Don't you want me to come?

When Han Zitong heard me say this, he stiffened a little.

The flashing candlelight shone on her pale face and also on her eyes with complicated expressions, as if countless emotions flashed through her at this moment.

Frightened, fearful, confused, helpless...

I could even feel her breathing and heartbeat getting heavier.

"Don't you want me to come?"

I repeated it again.

I don’t know if it was because my fist was pinching too tightly, and I squeezed the blisters that had just swollen. A stinging pain came from the palm of my palm, but I pinched my fist even tighter, and the stinging pain also made me more awake.

No matter how sad or sad others are, no matter what has happened this night or what will happen, I must recognize the road ahead of me, and I must be firm in my future and go on well!

As if it was attacked by the almost sharp gaze in my eyes, Han Zitong's eyes also slightly recovered.

She said, "You know I want to let you go?"

I smiled faintly: "I will give up this position sooner or later one day."

“…”

"In the future, it will make everyone break up, and it will make him feel embarrassed. It's better for me to be a favor and give this position to you - to your sister take the initiative to give it."

“…”

"Maybe, this is a great merit."

Han Zitong looked at the candlelight, and her expression seemed a little unstable. She seemed to have something to say, but she wanted to say it a few times, and she didn't know what to ask. At this time, the noisy sound outside was getting louder and louder. I had no doubt that after the ceremony, Pei Yuanxiu would immediately return to the inner courtyard after the bride and groom gathered with the guests, because he said that he would go to the inner courtyard tonight to accompany me. What would he feel if he arrived at the inner courtyard and faced the empty room?

If he chases here, will I still have a chance to leave?

I dare not think about it, nor do I want to think about it.

So I took a deep breath and said, "I have arrived here, but I have made a decision."

“…”

"I'm leaving!"

“…”

Han Zitong stood at the door biting her lower lip. She seemed to be hesitant, but after hesitating for a while, looking at my unhesitant eyes, she finally made up her mind and said, "Okay."

“…”

"I'm ready, come with me."

After hearing what she said, I felt relieved.

In fact, since she went to the inner courtyard that day and said those words to her, I could almost expect today. I also know that in order to let her sister take the position of Pei Yuanxiu's wife, she would definitely try every means to let me give up this position and send me away. This is indeed the easiest and most direct way.

I watched her come over, walk past me, and walk to the other end of the room. I gently tapped a closed window there. After a while, three very light sounds of knocking on the edge of the window came from outside.

It was the one she prepared to respond!

I was delighted and hurried over.

But just as I turned around and was about to walk over, a low voice with a strange tone came from behind me.

"lady?"

My steps stopped, and I turned around.

Caiwei was holding the shaking glass lamp, and was still standing at the door, looking at me with a complicated expression on her face.

I looked at her, too.

"Madam, are you still leaving?"

"right."

"Madam doesn't say that people seek benefits and avoid harm. Isn't the lady afraid of being caught by the young master again?"

When Han Zitong heard this, she felt something was wrong. She frowned and was about to come over, but I calmly said, "Of course I'm afraid."

"That--"

"But even if I'm afraid, I can't help but do something." Although I said that, I didn't go to Han Zitong's side immediately. Instead, I slowly turned my steps and turned to face her.

The lantern in her hand was even more shaking than when it was just outside, and was blown by the wind, because her hands were shaking constantly.

Of course I know what this moment means to her. After all, she was beaten so badly in the inner courtyard, just across the gate. That was something Pei Yuanxiu wanted her to remember deeply, that she would never dare to let me go again, and that she would never dare to think about the "success" she shouldn't have thought about.

People seek benefits and avoid harm.

"Mrs. I said at that time that if my servants would be afraid of pain and give up the idea of ​​being up, then the wife might also give up the idea of ​​leaving."

I squinted my eyes slightly: "Have you given up?"

“…”

Han Zitong, who had been standing by the window, showed a look of shock on her face. Although the conversation between Caiwei and I was a little vague, she obviously understood it at this time, and her face suddenly became darker. Seeing Caiwei retreating little by little, the expression on her face became more and more afraid, as if she was back to that day, when she was tortured outside the door, the painful and shrill moment.

When she spoke again, her voice was already broken and trembling changed: "Madam, I'm sorry."

“…!”

"I, I really didn't mean it, and I didn't want to give up."

“…”

"But, I'm afraid..."

“…”

"I can't stand it the second time. The young master said that if I help you escape, I won't want to live."

“…”

"Madam, I'm sorry, I-"

Seeing her trembling more and more violently, she slowly retreated back, Han Zitong suddenly became anxious and hurried over: "You——"

Before she could say anything, the fear in Caiwei's eyes had already overwhelmed everything. She turned around and was about to shout outside.

Just outside the courtyard, there were the guards who sent us over. If she shouted, those people would rush in immediately, and then everything would be like the previous one again.

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However, just as she opened her mouth wide and was about to make a sound, there was only a dry cry in her throat, like the sound of grit rubbing, hissing.

At this time, she was shocked, and suddenly reached out to cover her throat, and shouted hard, coughing, but no matter how she tossed, she couldn't say anything except the dry cry.

I looked at her anxious and frightened look coldly. This scene looked so familiar.

How heartbreaking it is?

I said slowly, "Don't try it anymore, it's dumb."

“…!”

She opened her eyes wide in horror and turned to look at me. Not only her, but even Han Zitong next to her was shocked. She looked at me with a cold face in disbelief, as if she was looking at an evil ghost. Caiwei's eyes flashed twice, and she was about to turn around to open the door, but just as she walked over and her hand was touching the door, I immediately said, "If you don't want to be dumb for the rest of your life, it's best not to go out and call someone."

“…”

Her hands froze there again.

The whole person seemed to be nailed to the door, and a puppet's body had lost its traction. In an instant, even her eyes became cold. She turned around and looked at me tremblingly, with fear and fear in her eyes as if she couldn't believe what was happening in front of her.

"You are still young and so smart," I walked over slowly, walked to her, reached out to take the glass lamp in her trembling hand that was shaking so that it was about to fall to the ground at any time, and closed the lid with a snap, "If it's really dumb for the rest of my life, wouldn't it be a pity?"

The candlelight inside the glass lamp struggled for a few times and finally went out.

Caiwei also fell to the ground like the extinguished candlelight.

Han Zitong walked a few steps to me, looked at her, looked at me again, and after a while, he asked, "What's going on? Why did she--"

I said lightly: "I just used a little medicine."

"What medicine?"

"Some spices will make people lose energy, and there are anisops, belladonna, and musk, which will make people's throats dumb when ignited."

That is the medicines I used to deal with Liu Ningyan in the palace back then.

Han Zitong also trembled for a moment, and her eyes fell into the extinguished glass lamp in my hand. Caiwei held her throat with one hand, and looked at the glass lamp, and her face turned pale.

Han Zitong's cold sweat broke out and looked at me in disbelief: "You, you have long suspected that she would betray you, so you made those things in this?"

“…”

This time, I didn't say anything, just looked at Caiwei who was trembling, and my eyes were slightly trembling.

After a while, I said, "I just don't want anyone to betray me."

“…”

When she heard what I said, her face suddenly turned red, as if she had been slapped hard in the face.

Seeing her trembling as if she was a little beast that had fallen into a trap, she was frightened and helpless, and there seemed to be some indescribable emotions surging in her eyes. After I was silent for a long time, I continued, "Actually, I was the one who suspected you first. I don't have any pity for you, so you don't have to blame yourself too much."
To be continued...