He was ambushed by assassins. His trusted servant, Xiao Du, was killed while covering his escape. Although he managed to escape the assassins' encirclement, he was stabbed in the shoulder. If the assassin's sword had been just a little lower, he would have been dead...
Thinking about this, he felt a little regretful.
He shouldn't have acted so recklessly today and sneaked out of the palace.
They thought it was nothing serious, but they were ambushed by assassins.
He pursed his lips, touched the wound on his shoulder, and found that it had already been treated and bandaged.
Looking at the neatly bandaged wound, he frowned. "Did you bandage this for me?"
Wen Ruyi turned to the side and nodded. "Okay. Drink the medicine while it's hot. You should leave here first thing tomorrow morning. I can't stay any longer, I have to go now." With that, she started to walk out.
Seeing this, the man quickly called out to her, "Young lady, you saved me, and I should repay you. May I ask your name?"
Wen Ruyi didn't turn around, and said calmly, "Young master doesn't need to know my name. In any case, I'm just a person who has lost his freedom." After saying that, she walked out.
The man wasn't stupid; he immediately understood her situation from her words.
It turned out she was trapped here, had lost her freedom, and couldn't go anywhere.
She had just urged him to leave tomorrow morning, as if she was in some kind of trouble.
Even so, she still reached out to him and saved him.
The man touched the bandaged wound on his shoulder, his thick, dark eyebrows furrowing tightly.
After returning to her room, Wen Ruyi did not rest immediately.
She sat by the window, thinking about the day's events and the man next door, a smile that she couldn't hide.
As fate would have it, she met him.
The man didn't know her, but she had the privilege of seeing his face.
That's why when he grabbed her skirt in the grass and asked her to save him, she agreed without hesitation.
She saved him, so she was his savior, and there was no more useful shield than that.
As Wen Ruyi pondered how to use this favor to achieve her own goals, a group of uninvited guests arrived outside the manor.
They were agile and well-trained, searching for something in the grass with torches lit.
Before long, two fine horses galloped in from afar.
The person in the lead was none other than Gu Linchao.
The cold moonlight fell upon him, like a layer of frost and snow, carrying a chilling cold.
Once they reached the outskirts of the village, he reined in his horse.
Si Yi followed behind him, frowning, and said, "We tracked this far, but then we ran out of clues. If we can't find it again..."
Gu Linchao's expression was cold, and his words were tinged with indifference: "If a few assassins could harm him, then it means that he was destined to be this way."
Upon hearing this, Si Yi shut his mouth.
Although the master spoke so coldly and heartlessly, in reality he was more anxious and worried than anyone else, otherwise he wouldn't have come to find him in person.
A moment later, the subordinate noticed something and hurriedly stepped forward to report, "Your Highness, we found bloodstains over there, but they stopped at the gate of the manor." As he spoke, the man pointed to the manor behind him.
Upon hearing this, Gu Linchao looked at the manor not far away and asked, "Whose family owns this manor?"
"I have already learned that this estate belongs to the Duke of Dingguo," the subordinate replied.
Gu Linchao paused for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Since the bloodstains disappeared outside the manor gate, it's very likely that the person was rescued by someone inside. Issue my order to search the manor, but do not disturb the people inside, and do not damage their belongings."
"Yes." The subordinate clasped his hands in a salute, pointed to a few people, and then leaped into the manor.
Si Yi looked at his master in surprise.
When the master heard that Zhuangzi belonged to the Wen family, his attitude changed noticeably.
Although his master had given similar orders in the past when they were on campaign, not to disturb the people, not to damage their property, and not to take even a needle or thread from them, this time he felt that his master was treating the Wen family differently, probably because of the princess.
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