Chapter 40 Waiting For Her Release (1/2)

As the breeze swept by, Tang Xia felt quite comfortable.

Tang Xia glanced back and looked Anran up and down, then overlapped her figure with that of Lyuyou.

”How is Lyuyou doing?” Tang Xia asked gently as if she was mentioning something irrelevant.

Anran bowed to her, ”Everything is fine.”

”Everything is fine?” Tang Xia froze her look with some emotion flickering in her eyes.

”How can everything be fine?” Tang Xia asked in a calm voice that showed no emotion.

Anran hesitated for a moment, pondering how to respond, then bowed to Tang Xia, ”Lyuyou is living comfortably in the woodshed. She eats all the food delivered to her saying that she is waiting for you to release her.”

”She surely is confident.” Tang Xia snorted, showing a trace of tiredness in her eyes, ”Does she truly expect that I will forgive her after she sent information secretly behind my back?”

As she finished her sentence, the air around her became colder, ”Does she regard me as softhearted enough to keep her alive and let her do evil?”

After hearing Tang Xia's words, a trace of panic flickered in Anran's eyes. Then she knelt on the ground hard as her cyan robe highlighted her thinness.

Anran just kowtowed and smashed her exquisite skin on the sharp grass, twining her slender fingers tightly over her robe.

”Yue Ji, I have something to tell you.”

Anran said in a soft voice. It seemed to Tang Xia that Anran was always cautious. So when Anran said that she had something to tell her, it must be related to Lyuyou.

”If it is related to that woman, you don't need to say anything.” Tang Xia wore a trace of decisiveness in her eyes then smiled with mockery, ”I don't want to hear you defend for a renegade.”

Anran trembled her body slightly with her slender fingers curling up on the ground as the sunset highlighted her thinness.

Finally, Anran replied to Tang Xia in a low voice, propping herself up, then followed behind Tang Xia respectfully.

Wearing the haughty look, Tang Xia gave a long sigh then waved her long sleeves which brought up the breeze, ”Let's go to check the renegade then.”

Followed by Anran, Tang Xia walked towards Jiaofang hall. When they arrived, Anran stepped forward and opened the wooden door for Tang Xia.

”Is my dinner here?”

Lyuyou was huddled up in the corner of the woodshed in a cyan dress full of dirt. As her skinny back faced the door, Lyuyou's body quivered slightly.

Tang Xia snorted, striding inside the woodshed, ”It seems that you've been wined and dined.”

As the slight smell of blood and spoiled food floated in the air, Tang Xia raised her thin eyebrows, choking back her nausea, then fixed her sharp eyes on Lyuyou's thin back.

Lyuyou quivered her body before she turned around slowly.

As Tang Xia noticed the dirt on Lyuyou's face, she felt quite surprised that one lively maiden could be tortured into this after being confined for only a few days.

Lyuyou stroked her pale face, then turned around and kowtowed to Tang Xia.

”Your Grace.” Lyuyou said weakly. Her hair had a varied length as if it had been pulled up by others. Although Tang Xia could not feel her fear, Lyuyou could not help trembling.

Tang Xia glanced away, feeling sorry for her. However, when Tang Xia thought about Lyuyou sending information secretly, the hate in her eyes made a comeback.

”I heard that you had not faced the wall and reflected carefully, but instead expected that I would release you.” Tang Xia tried to say in a cold voice, but her slender fingers were intertwined tightly.

Lyuyou kowtowed then wore an indifferent smile, ”Yes, I am waiting for your release.”

Her indifference multiplied the hate in Tang Xia's eyes, ”You have some nerve to talk like this! Do you think I'm so soft-hearted that I could forgive you after your betrayal?”

Lyuyou remained silent and kowtowed hard to Tang Xia, wearing an indistinct smile.

”I believe in you, Your Grace.”

Lyuyou's words hit Tang Xia in the bottom of her heart, neither heavy nor light.

As it was dark outside the woodshed, the candlelight shined in through the door. There was no window in the woodshed, and Tang Xia could imagine easily how a slave girl punished by the imperial concubine would be treated.

”Then just stay in here forever.” Tang Xia said in a cold voice again, then glanced away, striding out the woodshed.

Anran followed behind Tang Xia timidly and looked back with a trace of pity flickering in her eyes when she left the woodshed.

At last Anran closed the door of the woodshed, resuming the quietness of the room.

After Tang Xia got out of the woodshed, she walked straight into the cella.

There was only one candle in the room. Anran followed Tang Xia into the room, then lit all the candles in the cella so that the glow of candles lit the whole room in an instant.

Tang Xia raised her chin haughtily, with coldness remaining in her eyes, then said lightly.

”You can leave now. I'm tired and want to go to bed early.”

As Tang Xia finished her sentence, what followed was a crisp sound of something falling to the ground.

Tang Xia glanced back. What she saw was Anran pressing her forehead against the floor of the cella slightly.

Tang Xia froze for a moment, ”What do you want?”