Chapter 115 Assassination

In addition to the leading assassin, six assassins rushed over.

Xie Jingyu protected Shen Wan behind him, and the secret guard Chen An who was guarding in the dark appeared and fought with the assassin together with Chen Ping.

Chen Ping and Chen An were both skilled in martial arts, and the assassins were also quite skilled. More importantly, they were outnumbered, and the two could not stop the assassins, so the two assassins rushed towards Xie Jingyu.

Xie Jingyu drew the soft sword from his waist, and after a few moves, he kicked one assassin away and slashed the neck of another assassin.

Shen Wan hid behind a big tree and watched Xie Jingyu fight with the assassins. After seeing Xie Jingyu kill two assassins, he was not so worried anymore.

But he breathed a sigh of relief a little too early. The assassin leader thought that six of his men were enough to get rid of Xie Jingyu and the two secret guards, but he didn't expect Xie Jingyu to kill them so quickly. He knew that Xie Jingyu's martial arts skills were good, but he didn't expect them to be so high.

This area is not remote, and the sound of fighting will quickly attract people here. We must fight quickly and decisively, otherwise something unexpected will happen.

After watching for a while, the assassin leader saw Xie Jingyu's weakness. It was not that he had a weakness in martial arts, but that although he was very skilled in martial arts, he focused more on defense.

He didn't dare go too far away.

No matter how powerful a person is, once he has a weakness, he will be vulnerable.

Chen Wan hid behind a tree, praying in her heart that Xie Jingyu would quickly kill these assassins. So many things happened at a lantern festival, so she should go back to Duke Dingguo's Mansion to stay safer. As she thought of this, the leader of the assassins rushed towards her.

Shen Wan, “……!!!”

Don't pick on the weak!

Isn't it shameful to kill a powerless woman like her?!

Shen Wan's heart was shaking like a sieve. Fortunately, Xie Jingyu was not far away. When he noticed the assassin leader coming towards Shen Wan, he turned around to protect him and stopped the assassin leader.

The assassin leader's martial arts skills are far superior to those of his subordinates.

But no matter how high he was, he was not as high as Xie Jingyu. After more than ten rounds, Chen Ping and Chen An took care of the others, leaving only the assassin leader on the assassin side.

The assassination attempt was almost certainly a failure.

The assassin leader's arm was cut, and as he took several steps back, Xie Jingyu chopped off the silver mask on his face with a sword, revealing his face.

They were not far away at the time, and Shen Wan saw it and frowned.

She had seen the assassin in her previous life!

He is the guard of Xiahou Yi, the third prince of Beiyue Kingdom.

In her previous life, when Xiao Yun ascended the throne, Xiahou Yi, who was named the Crown Prince of Beiyue, came to Ning Dynasty to congratulate him. The guards who followed him at that time looked like this. She remembered it clearly.

Xie Jingyu chopped off the assassin leader's mask, and the assassin leader turned around and fled.

Chen Ping and Chen An chased after him.

Xie Jingyu turned and walked towards Shen Wan, saying softly, "It's okay now."

Shen Wan's legs were weak, and she had to hold on to a tree to keep herself steady. Xie Jingyu went over to help her. Shen Wan asked, "Do you have a grudge against the Third Prince of Beiyue?"

Xie Jingyu, “……???”

There was a hint of doubt in Xie Jingyu's eyes, "Why do you ask?"

She asked Xie Jingyu to rescue the emperor, which had already made him suspicious. Chen Wan did not dare to say that the assassins were the men of the Third Prince of Beiyue. She could not explain how she, a lady from a wealthy family who never left the house, could recognize a prince of Beiyue who had never been to Ning Dynasty.

I could only pretend to be confused and said, "I'm just curious, asking..."

But this curiosity is a bit too weird.

After asking Shen Wan, he regretted it. The question was too abrupt. Anyone who heard it would become suspicious, let alone Xie Jingyu.

