Chapter 28 Chapter 28 Nan Xu, don’t be afraid of yourself.

Zhao Huaijue still underestimated Duan Wenpei.

He just tapped his toes lightly, dodged the sword sideways, and saved Yin Ruizhu when he let go.

Then he flew back without hesitation, seeking victory in danger.

Nan Xu quickly asked someone to help his friend over. He glanced at his throat and saw a slight scratch. He felt a mixture of fear and relief.

She and he were only married in name only, and she didn't want to owe him too much. If she hurt herself or even her life while saving someone, she would be worried about her conscience.

"It's okay, don't worry."

When the voice came, Nan Xu thought she had misheard.

How could it be——

She hid her emotions very well...

The moment she looked up, Nan Xu bumped into those dark eyes.

Occasionally, a tiny light flickered, but it was suppressed and controlled by him, and slowly faded away.

She seemed to see a different him than usual, or perhaps his vulnerability at this moment defeated his usual disguise.

Nan Xu suddenly felt a little upset. "I'm glad you're okay."

She took two steps and paused, then hesitated for a moment before saying, "Thank you very much."

Thank him for saving me and thank him for saving Yin Ruizhu.

Duan Wenpei didn't say anything, but the word "thank you" flowed from his ears into his limbs like a trickle of water. His heart seemed to be grabbed by a pair of big hands. Looking at Nan Xu's back, his expression was a little complicated.

"That's enough. Stop pretending to be in love with me." The successive assassination attempts left Zhao Huaijue somewhat exhausted. He collapsed to the ground, looking at Duan Wenpei and Nan Xu with sarcasm.

"Sister-in-law, I just feel sorry for you for marrying such a heartless bastard. Tsk tsk tsk, he's definitely not as good as your childhood sweetheart, the Prince Consort!"

Nan Xu was instructing Yuxiang and the guards to take Yin Ruizhu out first. Looking at Yin Ruizhu's dull eyes, the nameless fire in his chest was instantly ignited.

She shot three arrows at the person who was still talking nonsense, "Shut up!"

"How dare you criticize others?" She pointed at Duan Wenpei beside her. "If you were a real man, you would fight him with real swords and guns to determine the winner, instead of using these despicable means to lure innocent women into your trap to achieve your goals."

She didn't know what the entanglement between Yin Ruizhu and him was, but when Zhao Huaijue was about to throw her into the snake's den, her face showed not only fear but also deep disappointment.

If a woman is disappointed in a man, then that depends on how much she expected of him before.

In front of the Buddha, the smiling woman happily shook the fortune stick box. The top-quality peach blossom stick seemed very beautiful, but it was just a bait prepared long ago by someone with ulterior motives.

Zhao Huaijue shrugged and said nonchalantly, "Who's innocent? Oh, you mean Zhu'er!" He leaned back against the stone bed behind him as if he had no bones. "Hahahaha, there are at least eight women like Zhu'er in my house. Am I despicable? Why don't you ask her how she fell in love with me at first sight and how she confessed her true feelings to me? I treated her as a passerby in this world, and she treated me as her destined person. If I hadn't later learned that she was on good terms with you, my little sister-in-law, how could I have been so eager to stage a private marriage with her under the marriage temple?"

Hearing her calling her "little sister-in-law" all the time, Nan Xu felt sick and wanted to vomit.

In order to attract Duan Wenpei, he really took great pains!

“Swoosh!”

Something flew out from beside him, but because the person using it didn't have enough strength, it fell down weakly halfway.

"Ruizhu!"

Nan Xu shouted and hurried forward to support Yin Ruizhu who was about to fall to the ground.

"You are shameless! I! I will kill you!"

She boasted that she had walked the world disguised as a man, had been to brothels and theater troupes. She had seen too many smooth-talking men and could tell whether their words were sincere or false.

But why did he still fall into the hands of such a despicable and shameless villain?

She couldn't stand up, so she used both hands to crawl forward, as if she had come to his appointment willingly, and now she just wanted to bite him to pieces with all her strength.

"That's enough, Ruizhu. Let's talk about it outside." She hadn't noticed before, but now she realized that Duan Wenpei didn't come in alone. Yu Rong and the people in the dark were ready to go. They would only be in the way if they stayed here. She whispered in Yin Ruizhu's ear, "Don't worry, he will pay the price."

After Nan Xu finished speaking, she called the maids beside Yuxiang and Yin Ruizhu, and helped her up and walked out no matter how she struggled.

Without any constraints, Duan Wenpei no longer played along with him. He leaped forward and sent his sword energy straight towards Zhao Huaijue.

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Several figures appeared in the darkness. Nan Xu, who was about to enter the cave, looked back and saw Zhao Huaijue still lying there safely. Under the dim candlelight, the corners of his mouth curled up in a strange arc.

A sense of foreboding welled up in my heart...

"Madam, come out quickly!"

“Boom!”

Yuxiang's voice was drowned out by a huge roar. The earth began to tremble violently, and the already narrow cave slowly closed like an open old clam.

Yuxiang, Yin Ruizhu and the others disappeared at the other end of the cave.

"It's a thunderbolt! Everyone, find someplace to hide!"

"boom!"

There was another louder roar, and this time the stone chamber collapsed as well. Rocks fell, and some people were unable to dodge and died under the boulders.

"Nanxu!"

"Duan Wenpei!"

The two ran towards each other. Nan Xu almost used all her strength. Duan Wenpei reached out with his long arms and finally hugged her before the huge rock fell from above his head.

