After spending a lot of time cleaning himself up, Ji Ruyang opened the window and stood under it, squinting his eyes and feeling the cool evening breeze.

The servants in the courtyard were busy in an orderly manner, making very little noise and it was quite quiet.

Chenxiang Courtyard is like a wall, keeping out all the intrigues and bloodshed from the previous life.

He had never thought that he would be favored by the apple of the eye of a powerful family, let alone that he would have an ordinary life.

He once firmly believed that death at the hands of a tyrant was his destiny.

After His Majesty's sudden death, he escaped from the pursuit and the first thing he thought of was to come to Jinyang to confirm whether the second lady was still alive. Thinking about it now, it still seems incredible.

He still couldn't figure out what he was thinking at the time.

"Eunuch Ji, dinner is here."

Fuling led the group to present four dishes and a soup.

The dishes in the evening are relatively light, including stir-fried cabbage, osmanthus shark's fin, peony fish fillet, stir-fried shredded vegetables and ginseng and wolfberry black chicken soup.

"Thank you for your help, Miss Fuling."

Ji Ruyang sat alone at the table, holding the bowl in one hand and chopsticks in the other, eating his meal slowly and leisurely.

The lights gradually lit up, and Bai Zhi and her maids entered one after another.

Ji Ruyang turned away from the window and the first thing he saw was the maids putting lotus buds and elegant and pretty hibiscus into the vases on the screens and high-legged flower tables.

The other two brought new silk fabrics and replaced the previous dark blue cotton and linen bedding.

Then red silk was tied in certain places and a pair of red candles were placed on the table not far from the bed.

After this manipulation, the cold and deserted room was instantly filled with the smell of fireworks.

Ji Ruyang's mind was in turmoil. Bai Zhi pointed to the carved rosewood tray on the table and said:

"Eunuch Ji, please change your clothes. This is what the young lady requested."

The dress was red, of high-quality texture and luxurious materials.

After the people left, he lifted up the clothes. Although the style was quite revealing, he put it on his arm and rubbed it gently.

His expression obviously didn't change much, but the gloomy air that had accumulated in his eyes over the years had dissipated a lot.

There is a feeling of clouds and fog clearing away.

"Second Miss, you really know how to manipulate people's hearts..."

There was only one lamp lit in the main room.

Lu Ningshuang, standing in front of the dressing table, was completely shrouded in shadow. She was combing the ends of her hair in front of the mirror, and her thin cloud-blue Sura nightgown slipped off her shoulders.

Suddenly, she leaned on the edge of the dressing table, turned sideways and spat out a large pool of blood. The scarlet spots splashed onto her white jade-like feet, like red plums that had been accidentally stained.

She calmly wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and asked in a hoarse voice:

"Are you all ready?"

She looked at herself in the mirror, and she felt like a demon wandering around in the middle of the night, eating people's hearts and eating them.

Bai Zhi was very worried about her, but she reported back from outside the pearl curtain:

"Everything is ready. Eunuch Ji is changing his clothes."

"Ah."

The sickly girl with long hair in the mirror nodded, her red lips slightly parted, "Bring me the medicine."

Bai Zhi handed over the medicine with a hint of surprise. Lu Ningshuang took it and drank it all.

……

"Boom! Boom!"

"Boom! Boom!"

"Close the doors and windows, be careful of thieves——"

The second watch gong sounded, and the sound of faint footsteps approached from afar, and a weak figure appeared outside the corridor.

Ji Ruyang, who was wearing a red veil, couldn't help but clutch his knees. The smell of red candle oil made him dizzy.

He didn't know what he was so nervous about. He had experienced a lot in the world, killed countless people, and had countless wronged souls enter his dreams at night.

At this moment, he was actually worried about a sickly young girl.

"Squeak-"

The door was pushed open.

The weak and thin figure became clearer.

She was wearing a bright red satin long skirt with a wavy hem dragging on the ground. The skirt was very thin, but it outlined her graceful curves.

The soft hair was draped behind her, and the red and black colors made her skin look as white as snow.

She stood in front of him, and Ji Ruyang's breathing became heavy.

"My Eunuch Ji, are you ready?"

The girl grabbed a corner of the veil and pulled it hard, and the bright veil instantly piled on her bare feet.

Ji Ruyang was very worried about her, worried that she would catch a cold, but the reality gave her no chance to worry.

The girl put her arms around his neck, sat sideways in his arms, and gently swept her fingertips with black and red nail polish over his eyebrows and touched his lips.

"Red candles, red clothes, red veil, Eunuch Ji, is it possible that the sense of ceremony I give you will please you?

You know, I only do this for you, because you are the only one in my heart."

The second young lady's love words were so sweet and her actions were so touching that ripples appeared in Ji Ruyang's heart.

He thought he had seen through the nature of suffering in the world and believed that love was worthless compared to power, so he had long despised love.

But now...

Her fingertips nimbly probed into his mouth. It was icy and cool, exuding a faint rose scent, a little stuffy, but in such a scene, it added to the ambiguous atmosphere.

Lu Ningshuang tilted her head and bit Ji Ruyang's neck, rubbing her fingertips on the slightly protruding Adam's apple. Her fingertips fell on the low neckline and stroked his chest.

After Ji Ruyang found himself moved, his body became a little sensitive. The Second Miss only teased him for a short while, but his breathing trembled a little.

"Eunuch Ji, you are mine, you belong to me alone, you belong to me whether you are alive or dead, do you understand?

No one can touch you except me, understand?

Look how similar we are, we are the same kind of people!"

Lu Ningshuang pulled Ji Ruyang's uneven black hair and made him look at his ugly self in the bronze mirror.

Ji Ruyang pressed the top of the bronze mirror with one hand, and tightly grasped the slender arm around his waist with the other hand, his lips slightly parted, and his eyes were blurred.

"I understand. I belong to the Second Young Lady..."

When he decided to come to Jinyang to find her, hadn't he already foreseen his future?

Pandora's box was opened in Zhaoqing Palace, and Eunuch Ji will be entangled with Miss Lu for the rest of his life until his death.

"I'm a little tired."

The gong for the third watch sounded, and Lu Ningshuang yawned. She leaned over and touched the hibiscus flower on Eunuch Ji's temples, and said hoarsely and tenderly, "You do it yourself."

As the night deepens, the light love becomes thicker.

Ji Ruyang finally tasted the joy of love and repeated it carefully but with great relish.

"Second Miss, I have never thought that someone would care about me... would not mind that I am dirty, or cruel..."

He already felt his body getting sore, but he was still trying to please the girl.

“Whether at the bottom or the top of the palace, it is a cannibalistic world. I have always believed that love is useless and that emotions are only a burden.

Now, I don’t think so anymore…”

The clouds cleared and the rain stopped. Lu Ningshuang closed her eyes and rested her head on Ji Ruyang's chest, muttering:

"Don't even think about running away, I will kill you."

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