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As Situ Yeyu spoke, he played with the thin knife he had never left his side. He moved to the side, taking a step back as he tested the arteries in Chu Ning's neck.

It seemed as if he could make a move at any time.

Nangong Yi frowned and suddenly raised her spear, "If you dare injure her, I'll send you to hell!"

"Should I give it a try? Would your spear art be faster after being injured, or would my blade art be faster now?" Situ Yeyu's interest was piqued, as if he was conducting an interesting experiment.

Nangong Yi was originally wounded, and now that she had been hit by the bullet, blood kept flowing down his wound. No matter how strong she was, how much blood was left in him?

He concentrated on Situ Yeyu with great vigilance, but his vision still kept blurring.

Sensing that something was wrong with Nangong Yi, Situ Yeyi shot out the thin blade in his hand. With a sharp wind, the blade flew towards Nangong Yi's throat.

In the end, Nangong Yi had crawled out of the training ground step by step. People who crawled out of the pile of deaths had an extraordinary intuition towards death, and her reaction speed and abilities were not something an ordinary person could match.

Thus, even if Nangong Yi had reached her current limit, she still nimbly fell to the right while pulling the trigger in her hand, aiming straight for Situ Yeyu's right atrium.

Situ Yeyu rolled to the left and nimbly dodged it. In the next moment, he pulled Chu Ning over and pressed the muzzle of his gun against Chu Ning's temple, "Do you believe me?"

Situ Yeyu was still smiling, his entire being was terrifyingly calm.

Nangong Yi stood up and aimed the gun at Situ, "You won't."

"Oh?"

Situ Yeyu's eyebrows shot up, "Tell me, why didn't I do it?"

"If you wanted to kill her, you wouldn't have waited until today."

Nangong Yi said with certainty.

Situ Yeyu had a kind of hatred that could be seen through. However, it was precisely because he could be seen through so easily by Nangong Yi that he deserved the friendship they had in the pile of life and death.

However, that was only in the past.

"You're right, I won't kill her." Situ Yeyu withdrew his spear, "But I'm still willing to bleed her!" With that, he cut Chu Ning's finger with a thin blade.

Chu Ning's body's instinct caused him to flinch. As she trembled, her finger drew across the sharp tip of the blade and actually cut off a thin piece of flesh.

"Stop!"

Nangong Yi was shocked and angry.

Situ Yeyu's pupils also shrank imperceptibly, but his words were still as venomous and calm as before, "I thought that in this life, you would only feel heartache for Lijiang. It seems like that's not the case. Sigh, originally, this was a great opportunity to destroy it. However, on account of you being so infatuated over a chess piece for me, let's just forget about it this time. "Next time, I won't be so lucky."

He turned around and said to his opponent, "Let's retreat!"

Si Cheng, who had already raised his gun, put it down again. He secretly heaved a sigh of relief and quickly supported Nangong Yi, "Young Master, how are you?"

"I'm fine." Nangong Yi shook her head as she stared gloomily at the direction that Situ Yeyu and the others were retreating to. She coldly laughed, "Let's retreat."

On the way back.

"Chief, I still don't understand." For Situ Yeyu, this is a huge opportunity. "

Nangong Yi's arm had already been simply bandaged, it was no longer bleeding like before.

He was originally leaning against the back seat with his eyes closed when he heard Si Cheng's question. When he suddenly opened his eyes, they were as cold as ice. "His purpose in coming here was not to take my life in the first place."

"Huh?" Si Cheng became even more confused.

"His appetite is really big, Nangong Mo planned to use this opportunity to finish me off without anyone noticing. If I die, then the only heir to the Imperial City will be Nangong Mo, and without an opponent, how could there be a rift within the Imperial City? He neither wants to kill me nor my life, he only wants to see the internal conflict. Once the Huang Yu splits, his strength will be greatly reduced, at that time, wouldn't it be more worthwhile to fight Huang Yu instead? "

Nangong Yi said indifferently, but her eyes were looking out the window.

"Group Leader means that his target is the entire Huang Clan?"

Si Cheng was shocked.

Nangong Yi did not reply.

"Then why did he suddenly pull out the chess pieces that he had deliberately set up and even explain her motives so clearly? What's the meaning of taking Chu Ning away in the end?

Nangong Yi finally looked back at Si Cheng, "This chess piece is too natural, do you think you can hide it? No matter how much he tried to coerce me, I just wanted to see how important I was to him. To put it bluntly, he pushed Chu Ning to my side. In the end, her intention was not for Chu Ning to steal my secret, but purely to give me a weakness. When one person falls in love with another person, they become each other's weakness. "As for taking Chu Ning away …" Nangong Yi did not continue speaking and once again looked out of the window.

The sky gradually brightened as the scenery outside changed from chaos to clarity.

At this moment, the only thing that remained of the burning house was thick smoke that rose into the blue sky.

It wasn't good for Si Cheng to continue pursuing the matter. He only whispered, "His intentions were too deep. I really couldn't see through his intentions at all. "But team leader, did you really fall in love with that girl Chu Ning after all? Your performance back then …"

Nangong Yi raised her brows and smiled, "What do you think?"

The morning sun rose and light shone in through the window. Nangong Yi's back was facing Si Cheng, causing him to be greatly shocked.

This smile was really too profound, to the point that he couldn't tell if it was real or fake. But when Situ Yu pointed the gun at Chu Ning's head, Nangong Yi's worry and anxiousness appeared on his face. No matter how you looked at it, it wasn't fake.

This kind of Nangong Yi confused even the extremely astute Si Cheng.

At the Rose Manor, a huge fountain soared to the sky, forming a circular splash. It flew down, splashing water all over the large pond.

Beneath the water, the red goldfish roamed happily, as if dancing to the joyous rhythm played by the violinist beside them.

Within the manor, on the round table that was arranged in a row, there were porcelain bottles filled with tulips placed on top of the snow-white tablecloth.

Flowers and bottles matched, looking rich and grand.

Many of the guests were either dressed in suits, leather shoes, or jewellery. All of them accompanied their guests to their seats.

Everyone who was there smiled, talking to each other in a polite and reserved low voice.

In the study on the second floor of the manor, Xi Men Shuo took off his reading glasses and stood up.

He looked towards Xi Men Yi and asked, "Are all the guests here?"

Xi Men Yu nodded, "Almost all of them are here. Only Situ Yeyu, Nan Gong Qi and his son haven't arrived yet. However, they all called first, saying that they had some important matters to attend to and might be delayed for a while, but will try to get there within half an hour. "

Ximen Shuang's eyelids twitched. His slightly white brows trembled. He turned to ask, "Where's Xiao Yu?"

"That girl went out with her friends. I don't know where she went crazy, but she hasn't arrived yet." But don't worry dad, no matter how poor she is, she will never forget your birthday. "

Xi Men Shuo nodded, feeling a little better. "That's true."

Xi Men Yi said again: "I will go and see how Mom is getting on with her preparations."

After obtaining Xi Men Shuo's permission, Xi Men Yu left the study.

Xi Men Shuo was an old man who doted on his daughter but was strict with his son. This could be seen from the attitude of Xi Men Yi and Xi Men Yu in front of him.

When Ximen Yishui arrived at the open air birthday banquet, many of the guests had stood up and started to talk with him. Xi Men Yi was also modest and did not have a haughty attitude.

"Aiya, looks like I was the first one to arrive."