They weren't bandits, but highly trained assassins!
Who are you?
"Who we are doesn't matter. If you want the people around you to live, come with us!"
As they spoke, these men raised their knives and moved closer to Xie Zhaozhao.
Xie Zhaozhao's mind raced.
These people didn't appear in my previous life!
The escape route she had chosen that afternoon was blocked by these people.
Xie Zhaozhao's four guards and Yuanyuan protected her and confronted those people.
The clanging of weapons rang out as the four guards fought desperately. Yuanyuan was also skilled in martial arts, but the others were numerous and highly skilled, forcing them to retreat step by step.
Xie Zhaozhao looked behind her and realized that she had reached the edge of the cliff and had nowhere to hide.
The bandits, their courage swelled, heard the clanging of swords and wondered, "Is someone intercepting us on the mountaintop?"
Wei Bufan, who had led the bandits up the mountain, said anxiously, "Quickly, let's go and capture the Grand Secretary's wife."
The bandit leader said unhappily, "Get lost! I heard that the Grand Secretary's wife has guards, money, and women by her side. Why are you arresting the Grand Secretary's wife!"
Wei Bufan said anxiously, "If you capture Madam Xie, the Grand Secretary's wife, my master will reward you with a thousand strings of cash."
Upon hearing this, the bandit laughed loudly. A reward of a thousand strings of cash? I can easily get a thousand strings by scaring the women of the Earl's mansion. Who would wait for your thousand strings of cash as a reward?
He tossed aside the few dying maids, shouted "Brothers, let's go up and grab some women to make a fortune!" and rushed towards the courtyard on the mountaintop.
Xie Zhaozhao's four guards fought fiercely against the men in black armor, leaving Xie Zhaozhao with nowhere to retreat.
The man in black armor calmly said, "Madam, please come with us."
"Don't even think about it!"
These people must be Gu Shaoyu's archenemies.
The fact that they could accurately predict her itinerary and send such an assassin to capture her means they are no ordinary people.
She absolutely cannot fall into their hands.
Xie Zhaozhao turned her head away, her face dark and unfathomable, like a bottomless abyss, and sighed.
This is fate; you escape the bandits, but then the assassins come.
In her previous life, she narrowly escaped by jumping off a cliff and ending up clinging to a pine tree; this time, she couldn't guarantee she'd survive.
Seeing the approaching black-armored man, he loudly proclaimed to Yuan Yuan, "Tell the Grand Secretary that I also admire him..."
He took the leap!
A sharp, piercing scream ripped through the night: "Miss~"
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