The Princess and Her Rough-Rider Khan
Chapter 518 - 517 I was lying to you (fourth update)

Chapter 518: 517 I was lying to you (fourth update)

Murong Ce’s handsome face was in such agony it was nearly twisted.

He knew it would end up like this, but he had truly tried his hardest.

Murong Ce looked up at Li Xianyun, "Xianxian, I know you will never forgive me, but I won’t let you go. Even in death, I want to be with you. From the moment you agreed to marry me, I have considered you my woman, my Empress, and nobody can change that."

Li Xianyun said somewhat agitatedly, "That’s because you were going to take advantage of me, I had no choice but to say that, I was lying to you."

He knew, he knew it all, yet shamelessly pretended he knew nothing.

"And now I am already married to Yelu Yan, I am his woman."

"I don’t care about that, I’ll just assume you went out to clear your mind, that you are punishing me, and I’ll take it," he said.

Murong Ce said as he slowly got up, looked down at Li Xianyun, and spoke, "We still have a long way to go. Let’s eat."

Saying that, he had the meals brought in.

After the meals were set, Murong Ce repeated, "Eat."

Li Xianyun glanced at him indifferently and continued to look out of the window.

"Do you want me to hold you?" Murong Ce threatened.

Li Xianyun stood up begrudgingly and went over to the table filled with food.

It was all her favorite dishes.

Murong Ce knew her likes and dislikes like the back of his hand.

After the two had eaten,

"Go lie down on the bed for a while."

Li Xianyun pursed her lips; she hadn’t touched a bed for several days and wanted to lie down, but Murong Ce was there.

Seeing Li Xianyun’s hesitation, Murong Ce chuckled and said, "If I really wanted to do something, I would have done it in the carriage, why wait until now? Go on, hmmm?"

Li Xianyun went over to the bed, took off her shoes, lay down flat, and couldn’t help but sigh with comfort.

She closed her eyes, yet sleep eluded her.

She had to escape before nightfall; for now, she could only wait for the right moment.

When she slept, Murong Ce sat nearby watching her.

How could Li Xianyun not feel his gaze?

Even though she had turned her back to him, lying still was truly tormenting. Fortunately, someone called for Murong Ce outside.

Murong Ce had two elderly women come in to watch her and went out himself.

The elderly women, thinking Li Xianyun was asleep, relaxed their vigilance.

They had ridden in carriages all the way and were exhausted; sitting on the soft couch, they started to doze off.

The two agreed to take turns watching Li Xianyun, one keeping watch while the other slept.

But the one on watch first looked at Li Xianyun for a while, then closed her eyes for a while, and as time went on, the duration of closed eyes grew longer until she no longer opened them.

Li Xianyun almost fell asleep as well but pinched herself several times to stay alert.

When everything had quieted down, Li Xianyun opened her eyes. She went over to the two elderly women and pressed their acupoints.

And so the two of them passed out.

What needed to be done now was to escape.

Li Xianyun ripped off the disguise from her face and approached the window, looking up and then down before quickly coming up with a plan.

If she went down the east or west side to the ground, the inn was filled with Murong Ce’s people, and she couldn’t escape at all.

Therefore, she had to climb up to the roof.

Outside the window, there was a stout and straight poplar tree, taller than the rooftop. She could climb the trunk to the roof and hide on top, waiting for the right moment to escape.

Li Xianyun had grown up in the countryside and knew how to swim and climb trees like the boys and girls there; though she wasn’t great at climbing, she could still manage two or three meters to reach the roof.