Imperial Guard Meets Runaway Prince
n the actions of the mercenary earlier. She was still fu
e world ju
e and stared up at t
nquired. She faced him for a bit, smiling pretentiously. H
ust need a bre
that man earlier? I heard thi
she detested the man with all her heart! Still, he was the only one who had defeated her, though it made h
otice the flush on her cheeks. She took a deep breath and inhaled and exhaled
d herself a few times. Stop
ou, I can get the others
k to the unknown man, but knowing how adept the
sten to my words. Go
Yuxi alone in the office. She couldn't fathom what was going on in her h
urpose. And that was to prove her worth and, as her childhood friend King Du Hui said, to give her a whiff of the matters on
inexperience
otic Zhan Peng throughout the trip? How could she eve
xpedition were to be kept as confidential as possible. She was to hire th
ent. It made total sense to her. If any harm came
hal to another man on the island, Lang Juan, the son of a minister. She hadn't met him apart from a brief enco
d the island, in fifteen different territories, with one in each. These demons, made of her own blood and spiritual
e flail from the bark of a tree that had sprouted from the grave of a holy man that had passed away some decades ago. Du Hui had the dagger commissioned from
water was water used for prayers by the religious folk of the island. Every morning, these people, commonl
rinking as they believed it to have miraculous properties. The water used for prayers originated from a clear stream far from the village. A
ue, she just needed to come ba
...........................
t she hadn't realised how three days had just gone by like that. The next thing was, a
er words. Clearing her throa
s he had been the other day, he was calm and composed. As seeing him wou
ised," the man bowed politely. "And this
up, like he had seen something that excited him. But
ion, then she bolted shut the main door and the back exit as well. Then she moved back to f
redict what will happen on the journey, or whether we will end up coming back alive and in one piece, because there has been
g's character, he did not seem the sort who would leave his comfortable life to encounter risks out there in the wild. She, even with her high caste, had a stric
they going to d
red in unison, astonish
ission before I explain to you what it is all about. But once
oser till he and Qian Yux
me. I'll do a good job. After all, it'
ted to kill