"puff!"

The sound of the blade piercing into flesh was infinitely amplified in the murderous wind at the edge of the cliff.

Chu Qingluan's pupils suddenly dilated, and the scene in front of her seemed to freeze, as if a movie was playing in slow motion, frame by frame, incredibly clear, and incredibly... a heartbreaking scene.

Pei Yuan groaned, his body swayed slightly, but he still stood firmly. He turned around and stabbed the attacker's throat with a sword!

"Pei Yuan——"

Chu Qingluan heard the broken breath coming out of her throat. Her fingertips were numb and her heart was tight, as if she was being tightly grasped by a pair of big hands, making it difficult for her to breathe.

She saw blood dripping down Pei Yuan's back, staining the soil under his feet red.

However, Pei Yuan just used his sword to support the ground, smiled coldly, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, I am fine."

Chu Qingluan's heart trembled, but she had no time to say anything, because the remaining assassins were approaching again.

"We can't delay any longer!"

Her eyes became fierce, and she suddenly threw out three hidden weapons from her sleeves, aiming directly at the throats of the three assassins!

Pei Yuan also attacked at the same time, his sword was as sharp as lightning, and he cut off the heads of the two men in an instant.

Yes!

Just when the two were about to breathe a sigh of relief, the last assassin suddenly pressed the mechanism at his waist before dying.

"boom!"

In an instant, the huge rocks on the cliff suddenly exploded, and the debris flew everywhere!

Pei Yuan was quick-witted and quick-handed. He grabbed Chu Qingluan's waist and leaped to safety.

But at the moment the two men landed on the ground, the rock under their feet could not bear the weight and suddenly collapsed with a "crack"!

Then, Chu Qingluan witnessed a scene that was enough to tear her soul apart—

At the critical moment, Pei Yuan did not hesitate to use up his last bit of strength to push her to the top of the cliff, but he himself fell backwards due to the recoil force.

"No! Pei Yuan!"

Chu Qingluan reached out to grab him, but only managed to reach the corner of his clothes.

“Sizzle—”

The corner of Pei Yuan's clothes slipped from her fingertips, and Chu Qingluan watched helplessly as the figure fell straight into the abyss like a hawk with broken wings.

He looked at her, his lips slightly raised, his eyes full of reluctance and attachment, and silently said -

"wait for me."

The next moment, his figure was completely swallowed by the abyss and disappeared in the vast clouds...

“Pei Yuan——!”

Chu Qingluan's shrill cry echoed on the cliff, but no one responded.

She knelt on the edge of the cliff, her fingertips dug deeply into the cracks in the rock, blood dripping down her knuckles. Her chest felt as if pierced by a sharp blade, and even breathing was accompanied by heart-wrenching pain.

how so……

Pei Yuan, who was always calm, had been with her for nearly twenty years, always appeared in critical moments, and had just fought side by side with her. Just like that, he disappeared before her eyes?

Chu Qingluan felt pain all over her body, and her vision went dark.

"Princess!"

When Zhixia and the guards hurriedly arrived, what they saw was Chu Qingluan kneeling on the edge of the cliff, covered in blood.

She was horrified and hurried forward to support him: "Are you injured? I will take you back now..."

"try to find!"

Chu Qingluan's eyes were bloodshot and her voice was terribly hoarse.

"Even if we have to search the entire bottom of the cliff, we must find him!"

Zhixia looked around and found Pei Yuan's sword dropped not far away. She understood something instantly and was shocked.

"Princess! General Pei..."

Zhixia couldn't help crying.

Chu Qingluan closed her eyes in pain, and when she opened them again, there was determination in her eyes.

Zhixia nodded with red eyes and was about to order the guards to go down the cliff to search, when suddenly a guard shouted:

"Miss Zhixia! I found this on the dead soldier!"

Immediately afterwards, a gilded token was presented, on which was engraved the Xie family's unique family emblem, a nine-petal lotus pattern!

"Xie family?"

Zhixia took a breath and said, "This is impossible! Xie Xiang has clearly already..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhixia suddenly thought of something and stopped talking.

She suddenly thought that the people of the Xie family had been secretly supporting Crown Prince Chu Lang.

So, this group of people, could it be that...

At this moment, Xie Yunqi also arrived at the scene with his men.

His eyes fell on the wound on Chu Qingluan's body, and when he was about to step forward, suddenly -

“Zheng!”

A blood-stained soft sword was already at his throat.

The sword broke through the air, and a cold light flashed.

The next second, he heard Chu Qingluan's voice as cold as ice:

"Xie Yunqi, you'd better give me an explanation."

The tip of the sword pierced his skin, and a line of bright red blood slid down his neck, but Xie Yunqi did not move at all. His eyes swept across the bodies of the dead men on the ground and the familiar token in Zhixia's hand, and his eyes suddenly sank.

He is the secret guard of Xie family.

And it was the “Nine Lotus Guards” that my grandmother personally raised!

But he had clearly already secretly changed the order and even placed his grandmother under house arrest in the villa, so why would this group of secret guards appear here?

"Oh!"

Xie Yunqi chuckled, suppressed anger surging in his eyes.

He should have thought of it earlier - how smart is grandma? The withering order she gave to Xie Rou was completely fake!

The purpose is to make him let down his guard so that this secret guard can carry out the assassination without anyone noticing!

"What? Nothing to say?"

Chu Qingluan's sword moved forward a little further, and drops of blood rolled down.

"Prime Minister Xie is really good at this. He pretended to surrender while secretly colluding with Chu Lang. Now he's even plotting Pei Yuan's life!"

Chu Qingluan was filled with hatred and used all her strength to control her hands so as not to kill him in public.

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