Five years after her death, she awoke on the dragon bed.

Chapter 5 A powerful cabinet minister was completely outmaneuvered by his nun.

Lou Suyi was glad she had found a comfortable position to lie in, otherwise her delicate waist would not have been able to take it.

She couldn't understand why Xie Zhijie was still at the Lotus Nunnery at this hour. She didn't want to see Qi Yan, and she didn't want to see Xie Zhijie either.

Before anyone knew it, Xie Zhijie had reached the bedside and even lifted the blankets on her bed.

She closed her eyes and yawned listlessly. Because she hadn't slept in the afternoon, she felt drowsy the moment she closed her eyes, and before she knew it, she had actually fallen asleep.

In fact, Xie Zhijie was simply curious about what kind of nun could make Qi Yan, the Marquis of Dingyuan, stay at the Lotus Nunnery for even a day without leaving.

If Qi Yan liked this unknown nun, he could take her away first.

The room was dimly lit. He lifted the covers but found nothing. He then went to the table, picked up a scripture, and began to read.

The scriptures were new, showing no signs of being turned over. Inside the room were the Four Treasures of the Study, all brand new.

This doesn't look like the dwelling place of a spiritual practitioner...

When Lou Suyi opened her eyes again, she realized that she had fallen asleep without realizing it. She listened carefully to make sure that no one was in the room before moving her stiff body and crawling out from under the bed.

But she never expected that just as she crawled out from under the bed, the dormitory door was suddenly pushed open, and a tall man walked in.

The room was dimly lit, and she couldn't see the man's face clearly, but she knew from the sound of his footsteps that it was Xie Zhijie.

She instinctively turned her back, quickly thinking about how to escape the situation.

"The little nun has quite the stamina; she managed to hide under the bed the whole time." Xie Zhijie slowly approached the nun whose back was to him.

Whether it was his imagination or not, he felt that the figure of the nun seemed familiar.

Lou Suyi found it extremely troublesome. Why was that Xie guy still around at this hour?

In the pitch black, Xie Zhijie couldn't see her face clearly and probably wouldn't recognize her.

Xie Zhijie is a jinx; she has absolutely no desire to have anything to do with him again.

She waved her hand and gestured a few times. Xie Zhijie saw her movements in the dim moonlight and frowned slightly: "Is the little nun mute?"

Lou Suyi nodded repeatedly and waved to Xie Zhijie, signaling him to leave quickly.

Xie Zhijie, instead of retreating, moved forward silently from behind her: "Have I seen Little Nun before?"

Lou Suying shook her head and secretly rolled her eyes.

Who knows, if she turns around and Xie Zhijie sees her face clearly, he might be scared half to death.

Xie Zhijie thought about it and realized that he knew very few women, so how could there be any old friends of his in the Lotus Nunnery?
“Since you have no interest in studying Buddhism, why don’t you come back to my residence with me? I’ll take good care of you and feed you well, how about that?” Xie Zhijie looked down at the nun with her back to him.

That's strange, why isn't the little nun looking at him?
Normally, a woman would chase away a stranger who intrudes into her home, but this young nun never once looked back at him.

Furthermore, since she had been hiding under the bed, it means that she was initially avoiding Qi Yan.

If she didn't know Qi Yan, why would she hide?

Lou Suyi secretly thought that Xie Zhijie must be sick, trying to lure her into his mansion without even seeing her face clearly.

She shook her head vigorously and waved her little hands, indicating that she had no interest in entering the Xie family mansion.

Xie Zhijie stared intently at the little nun's retreating figure, still feeling a strange sense of familiarity about her.

He quickly made up his mind: "I apologize for my rudeness and disturbing the nun's rest. I'll take my leave." Lou Suying heard the door to the room close, but she still didn't dare to turn around, afraid that Xie Zhijie was trying to extort her.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong.

Xie Zhijie was already cunning five years ago. After waiting for so long, how could he have left so easily just now?
Thinking of this, she quickly crawled back under the bed, smeared the ash haphazardly on her face, took off her monk's hat, let her hair down, covering most of her face, and then crawled out from under the bed.

Sure enough, just as she finished her series of actions, Xie Zhijie pushed the door open again, carrying an oil lamp in his hand...

Xie Zhijie approached the suspicious-looking nun step by step, and by the dim light, he saw that she had disheveled hair.

Her face was covered in dust and dirt, so dirty that it was unbearable to look at.

Xie Zhijie still felt that the nun whose face he couldn't see was very familiar. He unconsciously moved closer and was about to lift her hair to see her face when the nun suddenly waved his hand away and ran out of the room screaming.

The nun's piercing scream made Xie Zhijie's eardrums ring. By the time he came to his senses, the little nun had already run into the night.

Xie Zhijie's refined and handsome face was clouded with shadows. He quickly chased after the prey, and just as he was about to catch it, the other nuns in the Lotus Nunnery had already moved upon hearing the commotion.

The abbot was also disturbed. Upon recognizing Xie Zhijie, the abbot stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Amitabha! Lotus Nunnery does not accommodate male guests overnight. Please, Lord Xie!"

Xie Zhijie glanced around and saw that quite a few nuns had arrived, but the mysterious and eccentric vegetarian nun was nowhere to be seen.

"It was my fault for disturbing the abbess's meditation. Farewell!" Xie Zhijie bowed and left Lotus Nunnery under the watchful eyes of several nuns.

Lou Suyi only returned to her room to bathe and comfortably lay down on the bed after confirming that Xie Zhijie had really left.

She decided to get up early the next day and go to hide in the back mountain, or leave the Lotus Temple to avoid trouble.

Qi Yan will definitely come again tomorrow to find out what's going on. As for Xie Zhijie, she feels that he's not someone she can easily deal with.

She outmaneuvered Xie Zhijie tonight, and if Xie Zhijie holds a grudge, she'll be in big trouble.

She just couldn't fall asleep, and the more she thought about it, the more uneasy she felt.

She got up again and switched rooms with another nun of similar build overnight, giving her money as hush money.

Lou Suyi was unaware that Xie Zhijie had spent the night at an inn near Lotus Temple and arrived at Lotus Nunnery before dawn.

The nun guarding the gate couldn't stop him and could only watch helplessly as Xie Zhijie barged into the nunnery.

When Xie Zhijie arrived at his destination, he looked at his attendant Zhang Mao.

Zhang Mao understood, went to the window, and with a nimble movement, opened the window. He silently jumped in and unlocked the door from the inside.

Xie Zhijie pushed open the door and entered, slowly walking to the bedside and lifting the bed curtains.

When he saw the face of the nun on the bed, his brow furrowed almost imperceptibly.

The nun was fast asleep when she suddenly felt someone staring at her. When she opened her eyes, she saw a dagger pressed against her neck.

The man with the dagger was refined and elegant, but his eyes held a subtle murderous intent as he looked at her: "Speak, where is the owner of the dormitory?"

The nun was so frightened that she dared not move: "Knives, swords have no eyes, this poor nun will take Lord Xie to find Kong Chen."

Xie Zhijie was led by the nun to another room, only to find the bedding on the canopy bed neatly folded and the room empty.

This time, Xie Zhijie was so angry that he laughed. He, a Grand Secretary of the Inner Cabinet, was actually being played around by a mere nun.
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