Chapter 620: The Secret About the Past (238)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
An Xiaoning had been searching for an opportunity to leave the palace at night. However, she had yet to succeed.
It was indeed not a place where one could co and go as they pleased.
She initially planned to find another chance to escape tonight. However, Xiao Chi secretly stuffed her a note.
It read: “Don’t close your door at two o’clock in the morning.”
An Xiaoning did not know what he ant but still went ahead and left the door ajar.
At two hours after midnight, Xiao Chi showed up at her door.
“Mu Ning?”
Leaning against the headboard, she reached out to switch on the lights and asked, “What’s the matter?”
Xiao Chi placed a black plastic bag on the ground and instructed softly, “Young Sir said that he’d like to show you so kindness on account of your son. He sent you this prop, lest you die here.”
An Xiaoning smirked and said, “Is that so? I really have to thank your Young Sir then. Please also tell him that this is what he should be doing, I won’t be grateful toward him.”
“Okay, I will tell him exactly what you said,” Xiao Chi answered, slightly peeved.
“You may get lost now.”
An Xiaoning got down from the bed to close the door. She then squatted down and opened the black plastic bag, which ca with an instruction manual. She perused the instructions before taking a look at the contents of the bag. After morizing the instructions given, she burned the manual and flushed it down the toilet bowl.
She changed into her favorite outfit and placed her other clothing into her luggage. After checking it through thoroughly to ensure that she did not leave any evidence behind, she took out a piece of paper and pen to write another note.
The content of the ssage was slightly different from the previous one she’d left behind.
This ti, she wrote: “I’m leaving now. I initially wanted to bid you a proper farewell a few days ago, but you didn’t allow to. I have no choice but to resort to this. I guess you’ll be infuriated, but it’s not worth blowing your top over such a small fry like . Take care, we won’t et again. —Mu Ning.”
An Xiaoning then placed the note on the table. She brought the pile of items and made her way to the middle of the second floor while wearing her night vision goggles.
She did not manage to escape after sneaking out of the window toward the lake, but it seed like it will be a success this ti.
When she successfully reached the top, An Xiaoning turned on the switch on the deflated, lightweight balloon-like item. To her surprise, it began inflating automatically and propelled her upwards toward the sky.
There was only a slight breeze, leaving no trace at all.
An Xiaoning stared at the world below her while rising up slowly into the sky.
A smirk ford on her face as she thought to herself, Goodbye, Autumn Palace. Goodbye, Tuoba Gucheng. Goodbye to everything here.
She knew that from this mont onwards, she would never be Mu Ning again.
Since the mont An Xiaoning flew out of the palace, the air security system of the Autumn Palace had already been activated and they had begun trying to track her down.
Once An Xiaoning landed outside the palace, she hurriedly packed her belongings and proceeded to collect her car from the car park. She then sped along the expressway toward A City, after which she got inside i Yangyang’s car and stuffed the items into the trunk.
She instructed i Yangyang to return the items to Jin Qingyan while she drove off to check into another hotel.
An Xiaoning did not care even if the sky ca crashing down on her. She decided to have a good night’s sleep, despite knowing that the security personnel in the Autumn Palace were probably searching for her.
As expected, the security team of the Autumn Palace had already begun searching for her around B City soon after she left.
Tuoba Gucheng was inford about the situation at three o’clock in the morning.
When he first heard that soone had sneaked out of the Autumn Palace, he did not suspect that it was An Xiaoning at all. However, he instructed his bodyguards to call for An Xiaoning when he realized that she had yet to co downstairs even after breakfast.
“Your Highness, Mu Ning is not in her room. She probably went out.”
Tuoba Gucheng nodded and waited for a while more before instructing his bodyguards to look for her.
They did not manage to find her anywhere else.
At last, Xiao Chi said intentionally, “I heard that soone fled the Autumn Palace last night using an unconventional thod. It can’t possibly be Mu Ning, can it?”
A sullen expression ford on Tuoba Gucheng’s face as soon as Xiao Chi stopped speaking, and he imdiately headed upstairs.
He pushed open the door of her bedroom, only to find that everything in the room was organized and tidy.
The pot of lilies on the window ledge had already withered.
When he approached the bed, the note left on the table caught his attention.
Tuoba Gucheng held the note in his hand and looked down to read the ssage written on it, overwheld with panic and dismay. Last night... it was her, indeed!
That damned wretch actually escaped without his permission.
Did she really abhor being his bodyguard?
Tuoba Gucheng crushed the note in his hands and proceeded to unzip the luggage she had left behind. The luggage contained her clothes and shoes.
There was no other news about her.
Tuoba Gucheng made his way downstairs.
“Xiao Chi.”
“Yes, Your Highness. Do you have any orders for ?” Xiao Chi asked, feeling jittery and nervous.
“You were the one who got Mu Ning into the palace back then, right? Where does she live?” asked Tuoba Gucheng.
Xiao Chi had already prepared an answer to such questions way beforehand. “Your Highness, it was a friend who introduced to her. I decided to bring her to work in the palace after noticing that she was rather proficient in martial arts. I’ve tried asking about the details of her personal life but she refused to reveal much.”
“Where’s that friend of yours now?”
“He’s already sacrificed his own life,” Xiao Chi answered with a look of agony.
Clenching the note tightly in his fists, Tuoba Gucheng instructed, “Bring the personal identification docunts Mu Ning submitted when she applied for the bodyguard position.”
“Alright.”
A few minutes later, Xiao Chi returned with a copy of An Xiaoning’s personal identification card and details.
Tuoba Gucheng did not open the docunt imdiately and instead held it tightly in his hands while remaining in his seat quietly, seemingly deep in his thought.
He had a deep frown on his forehead and a nacing look on his face. After pondering for a long while, he leaned against the couch and opened the docunt.
After reading the information written on the docunt, he waved at Xiao Chi and dismissed him, “You may leave first.”
“Yes.”
Noticing the austere expression on his face when she made her way downstairs, Lin Shishi asked, “Hubby, did sothing happen?”
He put the docunt away and said calmly, “Nothing much, it’s just, Mu Ning has already left. Let’s go have breakfast.”
Lin Shishi did not dwell much on the matter since Mu Ning was rely a bodyguard. “Just bringing a glass of milk will do, I don’t feel like eating anything else,” she instructed the servant.
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Lin Shishi sat down beside him and said, “You seem really troubled. Mind sharing what’s on your mind?”
He smiled and said, “It’s really nothing major. By the way, I haven’t been spending much ti with you because I’ve been so busy lately. Would you like to make a trip down to A City together with you?”
“Do you really have the ti to go with ? The elections are still ongoing. But I really am getting extrely bored in here,” said Lin Shishi, pleased to hear his suggestion.
“I can take a couple of days off and accompany you to visit your parents. It won’t matter.”
“When would you like to go?” Lin Shishi asked, beaming with joy.
“We shall go later. I’ll instruct my subordinates to prepare so gifts.”
“Alright then. I’ll go change into a fresh set of clothes now,” said Lin Shishi, after which she skipped upstairs rrily.
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