Chapter Forty-Nine: Cold

In smooth water.

Since Zhong Lishuo came out of the palace and returned to his mansion, he had never heard any news about Shangguan Hong. He began to feel uneasy.

Although autumn was approaching, the cold air seemed to be thicker today, and a familiar cold feeling was invading Zhong Lishuo's body, which made him shrink involuntarily. His mind was so confused that he couldn't even tell what he was trying to write. But he couldn't raise any other interest to do anything else, so he just sat quietly.

It was getting dark, and Zhong Lishuo had been sitting in his study for a day. Maybe for him, if he could know the emperor's disposition of Shangguan Hong, he could breathe a sigh of relief, but the news was delayed, which made him feel like he was pulling a rope around his neck, and he didn't know when he would be able to let go, but the current feeling of suffocation did make him feel scared.

The darkness is slowly approaching, and the light is slowly engulfing. Zhong Lishuo is like a sculpture, without thought, unable to move.

The door was opened with a "squeak-" sound, Zhong Lishuo rolled his eyes and looked at the door, a woman's figure, like Jin Se, he subconsciously spoke:

"First Dust." But he didn't want the woman's figure to enter the room and walk straight towards him, Zhong Lishuo's heart tightened, thinking that Jin Se had died, and now it was her ghost who came to find his life. He watched the figure get closer and closer to him, and couldn't help muttering:

"Is it you•••••• the first dust?"

"What did Your Highness say?" The woman walked to the desk in front of Zhong Lishuo, reached out and lit the candle on the table, and the light appeared in Zhong Lishuo's room again. Zhong Lishuo's eyes were not used to the light and subconsciously narrowed his eyes, only to see that the person standing in front of him was Wen Shumei, his heart sank, an inexplicable loss hit his heart, and his eyes were much darker than Fang Cai.

"Your Highness is calling someone's name. First dust? Wen Shumei asked with a smile as she moved the candle to the center of the table. Zhong Lishuo heard Chuchen's name come out of Wen Shumei's mouth, and suddenly had a strange feeling.

I don't know when Zhong Lishuo already knew that the name of the woman he had in his heart in the past was not Chu Chen, but Jin Se, he was still willing to treat her as Chu Chen, who spent a night with him. The woman seemed to be a wound, existing in a certain part of Zhong Lishuo's body, although the wound had grown on the surface, it was still blurred on the inside.

No one seemed to be able to feel the sadness in Zhong Lishuo's heart, and when he saw Jin Se rushing towards him with a dagger in his hand, no one knew how disappointed and different he was. However, he was trying to find a reason for her, maybe she was just at the behest of someone else, maybe she didn't want to hurt him at all. But the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became, and he didn't even know if Jinse, who was so badly injured, was still alive.

If she dies, this account will definitely be counted on Shangguan Hong's head.

Zhong Lishuo thought so, the anger in his eyes increased a little, and the palm of his hand also exerted force, and clenched it into a fist hard.

It was a very subtle performance, but in Wen Shumei's eyes, it had so many more meanings. Wen Shumei couldn't help but panic in her heart, didn't her guess come true?

Zhong Lishuo really likes someone else? Who is Hatsuchen? Looking at Zhong Lishuo's expression, it was mostly because of this person.

Wen Shumei felt a sadness in her heart, she felt that she was very wronged, she took Zhong Lishuo to heart like that, but he was thinking about others. She actually had a hunch, the last time she went to look for Zhong Lishuo, she found traces of other women in his house, but she had never seen that person. Could it be that the woman abandoned Zhong Lishuo?

The groundless conjecture made Wen Shumei feel more and more angry, she was mediocre and suffered from Zhong Lishuo's neglect, but she still wanted Zhong Lishuo to let go so much, what kind of woman was it, how could she be so demagogic.

"Who is Your Highness thinking about?" The more Wen Shumei thought about it, the more she felt aggrieved, and this grievance was given to her by Zhong Lishuo, on the bright side, she really couldn't show Zhong Lishuo's face, all she could do was to say a few sour words to express her dissatisfaction.

"Ah•••••• no. It's just a little boring. Zhong Lishuo raised his eyes and glanced at Wen Shumei, and looked away and said lightly. Wen Shumei noticed the dodge in Zhong Lishuo's eyes, and felt more and more that her guess was right, and she became even more angry. Then he said angrily:

"Your Highness doesn't like Mei'er anymore. His Highness has other women in his heart. Has Your Highness ever thought about Mei'er's feelings, has Your Highness ever thought about Mei'er••••••" Wen Shumei became more and more anxious the more she spoke, and finally stretched out her handkerchief in front of her and cried.

"I'm already annoyed! Don't add to the mess! Zhong Lishuo suddenly became angry and said loudly to Wen Shumei.

This is something Wen Shumei never thought, her original intention was to pretend to be pitiful and let Zhong Lishuo come to coax herself, just like her father would coax him before she left the pavilion in her mother's house. But Zhong Lishuo is not like this. Zhong Lishuo was not her father, and he would not hold her in the palm of his hand like that.

Zhong Lishuo is a royal child, and he doesn't take anyone to heart in his heart, Wen Shumei knows it, but she never thought that she was insignificant in Zhong Lishuo. Her value to him is only as simple as her father's use of Zhong Lishuo.

Wen Shumei suddenly felt sad, she looked at Zhong Lishuo, who was looking at her angrily, but she didn't know what to say. She loved him, but she probably didn't have the slightest weight to him. A sense of powerlessness surrounded Wen Shumei in an instant:

"In this way, Mei'er is nothing in His Highness's heart?" Zhong Lishuo looked at Wen Shumei in front of him and suddenly felt disgusted, he didn't have so much to worry about with her now, and the emperor hadn't heard the news of Shangguan Hong, which was the top priority for him. Although I thought of Jinse for a moment, I was also a little worried, but it was always useless.

Zhong Lishuo really didn't want to talk to Wen Shumei anymore, so he paused when he stood up and walked out the door. Wen Shumei didn't expect him to do this, and when he walked into her, the sadness in her heart was infinitely expanded. She suddenly felt like the sky was falling.

When Zhong Li Shuofang went out of the door, he saw Chen Tong running in his direction from a distance, and stood in front of him:

"Your Highness, the house has been raided." Chen Tong said lightly. Listening to Zhong Lishuo's ears, he was very happy.

He is indeed one step closer to success. When he was happy, he didn't realize that there were other meanings in the eyes of Wen Shumei looking at him behind him.