“No,” I paused for a moment, pretending to be calm, but my chest was tight and my palms were beginning to sweat.
At the same time, the feeling of despair overwhelmed me.
Was I never going to escape?
But Quan Jinnian just smiled coldly, gave me a stare, and left.
I heaved a sigh of relief and ran back to the room, but my heart was still pounding out of fear.
At night, faint moonlight shone into the room.
Unable to sleep, I looked at the door and hesitated for a long while before getting up to try my luck.
I was starting to panic as I had yet to notice any actions of Quan Shaoze.
Could it be that he didn’t get what I was trying to say?
I walked out of the room and came to the living room downstairs where there were only dim wall lights around. It was almost midnight, and there was only one servant who had just finished cleaning the floor still working.
I was delighted when I saw her unfamiliar face- she looked like a newcomer!
I walked straight to her without stopping and asked politely, suppressing my anxiety, “May I ask if you know about the things that happened outside recently?”
However, she just took a glance at me before screaming and running away with the broom.
Before I could react, I suddenly felt a gust of cold wind blow past my ears. As soon as I turned around, I saw Quan Jinnian’s gloomy face.
The way he looked made my heart tremble and my scalp numb.
“You can just ask me if you want to know anything, why do you have to hide everything from me like this, huh?” Just when I thought he would fly into a rage, he suddenly laughed.
His warm smile made me go into a daze, thinking that I had gone back to many years ago.
“It’s okay,” I took a few deep breaths and calmed myself down before shaking my head as I answered him.
But before I could finish, Quan Jinnian suddenly grabbed my neck like a lunatic and pressed me against the wall, his facial features distorted, “Then why did you come out so late!”
He suddenly turned into a lunatic and didn’t give me any chance to speak, but just grabbed my neck hysterically.
With his fingers tightly around my neck for a minute or so, I felt my head empty and the world in front of me was shaking.
It was only when I almost couldn’t breathe that he let go of me.
“Good girl, remember to ask me any questions that you have, and I will tell you,” he suddenly smiled like an innocent child, gently caressing my neck, which had just been grabbed by him just now.
But I was frightened and ignored the fact that my body had yet recovered from the trauma. I endured the dizziness and moved to the side, but my heart was already in despair.
Lin Feng, you might never be able to escape.
Fortunately, Quan Jinnian stopped abusing me and allowed me to go back to the room.
I was bathed in cold sweat and gasping for air as I laid on the bed.
I closed my eyes, unwilling to show the sadness and despair in them.
I knew that Quan Jinnian must have discovered my unusual behavior, so I could only resign myself to fate from now on.
The consequences might really be disastrous if I acted rashly again.
I fell asleep feeling groggy, and had even forgotten to cover myself with the blanket. When I got up the next day, my body was heavy and my head dizzy.
When I endured the discomfort and went downstairs covering my forehead, I saw Zhao Dong looking at me with an ambiguous smile at the end of the stairs.
I ignored him and walked past him, but was pulled by him, “What’s wrong, are you feeling very sad because you also know that your man has run away?