52. I’m Sorry, Ye Shengxuan

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

If she could run away from the imperial palace successfully, she would love to follow this man in front of her for the rest of her life. Helian Chacha swore secretly to herself.

Noticing that she had been staring at him, Chu Jianmo thought she was worrying about how to get out of the palace, so he started to comfort her, “I promised you that I will take you out of this place, and I meant it. So don’t worry, I will find a way out.”

Helian Chacha felt his anxious look quite funny, “I am not worried. I think you look rather worried, Jianmo.”

“Really? Is it that obvious?” Chu Jianmo raised his eyebrows, “But if you get the token, you can get out of the palace and find me at my residence at any time.”

“Please take this.” He took a jade pendant off from his waist and handed it to Helian Chacha, “This is a personal belonging to me, if you take it to visit my residence, they will lead you to meet me.”

Helian Chacha took it directly without declining.

The two of them chatted for a while and then Chu Jianmo looked up at the sun, “It’s already so late. I think I should go to meet the Princess.”

As he sopke, he stood up already.

Speaking of the Princess, Helian Chacha felt not so comfortable. She could still remember the first time when she saw Chu Jianmo, and he was with the Princess at that time. And for so many times after that, her meetings with Chu Jianmo were all interrupted by the Princess.

It seemed that Chu Jianmo didn’t really care about it either and he left together with the Princess every time.

What was the relationship between the two of them?

“Qinyuan, what are you thinking about?” A palm waved in front of Helian Chacha’s eyes.

She finally came back to her mind and found Chu Jianmo staring at her with confusion.

Thinking of the what had been on her mind, Helian Chacha felt so embarrassed that she wished she could dig a hole to hide herself, “No, no, nothing.”

Would things be any different if Chu Jianmo did have a relationship with the Princess? It was not because Chu Jianmo liked her that he decided to help her…

Thinking of that, she actually felt a bit sad.

Seeing that she looked really upset, Chu Jianmo started to worry about her, “But I called you many times, and you didn’t respond to me at all. Do you feel uncomfortable?”

She pulled off the hand of Chu Jianmo and said, “No. I’m going back.”

“Eh?” Looking at her receding shadow, Chu Jianmo started to talk to himself with confusion, “I thought she was alright? What has happened to her?”

Once you had doubts in your brain, it would be really hard to let them go away.

Returning to Yonghe Palace, Helian Chacha sat by the window and fell into her thoughts. The only thing on her mind at that moment was the intimacy of Chu Jianmo and Ye Tingfang.

“Your Highness, are you alright? Are you feeling uncomfortable? Shall I call the imperial doctor to have a look?” Bohe noticed that she had been sitting there for more than 2 hours, so she was quite worried about her.

Helian Chacha turned around to look at her, and then she gave her a bitter smile, “I’m alright. Just go ahead for yourself.”

Bohe wanted to say something, but since Helian Chacha was still staring outside with a blank mind, she sighed and left the room instead.

Time passed by gradually, it was already evening when Helian Chacha was finally back to her mind.

Bohe had already prepared the dinner for her and was about to call her, but she had already come here.

She pulled out the chair to let her sit down, “Your Highness, please have a seat.”

Helian Chacha sat down right away. Looking at the delicacies all over the table, she didn’t really have an appetite. So she started to knock the table with her chopsticks and sighed along.

“Your Highness, what has happened?” Bohe was really worried about her.

She raised her head and looked at Bohe, saying after a short while of hesitation, “Bohe, what do you say… A woman calls a man brother, and they often have quite intimate contacts, and the man never says no to that. Do they love each other?”

“Of course.” Bohe nodded without hesitation, “I know our Ling Kingdom is quite open-minded, but the interaction between the two genders is still quite implicit. If a pair behave so intimately, I bet they will become husband and wife in the future.”

As soon as she said that, Helian Chacha dropped the chopsticks heavily and walked out of the room without even looking back.

Bohe was shocked for a second and then shouted behind her, “Your Highness! Where are you going, Your Highness? You haven’t had dinner yet!”

“I need to cool down in the outside!”

Looking at her walking away, Bohe felt super confused, “Did I say anything wrong?”

She took a walk randomly in the outside. Maybe it was too late, there were few people there.

After walking for a while, she got bored and returned back.

Then, with the help of Bohe, she took a shower and changed the clothes as she was about to sleep.

With quite a few days of being nervous, she should have felt quite sleepy, but she was still very energetic after lying on the bed for almost 4 hours.

Insomnia…

Helian Chacha stared at the veils hanging on top of the bed frame in despair.

Suddenly, she came up with an idea. At this moment, Ye Shengxuan should have already fallen asleep, right? She squinted her eyes.

Dark night tonight, what a good time to take action!

She got out of the bed carefully and took out her black tights in the closet. Then, she covered half of her face with a random piece of clothes, sneaking out of Yonghe Palace through the window she had just opened secretly.

One quarter had already passed when she finally arrived at Yangxin Hall.

At that moment, Yangxin Hall looked very sacred and inviolable when it was soaked in the moonlight. But what was confusing to her was that there was not even one single guardian outside the gate of Yangxin Hall and its vicinity.

What happened?

She didn’t dare to make a move, so she sat on the tall tree next to Yangxin Hall for a while, and didn’t continue to go further inside before she had made sure that there was actually nobody.

In order not to get spotted by anyone, she chose to sneak in from a window on the right.

It was really quiet inside Yangxin Hall as the air was scented with light ambergris. She sneaked into the inner hall secretly.

As soon as she got closer, she could hear some moans coming from the inside.

Was Ye Shengxuan having sex with his concubines? Her heart started to bounce fast.

She tried to breathe lighter and walked to the imperial bed step by step. When she was able to see Ye Shengxuan clearly, she was suddenly shocked by the scene in front of her eyes.

Ye Shengxuan was half-naked and struggling painfully on the bed. Somehow, there were sharp nails on his hand, and it seemed that his back was plumped up by something that looked weirdly strong. His face was covered by his long scattering hair.

Although she couldn’t see his face, Helian Chacha could tell from his voice that he was very painful at the moment.

Helian Chacha covered her mouth out of shock, and her bright eyes were filled with surprise.

Why would Ye Shengxuan become someone like this? Was he poisoned?

Except for her, who else would poison him?

“Er…Ah!!” Ye Shengxuan screamed out and then turned around, falling to the other side of his imperial bed.

Helian Chacha’s eyes brightened up as she said to herself secretly, “Helian Chacha, it is not the time to show your kindness right now. Yes, he saved you, but so you saved him as well, right? You and him are even now. The most important thing to do is to get that token, otherwise, you will spend the rest of your life in this golden cage!”

Her eyes went dark and rushed to the imperial bed when Ye Shengxuan still had not got up from the other side. She took away the pillow and found an emerald token was lying there quietly.

It was the token to get out of the palace!

“Ah!”

She was just about to take it, but she withdrew her hand as she was frightened by the shriek of Ye Shengxuan. She looked at the other side and found Ye Shengxuan was still lying there, so she took the token in her arms right away.

Then, she turned around and jumped out of the window. She could still hear the groaning of Ye Shengxuan when she was leaving.

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