However, the further she went, the stronger the feeling grew that something was wrong.
This Juewei Store should be right at the most prosperous place of Chang’an Street, yet she was walking farther from the street. And there were few people around her after walking for a while.
At that moment, a woodcutter was passing by with a bunch of firewood, so she stopped him and asked, “Excuse me, where is the Juewei Store?”
Hearing that, the woodcutter looked at her and replied, “Girl, it was closed three years ago.” Then he left.
Damn! It was a trap!
She decided to run away but was stopped by four men in black with their faces covered all of a sudden, “Stop!”
She was surrounded by the four of them, so she took a step back warily, “Who are you? Don’t get closer or I’ll scream for help.”
The first man in black sneered and said, “Go ahead. I wonder if anyone can come to your rescue in the middle of nowhere like here.”
As the man in black was speaking, she picked up a stick on the ground and hit it hard on the head of one of the men in black. Then she pushed them away and ran to the street as fast as she could, “Help! Help! Someone wants to kill me!”
They didn’t expect that she could have such kind of skill, so the first man in black was a bit surprised and then clenched his teeth, saying, “Running away, huh? Get her!”
The rest of them nodded and then started to catch her with flying skills.
After running for a while, she thought she had already got rid of the danger. Yet when she looked back, she found the four men in black were still chasing after her closely.
Holy shit!!!
She was so scared. Why would people in ancient times learn flying skills?! She was doomed!
Helian Chacha was caught by them only after running for a few hundred meters.
The men in black surrounded her again.
“Running?” The first man in black grabbed her by the collar and picked her up like catching a chicken, “You really think you can run away from us?”
After that, he slapped Helian Chacha so hard.
Helian Chacha felt the sharp pain and she wished she could tear the man in front of her into pieces. But she knew that it was impossible for her to escape from the current situation.
So she decided to play the weak and tearful girl trick, “Don’t kill me, sir. I have old parents and little children at home and they cannot live without me. Please be kind and let me go.”
“You have a glib tongue, don’t you? Better beg the Yama to spare you, as our mission is to send you to death!” She didn’t even realize that he got a dagger in his hand.
The blade was about to touch her neck!
“Stop it!” A deep voice sounded and stopped the man in black.
Hearing that, the man in black trembled a bit and cut the shoulder of Helian Chacha instead.
Helian Chacha’s face turned super pale because of the huge pain, and she moved her eyes from those men in black to that man who had just spoken to them. It was Chu Jianmo! It was him!
“Who are you? How dare you commit a crime in public like that!” Chu Jianmo stared at those men in black with his eyebrows furrowed as he was really pissed off.
They didn’t expect him to come here, so the first man in black said after he had made up his mind, “Kill him!”
Instantly, Chu Jianmo and the four men in black started to fight and the sounds of weapon clashing scared Helian Chacha a lot. Seeing that they were moving towards her during the fight, she tried so hard to get up from the ground in pain and hid in the tree hole nearby.
She started to pray secretly that she hoped Mr. Chu could win the fight, or her life would definitely come to an end in this place.
After a long while, the sound of the fight gradually weakened and then disappeared totally.
Later, Chu Jianmo came to the tree hole, “Are you alright?”
She pulled out a smile and shook her head, “I’m good. Just a bit bleeding…”
Before she could finish her sentence, she passed out.
“Eunuch! Eunuch!”
It was already dusk when she woke up again.
The moment she opened her eyes, she saw the worrying face of Chu Jianmo, “Eunuch, you wake up.”
Since she was struggling to get up, Chu Jianmo went to help her immediately. Helian Chacha looked around and asked in confusion, “Where am I?”
“In my residence.”
The face of Ye Shengxuan suddenly flashed through her brain, so she asked, “What time is it right now?”
“It’s about 6 o’clock in the afternoon. What?”
Helian Chacha started to worry, “I need to go back to the palace or His Majesty will go mad.”
She tried to get off the bed but Chu Jianmo pressed her hand to stop her, saying, “It’s okay. I already sent someone to tell His Majesty. You’re hurt, so you better not move around.”
She knew he was right, but she still felt quite uncertain, “Then what did His Majesty say?”
Chu Jianmo puckered his lips and hesitated a long while before he started to speak again, “He said he wants you to stay here until you are fully recovered, and then you can go back to serve him again. Or you can’t do anything there right now but just be a burden to others.”
“…”
That was absolutely what Ye Shengxuan would say.
Persuaded by Chu Jianmo, Helian Chacha finally decided to stay in his home.
First, she got hurt and she needed to recover first. Second, those assassins probably would come back to her again, so she needed to be cautious. Third, she was so tired of the conspiracies and plots inside the palace.
