After Jing Zhe finished speaking, she continued to look at Meng Ruyi calmly, completely unaware of her own peculiarities. How strange. Meng Ruyi sighed inwardly. Looking at Jing Zhe's well - defined profile, her doubts were almost overwhelming. "Then..."
She thought for a moment and swallowed her doubts. She said to Jing Zhe, "Do you need anything?"
"Hmm?" Jing Zhe was puzzled by Meng Ruyi's question. She looked at her for a few seconds and replied, "Does it make a difference? Having a place to stay is already a great condition for me. When I was on missions before, I often had to look for places to stay everywhere."
Either finding an abandoned civilian house or a temple with few worshippers, huddling under the Buddha statue, and soon it would be dawn.
Jing Zhe didn't understand why Meng Ruyi hesitated to speak and why she looked at her so strangely.
But she could sense the kindness in Meng Ruyi's eyes, even though it was covered by curiosity and some inexplicable concerns.
This was the intuition of a killer, an intuition that had saved her life countless times. She trusted her intuition and what she saw.
Meng Ruyi was a kind person, different from Song Huaizhi who had subdued her earlier.
Thinking this way, Jing Zhe didn't realize that her gaze towards Meng Ruyi had become gently tender, as if she were looking at a cute little animal.
"Let me think. If you need anything, just ask Lian Qiao or Bai Zhi to get it for you."
"Thank you." Jing Zhe imitated Meng Ruyi and slightly curled her lips. The smile on her face was stiff, indicating that she wasn't used to this expression.
"Then..." Meng Ruyi thought for a while and finally asked, "How is the Third Prince now? Is he injured?"
"It's nothing serious. He was just scratched by a knife." Jing Zhe was usually emotionless, but assassinating the Third Prince had been as easy as catching a turtle in a jar. However, Song Huaizhi had spoiled her plan at the last moment, which inevitably made her feel frustrated.
She slightly lowered her eyes and continued, "Song Huaizhi is very powerful. I'm no match for him. If he had come a moment later, I would surely have succeeded."
The Third Prince was really oddly unlucky.
Meng Ruyi silently shed a tear of sympathy for the unlucky guy in her heart.
He had just arrived and was betrayed by his wet - nurse. Now, by some strange twist of fate, he had almost been successfully assassinated by Jing Zhe, one of the male leads.
The Third Prince's luck was extremely bad. Meng Ruyi even suspected that there was something affecting his luck.
"What a pity." Jing Zhe instinctively reached for the sword on her waist but found nothing. She retracted her hand uneasily and rubbed the fabric on her waist a few times.
It was so soft.
"You should go and rest first." Meng Ruyi said seeing the tiredness on Jing Zhe's face.
"Rest?" Jing Zhe was slightly surprised and asked Meng Ruyi, "What about you? Don't I need to stay by your side?"
Meng Ruyi was greatly shocked and slightly raised her voice, "Don't you need to rest?"
"I take short naps occasionally. But I'll wake up at the slightest sound."
"It's okay." Meng Ruyi looked at the dark circles under Jing Zhe's eyes and sighed deeply, "You go and rest. Just follow me when I go out."
"Yes." Jing Zhe pulled her clothes and fastened them completely before saying, "Remember to send the maid's clothes."
As Meng Ruyi watched Jing Zhe leave the room, she was almost blinded by the restored barrage.
【?????? Seduction? No? What's going on? What maid's clothes?】
【What was Jing Zhe just doing! Yu Yu baby, don't look. You'll get sty in your eyes! (Screaming)】
【Oh my god! Am I crazy? Jing Zhe is seducing our Yu Yu, and Yu Yu fell for it? The scheming male lead!】
【Who said he was innocent? Who said that! Stand up!】
Meng Ruyi: "..."
It seemed that the barrage really didn't know the specific situation of Jing Zhe. In their eyes, she was a man.
Incredible. Although Meng Ruyi repeatedly emphasized to herself that the barrage didn't know everything, she was still shocked when she saw them being deceived.
It seemed that the situation in the capital might be much more complicated than she had imagined, and the female lead, Shangguan Xue, might not be as simple as she had initially thought.
Meng Ruyi took a sip of tea and placed her fingertips on the rim of the cup. The tea had already cooled, and the cold sensation came from her fingertips.
She instinctively looked towards the half - closed window. The rain had gradually weakened and was dripping on the edge of the bed. The wind had also become smaller and cooler, making her feel a bit cold when it blew in.
...
When Zheng Yuanqing came, Song Huaizhi was just discussing the next plan with Meng Ruyi.
He looked a bit disheveled, wearing a high - collared robe. The dark circles under his eyes couldn't be covered at all. When he saw Song Huaizhi and was about to approach, he suddenly fixed his eyes on the maid beside Meng Ruyi and instantly stared at her with eyes as big as copper bells.
"You! You! You!"
Zheng Yuanqing looked at Jing Zhe in the maid's clothes. His expression could no longer be concealed, and he took a step back in a bit of a panic.
"What's going on!"
Zheng Yuanqing looked at Song Huaizhi and then at Jing Zhe, who looked tall in the maid's clothes and showed a hint of a woman's slenderness. He instinctively touched his still - aching neck and gasped, almost choking himself.
No way! Song Huaizhi was so amazing!
This assassin had been highly skilled yesterday and had almost decapitated him with one turn of his head. If Song Huaizhi hadn't come quickly, all those guards might not have been able to save him.
Such a person would actually wear women's clothing!
Zheng Yuanqing's jaw almost dropped.
【Hahaha, I feel like my expression is the same as Zheng Yuanqing's. The male lead is wearing women's clothing. It's so funny.】
【It's still the young people who know how to have fun. I'm really too old to understand what everyone is doing.】
【I don't understand either...】
Only then did Meng Ruyi notice Zheng Yuanqing. She looked up and saw the panic on his face and the horror in his eyes when he looked at Jing Zhe.
"It's okay." Song Huaizhi said to Zheng Yuanqing, "Now Jing Zhe is working for Yu Yu."
Zheng Yuanqing looked at Meng Ruyi in shock. Seeing her calm expression, he finally bowed and said, "I was blind. I didn't expect Miss Meng to be a master."
After saying this, Zheng Yuanqing felt his neck ache again and faintly felt a chill.
No.
He suppressed his emotions and pretended to be calm as he stepped forward and stood still. He said to Song Huaizhi, "I'm here today to discuss something."
"Okay." Song Huaizhi looked up at him and said, "Sit down and talk slowly."
Zheng Yuanqing immediately found a place farthest from Jing Zhe and quickly sat down. He couldn't help but touch his neck again.
Song Huaizhi frowned. Seeing that Zheng Yuanqing fell silent after sitting down, he fixed his eyes on him and was about to speak.