"Zhao Huaijue has already calculated it. We have to find a way to get out." She put her arms around his waist, lightly raised her left foot, and tried to make herself look unharmed.

She was not a martial artist and she had twisted her ankle because she ran too fast.

Duan Wenpei patted her back, nodded, then put his finger to his mouth and blew a whistle, and the remaining guards came towards him.

The stone chamber could not hold out for long. Nan Xu looked at the crumbling stone ceiling and leaned closer into Duan Wenpei's arms.

Duan Wenpei patted again, this time for a little longer.

"Where is Zhao Huaijue?" He glanced over and saw that the stone bed at the innermost part had disappeared out of thin air, along with Zhao Huaijue.

Yu Rong ordered people to go down to the ditch to catch snakes, cursing louder than the sound of the collapse, "That bastard Zhao Si, he set off so many thunder bombs, how could he not leave himself a way out? That stone bed is a secret passage, he escaped long ago."

Nan Xu didn't have the mind to think about what Zhao Si said, he just frowned and thought.

The stone bed is most likely a secret passage opened from the inside. If I remember correctly, I haven't seen the fortune-teller since I came in. I'm afraid this person is waiting inside.

Looking around the entire stone chamber, except for this stone bed, everything else is sealed tightly. Is there any other way to get out?

Yu Rong and two guards had caught a few snakes and tied small bags to their tails. Yu Rong was squatting on the ground and fiddling with something. After a while, the snakes turned around aimlessly and then swam in one direction. The bag was torn at some point, leaving white marks on the ground.

Duan Wenpei shouted "Go!" and then picked up Nan Xu and walked along the white line.

Nan Xu was caught off guard by being suddenly suspended in the air. She quickly wrapped her arms around Duan Wenpei's neck tightly. Duan Wenpei looked down at her, weighed her with both hands, and found a comfortable position for her.

The white line disappeared under the stone wall on the east side, where a faint light came through. Without Duan Wenpei's orders, Yu Rong took several guards and used their internal force to attack forward. In just two or three times, a big hole was broken in the entire stone wall.

Duan Wenpei walked in first.

No one had a fire starter, and in the darkness, there was only the sound of each other's breathing.

"Master Duan..., Ruizhu and the others..."

Her left foot was numb, and Nan Xu could only nestle in his arms, looking ahead where she could see nothing.

"Those guards are carefully selected and will protect Miss Yin." The voice came from above, calm and powerful.

The sound of his heartbeat in my ears makes me feel particularly at ease.

After walking for another half a minute, they gradually heard the sound of flowing water, but it was still pitch black ahead and they could not see anything.

"It's a fork in the road."

People who practice martial arts can identify locations by sound in the dark, so Duan Wenpei asked everyone to stop.

"Master, how about I take some people to explore the way?"

Yu Rong volunteered, saying that even if one could determine the position without light, it would be very limited.

The terrain here is complicated. It would be okay if I walked into a dead end, but I’m afraid it might be a turbulent underground river... I can’t swim, so I don’t want to be killed by Zhao Si and end up dying in the water.

Fortunately, no one could see each other in the dark, otherwise someone like Yu Rong, whose thoughts were written all over his face, would probably be kicked.

After a moment of silence, Yu Rong didn't receive a response from Duan Wenpei, but instead heard a faint female voice, "Did you see the Eighteen Arhats when you came in?"

When everyone recalled it, some people still vaguely remembered it.

Yu Rong scratched his head, feeling vague and vague.

"What did you find?" A voice came from above his head, not a question but an affirmation.

Nan Xu was in a hurry to sort out her thoughts and didn't notice the change in his tone.

"There are a lot of 'black ink' on the clothes of the Arhat statue. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but now I think about it, it's probably not the dye used when the statue was made. It seems to be..." She couldn't put her finger on what it was.

"Yes."

"Sky-shaking thunder!"

The two spoke almost in unison, the male and female voices intertwined in the empty and dark cave, echoing in all directions.

His wrist felt a little sore, but Duan Wenpei calmly moved Nan Xu to another position and said, "Go to the right."

Everyone followed, footsteps coming one after another.

The darkness has an inexplicable power that makes people fear the unknown ahead. Nan Xu doesn't know what his sudden discovery will bring, so he can only stare at the front.

Her nervousness was conveyed to the man holding her through her tense body.

"Are you scared?" His voice was very soft, as light as a weightless cloud.

Nan Xu shook her head, then nodded again without saying anything.

"You're afraid of your own intuition." He didn't seem to intend to let go of her silence.

Nan Xu pursed her lips and closed her eyes with a complicated expression.

The second daughter of the Yong'an Marquis Mansion in Kyoto City is the most prestigious girl besides the royal family, but she is just a little girl who is afraid of doing something wrong.

She was afraid of hurting the last bit of affection between her and Li Zhan, so she thought for a long time before asking him to meet at Fengyu Bridge.

She was afraid that she would cause unpleasantness with her second sister-in-law and hurt the relationship between her and her second brother, so she could tolerate it again and again.

She was afraid that she would make a wrong judgment, so she did not stop Yin Ruizhu from interpreting the fortune at the beginning.

She was afraid... that the man she was marrying wasn't the right one, so she expressed her thoughts early and made plans to avoid hurting herself...

The darkness dissipated and light invaded this world.

The scene in front of her eyes gradually became clearer. Nan Xu raised her hands to cover her eyes that were not used to the strong light. This sudden change made her almost cry.

"□□ must not encounter water. The path on the right is closer to the Eighteen Arhats."

"Nan Xu, don't be afraid of yourself."