My Foolish Husband Turned Out to Have a Hidden Identity Too

Chapter 129: Chapter 129 I’m Waiting for You to Explain

“Elder Zhao, I’ll leave the subsequent matters to you.” Mu Ruyue yawned as she had been summoned to the Imperial Palace immediately after a month’s journey without having had the chance for a proper rest. Now that everything was resolved, she should return to the Mu Residence.

Suddenly, she lifted her head and looked indifferently at the man as beautiful as a god but said nothing. Just receiving her gaze, Ye Wuchen’s heart tightened, and a hint of panic crossed his handsome face.

He was afraid, afraid that she would distance herself from him from then on, and afraid that she would never pay attention to him for the rest of his life.

And as that fear threatened to spread, he couldn’t help but walk up to Mu Ruyue, raising his hand intending to grasp the young girl’s shoulder, but as his fingers touched her, he let go, his eyes filled with complexity and panic, as if unsure of how to start explaining.

Tell her it was a matter of no choice?

But a deception was a deception, and no amount of reasons could change that fact.

Silence lingered between the two, and only after a moment did the man hear the young girl’s faint voice, “I’m waiting for you to give me an explanation.”

Having said that, Mu Ruyue turned and walked out of the palace gate.

As he watched the white figure disappear before his eyes, Ye Wuchen’s lifted heart slowly settled down, his handsome face curling into a devilishly charming smile. Fortunately, she hadn’t ignored him and had given him a chance to explain…

The night was like water, and the evening breeze teased.

Mu Ruyue stood before the window, the evening breeze stirring her hair, gently tracing her cheek. She lifted her head to gaze at the night sky outside the window, her eyes filled with a peculiar light.

Ye Wuchen approached her from behind, gazing at the young girl before the window. His face was so perfect it provoked the envy of gods and men, and his devilish eyes were filled with deep affection, as if they contained only one person.

“Over a decade ago, on a night like this, my parents were killed by the Holy Maiden Sect. Not a single soul was spared in the slaughter of more than three hundred members of Prince Nan’an Mansion, except for me who luckily survived. My father told me with his dying breath, if I wanted to live, I had to disguise myself and go unnoticed by everyone. Since then, I’ve been playing the fool, and everyone says my intelligence has remained on that night…”

That night was a lifelong nightmare for him. His once happy and fulfilled family was obliterated in an instant. It was by hiding him away that his father managed to save him from that calamity.

Later, because he had become a fool, the Holy Maiden Sect did not wish to create more atrocities and never returned to eradicate him completely. But had the Holy Maiden Sect committed fewer atrocities over the years? How many innocent people had died at their hands?

“What then, is this Ghost King title all about? I’ve always wondered; your scars are indeed fierce, but they do not seem that dreadful,” Mu Ruyue slowly turned, lifting her gaze to the handsome man before her and asked.

The man laughed, his smile wicked to the extreme, as tempting as the Mandala Flower.

“Because a maid accidentally discovered my secret, so I made her go mad, and to ensure there were no surplus people in Prince Mansion, I purposely spread rumors that I looked like a ghost, coupled with the madness of the maid. From then on, no one was willing to come to Ghost Prince Manor, which made it easier for me to act.”

Mu Ruyue raised an eyebrow: “You’ve been playing the fool for so many years just for the Holy Maiden Sect? How ridiculous that I’ve been fooled by you all along.”

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Yesterday, there was a problem with Tencent, and the updated chapters did not show up until the morning. I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused everyone.