Linglong took the opportunity to break away from him.

Qi Zhen endured the severe pain and wanted to hold Linglong's wrist tightly again, but this time, he couldn't hold it.

That hand dripping with blood only held half of the void in vain, and could no longer hold Linglong.

His consciousness was blurred, and the thought in the sea of ​​​​consciousness told him over and over again to keep the person in front of him.

Qi Zhen's voice was hoarse, his lips trembled, and he silently called - "Linglong."

Word by word, although there is no breath, the lips and teeth are full of trembling meaning.

His consciousness was already confused and confused by the poisonous pain, and he could not hold the exquisite wrist, as if he had lost the last thought to keep him awake.

This silent call used up all his strength.

In the end, Qi Zhen fell to the ground in unbearable pain.

The hands were bloody and bloody.

He looked more embarrassed than ever before in his life.

Linglong lowered her eyes and looked at Qi Zhen's bloody hand, her wrists couldn't help but tremble.

After a few moments, he suppressed the trembling in his wrists.

She never thought about using a weapon against him. She originally brought the dagger just for self-defense. She never thought that it would be used on him when she was stained with blood for the first time.

Linglong's eyes were red and she forced herself to look away from Qi Zhen.

After she looked away from Qi Zhen, she looked at the wall with calligraphy hanging on it.

Behind the wall is the secret passage of the East Palace.

The walls of the study room are hung with sages' instructions, each of which was written by Qi Zhen when he was young.

That word "character" is exactly the same as the wording on the plaque of Xueyuan.

Linglong thought about the word "snow" written by Qi Zhen, holding her wrist and writing one stroke at a time in the snow-filled inner room in winter, and her heart was filled with complicated thoughts.

Her throat moved slightly, she suppressed the complicated thoughts, clutched the bloody dagger, and walked towards the wall.

When he stood under the calligraphy on the wall, he looked back at Qi Zhen behind him.

Qi Zhen fell to the ground in embarrassment, his hands dripping with blood, but his blurry and chaotic eyes were always looking in the direction of Linglong.

Obviously, he can't see it.

But he could still look in her direction.

Linglong looked at Qi Zhen in front of him, and unconsciously thought of her husband under the lights of the Lantern Festival five years ago, as clear as the spring breeze and the bright moon.

After all, there is no going back.

From then on, she and he were separated.

A tear fell from the end of Linglong's eyes and hit the floor of the study, making no sound.

Linglong raised her hand to wipe away the tears and tapped her fingertips on the wall.

The calligraphy on the wall fell down with a sound, and a narrow opening was opened in the wall.

She clutched the dagger in her hand tightly, walked inside without hesitation, and stepped into the secret passage.

Qi Zhen, who fell to the ground, looked at the direction where Linglong disappeared with blurred eyes, struggling to raise his hand.

But Linglong ran straight into the depths of the dark passage without even looking back at him.

Qi Zhen held his hand and raised his hand to the wall mechanism. His consciousness was obviously unclear and his whole body was in pain, but there was always a thought in his heart, telling him over and over again that he should keep the person in front of him.

But in the end, he failed to touch the mechanism on the wall.

When he was only an inch away, the wall slammed shut.

…

It was pitch dark in the secret passage that had been sealed all year round. The moment the wall behind her closed, Linglong's eyes fell into darkness.

She subconsciously clenched the dagger in her hand, suppressed the fear in her heart, and leaned against the wall behind her.

After waiting for a moment and getting used to the darkness in front of him, he groped the stone wall and walked forward along the rock wall.

Qi Zhen said that this secret passage leads directly to the outside of the East Palace. If you walk along the wall, you can reach the exit of the secret passage.

This road was an escape route prepared to prevent accidents, so the secret passage was not long. Linglong walked for less than half an hour and reached the end of the secret passage.

Qi Zhen only told her that this road led to the market outside the East Palace, but he did not tell her in detail where in the market it led.

Linglong originally guessed that it should be an unnoticed corner.

When she reached the end of the dark passage and looked at the light coming from the cracks in the wooden boards above her head, she realized that the end of the dark passage should lead to a shop in the market.

Linglong looked at the wooden board above her head, somewhat hesitant.

If this place was arranged in advance by the people from the East Palace, there might be people from the East Palace staying here. If you go out on your own, wouldn't you be throwing yourself into a trap?

