Chapter 56

“An assassin?!” Zixiu’s face turned pale. He looked at the intruder in a panic but only found the latter staring at him with his enchanting eyes, showing no intent to run away.

“What are you waiting for? Go!” he reminded in a low voice, wondering why this seemingly quick-witted guy was so numb.

“I’m not the assassinator. Why should I go?” Lingxiao said with an innocent look, turning a deaf ear to the shouts and sounds of footsteps coming from outside. Looking at Zixiu calmly, he continued, “Xiuxiu, I already stuck silver needles all over Nangong Du, and I’m going to place him in a bamboo steamer tomorrow morning…”

“What… What did you say?” Withdrawing his hand ready to push the ‘assassinator’ away, Zixiu leaned backward instinctively with his heart pounding and his body trembling. “Silver needles? Bamboo steamer? Is he going to kill Nangong Du?”

“Squeak!”

At this point, a faint sound of door opening suddenly rang in the outer chamber. Next, Zixiu felt a pain in his chest, as if he had been poked by something hard. After a while, he finally recovered from the shock. Blinking, he found that Lingxiao was gone and he himself was back to the way he had been at noon—unable to move under the quilt.

Before he could figure out what was going on, the room was lit up and Xingyi appeared by the bed. After looking him up and down for a while, she suddenly reached out two fingers and jabbed him hard in the chest.

“You can move now!” she said with a wary look.

Zixiu didn’t know what she was going to do, so after a short moment of hesitation, he moved slightly. “God, please don’t let this damn woman find Lingxiao!” he prayed inwardly. Though he wasn’t certain if Lingxiao was still in the room, Zixiu could tell that if Xingyi found something wrong, he would get into big trouble!

“What are you nervous about?” Xingyi asked aggressively with a suspicious look.

As Zixiu found that Nangong Du was a good excuse recently, he already had a plan in mind. feigning his panic, he stammered, “I, I’m worried about Prince Mu. Has he…”

“Mind your own business!” Xingyi cut in on him grumpily while shooting him a glare. “Liu Zixiu, don’t try to cook tricks! Seems you felt very comfortable this afternoon, huh?”

“I’m a gentleman, and I won’t fight a woman!” Zixiu stopped talking obediently. When he turned around, he suddenly felt a chill on his back, which made him shiver slightly. After managing to calm himself down, he was surprised to find the reflection of a dagger shining in the bronze mirror!

When he finally came back to his senses, Xingyi was already locked in a fierce fight with a masked man in black in the room!

With a dagger in his hand, the man kept on attacking Xingyi’s vital parts. Though Xingyi was unarmed, she dodged the dagger swiftly and it seemed she was about to fight back by taking advantage of the attacker’s strength.

After a while, the two of equal strength were still in deadlock, but it was obvious that they had come to know something of each other’s abilities. The fight between them was getting fiercer and it seemed to Zixiu that they were moving as fast as lightning. In the dim candlelight, Zixiu saw the huge shadows of the two on the wall jump up and down from time to time and then scuffle together.

A moment later, Xingyi suddenly pulled out a long strip of red silk from her sleeve and started attacking. “Who are you? How dare you break into the princess’s bedroom!” With her brows knitted tightly, she yelled, her voice much louder than it used to be when she lectured Zixu. Curving up in the corner of the bed, Zixiu was wrestling with himself whether to run away or not when he saw Xingyi roar with her face twisted. “Gosh! What an ugly shrew!” He thought, trembling slightly. However, he had no time to think about Xingyi’s appearance for the moment.

Without a word, that masked man kept on waving the sword in his hand. Yes, in addition to the dagger, he also had a sword tied to his back when he entered the room, and now he was thrusting it toward Xingyi.

“What a mean person! How could you take so many weapons with you only to attack a weak girl?” Though Xingyi was by no means a weak girl, Zixiu couldn’t help but take up the cudgels for her. “But as Xingyi is so aggressive and ruthless, she might have offended someone, who’s now taking his revenge here!”

For fear that he might get injured by mistake and also because the only way to the door had been occupied by the two, instead of rushing out, Zixiu hid behind the bedpost, wondering what this masked man came for. It had never occurred to him that the assassin had anything to do with him, and what surprised him more was that the masked man would have suddenly thrown the dagger toward him!

“Run!” seeing that, Xingyi shouted at him anxiously.

However, as Zixiu had never practiced martial arts, he couldn’t dodge the attack as swiftly as Xingyi could. Moreover, the dagger was already dashing towards him at an incredible speed!

Zixiu didn’t realize that the assassinator was aiming at him until he heard Xingyi’s roar. But it was too late to run. scared out of his wits, he went stiff, as if his acupuncture point was blocked again.

“Bang!”

Instead of piercing his head, the dagger was nailed to the bedpost next to him!