Lady, escort the emperor! 2
Chapter 2: Young Madam, A Misunderstanding!
2024-06-29
Chapter 2: Young Madam, A Misunderstanding!
A book, visible only to him, hovered before his eyes. It said he only had three days to live—an utterly absurd notion.
But hadn’t he just woken up to find himself a completely different person? Wasn’t *that* absurd?
Other people who transmigrated (crossed over into another world) either had cheat codes (advantages) or helpful systems, but Li Nuo opened his eyes to a death countdown.
A death countdown was bad enough, but at least give him a strategy guide or a warning! Was he just supposed to obediently await his demise for these three days?
Li Nuo tried to use his mind to flip open this treasured tome, hoping to find a way to extend his life expectancy, but it was useless. Neither his mind nor his hands could turn the pages.
While Li Nuo was flailing in the air, an old man beside the bed sighed and tentatively reminded him, “This is Chang’an in Da Xia. Your name is Li Nuo, and your father is the current Minister of Justice. Now, Young Master, do you recall anything…?”
Da Xia Chang’an?
Li Nuo was certainly familiar with the name Chang’an; he had been born and raised there. However, when he’d jumped from the building just now, this old man had pointed a finger, and he’d been suspended in mid-air. This was clearly not the Da Xia he knew, nor the Chang’an he was familiar with.
Speaking of which, the female assassin who tried to kill him last night must have been immobilized in the same way.
Thinking of the girl, the wound on Li Nuo’s shoulder throbbed again. Without the memories of his former self, he had no idea what this guy had done to make that girl hate him so much…
“My head hurts. I can’t remember anything…”
Li Nuo shook his head and asked, “What happened last night? Why did that girl try to kill me?”
Even if he was going to die in three days, he wanted to die knowing the truth.
The old man shook his head. “Last night, Young Master was injured and unconscious, and the entire mansion was in chaos. I temporarily locked her in the woodshed before I could interrogate her.”
Li Nuo had heard the old man say that his transmigrated identity was the son of the Minister of Justice. Li Nuo was a law student, proficient in legal history, and he knew that in ancient times, the Minister of Justice held a position equivalent to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in later generations.
The old man called himself “Old Slave,” which suggested a place similar to a feudal society.
In a feudal society, the Minister of Justice’s power far exceeded that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in later generations.
It was a position that could control the lives of ordinary people, and even high-ranking officials.
This guy who shared his name might have been a tyrannical and spoiled young master who had done something that deserved a minimum of three years and a maximum of the death penalty to that girl.
Otherwise, why would she hate him so much?
But what did that have to do with a newcomer like him?
The book disappeared at some point, but reappeared whenever Li Nuo thought about it.
Li Nuo’s mind was a jumble; his heart was uneasy. Ignoring the pain in his shoulder, he sat up from the bed and said, “Go and see her.”
The old man looked at Li Nuo, scratching his head. He felt that the Young Master was somehow different, but couldn’t quite pinpoint what it was. He simply helped Li Nuo to the girl’s confinement.
Li Manor, Woodshed.
The young girl was bound to a pillar, her mouth gagged with a cloth, her hair disheveled, her face pale, and her once clear and bright eyes now dull and lifeless, looking utterly miserable.
“Creak…”
The woodshed door was pushed open from the outside.
The girl slowly raised her head. Seeing the figure who entered, hatred flared in her eyes again. She struggled, but the gag in her mouth only allowed her to make a “woo-woo” sound.
Li Nuo had already inquired on his way here. The girl was a servant girl who had been hired last month. She had worked diligently until, inexplicably, she had attempted to assassinate Li Nuo last night.
His mind immediately conjured up a scene: a girl abused by a privileged young man, enduring humiliation, infiltrating her enemy’s mansion, ostensibly serving diligently while secretly plotting revenge…
And in this play, Li Nuo was the main villain.
Li Nuo approached the girl and carefully removed the gag. Before he could ask anything, the girl glared fiercely at him, gritting her teeth, “Scoundrel, even as a ghost, I will not let you go!”
With such resentment, Li Nuo wouldn’t believe her if she *wasn’t* abused by this spoiled brat.
How hateful! He, a law-abiding citizen, a morally upright judge, with a clean conscience in both his lives, was now ruined…
Li Nuo rubbed his temples and asked, “Miss, do we have a grievance?”
The girl gritted her teeth, “No.”
Li Nuo paused, then widened his eyes, “No? Then why did you try to kill me?”
The girl’s eyes burned with hatred, “Because your father killed my father!”
“My father killed your father?”
“My father was a clean official. How could he do such a thing? It was your father who framed him!”
Li Nuo was both angry and speechless.
He had been so self-reproachful and guilty for so long, only to find out he was caught in the crossfire.
This girl was a relative of a criminal who was retaliating against law enforcement officers.
