Chapter 208 Seeing Through

Mu Xi had no choice but to be on high alert.

"Oh, Prince Jin Fang is injured. How about I take you to see a doctor?" As he spoke, Liu Yang stretched out his arms to pick Mu Xi up in his arms.

“No need…” Mu Xi recoiled warily, “Why is the general here?”

Liu Yang appeared to be looking around, but his flirtatious gaze remained fixed on Mu Xi: "Shouldn't this humble general be here? This is still the hunting grounds; everyone is here to hunt."

"Haven't you heard that the king was assassinated? Why don't you go to his rescue?" Mu Xi slowly leaned against the tree trunk to gather her strength.

Liu Yang finally noticed Mu Xi's wariness and smiled slightly: "Compared to rescuing the emperor, I have always had a question, but it is much more important."

"What question?" Mu Xi asked, pretending to be calm and casual while listening intently.

They were now on the side of the official road, and if they delayed any longer, there was a high probability that a carriage would pass by.

Liu Yang slowly bent down and looked Mu Xi up and down: "From the first moment I saw the young master, I felt that he was no ordinary person."

"What do you mean?" Mu Xi sensed the sarcasm in Liu Yang's tone.

The unsettling smile on Liu Yang's lips deepened: "Is Your Highness so wary of this humble general because you were chased all the way here, or is it just a woman's intuition?"

"What did you say?" Mu Xi's heart jumped into her throat, and no matter how calm she tried to sound, her voice still sounded unnatural.

Liu Yang seemed to have X-ray vision, seeing through everything: "It doesn't matter if the young master doesn't admit it, we'll just have to examine it and we'll know."

"What do you want to do?" Although Mu Xi was wearing a human skin vest made by Doctor Luo today, Liu Yang's confidence was probably not that simple.

Mu Xi mustered all her strength to stand up and held the sword in front of her.

Liu Yang didn't take it seriously at all, nor did he answer. He simply flicked the handle with his left hand and made a ring with his right.

Mu Xi felt dizzy and her sword fell from her hand. In the blink of an eye, she was already held in Liu Yang's arms.

"What are you doing?" Mu Xi's heart was pounding, but she forced herself to remain calm. "Wasn't it enough that you slighted Princess Qingyang that night? Now you want to insult me ​​in broad daylight?"

"Your Highness, please don't worry... This humble general only wanted to help Your Highness because you are seriously injured..." As Liu Yang spoke, he grabbed Mu Xi's waist with his right hand.

Mu Xi tensed up and instinctively broke free.

Liu Yang's hand clenched and then loosened: "Hey, this waist doesn't feel right..."

The doctor's imitation human skin vest was designed to be worn straight up to the waist to accentuate the waistline.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yang grasped it once and immediately realized something was wrong.

Mu Xi tried to break free again, but Liu Yang grabbed her neck with a light grip, his face close to hers as he laughed, "Hahaha... Can you still deny it now? Although some men don't have prominent Adam's apples, a woman without one simply doesn't have one. If Your Highness denies it again, shall I touch you further down..."

"Were you humiliated by Princess Qingyang and went mad?" Mu Xi struggled fiercely.

With a gentle push from Liu Yang, Mu Xi fell to the ground.

Before Mu Xi could get up...

Liu Yang had already drawn the soft sword from his waist: "Your Highness actually mentioned that crazy woman. If you weren't one of her kind, how could you have helped her that night?"

As he spoke, Liu Yang swung his sword, tearing open Mu Xi's front: "You brought shame upon yourself? That night I did indeed bring shame upon myself, but what will the young master do today?"

"You..." Mu Xi wasn't afraid of her clothes tearing and exposing her, but she was too exhausted to dodge.

One sword strike wasn't enough for Liu Yang, and he was about to take another step when he suddenly felt something trip him up.

“Run…” Bao Fan was still alive and clung tightly to Liu Yang’s leg.

Liu Yang bent down and thrust his sword into Bao Fan's back: "Heh, there's still one fish that slipped through the net here?"

"Run..." Bao Fan didn't even utter a sound, only urging Mu Xi to run quickly, and held on to Liu Yang tightly.

Seeing this, Mu Xi's eyes welled up with tears, and she found a bit of strength to get up from the ground and run away.

"Ah..." Suddenly, a cry of pain came from Liu Yang behind me.

Mu Xi staggered and fled, then glanced back and saw Bao Fan covered in blood, biting Liu Yang's calf tightly.

Driven to desperation, Liu Yang kicked Bao Fan away.

Tears blurred her vision, and Mu Xi could only run with all her might.

She hadn't run two steps when she suddenly felt a gust of wind behind her ear and a sharp pain in her side, and she fell to the ground again.

Liu Yang cast a shadow overhead, and with a swift stroke of his sword, he slashed another gash in Mu Xi's clothes: "Does the young master still refuse to admit it? Do you really want me to tear off all the young master's clothes with my sword, one by one, to reveal the truth...? That would be so boring..."

"You...you planned this all along? Were those masked soldiers you sent?" Mu Xi tried to stall for time, glancing at both sides of the official road out of the corner of her eye.

Since this is an official road, why is there not a single person in sight?

Liu Yang's smile deepened: "Your Highness, there's no need to search anymore. Everyone has gone to rescue you. This is the North Peak of the hunting grounds, which is quite remote, and it's not easy for anyone to come here. As for those masked men just now, they've really wronged me. I don't know who they are at all. It was I who saved Your Highness just now."

"You saved me?" Mu Xi took the opportunity to lean against another tree trunk, clutching her side and panting. "If I'm not mistaken, my horse was killed because of your tricks. What are you saving me for? If you don't want to save me, fine, but since you know someone is trying to assassinate the king today, then... why did you still try to harm me?"

"Your Highness misunderstands. If I had intended to harm you, you wouldn't have survived those assassins disguised as soldiers. I never intended to harm you from beginning to end. This is a great injustice. I was just curious... why would the dignified Prince Jin Fang be a woman?" Liu Yang's smile remained unchanged; he would have been dashing and handsome if not for this situation.

pity……

"You've got it wrong. I've already said I'm not a woman." Mu Xi would never admit it to this person again, unless he were dead. "I am the heir of the prestigious Jin Fangjun family, how dare you slander me like this? And you, as a general under Xuan Youjun, dared to secretly intercept and kill me..."

Liu Yang chuckled and suddenly moved.

Mu Xi's vision blurred, and a gust of wind rushed towards her face.

The next second, Liu Yang grabbed her shoulder, his warm breath brushing against her ear: "I, Liu, am not talented, but I have seen countless women in my life... Just look at the young master's bones, his flesh, his figure, and his appearance..."

As he spoke, he used his other hand to lift Mu Xi's chin.

Mu Xi hated that he didn't have another knife or dagger on him.

Liu Yang released his chin and began to stroke downwards again: "Women's problem is that they say one thing and mean another. The more the young master denies it, the more likely it is to be true..."

"Stop!" Unprecedented shame and fear overwhelmed Mu Xi in an instant. "Do you know that the ones who assassinated Prince Yu today were your own Lord Xuanyou and Prince Xuanyou?"

There was really no other way; we had to use some classified information to buy time.

"Hehe..." Liu Yang actually stopped, but the interest in Mu Xi in his eyes did not diminish at all. "I know, how could I not know? But what's the big deal?"