And what the most important thing was that this was the residence of Chu Jianmo. Why would she refuse to stay with such a cute boy when he asked her to do so?
A short while later, the maid sent the dinner to her room. Helian Chacha finally realized that it was already dinner time.
Looking at the delicious food on the table, she drooled and looked at the other direction, trying to pretend she was not interested at all.
Yet she didn’t know that Chu Jianmo had witnessed all of her little tricks as he asked with a smile, “Do you want to join the dinner with me, Eunuch? If you don’t mind.”
Helian Chacha succumbed immediately and said, “Of course I won’t mind!”
She got up and walked to the table despite the pain. Before she was about to pick up the bowl, she realized that there was a fairy-like gentleman next to her, so she finally sobered up.
Knowing that she was worried to be ridiculed by him, Chu Jianmo smiled slightly, “Just make yourself at home. You are very welcome here.”
“Then I’ll help myself to the dishes!”
After being starved for an entire day, Helian Chacha now felt like she was a hungry wolf facing a giant piece of meat. She finished almost half of the dishes only in a short while.
Chu Jianmo didn’t mind that at all. He enjoyed his meal at a slow pace and stopped after a few bites as he looked up at Helian Chacha, “Eunuch, may I ask you about one thing?”
Helian Chacha nodded while focusing on her food, “Go ahead.”
“Eunuch, you are actually a girl, right?” Chu Jianmo looked at her expectantly.
“Wait…” It seemed that she had suddenly realized something as she started to protect her chest and looked at him unbelievably, “Did you just do something weird to me when I fainted?”
“Eunuch.” Chu Jianmo realized it might be improper to call her that way when he was trying to explain, “Don’t get me wrong, lady. I just noticed that when I was checking your pulse and I promise you I never did anything improper to you.”
After staring at him suspiciously for a long while, Helian Chacha finally got convinced by his sincere face.
But soon she realized that she could never let anyone know that she was actually a girl dressed up as a eunuch. She was now serving the emperor and also deceiving him at the same time while deceiving the emperor was a serious crime and one should get beheaded for that!
She stared at Chu Jianmo warily, “Tell me you didn’t tell anyone that I’m actually a girl.”
So it turned out that she was worried about that. He just smiled at her, “Don’t worry, lady. I am not the kind of person who talks behind people’s backs. But…”
However, the further she went, the stronger the feeling grew that something was wrong.
This Juewei Store should be right at the most prosperous place of Chang’an Street, yet she was walking farther from the street. And there were few people around her after walking for a while.
At that moment, a woodcutter was passing by with a bunch of firewood, so she stopped him and asked, “Excuse me, where is the Juewei Store?”
Hearing that, the woodcutter looked at her and replied, “Girl, it was closed three years ago.” Then he left.
Damn! It was a trap!
She decided to run away but was stopped by four men in black with their faces covered all of a sudden, “Stop!”
She was surrounded by the four of them, so she took a step back warily, “Who are you? Don’t get closer or I’ll scream for help.”
The first man in black sneered and said, “Go ahead. I wonder if anyone can come to your rescue in the middle of nowhere like here.”
As the man in black was speaking, she picked up a stick on the ground and hit it hard on the head of one of the men in black. Then she pushed them away and ran to the street as fast as she could, “Help! Help! Someone wants to kill me!”
They didn’t expect that she could have such kind of skill, so the first man in black was a bit surprised and then clenched his teeth, saying, “Running away, huh? Get her!”
The rest of them nodded and then started to catch her with flying skills.
After running for a while, she thought she had already got rid of the danger. Yet when she looked back, she found the four men in black were still chasing after her closely.
Holy shit!!!
She was so scared. Why would people in ancient times learn flying skills?! She was doomed!
Helian Chacha was caught by them only after running for a few hundred meters.
The men in black surrounded her again.
“Running?” The first man in black grabbed her by the collar and picked her up like catching a chicken, “You really think you can run away from us?”
After that, he slapped Helian Chacha so hard.
Helian Chacha felt the sharp pain and she wished she could tear the man in front of her into pieces. But she knew that it was impossible for her to escape from the current situation.
So she decided to play the weak and tearful girl trick, “Don’t kill me, sir. I have old parents and little children at home and they cannot live without me. Please be kind and let me go.”
“You have a glib tongue, don’t you? Better beg the Yama to spare you, as our mission is to send you to death!” She didn’t even realize that he got a dagger in his hand.
The blade was about to touch her neck!
“Stop it!” A deep voice sounded and stopped the man in black.
Hearing that, the man in black trembled a bit and cut the shoulder of Helian Chacha instead.
