[She was burning up!]
Su Zhenzhen asked Wei Heng for the topographic map of Mount Shenju.
She used to go to Mount Shenju all the time to gather herbs, so her knowledge of its terrain was even more accurate than the map.
"There is no river here."
Holding a cinnabar pen, Su Zhenzhen made corrections on the map. When she tilted her head, she saw Lu Hexu sitting beside her, resting his chin on one hand and gazing at her.
A standing glazed lamp was placed by the imperial desk, illuminating the area brightly.
"Why do you keep looking at me?"
Su Zhenzhen subconsciously reached out and touched her face.
She had just finished bathing, washing off the dirt she brought back from the mountain, and hurried over to discuss the grand plan of killing Shen Yanci with Lu Hexu.
The man slowly shifted his gaze, reached out, and let his fingertips land on Su Zhenzhen's cheek.
"Your hair isn't dry."
Su Zhenzhen had come out in a hurry. Thinking the weather was hot and it would dry quickly, she didn't dry it thoroughly.
Lu Hexu stood up, fetched a towel from behind the folding screen, and sat cross-legged behind her to dry her hair.
Su Zhenzhen's hair was very thick and long. Because she always liked to braid it for convenience, it was a bit curly, making it look like natural large waves.
Su Zhenzhen lowered her head and continued to modify the map.
Lu Hexu slowly wrung her hair dry with the towel, then brought over a comb and leisurely combed her hair.
Only when Su Zhenzhen finally finished correcting the map did Lu Hexu let go of her hair.
"Is it dry?"
"No."
The man leaned in beside her. "You smell really good today, too."
Pressing close to her, Lu Hexu sniffed her scent lightly like a kitten.
Su Zhenzhen remembered that although her lame little cat used to be a stray, it became increasingly timid after she adopted it. It didn't dare to go out at all, as if afraid that once it left, it would never be able to come back.
Even though the kitten didn't go out, she had to.
Every time she returned from outside, the kitten would sniff her all over. Sometimes it would even lick her, seemingly feeling that she was tainted with the scent of other cats and insisting on diligently licking her clean before giving up.
Sushan, on the other hand, did not have this habit and was very generous.
A wet sensation came from her neck. Su Zhenzhen turned her head as Lu Hexu's tongue licked across the damp skin of her neck.
"Don't lick, you're acting like a kitten," Su Zhenzhen blurted out subconsciously.
Only after speaking did she realize what she had just said.
[Could he know that she always thought of him as a kitten?]
"A kitten?"
Lu Hexu rested his jaw on Su Zhenzhen's shoulder. He extended a finger and twirled Su Zhenzhen's hair around it. "Then why don't you call me baby?"
Su Zhenzhen: ???
After a moment of realization, Su Zhenzhen's face instantly flushed bright red.
Anyone who has kept a cat knows that aside from its name, it sometimes has many pet names.
For example, baby, sweetheart, and so on.
Or, the owners would call themselves mom, dad, and the like.
Su Zhenzhen's head drooped lower and lower, almost burying her face into the imperial desk.
[Actually, she had already called him that countless times in her heart.]
"Hmm?"
Following Su Zhenzhen's posture, Lu Hexu pressed his own face against the imperial desk and continued to stare at her.
Su Zhenzhen's face had already turned as red as a tomato.
[She was burning up!]
With his lips curled up, Lu Hexu leaned closer and called into Su Zhenzhen's ear, "Baby."
Su Zhenzhen only felt a numbness in her ear, as if someone had swept a feather inside. It was so tingling and numb that even her toes curled up.
Watching Su Zhenzhen silently shrink into a ball in front of the imperial desk, her whole body was so red that she looked like she was going to explode.
Lu Hexu rested his chin on one hand, still tilting his head and staring at her.
Actually, in the past, Su Zhenzhen wouldn't have had such a huge reaction. Weren't terms like baby and darling just social words for modern people?
Some people even called others dear.
But what made it different was that Su Zhenzhen knew her own secret feelings for Lu Hexu.
She would become even greedier.
"Meow..." A cat's cry came from beside Su Zhenzhen.
Wait a minute, was he calling Sushan?
Su Zhenzhen: ...
The heat on Su Zhenzhen's face finally faded.
Lowering her head, she took something out of her clothes and slowly placed it on the imperial desk.
Business, get down to business.
"What is this?" Sure enough, Lu Hexu's attention was drawn to it.
"A seal. I stole it from Shen Yanci's room."
