Cheng Yuanshan quickly returned to Cheng Mansion, not daring to stay at Fu Mansion any longer.
But how could Fu Shinian give up so easily?
If Cheng Yuanshan wouldn't take her, wouldn't she secretly follow him?
Fu Mingzhu thought Fu Shinian was just joking, just a momentary whim, so she didn't take it seriously.
Fu Shinian managed to find out the time Cheng Yuanshan was leaving.
On the day Cheng Yuanshan set out, at two quarters past the hour of Si, Chunmian and Chunyu estimated that Fu Shinian should be awake, so they went into her room to call her.
Who knew that upon entering her bedroom, they found the bed empty.
"Miss?" Chunmian called out, searching all around the room at the same time.
But they saw no one.
"When did the young lady get up?" Chunyu was surprised, "Could she be in the courtyard?"
"It shouldn't be. Haven't we been guarding outside the lady's bedroom door?" Chunmian wondered.
Still, the two went to look in the courtyard.
