Part 1 - Yu Nu Jiao / Jade Slave / Enslaved By Love

Chapter 014 I Won't Care About Her

Shen Guang trotted back to Zhaoyang Palace. It was very lively inside. Xiao Baobao pestered Yin Ji to talk. Although she didn't get a response, she was talking very lively.

Shen Guang took a deep breath and walked in with forced calmness. As soon as they met, she knelt down: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I couldn't bring Aunt Xie Yun back."

Xiao Baobao was immediately unhappy: "Why? Where is she? Brother Ji has already issued an oral order, and she still dares to disobey it?"

Yin Ji also lowered his eyes and looked over. His eyes were completely different from Xiao Baobao's. It seemed to be condensed into substance, suppressing people so much that they dared not raise their heads.

Shen Guang almost lowered her head to her chest: "I thought so too, so she ran away before I knew it. I'm sending eunuchs to look for her everywhere."

Xiao Baobao was stunned: "She actually dared to disobey the order?"

Shen Guang didn't dare to say much, so she could only kowtow: "It's my fault for not doing my job well, please punish me, Master."

Xiao Baobao waved her hand: "Forget it, if she didn't come, then she didn't come. I don't have to do that. You can go down."

Shen Guang felt relieved, she knew that Xiao Baobao would react like this.

She stood up and was about to go out, but Yin Ji suddenly said: "Wait."

Shen Guang had something to hide, and her legs trembled and she knelt down again. Yin Ji looked indifferent: "Tell the truth."

Shen Guang's heart beat violently, and she forced herself to be tough: "I dare not deceive the king, Aunt Xie Yun really ran away..."

Yin Ji didn't speak again, the atmosphere was so quiet that it made people panic. Shen Guang heard her heart beating more and more violently, as if it was about to jump out of her mouth.

She couldn't bear such pressure, and gritted her teeth to explain again.

But Yin Ji spoke again at this time: "It seems that you really don't want to say... Forget it, drag her away and beat her to death."

Shen Guang widened her eyes in horror. Seeing that the eunuch really came to drag her, she trembled like a sieve: "Your Majesty, spare my life, Your Majesty, spare my life..."

Xiao Baobao was also frightened: "Brother Ji, don't be like this, she has been following me since she was a child..."

Yin Ji raised his hand and made a soft "hush" sound, his tone full of helplessness: "I don't want to, but she is deceiving the emperor."

Although his tone was quite gentle, Xiao Baobao's liver trembled when she heard it. Although the person in front of him was the brother Ji she knew, he inexplicably made people feel unfamiliar. 

She still had a lot of things to say to beg for mercy, but now she couldn't say a word. She had to scold Shen Guang: "You dead girl, hurry up and say it."

Shen Guang pressed her head to the ground: "Your Majesty, I dare not lie to you. Xie Yun really ran away by herself, but... but when she ran, she was panicked and fell into the Taiye Lake... The eunuchs saw it. She really fell in by herself."

Xiao Baobao's heart skipped a beat: "She fell into the Taiye Lake? Drowned?"

Shen Guang didn't dare to look up: "I don't know, I have asked someone to look for her."

Xiao Baobao didn't expect this result. Although Yin Ji didn't show much preference for Xie Yun since entering the palace, no matter what, she was still someone around him. If something really happened because of Shen Guang...

She quickly knelt down: "Your Majesty, Shen Guang was unintentional. Xie Yun fell on her own and she couldn't do anything. Please forgive her."

The person sitting there didn't speak for a long time, and the master and servant both became flustered in this endless waiting.

Yin Ji wouldn't let Shen Guang pay for Xie Yun's life, right?

"Brother Ji, for the sake of the Xiao family..."

Xiao Baobao nervously grabbed his clothes, but her arm was suddenly supported. She was startled and looked up to see a gentle smiling face.

Yin Ji didn't seem to be angry at all: "So that's what happened, why is it like this? Get up."

Xiao Baobao was stunned for a moment: "Brother Ji...you, you don't blame her?"

"Didn't you say that she jumped down by herself? Why should I blame her?"

Xiao Baobao let out a long breath and stood up with the help of Yin Ji: "Yes, yes, brother Ji is right, then..."

She became righteous again: "You can't go find her."

Yin Ji's face was indifferent: "Of course I won't go find her, just a palace maid..."

Xie Yun, do you think I don't know that this is a trap set up because you don't want to come?

But when she arrived, she found that the imperial guards had surrounded the Taiye Lake, and Cai Tianxi was standing on the bridge urging everyone to look for someone.

Her heart suddenly skipped a beat, and she was stunned for a long time before she stepped forward: "Eunuch Cai, why are you here? Have you found the person?"

Cai Tianxi looked at her with a cold look: "Someone fell into the water, it's such a big thing, we are not deaf and blind, how can we not hear it?"

Shen Guang forced a greeting: "That's right, Aunt Xie Yun is too careless... I was so anxious that I just asked the emperor for an order and came to look for someone. I hurried all the way, but I didn't expect you to come first."

Cai Tianxi laughed, but it was mocking: "From here to Zhaoyang Palace, it only takes a cup of tea to go back and forth. Miss Shen Guang is so young, her legs and feet are not very agile."

Shen Guang's face was pale and green after being squeezed. Knowing that her little thoughts were seen by the other party, she didn't dare to explain anymore. No matter what, as long as the other party had no evidence, they couldn't do anything to her.

But she still didn't dare to stay with Cai Tianxi anymore. She pretended to look for someone and went to another place. She looked anxiously at the shore. No one had found Xie Yun yet.

It's been so long. She must have died in there, right?

She felt relieved and couldn't help but smile. But at this moment, a tall and thin shadow walked out slowly from the shadow of the tree.

When she saw the other person's face clearly, Shen Guang froze. What shocked her even more was that the other person was holding the wet Xie Yun in his arms.

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