Chapter 543 - Is What He Saw in His Dream Real? (2/2)
After the two of them took their entourage away, it became quiet here all of a sudden. Shao Wanru looked at the messy room and sneered. Old Madam thought she did nothing wrong, but she did not know that only the fact – Xiushui was not a lady – was enough to prove that what she had said was false.
“Miss.”
“Miss.” Yujie and Qu Le came over with fear on their faces and said, standing on each side of Shao Wanru. They were both frightened by what had happened in front of them just now. No one expected that Rui’an Great Elder Princess would drag Old Madam directly, but they had vented their spleen after watching it.
“Let’s go!” Shao Wanru comforted them with a slight smile and said softly.
She was the cause of the matter, but now she seemed to have been forgotten. At the thought that it couldn’t be settled today, she decided to wait for her grandma’s news.
“Miss, Old Madam went so far that she intended to deal with you without saying anything. She really doesn’t regard you as her biological granddaughter!” Yujie, who had collected herself at this moment, said and stretched out her foot to kick away the razor happening to fall in front of her, “She intended to make you a nun and go with the evil Taoist priest. Bah!”
Yujie, who was furious, was in no mood to care about Old Madam’s identity at this moment and said with hatred.
“She regards me a stranger, who displeases her, rather than her granddaughter. Since she doesn’t care about me, why should I care about her?”
Shao Wanru said, looked at the razor on the ground and lifted her delicate lips slightly to show a gentle but indifferent smile, as if she was talking about someone else’s matter.
Wen Xichi, who was standing at the door, felt that his heart seemed to be lashed by something. He felt a little pain and uncomfortable with some unspeakable emotions, which made him feel sad.
Seeing that all people of both mansions had left, he thought that there was no one here, so he came in to have a look. Unexpectedly, he happened to see Shao Wanru and hear her words, which were so indifferent that they didn’t seem to come from Old Madam’s biological granddaughter.
He recognized Shao Wanru at a glance. Her face, which used to be childish, became so charming that it could not be ignored. He could almost see the ripples in her eyes, which were as fluid as water when she glanced at him. Her long and curly eyelashes covered her bright eyes from time to time.
Her skin was as delicate as jade, and her lips were naturally red. All her delicate features were pretty and charming, but gave a sense of coldness.
She seemed to be so familiar to him as if she had shown up in his dream. In the past, he might doubt if the girl in his dream was Shao Wanru. But now, the scene in front of him proved that the girl, who accompanied him in his dream but he couldn’t see clearly, should be Shao Wanru.
He clenched his hands into fists and then relaxed them, telling himself that it was just a dream. Could it be true?
In his dream, he was so sick and weak that he could only lie in bed. He was obviously healthy. How could he lie in bed weakly? So it was impossible for him to be accompanied by Shao Wanru.
“Fifth Miss Shao!” Suppressing the emotions in his heart, Wen Xichi said and slowly eased his expression. It was not real. Although he didn’t know why he kept dreaming of Shao Wanru with her current appearance, it was a dream which couldn’t be taken seriously.
“Your Excellency!” Shao Wanru said. She was stunned when seeing Wen Xichi, and then understood. Since things got serious, the officials of the Ministry of Justice must have known it.
“What happened just now?” Wen Xichi glanced at the messy room, fixed his eyes on Shao Wanru again and asked.
“It’s about the bracelets. You must have seen them before, right?” Shao Wanru said with a smile and a kind of inexplicable indifference in her watery eyes.
“Is it related to the bracelets?” Wen Xichi immediately understood and said.
“The bracelets belong to me. They said that I’m possessed by an evil spirit, so they found an evil Taoist priest to explain it, and then asked me to shave my head and become a nun following this evil Taoist priest!” Shao Wanru said in an increasingly light tone. She walked a few steps to the razor, stepped on it, and then turned to look at Wen Xichi and said, “Your Excellency, you can take it as evidence!”
After that, she bowed sideways to Wen Xichi and then walked to the door. Yujie and Qu Le hurriedly followed her.
It became quiet in the room, and Wen Xichi could only hear the footsteps coming from outside and getting farther and farther away.
After falling silent for a moment, Wen Xichi walked up to the razor, squatted down, drew a snow-white handkerchief, and picked it up. After standing up, he looked at it and looked around the room calmly. Finding nothing weird, he stepped back and handed the razor wrapped in the handkerchief to a staff member of the Ministry of Justice.
“Put it away. This is the evidence. After identifying the Taoist priest’s gender, send someone to report it to Great Elder Princess immediately!”
“Yes, I’ll do it now!” The staff member of the Ministry of Justice took the handkerchief and the razor and hurriedly left. Wen Xichi waved his hand, and the rest of the others left. After taking a few steps, only he looked back at the room with Shao Wanru’s indifferent and cold face inexplicably flashing across his mind.
Was it a dream or reality?