Night. Lucyla's residence.

Lucilla had been living in the palace since her father became Roman emperor, and when she married her first husband, Lucius, who was also co-emperor of the Roman Empire with her father, Lucilla was able to continue living in the palace.

However, after the death of Lucius, Lucila was married by her father to her second husband Pompeianus, so she had to move out of the palace, but fortunately, her father in order to compensate her, let the Senate grant her the title of Augusta, and although Pompianus did not have the status of her previous husband, but her attitude towards her was impeccable, although the two were not as affectionate as other newlyweds, but they got along relatively well.

Pompeianus usually stayed at the barracks and did not interfere with Lucila's private life.

Therefore, in the eyes of others, Lucyla has a married life that most women envy.

Her domusli throws a feast almost every night, with endless drinks and all sorts of beautiful men, but tonight, neither of them makes her happy.

In fact, Lucyla seemed a little absent-minded from before the banquet began, and could even be said to be depressed, without the laziness and pride of the past, but when her maid asked her if she was going to cancel tonight's banquet, Lucyla just said that everything was business as usual.

But then when the handsome men came to invite her to dance, she refused without exception, and then Lucy pulled up and left her seat, and she told the maid to go back and change her clothes, but in fact when she returned to the house and took off her clothes, she did not go to the closet to get the new clothes she wanted to change.

Instead, she stood in front of the bronze mirror, motionless and looking at herself in the mirror, as if she was obsessed with the person in the mirror, her palm caressed her skin, bit her lip, reached into the drawer on the side, and touched an emerald green emerald vial in a bottle of perfume.

When she picked up the jade vial, her eyes flashed with confusion and unwillingness, but she finally opened the cork on it.

However, just as she was about to bring the jade vial to her lips, there was a cough behind her.

Lucyla was startled, and the jade vial in her hand also fell to the ground.

"They say that Cleopatra VII learned that her death was imminent after the Battle of Actium, so she had her maid hide a poisonous snake named Apus in a fig basket, and Opatra VII let the poisonous snake kiss her chest to end her legendary life, and her death also meant the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty, and finally Egypt was annexed by Rome and became a province under Rome......"

"When did you end up here?" Lucyla turned around and saw the person speaking.

"I'm sorry, but I'm actually just here." Zhang Heng wiped the blood stains on the two Persian swords with a sheet made of silk, "I had a little trouble at night, and I came here to find you after I solved it, to be honest, I didn't expect you to take off your clothes as soon as you came in, I originally wanted to wait for you to change your clothes before talking, to avoid this embarrassing scene now, but ......"

"They went at you, too, didn't they?" Lucyla's expression changed slightly.

"Uh-huh," Zhang Heng nodded, and inserted the polished Persian sword back into his waist, "It looks like you've smashed it." ”

Lucyla did not object, "We lost this war, in fact we lost not only this war, but everything. ”

"I can't agree with that last point, don't you still have me? Although, you shouldn't have been hiding it from me in the first place. Zhang Heng said.

“…………”

"It's too late," Lucyla said, shaking her head, but then she picked up a little and asked, "How did you get here?" ”

"Augusta of the Empire, the sister of His Majesty the Emperor, is the priestess of the Blade of Balance of the mysterious Assassin organization, and it must be admitted that people without imagination really can't connect the two, not to mention that you who play the priestess of Kleirs and you are now two people at all." Zhang Heng paused when he said this, "Uh...... Why don't you find a dress to put on first, and we'll continue talking. ”

"I don't think it's necessary," after the initial panic, Lucilla quickly recovered her natural nature, and stood in front of Zhang Heng generously without any disguise, "Aren't you not interested in me at all, I remember that you refused me to come before, more than once." ”

"Well, if you're not afraid of catching a cold, you can just do that...... Leave to dry. Zhang Heng rubbed his nose and turned the topic back to the topic, "The time you met me as a priestess, you wore a mask, and your voice was completely different from now, but you ignored one detail, that is, the smell of perfume on your body." ”

"The smell of perfume on my body?" Lucyla frowned, "I didn't ignore it, every time I show up as the priestess of Cleis, I take a bath and then change to another perfume. ”

"That's right, but both of the ones you use are court perfumes, but at the beginning I didn't suspect you, I just thought that the priestess of the Balance Blade was hiding in the palace as a court maid or something, and I really started to suspect you on the day I moved to a new house, you came to visit me at my house, and when you left, you said something inexplicable to me, I thought you were threatening me, but that night Ortellus found me and asked me some questions, and I realized what you meant by that."

Lucyla nodded when she heard this, "I also just got the news that Oterus may meet you that day, and it is too late to summon you as the priestess of Kleis, so I can only go to you in person, fortunately, there have been a lot of rumors about me, and it is not too unusual for me to like a gladiator, but with just one sentence, you still can't be sure of my identity." ”

"Yes, but then I found myself back where we met that night." Zhang Heng said, "That house belongs to Skrutus, a young man from the Korasu family, a friend of mine told me that he rarely came here again about two years ago, and then out of curiosity I investigated Skrutus again, and found that two years ago there were rumors that he was one of your secret lovers, and that was where you cheated back then, right?" ”

Zhang Heng said as he looked at Lucilla opposite.

"That's something I don't understand, wasn't your eyes blindfolded and you were loaded into the carriage at that time, how could you possibly still find that place?" Lucyla was surprised.

"This is a little trick that an old friend of mine in Baker Street taught me, and if he had been the one who was loaded into the carriage that night, he would have touched it back faster than I did." Zhang Hengdao.