Let Me Pursue You

Yuan Cixian parted her lips slightly, lying on the ground with her head stuck out for a moment in a daze. She originally thought that this mechanism might be connected to a secret room where important things are hidden, but she didn't expect that there was such a deep secret passage underneath.

The emperor has a hole under his feet, she probably married a fat mouse.

She hung half of her body and looked in, only to see that there was nothing in the narrow and simple secret passage, only a pull ring near the door, and a few wall lamps hanging on the mudstone wall on one side. The torches in the wall lamps were shrouded in shades, emitting a dim yellow light, which looked a bit eerie from a distance.

Yuan Cixian shuddered, got up and brushed off her clothes, although she was curious about where the secret road led to, she silently endured it and didn't go in, thinking that she should stop running around in the middle of the night, why not just wait a while To test Lu Shiqing, you can also see if he is honest with her.

After she made up her mind, she was about to take off the jade pen pillow and restore everything to its original state, but when she stretched out her hand, she suddenly froze and stopped an inch away from the wall.

and many more. Why is the wall lamp in the secret passage on?

The wall lamp uses short candles, which will burn out within an hour, but Lu Shiqing had already set out to greet him two hours ago, it is absolutely impossible that he forgot to extinguish the candles just before walking down the secret passage. So, who lit the wall lamp? Such a private bedroom, such a hidden secret passage, who would enter it on this wedding night?

Yuan Cixian hesitated for a moment, turned back, walked down the stone steps step by step, and reached the nearest wall lamp, took off the lampshade, checked the length of the short candle, and felt even more strange.

The short candle didn't burn much, it looked like it was just lit two sticks of incense. And two incense sticks ago, she was sitting alone in this bedroom, and she could be sure that no one had ever opened this door. In this way, it was someone who came here through the other side of the secret road.

She shuddered, goosebumps all over her body, subconsciously felt the danger, and wanted to turn around and back out. However, when she stared straight at the end of the secret passage, she changed her mind.

wrong. Lu Shiqing is a cautious person, and it is absolutely impossible to keep such a hidden danger by his side. This secret way must be harmless. After all, he didn't even want to show her face to the guests, so how could he allow anyone to have the possibility to enter this bedroom from the outside.

She stood still and rethought the whole thing, and found several doubts.

First, digging tunnels in the workshop is a violation of the law. How could Lu Shiqing treat it so negligently, allowing the mechanism on the wall to be exposed to the outside so easily? Even if it is not against her, it should be against other people.

Second, it has been a long time since he greeted the guests, even if he couldn't get away because the guests were entangled, how could he not think of her at all, and even removed the servants in the new house, leaving her alone It's not working? He is not afraid that she will starve her stomach.

Third, since there were no servants in the room, it meant that Lu Shiqing had no intention of restraining her, so why did he specially emphasize "sit still" before leaving? He clearly knew that she liked to play against him.

Yuan Cixian blinked in a daze, and looked into the dark depths of the secret passage again.

These problems can be explained by "coincidence", but Xu Shan said: too many coincidences are not coincidences.

Apart from coincidence, the only answer that is applicable to all doubts is: this secret passage was discovered by Lu Shiqing on purpose.

Yuan Cixian's heart beat like a drum for a moment, and for some reason, she was so nervous that her palms were sweating.

She remained silent for a while, and finally took off the short candle and held it in her hand, and walked slowly towards the depth step by step.

This dank secret passage is not particularly long, and there is only one turn in it. Yuan Cixian walked cautiously at first, but later she was guided by a strong and inexplicable intuition to walk faster and faster, until she came to the end and saw a pull ring that was exactly the same as where she came from, with a thin thread attached to it.

She fixed her eyes on the hidden door slanted above her head, reached out her hand to touch the pull ring, and pulled it down hesitantly.

There was another "creak" sound, and the secret door opened from the back to the front. She held the candle in one hand, and supported the stone wall with the other to step up the three stone steps. After standing still, she slowly raised her head.

What caught his eye was a beautiful new house with a layout similar to that of the Lu Mansion. There was light on all sides, a man in a black robe with long sleeves, a wooden hairpin, and a silver mask covering his face was standing opposite and looking at her. On the Mu Shi in his hand, hung a scarlet round-neck robe, which was exactly what Lu Shiqing wore after changing clothes to greet the guests.

Her expression was stiff, and she looked at him motionless until she saw him slowly raise his hand, pinch a corner of the mask, and then gently move it away.

The moment she saw his face behind the mask, Yuan Cixian trembled all over, and a drop of candle oil spilled from the short candle in her hand. The hot candle oil dripped on her tiger's mouth, causing her to subconsciously throw away the candle in pain, frowning and "hissing".

Startled, Lu Shiqing rushed forward to grab her hand, as if wanting to check her injuries. Yuan Cixian had recovered, pulled her hand out from his palm, took a step back, and stared at him with her head slightly raised.

Lu Shiqing didn't move any more, frowning, as if swallowing with difficulty.

Yuan Cixian slowly shifted her eyes from his face to the hem of his clothes, then stretched out her hands to open his collar, and pushed his outer robe and inner clothes to both sides. Because her hands were trembling, she tried several times but couldn't move them away. Finally, she lost her patience and simply gritted her teeth and pulled hard.

With a sound of "stabbing", his jade-colored chest was completely exposed in front of her eyes. Near the heart, there was a hideous scar. The new flesh hadn't grown completely flat yet, it was bumpy and bright red.

Lu Shiqing didn't stop him from the beginning to the end, just stood up straight and let her move, until her fingertips touched his scar, she couldn't help trembling slightly.