But now we are at the end of the secret passage. If we don't go out now, if the delay is longer, when the servants in the East Palace Study Room notice something is wrong with Qi Zhen and enter the study to check, they may chase him into the secret passage to catch him.

When that time comes, I will definitely be caught in a trap. I will escape once and then fall back into Qi Zhen's hands. I'm afraid it will be difficult to escape again.

Thinking of this, Linglong bit her lip, her heart skipped a beat, and she raised her hand to push the wooden board above her head.

The wooden board was fastened very tightly, and Linglong held it with both hands and used a lot of force to push it open.

After a creaking sound, the wooden board was pushed to one side, and the light from outside disappeared into the dark passage.

Linglong stretched her head out from under the wooden board with her heart in mind, and looked around by the light outside.

Outside this secret passage is a bookstore. The bookstore is airtight, with only lamps hanging on the wall for illumination.

There are rows of letters inside, reflecting the flickering candlelight in the dark room.

Linglong looked at it, but felt a little familiar.

She had been here before marrying into Nanyuan.

This area is the most famous bookstore in Jinling City, and it sells the most miscellaneous books. Linglong came here to buy story books.

After confirming that this realm was not a completely unfamiliar realm, Linglong breathed a sigh of relief, jumped to the ground with the board on her back, and looked forward based on the impression of the bookstore in her memory.

Since the secret passage leads directly to the library, this library must be Qi Zhen's property. Linglong doesn't know if the people left here by Qi Zhen know about her existence, let alone whether those people recognize her.

She was a little afraid to go out of the library, worried that she would meet Qi Zhen's people.

But if she didn't leave the library and stayed here for a long time, people from the East Palace might chase her and catch her in the library.

The candlelight in the library kept flickering, and Linglong stood beside the bookshelf with anxious eyes.

A voice suddenly sounded behind her - "Miss Shen."

The voice was clearer and gentler, and one could tell just from the voice that the person coming was a gentle young man.

But Linglong was suddenly called, but she didn't have the intention to appreciate the sound.

She was worried that it was Qi Zhen's person, so she tightened her grip on the dagger in her hand, her heart was extremely nervous, and countless thoughts flashed through her mind.

She wondered if it was Qi Zhen who sent people from the East Palace to chase her and blocked her here specifically? She also thought, could it be that the people in the bookstore recognized her?

Just when Linglong was anxious and confused, the person who called her came out from the inside of the bookshelf behind Linglong.

The visitor was sitting in a wheelchair, a pair of pale hands knocked on the mechanism of the armrest of the wheelchair, and the wheelchair under him slowly drove towards Linglong.

The sound of wooden wheels rolling across the floor gradually approached Linglong. Linglong tightened her grip on the dagger and looked back.

The person in front of her was sitting in a wheelchair, and she looked familiar, but she couldn't remember who it was for the moment.

Linglong looked dazed, and the person in the wheelchair saw the dazed and unfamiliar look in her eyes, and regret appeared in her eyes.

"Miss Shen." He called again.

"Who are you?" Linglong's eyes were guarded.

The man in the wheelchair smiled warmly, held the armrest, and replied: "It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that I can take you, Miss Shen, out of this bookstore without disturbing the servants here."

Linglong looked suspicious and didn't trust the person in front of her.

"Miss Shen has to make a decision early. If it's later, the people from the East Palace should be chasing her." The man in the wheelchair reminded Linglong with a smile.

If Qi Zhen's people chased him, he would definitely not be able to leave. Believe what the person in front of him said, it was still possible to leave.

Linglong looked hesitant.

The person in the wheelchair naturally noticed her hesitation, and then opened the mechanism of the wheelchair with his side hand.

With a click, a small wooden door opened in the empty space under the wheelchair.

"Miss Shen is petite, curled up and hiding in the empty space of the wheelchair. When the machine is closed, the surrounding wooden boards are closed again, so no one will find the girl hiding in the wheelchair. However, this time, she will be slightly wronged.

"

This man is tall, and the wheelchair he uses is naturally not small. His wheelchair is shaped so that he can lie down. After turning on the mechanism, there is roughly the size of a small child's sleeping couch inside. He is exquisite and petite, and if he is curled up,

The body can indeed be hidden inside.

If this person is really trustworthy, this method can indeed lead Linglong out.
To be continued...