"You went to his room."
"If I wanted to steal his things, I naturally had to enter his room."
Lu Hexu pursed his lips, looking somewhat displeased.
"Today, when I was chatting with him, Shen Yanci mentioned the Dark Mausoleum. I suspect that their hiding on Mount Shenju is related to this Dark Mausoleum."
"You even chatted," Lu Hexu pinched Su Zhenzhen's fingers. "What did you chat about? What is in his room?"
"I think it's better not to alert the enemy for now and investigate the Dark Mausoleum first."
Lu Hexu continued to pinch Su Zhenzhen's fingers. "How long did you stay together?"
Su Zhenzhen: ...
"There are only books in his room. We didn't stay long, nor did we chat about much." Pausing, Su Zhenzhen stood up and went to Lu Hexu's bookshelf to look for inkpad.
It seemed that Lu Hexu still didn't believe her, otherwise why would he ask in such detail.
"Where is your inkpad?"
Su Zhenzhen couldn't find the inkpad and turned to Lu Hexu for help.
The man was sitting behind the imperial desk, with a memorial spread open in front of him.
Su Zhenzhen walked over, thinking he was reviewing the memorial, but unexpectedly, he was drawing.
A big pig's head was drawn on the paper, with the three words "Shen Yanci" written next to it.
Su Zhenzhen: ...
"Kill him." The man raised his eyes to look at her.
Su Zhenzhen nodded, "Mm."
Lu Hexu was happy again.
He stood up, took a box from a compartment of the bookshelf, and opened it. Inside was a top-grade red inkpad.
Su Zhenzhen pressed the peony seal in her hand onto it, then carefully lifted it and pressed it against the back of her hand.
A fresh and flamboyant peony flower vividly appeared on it.
Su Zhenzhen was a beauty with light and delicate features. Even a glamorous flower like a peony seemed to carry a bit of cold and gentle hue when it landed on her.
Lu Hexu tilted his head to take a look, then tapped his own neck. "I want one too."
Holding the peony seal, Su Zhenzhen pressed it onto Lu Hexu's neck.
It was like children playing house.
The bright crimson peony was flamboyantly imprinted on the man's cold white skin, exuding a cold and glamorous coquettishness.
Compared to Su Zhenzhen, Lu Hexu was obviously more suited for such a flamboyant flower.
The man's cold white skin made that touch of red look like a burning fire, breathtakingly gorgeous.
Su Zhenzhen couldn't hold back and reached out her hand. Her fingertips carefully traced the lines of the petals, and the man's slightly cool skin grew faintly hot under her touch.
Lu Hexu's Adam's apple bobbed, and his breathing faltered for a moment.
Just as Su Zhenzhen was retracting her hand, he grasped her wrist. "You can touch."
Lu Hexu's voice was kept very low, carrying a trace of imperceptible huskiness.
The collar of the man's clothes was slightly open. The silk fabric was already smooth, and the clothing on his shoulder slipped down with his movements, revealing the lines of his collarbone.
Driven by some inexplicable urge, Su Zhenzhen reached out and caressed Lu Hexu's collarbone.
[So beautiful.]
Lu Hexu was on the lean side, with distinct collarbone lines that looked like shallow ravines carved from cold jade.
Su Zhenzhen's fingertips, bearing faint, barely noticeable calluses, gently stroked the man's skin.
Lu Hexu sat leaning back, his long eyelashes drooping to hide the emotions in his eyes, revealing only his sharp jawline. The faint red at the tips of his ears quietly spread all the way down his neck, blooming into a light pink across his cool, pale skin.
[Ah, it turned pink.]
Su Zhenzhen noticed that wherever her fingertips went, the man's skin would take on a beautiful pink hue, like blooming petals.
[I really want to sleep with him.]
The man's breathing beside her ear suddenly grew heavier.
Su Zhenzhen took a deep breath and pulled his clothes up for him. "Don't catch a cold."
Lu Hexu: ...
"The maidservant there is very vigilant. I've already been there once, so she should recognize me and won't be suspicious. I will go again tomorrow to check out that hidden tomb."
"You're going alone?" Lu Hexu subconsciously sat up straight.
"Yes," Su Zhenzhen nodded.
"I'll go with you."
Su Zhenzhen thought for a moment. "You could send someone else to follow me..."
"I wouldn't feel at ease."
Fair enough.
"You can go, but you'll have to disguise yourself."
Shen Yanci recognized Lu Hexu's face.
