CHAPTER 603: CHAPTER 582 SECOND UPDATE

Elder Can and Elder Su had just watched the Young Master suddenly emerge from inside the house, and for a moment, they thought their eyes were deceiving them. Once they confirmed it truly was their Young Master, their demeanor instantly grew dignified, and even their breathing eased.

Elder Can even felt his eyes redden, as if he was watching his own child grow up and become an adult, finally grown, finally fulfilled.

Elder Su, with trembling hands, wondered, could this mean that their Ghoul Ravine might have a successor?

Young Master Yin He, upon seeing the two of them, was immediately displeased. What are you doing standing here?

Elder Can and Elder Su couldn’t care less at that moment, wishing nothing more than to personally escort their Young Master out.

"Are you awake?" Xing Yu saw Young Master Yin He and was concerned about whether the person inside was awake.

Young Master Yin He, upon being asked by Xing Yu, quickly halted and shook his head.

"He must be tired, he hasn’t woken up yet," the young man speculated.

Elder Can and Elder Su stood outside the gate, hearing everything clearly, and immediately grasped the implication in Young Master’s words, further confirming their own suspicions.

Right, right, right, why doubt anything? If the Young Master could walk out that door, doesn’t that explain everything? There’s nothing left to suspect.

...

Ju Nanyi stood quietly below, his expression calm and collected. He anticipated that Yin He would call him for some trivial matters.

"Lord Ju, these items are rewards for the empress; please take them back," Yin He, the young man seated in a place of honor, felt little towards the man below. He had once saved Zheng Nianru. Therefore, moving against Ju Nanyi would likely displease him, and besides, he had no reason to do so.

After all, if not for Ju Nanyi, things might not have reached this stage today, and he wouldn’t have had this opportunity.

Ju Nanyi was about to agree when he suddenly felt something was off.

What is he happy about?

Ju Nanyi didn’t need to observe closely to see that the man was very happy; the relaxation in his demeanor could not have been feigned, with every muscle and movement exuding comfort from within.

This was impossible. Just yesterday, when he saw this young man, he was visibly tense, hesitant, and nervous—the unease clear on his face.

Yet, how could there be such a dramatic change in just one night? It was impossible.

Ju Nanyi’s heart suddenly sank. So, what exactly happened during this night? Ju Nanyi didn’t want to think about it, but the young man in front of him looked like grass sprouting fresh and tender after a spring rain, even Elder Can beside him was looking at this Young Master with a loving gaze. All this pointed to something being amiss.

Last night, obviously...

Ju Nanyi’s hand clenched tightly, the first thing he did was to find the guard who was on duty last night.

The guard, pulled from his sleep, was brought before Ju Nanyi, clueless.

"Lord, last night, excluding Elder Su, there was no one else—" the guard stated confidently, "Our people didn’t move a step, everything was completely normal."

Ju Nanyi still didn’t believe it, not that he didn’t trust them, but he had just experienced this feeling two days before, the memory vivid, how could he be mistaken?

How was the undisguised flamboyance of that man different from the things once in the palace?!

"Until you all changed shifts, there was not a single abnormality?" The officer, seeing Lord Ju’s stern face, instantly became anxious, surely something had happened, otherwise Lord Ju wouldn’t be this way, and besides, it looked quite grave.

The questioned guard was startled, and in the next moment, he knelt down.

"I swear on my life, last night everything was normal, no unexpected incidents occurred," the guard said, because Elder Su was arrested during their watch, and Lord Ju was there at that time.

Ju Nanyi remained silent, knowing he would not get any more from them. That boy had always been cunning, aiming to act without leaving traces, probably just a spell could achieve this.

"You may leave—"

The guards exchanging shifts during the day were called in as well. A guard said that Elder Can and Elder Su had visited early in the morning, bringing many items with them, and had ordered them to move the items inside.

"By the time we finished moving the items, I saw that Young Master Yin He, Elder Can, and Elder Su had already walked far away," the guard reported truthfully. He was very attentive and, seeing that Elder Can and Elder Su were no longer there, purposefully looked around and then noticed the three people who had walked far away.

"Why suddenly were there three people?" Ju Nanyi seemed to grasp the crux of the issue and asked.

The guard on the ground was startled, this...

Initially, there were two people, but that didn’t mean that Young Master Yin He just happened to be nearby...

Ju Nanyi’s vision darkened as if the sky was falling and the earth was splitting, a coincidence? He did not believe in coincidences.

Therefore, he hadn’t been suspicious of the scene Elder Su created yesterday; it was because Nian Ru and the others were inside the room. If there had been an extra person, it wouldn’t have been so quiet; there would surely have been some noise.

Because there was no noise, that was why he hadn’t...

Ju Nanyi closed his eyes, engulfed in a heavy darkness, his past and present selves mocked him, he...

"You can leave now—" Ju Nanyi could barely hear his own voice as he struggled to utter these words.

The guard on the ground was startled. Was there a problem? He didn’t think there was any issue.

The subordinate also thinks...

Could it be that the lord is overthinking?

"You go too—" Ju Nanyi continued, forcefully suppressing the bitterness, frustration, anger, and resentment in his heart.

She, why would she...

"Bang—" Ju Nanyi slammed his fist hard on the table, and instantly a crack formed on its surface, blood flowing down from the joint of his bone.

He could have started taking action, just needed one night, no need to wait another night...

But just one night, she could indeed have had an excuse...

Ju Nanyi suddenly wanted to laugh, really wanted to burst in and ask her, why, wasn’t it, wasn’t it already...

He had the courage when he was drunk, hadn’t he already gotten an answer?

She...

The man did not know what he was thinking, what he should think, his body vented everywhere, wishing his limbs and organs could scatter and shatter into pieces.

Ju Nanyi repeatedly replayed the scenario, Elder Su’s appearance was clearly intentional; or perhaps, at that time, he had already taken the chance to enter the Cloud Room, and after that, what happened next...

Ju Nanyi got up to leave; why couldn’t he question, why did he have to be here angry with himself? She thought these matters were unimportant, or perhaps she thought Young Master Yin He was indeed quite attractive, and didn’t care at all.

So the night he walked in, was it also because of this reason, he was quite attractive, so she usually doesn’t refuse?

The man wished he could confront her right now, and only if she admitted it herself would he be satisfied.

But just as he stepped out of the room, a bout of dizziness struck him, and Ju Nanyi had to hold onto the door frame to steady himself.

He, ask her what?

What did he want to know from her mouth? Knowing full well the young man’s capabilities, even if he resisted, was there a chance?

Ju Nanyi’s mind miraculously cleared a vast, empty area, as if a thunderbolt had struck him.

He hadn’t considered this possibility, that she might be unwilling, yet had no other choice.