I Wanna Be An Online Celebrity Chapter 40 Waiting For Her Release

As the breeze swept by, Tang Xia felt quite comfortable.

Tang Xia glanced back and looked Anran up and down, then overlapped her figure with that of Lyuyou.

"How is Lyuyou doing?" Tang Xia asked gently as if she was mentioning something irrelevant.

Anran bowed to her, "Everything is fine."

"Everything is fine?" Tang Xia froze her look with some emotion flickering in her eyes.

"How can everything be fine?" Tang Xia asked in a calm voice that showed no emotion.

Anran hesitated for a moment, pondering how to respond, then bowed to Tang Xia, "Lyuyou is living comfortably in the woodshed. She eats all the food delivered to her saying that she is waiting for you to release her."

"She surely is confident." Tang Xia snorted, showing a trace of tiredness in her eyes, "Does she truly expect that I will forgive her after she sent information secretly behind my back?"

As she finished her sentence, the air around her became colder, "Does she regard me as softhearted enough to keep her alive and let her do evil?"

After hearing Tang Xia's words, a trace of panic flickered in Anran's eyes. Then she knelt on the ground hard as her cyan robe highlighted her thinness.

Anran just kowtowed and smashed her exquisite skin on the sharp grass, twining her slender fingers tightly over her robe.

"Yue Ji, I have something to tell you."

Anran said in a soft voice. It seemed to Tang Xia that Anran was always cautious. So when Anran said that she had something to tell her, it must be related to Lyuyou.

"If it is related to that woman, you don't need to say anything." Tang Xia wore a trace of decisiveness in her eyes then smiled with mockery, "I don't want to hear you defend for a renegade."

Anran trembled her body slightly with her slender fingers curling up on the ground as the sunset highlighted her thinness.

Finally, Anran replied to Tang Xia in a low voice, propping herself up, then followed behind Tang Xia respectfully.

Wearing the haughty look, Tang Xia gave a long sigh then waved her long sleeves which brought up the breeze, "Let's go to check the renegade then."

Followed by Anran, Tang Xia walked towards Jiaofang hall. When they arrived, Anran stepped forward and opened the wooden door for Tang Xia.

"Is my dinner here?"

Lyuyou was huddled up in the corner of the woodshed in a cyan dress full of dirt. As her skinny back faced the door, Lyuyou's body quivered slightly.

Tang Xia snorted, striding inside the woodshed, "It seems that you've been wined and dined."

As the slight smell of blood and spoiled food floated in the air, Tang Xia raised her thin eyebrows, choking back her nausea, then fixed her sharp eyes on Lyuyou's thin back.

Lyuyou quivered her body before she turned around slowly.

As Tang Xia noticed the dirt on Lyuyou's face, she felt quite surprised that one lively maiden could be tortured into this after being confined for only a few days.

Lyuyou stroked her pale face, then turned around and kowtowed to Tang Xia.

"Your Grace." Lyuyou said weakly. Her hair had a varied length as if it had been pulled up by others. Although Tang Xia could not feel her fear, Lyuyou could not help trembling.

Tang Xia glanced away, feeling sorry for her. However, when Tang Xia thought about Lyuyou sending information secretly, the hate in her eyes made a comeback.

"I heard that you had not faced the wall and reflected carefully, but instead expected that I would release you." Tang Xia tried to say in a cold voice, but her slender fingers were intertwined tightly.

Lyuyou kowtowed then wore an indifferent smile, "Yes, I am waiting for your release."

Her indifference multiplied the hate in Tang Xia's eyes, "You have some nerve to talk like this! Do you think I'm so soft-hearted that I could forgive you after your betrayal?"

Lyuyou remained silent and kowtowed hard to Tang Xia, wearing an indistinct smile.

"I believe in you, Your Grace."

Lyuyou's words hit Tang Xia in the bottom of her heart, neither heavy nor light.

As it was dark outside the woodshed, the candlelight shined in through the door. There was no window in the woodshed, and Tang Xia could imagine easily how a slave girl punished by the imperial concubine would be treated.

"Then just stay in here forever." Tang Xia said in a cold voice again, then glanced away, striding out the woodshed.

Anran followed behind Tang Xia timidly and looked back with a trace of pity flickering in her eyes when she left the woodshed.

At last Anran closed the door of the woodshed, resuming the quietness of the room.

After Tang Xia got out of the woodshed, she walked straight into the cella.

There was only one candle in the room. Anran followed Tang Xia into the room, then lit all the candles in the cella so that the glow of candles lit the whole room in an instant.

Tang Xia raised her chin haughtily, with coldness remaining in her eyes, then said lightly.

"You can leave now. I'm tired and want to go to bed early."

