Pei Yi was very confident, seemingly not expecting Zhan Xinjia to wake up from her dream. Therefore, when she woke up, she was not only free of ropes, but there were also not many guards in the city lord's mansion.
He probably thought that such a dream would drive her crazy and trap her, but she always knew what she wanted to do.
Even if the young master Shen in her dream is gone, she will definitely find Yan Xiyue, who was forced into a political marriage and then eloped with Fu Shou'an, and then everyone will return to the capital together to slap that idiot Yan Huishi awake.
She might be deeply affected, but with so many people waiting for her to save, she would never stop because of anything.
While helping Master Shen find his way out based on her memory, she also had to keep her mind on communicating with Jide through consciousness.
[Do you have any antidotes or anything like that? Didn't they say the system always comes with a shop or something? Hey, forget about your precious points, hurry up and get some for my little Shen.]
[Meow...no, cough cough, I can't meow anymore.]
Ji De, who was used to being a cat, felt a little awkward and cleared his throat.
[Didn't you tell Cui Wanzhao before that no matter what drugs someone was given, slapping them twice would temporarily suppress the effects? Why don't you give him a couple of slaps now!]
【？】
Zhan Xinjia gave a cold laugh.
[You think I won't give you a couple of slaps? Little Shen has raised you for so many years, and you just freeload off him without doing anything? What kind of mean little kitten are you?]
She wouldn't feel bad about beating a stupid old Chinese medicine doctor like Yan Yuyao, but she couldn't bear to beat her little Shen.
Ji De choked, muttering softly.
I wasn't originally a kitten...
Despite his rebuttal, Jide dutifully rummaged through his pockets, trying to find something useful.
But before they could finish searching, a patrol of guards spotted them.
Zhan Xinjia's leg was still injured, and he was also carrying an unconscious person. It was difficult to fight or run away, and for a moment, they were actually at a stalemate. At the critical moment, someone stepped forward—
"Get out! All of you get out! This is my friend, and you dare to stop him? Have you lost your minds?!"
"But Princess Liuyu..."
The guards looked troubled. "These two were ordered by the Princess to be kept under strict guard. Please don't make things difficult for us."
Liu Yu snorted coldly, her tone even more offensive.
"If my mother blames me, just push the blame onto me. I'm her own daughter, do you think she'd be angry with me? Get out of here, do you hear me? Or I'll kill you all right now!"
Upon hearing this, the guards had no choice but to disperse in fear.
Turning around, Liuyu put one hand on her hip and raised the other to her forehead, looking like she had a terrible headache.
"Oh, let's go, let's go. Brother Jian has told me the gist of it. Even if my mother is angry, she can't kill me."
As a pampered princess who has been spoiled since childhood, although Liuyu may have a harsh way of speaking and a childish and immature personality, as well as being vain and competitive, she is actually not malicious at heart.
She may not know the situation, but she hates war, and her mother is trying to start one.
She still has the basic ability to distinguish right from wrong.
Zhan Xinjia had always thought Liuyu was a spoiled, silly child, but now, alas, this silly child is even sillier.
Now was not the time for conversation. Nodding and thanking Zhan Xinjia, she hurried away without a chance to say more. Just as she brushed past Liu Yu, Liu Yu suddenly grabbed her wrist.
She turned around blankly, her eyes filled with tears, her whole body trembling with fear.
"There's only one thing I need to ask you... I know my mother has been misled into doing many wrong and bad things. Could you... please spare her life? I don't want to be a princess anymore, and I don't want to care about Nanjun anymore. I'll take my mother far away, okay?"
Liu Yu asked cautiously, her voice trembling with a mixture of arrogance and pleading, as if afraid of being rejected.
Zhan Xinjia wanted to sigh again.
"What if I fell into your mother's hands? Do you think she would let me go if you begged her a few times?"
Even if Wu Lanlian kills me, you'll only hold a grudge against her for a year or two at most, but you'll eventually forgive her because she is, after all, your mother.
But I can't forgive her.
Even though Pei Yi and Mu Yunlan gave the order to massacre the Zhan family back then, Yan Shuang was indeed Wu Lanlian's person, and the assassin was sent by Wu Lanlian herself. She was not worthy to see her brother or go back to see her parents if she didn't avenge this.
