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Published at 3rd of May 2023 06:38:02 AM


Chapter 26.1

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26. The Assassin (1)

Yu Qingjia stared blankly at Murong Yan.

Until this very moment, Murong Yan’s expression was still very calm, and Yu Qingjia’s figure was clearly reflected in his eyes.

A lot of details that she had overlooked slowly came to her mind, yes, when Murong Yan came to Guangling County he was wearing Hu clothing, Hu clothing is originally the type of clothing worn by foreign men, with the establishment of the Hu regime in the northern dynasties, this kind of clothing full of foreign colors only became even more popular.

However, There are very few women who prefer to wear Hu clothes. Yu Wenjun said that this is a concubine that he brought back, her earlier preconceptions that the vixen looks too sharp for a woman came to mind.

‘But what if this is a man from the very beginning?’

For example, the name ‘Jing Huan’ is overly heroic, Murong Yan also had a problem with people getting close to him in close quarters, his riding and shooting skills were slso very precise and powerful… She then slowly recalled every single strange thing she had neglected, and pieced them together little by little.

‘No Wonder, he refused to let me help him change his bandages and when we went into the cave to avoid the rain… He was really weird, and in the inn..’

Yu Qingjia suddenly realized and reacted violently with her face flushed,

“You!”

Today Murong Yan was in a desperate strait. However, him going alone deep into the wolf’s cave was far less tense than him facing Yu Qingjia at this very moment. There were still yells from the officers and soldiers that Murong Xu had deployed outside, and as long as Murong Yan wanted to, he could have had a lot of ways to avoid Yu Qingjia’s prying eyes. But he didn’t.

Out of suicidal loneliness, he suddenly didn’t want to hide it anymore. If Yu Qingjia was frightened and attracted the pursuers, or even worse, if Yu Qingjia went outside to inform them, Murong Yan would have felt that he had simply taken it for granted. Someone once told him with a frown that although he looked cold-blooded, cruel, and whimsical, he actually has self-destructive tendencies inside his heart.

He didn’t believe it at first, he even scoffed at him, but now he thinks maybe it’s true, he really has a tendency to self-destruct.

The last time was when he had a conversation about the crown prince’s teacher In Guangling, and now when a group of enemies are approaching and searching all over for him, he even took the initiative to reveal his identity.

He had handed the sharp edge of his own destruction to Yu Qingjia twice, and now he was waiting in anticipation on what her next course of action will be. From the moment he allowed Yu Qingjia to touch his collar, he just kept staring into her eyes.

She was first startled, with disbelief written all over her face, then she gradually became dazed, Murong Yan knew that she had finally understood.

Yu Qingjia finally realized after the fact, what stupid things she had done, if Murong Yan was indeed a man, then the first night at the inn when they both shared a room, and her having a heart-to-heart talk with him was…

Yu Qingjia’s blood immediately rushed up to her face and burnt it red,

“You are a man, then you still.. You still….”

Yu Qingjia couldn’t say the rest of the words. Murong Yan waited for a long time, only to hear her worry about such a thing instead. He felt deeply sorry for himself for wasting his time.

But even so, he still caught the sight of Yu Qingjia’s embarrassed and angry eyes, and he couldn’t help but cough. His own ears also turned red.

He turned his head away, clenched his fist and coughed slowly,

“I told you before, and I didn’t look.”

Yu Qingjia was even more ashamed and angry,

“Is this even a question of whether you went to look or not? This is clearly….”

Yu Qingjia couldn’t go on, and Murong Yan couldn’t listen anymore either. If he let her go on, he can’t even pretend to be calm anymore. At this time the sound outside was gradually approaching, Yu Qingjia gnashed her teeth in anger, she glanced outward, and viciously said to Murong Yan,

“You come with me.”



Murong Xu, draped in a white cloak, was shaking the torch light reflecting his face, making him look even more gloomy.

He was still floating in the hands of a beauty a while ago, but after hearing the news from his subordinates, the flirtatious and frivolous look on Murong Xu’s face faded away in the blink of an eye, which revealed his killing intention.

After Liao Zheng denounced the deposed crown prince, he climbed up all the way. He rose into power too fast and offended a lot of people, but if one were to ask him if there is anyone who hates him the most, there is no doubt it was only that person.

The emperor knew It, Murong Xu knew it, and even Liao Zheng himself knew it.

So when he heard the report of Shangshu Liao’s violent death, he did not go to his room to check. Instead he went to the city lord’s office to mobilize troops, and search for assassins. He immediately sobered up from his drunken stupor and flashed a strange blue light in his eyes. ‘It’s him!’

The other side killed silently, but his retreat eventually alarmed the guards around Murong Xu’s side, after the fight, although Murong Xu’s right-hand man died, but the other side also had some injuries.

The death of the guards did not set off any waves in Murong Xu’s eyes, he immediately led the people himself, following the blood trail to hunt him down.

He would like to see who would dare to kill people under his nose. If Murong Xu’s intuition is right, it’s probably that ‘Heavenly Genius’, even his grandfather praised him continuously back then. He couldn’t even let him go even when he was dying. Murong Xu’s ice cold expression immediately hooked a smile, if this is really the case, then he can not blame him for being ruthless. He would be using Murong Yan’s life in exchange for a better future for himself.

Oh what a credit it would be if he were the one to kill Murong Yan. With this credit alone, Murong Xu would be able to compete with his elder brothers for the throne.

“Prince Yingchuan, we have already searched all over, and there is no suspicious person.”

Murong Xu frowned, he chased the blood trail all the way here, the last puddle of blood disappeared around here. Murong Xu was certain that he was definitely hiding nearby, so it seems that he still underestimated his cousin and was actually made a fool of by him?

Murong Xu’s eyes slowly swept across the Yu Family mansion which was shrouded in darkness, his eyes were as fierce as a falcon,

“Continue the search, focus on this area, I can’t believe he can hide that far!”

He shouted with a voice as thick as a thunderbolt in the night sky, it had an unspeakable murderous aura.

The man behind him clasped his fist and saluted, the people around him carefully held the torches for Murong Xu, both afraid to stand too close and let the smoke cover the prince, but didn’t want to stand too far away that he wouldn’t be able to see the road clearly ahead. Murong Xu stood with his hands folded. He stared up at the vast and deep, bottomless night sky, then stood there in a daze for a while. But then he suddenly lifted his feet, and personally walked towards a courtyard.

The servants around him paused for a moment before realizing that he wanted to search for the assassin personally. They groaned bitterly in their hearts, and quickly bent over to catch up.

Murong Xu personally checked a few homes himself, and he said nothing, just quietly standing in the courtyard. However, this is already enough, those officials and soldiers saw the Prince of Yingchuan personally presiding over the whole search, and they acted even more unscrupulous, they would even turn the entire inner courtyard into a mess. The men of the Yu family who were woken up were furious, but they took a glance at the white figure in the center of the courtyard, and did not dare to say anything in the end.

They could only turn their bodies sideways to block the appearance of the women who were awakened and unkempt for no reason.

However, even in this situation, there were still so many ladies and unmarried maids secretly glancing at the Prince of Yingchuan’s direction. They have heard that although the current royal family is tyrannical, but their appearance is definitely top notch, Prince Yingchuan himself is not very famous, but tonight he was simply standing still in the middle of the courtyard, his body is only draped over by a simple white cloak, but the cloak unexpectedly made him look majestic and sharp like a sword.




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