Faceted Jade a.k.a Carven Jade [ENG Translation]

CHAPTER 51

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How did he survive in the previous life...?
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After examining it for a moment, Qin Yan heard a noise outside. He hastily secured the bride's headdress on his head before strutting over to the bedside. He sat down, covered his head with the veil, pretended to be Xie Yuqing, and remained motionless.

After leaping out of the window, Xie Yuqing went right up to the roof. She glanced around and saw that it was time for the guards to change shifts. Shangguan Mingyan deliberately curried favour with Xie Shen and was highly trusted by him, plus Fu Changling was on good terms with his subordinates. In their operations, the two purposefully adjusted the location of the guards' shifts to create a route with a blind spot. The cumbersome and elaborate wedding attire she was wearing made Xie Yuqing's normally fluid movements difficult as she travelled quickly along that route. She had no choice but to take off her outer garment while running.

As Xie Yuqing was running, Shangguan Mingyan had already reached the outside of the tunnel. He waited outside the tunnel, and before long, he heard the sound of rapid footsteps. As soon as he turned around, he saw the female's toes hit the wall, and then she stepped on her dress's hemline and flung herself in his direction.

Under the moonlight, the maiden's wedding garment looked like blood. The moment her sleeves spread, she seemed like a fluttering butterfly. Roses were blooming in patches behind her, and amidst the beauty and allure, there was a bit of an untouchable incisiveness and fierceness to them.

Shangguan Mingyan's eyes widened slightly before he hastily stepped forward. He caught hold of Xie Yuqing by the waist and steadily took her into his arms before she hit the ground.

Upon touching down, Xie Yuqing nodded and said, "Thank you."

Then, as if the brief embrace had never happened, she quickly pulled out of his arms and headed straight for the tunnel. Lifting the board camouflaged with vegetation, she jumped straight into the tunnel, urging Shangguan Mingyan and saying, "Hurry up, let's go."

Shangguan Mingyan came back to his senses and hastily followed Xie Yuqing into the secret passage. The secret passage was plastered with talismans that Fu Changling had taught Qin Yan to write to isolate their spiritual power. The two crept and crawled their way out of the secret passage, with Shangguan Mingyan trailing behind, saying apologizingly, "As time is running out, we can't dig too wide. Sorry to have put Shījiě to such inconvenience..."

"No harm done," said Xie Yuqing in a flat, cold tone. Then, because these words alone sounded too nonchalant, she went on to add, "Not a big deal."

Shangguan Mingyan responded after listening to Xie Yuqing's words. After a while, he seemed to feel that the atmosphere in this space was making him a little nervous. He couldn't help but talk a little more and went on to say, "The Ghost King will probably find out once we get out of the city."

"Hm."

"It takes about a quarter of an hour to get from outside the city to the cliff. I wonder if Yun Yu can make it."

"He can."

"Shījiě," Shangguan Mingyan's voice weakened somewhat, "do you... not like me?"

Xie Yuqing was silent. After a moment, her tone softened. "No, you're fine. I like you a lot."

Having said that, she seemed to think of something and asked, "Are you scared?"

"I'm not." Shangguan Mingyan smiled. "As long as Shījiě is around, I'm not scared of anything."

While the two were crawling their way out of the city, Yun Yu had already placed paper figures at each of the city's four gates, as Fu Changling had instructed. These paper figures were made in advance by Fu Changling, who borrowed Qin Yan's spiritual power to make them. Before the eyes of others, these paper figures could maintain their form for about a quarter of an hour.