Yuan Cixian rubbed his fingertips back and forth on his scar, and suddenly smiled wryly.

Although the large sleeves of his toga covered his figure, the mask concealed his face and even the most recognizable eye contours, his voice was perfectly fabricated, and his identity was impeccably fabricated, but she was still very close to the truth several times.

She remembered that in the wilderness of Chang'an, Lu Shiqing was whipped by her elder brother, leaving a hideous scar on the back of her hand. Later, she went to Lu's mansion to bandage his wound, and found that his injury had not been treated properly at all, and instead showed signs of deterioration. She only thought he was sloppy, but she didn't expect that it was he who had been to the Yuan Mansion as "Xu Shan" the day before, and used makeup powder to cover up the traces in order not to be exposed, which caused the wound to fester and burst.

She remembered that when he came to the Yuan Mansion for a banquet, she successfully lifted his mask, but only let him show the corner of his jaw. She just thought it was because she was drowsy and weak after drinking, and accidentally bumped, but she didn't expect that it was Lu Shiqing's scheme from the beginning to the end. He already knew that she was going to attack, so he turned his head in time; he also expected that she was suspicious of the face behind his mask, so he tried to use this method to win her sympathy once and for all.

She remembered that when she went south, she received news from Xu Sanniang at Zhu County Magistrate's Mansion, and was about to rush back to Chang'an, but Lu Shiqing stayed behind with a strange reason. She only thought that he was in love with her, but she didn't expect that his blocking had another meaning, which was to prevent her from going to "Xu Shan" who was not in the capital at all.

In addition to all these, what is even more ironic is that a few days ago, she suspected that "Xu Shan" had a double identity and was probably a certain official in the court, so she looked around for opportunities to check, and even asked Lu Shiqing for information, but forgot that the world's The so-called "darkness under the lights", gave up the suspect who was close at hand, and spontaneously excluded him.

She had so many opportunities to get close to the truth, but missed it again and again.

Until today, on her wedding night with him, seeing him expose everything in such an almost tragic way.

She put her hand on his heart, looked up at the candles in the room, and said the first sentence after coming here: "Why, Lu Shiqing?"

Since he had lied to her for so long, why did he choose to tell her the truth cruelly at this juncture?

It is not impossible for him to continue to hide from her. Can't put out the candle at the wedding night, won't he blindfold her, won't he show her his scars?

She doesn't want to know at this time. Even if Lu Shiqing is Xu Shan, she would rather never know.

Her lips were trembling, her voice was hoarse, and her eyes were red. Lu Shiqing looked down at her, paused for a moment, and then hugged her into his arms.

Because he can no longer hide from her.

Ever since Ping Wang left the capital, he had planned to find an opportunity to tell the story, but every time he said it, he stopped talking. Sometimes, seeing that she has excellent acting skills and never fully reveals the relationship between the Yuan family and Zheng Zhuo, she felt a little awkward. Sometimes it was because she seemed to have nothing on her mind and teased him cheerfully, so she was a little scared.

He was afraid that after he said that, he would never see her like that again.

How could such a free and easy person like her be bound by a marriage contract? As long as she wanted to leave him, she couldn't keep even ten papers.

So he kept procrastinating, until five days ago, he knew it was time.

He must marry her and keep her by his side. This is his selfishness. But he couldn't completely want her with some concealment and reservations, this was his bottom line.

His request should be wholehearted and honest, as should her delivery.

As for the arrangement of an identical new house in Xu's house, it was because he hoped that she could truly combine Lu Shiqing and Xu Shan in her heart tonight.

He hugged Yuan Cixian, held her tightly in his arms, and said, "I'm sorry." After finishing speaking, he repeated in a low voice, "I'm sorry..."

Yuan Cixian was almost suffocated by him, her bones seemed to be broken, she frowned and struggled but couldn't get away, and said displeasedly: "Lu Shiqing, I'm in pain."

Lu Shiqing let go of her hand in an instant, and she took a step back. She looked at him with red eyes for a while, and saw that he seemed to want to ask something, so she interrupted first: "Don't ask me if I can forgive you, I don't know now. , I will answer you when I figure it out." After speaking, he turned around and was about to descend the stone steps.

Lu Shiqing thought that when she figured it out, he might die in her heart, and in a hurry, he reached out and grabbed her wrist: "Cixian..."

He had never called her by her surname before, but the first time he uttered it, it sounded like pleading.

Yuan Cixian was slightly startled, and after a pause, she wanted to withdraw her hand, but after all, she couldn't match his strength, so she asked him to drag her back, and was wrapped in her arms by her back.

When she was annoyed, she stabbed him with her elbow, kicked back hard, and heard him grunt, then took advantage of his letting go and hurried down the stone steps. She was about to leave quickly, but she heard him Coughing from behind.

Yuan Cixian stopped and looked back at him, and saw that he was holding on to the edge of the wall with one hand and covering his heart with the other, looking as if he was stabbed by her and the old injury had relapsed, and he was in great pain.

She subconsciously took a step forward, and recalled the angle at which she exerted force just now, but felt something was wrong.

She was pushing downwards just now, how could she poke his heart?

He's lying to her again!

She gritted her teeth resentfully, turned around and walked forward quickly.

Seeing that the tricks didn't work, Lu Shiqing hurried to catch up and said, "Yuan Cixian, wait for me."

Yuan Cixian didn't turn her head back, and said viciously as she walked quickly: "What are you waiting for, waiting for your bridal chamber? You are so powerful, go with yourself!"