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The lady looked at the two ladies sleeping soundly on the bed, her gaze finally landed on Qu Ling's face, she placed her hand on her waist and retrieved a white porcelain bottle.

Just as she was about to step forward, she felt a sharp gust of wind attack the back of her head.

Her eyes turned cold as she immediately turned around and dodged the attack.

He steadied himself and was about to counterattack when the person who had launched the sneak attack suddenly …

He growled, "Let's go!"

Hearing that person's voice, the woman was stunned.

While she was stunned, the person held her wrist tightly and pulled her to the window without saying a word. He carefully opened the window and dragged her through.

At this moment, a loud shout was suddenly heard from beneath the window. "Who is it!"

Following this shout, the courtyard suddenly lit up.

The girl lowered her head to look at her wrist that was being held. She lightly bit her lower lip but didn't say anything.

In the end, the ordinary soldiers of the Southern Guarding Prince Palace were not as good as the Dark Guard who stayed by Xiao Jingyue's side all year round.

By the time Xiao Yi heard the commotion, the two had already broken out of the encirclement and disappeared into the darkness.

When Xiao Yi saw this, he gnashed his teeth so hard that they were about to shatter. He wished that he could tear all of the soldiers apart.

He had only gone to the latrine, yet the thieves had actually snuck in.

If anything happened to his wife, he would have to apologize.

Thinking this way, he was afraid that the two assassins had accomplices, so he did not let anyone chase after them. He immediately turned around and returned to the tavern, and rushed into Qu Ling's room at the risk of being punished, regardless of etiquette.

After finding out that the two of them were just sleeping soundly without anything out of the ordinary, his tense heart finally relaxed.

He closed the door gently and said to the person behind him, "Pass down the order, everyone in the yard must return immediately and strictly guard the Madam's residence. If another half a fly enters, we shall punish them according to military law!"

The man obeyed.

Xiao Yi stood quietly in front of the door to Qu Ling's room for a while, before he suddenly looked towards the room where Gu Xi was.

One of the two assassins seemed to be a woman …

Xiao Yi's eyes flashed for a moment. He raised his hand and called two soldiers to temporarily stand guard at the door of Qu Ling's room, then walked towards Gu Xi's room.

He stopped at the door and knocked twice.

No one answered.

Xiao Yi's eyebrows creased as he called out to her again.

Seeing that there was still no response, his expression darkened. He immediately broke through the door and ran in the direction of the bed.

The mattress on the bed was bulging, as if someone was lying under it.

Xiao Yi did not let down his guard and walked closer. He used his sword to raise the hanging tent curtain.

He saw a beautiful woman in the middle sleeping soundly, her hair loose and unbound.

It was unknown whether he was dreaming or in pain, but his eyebrows were slightly knitted. His pale lips moved slightly, but it was unknown what he was mumbling about.

When Xiao Yi saw this, he let out a sigh of relief. At the same time, he immediately closed the tent flap and left without looking back.

Inside the dilapidated temple, the only remaining candle swayed in the wind that blew in through the window, so that the light in the temple flickered and dimmed.

At the center of the temple stood a man and a woman facing each other. Air was flowing around their bodies, and their long hair and clothes were fluttering in the wind, as if they were engaging in a silent battle.

The flickering candlelight shone on their faces, depicting their facial features as if they were replicas.

After an unknown period of time, the woman finally opened her mouth.

The voice that came from his throat was that of a man, "Brother, can you let me go now?"

Chu Yu's cold face calmed down. She released his hand and turned around with her back facing him, facing away from the candle flame, and hid her face in the darkness.

The 'woman' rubbed her reddened wrist and said in a deep voice, "If brother has nothing else, I will return to the inn first."

Although she said so, "she" did not move. She lowered her hand and stared solemnly at the man before her.

After a moment, Chu Yu finally spoke out in a hoarse voice: "Don't touch her."

He paused for a moment, turned around, stared fixedly at "her", and repeated himself: "Rong Xi, don't touch her!"

The expression in Rong Xi's eyes gradually darkened, and the corner of her lips slowly raised into a mocking arc, "May I ask what identity elder brother used to command me this time?"

Chu Yu glared at him but did not say a word.

Rong Xi lowered her head to brush away the non-existent dust on her dress, and indifferently said: "If I were Big Brother, I would choose to kill her. This way …"

"Rong Xi!" Chu Yu interrupted him with a cold tone.

Rong Xi raised his head, he squinted his eyes and looked at his brother for a while, then revealed a helpless smile.

When he opened his mouth again, it was in the woman's soft voice. "Since brother doesn't want me to touch her, then I won't move."

He paused for a moment, a layer of coldness tinged his eyes. His voice was gentle yet cold, "I'd like to see what's so special about her."

Chu Yu frowned, although he was still dissatisfied, he did not say anything.

"Brother, see you later."

Rong Xi said lightly. With a flash, he appeared right outside the broken temple.

He silently returned to the guest room under the cover of night. The moment his feet touched the ground, the woman on the bed woke up.

The woman was lifted off the bed and slowly tore off the mask on her face.

The face behind the human skin mask was the Lady Boss of this inn.

The Lady Boss walked in front of Rong Xi and blessing him with both of her hands, and presented the human skin mask to him.

Rong Xi picked up the human skin mask with two fingers, and using the secret technique, he ordered: Don't be discovered.

The Lady Boss nodded and returned to the bedside. When she opened the bed, a dark tunnel appeared in front of her.

This was the only room in the inn with a secret path underneath the bed. She had specially prepared this room for Rong Xi.

She stepped inside and gently closed the bed as she went down.

Before long, everything in the guest room returned to normal.

Rong Xi laid back on the bed, he had restrained the aura around his body and the expression on his face slowly faded back into that of the weak girl called Gu Xi.

In the middle of the night, Qu Ling heard a series of knocks on the door while in a daze, he vaguely guessed who had returned.

When she saw the group of men outside the door, she immediately became much more clear-headed.

Fortunately, she didn't have the habit of undressing for the night, or else she would have lost a lot of face.

"Madam." Xiao Er called out.

Qu Ling looked at him, then looked at the man he was carrying on his back, his mind spinning slowly.

It took her a while to remember that it was seventeen again.

So the reason why the man went out last night was because the Gu Worm had to find a place to stay after waking up?

If so, why didn't he tell her?

The more Qu Ling thought about it, the angrier he got, and even his face turned ugly. He endured his anger and said forcefully: "Ah Xin is inside, bring him to the guest room next door."

Xiao Er nodded and immediately carried Xiao Jingyue on his back.

Qu Ling returned to the side of the bed and put down his shoes. He then pulled up the blanket for Ah Xin and went next door.

Xiao Er saw Qu Ling walking over, without saying a word, he cupped his hands and left.

Hearing the sound of the door being closed, Qu Ling immediately flung his shoes and jumped onto the bed, fiercely trampling the man's face.

Aside from the first time, he didn't let her follow him during the last two times.

He clearly said that he would ask her to help him, but she had already prepared this pill for more than a month, and he actually didn't want her to deal with it.

How could there be such a hateful man in this world …

Qu Ling thought of kicking him again.

However, when she looked at his pale and bloodless face, she could no longer bring herself to do so.