Chapter 201:
When reality was laid bare before him, recalling all the anomalies in her behavior during their previous interactions, Lu Ziyan’s heart plunged straight down.
No wonder her attitude toward him had suddenly softened, and she no longer mentioned asking him to let Pei Yuqing go.
She had even agreed last night to make love with him in the bath pool, taking the initiative to hug him and kiss him…
He had been filled with joy, thinking she had been moved by him, but in the end, it was merely a method to paralyze his vigilance.
If their relationship continued to be at an impasse, once she left the residence, he would definitely send trusted subordinates to watch her closely—how could she escape so easily!
Escaped!
“Bang!”
The heavy solid wood desk was shattered into pieces by his palm strike. Lu Ziyan took a deep breath, but the fury raging in his chest could not be suppressed at all; instead, it made his stern facial expression show a hint of ferocity.
“Go! Assemble manpower, seal the city gates, find the person and bring her back to me!”
“Yes!” The guard kowtowed to receive the order and left.
As long as she was still in the city, with the gates sealed now and searching house by house, they were not afraid of failing to find her.
But if…
Lu Ziyan looked at Ming Jian standing to the side and asked, “Where is that sickly person?”
“Judging by the time, he should have arrived in Yunzhou City by now…” The young lady he had been longing to marry had just run away like this—Ming Jian did not dare to look at his master’s facial expression, keeping his head extremely low as he said softly, “Miss Xie does not know that person’s trace… she probably is not going to find him…”
Perhaps as he spoke toward the end, he himself felt it had extremely low credibility and could not continue.
In his heart, he truly felt immense resentment toward Miss Xie who had escaped.
Their master was a young hero whose achievements shook the court and the land; he had cherished her almost like the tip of his heart. Upon learning something had happened to her, he had disregarded warfare and rushed over day and night to save her.
For her sake, he had even knelt to a defeated subordinate.
Even misunderstanding that she had been violated, he still did not abandon her, treating her as a treasure.
Such scorching hot affection could not warm that icy cold heart.
At this moment, in Ming Jian’s eyes, Xie Wanning was practically the epitome of cold-blooded ruthlessness.
In his view, for a woman with no heart like this, one should use the same methods to deal with her in return.
Gentleness and tender intentions had no effect, so he should use some bullying and plundering methods to make her know the consequences.
To prevent her from becoming increasingly bold and reckless.
Thinking of this, Ming Jian mustered his courage, knelt on one knee, and quickly said, “This subordinate has words he cannot hold back. Since Miss Xie is so ungrateful, why must you continue to stick to her cold face?”
Lu Ziyan looked at him, his eyes a deep, bottomless black. “What do you want to say?”
“How you treat Miss Xie, this subordinate has seen it all in his eyes. This subordinate dares to say that any young lady in the world would be moved by your devotion, but Miss Xie is so cold-blooded and heartless.” Ming Jian said, “This subordinate means that a heart that cannot be warmed might as well not be warmed. If you cannot bear to lay hands on her, you can keep her in the back courtyard…”
The latter words vanished amid an aura of killing intent.
“Keep her in the back courtyard for what?” Lu Ziyan squatted in front of him, his scarlet eyes brimming with overwhelming killing intent. “To be a plaything for the bed?”
For the first time being stared at by his master with such a gaze, Ming Jian felt chilled to the bone. He had followed Lu Ziyan since childhood—though nominally master and servant, they were practically left and right arms…
And now, his master had killing intent toward him.
Merely because of his words…
Ming Jian pressed his forehead to the ground and said tremulously, “This subordinate overstepped.”
Lu Ziyan lowered his gaze to look at his stiff back and did not tell him to rise.
After a long stagnant silence, the murderous aura around him gradually faded.
“I know you have always been dissatisfied with her abandoning me to remarry, but this is a matter between her and me. You need only remember that she will be your only matriarch. Disrespecting her is disrespecting me. If there is a next time…” He paused, then said, “Those who disrespect her will die.”