Even if Liu Yu harbors resentment, even if revenge continues, she will never let Wu Lanlian go.
Pulling her hand away from his grasp, turning her face away from Liu Yu's unpleasant expression, Zhan Xinjia took a deep breath and strode resolutely outside.
After dodging the guards all the way to the gate of the city lord's mansion, Zhan Xinjia found that there was chaos outside and smoke everywhere. It turned out that during the days she was unconscious, Nanjun and Dasheng had officially started a war, and the two sides were currently deadlocked over the battle for the border city.
Zhan Xinjia was in a daze when Qiaoqiao's voice suddenly came from not far away.
Turning around, I saw the missing young geniuses, who had just woken up and escaped from another room.
Despite the relentless pursuit by Wu Lanlian's men, the group found a temporarily safe corner to wait, not in a hurry to leave Nian'an and return to Canghan, since Zhan Xinjia's leg injury needed to be treated.
After quickly changing the medicine, Zhan Xinjia thought for a moment and entrusted the still unconscious Shen Suqing to them.
After all, she still needed to kill Wu Lanlian and find Pei and Mu Yunlan; taking Lord Shen with her would be too dangerous. Besides, Nian'an City was currently firmly under Pei Yi's control; if they went together, probably none of them would be able to escape in the end.
"I'll go and draw away the pursuers in a moment. You all take Lord Shen out of the city and back to camp."
"And what about you, Ah Zhi?"
Qiaoqiao's face was pale, her expression heavy with worry. "These aren't just a few dozen or a few hundred enemies, but tens of thousands. No matter how strong you are, you'll eventually run out of stamina. How will you escape unscathed?"
Zhan Xinjia was stunned; she really hadn't thought of that.
She smiled brightly, patted Qiaoqiao on the shoulder, and said that same pretentious line again—
"Haha, I am invincible below the level of gods, but when the gods come, it's 1v1."
In fact, Qiao Qiao's concerns were reasonable. Even though Zhan Xinjia had been fighting his way through the enemy lines and his sword had become dull, the enemy troops continued to surge in like a tide after they split up from the main force.
It seems Pei Yi has already realized what's going on.
But Zhan Xinjia remained calm and composed, wiping away the warm blood splattered on her face. Even though she was exhausted, she still reacted quickly and nimbly dodged every slash aimed at her, and countered.
As a senior once said, when you can't solve the problem at hand, calmness is our greatest weapon.
She had lost count of how many people she had killed from the city lord's mansion to the city gate. Her body was exhausted to the extreme. When she saw the blue-clad figure standing next to Wu Lanlian, she smiled faintly.
Although she was too far away to see his expression clearly, she guessed that Pei Yi must be furious at this moment.
At that time, she was already surrounded and trapped on the city wall.
From afar, Pei Yi's confident voice drifted over.
"Do you really think you can escape? Since you don't want to cooperate, it's best for a variable like you to die."
Even if you're incredibly skilled, do you think you can dodge a volley of arrows? Or do you intend to jump from the city wall? Ha, this isn't the city wall of Yaozhou City from back then, and besides, you're injured in the leg; this height would be enough to smash you into a pulp.
Zhan Xinjia clapped his hands expressionlessly after listening.
The backdrop is a snow-covered battlefield filled with the smoke of battle, where banners are stained with blood and the setting sun shines like gold.
A breeze stirred her disheveled long hair, making her sleeves and skirt flutter in the wind. She calmly raised her finger and tucked a stray hair behind her ear.
Under the setting sun and in the north wind, a girl covered in blood smiled. Her face, blurred by bloodstains, had only a pair of bright, clear peach blossom eyes that shone brilliantly in the twilight.
I glanced down at the city wall, and at this height... there really wasn't much of a way to survive.
She chuckled softly, as if she had seen something.
"But..."
Before she could finish speaking, she fell backward without hesitation.
The wind stung her cheeks like blades, but the weightlessness brought little panic. Zhan Xinjia watched the city walls shrink and recede into the distance, her heart utterly calm. And then—
Someone reached out and caught her firmly, holding her tightly in their arms.
She turned her head and met a pair of emerald eyes that had been waiting below the city gate.
They looked at each other and smiled.
But my brother said he would always catch me.
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