As soon as I dismounted, I checked Xie Yuancheng. Fortunately, there was no bleeding, so I followed him into the inn.

The inn had a simple layout, but it had everything you needed. We booked two rooms, and as we went up the stairs, I could clearly sense someone in the shadows.

"Yuancheng, over here."

"Don't worry, we won't let Ying'er suffer any losses."

Xie Yuancheng pulled me straight upstairs. Lingwu was staying on the second floor, and we were staying on the third. It was clearly just a small inn, so how could it have three floors?

I was worried that something was amiss, so I stayed by Xie Yuancheng's side. Now that he is a patient, I am his right-hand man and I have to protect him.

"Ying'er~ Have you been feeling unwell lately? Let me warm the blankets for you."

Xie Yuancheng chuckled wickedly and pushed me onto the bed. I rolled over once before getting off: "I'm here to protect you. My skills aren't up to par, so of course I have to be careful."

"Hmm~ Protect me." Xie Yuancheng took off his coat one by one and put it on the bed: "You need to be close to me to protect me."

"Hurry up and put on your inner clothes. It's still spring. Aren't you worried about catching a cold?"

I was helping him put on his clothes, but Xie Yuancheng dodged to the side, saying, "No, I don't want to wear them!"

"Yuancheng~" I was about to cry: "Stop acting like a child. You've been tormenting me these past few months. I feel like I'm raising a son."

"No, Ying'er doesn't even sleep in the same bed as me, I don't want to wear it~"

"I want to protect you! What if you get attacked if we sleep together?"

Xie Yuancheng rolled up the blanket and led me to lean against the bed: "It's best to sleep on Ying'er's belly."

"Get up!" I said, looking at the person on my stomach. "If you don't get up, I'm going to beat you up!"

"Ying'er~ I'm so pitiful, abandoned by you, ignored by you, and even wanted to jump off a cliff to sever all ties with me." Xie Yuancheng grabbed my clothes and cried, "Now you won't even let me lean on your belly, what a heartless woman~"

He even started crying as he spoke. I think he's hurt himself. He's becoming more and more like a child. When he's with Yu'er in the future, he'll definitely become sworn brothers with him!

I stroked Xie Yuancheng's head: "How can you get back to normal?"

"If Ying'er won't be my wife, then I'll be your son!"

Xie Yuancheng looked up at me with a particularly smug smile. I covered my face and let him do whatever he wanted.

Around midnight, I heard fighting outside the window. I struggled to get up, my body aching all over. He really had no self-control. I had just recovered, and it felt like I was covered in wounds again.

"Yuancheng, there's a fight outside. Please move aside, I'm going to go see what's going on."

Xie Yuancheng is outside. He blocks the bed with blankets. If I want to go out without his permission, it will make a lot of noise.

"Ying'er, you're too good to me. You've been working hard all night, you should get some rest. Lingwu will handle it. If he can't, there's still me. We're two grown men, we can't let you take such a risk."

"He's always looked up to you as a role model. Even though he dressed as a girl when he was little, his voice is naturally high-pitched. I only recently found out about it."

"Hmph!" Xie Yuancheng opened his eyes, his eyes full of dissatisfaction: "You only just found out, and you're already being dishonest. Are you going to continue?"

"No~ I'm worried you'll be angry, so I'll try to coax you a little~" I started to act cute, snuggling obediently into Xie Yuancheng's arms: "It's so warm~ Yuancheng, I love you the most~"

Xie Yuancheng played with my hair: "You naughty Ying'er, you never speak the truth!"

"I'm willing to do anything for you, and you still criticize me. I'm already weak after having three children, and you were the one who drove me to jump off the cliff last time!"

Xie Yuancheng paused for a moment, then quickly got out of bed, changed his clothes, and jumped out of the window. I hurriedly dressed and stood by the window with my Phantom Sword.

Five or six people surrounded Xie Yuancheng and Ling Wu. They really had a fondness for black, even wearing black clothes in the middle of the night.

As I was thinking about going down, Xie Yuancheng looked up at me with a fierce expression. Only then did I lean against the window and cheer them on.

Xie Yuancheng's black iron sword flew out of his hand as he fought with the two men in black who flew over. I knew he was a superb swordsman, but I didn't know he was such a good fighter.

He had just dodged the attacks of several people when a black man behind him stabbed him with a knife. I was frantic and was about to grab a flowerpot to smash it when Lingwu blocked the sword and kicked the black man away.

I took the opportunity to grab a flowerpot from the side, and when the man in black who had fallen to the ground was about to get up, I threw it at him from above.

That was incredibly accurate; it knocked him unconscious. Ling Wu and Xie Yuancheng continued dealing with the others, but I noticed there were people lurking in the shadows, so I took out my slingshot and started shooting.

I was planning to buy this for Yu'er to play with, since I don't have a bow and arrows, only a slingshot.

"Ouch!"

People in the shadows kept making noises. I was shooting small stones and iron balls from above, while Xie Yuancheng and Ling Wu were constantly dealing with the people who came out from below.

These men in black appeared out of nowhere; they were completely ineffective in combat, unable to even dodge my slingshot.

When I saw the tinderbox, I shouted, "Yuancheng, light the way and see how many of them there are!"

Xie Yuancheng took the tinder I had thrown down and lit the torches on both sides. I saw the men in black emerge, so I quickly added more stones and continued to pound them.

Xie Yuancheng and Ling Wu parted ways. He took the Xuan Tie Sword from above and began to duel with her.

I had to keep an eye on Xie Yuancheng to make sure he didn't get hurt, and also help Lingwu get rid of the people who were plotting against him from time to time.

While the fight below was going well, I was having a good time up there too. That's when I realized Xie Yuancheng's kung fu was truly exceptional. Three men were against him, and he only dodged a few times before kicking them all away. Besides his sword, he also had some throwing knives. Although there were many of those men in black, they couldn't defeat him.

But there were so many people, and people from the shadows came out. I estimated there were fifty or sixty people. We were running out of small stones. I looked around the room and saw that apart from the stones we used as stepping stones, there was nothing else we could smash.

I can't worry about anything else right now; the two people below me are very important to me. One is my man, and the other is my friend. I'm going to just start smashing things.

I smashed the stepping stone into several pieces and placed them by the window. A man in black came up, and I stabbed him with my sword.

The people below also wanted to come up, so I scattered broken stones down. They covered their eyes and shouted. A few who didn't get any stones scattered on them jumped up the wall.

I also have a sword, and with the slingshot, their hands and feet were stabbed. The slingshot was specifically aimed at their ankles, where there is little flesh, so it hurts the most when it hits.

Xie Yuancheng quickly beat the people surrounding him until their heads were swollen, and then he tiptoed up to take me down.

I took the sword and helped him stab the approaching men in black. They were already in such a miserable state, yet they still relentlessly bullied my Yuancheng. I really don't know whether to praise their dedication or call them stupid.