029 “(Quick Travel) Meat Eating Journey” Chapter 28

Chapter 28 Western Court‧Cold Brother (Seventeen)

César is getting busier and busier, and the situation may have really become extremely tense. Even though he just wants to be with his sister all the time, he has to leave early and come back late in order to prevent the empire from falling into war.Although Cizer would love his sister fiercely no matter how late he returned to the mansion, Ye Xuan still felt increasingly empty.

This emptiness is not just due to physical hunger and thirst. In the chaos of the past six months, the border between reality and dreams seems to have been blurred.There were only her and her brother in the world, loving and torturing each other, as if all reality ceased to exist.But now, Cizer’s busyness pulled the two of them out of their dreams.Ye Xuan didn’t dare to think about it. She couldn’t stay with her brother in such an absurd and lustful way. It was even more treasonous for Cesare to imprison her like this.

Ye Xuan felt that she had even begun to drift into a trance. When Cizer was not around, she sat in the darkness all night long, confused, and did not know what she was thinking.She has no one to communicate with except her brother.But Cesare spent less and less time with her, and Ye Xuan thought that if she were a caged bird, she would probably have died of loneliness.

Cizer hasn’t come back for three days in a row, and Ye Xuan is standing by the window. This is the only window in the entire mansion that is not sealed.Because it was in the attic, the window was very small and adults couldn’t get in or out of it at all.The weather outside the window seemed to be very good. A little sunlight leaked in and fell on Ye Xuan. It seemed that her whole body was no longer so cold.

“Lily, Lily…”

The girl huddled on the ground and suddenly heard a faint shout coming from outside the window.Maybe it was an illusion, she closed her eyes again.But the shouting continued, and the glass on the window was banged.

Only then did Ye Xuan realize that someone was indeed calling her. Her heart began to beat violently. She hurried to the window, grabbed the iron bars on the window and stood on tiptoe to look around.

“Lily, it’s me.” Annie lowered her voice and looked at Ye Xuan excitedly.

“Annie?!” Ye Xuan was surprised and happy, “You, why are you here?”

Except for Cizer’s confidants in the palace, everyone thought that Ye Xuan was recuperating in the palace.Anne was Ye Xuan’s maid, not a maid, so she was not in the palace on the night of the wedding and didn’t know what happened that night.The next day, César ordered the whole palace to be under martial law. Anne wanted to go into the palace to see Ye Xuan, but was told that Her Majesty the Queen was unconscious and could not accept her audience.

She and Margaery were the best friends. When she learned that her friend was seriously ill, Anne could only bear her worries and continue to wait. However, it was not until more than half a year later that news came from the palace that although the Queen was still weak, she had woken up, and Anne’s request for an audience was still rejected.

This was so abnormal. Anne was a smart girl and quickly realized something was wrong.Her father was the Margrave of the Netherlands, who also held great power.After using the family’s power to investigate, Annie found out that Ye Xuan had been imprisoned.

“I managed to sneak in.” Annie forced a smile. Ye Xuan knew how difficult it was.Although she was the only one in the mansion, César set up a dragnet around the mansion so that not even a mouse could get in.

“Are you okay, Lily?” Annie pressed her hand on the window glass. She seemed to want to hold Ye Xuan’s hand, but was blocked by the cold iron bars. “Let me see you, Lily, I want to make sure you are okay.”

“I’m fine.” Ye Xuan felt her eyes were sore. Annie must have been worried for a long, long time.She slowly stepped back, exposing her naked body in front of Annie’s eyes.Her hair hadn’t been cut for a long time, and it was so long that it was already dragging on the ground.On the porcelain-like skin, the dots of red marks were particularly dazzling.The little face as big as a palm was so thin that only bones were left, and there was a sickly blush on the cheeks.She is like a delicate porcelain doll that will break at the slightest touch.

“Lily…” Annie’s tears suddenly fell, “How dare he… How dare he do this to you…” She reached out to wipe the tears on her face, but more and more tears were wiping her face, “He is a beast…” She saw the chains on Ye Xuan’s ankles at a glance. Thinking of the dark life Ye Xuan had lived in the past six months, she choked up and even her voice changed.

“No…” Ye Xuan muttered, “Brother, he loves me very much. He just, he just…” What is he just?Ye Xuan couldn’t explain. Such cruel and twisted love was probably absolutely unacceptable to Annie.

“Silly girl.” Annie clung to the iron bars on the window, “If he loved you, how could he imprison you arbitrarily and treat you like a plaything… You have lost so much, can’t he see it?” She wiped her tears, “Don’t worry Lily, I will find a way to save you.” She whispered to Ye Xuan to take good care of herself. Ye Xuan nodded obediently, feeling sour in her heart.

“Annie, please leave quickly.” Ye Xuan looked out the window carefully, “What if…” She did not say the second half of the sentence, because even Ye Xuan herself was unwilling to admit that if her brother ran into Annie…

“I will come see you again.” Annie shook hands with Ye Xuan through the window glass.

Ye Xuan watched her jump off the wooden ladder and waved to herself.She kept waving until Anne could no longer be seen, then reluctantly curled up again.Anne is true to her word and she will definitely come back.If…if she could really leave, would she leave her brother behind?

Ye Xuan didn’t know what to choose. She looked at the ceiling blankly. Suddenly, a scream came from outside the window. It was Annie’s voice!

She stood up hastily and stumbled to the window.She couldn’t see where Anne was, but she could only hear the girl’s angry and frightened shouting: “Gattuso, stop! You bastard! What are you going to do? Uh!…Uh! Save…life!”

The sound disappeared quickly. Ye Xuan stood there, feeling cold all over and her palms were covered in cold sweat.She staggered towards the living room. There was still the familiar sound of the door hinge turning, and there was still the familiar black figure.

“Where’s Annie?” The girl’s voice sounded in the quiet room. She couldn’t help but tremble, “What did you do to Annie?”

Cizer looked at Ye Xuan expressionlessly. With a clang, the bloody sword in his hand was thrown to the ground: “She wants to take you away from me, Lily.”

“So you killed her?”

César didn’t speak. He watched the tears slowly drip from the girl’s cheeks. One drop, two drops, three drops… Such thin tears seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, hammering his heart hard.”I hate you.” He heard Ye Xuan say softly, “You are a devil.”