HCB Chapter 390: Royal Palace Dungeon
Chapter 390: Royal Palace Dungeon
Lu Yingxing cleared his throat slightly, "Ahem! I don't believe you suddenly decided to take in this... this little brother. As your brother-in-law, I will protect him no matter what. What does your wife need from you to cooperate with?"
Shen Yu observed her for a while, and confirmed that this bastard was not perfunctory. She took out the note from Uncle Zhan and handed it to him, "I will tell you when the time comes. By the way, Tian'er has set a trap for the Yun family and needs our cooperation. How are the mother and daughter of the Tan family now?"
Lu Yingxing said with disdain, "...Qingli is locked up," he really didn't care about this matter.
Shen Yu obviously thought of this as well, and waved her hand, "She has been locked up for so long and still hasn't spoken. It seems that what they are planning is not simple. I'm sleepy..." After she became pregnant, she was like a sleepyhead, and felt tired at the slightest provocation.
Upon hearing this, Lu Yingxing immediately expressed his willingness to personally help his wife bathe, and Mrs. Chenggong was pushed out of the room.
The exquisite courtyard of Prince Zhuo's Mansion, which had fallen into disrepair over a long period of time, was the scene of an erotic scandal not long ago. When Tan Daixue first set foot here, she could never have imagined that there would be a dark dungeon hidden underground, which would become her home for a long time in the future.
At this time, a woman with disheveled hair and empty eyes was sitting on the wooden bed in the cell, hugging her knees and in a daze.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, it was already the beginning of the cold season in Zhuocheng, but this prison cell deep underground seemed to have accelerated the seasons. There was a deep chill all around. Although it was a prison cell, it was actually more like a stone chamber.
The walls were spotless and extremely clean. Even the most common weeds and rats in a dungeon were gone. She was the only one left in the room. Since being locked up here, she had never seen her mother, brothers and sisters, or even any living creatures.
No one interrogated her, no one tortured her, only a small window opened at a fixed time every day to deliver her meals, along with pens, ink and paper. She could guess the intention, but as the second young lady of the Tan family, how could she surrender so easily?
At the beginning she went on a hunger strike in protest, she cried and got angry, she cursed Prince Zhuo, Shen Yu, her parents, and later even the Emperor of Linyue Kingdom, as well as gods, Buddhas, and ghosts. However, this stone chamber seemed to have a magical power to devour everything. Every curse she uttered eventually turned into a lonely echo, and fear suddenly arose.
All her pride and persistence disintegrated in the endless silence. She began to collapse, beg for mercy, and write down the wrong things she had done, but she still received no response.
Day after day, except for the small window that opened at a fixed time, which gave her a momentary illusion of being connected to the outside world, she lost the ability to perceive the passage of time. The originally bright and beautiful second daughter of the Tan family had dull eyes. She began to doubt whether she was still alive? Is this hell?
Finally, the familiar little window opened again. She turned her head back mechanically. Long-term imprisonment made her movements slow. The familiar food box did not appear. Tan Daixue's heart beat faster and she was angry about the long-awaited possibility.
"Miss Tan, how are you?"
The moment she opened her mouth, it was like the sound of nature. Tan Daixue didn't even recognize who she was. She just regarded her as a life-saving straw, "Let me out, please, let me out!"
Before she finished her words, she was already struggling to stand up impatiently. However, lying still for so long made her body seem unfamiliar and clumsy. She stumbled and her body unexpectedly embraced the cold ground involuntarily. But the pain did not hinder her at all. Using her hands instead of her feet, she stubbornly moved inch by inch towards the small window that was still open. That was her only hope.
Shen Yu looked at the woman who was so high-spirited and played tricks on him when they first met. Where was she still as beautiful and smart as she was that day? It must be said that the Dragon Guards' methods were too cruel.
Her voice rang out again, "Second Miss Tan, don't you recognize me? I came here today to give you a chance to choose."
Tan Daixue was slightly stunned, and for a moment she couldn't react, "What?"
She finally climbed to the window, stood up, and met a pair of eyes as bright as obsidian. However, when she saw her reflection in her pupils, she exclaimed, "Ah!!!!"
The image of the woman with disheveled hair and filthiness deeply stimulated Tan Daixue. She also realized belatedly that the reason she was locked up here was all because of this bitch!
She angrily stretched her hand out of the hole, "Shen Yu! I'm going to kill you!"
Unfortunately, before she could touch Shen Yu, a powerful force kicked her. She couldn't retract her hand in time, and her right palm was directly broken. The pain was so severe that Tan Daixue screamed, "Ah!!!!!
Cang Yu calmly retracted his legs. Shen Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "Why are you doing this? If you don't treat your delicate hands in time, how can you play the piano and embroider after you get out?"
"I... can I still go out?" His voice was filled with obvious excitement, and he didn't even have time to care about the pain of his broken bones and his anger towards Shen Yu.
"Of course, you were originally detained just to interrogate me about the banquet incident. Unfortunately, the mansion has been too busy these days, so I didn't have time to take care of you. I believe that the people in the mansion have never neglected Miss Tan. As for your hand... Hey! My guards are also eager to protect their master. I will let the mansion doctor treat you later, as long as Miss Tan is willing to help a little."
Her seemingly normal and friendly attitude made Tan Daixue feel that she was not a prisoner who had been locked up for a long time, and she was just visiting a friend...
"How may I help you, Princess?"
At this point, her attitude was clearly submissive. Don't even mention one favor. She even felt that she would be willing to help a hundred times. As long as she could leave this damn place, she would be willing to kill Tan Fuyao! !
Oh, Tan Fuyao!
"My sisters..."
Shen Yu smiled and said, "They are very good. They are all held in solitary confinement like you and have never been interrogated." Without giving her time to figure it out, she directly stated the purpose of her visit today, "I just need Miss Tan to help me delay time and keep the people from Youcheng Yun family in Zhuocheng for a little longer."
The Yun family... Auntie is her biggest supporter. If she agrees to her, it will be like betraying her auntie. But she has to leave first. Only after leaving here can she talk about the future. However...
"Hey, it seems that Miss Tan will pay attention if she can't lift it, so just assume that I'm not wrong!" After saying that, she took Lu Yingxing's hand and turned to leave.
"Hey! Wait a minute!" Tan Daixue was anxious. She didn't say she wouldn't help!
Shen Yu did not even look back and continued to move forward, "Opportunities only come to those who are prepared!"
As the sound rang out, the small window in front of her closed again. Tan Daixue shouted in horror, "I do, I do..."
With a bang, the window closed again, blocking out all noise from the cell.
Shen Yu walked to the cell next door and met Tan Fuyao's terrified and desperate eyes through the identical window.