There was an extremely tiny pond in a remote palace in the royal court.
As the night got darker, the lights inside the palace turned already off. A middle-aged woman was standing next to the pond. Her appearance was pretty common and her dress was also very simple. Obviously, she wasn’t one of those imperial concubines who only spent time in dresses and make up. Neither of the maids were at their youth.
She stood by the pond. It was unsure if she was preparing to wash her hands, or was washing clothes.
At this moment, Hua Hua (sounds), water flushed up like an upside down water fall. A young man was flushed out.
He was Chen Chang Sheng.
In the underground dimension, his clothes was covered fully by a layer of frost. Now it was all flushed away by water. He was all wet and he looked extremely poor.
How would this middle-aged woman expect a man to suddenly appeared in the dark night? She was startled by it. She took a step back.
The lady wore wooden shoes. The step she took backwards was on the rock next to the pond. Pa!
There was a squirrel eating in the forest. It was scared by this sound. It threw away the fruit that it carried with its two forelegs, jumped from the tree to the handrail on the second floor of the palace and ran swiftly towards the direction to the exit of the yard. Its tail moved randomly and it coincidentally touched a pot of flower that was placed at the handrail.
The flower leaned slightly and was about to fall down.
Coincidentally, the mid aged lady stood under it.
If the pot fell down, it would definitely hit her. At the very least, she might get hurt.
Chen Chang Sheng left the underground dimension, came back to land and then fell back into the pond. His face was wet. After he wiped off the water, and could see things, the first image he saw was this extremely coincidental, extremely unfortunately scene.
He did not even think and he immediately threw himself against the middle-aged woman.
He knew that here was deep in the royal court. There were countless elites, if those people heard anything, then it would probably be very hard for him to return to the Wei Yang Palace.
Yet he still went for it. Not because he was afraid the pot would fall on the ground and let others know but because the middle-aged lady was in danger.
If he thought closely, he might have made a better choice. The better choice of how to leave, and then arrive at the Wei Yang Palace promptly but he didn’t think.
He embraced the middle-aged lady in his arms androlled a half circle.
If the flower pot fell down, it would only fall on his back.
But the pot didn’t drop.
So, this image became a little embarrassing and hard to explain.
There was sound as he expected but there was no pain coming from his back. Chen Chang Sheng looked up at the handrail to see that the pot was still there.
He obviously didn’t see but the middle-aged lady took back one finger.
Chen Chang Sheng looked at the middle-aged woman and felt a bit nervous………if she shouts out now, then he would be even more troubled. At such late night, embraced by a youngster came out of pond, anyone would probably yell.
At this time, he should knock out the lady right away just like what goes on in novels.
But there was another problem. He didn’t know how to knock people out.
So, he faced a very complicated issue.