Chapter 36 Renegade (2/2)
Tang Xia pretended to rage with coldness in her eyes.
”Yes, Your Grace.” Lyuyou lowered her head acting lovable.
Tang Xia relieved a long sigh, ”Back off now. I will discuss with Guard Chu how we will deal with the executioner at midnight.”
”Yes.” Lyuyou withdrew right away after bowing to Tang Xia.
Chu Tiankuo asked raising his eyebrows, ”Are you sure that she will fall into your trap?”
Tang Xia still fixed her eyes on the direction of Lyuyou leaving. Her look was so obscure that no one could tell what she was thinking about.
”I'm sure.” Tang Xia opened her red lips gently, then spoke out her inference clearly.
”Lyuyou was too weak to make her own decision. Now that she has known our ideas, she will definitely tell her real boss about it.”
”If she is the traitor, what are you going to do with her?” Chu Tiankuo snatched the thread of conversation arbitrarily, raising his eyebrows high.
Tang Xia tilted her head with glittering sparkles in her eyes.
”If she is the traitor, I will definitely get rid of her.”
Chu Tiankuo saw the maliciousness in her eyes, then he wore an indistinct smile in the corner of his mouth, ”The tenderhearted woman with an A-cup now can make her own decisions.”
Tang Xia tilted her head slightly with a cantankerous smile in the corner of her mouth, ”Thank you. I am wondering how you can promote from a eunuch to a guard without seduction?”
Tang Xia wore a trace of a mischievous smile in her eyes, sparkling like a star. Her eyes were glittering as if they contained the whole sky full of stars.
Chu Tiankuo froze for a moment then ground his teeth, ”You're! Courting! Death!”
Seeing Chu Tiankuo's face become dark from anger pleased Tang Xia so much that she walked briskly.
”Keep our appointment at midnight, Guard Chu.”
Tang Xia's voice was deep but clear. However, Chu Tiankuo did not regard it beautiful due to her ridicule.
Fixing his eyes on the slender figure of Tang Xia walking far away, Chu Tiankuo thought for the first time that the woman who tried her best to conquer him was back.
When Tang Xia came back to Jiaofang hall, it was already afternoon.
Then she knitted her thin eyebrows after glancing around.
”Didn't Lyuyou come back?”
”She came back earlier but stormed out saying that she had something urgent to deal with.” The slave girl replying to Tang Xia was Anran who was asked by Lyuyou to replace Anxia.
Tang Xia raised her chin haughtily with an indistinct smile in the corner of her mouth, ”Did you notice what she carried with her?”
Anran began to ruminate carefully as soon as Tang Xia finished her sentence.
”It seemed to be a letter that Lyuyou carried with her.”
Tang Xia wore a smile with a hint of mockery, then raised her eyebrows towards Anran.
”I'm hungry. Prepare me some magnolia denudate cakes.”
When Lyuyou came back, the sky turned black slowly with several stars hanging over, sparkling.
Tang Xia sat in the front end of the wooden chair, leaning on her delicate hand.
As a breeze swept by, her hair was blown into the air, and the jade hairpin in her hair end shined like a star in the night sky with a green-glowing and mysterious light.
”You're here?” Tang Xia knitted her thin eyebrows.
Although she fixed her eyes on the Magnolia denudate cakes, Tang Xia predicted precisely that it was Lyuyou who entered into the room.
”I heard that four new types of flowers were received in the four main halls. So I checked it out and planned to bring Your Grace some flowers with a pleasant smell for aromatherapy. I hardly knew it would take me so long.”
Lyuyou explained with an embarrassed smile. However, Tang Xia kept her poker face, letting the breeze sweep her hair backward and showing her fair, beautiful neck unclearly.
Lyuyou turned her eyes to the table following Tang Xia's gaze.
”Why does Your Grace want to taste the Magnolia denudate cakes?”
Lyuyou asked in a low voice but got no response. She felt somewhat terrified, then took the Magnolia denudate cakes, ”They are a little cold. Let me heat them up.”
Lyuyou tidied the cakes quickly, preparing to leave.
”There is no need to be so hurried.” Tang Xia said in a low voice with coldness.
Lyuyou froze for a moment.
Tang Xia wore a trace of a smile in the corner of her mouth, ”There cakes are all prepared for you.”
Lyuyou was so surprised by her words that she verified Tang Xia's look several times, then breathed a sigh of relief.
”Thank you, Your Grace.”
Tilting her head, Tang Xia's face became gentler in the light of the candles, but the coldness in her eyes increased, ”Won't you have a try?”
Lyuyou felt a little bit scared with a slight tremor in her fingers, but still pretended to pick up a piece of cake calmly and then put it near her mouth.
”Of course not. Your Grace always shows extreme forbearance to Lyuyou. As a slave girl, I'm grateful for what you have done for me. I do want to taste the cake.”
The tremor in Lyuyou was so obvious that Tang Xia would definitely have comforted her in the past.
But this time she still wore her cold eyes, with her look as sharp as a sword, which would cut Lyuyou into pieces.
Lyuyou raised her long and slender hand to bring the Magnolia denudate cake into her mouth, right in front of Tang Xia.
”How does it taste?” Tang Xia gently blew the hot tea in front of her, then lowered her head elegantly to taste it.
Lyuyou plumped out her cheeks and said ambiguously, ”The cakes that Your Grace prepared specially for me are bound to be delicious.”
”That's good.” Tang Xia said in a softer voice, ”Then the half pack of life-clutching powder added into them by Anran will not be wasted.”