"Miss Li..."
Standing under the dim moonlight, looking at the woman with a cold expression in front of him, Tang Chen was stunned.
He never expected that Li Zimu would suddenly become so strange, so strange that he seemed to have become a completely different person.
"No, it's okay..."
He opened his mouth and forced a smile.
Tang Chen felt that something big must have happened to make Li Zimu so "careful and chaotic".
He wanted to ask, but before he could say anything, he saw the curtain in front of him falling down again with a "whoosh".
And as the curtain fell, the front became empty again.
"..."
For a moment, the smile froze on his face.
Tang Chen stood in a daze for a long time, then turned around silently and walked away step by step.
But after taking a few steps, he looked back with some worry.
There was a little light coming from the cracks in the tent, and there were flickering lights in the distance.
The night was crowded with a few dark clouds, and there seemed to be night insects humming in the depths.
...
Soon, Tang Chen left without knowing what he was feeling.
Li Zimu, who had been very indifferent to him just now, walked back to the table and sat down. He looked at a piece of jade on the table with a very struggling expression.
She didn't mean to treat Tang Chen like this.
But what Wei Changtian said in the afternoon made it difficult for Li Zimu to be in the mood to care about Tang Chen.
At this moment, all she was thinking about was Chu Xianping.
"Chu Xianping, he may have rebelled against the enemy..."
"But he should still believe you now..."
"There's something I need you to do..."
"No matter what method you use, get as much information as possible from him..."
"I know this is a bit difficult for you, so I won't force you..."
"If you are willing, then do it..."
"If you don't want to, then don't do it..."
"Go back and think about it carefully and give me an answer tomorrow morning..."
"..."
Recalling every word Wei Changtian said to him again, Li Zimu bit his lips and clenched his hands tightly.
The situation is clear today.
No matter what the reason was, Wei Changtian and Chu Xianping no longer believed in each other, or they were already on opposite sides.
Then all of them need to make a choice.
Dashu, Daning, Freemasonry, Tongzhouhui, Tengu Army, Kuilong.
Even Xinfeng, Dajue, Daqian, Dahui...
Even though many people don’t know this yet, they will definitely have to make a clear decision in the future——
That is who should stand behind Wei Changtian or Chu Xianping.
Faced with such a difficult problem that would be doomed if he made the wrong choice, Li Zimu didn't know what others would choose.
But for her...
On one side is the savior, on the other side is the loved one. She actually has the answer to which is more important.
The hesitation just now was not because she couldn't choose, but because she felt too guilty about the other person.
But no matter how painful and guilty, now that the matter has come to this, we still have to take this step...
"sorry......"
Close your eyes and let a tear fall on the back of your hand.
Li Zimu swallowed and murmured, letting tears slide down his cheeks, and slowly took the mother-in-law jade in his hand.
The cold wind outside the tent whimpered like a panting trapped animal, rolling past the endless army of companies and camps.
Thick air conditioning and choking dust drifted down behind the wind.
...
...
"Sir, why do you think Miss Li won't side with Chu Xianping?"
In another dark tent, Yang Liushi and Wei Changtian were already lying on the bed ready to sleep. At this time, the "chat before bed" session was going on.
"Aren't you afraid that instead of helping you, she will tell Chu Xianping all these things?"
"Ha~ She won't."
Yawning, Wei Changtian turned over, looked into Yang Liushi's close eyes and replied: "At most, she is unwilling to lie to Chu Xianping, but she will never betray me for Chu Xianping."
"Why?"
Yang Liushi blinked and asked in confusion: "Have you given her the Puppet Pill?"
"That's not true."
Wei Changtian pouted: "But she's not stupid. She knows that going against me will not end well."
"But Miss Li really likes Chu Xianping."
Yang Liushi argued in a low voice: "Many women will do stupid things for the sake of their sweetheart."
"When the slave family was in Fengqi Pavilion, many of the sisters around me were deceived by people's sweet talk."
"Most of those men are poor scholars or businessmen who can't continue their business. They are the most eloquent."
"Many sisters just listened to their words and wanted to help them gain fame and do business even if they fell into prostitution."
"When these men took the money, they all vowed to redeem their sisters' lives and marry them as their first wives when their business became big."
"But what about the end?"
"Even if there are people who have achieved fame or made a fortune, in the end they are not all traitors."
"The slave family has been in Fengqi Pavilion for five years and has never seen a man come to fulfill his promise..."
"..."
From Li Zimu to what he saw and heard in Fengqi Pavilion, Yang Liushi went off track as he spoke. His tone was a little angry, and he obviously had great disdain for the behavior of those "scumbags".
And Wei Changtian didn't interrupt her, he listened to her until she finished, and then said with a smile:
"What you said is correct."
"But don't forget, Li Zimu is not your sisters."
"Don't say she was deceived by a man. It would be nice if she didn't deceive a man."
"Look at Tang Chen, isn't he being deceived by her now?"
"But the Nu family didn't say that Chu Xianping lied to her..."
Yang Liushi pulled the quilt and explained in a low voice: "The Nu family just wants to say that once trapped by the word love, no matter what kind of woman she is, she may do stupid things."
"Even if Miss Li knows that she shouldn't be an enemy of the young master, what if Chu Xianping coaxes her with sweet words..."
Suddenly, Yang Liushi's voice stopped abruptly, as if she understood something.
Wei Changtian smiled and followed her thoughts and said:
"Look, you also said it was coaxing."
"If Chu Xianping is sincere towards Li Zimu, then he will not be able to involve Li Zimu."
"On the other hand, if Chu Xianping intends to use Li Zimu to deal with me, then he must not be sincere."
"Do you think Li Zimu doesn't understand this?"
"So, no matter what, Li Zimu will at least not do anything detrimental to me."
"At best, they are not helping each other."
"..."
"I see."
After hearing this, Yang Liushi finally understood why Wei Changtian was so confident.
She hesitated for a moment and asked softly:
"Sir, do you think Chu Xianping is sincere to Miss Li?"
"I don't know that."
Wei Changtian smiled and said: "I'm not Tang Chen. It would be too easy for Chu Xianping to hide his thoughts from me."
"But I don't need to know, as long as Li Zimu can see it."
"Besides, whether he means it or not, it doesn't do any harm to me."
"Well, that's true..."
Yang Liushi nodded in agreement, and her long hair scattered on the pillow moved accordingly.
"If Chu Xianping is sincere, then as long as Miss Li is still with the young master, he will definitely be wary when he acts."
"And if he is lying, then Miss Li will not be entangled anymore."
"Yes, that's the truth."
Yawning again, Wei Changtian was really sleepy now.
"Okay, go to sleep."
"Um......"
"..."
Finally, the two people's "lying talk" came to an end, and the tent became completely calm.
On the other side, Li Zimu, who had received Chu Xianping's reply, was looking at the rice paper in his hand in a daze.
Just now, she sent a message to Chu Xianping, the content of which was probably "Young Master seems to be suspicious of you. What happened between you and Young Master? Do you need my help?" or something like that.
Of course, Li Zimu said this just to further deepen his relationship with Chu Xianping, so that he could gradually determine his true purpose from the latter's reaction.
Chu Xianping's reply to this was only one sentence.
Or rather there is only one problem.
[Zimu, do you believe me? 】
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