Chapter 62: Who knew the Emperor could be this romantic
The imperial palace
Everything was fuzzy when Su Liya woke, she found herself looking up at the Embroidered overheard curtain of a traditional Chinese wooden bed. Su Liya had been stuck in this fictional world for months and the only way she could afford this luxury of look up at an Embroidered bed curtain was when lying on Zhu Fengyin's bed.
She had transmigrated into the body of Su Liya, who was only a maid. In this century only the wealthy could afford such a bed, since she remembered getting hit behind her head while searching for Zhu Fengyin's handkerchief waking up to such a view was weird.
It was too far fetched for her to assume that whoever knocked her out returned her to the Duke mansion and even if they did, the maids room at the Duke mansion didn't have a bed as luxurious as this. No maids quarters had a bed like this, such luxuries were left for the masters.
in the romance books are had read, whether western or Asian, the one rule they had in common was that Waking up in an unfamiliar bed could only mean one thing..... 'Nothing Good'. Su Liya tried to get up but was held down by a heavy male body.
Whatever she had been drugged with must be powerful, she had been so busy worry about her location that she missed the heavy male body draped on her and her current state of undressed.
The man whoever it was was also naked and laid halfway on her, his head rested just over her right shoulder. His head was on the pillow next to her head, she saw his silky head of black hair as she turned her head to the Side.
His hair was all packed up in a bun, held by a silver dragon-shaped hair coronet. 'only the royal family wore such hair accessories... It can't be that I am in bed with the crown prince or worse the sixth Prince. Oh Lord no..' she thought closing her eyes tightly as her heart began to beat quickly.
'no, I can drive myself crazy like this. If someone did arrange this, it is only a matter of time before they badged in with a crowd. I will be seating ducks if I keep lying here, I need to get out of here, summoning courage and strength, she pushed herself up, raising her bed mate.
When she could finally move her hands, she pushed him aside and sat up. Su Liya pushed herself to rest by the wall next to the bed when she locked eyes with Lu Yaozhu. He must have been awakened by the movement because he looked at her with a sharp gaze.
As she made a quick move to escape, her arm was grabbed and pulled back. A hand wrapped around her neck as she pushed to the wall, she hissed as her back hit the wall. It happened in what felt like a split second, one minute she saw a slight opening of escape by the foot of the bed at rushed to take it and the next minute her back hit the wall.
Lu Yaozhu's held her at the neck, his elbow resting on the wall. His face was only a short distance away from hers as he angrily spat out "Who are you? Who sent you? Tell me or I will kill you!"
His hand held her neck tightly that she could barely breathe, it was so painful like his hand rested on her voice box. She whispered spoke the words "I_am Su Li...ya Zhu_ Feng__ maid". She tried to push his hands away from her neck so she could breathe properly but he was too strong. He held her tightly blocking her little movements.
"Was she the one who sent you?" When she didn't answer promptly he continued "answer me or I cock the worthless life out of you!"
Su Liya shook her head, she felt tears run down her eyes gently as she whizzed out "No... Wasn't...er"
Lu Yaozhu must have noticed her discomfort because his hands loosened up a bit "who sent you?" He asked again.
"No one! No one sent me!"
"You are lying!" Lu Yaozhu pulled the long sober hair stick from the hole at the centre of the silver dragon hair holder with his spare hand and brought it to her neck. She swallowed on seeing how pointy the ends of the thin pin was.
Lu Yaozhu pointed the sharp end to her neck, pricking her skin a little "tell me the truth or I will end you!"
The tears fell more as she felt her heartbeat increase "please don't, I am telling you the truth... Don't know how I got here... It wasn't me!"
Lu Yaozhu watched her eyes for any tells but saw nothing, one could control their expression when they lied but when your life was on the line your eyes never lied. He loosened his hold on her "wipe your tears, you won't be dying today".
Su Liya initially held a blanket to her chest but during their struggle, she lost hold of the blanket. With the blanket down, he had a clear view of her body. Her skin was toned but he could see the teeth marks on her shoulder, the top of her round breast and nipples, he had been a little rough with her.
This must have been caused by whatever he had been drugged with because he couldn't remember clearly what transversed between them. He only remembered a few snippets of the whole thing but one thing he remembered was that she had been untouched before him.
There was a small gap in his memory, the last thing he remembered before waking was being directed to change out of his robes in this room. According to the servant, this was an unoccupied palace. He had taken off his shirt when he smelt something odd coming from the incense burner, he had knocked the incense burner down but then two more were thrown in through the door.
The door and windows were shut as he rushed to get out, whoever was behind this planned this carefully. They might still have time to leave since no one had rushed in yet, with that thought, he jumped out of the bed.
"Get dressed we have to get moving before, whoever arranged this makes his move. we don't have much time" He said not bothering to cover himself.
There was time for prosperity and times when that wouldn't help anyone. Two sets of clothes one female, the other male littered on the ground. He picked each cloth and after determining who each belonged to, dropped hers on the bed and proceeded to put on his clothes.