Xie Jingxing could not be bothered with him and looked around for other things.
At the same time, Shen Miao walked quietly in the dark passage with a torch in her hand. Unlike her usual slow walking pace, this time, she walked much more urgently. The reason was that she did not know when Shen Qiu would come over. Before Shen Qiu came, she had to get that thing.
This secret room in Prince Yu’s mansion was discovered by Fu Xiuyi back then. She accidentally overheard the conversation between Fu Xiuyi and Pei Lang. At that time, Pei Lang copied the banquet painting of Liu Yuan and told Fu Xiuyi that the mechanism to open the secret room was on the collar of the painting. At that time, Pei Lang also said, “The thing must be in the secret room. You can investigate it.”
Shen Miao did not know what the “thing” was, but from the tone of Pei Lang and Fu Xiuyi, that “thing” should be very important to Fu Xiuyi. Shen Miao told the Chen brothers to eradicate the entire Prince Yu mansion also because she wanted to pave herself a clear path to the secret room.
If she didn’t kill all the people, someone might catch her red-handed. Now that everyone in Prince Yu’s mansion was dead, she was perhaps the only one aware of the secret room. After all, when Fu Xiuyi found out about this in her previous life, he had already ascended the throne.
As long as that “thing” was very important to Fu Xiuyi or beneficial to him, she had to make sure Fu Xiuyi couldn’t get it. She had to either destroy it or send it to Fu Xiuyi’s enemy. At least with this “thing”, she would have one more bargaining chip when dealing with Fu Xiuyi in the future.
This was why she followed Shen Qiu to the Prince’s mansion today.
This secret room was winding and was much longer than she had imagined. After turning a corner, the room suddenly opened up, as if she had suddenly entered the spacious main hall from a narrow corridor. There were rows of torches hanging on the stone wall, illuminating the entire room.
In the room, there was a coffin lying there horizontally with two people standing in front of it.
Before Shen Miao could do anything, she heard one of them shout, “Who is it?!”
That voice was very familiar. Before she could react, she saw two familiar faces suddenly turn around.
Xie Jingxing, Gao Yang.
Why was Xie Jingxing here? Gao Yang was from the Imperial Hospital, but why was he together with Xie Jingxing?
Even someone as calm as Shen Miao was stunned, but strangely, she seemed to have found a way to unravel the dead knot that had confused her for so long.
“Shen Miao!” Gao Yang was also surprised. Then, he looked at Xie Jingxing and said, “Do it!”
Shen Miao widened her eyes and felt a spinning sensation. Before she could see the figure in front of her clearly, her body was pushed hard against the stone wall behind her, and she gasped in pain. Immediately after, a slender hand grabbed her throat, and Xie Jingxing’s handsome face was inches away.
“Shen Miao must die.” Gao Yang quickly said, “This is a serious matter. She’s entered a place she never should. Let’s kill her and leave her body to rot here. No one will find out about it. Xie, don’t be soft-hearted. Do it!”
Shen Miao looked at Xie Jingxing. The hand holding her neck was slender and beautiful, but it was also fierce and firm, keeping Shen Miao fixedly in place.
The purple-clothed youth’s eyebrows were even darker under the touch light. The more strikingly handsome he was, the crueler his smile was. Like a cat catching a mouse, what was revealed in his gaze was absolute indifference and killing intent.
He really wanted to kill her.
Shen Miao looked at him without moving. Her clear eyes were brighter than the stream at the beginning of spring. There was no sadness or joy in them, as if they contained a lifetime of sorrow.
Xie Jingxing’s eyes flickered, and he suddenly smiled. He covered Shen Miao’s eyes with one hand and lowered his head slightly, whispering into her ear.
“Don’t look at me like that. I can’t bring myself to do it.”
