clearly audible.

"Little scatterbrain, you kicked off the covers again!" The man chuckled. "Oh well, it's not cold now anyway." He muttered to himself before the video call ended.

Yao Gongyue's palms were sweating profusely. She lay on the bed until two minutes after the phone call ended, before finally getting up.

There are cameras everywhere outside; whether it succeeds or not depends entirely on that stupid snake, Jinjin.

You raise snakes for a thousand days, only to use them for one!

She pulled Jinjin out from under the bed, stroking its snake head. "Baby, whether Mommy succeeds or not depends entirely on you. You have to do your best!"

After saying that, he opened the door and let Jinjin out.

Hong Jin never taught her how to communicate with Jin Jin; she figured it out on her own, succeeding three out of ten times, entirely by luck.

Time passed second by second. She sat on the carpet, looking up at the cold white moonlight outside the window. Her mind was blank. She didn't know what she was thinking, nor what fate awaited her. In fact, she knew nothing.

She slowly removed the jade bracelet from her wrist, as well as all the gold and jewelry on her body. These were all gifts from Hong Jin, and she wanted to cut ties cleanly, so she wouldn't wear any of them.

Finally, half an hour later, the warm orange light by the bedside went out with a click.

Jinjin succeeded, it really succeeded.

Yao Gongyue didn't even know which organ to use to breathe. She forced back the tears in her eyes, opened the window, and without hesitation, climbed up the tree outside the window and down the trunk to the ground.

She ran frantically towards the lake. She had walked this path countless times and rehearsed it in her mind countless times. If she could reach the lake within six minutes, no one would be able to spot her.

sizzle~

Finally, she heard Jinjin's voice.

The plan was imperfect, full of unexpected changes, and she wasn't sure if Jinjin could do as she was taught, but in the end, she won the gamble.

"Jinjin!" Yao Gongyue excitedly patted Jinjin, took out a handful of dried fish from her sweatpants pocket, and handed it to it, "Eat up!"

After saying that, he gritted his teeth, took off his shoes, tied the shoelaces together, hung them on his trouser drawstring, and went into the water.

She has to swim out first, and catch up with Jinjin when she's almost finished eating. By then, they'll be close to the forest, and Jinjin will take her into the woods.

This was the most crucial step, and also the riskiest. She had never trained with Jinjin before and wasn't sure if it would lead her back. But she could only gamble, gamble that Jinjin was smart enough.

The lake was exceptionally cold at night, but she had no way out and could only grit her teeth and swim outwards. The lake water was a bit murky, and the water plants were gradually becoming denser, constantly scraping against her ankles.

Despite being extremely careful, my ankle was still entangled and I couldn't kick it off no matter how hard I tried. I watched as my strength slowly gave out.

She wasn't a very good swimmer to begin with, and she had been training intensively for a while, thinking that would be enough, but unexpectedly, an accident still happened.

He kicked his ankles anxiously, his lungs were getting colder and colder, and his hands began to struggle wildly.

No, I don't want to die here...

The desperate girl was enveloped in cold water, but her heart was even colder than the water.

Suddenly, she felt a strong touch on her waist. She wasn't sure what it was, so she held her breath and felt the force, which grew stronger and stronger until it finally pulled her out.

It's Jin Jin!

Yao Gongyue almost burst into tears, but she managed to hold them back. She poked her head out and took a few breaths. By the moonlight, she realized that she was still inside the manor and hadn't swum out yet. Gritting her teeth, she continued to dive into the water.

Jin Jin had already swum towards the shore, but not seeing her owner chasing after her, she swam back. Yao Gongyue refused to swim back, so Jin Jin protected her all the way. Finally, she clearly felt that the speed of the current around her was different from before.

Jin Jin also became excited and swam ahead of her.

Yao Gongyue knew that this was the route Jinjin had secretly taken to escape; she had made the right bet.

Underwater was a small stone cave, from which water kept gushing out. Swimming against the current was not easy for her. She gritted her teeth and reached out to grab Jinjin's tail.

Jinjin thought its owner wouldn't let it out, so it obediently turned around and was about to swim back. Yao Gongyue pulled it back with all her might and shoved it into the hole. Only then did Jinjin follow.

After an unknown amount of time, she finally smelled the unique damp and rotten smell of the deep forest. Yao Gongyue struggled to get ashore, exhausted. Ignoring her soaked body, she lay down on the thick layer of fallen leaves at the edge of the forest, panting heavily.

"Jinjin, you can't leave! What if a wild animal eats me if you leave?" She clung to Jinjin, refusing to let go. The primeval forest was no joke; one wrong move and she would be dead. With Jinjin by her side, she would at least have an extra fighting force.

By the moonlight, she sat on the ground, wrung out the water from her body as much as possible, put on her shoes, and went downstream along the river.

She had watched the news about the military exchange many times. When the military officers and soldiers were interviewed, they mentioned that they would camp and cook by the water. After some analysis, she figured that since it was an exchange and not real training, they probably wouldn't be too secretive about it. Their camp was probably near a water source.

Yao Gongyue knew she had no sense of direction, so she dared not stray too far from the riverbank, fearing that if she got lost and entered the forest, she would surely die.

As dawn broke and the sky began to lighten, the exhausted girl finally heard the long-awaited countdown: "One, two, one..."

That's the sound of the troops doing their morning exercises. Found it, finally found it.

Wiping away her tears hastily, Yao Gongyue sniffed and ran wildly toward the direction from which the sounds of military training were coming.