Tearing the Prince's Clothes after Withdrawing Marriage
Chapter 946 - 945 Heaven and Earth Lock

Chapter 946: Chapter 945 Heaven and Earth Lock

"What are you thinking about?" Feng Dingchu asked with a faint smile, his tone somewhat teasing. "I’m just borrowing your Universe Chain to store it until I find a more suitable storage location."

"Let me store it?"

Chu Qianli received the Imperial Decree, pouting slightly. "Aren’t you afraid I might sneak a peek?"

After all, just looking at it once wouldn’t destroy the Imperial Decree, and where was her restraint when it came to secrets?

"You’re not that kind of person."

With that single compliment, Feng Dingchu had effectively put a hat on Chu Qianli that she couldn’t take off.

Sigh! This Imperial Decree wasn’t to be seen, and by not looking, she’d avoid becoming "that kind of person."

As she stored the Imperial Decree into the Universe Chain, she complained, "Uncle Jiu, do you know how torturous this is?"

Wanting to look but unable to, clearly she could just flip it open, but her "noble character" forbade it!

Her heart was exhausted!

Psychological torment was no less bearable than physical.

She would rather know nothing than let curiosity lead her heart astray!

"Perhaps... it might not be unrelated to you."

Feng Dingchu sighed lightly, looking up at the distant horizon.

In his eyes, Chu Qianli saw the kind of helplessness, despair, and even a sense of having nothing left to live for.

She quickly changed the subject, "Uncle Jiu, what’s this?"

She picked up the only item in the wooden box that seemed out of place with the surroundings.

A lock?

"It’s said to be the legendary Heaven and Earth Lock."

"Heaven and Earth Lock!" Chu Qianli gasped, the lock almost flying out of her hands!

Universe Chain, Heaven and Earth Lock!

Why would such a treasure of the same caliber as the Universe Chain be in Uncle Jiu’s possession?

And why did it look so ordinary in Uncle Jiu’s hands, his eyes lacking any hint of surprise?

Was this the right attitude to have toward one of the mightiest treasures in the vast universe?

Any trace of tension or respect?

That was too much, right?

But...

"Is this really the Heaven and Earth Lock?" Chu Qianli examined it from all angles but couldn’t see anything special.

Wasn’t it just an ordinary lock?

"My senior brother gave it to me, he said it is, so I think it must be." Senior brother, being such a revered figure, wouldn’t lie with his parting gift.

"But I can’t see any difference between it and an ordinary lock."

No matter how she looked at it, it was just a lock, a simple lock without mechanisms, not even a keyhole.

To open it, one would have to use brute force.

"Could the Treasure Map be hidden inside?"

"It’s dead on the inside," said Feng Dingchu. "I’ve studied it many times."

Chu Qianli looked down at the dead lock.

"Dead" meant that it was solid inside.

Moreover, being just a lock and not securing anything, what could it hide?

Such a small lock, barely thicker than her fingers... Even Chu Qianli couldn’t decipher the mystery.

"Could it be that your senior brother was... just fooling around?"

"Impossible." His senior brother had no inclination for jests.

Chu Qianli still couldn’t spot any peculiarities and finally, could only keep staring at it.

"Let’s put it away for now," said Feng Dingchu.

Chu Qianli was somewhat taken aback. "Also for me?"

"I have no other place to hide it." Carrying it risked losing it.

"Besides, you have the Universe Chain, so it makes sense for the Heaven and Earth Lock to be with you."

Feng Dingchu waved his hand, "Get up. After settling the villagers, we should head back to the Imperial City."