Chapter 75 You can try and see if I dare?

Chapter 75 You can try and see if I dare?

Meng Huaiyan sneered, "Is that so? Then I'd like to see how you're going to make me wish I were dead."

Before Li Yuanqi could react, Meng Huaiyan grabbed his neck with one hand and squeezed his wrist hard with the other.

A dull pain shot through him, and Li Yuanqi's grip on the sword loosened instantly, causing the sword to fall to the ground with a crisp clang.

Upon seeing Prince An being held hostage, Cang Ye immediately rushed over, shouting, "Master!"

"Don't come any closer, or I'll strangle him!"

Cang Ye paused, then quickly turned around and held his sword to Shen Tang's neck: "Release my master, or I'll kill her!"

Meng Huaiyan ignored Cang Ye's threat. He looked down at Li Yuanqi, who was being choked and was struggling to breathe with his eyes rolling back, and sneered.

"Do you know why you lost to me? Because you're incredibly stupid!"

Meng Huaiyan showed no mercy with his hand gripping Li Yuanqi's neck. Li Yuanqi felt as if an iron clamp was tightly clamping his neck, and he felt as if his neck was about to be broken.

Li Yuanqi's face flushed red, and his eyes gradually blurred due to difficulty breathing. He tried hard to pry open Meng Huaiyan's clothes, but he couldn't budge them at all.

Just when Li Yuanqi thought he was about to be strangled to death by Meng Huaiyan, the grip on his neck suddenly loosened.

Li Yuanqi instantly felt alive again, breathing heavily, and couldn't help but let out a series of broken coughs.

Meng Huaiyan picked up the sword from the ground and held it against Li Yuanqi's neck, threatening, "Tell your dog to release Shen Tang, or my sword will slit your neck."

After the initial panic and fear of being choked and on the verge of death, Li Yuanqi's face now showed only anger and exasperation.

"Meng Huaiyan, how dare you!"

"I am a prince. If you dare to kill me today, do you think my father will let you off!"

Meng Huaiyan scoffed coldly and swung his sword, mercilessly piercing two bloody holes in Li Yuanqi's legs.

Li Yuanqi screamed like a pig being slaughtered in the instant of pain.

Meng Huaiyan said coldly in his ear, "You can try and see if I dare."

"Although killing a prince would be troublesome to deal with afterward, it's not impossible for my Meng family to cover it up. Besides, you are a prince who has been disliked by the emperor, so who would really care about you?"

Li Yuanqi's face instantly turned ugly; all he had now was the empty title of a prince.

There is currently no new force in the court to restrain the Crown Prince and the Meng family; their power is now at its zenith.

Even if the Emperor finds out that the Meng family was behind it, he can't do anything to them without substantial evidence.

Meng Huaiyan is a madman; he might actually kill him in a fit of rage.

At this moment, Li Yuanqi was filled with regret. He should have just killed him with a single sword strike!

Meng Huaiyan ignored his inner turmoil and brandished his sword at his neck: "My patience is limited. I'll count to three, or else..."

"one"

"two"

Meng Huaiyan's counting sounded like the King of Hell summoning his life, and Li Yuanqi was so scared he almost wet his pants.

"Cang Ye, quickly... quickly release them!"

Li Yuanqi hurriedly spoke, afraid that if he hesitated even a second, Meng Huaiyan would sever his neck.

Cang Ye swung his sword and cut the ropes binding Shen Tang, freeing her. Shen Tang immediately ran towards Meng Huaiyan's direction.

"Hide behind me."

Shen Tang nodded and immediately hid behind Meng Huaiyan.

Meng Huaiyan restrained Li Yuanqi and slowly retreated from the room step by step.

Upon seeing Prince An being restrained, the guards outside the door drew their swords and glared menacingly at Meng Huaiyan.

Meng Huaiyan glanced around and estimated that there were about two or three hundred guards in the entire manor. He then made a calculation in his mind.

"Chen Tang, take out the whistle from my sleeve and blow it."

Upon hearing the order, Shen Tang quickly stepped forward, found the whistle Meng Huaiyan had mentioned, and blew it loudly.

Looking at the group of guards who had formed a circle around him, Meng Huaiyan said to Li Yuanqi, "Have your guards make way for me!"

With his life in Meng Huaiyan's hands, Li Yuanqi dared not disobey and hurriedly ordered loudly, "Get out of the way!"

Upon hearing the order, the guards quickly made way for them.

Meng Huaiyan retreated to the entrance of the villa and saw the carriage tied up at the gate. He asked Shen Tang, "Can you drive a carriage?"

"meeting."

Shen Tang quickly stepped forward to untie the carriage ropes and got into the carriage. Meng Huaiyan dragged Li Yuanqi to sit on the side of the carriage.

Seeing that he was seated, Shen Tang flicked her whip and shouted "Giddy up!" The carriage sped off forward.

The biting wind whipped at her face, stinging it, but Shen Tang endured it, not daring to relax for a moment.

Meng Huaiyan's expression tightened as he looked at the guards who were relentlessly pursuing him.

Finally, Qingyang and his group, having received the signal, arrived. The two groups immediately engaged in battle upon meeting.

A thick stench of blood instantly filled the air, making Shen Tang feel nauseous.

Qingyang fought fiercely in front of the carriage, shouting to them, "Your Highness, Your Highness's Consort, you must leave quickly, we'll cover your retreat."

Without the slightest hesitation, Meng Huaiyan kicked Li Yuanqi off the carriage and then swung his sword to cut the carriage's noose.

He pulled Shen Tang into his arms and quickly jumped onto the horse's back.

Meng Huaiyan whipped the horse's rump hard with his whip, and the horse neighed in pain before galloping away at high speed.

The horse was moving very fast, and the cold wind it felt was even more intense than the wind it had blown in the carriage. Shen Tang's cheeks stung from the cold wind, and she even had some difficulty breathing.

Meng Huaiyan freed one hand, put his arm around Shen Tang, turned her around, covered her with the hood of his cloak, and then pressed her head down so that she could snuggle into his arms.

Shen Tang finally felt as if she had finally come back to life, and her breathing was finally smooth again.

After being kicked to the ground by Meng Huaiyan, Li Yuanqi rolled several times before finally stopping.

His entire body ached, especially his thighs where Meng Huaiyan had stabbed him with two large holes, where blood was still gushing out. Waves of excruciating pain washed over him, making it difficult for him to even stand up.

Cang Ye rushed to his side immediately, helped him lean against a tree trunk, and applied some wound medicine to his wound.

After a simple bandage, the wound finally stopped bleeding.

Li Yuanqi's sinister gaze fell on the direction Meng Huaiyan had just left, and he shouted at Cang Ye, "Go after him! Kill Meng Huaiyan!"

Cang Ye respectfully accepted the order and led more than ten guards to rush towards Meng Huaiyan's direction.