Ultimative Intelligenz

Kapitel 29

Shen Zhili stammered, "That couldn't be..."

Young Master Xiaoye: "Yes, it's gold." He added, "It's normal that you don't know. There's a gold mine beneath Bright Moon Palace. Otherwise, where do you think we get the money for our daily food and clothing?"

Shen Zhili said weakly, "My legs are weak..."

Young Master Xiaoye dragged Shen Zhili up, sighing, "I can't stand you! How can there be a woman like you? Let's go, do you even want to get out of here?"

Reluctantly bidding farewell to the gold, they were relieved that this time they hadn't gone astray.

After letting out a sigh of relief, Shen Zhili felt a slight pang of regret... If she had known earlier, she definitely would have...

Forget it, it's better not to take other people's gold if it's not yours to take.

The secret passage led higher and higher, and Young Master Xiaoye pointed to the end of the last section and said, "That's the exit. A short walk from there leads to a large city. If you want to go anywhere else, you can transfer at the post station."

Shen Zhili silently made a note of it and said, "Aren't you coming with me?"

Young Master Xiaoye: "I... I'll wait a little longer. I'll probably come to find you in a while. I want to stay with the Palace Master for a while longer..."

Shen Zhili: "Go to Anping City in Qizhou and find the owner of Xu's Pharmacy. Have him bring you to me."

Young Master Xiaoye: "I understand. You should leave now."

Shen Zhili took two steps, then turned back: "Hey, aren't you afraid I'll just leave?"

Young Master Xiaoye smiled and said, "You're not a bad person, I believe you."

Shen Zhili smiled and thought, "At least this trip to Mingyue Palace wasn't a waste; I've made a friend."

Pushing open the exit door, Shen Zhili was about to climb up.

I looked up and saw a familiar face.

Shen Zhili slowly opened her mouth, paused for a moment, and then said, "What are you doing here?"

Su Chenche squatted on the ground, the air pressure was terrifyingly low, as if a visible dark vortex was swirling around him, and he was completely immersed in a deathly darkness.

He said, "Zhi Li, don't you want me anymore?"

The tone of his voice was beyond even a fraction of its sorrowful quality...

A short, sharp pain is worse than a long, drawn-out one.

Shen Zhili coldly replied, "When have I ever wanted you?"

Su Chenche's lips moved slightly, dry and hard. He bit his lower lip with his pearly white teeth, but his expression looked like he was about to cry.

Shen Zhili patted his head like she was patting a dog: "Don't do that, be good. A real man can find any woman he wants, and besides, you still have Ji Mingyue, don't you?"

Su Chenche: "I only want you."

Shen Zhili: "Stop fooling around." She withdrew her hand, lifted her leg and walked around Su Chenche, "I'm really leaving, see you in the martial world, wow!"

Before she could finish the last word, Shen Zhili's shoulder was suddenly grabbed and pulled backward, and then she fell into a sorrowful embrace.

Then, her lips were deeply sealed.

Su Chenche's tongue then slipped inside...

Chapter 25

Su Chenche's kiss was fierce, completely different from the previous lingering and light touches.

Before Shen Zhili could come to her senses, Su Chenche had already explored every part of her mouth with his tongue, even trying to intertwine his lips and tongue with hers...

...What is he doing?

Shen Zhili, a virgin who had never French kissed anyone in her life, stared blankly, lost in thought.

Seeing that Shen Zhili did not resist, Su Chenche kissed her even more passionately. His beautiful eyes narrowed slightly as he stared intently at Shen Zhili, who was so close to him. He brushed his tongue against Shen Zhili's lips, then hooked his tongue around hers and they lingered together...

The three souls and six spirits that had been floating in the air instantly returned to their places, and Shen Zhili had only one thought in his mind.

Let me kill him!

Shen Zhili bent her arm, but Su Chenche pressed it down with his hand in an instant. She raised her knee, but Su Chenche's leg had already immobilized her.

At this moment, Shen Zhili realized just how strong this seemingly harmless person truly was...

Compared to her strength, she was no match at all. She was firmly held in Su Chenche's arms and had no chance to struggle. She could only let him kiss her.

He held her tightly, as if grasping at a last straw. In the struggle, he untied her hair, and her long, black hair cascaded down, half-concealing Su Chenche's expression. All that could be felt was the intense, reckless emotion, the passionate and yearning kiss, and the intense grief emanating from Su Chenche's body. At this moment, all the senses could only perceive his presence.

Why……

Why is it that even though she was the one who was forcibly kissed, the person who committed the assault looks more injured than she is?

Is it Su Chenche who's gone mad, or is it her?

But... Shen Zhili didn't like the feeling of being completely controlled at all.

In a brief moment of respite, she suddenly bit Su Chenche's lips, the salty, warm liquid flowing down her teeth into Shen Zhili's mouth, carrying a hint of indescribable bitterness.

Su Chenche finally released his lips, but did not release Shen Zhili.

He rested his head on Shen Zhili's shoulder and murmured repeatedly, "Zhili, don't you want me anymore?"

The tone remained sorrowful.

Shen Zhili felt a momentary softening, but the blood in her mouth, which wasn't hers, reminded her of how she had just been treated. Her anger erupted in the next instant: "You son of a bitch! Do you know what you just did?! Do you believe I'll take you to the authorities and have you imprisoned for life?! You force yourself on others who don't want to, are you showing off your strength?! Your behavior is simply beastly, no, worse than a beast! Beasts don't have brains, what's the point of your brain, is it just for show? Or do you simply not have one…"

Su Chenche raised his head, his amber eyes fixed on Shen Zhili's eyes.

