Chapter 51 - I Don’t Need to Hear That (1/2)

Hong Bao stumbled out of the scribe's palace in a daze. She didn't know what to think let alone do. Shun Tao, her one true love, might … die? And it might be her own fault, because she had told someone about this assignment, he had entrusted her with.

Oh no, oh no … What to do?

Hong Bao went back to her room, without noticing anything about her surroundings. Accordingly, she didn't detect, that quite a few gazes were following her. She could only concentrate on the problem at hand. Back in her room, she paced up and down, trying to think of something she could do. I have to help him somehow!

First of all, we have to make sure, that nobody finds out about this! The only people, who know about the assignment are Shun Tao himself, me as his helper and Leng Jin Yu. I should first go and tell Leng Jin Yu!

After not even five minutes in her room, Hong Bao stepped outside again and hurried to the courtyard. Unfortunately, nothing could be seen of Leng Jin Yu. Hong Bao grew anxious. Why wasn't he there, when she needed him so urgently?

What to do? What to do? She paced outside the courtyard and looked around in the hopes, that Leng Jin Yu would come back. Unfortunately for her, he was still in the god of war's palace and as long as he didn't have to, he would certainly not come back so soon. This was his chance to establish a relationship with the god of war. He would be an idiot, if he didn't use such an opportunity.

Hong Bao stopped near the entrance, lifted her hand and started biting at her fingernails. Notifying Leng Jin Yu would have to wait. Then how about after that? What was the next step to make sure, that nothing would happen to Shun Tao?

She smote her forehead. Right! She had totally forgotten to tell Shun Tao, what she knew about the gods in the courtyard!

Like that, Hong Bao hurried back to the scribe's palace, once again preoccupied with her own thoughts and once again observed by quite a few people on the way.

”Fate's scribe!” Thankfully, Hong Bao still had enough of her thoughts with her to remember, that she couldn't just casually call him by his name in front of him and maybe even other people.

Shun Tao looked up from the scroll of fate, he had once again picked up.

”I forgot to tell you about what I found out.”

”Mn.” Shun Tao furled the scroll of fate and put it down. There was nothing he could do at the moment anyway. ”So, what do you know?”

”You only cared about Zhi Hao and Wen Xia, right?”

Shun Tao nodded. They were the most likely candidates from that patch of young gods. He just didn't know, which one of them was the culprit.

”Wen Xia really did monitor different people each time. I don't know much about the tasks of the scribes, but it seemed like he was watching those mortals entire lives in a short amount of time.”

”That doesn't sound, as if it had anything to do with the crown prince.”

Hong Bao nodded. ”At least I wouldn't know, what a connection could be.”

”Then what about Zhi Hao? He should be our culprit then. What kind of people did he monitor? It should also be more than one person.”

Hong Bao nodded again. ”There weren't that many people though. The first one was a woman around 30 years of age.”

Shun Tao nodded. That could be Zhong Jing Yi's mother, Madam Zhong.

”Then there is another woman, who is a little younger. Sometimes, they even seemed to spend time together.”