48 Hours a Day

Lucilla's place.

Lucilla has lived in the palace since her father became Emperor of Rome, and then she married her first husband, Lucius, who, together with his father, was co-ruler of the Roman Empire, naturally continued to live in the palace.

But after Lucius' death, Lucilla was married to her second husband, Pompeanus, and she had to move out of the palace. Good thing her father gave her the title of Augusta by the Senate to compensate her, and Pompeanus, without the precious status of her previous husband, was impeccable towards her, although the two were not as affectionate as the other newlywed swallows, but rather in harmony.

Pompeanus usually stays on the side of the barracks and barely interferes with Lucilla's private life.

Thus, in the eyes of others, Lucilla has a marital life that most women envy.

Nearly every night she hosts a banquet in Domusli, with perfect wine and beautiful men of all kinds, but tonight, neither of them makes her happy.

In fact, Lucilla seemed a little distracted before the banquet, or even lost her soul, without the laziness and pride of the past, but when her maid asked if she was canceling tonight's banquet, Lucilla simply said it was business as usual.

Only then, when the handsome man came to invite her to dance, she refused without exception, and then Lucilla got up and left her seat. She told the waitress to go back and change, but in fact, when she went back to the house to take off her clothes, she didn't go to the wardrobe to get the new clothes she was changing.

Instead, she stood in front of the bronze mirror, staring at herself in the mirror, seemingly obsessed with the person in the mirror, her palms touching her skin, biting her lips, reaching into a drawer beside her, and touching a emerald vial in a bottle of perfume.

When she picked up the jade vial, there was a tangle and discomfort in her eyes, but eventually the cork was opened.

Yet just as she tried to deliver the jade vial to her lips, there was a cough behind her.

Lucilla was shocked and the jade vial in her hand fell on the floor.

“They say that Cleopatra VII, after the Axen naval war, learned that she was dying, so that her maid hid a venomous snake named Apse in a basket of figs. Oplatra VII let the venomous snake kiss her chest and end her legendary life, and her death also meant the end of the Tolemie dynasty, eventually Egypt was annexed by Rome and became a province beneath Rome...”

“When did you show up here?” Lucilla turned around and saw the man who spoke.

“I'm sorry, I'm actually new here.” Zhang Heng wiped the blood on two Persian swords with a sheet made of silk. “At night, I had a little trouble. I came here to find you after I solved it. To be honest, I didn't expect you to undress as soon as you came in. I was going to wait for you to change your clothes before talking to avoid this embarrassing scene, but...”

“They went for you too, didn't they?” Lucilla's color changed slightly.

“Mm-hmm,” Zhang Heng nodded, plugging the rubbed Persian sword back into his waist, “it looks like you guys broke it. ”

Lucilla heard no objection, “We lost this war, and in fact we lost not only this war, but everything. ”

“I can't agree with you on the last point. Don't you still have me? Although, you shouldn't have kept it from me from the beginning.” Zhang Hengdao.

“ ………… ”

“It's too late,” Lucilla shook her head, but then she got a little nervous and asked, “How did you get here? ”

“Augusta of the Empire, the emperor's own sister, is a priestess of the mysterious assassin organization's balance, and it must be acknowledged that the unimaginable can't really connect the two, let alone the two of you who are now the priestess of Kleis.” Zhang Heng said he was here for a while, "Well... why don't you get dressed first, and then we'll continue our conversation. ”

“I don't think this is necessary," Lucilla quickly recovered after the initial panic, so the grand and generous stood in front of Zhang Heng without any disguise, “you didn't have any interest in me at all, I remember you refused me more than once before. ”

“Well, if you're not afraid of the cold, you can just... let it go.” Zhang Heng rubbed his nose and turned the subject back to the point, "The time you met me as a priestess, wearing a mask, the sound was completely different, but you ignored one detail, the perfume on you. ”

“The perfume on me?” Lucilla frowned, "and I didn't ignore it. Every time I showed up as a priestess of Cleise, I would bathe first and then change another perfume. ”

“Yes, but you used both kinds of court perfume, but at first I didn't doubt you. I just thought the priestess of the Blade of Balance was hiding in the palace as a court maid or something. I really began to put you under suspicion on the day I moved to my new house. You came to visit me at my house and said some strange things to me when you walked away. I thought you were threatening me, but that night Autrus came to me and asked me some questions, and I realized what you meant by that. ”

Lucilla nodded, “I just got word that day, too. Otrus might have met you as the priestess of Kreis. It's too late for me to call you in time, so I can only come to you personally. Good thing there's been a lot of rumors about me. It's not too uncommon for me to fall in love with a gladiator, but just to say the least, you still can't be sure of my identity. ”

“Yes, but then I touched back where we met that night.” Zhang Hengdao, "the house belonged to Sketus, a young man from the Korasu family, and a friend of mine told me that he rarely came here again about two years ago, and then out of curiosity, I investigated Sketus again, and found rumors two years ago that he was one of your secret lovers, and that's where you were cheating, right? ”

Zhang Heng said looking across the street at Lucilla.

“This is also something I don't understand, when your eyes weren't blindfolded and still in the trunk, how could you possibly find that place?” Lucilla was surprised.

“This is a trick an old friend of mine on Baker Street taught me, and if he was the one in the carriage that night, he would have touched it faster than I did.” Zhang Hengdao.