Chapter 888 Night Visit

night. Lucilla's residence.

Lucilla had been living in the palace since her father became Roman emperor. Later, she married her first husband Lucius, who was co-emperor of the Roman Empire with his father. Lucilla naturally Then you can continue to live in the palace.

However, after Lucius died, Lucilla was married to her second husband Pompeianus by her father, so she had to move out of the palace. Fortunately, in order to compensate her, her father asked the Senate to She was awarded the title of Augusta, and although Pompeianus was not as noble as her previous husband, his attitude towards her was impeccable. Although the two were not as affectionate as other newlyweds, they could They get along relatively harmoniously.

Pompeianus usually stayed at the military camp and basically did not interfere in Lucilla's private life.

Therefore, in the eyes of others, Lucilla has a married life that is envied by most women.

Her Domusli held banquets almost every night, with endless wine and all kinds of handsome men, but tonight, neither of them could make her happy.

In fact, Lucila seemed a little absent-minded before the banquet started. It could even be said that she was lost. She no longer had the laziness and pride of the past. However, when her maid asked her if she wanted to cancel the banquet tonight, Lucila But he just said everything was business as usual.

But then when those handsome men came to invite her to dance, she rejected them all without exception. Then Lucila stood up and left her seat. She told the maid that she wanted to go back and change clothes, but in fact when she He returned to the house and took off his clothes, but did not go to the closet to get the new clothes he wanted to change into.

Instead, she just stood in front of the bronze mirror, looking at herself in the mirror motionlessly, as if she was obsessed with the person in the mirror. She touched her skin with her palms, bit her lip, and reached into the drawer on the side. During the trip, I touched a small emerald green jade bottle among the bottles of perfume.

When she picked up the jade vial, a look of confusion and reluctance flashed in her eyes, but she finally opened the cork.

However, just when she was about to bring the jade vial to her lips, there was a coughing sound behind her.

Lucilla was startled, and the emerald vial in her hand fell to the ground.

"They say that after the Battle of Actium, Cleopatra VII learned that her death was imminent, so she asked her maid to hide a poisonous snake named Aps in a fig basket. Cleopatra VII Letting the venomous snake kiss her chest ended her gorgeous and legendary life, and her death also meant the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Eventually Egypt was annexed by Rome and became a province under Rome..."

"When did you appear here?" Lucila turned around and saw the person who spoke.

"Sorry, I actually just arrived here not long ago." Zhang Heng wiped the blood stains on the two Persian swords with a silk sheet, "I ran into a little trouble at night. After I solve it, I will come here to find you. Well, to be honest, I didn’t expect you to take off your clothes as soon as you came in. I originally wanted to wait until you changed your clothes before talking to avoid this embarrassing situation, but..."

"They went after you too, didn't they?" Lucila's expression changed slightly.

"Hmm," Zhang Heng nodded and inserted the polished Persian sword back into his waist, "Looks like you guys broke it while playing."

Lucila did not object when she heard this, "We lost this war. In fact, we not only lost this war, but also lost everything."

"I can't agree with the last point. Don't you still have me now? Although, you shouldn't have hidden it from me from the beginning." Zhang Heng said.

"…………"

"It's too late now," Lucilla shook her head, but then she cheered up a little and asked, "How did you find here?"

"Augusta of the Empire, the biological sister of His Majesty the Emperor, is the priestess of the mysterious assassin organization Blade of Balance. It must be admitted that people without any imagination really can't connect the two, let alone the role of You, the Priestess of Cleis, and you now are two different people." Zhang Heng paused at this point, "Uh... why don't you find something to wear first, and then we can continue talking."

"I don't think it's necessary," Lucila quickly regained her composure after the initial panic, and stood openly in front of Zhang Heng without any cover-up, "You're not treating me like that at all. Are you not interested? I remember you rejected me before, more than once."

"Okay, if you're not afraid of catching a cold, you can just... let it dry." Zhang Heng rubbed his nose and returned to the topic, "The time you met me as a priestess, you brought Wearing a mask, your voice is completely different from now, but you overlooked one detail, which is the smell of perfume on your body."

"The smell of perfume on my body?" Lucila frowned, "I haven't ignored it. Every time I appear as a priestess of Creus, I take a bath first and then change to another perfume."

"That's right, but the two types of perfume you used were both palace perfumes. However, I didn't suspect you at first. I just thought that the priestess of the Balanced Blade was hiding in the palace as a palace maid or something like that. I really started to put you under suspicion when I moved to my new home. You came to visit me at home, and you said some incomprehensible words to me before leaving. I thought you were threatening me, but that night Otrus came to visit me. After you fucked me and asked me some questions, I realized what you really meant by that statement.”

Lucila nodded when she heard this, "I just got the news that day that Otrus might meet you. It's too late to summon you as the priestess of Cleis, so I can only go in person. Looking for you, fortunately there have been a lot of rumors about me, and it is not unusual for me to fall in love with a gladiator, but you still can't be sure of my identity based on just one sentence."

"Yes, but then I went back to the place where we met that night." Zhang Heng said, "That house belongs to Scutus, a young man from the Colasu family. A friend of mine told me that he was probably in I rarely came here again two years ago. Then out of curiosity, I investigated Scotus again and found that there were rumors two years ago that he was one of your secret lovers. It was the place where you had an affair back then, right? "

Zhang Heng said while looking at Lucila opposite.

"This is also something I don't understand. Your eyes were not already covered and put into the carriage at that time. How could you still find that place?" Lucila said in surprise.

"This is a little trick that an old friend of mine on Baker Street taught me. If he was the person who was put into the carriage that night, he would have touched it back faster than me." Zhang Heng said.