As Tang Xia finished her sentence, what followed was a crisp sound of something falling to the ground.

Tang Xia glanced back. What she saw was Anran pressing her forehead against the floor of the cella slightly.

Tang Xia froze for a moment, "What do you want?"

Anran closed her thin lips slightly. It could be seen clearly from the fear on her face that Anran was quite terrified of Tang Xia.

"Please listen to me, Your Grace. There must be something behind Lyuyou." Anran said, then kowtowed so hard that Tang Xia could feel the slight tremor from the walnut floor.

Anran looked at Tang Xia with light flickering in her eyes and curled up her slender fingers in her hand. Then Tang Xia frowned her eyebrows.

"If I don't believe what you said, what would you do?"

In front of her, Anran kneeled with her trembling body, her teeth biting her lower lip tightly, "If you don't believe me, I can do nothing but to kneel permanently in order to make up for my guilt of not helping Lyuyou who is trapped in the woodshed."

Anran said with determination, her plain white face raised obstinately.

Tang Xia looked her face up and down as the cool breeze swept by through the window, such that the candlelight on the wooden table shimmered, making several slight noises.

"When did I become so determined?"

Tang Xia inhaled slowly then leaned on the wooden chair, "You are getting bolder."

Noticing that Tang Xia did not plan to punish her, Anran was relieved and kowtowed hard to Tang Xia again, then looked directly at Tang Xia in spite of her reddish forehead.

"Your Grace, Lyuyou never betrayed you, please believe me," Anran said softly in her gentle voice.

Tang Xia stroked her hair between her eyebrows trying to be indifferent, "You said that she never betrayed me, where is your proof?"

Anran froze her body for a moment.

"It was you who said that you saw her go out with a letter. Besides, I did give her a chance." Tang Xia opened her cherry lips slightly and hid half her face in the dark, not showing happiness nor anger.

"She told me that she went to pick flowers for a new spice for aromatherapy. So why did she go out with a letter? You defend her and she herself told me that she had never betrayed me."

"If she is truly as loyal as you have described, why couldn't she eat that Magnolia denudata cake?"

Tang Xia wore coldness in her eyes as every single word from her red lips hit Anran's heart.

"What is loyalty? How can she regard herself as loyal to me if she has no courage to risk her life for me in the imperial harem? Does she want to wait until I am sold by others then say that she is loyal to me?"

Having said this, Tang Xia lost interest, leaving tiredness in her eyes.

"Just leave. I'm going to bed."

Anran remained silent, then opened her pale lips, saying nothing at last.

After a long time.

"I'm leaving now, Your Grace." Anran kowtowed to Tang Xia pressing her forehead slightly against the floor.

Tang Xia walked to the window on the other side, feeling warm and soft as a cool breeze swept by.

It was getting dark. Although the air was clearer than the haze of the modern world, Tang Xia felt choked in her heart, not knowing what kind of mood she owned.

"Why am I feeling so bad although I am the one who was betrayed?"

As tears flickered in her beautiful peach blossom eyes, Tang Xia did not how she felt, as the breeze swept by with some slight dust.

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Tang Xia could not even force a smile after several attempts. As the shiny moon hung in the sky, the stars around it appeared clearer.

Tang Xia kept on looking for hints in her mind, suspecting there might be small mistakes in this matter.

In the jewel case hid the note Chu Tiankuo left for her.

Tang Xia took it gently from the case and saw the vigorous and forceful calligraphy on the paper without dog-ears.

Tang Xia then was lost in thought.

"There may be dirty tricks involved in this matter according to the reactions of Anran and Lyuyou."

"Chu Tiankuo will never lie to me and this note is given by him to me."

"So what is this all about..." Tang Xia could not help speaking out what she thought. As her beautiful eyes were like clear blooming water louts hanging on her cheek, the pink from her cheek and cherry from her red lips highlighted the charm of her fair and delicate face.

"It seems I'm going to have to ask Chu Tiankuo about it." Tang Xia tapped her slender fingers on the table rhythmically with her eyes half-closed.

Before she went to bed, Tang Xia heard slight knocking. Then Tang Xia walked to the door and pulled up the wooden knocker gently.

A plain and neat face appeared, "I'm the slave girl, Xiao Xiazi from Jiaofang hall. I'm instructed by the emperor to remind you, Your Grace, to go to bed early. Although the banquet is set at evening, you will be busy in the daytime."

Tang Xia held her chin high, then raised her thin eyebrows, "Am I going alone tomorrow?"

Xiao Xiazi wore a bigger smile, "No, Your Grace. I will guide you there. Imperial concubines should attend the banquet alone according to the tradition. However, His Majesty has two concubines going this time. So you need to go to Yi Jiazi's hall first to rendezvous with her."

Chapter end