Chapter 151: The Pursuit
Shen Anran stood in the pitch-black night, watching the retreating figure of Ruan Zhenhui, her brow knitting deeper with concern.
She hesitated in place for a moment, knowing she should not be following her own mother.
But the unusual way Ruan Zhenhui had behaved this evening was troubling, and Shen Anran could not set her mind at ease. In the end, she made up her mind and quietly slipped after her in secret.
Before long, Ruan Zhenhui's figure moved like a swift nightingale through the dark, using her familiarity with the manor's layout to effortlessly avoid servants and the night patrol guards as she threaded quickly through the vast estate.
At the same time, Shen Anran followed without losing a step, though the further she went, the more uncertain and unsettled her expression became.
Because the direction Ruan Zhenhui was heading seemed to be precisely where her father Shen Liancheng's quarters were located.
Just at that moment, Li Musheng, who had been searching in the direction Hu Rui'an had left and gone around a full circle without finding any trace of him, suddenly came to a stop on the rooftop of a courtyard building.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, looked out at the mother and daughter pursuing each other one after the other through the darkness ahead, and raised an eyebrow, quietly wondering to himself, "They seem quite familiar with this manor. Should I ask them for directions?"
Zhanliu Manor was genuinely large, with a complex and extensive network of paths, and the various courtyards all looked broadly similar to one another. It really was rather easy to lose one's bearings, and finding a particular person was not straightforward at all.