In Another World, Everyone Want to Kill Me!-Chapter 285: Hidden Motives

Rong Qinglei called for a servant and had them prepare quite a number of things for Yin Su.

Afterward, someone was assigned to guide her to the Cold Palace.

On the way there, she unexpectedly ran into Rong Zishen.

Both Gongsun Xing and Yue Mingxuan had warned her before that this Rong Zishen was a dangerous man and best avoided.

No one knew his background clearly, so Yin Su behaved with proper courtesy.

She bowed politely, intending to leave right afterward.

But Rong Zishen did not let her go so easily.

"So you’re the little girl who stays by Yue Mingxuan’s side?" he asked, looking her over. "Why did he bring you into the palace? What’s your purpose here?"

At first glance, Yin Su looked no older than twelve or thirteen and most people assumed someone that young would be easy to deal with. But in truth, her mind was full of twists and turns.

She smiled sweetly before answering.

"Why does the Second Prince ask such a question?" she said lightly. "This girl serves beside Prince Yur, so naturally I attend to him. Besides, with looks like mine, even if I left the palace I wouldn’t starve to death. Please forgive me, Your Highness, but I still have matters to attend to. I’ll take my leave first."

After speaking, she bent her knees and offered another respectful bow.

Then she followed the young palace maid beside her and continued walking deeper into the palace grounds.

Recently, the preparations had been underway for Rong Zishen’s marriage to Princess Xueyin.

The palace had been extremely busy because of it.

Princess Xueyin was a princess of the Xieshang Kingdom and greatly favored there.

Naturally, the palace could not afford to treat her poorly, so everything was being arranged with the utmost grandeur.

Rong Zishen himself had never cared much for such matters.

But according to his mother, the main reason he had returned to the capital was to bring down Yue Mingxuan.

Yet Yue Mingxuan had rarely left his residence recently.

If Rong Zishen were to go directly to his courtyard, it would draw far too much attention.

That was why he had been wandering around the palace grounds so often instead.

Not long ago, this little girl had entered the palace and remained constantly at Yue Mingxuan’s side.

At first he assumed she was merely an ordinary maid, but now it seemed that this girl was far from simple.

"Send someone to keep watch over Yue Mingxuan," Rong Zishen ordered coldly. "No matter what happens there, report it to me immediately."

"Yes, Your Highness."

At that moment, Yue Mingxuan finally woke up.

The moment he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was Shang Qinghua’s extraordinarily handsome face right in front of him.

Although it was certainly pleasing to look at, Yue Mingxuan did not appear particularly happy.

"You again? Why are you in my room?" he asked.

"It was me who saved you this morning," Shang Qinghua replied with a rather sly smile, at least, that was how it seemed in Yue Mingxuan’s eyes.

What was this man plotting now?

If he had saved him, he was surely going to ask for some kind of reward!

Thinking of this, Yue Mingxuan quickly covered the bracelet on his wrist with both hands and declared, "No money! If you want my life, you can have that instead!"

He spoke with righteous determination as if Shang Qinghua were about to do something terrible to him.

But truthfully speaking, Shang Qinghua was indeed a significant threat to Yue Mingxuan’s finances or at least, that was how Yue Mingxuan saw it.

In Yue Mingxuan’s mind, Shang Qinghua was the very definition of a cunning merchant.

Clearly he was already far wealthier than Yue Mingxuan himself, yet he still kept eyeing Yue Mingxuan’s money.

Just thinking about it made Yue Mingxuan’s heart ache.

Why was it that wealthy capitalists always had to exploit poor and struggling people like him?

Well... although, if he were honest, Yue Mingxuan himself possessed quite a bit of wealth.

But compared to Shang Qinghua, it was still nowhere near enough.

Besides, the treasures he had taken couldn’t all be converted into silver and gold at once.

For now, they had to remain stored inside that bracelet.

Of course, these thoughts were something he absolutely could not let Shang Qinghua know about.

Setting aside whether Shang Qinghua would even understand what "capitalists" and "the oppressed masses" meant, if the man ever learned about Yue Mingxuan’s thinking, the little silver he still had in his pocket might not survive the encounter.

"If you don’t have money, you can repay me in other ways," Shang Qinghua said with a smile.

It seemed that Yue Mingxuan’s worries had suddenly disappeared from his mind.

However, Yue Mingxuan’s body temperature made him frown slightly.

It was astonishingly low.

Without hesitation, he pulled Yue Mingxuan tightly into his arms.

Yue Mingxuan struggled a couple of times, but the difference in strength between them was far too great.

No matter how much he complained, it had no effect at all.

In the end, he simply gave up.

Besides, his body was rather cold at the moment and leaning against Shang Qinghua actually felt quite comfortable. So for the time being, he decided to tolerate this behavior.

"Why do you insist on practicing this technique?" Shang Qinghua truly could not understand Yue Mingxuan’s reasoning and could not help asking.

Yue Mingxuan clearly possessed unparalleled internal energy, so why would he stubbornly continue practicing such a dangerous martial art?

Could it be that this Ninefold Celestial Mystery contained some hidden secret?

Moreover, that Consort Wan had once been a favored concubine of the emperor, which meant she must have possessed abilities far beyond the ordinary.

Yet after all these years, no one in the palace seemed to know anything about her story pr perhaps it was more accurate to say that no one dared to mention her at all.

Even Rong Qinglei had no idea who Consort Wan was.