Untouchable Lovers-Chapter 202 - 182 Secretly Crossing Chen Cang

Chapter 202: Chapter 182: Secretly Crossing Chen Cang

Chapter 202 -182: Secretly Crossing Chen Cang

Chu Yu could not remember how she had made her way back.

Her complexion was pale, her gaze empty and scattered, her steps as if treading on clouds—soft, fluffy, and faint. She walked slowly, legs trembling as though she might collapse at any moment.

She trampled over the precious flowers and trees in the courtyard, her feet covered in mud and leaf debris. When she stepped into a shallow trench by the path, she merely looked down indifferently, then continued on her way with the same expression, as if sleepwalking.

Chu Yu’s floaty demeanor, which greatly resembled the exhaustion one might show after excessive exertion, made Tian Rujing—who emerged refreshed and vibrant—receive looks of respect that could not be more profound. Soon, rumors spread from within the Princess Mansion’s Inner Garden that Lord Heavenly Master was proficient in the spell of harnessing yin to bolster yang, that he used to harvest from others to replenish himself, and that today the Princess had been harvested.

Chu Yu had no leisure to notice the gazes of others; she was almost instinctively drawn back to her own courtyard. Stopping in front of her house, she looked back impassively at the few servants still digging in the courtyard and said, “No need to work any further today, you may all leave.”

Only after everyone in the yard had dispersed did Chu Yu slowly take out her keys and unlock the copper lock hanging on the door before slowly pulling it open.

From around the courtyard, the subtle sounds of excavation could still be heard. She had designated the location for constructing a pond, and except for her own courtyard, the rest were generally distributed around the four sides adjacent to the courtyard. The overlapping of these multiple sounds made it less likely for anyone to notice any slight noise from within her room.

As soon as the door opened, a head popped out. Liu Sang, with most of his body hidden behind the doorframe, saw Chu Yu and quickly breathed a sigh of relief, smiling, “Princess, Liu Sang has been obediently guarding here. No one has come in, oh.”

To prevent anyone from accidentally barging in or sneaking into her room, Chu Yu not only locked the door on the outside but had also called Liu Sang before locking it, asking him to guard the door for her. After his complaints from the recent past, she no longer treated Liu Sang as a child who knew nothing, but rather, let him in on some information and consciously entrust him with certain tasks.

Normally, Chu Yu would definitely have smiled and patted his head, saying a few kind words of praise, but now her mind was elsewhere. Upon hearing his words, she only glanced at Liu Sang, nodded vaguely as if she were out of her soul, then stepped inside and closed the door behind her.

As the door gently shut, it seemed as if all the strength had been drained from Chu Yu’s body. She leaned weakly against the wooden door, the carved designs pressing uncomfortably against her spine, but she had no concern for that now.

Sensing Chu Yu’s unusual mood, Liu Sang gently tugged at her sleeve and asked, “Princess, what’s wrong?”

He called out several times, and after a long while, Chu Yu seemed to come out of her daze. Her lips curled up slightly, yet it did not look like a smile, merely making such an expression, “It’s nothing.”

As if it were nothing.

Liu Sang looked at her worriedly, knowing that if Chu Yu did not wish to speak, he wouldn’t be able to pry much from her. As he was silently fretting, he suddenly saw Chu Yu straighten up and walk toward the bedroom. He hurriedly followed.

When Chu Yu reached the side of her bed, she again became lost in thought. She listened to the sound of digging coming from beneath the bed and felt occasional slight tremors underfoot, yet she seemed to hear and feel nothing, standing quietly for a while before she bent down and called into the hole under the bed, “Amman, take a break for now, no more digging.”

Hearing her words, Liu Sang quickly helped to push the bed aside, revealing a hole nearly two meters in diameter and about six meters deep. At the bottom, a side passage had been hollowed out horizontally. It was not long before a shadow sprang out from the hole, nimbly leaping to the ground. The shadow was bare-chested, with only a piece of cloth wrapped around the waist, his dark skin flecked with mud.

Amman held an iron pickaxe in one hand while he raised the other to wipe the sweat from his face, smearing a layer of mud across it as well. Seeing his dirty face, Chu Yu took out a handkerchief and wiped his face for him, saying, “That’s it for today, you go back first, I need to think about some things on my own. Take a different route back and be careful not to be seen. Come back tomorrow to continue. We need to keep this a secret; only the three of us know, make sure no one else finds out.”

This was the decision she had made after returning yesterday, to dig a tunnel from under her own bed all the way to the outside of the Princess Mansion. Although the plan sounded absurd at first—considering the expansive grounds of the estate, making such a tunnel would not be easy— with Amman’s extraordinary barbaric power, it was not an impossible task.

The dirt excavated from the pit was taken out in basins by the idle Liu Sang and piled up next to it. It had now formed a small hill, almost occupying a third of the bedroom which was otherwise quite spacious. They would deal with the soil later in the evening.

However, at this moment, both the pit and the mounds of earth seemed meaningless in Chu Yu’s eyes. Her gaze swept over the room, and although the work was progressing as she had wanted, she felt no joy at all.

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Amman said in confusion, “I’m not tired yet.” Didn’t she say they needed to dig through to the outside quickly? It was still early; they could keep digging for half a day.

Chu Yu managed a faint smile and replied, “Even if you’re not tired, go back and rest. Be good, listen to me.”

Seeing Chu Yu’s insistence, Amman obediently nodded his head, lifted the bed back into place with one hand, put down the pickaxe, and turned to leave. Liu Sang, however, remained standing in place. After hesitating for a moment, he walked forward tentatively and said, “Princess, if you have any worries, feel free to share them with me. Though I’m young, I can still help bear your burden.”

His words finally made Chu Yu reveal a genuine smile. She reached out and ruffled Liu Sang’s hair, whispering softly, “All right, I know what I’m doing, I won’t let anything go wrong.”

Liu Sang bit his lip, “Then, I’ll leave.” He took a few steps, turned his head back looking at Chu Yu with a hopeful expression, but upon seeing that Chu Yu did not ask him to stay, finally displayed a look of disappointment and left slowly.

It wasn’t until the footsteps had faded away and the sound of the door closing came from outside that Chu Yu let out a soft sigh, murmuring, “If only this was something that could be spoken about.”

Chu Yu relaxed her body and lay on the bed, her eyes unfocused as she stared at the ceiling, replaying the scene from fifteen minutes earlier in her mind.

Within the wristband Tian Rujing gave her, there was an option labeled “Time.” She had originally thought it was some sort of calendar or program related to the current time, but after activating it today, what appeared in front of her was an exceedingly complex three-dimensional virtual model.

Horizontally, with close examination one could discern it was a world map, while vertically, the lines were as complex as a tangled net of ropes, and there were times marked on various junctions of the lines.

Beyond that, there were terms like temporal rifts, jumps, space, and others. After Chu Yu assembled all the information, she arrived at a conclusion that even shocked her out of composure— that wristband had another function—

Time travel.

The moment these four words surfaced in her mind, Chu Yu’s heart almost burst.