After being prompted by An Honghan, Xi Xizhi had a bold guess in her mind. Biting her cherry-red lips, Xi Xizhi said, "You mean... An Yunyi didn't come to save people, but to silence them?"
Because she was afraid of being betrayed, she had to kill the other party before they confessed, otherwise she herself would not have a good end.
"So don't trust anyone." An Honghan reached out and touched the child's forehead.
Xi Xizhi remembered every word An Honghan said. Suddenly, she raised her bright eyes and stared into An Honghan's eyes. "Can't you even trust you?"
"I am an exception."
While they were talking for a while, a fierce battle was already raging at the dungeon entrance, the clanging of weapons ringing out loudly in the quiet night.
The people sent by An Yunyi were all exceptionally skilled in martial arts, and most of the guards watching the dungeon were quickly eliminated.
The distance was quite far, but that didn't prevent Xi Xizhi from observing the situation. She tugged at An Honghan's sleeve and asked, "Aren't you going out to help? Are you really just waiting for An Yunyi to rescue Wu Jianfeng?"
This man planned every step carefully, setting up each trap and waiting for the enemy to fall into it.
“That’s not a bad idea, since Wu Jianfeng’s tongue is already gone anyway.”
Xi Xi was stunned, and then she understood why An Honghan had cut off Wu Jianfeng's tongue, and why he had done it himself.
"These guards are really useless." An Honghan frowned. It seems that after tomorrow, the defense of the dungeon will need to be adjusted more rigorously. Otherwise, if someone tries to break in again and manages to kidnap an important prisoner, it will be a real headache.
Ignoring Xi Xizhi's gaze, An Honghan snapped his fingers twice.
Xi Xizhi had seen this gesture of his several times; it was his signature move for summoning shadow guards.
In an instant, two black figures leaped over from not far away. On their right arms, a gold medal engraved with an eagle indicated their identities.
"Greetings, Your Majesty." The two shadow guards stood at attention and saluted.
"Send over a batch of Imperial Guards, capture them alive." An Honghan's gaze did not linger on the Shadow Guards, but was fixed on the battlefield where the fighting was taking place.
"Your subordinate obeys."
The two shadow guards quickly disappeared into the night.
The Imperial Guards arrived quickly, and with their arrival, the situation rapidly reversed.
Hundreds of Imperial Guards immediately surrounded all the men in black who were attempting to break into the prison, making it impossible for them to escape.
So far, An Honghan has not shown up. He is just standing at a distance, holding Xi Xizhi and watching quietly from afar.
An Honghan's embrace was warm, the exact opposite of the feeling he gave off – one was cold, the other was warm.
Time seemed to stand still; the surrounding fighting and noise vanished, and the chirping of insects nearby sounded exceptionally clear.
Xi Xizhi rested her head on An Honghan's arm, and she had to tilt her head slightly to see An Honghan's face, but only from the side.
Behind him was a dense thicket of trees, and through the dense foliage, the moonlight dappled the ground, making the scene look incredibly beautiful.
Under the moonlight, An Honghan's face was very cold and his facial features were exceptionally clear. Xi Xizhi looked at his face and for the first time had the illusion of suffocation. Her heart seemed to be stimulated and pounded strongly, as if it was about to jump out of her heart.
What happened?
Xi Xizhi pressed her hand to her heart.
All of this caught Xi Xizhi off guard, and she didn't understand what was wrong with her.
From their first meeting until now, Xi Xizhi had always known that An Honghan was handsome and charming, but never before had her heart raced so fast.
Upon noticing that the person in his arms was breathing rapidly and even somewhat erratically, An Honghan shifted his gaze from the fighting to Xi Xizhi's face.
Xi Xizhi's face flushed red, and she hurriedly tried to jump down from An Honghan's arms.
However, An Honghan's arms were very strong, and no matter how Xi Xizhi struggled, it was of no use.
Every time An Honghan saw Xi Xizhi's flushed face, an irresistible urge would surge within him.
He didn't know where this impulse came from or where it arose, he only knew that whenever this happened, he would try his best to pull the child into his arms.
Especially now that a certain child is staring at him with innocent, clear eyes, he is finding it even harder to control himself.
Disregarding everything else, An Honghan lowered his head and pressed his forehead against the child's.
Head to head, the warmth instantly transferred between them.
Xi Xizhi looked up in surprise, only to meet the emperor's deep eyes.
"W-What's wrong?" Xi Xizhi felt her heart beating faster and faster.
His gaze was uncontrollably drawn to An Honghan's eyes, nose, and lips; every feature seemed to be a masterpiece of nature, extremely alluring.
Suddenly, my throat became dry.
What's wrong with her?
The two remained motionless for a long time. An Honghan reached out and gently brushed the hair behind the child's ear.
"It's alright, there was some grass in your hair, I'll remove it for you."
"Oh." The tone was ambiguous, neither happy nor disappointed.
After a few seconds, their foreheads gradually separated.
Meanwhile, almost all of the people An Yunyi sent had been captured.
Thirty or forty men in black were all restrained by the Imperial Guards and forced to lie face down on the ground.
The face coverings that were covering their faces had been torn off by the Imperial Guards and thrown to the ground.
An Honghan took Xi Xizhi's small hand and walked out of the darkness.
This direction is clearly not the right way to the prison, which can only mean that His Majesty has been watching from the shadows for a long time.
The men in black's faces immediately turned grim. They thought they had gotten away with it undetected, but little did they know they were already trapped in His Majesty's clutches.
An Honghan walked around the men in black, saying, "Investigate where they came from."
"I'll go right away," replied the head guard, Hu Qu.
Xi Xizhi was still brooding over the beautiful moment that had just passed, wondering what had gotten into her. Only now did her heart finally calm down.
Is there a problem with my body? Or is there a problem with my cultivation practice?
Xi Xizhi racked her brains trying to come up with an answer.
Lin En rushed over upon hearing the news and stood beside An Honghan. She was also a little curious about Xi Xizhi's actions and asked, "Miss Xi, what's wrong?"
Lynn was known for her meticulous care, and seeing Xi Xizhi's tightly furrowed brows and puffed-out cheeks, she guessed that the child was hiding something and asked with some concern, "Is she feeling unwell? Or has a toothache?"
Isn't this the kind of thing kids this age like to do? Although Xi Xizhi doesn't like sweets, she eats quite a few sweet pastries.
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