Su Zhenzhen wasn't sure if the other people working under Shen Yanci would recognize him too.
When it came to making someone look ugly, Su Zhenzhen was already an expert.
The next day, before dawn, Su Zhenzhen started working on Lu Hexu's disguise.
She brought out a medicine box filled with the disguise potions and tools she had used before.
Oh? Surprisingly, there was also the rouge and powder she had bought the last time she went shopping with Lu Hexu.
She had left them in there and completely forgotten about them.
Su Zhenzhen glanced at Lu Hexu, who was sitting there quietly with his eyes closed, waiting.
A mischievous idea sprang to her mind.
She took out the cosmetics, scooped up a little lip rouge with her fingertip, and smeared it onto Lu Hexu's lips.
The man's skin was naturally pale. With his long hair down and wearing a plain white inner robe, the lip rouge made him look as beautiful as a flower, even revealing a somewhat androgynous beauty.
Lu Hexu slowly opened his eyes and saw Su Zhenzhen standing in front of him with a dazed expression.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing."
Su Zhenzhen quickly hid the lip rouge behind her back.
Lu Hexu propped his chin on one hand and reached for the hand mirror Su Zhenzhen had placed on the dressing table.
Su Zhenzhen quickly reached out and furiously wiped Lu Hexu's mouth.
Lu Hexu: ...
"That hurts."
He felt like his lips were going to be rubbed raw by Su Zhenzhen.
"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt."
Su Zhenzhen blew gently on Lu Hexu's lips, and then officially began.
First, she mixed a gardenia fruit solution to change his skin tone, turning Lu Hexu's cool, pale skin into an earthy yellow.
Yet even with yellowed skin, Lu Hexu's underlying bone structure remained stunningly beautiful.
Su Zhenzhen dotted many freckles onto his face and made some cotton wads to stuff into his mouth, altering the shape of his face.
Ah, he still looked too good.
Su Zhenzhen walked a circle around Lu Hexu. She got him a set of clothes typically worn by household servants and padded the inside with some fluffy cotton to change his body shape, turning his broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted figure into a slightly bloated, chubby one.
And his hair.
Su Zhenzhen's hands smoothed down Lu Hexu's hair.
Lu Hexu's eyelashes fluttered. He tilted his head up, his gaze landing on Su Zhenzhen's face.
Su Zhenzhen kept her eyes strictly forward, trying hard to ignore Lu Hexu's moist, alluring gaze as she rubbed the potion in her hands into his hair.
Soon, the man's silk-like hair became coarse.
That was about right.
"For your voice, eat this."
This was a pill Su Zhenzhen had made herself. After eating it, it would stimulate the throat and change the voice.
Lu Hexu raised his hand to take it and popped it into his mouth without hesitation.
-
The terrain on Shenju Mountain was complex, consisting entirely of untamed paths.
Su Zhenzhen walked in front, holding Lu Hexu's hand.
She held a small sickle in her hand to clear the way.
That Taoist temple was hidden deep within Shenju Mountain. The mountain was heavily wooded; if Shen Yanci hadn't led the way last time, Su Zhenzhen figured she never would have found the place herself.
Fortunately, because she gathered herbs year-round, her ability to recognize mountain paths had improved.
"Taste this."
As soon as she entered the mountain, Su Zhenzhen passively triggered her gathering skills.
She resisted the urge to pick the herbs and just casually plucked a lantern fruit, handing it to Lu Hexu.
The ripening period for lantern fruits was in August and September. Raw lantern fruits were toxic and would cause diarrhea if eaten.
The one Su Zhenzhen picked for Lu Hexu was a ripe lantern fruit.
Ripe lantern fruits were yellow or red, with outer skins that looked dry and light.
Su Zhenzhen used her fingertips to gently tear open the paper-thin lantern skin, revealing the golden fruit inside, and then handed it to Lu Hexu.
The man reached out, took it, and popped it into his mouth.
The sweet aroma of the lantern fruit burst in his mouth, carrying the fresh sweetness of the wilderness.
Su Zhenzhen picked one for herself as well. It was slightly tart, but the taste was very good.
She thought that if they didn't have serious business to attend to, finding a spot on Shenju Mountain to camp or have a picnic would be an excellent choice.
The two followed the mountain path upwards together.
Following her memory, Su Zhenzhen found the Taoist temple.
Just like yesterday, two fake Taoist priests were guarding the temple gates.
