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After a long time, he still hadn't spoken, long enough that Su Peijiu thought he had fallen asleep. She slowly reached out with her other hand, wanting to pull her hand out of his large grasp, but just as she moved.
"You really can't stay still." He released her hand, shifted his position, and pulled her into his arms, resting his chin on her back. "This is much more comfortable."
"Are you trying to be a rogue?" She irritably swatted away his hand that was wrapped around her waist.
"This King is holding his own princess; do you have any objections?" The voice behind her was nonchalant.
Su Peijiu: "..." Ancient people truly do not deceive me; those without shame are invincible. Qi Mo is exactly that kind of shameless man.
"Take this opportunity to rest well. Soon, someone will come by, and I worry you won't be able to handle it." Qi Mo held her waist and leaned against the wall behind them, forcing Su Peijiu to lie on him, causing her to gasp in surprise.
She struggled a few times. "Let go of me; I can rest by myself."
"Aren't you afraid of the dark?" Qi Mo said lightly, successfully silencing her.
The man before her occasionally made her feel warm inside. If he weren't the enemy who destroyed her country, how wonderful would that be?
"How do you know I'm afraid of the dark?" She lay on him awkwardly yet obediently, feeling the warmth radiating from him, which seemed to dispel some of the dungeon's cold darkness.
Qi Mo did not respond this time. Su Peijiu only heard his shallow breathing gradually become steady. She curled her lips and then closed her eyes.
If only Qi Mo... why did you have to lead an army to destroy the Yan Kingdom? Where did you leave Qin Ge?
With a faint bitterness in her heart, she drifted into sleep. In her dream, there were two young children playing happily; they ran toward a great fire, laughing joyfully... truly very happy...
In the dream, she felt like an outsider, watching how the two children ran toward the fire without looking back. No matter what she did, she couldn't make a sound to stop them.
"Don't go!" she screamed as she woke up, realizing that torches were already lit around her. She was lying on dry, soft straw, and there was no sign of Qi Mo beside her.
"Qi Mo?" She knocked on the wall next to her, and after a moment, she heard the gentle echo of a man's voice: "Hmm."
"...It's nothing." She sat back down, thinking he had been taken away.
Suddenly, she had the strange illusion that she could smell blood, but upon closer inspection, there was no scent. She asked, "Are you... okay?"
"Learning to care about This King?" came a teasing response from next door.
Su Peijiu immediately felt that her question was unnecessary; even if something happened to him, what did it have to do with her?!
However, as time passed, she grew increasingly puzzled. Why had no one come by? The person delivering food to the prisoners was a deaf-mute, and no matter how much she gestured, all she got in return were his "Huh? Huh? Huh..."
Leaning against the prison door, she saw the food delivery person place the meal at Qi Mo's door but did not see him come out to take it. Unable to hold back her curiosity, she asked again, "Aren't you hungry?"
"...Do you feel safe eating something of unknown origin?"
Su Peijiu immediately spat out the bun she had just taken a bite of. Stifling her hunger, she sat back down.
That guy Ji Yu said it was safe at Desolate King's Manor and told her not to go out. And now? Safe enough for everyone in the manor to be thrown into the dungeon! It turned out that her senior brother's words were all lies, especially coming from Ji Yu; there wasn't a single word from him that could be trusted.
What did it feel like to sleep on an empty stomach? Su Peijiu felt as if she had returned to the time right after her rebirth when she was starving and eating raw yam in the yard.
Back then, there was yam; now there was none. The prison cell had only walls, straw, and... fat rats crawling on the ground without fear of humans...
Was she supposed to eat rats?
Water Eyes glanced over the sleek, dark mouse, covering her stomach and shaking her head, deciding to let it go.
Unable to endure her hunger any longer, she stood up from the ground and leaned against the cell door, shouting towards the next cell, “Qi Mo, I’m hungry!”
It took a long time for a voice to come back, sounding as if it were struggling through a haze. She quickly pressed against the wall and asked, “Qi Mo, are you okay?”
Receiving no answer made Su Peijiu anxious. She ran back to the cell door and shook it vigorously, calling out to the jailer until her throat was hoarse. Finally, a person staggered over, reeking of alcohol and looking quite impatient.
“What’s going on?”
Su Peijiu didn’t care about the jailer’s attitude and hurriedly asked, “What happened to the person next door?”
“The person next door?” The jailer approached and noticed that the woman in front of him was extraordinarily beautiful, like a painting of an immortal, a glimmer flashing in his murky eyes.
Su Peijiu, worried about Qi Mo, didn’t notice anything unusual about the Jailor. She nodded quickly, “Yes, what happened to him? I just asked him something, and he ignored me.”
The Jailor stood there, sizing up Su Peijiu: “Let me handle my business, alright?” He placed his hands behind his back and flared his nostrils.
