48 Hours a Day Novel Chapter 887 - Night Visitation

Chapter 887: Night Visitation

That night, Lucilla’s residence.

Lucilla had been living in the palace since her father beca the Roman emperor. Later, she married her first husband, Lucius, whose father ruled the Roman empire with another emperor at the sa ti. Hence, Lucilla could naturally continue living in the palace.

However, when Lucius died, Lucilla was asked to marry her second husband, Pompeanus, by her father. That would an she had to move out of the palace. Fortunately, her father asked the Senate to compensate her. Hence she was awarded the title Augusta. Although Pompeanus was not as powerful as her previous husband, he had an impeccable attitude toward her. After they were married to each other, they were not as affectionate as other newlyweds, but they got along harmoniously.

Pompeanus would usually stay at the barracks and not interfere with Lucilla’s private life.

Therefore, in the eyes of others, Lucilla had a married life that most won envied.

She constantly held banquets at her domus and usually provided an endless flow of wine, accompanied by many hunks. But tonight, neither of these things could make her happy. In fact, Lucilla’s mind seed to be absent from the beginning of the banquet. It was as if she had been traumatized before. The laziness and pride she had in the past were now gone. When her maid asked if she would cancel the banquet tonight, Lucilla told her that everything was business as usual.

When those handso n invited her to dance, she rejected every single one of them without exception. After that, Lucy got up and left her seat, telling the maid that she wanted to head back to her room for a change of clothes. However, after undressing, she did not go to the closet to get a new set.

Instead, she stood in front of the bronze mirror and stared at herself in the mirror motionlessly. She seed to be obsessed with the person in the mirror. She started to stroke her skin with her palm, bit her lip, and reached into a drawer on the side. Among all the perfu bottles, she picked a small verdant jade bottle.

When she picked up the bottle, an indecisive and unwilling look flashed in her eyes. But in the end, she removed the cork. When she tried to bring the jade bottle to her lips, she heard a coughing sound from behind her.

Lucilla was startled, and the jade bottle in her hand also fell to the ground.

“They said that Cleopatra VII learned that her death was approaching after the Battle of Akshin. So she asked her maid to hide a poisonous snake nad Aps in a basket of figs. After that, Cleopatra VII let a poisonous snake kiss her chest, and she ended her splendid and legendary life just like that. Her death also ant the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Eventually, Egypt was annexed by Ro and beca a province under Ro...”

“When did you show up here?” Lucilla turned around and saw the person that talked to her.

“Sorry, I actually just arrived here not long ago.” Zhang Heng wiped the blood off his two Persian short swords with the silk bed sheet, “I faced so troubles just now. I ca here to look for you right after I dealt with my problem. To be honest, I didn’t expect you to take off your clothes as soon as you ca in. I wanted to wait for you to change before talking to you to avoid an embarrassing situation like this, but...”

“They got to you too, didn’t they?” Lucilla’s expression changed slightly.

“Uh-huh,” Zhang Heng nodded and inserted the cleaned Persian short swords back into their sheaths. “It looks like your toy is broken.”

Lucilla did not argue with Zhang Heng when she heard what he said, “We lost this war. In fact, we lost not only this war but everything else as well.”

“I can’t agree with the last statent. You still have . You really shouldn’t have kept it from

from the beginning,” Zhang Heng said.

“...”

“It’s too late now.” Lucilla shook her head. She then asked, “How did you find this place?”

“Augusta of the Empire, the emperor’s sister, is the Priestess of the Balance Blade, the mysterious assassin organization. It must be admitted that people with no imagination would have never connected you and Balance Blade. When you played the Priestess of Kreis, you were so different from who you are right now...” Zhang Heng paused. “Uh... why don’t you find a dress to wear first, and we will continue talking.”

“I don’t think it is necessary.” After the initial panic, Lucilla quickly cald herself down and stood in front of Zhang Heng, naked. “Are you not interested in ? I rember you rejected

more than once before.”

“Well, if you are not afraid of catching a cold, you can just be like this...” Zhang Heng rubbed his nose and continued what he was trying to say. “The ti you t up with

as the Priestess, you were wearing a mask, and you sounded completely different from now. However, you overlooked one detail, which is the sll of the perfu on your body.”

“The sll of the perfu on my body?” Lucilla frowned. “I didn’t overlook this detail. Every ti I played the Priestess of Kreis, I would bathe first and put on a different perfu.”

“Yes, but the two kinds of perfus that you use are the perfus from the palace. In the beginning, I didn’t suspect that you were with the Balance Blade. I thought that the Priestess was hiding in the palace as a court maid. The day I started to suspect you were when you visited

in my new domus. When you left, you said sothing inexplicable to . I thought you were threatening , but Altrus looked for

that night, and he asked so questions. It was at that ti when I finally understood what you said to .”

Lucilla nodded. “On that day, I was told that Altrus might et you. It was too late for

to summon you as the Priestess of Kreis. Hence, I could only go and look for you personally. Fortunately, I have quite so rumors surrounded . It is not uncommon for

to like a gladiator. However, I don’t think you identified

as the Priestess with just one sentence, right?”

“Yes. After that, I found the place where we t that night,” Zhang Heng said. “That house belongs to Sktus, a young man from the Kolasu family. A friend of mine told

that he rarely cos here for two years now. Out of curiosity, I investigated Sktus and found that two years ago, there were rumors that he was one of your secret lovers. That was where you had an affair, right?” Zhang Heng said as he stared at Lucillia in front of him.

“This is sothing I still can’t figure out. At that ti, your eyes were covered, and you were put in the carriage. How did you manage to find that place?” Lucilla asked in surprise.

“This is a little trick taught to

by an old friend of mine from Baker Street. If he were the person who was loaded into the carriage that night, he would’ve figured out the route a lot sooner than ,” Zhang Heng said.