night. Lucilla's residence.
Lucilla has been living in the imperial palace since her father became emperor of Rome. Later, she married her first husband, Lucius, who was co-emperor of the Roman Empire with his father. Naturally, Lucilla You can continue to live in the palace.
But after Lucius died, Lucilla was married to her second husband, Pompeianus, by her father, so she had to move out of the palace. Fortunately, her father asked the Senate to make up for her. She was awarded the title of Augusta, and although Pompeoianus was not as honorable as her previous husband, his attitude towards her was impeccable, although the two were not as affectionate as other newlyweds, but It can be regarded as getting along relatively well.
Pompeianus usually stayed at the barracks and basically did not interfere with Lucilla's private life.
Therefore, in the eyes of others, Lucilla has a married life that most women envy.
Her domus 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, before the banquet started, Lucilla seemed a little absent-minded, and it could even be said that she was out of her mind. She no longer had the laziness and pride of the past. However, when her maid asked her if she wanted to cancel tonight's banquet, Lucilla But just said it was business as usual.
It was just that when those handsome men came to invite her to dance, they were all rejected by her without exception, and then Lucy got up and left her seat. She told the maid that she would go back and change clothes, but in fact when she He went back to the house and took off his clothes, but he didn't go to the closet to get the new clothes he wanted to change.
Instead, she stood in front of the bronze mirror like this, looking at herself in the mirror motionlessly, as if she was obsessed with the person in the mirror, she touched her skin with her palm, bit her lip, and reached into the drawer beside her Among the bottles of perfume, I touched a green emerald vial.
When she picked up the emerald vial, a look of entanglement and unwillingness flashed in her eyes, but she finally opened the cork on it.
However, just when she was about to send the jade vial to her lips, there was a coughing sound behind her.
Lucilla was startled, and the jade vial in her hand fell to the ground.
"They said that after Cleopatra VII learned that she was about to die after the Battle of Actium, she asked her maid to hide a poisonous snake named Apus in a fig basket. Opatra VII Letting the poisonous snake kiss her chest ended her splendid and legendary life, and her death also meant the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty. In the end, Egypt was annexed by Rome and became a province under Rome... "
"When did you appear here?" Lucilla turned around and saw the person speaking.
"Sorry, I just came here not long ago." Zhang Heng wiped the blood on the two Persian swords with a silk sheet, "I ran into a little trouble at night, and I will come here to find you after I solve it." Oh, to be honest, I didn't expect you to take off your clothes as soon as you came in. I wanted to wait until you changed your clothes before talking, so as to avoid this embarrassing situation now, but... "
"They went after you too, didn't they?" Lucilla's expression changed slightly.
"Hmm," Zhang Heng nodded, and inserted the polished Persian sword back into his waist, "It seems that you messed up your game."
Lucilla didn't object when she heard the words, "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 hide it from me from the beginning." Zhang Heng said.
"..."
"It's too late now," Lucilla shook her head, but then she perked up a little and asked, "How did you find this place?"
"Augusta of the Empire, the 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 play The you of Priestess Kreis and the current you are basically two people." Zhang Heng paused at this point, "Uh...why don't you find some clothes to wear first, and we can continue talking."
"I don't think it's necessary," Lucilla quickly returned to her natural state after the initial panic, and stood in front of Zhang Heng openly, without any cover-up, "You didn't treat me at all. Don't you have any interest, I remember you rejected me before, more than once."
"Well, if you're not afraid of catching a cold, you can just... hang out." Zhang Heng rubbed his nose, and changed the topic back to the topic, "The time you met me as a priestess, you brought The mask and the voice are completely different from now, but you have overlooked a detail, which is the smell of perfume on your body."
"The smell of perfume on my body?" Lucilla frowned. "I didn't ignore it. Every time I show up as the priestess of Creuis, I take a bath first, and then change to another perfume."
"That's right, but the two kinds of perfume you use are palace perfumes, but I didn't suspect you at the beginning. I just thought that the priestess of the Balance Blade was hiding in the palace as a court maid or something. I really started to suspect you on the day I moved to a new house. You came to visit me at my house and said some inexplicable words to me before leaving. I thought they were threatening me, but Otrus found me that night. Fucked me and asked me some questions before I realized what exactly you meant."
Lucilla nodded when she heard the words, "I just got the news that day that Ortrus might meet you, and it's too late to summon you as the priestess of Kreis, so I can only go there in person. Looking for you, fortunately there have been many rumors about me, and it is not too unusual for me to fall in love with a gladiator, but you still can't confirm my identity with just one sentence."
"Yes, but later I found the place where we met that night." Zhang Heng said, "That house belongs to Sketus, a young man from the Corasu family. A friend of mine told me that he probably lived in I seldom came here two years ago, and then I investigated Sketus out of curiosity, and found that there were rumors two years ago that he was one of your secret lovers, and that was the place where you had an affair, right? "
While talking, Zhang Heng looked at Lucilla on the opposite side.
"This is also something I don't understand. At that time, your eyes were already covered and packed into the carriage. How could you still find that place?" Lucilla asked in surprise.
"This is a little trick that an old friend of mine on Baker Street taught me. If he was the one who was loaded into the carriage that night, he would have touched it back faster than me." Zhang Heng said.