Su Peijiu immediately took off her Jade Bracelet from her sleeve. This was jewelry that Su Chi had given her during the Flower Festival. While it wasn’t particularly valuable, it should at least hold some worth in the eyes of these Jailors.
As expected, the Jailor accepted it. He swayed slightly and glanced towards Qi Mo’s cell before quickly turning back around. “He’s covered in blood; just received a severe beating. He might not die but will definitely be bruised all over.”
“What?!” Su Peijiu’s pupils constricted. “How could he have been severely punished?”
The Jailor, emboldened by his drunkenness, approached with ill intentions and prepared to grab Su Peijiu’s hand that was holding onto the cell door. “Why bother with that half-dead man? Beautiful lady, come have some fun with me!”
Su Peijiu immediately stepped back and angrily shouted, “Who do you think you are?! I am the daughter of the Prime Minister's Residence, soon to be the princess of the Desolate King's Manor. How dare you disrespect me?!”
The Jailor sneered after hearing this, "Prime Minister's Residence? Legitimate Daughter? Desolate King's Manor's Princess? Bah, you were locked up when you were at your peak; you are death row inmates!"
Death row inmates?!!!
What exactly does Qi Rong want to do? Does he want to execute Qi Mo without anyone noticing? Is the Emperor also tacitly approving this?
But what about the Chancellor? What about her father, the Chancellor? Is he really going to watch his own daughter die in this dark, sunless prison?
If all of this is part of their scheming, then... everything is not for her but to bring down Qi Mo!!
Seeing that the Jailor had already unlocked the chains, Su Peijiu didn't know where she found the strength. She pulled out the hairpin from her head and forcefully pinned the Jailor's hand against the door, while her other hand aimed for the Jailor's neck!
Fortunately, the Jailor was drunk and weak. When Su Peijiu felt the blood mist spraying onto her face, she dazedly loosened her grip. She trembled as she watched the Jailor's eyes widen as he slowly collapsed against the cell door, with her jade hairpin embedded in his neck, a stark contrast of red and white.
This was her first time killing someone... It turned out that life was so fragile; she only needed to stab him in the neck with a hairpin to easily take his life...
Not knowing where she found the remaining strength, she staggered to pull open the door. Her foot kicked against the dead Jailor's body, and she involuntarily jumped in fright.
In a flurry, she grabbed the keys from the Jailor and quickly made her way to Qi Mo's cell door. With trembling hands, she tried each key one by one, dropping them countless times. Her heart raced wildly, almost jumping out of her chest.
After finally managing to unlock the cell door, she stepped inside and indeed saw a person lying weakly in the corner. The man was wearing blue clothes, now stained with blood that obscured its original color.
Su Peijiu's lips turned pale as she trembled and approached him, pulling him up: "Qi Mo? Qi Mo... Qi Mo, wake up!"
The man murmured but did not speak. Su Peijiu felt that he was burning up with fever, so she reached out to touch his forehead; it was indeed hot due to an infection from his wounds. It seemed Qi Rong truly wanted him dead!
"Qi Mo?" She tried calling out to him again, only to see him open his eyes in confusion before closing them once more.
Su Peijiu held his head, her lips bitten and bleeding, constantly asking herself what to do now? What to do?
Her gaze drifted to the Jailor lying outside the door, seeing the blood still flowing from the hairpin. She gritted her teeth, gently placed Qi Mo down again, and stepped outside to pull out the hairpin. If Qi Mo couldn't move, then this hairpin would be her only weapon for escape.
She met the lifeless eyes of Jailor once more and was so frightened that she sat down on the ground. Those eyes... those eyes, she would remember for a lifetime...
Getting up from the ground, she entered the cell and pulled Qi Mo up. She wanted to carry him on her back, but that was impossible; Qi Mo was much taller and heavier than her. She could only support him as they slowly moved forward.
Since Qi Rong and that Dog Emperor wanted to secretly kill Qi Mo, they would not imprison him in a normal dungeon. The only advantage of this kind of dungeon was that there were relatively fewer guards, so Su Peijiu managed to walk a long way without encountering anyone.
When she reached the corner, she cautiously peeked out and saw three Jailors sitting there drinking. Her heart raced.
One drunkard she could easily deal with, but what about those three? These three were clearly much larger than the one from before; how could she catch them off guard and take them all down?
Gently placing the unconscious Qi Mo on the ground, she crouched down, listening as one of the Jailors cursed at another who had been gone for too long.
"Go check on him," one Jailor said, taking a sip of his drink, his eyes squinting as he was obviously quite drunk.
The one being ordered stood up impatiently and cursed, "What a useless fool, always causing trouble!" He started walking towards Su Peijiu's direction.
Su Peijiu straightened up, her hand holding the hairpin trembling. If that Jailor came over, she had to be ready to strike him down in one blow!
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