bookcurios Chapter 140 Jade Pendant
Chapter 140 Jade Pendant
At night, Shen Zhiluo hadn't fallen asleep yet, and a man wearing a red evil ghost mask entered her room.
Under the dim candlelight, Shen Zhiluo was so happy to see the man coming that he immediately got out of bed and hugged the man's waist.
The man pushed Shen Zhiluo away without leaving a trace. He took a step forward with his long legs and chose a place to sit down farther away from Shen Zhiluo.
Shen Zhiluo didn't pay much attention to what was wrong with the man. She walked up to the man, sat on his lap, and then hooked her hands around his neck. The man frowned and pushed Shen Zhiluo away.
Shen Zhiluo fell to the ground all of a sudden. She immediately felt wronged. She knelt on the ground, looking at the man with tears in her eyes.
"We just got engaged today, and you treat me like this? Don't you like me anymore?"
The man rolled his eyes speechlessly. The lighting in the room was dim, and Shen Zhiluo did not see the man's displeased look.
"Sit still!"
The man took a deep breath, afraid that Shen Zhiluo would stand up and sit on his lap again. He endured it and didn't kill this ignorant woman.
"I came here today to see something you showed me when we first met."
“Didn’t you see it last time?”
“Okay, I’m leaving!”
The man lost all his patience and stood up to leave. Shen Zhiluo quickly went to stop him.
"Hey, don't go. I'm just curious about why you came to my place to look at that thing so late at night."
The man stared into Shen Zhiluo's eyes.
"Otherwise, why do you think I came to see you so late at night?"
Shen Zhiluo's face immediately turned red with shame. She lowered her head, bit her lips lightly, and said nothing.
The man felt annoyed when he saw Shen Zhiluo like this. He shouldn't have come here. He sighed and was about to leave.
Shen Zhiluo grabbed the man's sleeve, shook it twice, and spoke in a very affected voice.
"I, we have already decided on our marriage today. The wedding will be on the 12th of next month. Today is only 20 days away from the wedding, so I thought you came to see me so late at night, because..."
Shen Zhiluo was a girl after all, so she couldn't finish her words. After she finished speaking, she didn't dare to look at the man anymore.
The man got goosebumps at Shen Zhiluo's voice. He took a deep breath and brushed away Shen Zhiluo's hand that was pulling his sleeve.
"I'm not someone who would do that kind of thing before marriage. Even if we're getting married soon, those things should be done on the wedding night."
The man walked a few steps and chose a place farthest away from Shen Zhiluo to sit down.
When Shen Zhiluo heard the man say this, she knew that she had misunderstood him and she didn't dare to get close to him anymore, for fear of annoying him.
Shen Zhiluo knew that some educated people cared a lot about these things and had a lot of rules. Since she chose this person, she accepted these.
“I’m sorry, I’m not that kind of casual person, because it’s late at night.
Last time, last night when you came to my room, I sat on your lap and you didn’t push me away like you did today. I thought we were already engaged, so when you came, I… I’ve never had this kind of contact with any other man except you, really! "
The man didn't care about what Shen Zhiluo said at all. He didn't even listen carefully and just said "hmm" perfunctorily.
"I'm here to see the jade pendant you showed me last time. You told me last time that there was another half of the jade pendant, and you said you would draw the other half for me. I came here to get the picture, and I also want to see the jade pendant again."
Shen Zhiluo's jade pendant was snatched from the real Shen Jinyi. She was not afraid of that person seeing it at all, because the jade pendant was definitely real.
"Wait a minute, I'll get it."
Shen Zhiluo walked to the wardrobe, opened it, and took out a very exquisite small box. She held the box in front of the man.
The man glanced at Shen Zhiluo, who seemed to be offering a treasure, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He reached out, opened the box, and took out the jade pendant from the box.
"There are two jade pendants, but I don't have the other one."
Shen Zhiluo looked at the man holding the jade pendant. He placed it under the candlelight and looked at it carefully. She spoke to him, but the man didn't even look at her.
The man looked at the familiar jade pendant. He had seen the other half of the jade pendant before.
This jade pendant has a peach blossom carved on it, and that one has a maple leaf carved on it.
"Another jade pendant..."
The man waved the jade pendant in front of Shen Zhiluo, but did not finish his words, waiting for Shen Zhiluo to respond.
Shen Zhiluo took the jade pendant from the man, carefully put it in the box, and then carefully put it back in its place before sitting opposite the man again.
"This jade pendant, there is another one on my sister, I won't draw it for you, it is a maple leaf, she and I are best sisters, I haven't seen her for a long time."
The man looked at Shen Zhiluo's face carefully. He thought she was really funny. She lied so easily!
"Oh? Sister?"
Shen Zhiluo didn't hear the playfulness in the man's tone, she nodded heavily.
"Yeah, she was the best to me and always protected me. She told me at the time that a man she knew, also from Han Country, owed her a favor, so she casually said that if he met me one day, he would take care of me.
As a thank you, his sister gave him a dagger inlaid with rubies and engraved with the words "Tao Yao".
When I first saw you, I was scared to death. You were wearing a mask and I thought you were a bad guy. But I didn't expect that you recognized me through the jade pendant I was wearing. "
After hearing this, the man took out the dagger, and there were indeed words written on the handle.
"You mean the dagger!"
Shen Zhiluo took the dagger and looked at it carefully in the candlelight.
"It's really beautiful. There are two words on it. It's Taoyao. Brother, can you give it to me? This dagger is originally for girls!"
The man's face darkened and he snatched the dagger from Shen Zhiluo's hand.
"How can I give something that was given to me by an old friend to someone else? I can't do that, and no one can do that!"
Shen Zhiluo really liked that dagger. She said the same words last time, but that time, the man did not take out the dagger.
"Do you remember why your sister carved these two words on the dagger?"
How could Shen Zhiluo know so much? She just saw the conversation between Shen Jinyi and the man with the evil ghost mask in her previous life, and knew that the man was taking care of her because of the jade pendant.
At that time, Shen Jinyi had just been kicked out of the Shen family. When she was preparing to go to Jinxiu Country, she passed by a dilapidated temple and bumped into her on her way home. She had received a portrait of Shen Jinyi from her mother before, so naturally she knew her.
She originally wanted to pretend to get close to her, saying things like she was the one who was trustworthy, hoping to find a chance to get her to tell her the whereabouts of the bracelet and then kill her. However, she didn't expect to meet the masked man that night.