Shen Zhili was taken aback: "Why are you glaring at me..."

Su Chenche lowered his eyes and said in a humble voice, "Zhi Li, you can scold me all you want. If that's not enough, you can hit me. I will definitely not fight back."

Shen Zhili was stunned: "...Are you sick?"

Su Chenche released Shen Zhili, pressed one hand to his forehead and took a step back, while grabbing Shen Zhili's sleeve with the other: "It was my fault just now. As long as you don't abandon me, I'll do anything you ask."

Anything is fine...

Those clear, amber eyes were filled with pleading.

Did he know that she would respond better to gentle persuasion than force?

Shen Zhili pursed her lips, about to speak, when a burst of noise interrupted her.

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"Palace Master! Palace Master! You saw it all just now! Young Master Quanche was having an affair with this woman disguised as a servant! They were about to run away!"

"Yes, yes, this time we have both witnesses and physical evidence! Let's see how he can deny it now!"

Shen Zhili turned her head and found that more than ten people had appeared around her at some point.

Leading the way was... Ji Mingyue.

Her pale yellow dress trailed straight to the ground, swaying gracefully with the golden phoenix hairpin in her hair, like a blooming pale yellow iris.

Shen Zhili froze instantly.

In other words, more than ten people saw the scene where she was forcibly kissed!

However, what made her even more stiff was... she saw Young Master Xiaoye standing behind Ji Mingyue.

Young Master Xiaoye lowered his head, avoiding eye contact with her, his expression revealing a distant and unfamiliar aloofness.

One possibility is about to emerge.

Ji Mingyue seemed not to see Shen Zhili at all, walked straight to Su Chenche, stopped in front of him, and slowly said, "Explain. And... what about that thing!"

Su Chenche laughed, his eyes crinkling into a smile, making him quite handsome. He shrugged and spread his hands, "I have nothing to explain. As for that thing, it is indeed with me, but it never belonged to you in the first place, so I'm taking it with me..."

Before Su Chenche could finish speaking, Ji Mingyue grabbed him by the neck, her expression instantly turning grim: "You want to leave?"

Su Chenche nodded calmly, as if the hand tightly gripping his neck had no effect whatsoever.

Ji Mingyue's voice could be heard grinding her teeth violently: "You said you would stay here and stay with me forever!"

Su Chenche said in a low voice, "That's just a line from a play, how can you take it seriously?" He smiled, "I've been with you long enough."

Ji Mingyue: "Then why can't we continue to accompany you!"

Su Chenche smiled faintly: "My Zhili is angry. If I keep playing around, she won't want me anymore. How can I continue?"

Ji Mingyue suddenly released her grip and turned to grab Shen Zhili's position.

Su Chenche stepped in front of Ji Mingyue, still smiling, but with a hint of danger in his smile: "You can lay a hand on me, but don't touch her."

Ji Mingyue said grimly, "Men, seize that woman!"

Upon receiving the order, with a few thumps, two burly men with broad backs and thick waists suddenly appeared from nowhere, one on each side, and began to lift Shen Zhili up.

While Shen Zhili was pulling out two packets of poison from her sleeve, Su Chenche swiftly and decisively kicked the two burly men to the ground.

Ji Mingyue's chest heaved violently, clearly furious: "Are you really going to go against me?"

Su Chenche smiled: "I only do what I think is right, and I hope the Palace Master will be lenient..."

Ji Mingyue laughed in fury: "Then I'm going to kill her today!"

As she spoke, a thick, long white ribbon suddenly shot out from her sleeve and "whoosh"ed as it wrapped around the unsuspecting Shen Zhili.

With a tearing sound, Su Chenche cleaved the white ribbon in two with his sword. Ji Mingyue countered with another white ribbon. Shen Zhili dropped the gold and turned to run away.

Unfortunately, she hadn't run two steps when the white ribbon hooked onto Shen Zhili's ankle and pulled her hard, causing her to fall to the ground. Blood gushed from her knees and elbows, and a bloody gash appeared on her ankle. Just as she was about to take out her specially made wound medicine, another white ribbon lashed out at her...

Ji Mingyue stared at Su Chenche and sneered, "I've seen her constitution before. As long as you keep her occupied and occasionally ambush her, she will bleed to death before long."

Su Chenche's brows furrowed with anxiety, and his expression suddenly hardened: "Do you really think I won't kill you?"

Ji Mingyue scoffed: "Then let's see who can last longer!"

Su Chenche's eyes turned cold, and he gripped the sword hilt in reverse, adopting a very strange starting stance.

Upon seeing this, Ji Mingyue's eyes suddenly widened.

However, the next moment, the sword stabbed straight at Ji Mingyue. In a daze, it seemed to transform into countless swords, their cold light chilling. Ji Mingyue was momentarily stunned. When she came to her senses and tried to block with her white ribbon, Su Chenche's sword was already pressed against her chest: "Let us go."

Ji Mingyue stared intently at Su Chenche's sword, without uttering a word.

Su Chenche's sword pierced half an inch deeper, and he smiled coldly: "Let us go."

"Release the Valley Master first!"

Su Chenche turned his head and saw that the young master Xiaoye, dressed in a crimson shirt, held a long sword against Shen Zhili's neck, his alluring, slender eyes glaring fiercely at Su Chenche.