"Ah Shu, tell me honestly, are you hiding something from me?"
Yu Shu looked at Xue Rui's worried eyes and knew that he had seen something. She moved her lips and subconsciously wanted to play dumb with him.
"It's nothing. Why should I hide it from you?"
"Really?" Xue Rui didn't believe it. He raised his hand and his slender index finger gently stroked her soft eyebrows and pinched the bridge of her nose —
"Do you know that when you lie, here and here will not move at all? You look serious on the surface, but I don't know what you are thinking in your heart. You don't want to tell me. Do you want me to guess?"
Yu Shu's heart skipped a beat. She turned her head and avoided his hand. She laughed and said, "No, don't guess randomly."
Xue Rui put down his hand with a smile and held his chin. He stared at her with twinkling eyes and said slowly,
"When you came to the Supreme Judiciary to find me that time, there was something wrong. Later, I thought about it. You should have something to say to me that day, but I was so busy that I didn't mention it. Two days later, I was free and went to see you at home at night. You were even more wrong. You were obviously in trouble, but you deliberately pretended to be fine in front of me for fear that I would notice something. If I'm not wrong, you were worried that something would implicate me. "
Yu Shu listened to his logical analysis and guessed that he was almost right. Her scalp tightened.
"You don't go to many places on weekdays. In addition to Wangji Tower, there is Taishi Shuyuan. I know the things in Wangji Tower like the back of my hand. You are in trouble, but I don't know, so it must be in Taishi Shuyuan. I have two guesses about what happened in Taishi Shuyuan and who could make things difficult for you and make you worry about me and dare not tell me. One is Han Wenguang, and the other is Jing Chen."
And Xue Rui looked at her slightly changed expression. He paused and sighed softly,
"Looks like it's the latter."
At this point, Yu Shu realized that she couldn't hide it from him anymore. She looked at Xue Rui with complicated feelings and bit her lips, "Why do you have to be so smart? Since you know that I didn't tell you because I was afraid of implicating you, why do you still keep asking?"
Xue Rui narrowed his eyes and sneered.
"You're the one who's afraid, not me."
He didn't know when he had become a coward. In the end, it was because she didn't believe him.
Yu Shu's heart was beating fast again. She lowered her head under his intense gaze. After a moment of silence, she said helplessly,
"Yes, I'm afraid. Jing Chen's matter involves a lot. If I'm not careful, I might even lose my life. I have to get involved in this mess, but you don't have to be involved because of me. Just like you regret that you made the Tenth Princess be murdered that year, I'm also afraid that you will regret it in the future."
Xue Rui frowned when he heard this. It was obvious that the matter was even more serious than he'd imagined, yet he didn't have the slightest intention of shrinking back. Instead, he took a deep breath and stretched out his hand to hold her chin, and then he turned her faintly sorrowful face towards him and said to her with a serious expression.
"Since it's so dangerous, you should tell me. It's fine if I don't know, but I guessed it. How can I pretend that I don't know and let you deal with it alone? Shu, let me ask you, what kind of person do you think I am? Do you think that I got along with you just for a moment of pleasure? Didn't I tell you that I want to marry you and that I'm willing to grow old with you? "
These questions caused Yu Shu's heartstrings to be in disorder, and how could she not be moved when she heard every single word of his that touched on her heart and revealed the truth? She suddenly noticed that the problem that troubled her earlier wasn't a problem at all. Whether Xue Rui was willing to advance and retreat with her or not, it was something that should be decided by him, and it wasn't something that she could decide for him.
Thinking about this, she felt a burst of shame in her heart. Her love for Xue Rui was not as good as his love for her.
"Brother," Her throat was choked, and she could only say, "I'm sorry."
Seeing her bitter look, Xue Rui's heart softened a little. He let go of her chin and raised his hand to flick her forehead gently.
"What are you apologizing for? Hurry up and tell me what exactly happened."
Yu Shu rarely wavered. Since she wanted to tell him, she had to make it clear to him. As for where to start, she lowered her eyes and thought for a while before she said,
"Do you still remember the time when I broke up with Jing Chen?"
Xue Rui thought for a moment, "Is it the day I confessed to you?"
He still remembered that two months ago, Yu Shu held a banquet in Wangji Tower for the nomination of Dayan. She went back first in the evening, and he went later. He saw her and Jing Chen separated at the door. It was Yu Shu's sad look at that time that stimulated his nerves, and he confessed his feelings to her impulsively.
However, until now, he still did not know what happened between Yu Shu and Jing Chen that night, so that they became strangers and no longer contacted each other.
Yu Shu nodded, smiled at him first, and then said coldly,
"That night, I left Wangji Tower alone and was stopped by Jing Chen. On a bridge in the south of the city, he broke up with me and said that we would have nothing to do with each other from now on."
Xue Rui was slightly stunned. He could not imagine that Jing Chen would do such a treacherous thing. He had seen how good Yu Shu was to Jing Chen from the beginning to the end. He was not afraid to say some sour words. Even if she treated him now, it was not half as good as she treated Jing Chen at the beginning.
"You said that he broke up with you on his own initiative? Why did he do that? "
Yu Shu was silent for a moment. She had known Jing Chen's secret for a long time, but she did not reveal it to others. Even Yu Xiaoxiu, who was like a brother and sister, did not know anything about it.
That was because she sympathized with Jing Chen's life experience and was afraid that he would be schemed against by others, so she thought about him wholeheartedly. But what about Jing Chen? When he told others that she was the person who lost her life, did he care about her safety?
It had always been you being heartless and I being unjust. Since he did not care about her life and death, why should she keep the secret for him?
"That is because Jing Chen's life experience hides a big secret."
"Secret?" At this time, Xue Rui's curiosity was completely aroused. He pondered and said, "The murder case in Taishi Library shows that someone is secretly scheming against Jing Chen. Is it related to his secret?"
Yu Shu admitted and said, "That's right. If there is no conspiracy, why would there be a need to go through so much trouble to target him? And Jing Chen is the only son left behind by Yun Hua Yi and the Eldest Princess. The emperor really favors him. Will he send him to the deep mountains to cultivate for more than ten years?"
Xue Rui nodded and said, "This matter is puzzling. Although the imperial edict claims that Jing Chen followed his mother's instructions and went to the Taoist sect to fulfill his vows, I don't think that is the case. How can a baby who is not even a year old be sent to the mountains?"
Then he changed the topic and asked in confusion,
"What secret do you think he has that he has to break up with you and put you in prison now?"
Yu Shu laughed at herself.
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