Chapter 109 (1/2)

t.i.tle: The Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir

Chapter: 109 out of 513 - On the precipice between life and death (2)

Eh? There really was a person standing there. Ji Man quickly walked to the prow of the boat to get a closer look. It was the middle of the night, who else was feeling insomniac like her?

Zhao Zhe was sitting cross-legged at the back end of the other boat. He was facing Nie Sangyu and there was a six-string lute on his lap.

At this distance, Ji Man couldn't clearly see his expression, but he didn't seem as if he was sleeping walking. What was he doing?

When Zhao Zhe had seen her coming up onto the deck, he had been slightly surprised, but his expression quickly smoothed out. His fingers plucked the strings on the lute to play the famous song, The Faraway Cowherd.

”The Cowherd is far away, the Weaver Girl s.h.i.+nes brightly in the Milky Way.

She raises her slender, pale hand，and the shuttle of her loom goes ”clack clack”,

All day long without ever stopping, tears fall from her face like the rain.

The Milky Way is a clear, moving stream, and a small distance separates them.

Only the width of a stream, but they cannot speak words of love.”

Ji Man raised her eyebrows. Was he playing this song because he was feeling h.o.r.n.y in the middle of the night? She wasn't interested in playing along.

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There were still lanterns lit on the other boat, but no one had come outside to hear this song. Ji Man turned her head back to look. All of the lanterns on this boat had been extinguished. It was totally silent without the traces of any other people.

She had originally just subconsciously turned around to look, but now Ji Man's heart palpitated in fear.

Something was wrong. It was one thing for everyone else to extinguish his or her lamps, but Ning Errong had always been scared of the dark. She always had a lit lamp near her until the sun came up. Why was her room also dark?

A feeling of fear rose up behind her. She didn't know if she was just overthinking things, but she felt a sense of danger being directed towards her from the surrounding s.p.a.ce.

The sound of the lute continued and allowed Ji Man to feel that not everyone had suddenly disappeared from this world. Otherwise, she would have felt that she was the only person left.

”Your Highness.” She tried yelling to catch his attention, but the loud sounds from the lapping water against the boats easily buried her scream.

When she turned around, she saw two black figures approaching her. Ji Man was finally overcome with fear.

a.s.sa.s.sins? Ji Man frowned. That can't be. Nie Sangyu hadn't offended anyone to the point that someone would pay a large sum of money to a.s.sa.s.sins to get rid of her, right? Who hated her so much, to the point of wanting to kill her?