Su Zhenzhen checked the peony mark on the back of her hand, and then checked the peony mark on the back of Lu Hexu's hand. After confirming there were no issues, the two approached the temple gates one after the other.
The two guards shifted their gazes downward. Seeing the marks on Su Zhenzhen and Lu Hexu's hands, they said, "Peonies bloom."
Su Zhenzhen replied, "Prosperity naturally follows."
The two men nodded and let Su Zhenzhen and Lu Hexu inside.
The Taoist temple was very large; yesterday, Su Zhenzhen had only explored a small portion of it.
"Yesterday, Shen Yanci and I walked out from here."
Lu Hexu looked up and saw ancient trees on both sides, their canopies blocking out the sky. Cicadas chirped continuously, and unknown birds could be seen resting on the branches.
One of the little birds held the same kind of lantern fruit they had just eaten in its beak, placing it on a branch and pecking at it bit by bit.
"That over there is the back door. If any accidents happen later, leave through here."
Su Zhenzhen raised her hand, pointing to the back door not far ahead.
The back door was closed, firmly secured by a thick wooden latch.
Su Zhenzhen knew Lu Hexu was very strong; if an accident occurred later, he could just kick the door down.
"There is a path behind it. If you keep following it, you can make your way out of Shenju Mountain."
"I won't leave you behind," Lu Hexu tightly grasped Su Zhenzhen's hand.
[Is that a sweet nothing?]
[I'll count it as one.]
Su Zhenzhen subconsciously gripped Lu Hexu's hand tighter, feeling a sweet sensation in her heart.
The two walked around the Taoist temple hand in hand.
The temple was huge. They walked for over two hours and had barely covered a small half of it.
How were they supposed to find the entrance to the hidden tomb like this?
The weather was starting to get hot. Even deep in the mountains, once the sun shone down, the temperature began to rise.
Su Zhenzhen led Lu Hexu to find a shady spot to sit down.
She began to try hard to recall the plot of the original novel.
The original novel had mentioned that the corpse of Shen Yanci's father was pieced together and buried in an unknown location by the late Emperor of the Great Zhou dynasty.
It was a small tomb. The tombstone was engraved with incantations, and there were also some Feng Shui formations, all used for suppression.
As the late Emperor of Great Zhou grew older, he suffered from more and more nightmares.
He frequently dreamed that this biological brother, whom he had killed with his own hands, came looking for him at night to demand his life, terrifying him to the brink of madness.
So they found someone to secretly dig up the corpse of the former Emperor of Great Yan from the Ming Mausoleum, pinned it under the coffin, and found a place with extremely bad Feng Shui to suppress it.
The original novel mentioned that not only the tombstone, but even the coffin was covered in bizarre incantations splashed with black dog blood to block his way out.
After going through untold hardships, Shen Yanci finally found his father's tomb. When he opened the coffin, the corpse inside had completely rotted away, and copper coins used to seal the soul were found forcefully stuffed into its mouth and nose.
This was done to lock the soul, sever the path, and suppress the resentment.
It prevented the soul from breathing the essence of the underworld and from being guided by the ghostly messengers, leaving it forever trapped within the corpse.
In order to let his father rest in peace, he moved his father's corpse into a secret mausoleum.
The mausoleum was massive, hidden beneath Mount Shenju.
Mount Shenju was a famous Feng Shui treasure land, carrying legends of ascending to immortality.
Because it was a secret operation, the original novel stated that Shen Yanci only brought a few trusted shadow guards to transport the body.
Su Zhenzhen tried hard to recall. The entrance was... in Shen Yanci's room.
"We need to make a trip to Shen Yanci's room."
Su Zhenzhen stood up abruptly.
Lu Hexu had been leaning on her shoulder to rest.
When the woman suddenly stood up, his body swayed, and he bumped into the ancient tree next to them.
Seeing Lu Hexu's reddened forehead, Su Zhenzhen quickly reached out to rub it for him. "There, there, it doesn't hurt." After hurriedly coaxing him, she said, "Time is tight, we need to go now."
Lu Hexu: ...
Su Zhenzhen felt her luck was truly quite good.
Shen Yanci had just taken her to his room yesterday.
Encountering a maidservant on the way, Su Zhenzhen kept her head down and brushed past her.
The maid looked at Su Zhenzhen and frowned. "It's you?"
Su Zhenzhen stopped and turned sideways to block Lu Hexu behind her.
Although she couldn't really block much, she just did it subconsciously.
