Luo Lianyi looked at Xiaozhu and didn't know how to treat Lufan. Xiaozhu's eyes were filled with tears, he lowered his head and turned around and ran out of the prison cell.
"Ripples!" Liu Fan pulled her into his arms and hugged her tightly. His arms were like iron pincers, wanting to embed her into his body.
Luo Lianyi raised her eyes and looked at him. Thinking of his situation, it seemed that she could no longer follow him and sink. Xiaozhu must have been soft-hearted to bring her to him, but she couldn't be soft-hearted. She couldn't let him be doomed!
She extinguished the blazing flames in her heart, looked at Liu Fan with indifferent eyes, and said expressionlessly: "Your Highness, please let me go."
Liu Fan was stunned for a moment and looked at her in surprise.
"Your Highness, please let me go and I will diagnose your pulse." Luo Lianyi said coldly.
"Ripples?" Liu Fan didn't let go, but he felt like he was holding a stranger, or a piece of lifeless wood.
"Please call me Liang Fengyu." Luo Lianyi struggled.
Liu Fan hugged her hard, pinched her chin with one hand, and looked at her carefully, but she was wearing a mask and had no expression, and her eyes were so empty that it frightened him.
"Your Lianyi is dead, forget her." Luo Lianyi lowered her eyelids, speaking softly but decisively.
"Look at me!" Liu Fan's voice trembled.
Luo Lianyi recalled that that night in Xihe, he had given such a strong order, and her heart was filled with sadness. She suppressed the feelings that were about to collapse in her heart, and raised her eyes to look at him indifferently.
Liu Fan also remembered that in the past, she always dared not look directly into his eyes, she was always shy and evasive, and he could always feel her love for him from her shyness, but now she looked straight into his eyes.
Looking at him, her eyes were so strange that he couldn't see her heart from her eyes, so strange that he was at a loss as to what to do.
"Ripple." He called her name tentatively.
"Your Ripple is dead, forget her." She still said this, softly and decisively.
"Why?"
"Because you are not my destination. I can't see the future I want in you." Luo Lianyi said coldly.
Liu Fan's eyes narrowed in pain, and he asked dumbly: "What future do you want?"
"I don't know, but I know that you and I have no future. There is no road in this world that we can walk together. I don't want to go to hell with you." Luo Lianyi reached out and took away Liu Fan's hand.
Liu Fan looked at her cold look, and his hands drooped down. He retreated to the wall and leaned against it, saying, "Okay then, you take your Yangguan Road, and I'll cross my single-plank bridge."
Luo Lianyi nodded slightly and said, "Since you are not sick, then I will leave."
Liu Fan looked at her, his lips trembling slightly.
"Take care." Luo Lianyi turned around and left the prison cell without looking back. Xiaozhu caught up with her, held her hand, and looked at her with tears. Only she understood what she was doing.
"I'm leaving." Luo Lianyi patted the back of her hand and strode away.
After Xiaozhu watched her go away, he returned to the prison cell. When he saw Liu Fan standing like an old monk in trance, he softly called out: "Your Highness the Prince!"
"Xiao Zhu! She did it on purpose! She did it on purpose, right? She must be afraid of hurting me, so she did this to me on purpose!" Liu Fan held Xiao Zhu's hand and asked repeatedly.
Xiaozhu shook his head: "I don't know, Your Highness, I don't know anything."
"Did you force her to do this? Really?" Liu Fan squeezed her arm.
"Your Highness, if you want to think so, just take it as such." Xiaozhu bit his lip.
Liu Fan looked at her, was silent for a while, then let go of her, and said coldly: "Go away, and don't come to see me in the future."
"Your Highness!"
"Walk!"
A roar made Xiaozhu take a few steps back. She left the cell with tears in her eyes and staggered out of the prison.
After Luo Lianyi came out of the prison, she looked around and saw that Eunuch Sheng was no longer waiting for her outside. She quickly walked back to the palace along the same path. Fortunately, there was no incident all the way and she returned to Ruoxi Palace safely.
"How is the prince?" Concubine Xue Shu asked eagerly when she saw her.
"The prince is fine, he just had a bad stomach." Luo Lianyi said casually.
Concubine Xue Shu hurriedly said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, please forgive the prince. The prison is dirty and smelly. How can the prince's body and bones stand it? If he really gets sick, you will feel uncomfortable. The prince lost his mother when he was young. How pitiful you are."
As she spoke, she glanced at the portrait of Concubine Xi and took out the fragrant handkerchief from her arms to wipe her tears.
Liu Hongjing had a sullen face and paced back and forth in annoyance, as if he was having an ideological struggle.
"Your Majesty -"
The eunuch outside made an announcement, and Liu Hongjing stopped and stood solemnly.
Liu Huo came in and finished the ceremony, his eyes swept over Luo Lianyi, and Luo Lianyi cupped her fists at him: "Your Majesty, Liang Fengyu, has met Prince Jing."
Liuhuo nodded slightly, and then reported to the emperor: "Father, I have searched all over Xiling, but there is no news about Princess Dongling."
"There's no news? How come there's no news? She's a living person and looks so outstanding, how could she not be found?" Liu Hongjing roared.
Liu Huo lowered his head and said nothing.
Liu Hongjing looked at him coldly and said, "What did you do to your mother and queen?"
Liu Huo hurriedly knelt down and said, "Even if I had the courage to do so, I would not dare to do such a thing that deceives the emperor and ignores the superior."
Liu Hongjing sat down, was silent for a while and then said: "You must bring Princess Dongling to me properly. If there is a hair missing, I will only ask you!"
Liu Huo replied in a muffled voice: "My son, I obey your order."
"Kneel down." Liu Hongjing waved his sleeves.
"My son, please retire. Father, please protect your dragon body."
Liu Hongjing watched him go out expressionlessly and sneered: "My dragon body will naturally take care of itself. I have let you mother and son down!"
"Your Majesty." Concubine Xue Shu went over and patted his shoulders gently.
Luo Lianyi saw that the emperor had nothing to do with her for the time being, so she resigned and planned to go to Shang Yao Bureau for a visit, and then waited for Sima Xiangnan to come and take her out of the palace and return to Taifu's Mansion. She usually went to Shang Yao Bureau with Eunuch Sheng
, but when it comes out, Eunuch Sheng is not working outside.
She asked several palace maids and eunuchs, but they all shook their heads and said they didn't see it, so she had to leave in a hurry. The palace was full of people, and she wasn't too afraid of someone plotting against her.
After walking for a while, I saw several young eunuchs running over in a panic, each of them looking pale.
"What's wrong with you?" She couldn't help but asked one of them curiously.
"Eunuch Sheng died. His heart was dug out alive, and his body was thrown on the dry well platform behind the Jingxin Garden. It's so shocking." The little eunuch said, trembling.
"Eunuch Sheng had his heart ripped out?" Luo Lianyi was also shocked.
"Yes, let's go to the Jingsi Room to report to the Chief Superintendent." After saying this, the little eunuch ran away with the other eunuchs, leaving Luo Lianyi with her heart beating wildly. "It's terrible! Is it possible?
Could it be the bad guy Eunuch Tong who did it? But why did he want to harm Eunuch Sheng and use such cruel methods?"