Chapter 799 Surveillance
After returning to the room, Li Xin immediately noticed signs that someone had broken in.
She always sets up some small traps before leaving to ensure the safety of the room. Today she put a leaf on the bolt and found it had fallen to the ground when she entered the room, which clearly showed that someone had come in.
"Come out!" she shouted, pulling out a dagger from her waist, ready to deal with any possible situation.
In an instant, a figure jumped down from the beam, followed by a fierce palm wind, heading straight for Li Xin's face.
"I haven't seen you for three months. Your Kung Fu seems to have become a lot less sophisticated."
The man's hand stopped just an inch away from her. If he had taken another step forward, the force he had just used would have been enough to shatter her forehead.
Shangguan Chen's eyes reflected Li Qing's pretty face. She looked even more attractive than she did three months ago.
The thought that her beauty might have been witnessed by others during these three months ignited a fire of jealousy in his heart.
Li Xin is the only thing in his heart, a treasure that belongs to him alone.
He would not allow anyone to covet her beauty or for her to develop feelings for others; anyone who dared to have improper thoughts about her would face his wrath.
However, facing his almost obsessed eyes, Li Xing only felt disgusted.
The dagger in her hand was against his throat. If he moved even the slightest, the dagger would pierce his throat first.
"You've become beautiful again." Shangguan Chen whispered, trying to kiss her white wrist.
But Li Xin quickly withdrew his hand, frowning: "Shangguan Chen, what are you doing here?"
She wondered how he got in here. Changle Mountain was heavily guarded, and the Tieyun Army at the foot of the mountain was heavily guarded. How did he find the entrance and get up?
"Heh, I was sent here as a chess piece by my adoptive father's order."
Shangguan Chen explained, with a hint of self-mockery in his tone. In order to see her, he had gone to great lengths to convince Shangguan Jin to allow him to come to Changle Mountain.
"Did your foster father send you?"
Li Xing frowned and asked, already guessing something in his heart. The purpose of his adoptive father sending Shangguan Chen to accompany her was self-evident, which was to monitor her actions.
Sure enough, Shangguan Chen's next words confirmed her guess: "The old man said that you have made no progress in the past three months, so he agreed to my request and let me take a look at the situation."
He approached Xinli and whispered in her ear: "I saw you saving that girl just now. For a target, such an opportunity is rare. Why don't you just kill her?"
"You arranged all this." This was not a question, but a certainty.
Li Xing knew Shangguan Chen's true colors better than anyone else. Ever since they met, he had always been a cold-blooded person who regarded other people's lives as nothing.
Under his hands, no one could escape the fate of being tortured until their life ended.
Shangguan Chen not only targeted the targets of his mission, but even the innocent could not escape his clutches, inflicting endless suffering on them just because of a whim.
"I just threw a small stone in front of the Xiyong woman. She lost her balance. As for that silly girl from Beiling, she actually dared to help a woman who was full of danger."
As Shangguan Chen spoke, he slowly approached Li Xin, trying to hold her in his arms.
However, Li Xin had already noticed it and quickly moved away. He felt extremely disgusted by Shangguan Chen's approach and even felt nauseous.
"She is my target, don't meddle in her business!" Thinking that if Xiao Ruoxin had not been stopped in time, she might have been dead, Li Xin couldn't help but warn Shangguan Chen angrily.
"Since you know she is your target, you should complete the mission as quickly as possible and return early."
Shangguan Chen saw that Li Xin was cold to him, and his smile gradually disappeared, revealing a frightening expression. However, this expression had no effect on Li Xin except to deepen his disgust.
"My foster father didn't set a time limit for the mission, and he didn't interfere with my actions either. What qualifications do you have to make decisions?"
"What do you think I'm doing here? Would he have sent me here if you hadn't delayed the mission? It seems that you have indeed forgotten your place during this period of time!"
Shangguan Chen doesn't like Li Xin talking back, he really doesn't like it!
"I know my place, and I don't need you to lecture me! I will handle the mission myself, and you are not allowed to interfere.
If I find out you're doing something behind my back, don't blame me for being rude!" Li Xin said, nailing the dagger to the ground as a final warning.
"Now, get out of here. Or I wouldn't mind having everyone come and see."
Li Xing knew that as long as Shangguan Chen had not officially entered Changle Mountain, he would be expelled by the Tieyun Army once his whereabouts were exposed.
The strength of the Tieyun Army was known to everyone in the Ten Kingdoms. Even though Shangguan Chen was a great martial arts master, he could not withstand the siege of thousands of elite soldiers.
Although he was unwilling, considering the consequences, Shangguan Chen chose to leave obediently.
After all, he came here to separate himself from the country and didn't want his trip to fail because of being expelled.
Just as Shangguan Chen was about to leave, there was a knock on the door and Qu Tingyun's voice: "Miss Li, are you there?"
A man's voice?
Shangguan Chen stopped suddenly and retracted the step he had taken. He glared at the shadow on the window, his eyes seemed to be filled with endless anger.
"Be quiet!"
Li Xin quickly stopped him. She didn't want Qu Tingyun to misunderstand that there was any special relationship between her and Shangguan Chen.
"Mr. Qu, do you have something to talk to me about?"
She asked from the doorway, her voice steady and polite.
"If it's convenient, could you please come in and talk?" Qu Tingyun's voice was a little anxious.
Hearing this, Li Xing hesitated for a moment and glanced at Shangguan Chen who was silent like a guardian angel beside him.
After thinking for a moment, she only opened the door halfway to make sure Shangguan Chen would not be seen, and then walked out.
"The room is a bit messy, so it's inconvenient to invite Mr. Qu in," she explained.
"It doesn't matter. I just want to see Miss Li." Obviously, he came here specifically to see her, and the state of the room was not important.
Li Xin noticed that his breathing was a little unstable and there were beads of sweat on his forehead. It was obvious that he had just rushed here.
"What happened? Is it Xin'er..."
Thinking that something might have happened to Xiao Ruoxin, her heart couldn't help but hang in the air.
"Xin'er is fine, but Miss Li, could you please stretch out your hand for me to see?"
It turned out that when taking care of Chu Yu, Qu Tingyun learned that Li Xin had helped an injured person.
Although Li Xin didn't understand what he meant, she still stretched out her hand. Her fingertips had turned slightly purple, but fortunately the situation was not serious.
Qu Tingyun carefully examined her hand, then gently pressed her wrist to feel her pulse.
"Mr. Qu?" Seeing that he had not spoken for a long time, Li Xin called out softly.
"Please take this medicine, and then practice qigong to detoxify. After an hour, the poison will be completely eliminated." Qu Tingyun finally spoke.
He handed her a pill, his eyes filled with a hint of incomprehensible emotion.
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