Chapter 1: Immersed in a bamboo cage
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There was water all around, so much water, that it flooded her body and poured into her nose and mouth.
Where is this?!
Hitomi opened her eyes suddenly, and found that she was indeed in the water!
She didn't have time to think about it and struggled instinctively, but her hands and legs were tied tightly, and she couldn't move at all. At this time, she was shocked to find that she was stuffed into a bamboo cage, and there was a stone weighing dozens of pounds in the cage, which dragged her to the bottom of the river.
Hitomi held her breath and pulled the rope in her hand desperately, although she didn't know what was going on, she didn't want to be drowned so inexplicably!
The panic was only a moment, and she quickly forced herself to calm down, stopped the useless struggle, and instead used all her strength on her wrists.
Gradually, her consciousness began to blur, and her strength became smaller and smaller......
Is this the end of it?
No...... No......
However, her mind began to be chaotic, and she could not tell whether it was reality or a terrible dream. Perhaps, it was really just a dream......
The bamboo cage was pulled out of the water by someone, and then fell to the ground hard.
Pain......
Yitong's whole body seemed to fall apart, and she frowned in pain.
"Let's see if she's dead or not, the prince has confessed, you can't let her die like this!"
Who's talking?
She opened her eyes with difficulty, and there were people all around, their faces were full of disdain, pointing at her, and there were a few fierce men, laughing loudly, "Let's stop here today, put her in a water prison first!"
No, where is this? What did she do wrong? Who are these wicked people?
Also, what they are wearing is actually ancient costumes?!
She tried to cry out for help, but she couldn't make a sound.
Consciousness, again detached.
When she woke up, her body was suspended in the air, half of her body was soaked in cold water. Her eyes widened and she looked horrified at the darkness of the world, a well-like water dungeon, with only a few rays of sunlight letting in from the manhole cover above her head.
"Help! is there anyone?" Yitong shouted at the top, "There must be something wrong, what is this place? Let me out!"
"Don't bark!" the guard above knocked on the manhole cover with a wooden stick as if warning, "If you call again, let a few rats go down and wait for you!"
"You-" Izumi was so angry that his whole body trembled, glaring at the people above, almost gritting his teeth, "Where is this? Why are you arresting me?"
"Why, have you forgotten what you have committed yourself? Hmph, if you have something to say, let's talk to the prince tomorrow!"
"Lord Wang?" Yitong flickered, was she hallucinating?
She remembered that she was pushed down the river by that hateful brother, and then her leg suddenly cramped...... Then, there was the scene of being immersed in a bamboo cage just now.
For an ordinary girl like her, the possibility of being targeted by bandits is very small. She didn't believe that there was such a tragic lynching in modern civilized society!
Think about the clothes of the people around her, and these fierce guards, and then the prince who seemed to want her life in their mouths......
Hitomi shivered, and a terrible thought came to her head.