Your Majesty, Eunuch Lin Is Pregnant

58. Suspicion

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

Having never expected that Chu Jianmo would care about Helian Chacha so much, the man looked quite surprised as he put seriously, “Your Highness, please think over our real business.”

“I have the confidence to make her forget what happened tonight.” Chu Jianmo made no compromise at all, “Please just pretend that you didn’t see anything, minister.”

They looked into each others’ eyes for quite a while.

Chu Jianmo’s attitude was way out of the expectation of the man.

He had been cooperating with Chu Jianmo for years but never saw him caring about a woman that much, “Your Highness, don’t tell me that you can’t bear to kill her.”

“She is in my boat, and I need her for some reason. If the Empress Dowager wants to kill her, she has to get prepared to be called for an end to our alliance,” Chu Jianmo said calmly.

The man opened his eyes wide in astonishment, “You even want a fallout with the Empress Dowager just for a woman?”

“Don’t get me wrong, minister. That’s not what I mean… It was just an assumption.” Chu Jianmo turned around and sat by Helian Chacha. He reached out to touch her fair cheek of Helian Chacha, “I know the Empress Dowager has a bone to pick with her, but I still hope that the Empress Dowager could let her off the hook this time, for the sake of me.”

Having been working with Chu Jiaomo for so many years, the man knew it clearly that Chu Jianmo would never leave Helian Chacha behind, no matter what reason it might be.

He gazed at Chu Jianmo deeply with a flashing light of complexity in his eyes.

“In this case, I think I have nothing else to say. Please take care of yourself.” Then, he led other men running into the downpours and disappeared in the darkness of the night.

Soon after those men in black were all gone, the coachman couldn’t help asking, “Your Highness, are we really going to keep her?”

After all, he just witnessed how terrified and disgusted Helian Chacha felt from her face, which has already made it clear that she was no longer one of them.

Hearing the coachman’s question, Chu Jianmo smiled slightly, “Her value is way higher than you can imagine. You will know it later.”

Time flied. In a blink of an eye, it was already early morning.

“Siluan, Siluan.”

‘Who is it?’

“Siluan, wake up. We are leaving now.”

‘It is Chu Jianmo!’

She opened her eyes swiftly. What came into her eyes immediately was Chu Jianmo’s face with a smile as always, so she twitched back a bit in shock.

“Siluan, what’s going on?” Chu Jianmo asked worriedly, “Are you alright?”

‘So weird. Why Chu Jianmo is acting like nothing happened? Ouch…my neck hurts as hell.’

She held her neck painfully and wondered in confusion. ‘Maybe nothing happened last night, and everything was just a nightmare she made?’

“Siluan, Siluan?” Chu Jianmo raisedhis hand and waved it in front of her eyes.

“Ah?” Helian Chacha finally came to her sense, “I feel like I heard you talking last night. Didn’t you sleep last night?”

Chu Jianmo looked at her in bewilderment, “You must hear it wrong. We went to bed just a few minutes later than you.”

How could that be…

“Alright, drop those dreams. Get up now. The breakfast is ready. Come and dig in.” Meanwhile, Chu Jianmo finally pulled her out of bed.

Then he gave her some rainwater to clean her mouth. After she washed up simply, he gave her some fruits.

“Here you are. I just picked them up in the woods nearby.”

Helian Chacha held the fruits for a long time but didn’t eat them at all.

Supposing that she was worried about something else, Chu Jianmo said again, “Don’t worry. I’ve already tried some, and they are not poisonous. Just have it.”

“I didn’t mean that.” Helian Chacha came back to her mind and perfunctorily had a bite, saying tentatively, “I was just thinking of a nightmare I had last night.”

“A nightmare?” Chu Jianmo freezed and gently pushed Helian Chacha, joking, “Did you dream of me?”

What he said made Helian Chacha shocked for a second as she suddenly recalled that sound of the sword piercing the body.

‘How could that dream be so real? Is everything happened last night just a dream?’

She looked at the spot where they had stood last night subconsciously. There were no extra footprints or traces of being stepped on.

‘Maybe, that’s actually just a dream?’

Seeing her in astonishment, Chu Jianmo showed an expression suggesting his disbelief, “Don’t tell me that’s true? Am I your nightmare?”

“I’m just kidding. Let’s finish the fruits quickly. We gotta get a move on.” Helian Chacha stuff a fruit into his mouth.

Chu Jianmo ate that fruit right away and he said in grievance, “Siluan, you learned something bad. You were not like this before.”

“Cut it out. Just eat.”

They were flirting while eating. Soon, Helian Chacha forgot those unpleasant things.

After the eating and drinking, the coachman had already fed the horses and waiting for them to get aboard.

Chu Jianmo helped her get on the carriage. With the command of the coachman to the horse, the carriage started to run quickly. The cool breeze calm Helian Chacha down gradually that she stopped thinking about what had happened in her dream.

Left aside the fact that those things could not be verified, there was another reason. In her heart, Chu Jianmo was perfect, but that dream destroyed his perfection.

And she didn’t want that kind of thought to stick in her mind.

On this side, they were running away from Chang’an City at full speed. While on the other side, Ye Shengxuan received the message early in the morning that his scout had been killed by Chu Jianmo.

When he received that letter, Jiang Yunuan happened to be in the imperial study.

After reading the confidential letter, he passed it to Jiang Yunuan. It seemed that Jiang Yunuan had already been used to do it, so he took the letter and read it directly.

After that, he walked to the candle and ignited the letter. Soon, the entire paper was swallowed by the flame, leaving some ashes dropping to the ground.

“Our speculation seems to be correct. This Chu Jianmo is not the real Chu Jianmo.” Jiang Yunuan said slowly, “Long time ago, I heard the rumor among the civilian population. Before Chu Jianmo came to Chang’an City, he was quite timid and overcautious, and couldn’t do martial arts at all. The reason he was sent to Chang’an City is that he was unable to take the position of General Zhenwei because of his fragile body.”

“But who would have expected that before he could make it to Chang’an City, he had been robbed by a group of gangsters, and all of his guardians and servants got killed. He was the only survivor who came here safely. Since then, Chu Jianmo has become quite healthy, and he is now rather gentle than cowardly. He’s even improved a lot in martial arts. That was one of the greatest riddles in Changan City back then.”

“I remember that I ordered you to investigate him at that time.” Ye Shengxuan’s eyes looked really cold, “Why didn’t you find anything wrong? And how come your Tianji Sect failed to miss out on such important information?”

“Your Majesty,” Jiang Yunuan said with a bitter smile, “You might not know that this fake Jiang Yunuan has really made quite a lot of efforts in order to replace the real one. During our investigation, we didn’t find anything peculiar. Even his father admitted that he was the real Chu Jianmo after seeing his portrait. Obviously, it was far from easy to deal with him.”

He was not trying to find an excuse for himself, but that was the real situation back then.

Now they had confirmed the fake identity of Chu Jianmo. At that time, he was just a teenager but could handle everything so perfectly. His prudence and strategies did blow their minds.

“And now, you know he is fake?” Ye Shengxuan raised his eyebrows.

He was stunned, “You are right.”

“Then have him killed.” Ye Shengxuan held his chin and squinted his eyes, “And take Concubine Xian back as well. Remember, I need her back, alive.”