CH 3

Shen Qi’s gaze trembled, hurriedly hung her head and paid respect to him, hearing the sound of her heartbeat pounding: "Your Highness."

Shen Zhonghua's voice sounded a little hoarse: "Why did you kneel here?"

Why was he here? Didn't he go to find a priceless treasure for Su Lianxue, only to return in the middle of the month? Why was it different from the previous life?

"Miss Su thought the slave had taken her rouge." Shen Qi’s thoughts were confused, but her tone was very calm. She said truthfully but her words were also ingenious. She neither admitted stealing Su Lianxue's rouge nor did she say it was Su Lianxue being difficult and unjust.

The losses that have been secretly eating in the previous life finally made Shen Qi learn. So what if Shen Zhonghua knew she was framed by Su Lianxue? The person he loved was Su Lianxue, not her Shen Qi. In the end, it was still her who suffered punishment and still her, who offended to be loathed.

There was a moment of silence. Shen Qi’s eyes drooped and the rain dripped from her eyelashes like she was crying.

"Raise." Shen Zhonghua's voice was a little bit astringent.

"Yes." Shen Zhonghua was her master. Any words of Shen Zhonghua were orders. He let her raise then she raised. Although in her heart were doubts and fear, but Shen Qi still paid respect to Shen Zhonghua before she raised.

It was just that she had been kneeling on the cobblestone for too long, her knees were stiff and sore. She couldn't get up directly, let alone stand up. But Shen Zhonghua asked her to raise. This was an order. Shen Qi gritted her teeth, both of her hands exerted force on her thighs to support herself. She resisted the stretched taut and pain on her knees, trying to straighten up. Shen Qi thought she could do it, but......

Suddenly her waist was tightened. Shen Qi still hadn't reacted yet, her waist was already seized by Shen Zhonghua and held into his arms.

"Your Highness......?" The speaker was Liu Yue who was holding the umbrella. Shen Qi who was held in Shen Zhonghua’s arms widened her big eyes, looking at him incredibly and blankly with the same shock look.

"Go to Fanghua Garden." After speaking, Shen Zhonghua lifted his feet and carried Shen Qi, heading toward Fanghua Garden.

Fanghua Garden was the most beautiful and exquisite courtyard in the entire Prince Xuan's Palace except for the Suyuan Pavilion where Prince Xuan lived. Among them, there were many pavilions, gazebos, lotus ponds, and water pavilions all of which ran like patchwork. The long corridor was surrounded by winding paths with quiet tracks, the grass and trees have a unique charm. The long corridor in the garden ran through all four sides and all looked like a freehand brushwork of the mountains and waters as the depth of fields were enriched.

(T/N: a freehand brushwork aka. (painting) of mountains and waters is like the scroll below. A scroll of mountains and waters painting that was described as the landscape inside the courtyard.)

But Shen Qi had no intention of enjoying the unique and elegant scenery of this change. She didn't understand why Shen Zhonghua carried her to the Fanghua Garden. Wasn't this the courtyard that was preparing for Princess Xuan? The flowers, trees, and scenery were designed by Shen Zhonghua himself.

Shen Qi was carried in Shen Zhonghua’s arms so she didn’t dare to move nor raised her eyes. As a subordinate, she naturally didn’t dare to reach out her arms to wrap around his neck, so both of her hands grabbed her belt intelligently and helpless.

She heard his strong heartbeat as well as her own messy heartbeat.

Liu Yue rushed to open the door before Shen Zhonghua kicked the door open. Shen Qi was carried into the room by Shen Zhonghua and placed on a carving mahogany beauty to lean on. Then Shen Zhonghua reached his hands down the belt around her waist, going to take off her clothes.

(T/N: if you don’t know what a carving mahogany beauty is then below is a picture^^. I just know too. haha.)

The torn-up previous life humiliation suddenly crashed into her head. In a flurry, Shen Qi knelt to the ground with a pale complexion. She didn't know what Shen Zhonghua was going to do and still didn't know how she had provoked his anger, but just habitually begged for mercy: “Your Highness, forgive my sins......”

She was afraid of him.

Shen Qi submitted on the ground, her shoulders faintly trembled. Naturally, she didn’t know that Shen Zhonghua clenched his fist in front of her which also trembled.

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My mind is paste! Paste, paste, paste!!! This chapter is real hard work!!!

Many things that I don't know and have to spend a lot of time searching the net!

Ugh... Okay, the hardest paragraph that I've ever translated on this chapter is the inside of Fanghua Garden!!! It was so hard with Chinese traditional characters! And also hard to understand!

Takes so long to finally got it slightly right?!