Chapter 283 - Terrified, Trapped in King Yans Manor (1/2)
Mo Xuetong was completely shrouded in the quilt and couldn’t see anything no matter she looked up or down. However, she knew the two people were dexterous. Though being carried, she didn’t feel uncomfortable. Apparently, these two were good at carrying people. “Is there a yard where they especially send abducted girls to? I don’t think so.”
She felt that they had walked for a long distance. It must be a big family’s mansion. “Since that somebody wants to use me, he might from those great manors. And I heard that only in prince’s manor do they have the practice of wrapping up women after was.h.i.+ng, like what the Emperor and consorts do in the palace.”
The two people walked steadily and quickly. “They must have been doing such things all the time.” Remembering the things she just heard, she had a vague idea in her mind.
“Someone wants to trap the person in this manor, and I am his ‘tool’. If I’m found in his bed, Father must be furious. Father is in charge of the security in the capital and has been the first one to know those princes’ war over supremacy. But Father has always been only loyal to the Emperor and doesn’t want to take sides in the war at all.
“Someone is trying to force Father into taking sides!”
She bit her lips and her hands quivered in the quilt. She felt a chill from head to toe and even her heart had been frozen. “Someone wants to set up Father, and I’m the chess piece that will force Father into a corner.” Her heart raced and then she collected herself. “I must stay calm. The last thing I want right now is to get fl.u.s.tered.
“That person not only wants to destroy my life, but also take Father’s life. How vicious!”
Mo Xuetong’s ears were flapping for any sound outside the quilt. She didn’t know how long they had been walking when they stopped. Then she heard a woman’s coy smile. “Aunt Ling, who’s coming over today?”
Aunt Ling, the woman Mo Xuetong had heard previously, answered smilingly, “Who else could it be? Of course it’s Her Highness Han. His Highness loves her the most. When His Highness left today, he especially told me to fetch her.”
The woman politely chuckled. “It’s Her Highness Han! Quickly, send her in. It’s already heated in the room and His Highness will come back soon. The people in the front yard have told me.”
After the two women changed a few words of greetings, Mo Xuetong felt the two who had been carrying her moved again. This time, they seemed to have entered a room because she immediately felt warm around her body.
Aunt Ling didn’t follow and just smilingly said to Yirong, “Sister Yirong, we’ll place Her Highness Han in the inner room. She just washed and you don’t need to attend to her right now. It’s warm inside. Her Highness Han said she felt tired so she’d sleep for now. When His Highness returns, she’ll attend to him.”
Since Aunt Ling was blocking the door, Yirong wouldn’t want to be rude to barge in. Furthermore, Her Highness Han was now in His Highness’s favor, so Yirong didn’t want to interrupt her plan, because she might have come up with a new trick to cater to His Highness. She remembered that one time, Her Highness Han came in such a flimsy dress. Her Highness Han herself didn’t feel awkward or something, but those maidservants in the room all blushed.
Yirong secretly snorted. “A girl from those wh.o.r.ehouses. She’s seen many things and people. Even if she didn’t ever receive anyone, she can’t compare to girls from good families. When His Highness grows tired of her, she’ll know who’s in charge in this manor.
“She just looks slightly like the one, and she should really see herself as His Highness’s first wife!”
Though thinking like that, Yirong talked even more courteously. “Since Her Highness is willing to wear herself out, we’ll wait comfortably in the outer room. His Highness is about to return. Tell Her Highness Han not to worry.”
In the inner room, the two people unfolded the quilt. Mo Xuetong rolled out from the quilt. One of the two servants listened for any sound at the outside, and then she pouted her lips to gesture at another. Mo Xuetong immediately felt that a hand reached her. Next, the person ripped the clothes that covered her chest, which nearly shocked her to death. “Well, servants in the prince’s manor who carry and wash beauties must be girls too.” Thinking like that, she managed to control her emotions and didn’t let out a cry.
“They must have wanted to make the scene look more provoking.”
As expected, a woman asked in a m.u.f.fled voice, “Elder Sister, are we done yet?”
Another hand gripped her and loosened her belt. Another female voice rang. “We’ll leave her like this!”
Then, they left and footsteps rang.
Mo Xuetong shut her eyes and lay still on the bed, listening carefully to the surroundings. It was quiet in the room and there must have been n.o.body else. A faint orchid scent flowed into her breath. They must have lit scented incenses in the room. Mo Xuetong opened her eyes slowly, only to see a s.p.a.cious bedroom and a too wide bed. Sky blue net curtain embroidered with golden silk was hung on the bed, fastened by a large golden hook decorated with spiral cloud patterns.
She saw a thin amethyst camlet quilt embroidered with iridescent silk, a jade part.i.tion painted with “Beauty like Jade” painting shrouded in a red gauze, and a potted narcissus whose rugby pot was decorated with jade on a nearby treasure rack. In front of the windows, there was a table with a carved nanmu wood crossbar and decorated with silver ornaments. On the table, there was a silk hollow scent ball decorated with pomegranate flower patterns, along with rare bird and exotic plant motifs. It was giving off the fragrance of orchid.
One could tell from the furnis.h.i.+ng in the room that the owner had a fortune.
“Moreover, they call him His Highness. He must be King Chu Feng Yuxuan, or King Yan Feng Yulei.”
Swallowing, Mo Xuetong picked herself up on her one arm, only to feel still a little sore and weak. She got up in a hurry and almost fell down. She supported herself on the bedpost and then got back on her feet. She first tidied up her clothes, refastened her belt, and slowly walked to the windows. She must carefully observe the situation to find a chance to run away later.
Maidservants must be guarding outside, so she couldn’t make any loud noise.
She carefully lifted the curtain and found it was a brightly-lit yard outside. Royal lanterns were hung high from the door of the room to the gate of the yard. Furthermore, besides the lanterns, fancily-dressed royal maidservants also stood below the lanterns. Because their master hadn’t arrived, they causally chatted in groups of two or three.
The so-called Aunt Ling seemed to have already left by now.
Trying to escape out of here in such a circ.u.mstance was practically impossible.
Though not knowing the situation outside, she knew there’s no chance for a weak girl like her to escape out of the yard. Besides, there were royal guards outside, who should not be taken lightly.
She was now some else’s chess piece, being thrown into some manor to trap some prince. “If that some prince knows my existence in his manor, I don’t have to be a genius to see that I will be killed after that. Only by killing me can this prince get out of this trap.”