Chapter 2.2

Woman Fragrance – “You want to bet against me?” (2)

She took a closer look, it seemed like the lines were drawn casually, but were extremely precise, and the interval between the three lines was the same.

Lu Zhi Yao took the blind cane and smiled like a spring breeze: “Thank you.”

Li Ruo Shui said no thanks, but she was actually screaming in her heart that if he really wanted to thank her, then they should just get along well and not think about hurting each other.

There was not much about Lu Zhi Yao’s background in the novel, only a simple sentence “abandoned by his mother when he was young, his master died a tragic death in front of him” summarised his life’s experience, and the rest of the description was his role as the supporting male lead.

This was too difficult. What’s the use if she only knew the story plot, her understanding of Lu Zhi Yao was completely based on the perspective of the female lead.

People were multifaceted, who knew what his attitude was in front of the people other than the main leads, for instance the gentle and infatuated persona she knew, maybe that was true, but it was definitely not for her.

Li Ruo Shui walked behind him and sighed unconsciously, the path was long and difficult.

The women walking in front of them suddenly let out a short scream. Li Ruo Shui moved beyond Lu Zhi Yao to exit the dungeon first, and she was shocked when she saw the scene in front of her.

There were so many men in black lying on the ground. There was no bloodstain at the scene, but their necks were all twisted to the point of death without exception. The horrific state of death scared many women.

As Lu Zhi Yao walked out of the dungeon, he did not seem to understand everyone’s bewilderment, and with self-confidence, he just threw out his blood-soaked outer robe.

“Let’s go.”

He raised a smile and walked out of the courtyard with his blind cane.

If it wasn’t for the corpses in the courtyard, he would probably still be that kind of person who smiled like a new snow in Li Ruo Shui’s heart.

She crossed over the dead bodies and quickly followed him.

“The way you kill people is really peculiar.”

Lu Zhi Yao lowered his head and chuckled, as if he was discussing with her whether the breakfast was good this morning.

“It’s because I couldn’t wait to see you, so it’s a little faster.”

If it wasn’t for the fact that he almost swung his sword towards her, Li Ruo Shui would have misunderstood the meaning of his words.

In the book, Lu Zhi Yao can be described to be unsurpassable in terms of combat power, killing people with just a slash of sword, and sometimes easily excited.

Li Ruo Shui used to classify that excitement as abhorring evils as deadly foes, but she never thought that his excitement was just pure excitement, it was not mixed with other emotions.

Just like the things one did when one was drunk, there was no purpose, it was just because of drunkenness. However, other people were merely drunk, but he was obsessed with killings.

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Most of the arrested people were the locals of Yun City, and they all went home crying after entering the city. Li Ruoshui and Lu Zhiyao had a bet, so she stayed at the inn with him, waiting for the arrival of the female officer and the flying thief within two days.

As for the others, they had no money on them, so they could only go to the government to report the case, and then go home by official road.

Knowing that they were going to the government, Li Ruo Shui hurried to their side and muttered in a low voice.

“I found out that there was a secret passage in the dungeon before, remember to tell them that if they would like to go through the secret passage, come to me at any time.”

It was always wise to be cautious and prepared for the one risk in a million. What if there was a butterfly effect due to her involvement, what if the male lead, female lead and supporting male lead did not meet in this case?

Then she lost and she had to swallow the sword on the spot. Also, the strategy mission failed and she could never return back home again.

The original female lead of the novel, Lu Fei Yue must be discussing countermeasures in the government at this time. As long as the original female lead was there, then she could prove that her dream was not fake.

The sky was already dark, Li Ruo Shui was about to return to her room with the thick clothes she bought, but stopped when she passed by the door of Lu Zhi Yao’s room.

The door to his room was left open. She stood at the door and looked inside, only to see a figure sitting by the window with his back to her, looking slightly thin, with a straight back, and the black hair fluttering and stirring behind him seemed to want to trap him in the dark.

“Is something wrong?”

He turned his head, and the water-like moonlight sprinkled on his lightly closed eyes, clearly outlined his outstanding side face, which made him look like jade and immortal.

But Li Ruo Shui only felt that there was a strange madness surging under that indifferent face. His current emotions were not as soft as they appeared, on the contrary, there was an indescribable madness.

She always felt that if she went one step further, she was afraid that her head would be removed from her.

……

Could this be the days that men will have every month according to the legend?

After only a second of deliberation, Li Ruo Shui took a step back, and her voice was as clear as a bell in this silent night.

“Thinking that you threw away your outer robe today, I asked Xiao Er (TL/N: common name for inn’s staff) to bring you a new one, which will be delivered tomorrow morning……It’s cold in March, so it’s better to have less contact with blowing wind, see you tomorrow.”

Hearing Li Ruo Shui’s quick footsteps running back to her room, Lu Zhi Yao suddenly laughed in a low voice, and he could not stop laughing for a long time.

At the end, his exclamation words echoed throughout the night, and there was a hint of laughter at the end of his voice.

“How perceptive.”