Even if what she said was true, revenge should be directed at his father, the Minister of Justice, not him!
This was retaliation, murder.
It turned out she was the villain.
The old man beside Li Nuo seemed unsurprised. He glanced at the girl and said, “So she’s here for revenge against the master. She has no martial arts foundation, yet she managed to hide her identity and infiltrate the manor. It’s all my fault, Young Master. What do you wish to do with her?”
Li Nuo waved his hand, “Hand her over to the…officials.”
In the modern world, cases of criminals and their families retaliating against judges were not uncommon.
He hadn’t figured out the death threat in the book yet. He just wanted some peace and quiet.
Although he was the victim, he had no law enforcement authority. Keeping the girl locked up overnight was a form of detention or arrest, restricting her personal freedom based on the existence of criminal facts and strong suspicion. To keep her locked up would constitute illegal imprisonment. He definitely lacked the power to punish criminals.
He was a legal professional with basic professional ethics.
After Li Nuo spoke, the old man didn’t move, only staring intently at him.
Li Nuo asked, “Go on, why are you staring at me?”
The old man’s eyes flickered. He suddenly held up four fingers and asked, “Young Master, how many is this?”
Li Nuo didn’t know if the numbering system was different in the two worlds, so he tentatively replied, “Four?”
“Correct!” the old man exclaimed happily, then followed up with, “Two plus three equals what?”
“Five.”
“Fifteen plus sixteen?”
“Thirty-one.”
“Seventy-three plus sixty-nine?”
“One hundred and forty-two.”
The old man’s eyes were wide with disbelief. After regaining his composure, he spoke again.
“Eight hundred and forty-three plus six hundred and fifty-two?”
“One thousand four hundred and ninety-five.”
Before he could even finish mentally calculating, Li Nuo had already given the answer.
Li Nuo didn’t understand what he was doing, but he could basically confirm that addition was the same in any world. He looked at the old man, whose eyes were filled with shock and excitement, as if he had discovered some peerless genius.
It was just simple addition of three-digit numbers! What was there to be so surprised about? Li Nuo irritably asked, “What’s so amazing about such a simple question? Do you think I’m an idiot?”
The old man muttered, “But Young Master, you *are* an idiot…”
…
It was common knowledge in Chang’an that the Minister of Justice’s son was an idiot.
As the Li family’s steward, having watched him grow up, Steward Wu was all too aware of his Young Master’s mathematical abilities. Usually, even single-digit addition required him to count on his fingers. Now he could effortlessly answer addition problems involving tens and even hundreds. Was this still his idiot Young Master?
Had the fall last night actually made him smarter?
“Well done, well done…”
Seeing the idiot Young Master he’d raised suddenly become intelligent, Steward Wu couldn’t contain his excitement, rubbing his hands together. “I’ll go tell the master this good news…”
After a brief moment of bewilderment, Li Nuo shook his head. So his former self was an idiot who couldn’t even do addition and subtraction within one hundred.
No wonder the old man was so excited.
He’d even found a reason for him. Li Nuo didn’t need to bother hiding the fact that he had transmigrated.
“Heavens, you’ve gone blind!”
Not only did her assassination fail, but the idiot son of the man who killed her father had actually become smarter. The girl trembled with anger and grief, “Scoundrel, may your entire family perish!”
She was so brazen, even after attempted murder, that he needed to re-gag her to prevent her from yelling “scoundrel” all the way, ruining his reputation. Otherwise, people might think he’d done something to her.
That way, even if he died in three days, people wouldn’t think he’d committed suicide out of guilt.
Just as Li Nuo was about to stuff the cloth back in her mouth, a figure walked in from the door.
She was a young woman in a white, form-fitting dress, with exquisite embroidery on the hem, holding a long sword. She had a refined face, a cold demeanor, a slender waist, and black hair casually tied in a ponytail. The first thing Li Nuo noticed was her imposing air and her aloof coldness.
Then he noticed her looks.
Having lived two lifetimes, Li Nuo had never seen such a beautiful girl in real life. The female assassin was undoubtedly pretty, but she paled in comparison.
The only flaw was that even in her tight-fitting dress, her chest showed little curvature.
The moment the woman stepped inside, she saw the girl tied to the pillar. The girl’s pale face, disheveled hair, and look of despair and grief made her appear to have suffered some kind of abuse…
And Li Nuo was about to shove a piece of cloth into her mouth.
Seemingly realizing something, her expression instantly turned cold.
Just as Li Nuo was about to ask the old man who this beautiful girl was, he heard a rush of wind, and then a sharp pain in his chest. His body crashed heavily against a pile of firewood. His already weak body, injured as it was, couldn’t withstand this. His vision went black, and he fainted again.
Only then did the old man’s anxious voice finally reach him.
“Young Madam, it’s a misunderstanding!”
(End of Chapter)
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