Helian Chacha’s face turned super pale because of the huge pain, and she moved her eyes from those men in black to that man who had just spoken to them. It was Chu Jianmo! It was him!
“Who are you? How dare you commit a crime in public like that!” Chu Jianmo stared at those men in black with his eyebrows furrowed as he was really pissed off.
They didn’t expect him to come here, so the first man in black said after he had made up his mind, “Kill him!”
Instantly, Chu Jianmo and the four men in black started to fight and the sounds of weapon clashing scared Helian Chacha a lot. Seeing that they were moving towards her during the fight, she tried so hard to get up from the ground in pain and hid in the tree hole nearby.
She started to pray secretly that she hoped Mr. Chu could win the fight, or her life would definitely come to an end in this place.
After a long while, the sound of the fight gradually weakened and then disappeared totally.
Later, Chu Jianmo came to the tree hole, “Are you alright?”
She pulled out a smile and shook her head, “I’m good. Just a bit bleeding…”
Before she could finish her sentence, she passed out.
“Eunuch! Eunuch!”
It was already dusk when she woke up again.
The moment she opened her eyes, she saw the worrying face of Chu Jianmo, “Eunuch, you wake up.”
Since she was struggling to get up, Chu Jianmo went to help her immediately. Helian Chacha looked around and asked in confusion, “Where am I?”
“In my residence.”
The face of Ye Shengxuan suddenly flashed through her brain, so she asked, “What time is it right now?”
“It’s about 6 o’clock in the afternoon. What?”
Helian Chacha started to worry, “I need to go back to the palace or His Majesty will go mad.”
She tried to get off the bed but Chu Jianmo pressed her hand to stop her, saying, “It’s okay. I already sent someone to tell His Majesty. You’re hurt, so you better not move around.”
She knew he was right, but she still felt quite uncertain, “Then what did His Majesty say?”
Chu Jianmo puckered his lips and hesitated a long while before he started to speak again, “He said he wants you to stay here until you are fully recovered, and then you can go back to serve him again. Or you can’t do anything there right now but just be a burden to others.”
“…”
That was absolutely what Ye Shengxuan would say.
Persuaded by Chu Jianmo, Helian Chacha finally decided to stay in his home.
First, she got hurt and she needed to recover first. Second, those assassins probably would come back to her again, so she needed to be cautious. Third, she was so tired of the conspiracies and plots inside the palace.
And what the most important thing was that this was the residence of Chu Jianmo. Why would she refuse to stay with such a cute boy when he asked her to do so?
A short while later, the maid sent the dinner to her room. Helian Chacha finally realized that it was already dinner time.
Looking at the delicious food on the table, she drooled and looked at the other direction, trying to pretend she was not interested at all.
Yet she didn’t know that Chu Jianmo had witnessed all of her little tricks as he asked with a smile, “Do you want to join the dinner with me, Eunuch? If you don’t mind.”
Helian Chacha succumbed immediately and said, “Of course I won’t mind!”
She got up and walked to the table despite the pain. Before she was about to pick up the bowl, she realized that there was a fairy-like gentleman next to her, so she finally sobered up.
Knowing that she was worried to be ridiculed by him, Chu Jianmo smiled slightly, “Just make yourself at home. You are very welcome here.”
“Then I’ll help myself to the dishes!”
After being starved for an entire day, Helian Chacha now felt like she was a hungry wolf facing a giant piece of meat. She finished almost half of the dishes only in a short while.
Chu Jianmo didn’t mind that at all. He enjoyed his meal at a slow pace and stopped after a few bites as he looked up at Helian Chacha, “Eunuch, may I ask you about one thing?”
Helian Chacha nodded while focusing on her food, “Go ahead.”
“Eunuch, you are actually a girl, right?” Chu Jianmo looked at her expectantly.
“Wait…” It seemed that she had suddenly realized something as she started to protect her chest and looked at him unbelievably, “Did you just do something weird to me when I fainted?”
“Eunuch.” Chu Jianmo realized it might be improper to call her that way when he was trying to explain, “Don’t get me wrong, lady. I just noticed that when I was checking your pulse and I promise you I never did anything improper to you.”
After staring at him suspiciously for a long while, Helian Chacha finally got convinced by his sincere face.
But soon she realized that she could never let anyone know that she was actually a girl dressed up as a eunuch. She was now serving the emperor and also deceiving him at the same time while deceiving the emperor was a serious crime and one should get beheaded for that!
She stared at Chu Jianmo warily, “Tell me you didn’t tell anyone that I’m actually a girl.”
So it turned out that she was worried about that. He just smiled at her, “Don’t worry, lady. I am not the kind of person who talks behind people’s backs. But…”