Xie Jingyu did find it very strange, but he didn't think much about it, nor did he associate Shen Wan's questions with the assassination just now. Even he didn't know the origins of those assassins, and he didn't think that Shen Wan, a girl raised in seclusion, would recognize them.

But his intuition told him that Shen Wan’s question was not a casual one, so Xie Jingyu said, “I don’t even know what the Third Prince of Beiyue looks like, so how could I become an enemy with him?”

Chen Wan also felt that they shouldn't make enemies now. The war between North Vietnam and Ning Dynasty had not yet started, and Xie Jingyu and Xiahou Yi had not faced each other on the battlefield. They didn't know each other yet, but the assassin leader was undoubtedly Xiahou Yi's man.

Wanting to warn Xie Jingyu, but not daring to, Shen Wan could only say in a roundabout way, "I don't know who wants to kill you, be careful."

No one answered, Shen Wan looked up, only to see Xie Jingyu looking at her with a smile.

Shen Wan felt uncomfortable being looked at by him, "You, what are you laughing at?"

Xie Jingyu was in a very good mood, "Don't worry, I won't let you be a widow."

She's not worried about this, okay?

She had good intentions, but he thought this way about her. Shen Wan was so angry that she gouged out her eyes at him.

Xie Jingyu certainly knew that Shen Wan didn't mean that, but not long ago, he could still feel murderous intent from this woman, and now he was worried that he would be killed by someone else. However, he still wanted to find out why Shen Wan had murderous intentions towards him.

Chen Ping and Chen An came back and said, "Master, there were too many people at the Lantern Festival, and our subordinates couldn't catch up with the assassin leader..."

"It doesn't matter. As long as they still want my life, they will deliver it to me."

Xie Jingyu spoke in a relaxed tone, not taking the assassination attempt seriously, but Shen Wan was frightened by what he heard.

Thinking about Xie Jingyu's tough life, he fell off a cliff in his previous life, and the assassination attempt could not kill him. Instead, it forced him to rebel, enter the capital, and sit in that position.

How could Xie Jingyu's life be taken so easily?

Xie Jingyu looked at Chen Wan and said, "It's getting late. I'll take you back home."

Shen Wan did not refuse.

She walked towards where the carriage was parked. Coral, the maid, hid far away. After watching the assassination, her face was still pale.

When they reached the carriage, Shen Wan said, “You don’t have to send me off, I can go back by myself.”

Xie Jingyu said, "Your elder brother knows that I am with you. If I don't escort you back home, your elder brother will not forgive me."

This is not an excuse, it is what is bound to happen.

Chen Wan no longer refused. She and Shanhu got on the carriage, and the servant drove the carriage back to Duke Dingguo's Mansion.

As for Shen Yu, she is with the Prince of Zhaoping, and the Prince of Zhaoping will definitely send her back, so Shen Wan can rest assured.

In the carriage, Shanhu poured tea for Shen Wan. As Shen Wan drank the tea, Shanhu suddenly said, "One of the girl's earrings fell off..."

Shen Wan raised her hand and touched it, and sure enough, the earring on her right ear was gone.

The gold and ruby ​​earrings are Shen Wan's favorite pair.

She loved it so much that she was still wearing it when she set herself on fire in her previous life.

I don’t know when it fell, Chen Wan felt very sad, but it was impossible to find it back. How could it have fallen? Chen Wan was very depressed.

The carriage stopped in front of the gate of Duke Dingguo's Mansion. Xie Jingyu watched Shen Wan enter the mansion before he rode away.

After returning to Prince Jingbei's Mansion, Xie Jingyu undressed and took a bath. His brocade robe came untied and an earring fell to the ground.

It was the one that Shen Wan lost.

I don't know whether it was because she was admiring the lanterns and avoiding pedestrians, or dodging assassination weapons, but when she was protecting Shen Wan in her arms, she accidentally fell into his arms.

Soaking in the bathtub, looking at the earring, a certain gentleman had a smile on his lips, which he couldn't suppress for a long time.