Chapter 24 - Food Crisis (1/2)
”Well, it hasn't been easy but it isn't all bad...I have had the - ”
”Ah, I'm feeling a bit dizzy again, I need to lie down...I'm sorry I can't accompany you for long.” Lei Xing said as she dropped the cup, looking down and holding her head with her other hand.
”O- Of course, I'm sorry for interrupting your rest...I'll be leaving now.” Li Ru said quickly getting up, then she bowed to Lei Xing, ”I just wanted to say thank you...I will do my utmost to repay you this debt of gratitude.”
...Repay? how? with poison? -_-)'...
Lei Xing glanced at her skeptically for a bit then smiled, ”There's no need to repay it, it wasn't anything significant and as I said I didn't particularly do it for you...just consider it your own good luck.”
”But, still - ” Li Ru quietly said.
”It's okay, you should go.” Lei Xing flatly said.
Li Ru looked at Lei Xing and was fl.u.s.tered and hurriedly said ”Ah, yes” and bowed again and left.
Lei Xing watched her as she went out.
...Haah, I hate this...
Lei Xing sighed and got up, ”Xiao Ruo, have everything on the table thrown away, it's all making feel sick. Ah Jin, come with me.”
”Ah? Everything?” Xiao Ruo exclaimed.
Lei Xing turned, ”Yes, everything.”
”But - ” Xiao Ruo tried to protest.
”Just do it.” Lei Xing flatly said and walked away.
When Lei Xing got back to her room, she sighed and then turned to Ah Jin, ”Do you remember?”
Ah Jin nodded, ”It was when you were 8 years old, we had gone to Official Li's manor for his mother's 60th birthday celebration...you had wandered off for a period and when I found you, you were with Noble consort Li.”
”I see...” Lei Xing calmly said.
...So it's not a lie?...then...even still, what about the poison?...
Lei Xing sighed again and walked over to the large open windows and sat down on the ledge, she looked around the lavish room and sighed again, then looked at the beautiful garden outside and sighed again.
...It is truly a golden cage...
After a while, she looked back inside the room and her fixed eyes on Ah Jin, who was standing in the center of the room. She looked at her intently for a while, Ah Jin maintained her poster with her head slightly lowered and didn't flinch at all, ”Ah Jin, how about I release you?”
”Release?” Ah Jin looked up with some panic.
”Oh, since you have been sent over to the palace, I am now considered your master, so I can release you...the palace is not an easy place. You should go live the life you want.”
...As much as I'd like to have someone reliable, it seems unfair to shackle you to a life even I don't want...
Ah Jin knelt down and kowtowed and said a bit panicky, ”Miss please don't...I have nowhere to go and no life I want to live if it's not at your side. Since you saved me, my life has been tied to yours. However and wherever you live, at your side is where I want to be...please don't...”
Lei Xing calmly looked at her kneeling on the ground for a while, then sighed and said, ”Okay then...If you change your mind let me know.” and then turned back and absently stared outside the windows. Ah Jin stood up with a sigh of relief, bowed again and then stood there deeply looking at Lei Xing.
Lei Xing was in an increasingly bad mood. Not only was she stuck here, but someone has already tried to poison, not one but two poison attempts in one day. She was worried about her future and how she would survive here and even if she survived, what sort of life would she live.
...I really hate this place...
”Your highness, you shouldn't worry so much...You are blessed and so will definitely live a happy life.” Ah Jin calmly said.
Lei Xing turned and looked at Ah Jin's calm face and then laughed, ”I'm that obvious?... You are right, there's no point in worrying, whatever will be, will be.”