"Yes, Sister."
"Here to see the Holy Son?"
"The Holy Son permitted me yesterday to come today."
Su Zhenzhen started to spout nonsense.
"The Holy Son never makes appointments with anyone."
The atmosphere instantly stiffened.
Su Zhenzhen kept her head down, clutching her purse with one hand, and took out half a jade pendant from behind her back with the other.
Seeing this half jade pendant, the tense expression on the maid's face softened, and she said to her, "The Holy Son is currently in seclusion. Wait here."
"Yes," Su Zhenzhen nodded respectfully.
The maid turned and left.
Once the maid was far away, Su Zhenzhen immediately led Lu Hexu toward Shen Yanci's room.
Only an idiot would stand there and wait.
The courtyard where Shen Yanci lived was not large. The main room was locked, so Su Zhenzhen took Lu Hexu to climb through the window.
The window wasn't closed. She stepped down onto the desk, knocking off the things on top of it.
Su Zhenzhen looked down and saw that Lu Hexu had already picked up the fallen box.
Inside was a sachet.
Lu Hexu lowered his head to sniff the scent on the sachet.
Too much time had passed; the scent on the sachet was completely gone.
"You gave this to him?"
He could even guess that?
"Mm..."
After Su Zhenzhen said this, she carefully peeked at Lu Hexu's expression.
The man expressionlessly stuffed the sachet into his own robes, then started rummaging around the room.
"There's nothing else, only this sachet..."
As soon as Su Zhenzhen said that, she watched helplessly as Lu Hexu dug out several medicine bottles and some slips of paper.
Such ugly handwriting, sure enough, she was the one who wrote them.
And these medicine bottles.
The labels on them were also written by her.
Su Zhenzhen: ...She truly had no idea Shen Yanci would actually keep so many things.
"You lied to me."
The man's gaze was dark and brooding.
"I didn't lie to you. I really didn't know he would keep them. Besides, when I was corresponding with him back then, I had no idea he was Shen Yanci... I'll explain this to you when we get back." The more Su Zhenzhen spoke, the guiltier she felt.
Actually, she had only found out yesterday that Shen Yanci was her pen pal.
"And that jade pendant."
"Oh, this. I thought it might be useful, so I kept it on me."
It was given to her by Shen Yanci five years ago.
"Here, it seems pretty useful." Su Zhenzhen handed the jade pendant to Lu Hexu.
Lu Hexu didn't take it.
"Give it to me after we leave Mount Shenju."
"Oh." Su Zhenzhen nodded and put the jade pendant away. "Let's find the mechanism first."
Su Zhenzhen remembered it seemed to be a mechanism on the bookshelf.
What was it exactly again?
Which book?
Su Zhenzhen stood on her tiptoes, searching back and forth across the bookshelf. When she finally twisted one of the books, the bookshelf began to move slowly, revealing a narrow opening behind it.
Looking at the pitch-black opening, Su Zhenzhen subconsciously grew tense.
She looked over at Lu Hexu. The man reached out, picked up a gauze lantern from the table, lit it, and walked in front of Su Zhenzhen. "Follow me, and don't let go."
"Mm."
Su Zhenzhen held Lu Hexu's hand, and the two of them went down into the opening together.
As soon as they entered, the bookshelf behind them closed automatically.
Su Zhenzhen glanced behind her.
[It's so dark.]
She shifted her gaze forward. Lu Hexu, holding the gauze lantern, was turning his head to look at her.
Su Zhenzhen's heart softened, and she pressed closer to him.
The two continued walking forward.
The path was narrow and dark. In the extreme silence, only the gauze lantern in their hands emitted a soft, glowing light.
It was so quiet.
It felt as if she and Lu Hexu were the only two people left in the world.
Su Zhenzhen turned her head and found herself face-to-face with a stone lion's head.
Su Zhenzhen: ...Ahhh! What the heck!
Lu Hexu raised the gauze lantern in his hand higher.
Carved into the stone walls on both sides were stone figures, stone horses, stone lions, stone elephants, and so on.
"This is the imperial honor guard. It really is an emperor's mausoleum."
Truly terrifying.
Su Zhenzhen pressed even closer to Lu Hexu.
After they finished walking through the passageway, a door appeared in front of them.
Su Zhenzhen looked up. This should be the main door of the mausoleum. It had a bluestone frame and dark iron rings. Carved onto the door was a long-blurred five-clawed golden dragon, and on both sides were the Azure Dragon and White Tiger that guarded the four directions. The beast heads held rusted iron rings in their mouths, their eyes burning like torches.
