The deputy commander ordered the Jinyiwei to fight. He looked at Luo Yining hesitantly, but immediately drew his knife from his waist, grabbed Luo Yining's neck and pulled her over. Before Luo Yining could react, Zhao Mingzhu cried out and saw the deputy commander's knife resting on Luo Yining's neck.
"Deputy Envoy Liu, what are you doing?" Zhao Mingzhu's voice was almost changing.
"Madam, I'm sorry." The deputy commander's voice was very cold at this time, and his men pinched her mercilessly. "Please don't struggle, madam. I won't kill you."
The Jinyiwei are obviously Luo Shenyuan's men!
Luo Yining started coughing because of his pinch. He didn't know what he was doing. "Are you crazy? What are you doing..."
"Madam, don't say anything. Your life is safe. I was just threatening him." The deputy commander did not explain much.
The Jinyiwei rushed forward to stop the army and drew their embroidered spring swords from their waists.
Luo Yining saw a man rushing in on horseback. He was wearing armor, and his back looked incredibly familiar. He abandoned his horse at the foot of the stairs. He rushed forward with a knife in hand. Seeing her being held hostage, his men swung their knives even more fiercely. He shouted, "Deputy Envoy Liu, what are you doing? Are you trying to threaten her? Aren't you afraid that Luo Shenyuan will kill you?"
"Lord Luo probably doesn't mind." The deputy commander just smiled.
Luo Yining clenched her sleeves. Why did Lu Jiaxue come to Kunning Palace? The deputy commander captured her as soon as he saw her. What was he doing?
Many people followed Lu Jiaxue, but the Jinyiwei were no incompetents. During the clash, Lu Jiaxue seemed injured, his arms waving with less agility. Covered in blood, he had already reached the steps and saw Luo Yining not far away. Deputy Envoy Liu realized he couldn't scare Lu Jiaxue, so he moved his knife closer to Luo Yining's neck: "Lu Jiaxue, do you believe I will kill her? Stop!"
Lu Jiaxue approached fearlessly, knife in hand. Deputy Envoy Liu's knife had already pierced Luo Yining's skin, but she remained silent.
The man was like a ghost. He finally chopped off the head of the person standing in front of him with a single blow. Blood splattered all over Luo Yining.
The two looked at each other for a long time in the night.
Lu Jiaxue was exhausted. Even the strongest would be tired after so much fighting, not to mention the bleeding shoulder wound. He stalked towards her, heavy steps at a time. Luo Yining instinctively stepped back, only to hear a crashing sound, like the collapse of Mount Tai. He half-knelt before her, his sword resting on his shoulders, panting, but his expression relaxed.
"I thought...something happened to you. He really didn't dare to kill you." He finally confirmed that she was okay, and there was a faint smile in his hoarse voice.
Luo Yining stepped forward. Did Lu Jiaxue think she was… in trouble? So that's why he came to save her?
"You..." She walked closer and held his hand, only to see blood between his fingers.
Luo Yining's throat suddenly choked. Seeing him sweating and exhausted, she also knelt down and said, "What are you doing? I'm fine!"
Perhaps due to excessive blood loss, Lu Jiaxue had lost consciousness. He held her hand tightly in his large one and said in a hoarse voice, "Back then, I didn't save you... You've resented me for so many years."
Her mind was shaken by his words. Luo Yining had already seen the arrow shaft exposed on his back, and she trembled all over. She reached out to touch it.
Seeing her eyes were red, Lu Jiaxue stretched out his other hand to comfort her, but it also stained her face with blood from the finger marks. He could only force a smile.
"If I don't come to save you this time... you will blame me for the rest of your life."
Luo Yining looked up and suddenly saw a cluster of arrows sticking out of the roof. There was an ambush! This was a trap! Who set this trap?
Daoyan wanted to use her to capture Lu Jiaxue!
Luo Yining suddenly realized that this was all Daoyan's scheme. He had her enter the palace to help her, simply to use her to achieve victory and harm the man before him. Perhaps Luo Shenyuan was also involved, because he knew how important she was to Lu Jiaxue, and Lu Jiaxue would not leave her alone.
Luo Yining lost all her strength. She had caused him trouble! If she hadn't entered the palace, Lu Jiaxue would never have come to save her.
"Are you stupid...you just believe what others say!" Luo Yining couldn't hold back her tears.
"There's a trap here!" Luo Yining said hoarsely, shaking his shoulders. "Didn't you think it was a trap?"
Lu Jiaxue just looked at her as if she was a child throwing a tantrum. But he didn't care and smiled: "I didn't want to come either...but..."
But then I thought, you might be dying... Then where could I wait for you for another fourteen years? I couldn't. I was already getting old. Fourteen years, and then another fourteen years. Those fourteen years without her washed over me, and the nightmare of her falling off the cliff repeated itself countless times. Stumbling through the gray fog, she was nowhere to be found.
Lu Jiaxue said, "...But I still came here."
She remembered the time when she was about to die and when she was trapped in the hairpin.
How she longed for him to come and save her! How she longed for someone to save her and free her from the despair, depression and pain.
Now he came, even though she was completely unharmed. The rescuer knelt on the ground, his body as tall as a mountain, about to collapse.
"Why did you come here!" Luo Yining cried.
It was as if something was finally broken, and Luo Yining hugged him tightly.
Luo Yining looked up and saw the arrows approaching. The familiar figure, draped in a cloak, stood against a nearby wall, his back to the light. The arrows in the hands of the people beside him gleamed coldly in the night.
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