Meeting their gaze, Su Zhenzhen inexplicably felt a chill.
She hid behind Lu Hexu a little more.
She was most afraid of these tales of ghosts and monsters.
In contrast, Lu Hexu had no trace of fear on his face; he even showed a bit of interest.
"Tell me, do you think the incantations on my body are more powerful, or are these things more powerful?"
As he spoke, Lu Hexu reached out his hand and pushed forward.
The mausoleum door, which would normally require several strong young men to open, was pushed open a crack by Lu Hexu with just one hand.
The door was half open, leaking the heavy darkness from within, and a chill crept up from the soles of Su Zhenzhen's feet.
She felt something wrap around her ankle.
Terrified, Su Zhenzhen let out a low yelp and jumped straight onto Lu Hexu.
The man supported her bottom with one hand while holding the lantern in the other.
"Zhenzhen, you're so timid."
"Help me look, on my foot, there's something on my foot..." Su Zhenzhen didn't dare to open her eyes, only blindly pleading for help.
Lu Hexu swung the lantern in his hand to shine a light behind them.
A segment of vine was coiled around Su Zhenzhen's ankle.
"It's a vine."
Su Zhenzhen cautiously opened one eye. Upon seeing it, she let out a massive sigh of relief.
[That scared her to death.]
[Her heart was beating so fast.]
Lying against Lu Hexu's shoulder, Su Zhenzhen felt warm and cozy.
She actually felt a bit reluctant to get down.
"I'll carry you inside."
The man's voice rang out softly by her ear.
Su Zhenzhen looked down, her feet touching the ground. "No need, I can walk on my own." After saying that, she reached out and poked Lu Hexu. "You go first."
-
Lu Hexu walked in front, and Su Zhenzhen followed behind.
It felt so eerie.
She began to regret not asking for some kind of talisman beforehand, or buying some black dog blood. At the very least, she had heard that menstrual blood could ward off evil to some extent.
Women truly were naturally superior, coming with built-in evil-warding properties.
Shenju Mountain was huge, so naturally, this hidden tomb was not small either.
After entering the tomb gates, they passed through the empty, silent front and middle halls, venturing all the way into the deepest part of the underground palace.
This must be the burial chamber.
So much gold, silver, and jewelry.
The chamber was massive, every corner piled high with gold and silver vessels, pearls, and precious stones.
Gold ingots were stacked like mountains. Dragon and phoenix gold hairpins and pearl step-shake ornaments were scattered haphazardly in the corners, while jade disks, agate, colored glaze, and pearls rolled all over the floor.
Su Zhenzhen subconsciously swallowed hard.
[Can I take a little?]
By the time Su Zhenzhen realized what she was doing, she had already picked up a gold ingot.
There were also some sealed large chests. It was unknown what was inside, but they didn't look like old relics; they seemed more like they had been moved in recently.
Sniffing closely, a strange odor seemed to seep out from them.
Su Zhenzhen didn't have time to overthink it before her gaze shifted upward, spotting something even more valuable.
Right in the center was a wide white marble coffin bed, upon which quietly rested the emperor's outer coffin. It was pitch-black and heavy, carved with motifs of dragons and phoenixes playing with a pearl, as well as the vast landscapes of the empire.
On both sides were eternal lamps, their dim light flickering slightly. The oil in them was still fresh, indicating that someone had been coming in regularly to refill them.
Suddenly, footsteps echoed from behind. Lu Hexu made a prompt decision: he extinguished the gauze lantern, pushed open the coffin lid with one hand, and pulled Su Zhenzhen in with him as he lay down inside.
The coffin only contained burial garments and a crown. It was a bit hard to lie on and smelled of dust.
The moment the coffin closed, Su Zhenzhen instinctively hugged Lu Hexu tight.
It was pitch black inside; she couldn't even see her own fingers.
Su Zhenzhen even started to feel like she was having trouble breathing.
But in reality, the coffin wasn't sealed shut. Although it was stuffy, it wasn't enough to suffocate them.
Su Zhenzhen disliked this kind of enclosed space.
[I'm too tense.]
[I can't catch my breath.]
A finger reached out, pressing against the corner of Su Zhenzhen's lips and prying apart her clenched teeth.
Su Zhenzhen was forced to open her mouth, but her breathing suddenly became clear and unobstructed.
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