"Don't fight him here." Lin Qixia had recovered by now.
I was so cold that I was on the verge of collapse.
Huo Yanqing responded, "Okay."
He dropped the matter; having already agreed, he had no intention of fighting Ning Shi again.
Ning Shi also sheathed his scimitar and stopped confronting Huo Yanqing.
Then, both of them looked at Lin Qixia at the same time.
"What's wrong?" Lin Qixia felt awkward under his gaze.
Huo Yanqing asked her, "You asked us to come to your room, and we did as you said. What's next?"
“Uh…” Lin Qixia scratched her head and looked at the two of them again.
Ning Shi was clutching his abdominal wound, leaning against the wall, blood staining everything he touched.
Lin Qixia was speechless for a moment, then she got up and took out her first-aid kit, placing it on the table: "It's still early, let me bandage you up."
"Mm," Huo Yanqing responded and sat down at the table.
Ning Shize said with a respectful expression, "How could I dare to trouble Lord Ye Que?"
Lin Qixia paused in taking things out of the medicine box, then warned him coldly, "If you call me Lord Ye Que again, believe me, I'll kick you out right now!"
After all, they were both quite badly injured, so it was easy for Lin Qixia.
She even began to understand why, in the original story, despite their combined strength, they gave Li Pei the opportunity to profit.
The two people clearly have completely different personalities; one is flamboyant and eccentric, while the other is low-key and composed.
But deep down they're all very stubborn.
Once a fight breaks out, it's a fight to the death, so it's normal that Li Pei, that weak scholar, was able to take the opportunity to scheme against them.
Ning Shi fell silent after being threatened by her words.
Lin Qixia beckoned to Huo Yanqing: "Come here."
Even though Huo Yanqing didn't say anything, he still quietly walked over and sat down next to her.
While treating Huo Yanqing's more serious injuries, Lin Qixia reasoned with Ning Shibai, saying, "I am not Ye Que. I don't care why you think I am the person you're talking about; you have no basis for that, do you?"
As soon as she said this, Ning Shi was about to open her mouth to refute it.
However, Lin Qixia did not give him that chance. She continued, "If you really don't believe me, you can go to Xiahe Village to investigate my background. I was born there, and you can find out about my family situation as soon as you ask."
"My name is Lin Qixia. I have a twin sister named Lin Jiudong. My parents died early, and I was raised by my older brother and sister-in-law."
“If I remember correctly, the headquarters of your Hidden Blade Clan is in the Jiangnan region, thousands of miles away, while I grew up in Xiahe Village and haven’t even left Chong County in more than ten years.”
When she mentioned the words "Hidden Blade Master's headquarters," Ning Shi suddenly looked up and glared at her.
A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he asked directly, "If you are not Ye Que, how do you know that the Hidden Blade Organization is located in Jiangnan?"
As he spoke, he gave Huo Yanqing a wary look.
But then she thought that Huo Yanqing and Lin Qixia were so close, she might have already told him.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so unsurprised by his own appearance in the first place.
"I—" Lin Qixia was choked by Ning Shi's words and regretted saying it.
Instead, it gave the other party even more reason to be convinced of her identity as "Night Palace".
Lin Qixia shook her head abruptly and said firmly, "Huo Yanqing told me. What's wrong with that? Did you think that after sending so many people to kill him, he wouldn't know anything about you?"
After she said that, Ning Shi fell silent again.
That makes sense.
"Anyway, don't worry about it," she said. "And stop bothering me. Just go ahead and investigate my background."
"However, I advise you not to hurt anyone during this time, otherwise neither Huo Yanqing nor I will let you off the hook!" Just in case, Lin Qixia still threatened him at the end.
As she spoke, she patted Huo Yanqing on the shoulder: "Right?"
"Hiss—" Huo Yanqing gasped as she touched his wound.
Lin Qixia quickly apologized to him, but Huo Yanqing waved his hand to stop her.
Then the boy turned to look at Ning Shi and warned him coldly, "No matter what, you can forget about taking her away!"
Ning Shi was sitting against the wall at the moment, not taking Huo Yanqing's threat seriously.
Lin Qixia's words, on the contrary, made him fall into deep thought.
After all, the other party's behavior didn't seem like they were faking it.
After a moment, he grinned. "Alright, I'll investigate that myself, but—"
He paused for a moment, then got up and walked towards Lin Qixia.
Seeing this, Huo Yanqing couldn't sit still anymore, but at the crucial moment, Lin Qixia held him down while she stared intently at Ning Shi.
Ning Shi's dangerous aura grew closer and closer until he stood in front of Lin Qixia.
His narrow eyes, hidden behind his veil, stared at her with a slight squint: "If I find even the slightest discrepancy between what you've said and reality, I will take you back to Jiangnan and verify your identity in another way."
"Go ahead and check whatever you want." Lin Qixia didn't care.
She just wanted to get rid of this trouble as soon as possible.
There are already too many things I need to deal with right now.
"Very good." Ning Shi said, and then bid farewell to Lin Qixia.
He turned to leave the room.
Lin Qixia called out to him at this moment, "Wait a minute!"
Ning stopped in her tracks and looked back at her in confusion. At that moment, Lin Qixia took out a bottle of medicine and a roll of gauze from the medicine box.
He walked up to him and handed it to him, saying, "Look, you're quite badly injured. Since you don't want me to help you, you can treat it yourself."
The confusion in Ning Shi's eyes vanished, replaced by an ambiguous smile. "Thank you."
He took the two items, turned around, and left the room.
Lin Qixia opened her mouth as she watched the other person's back, wanting to advise them to keep a low profile and not let the others in Xiahe Village find out.
After all, he looked quite frightening at that moment.
However, the other person left too quickly, and she didn't have time to say anything more.
"Don't worry, the Hidden Blade Master is always discreet and won't let anyone other than his target know his whereabouts." Huo Yanqing, who was behind her, understood her worries and comforted her.
"Oh." Lin Qixia nodded in a muffled voice, "Then I'm still an exception for him."
Her next sentence was said half-jokingly.
However, Huo Yanqing did not laugh. He was very unhappy with Lin Qixia's initiative to give Ning Shi the medicine.
Lin Qixia noticed this and walked over to him, suddenly flicking his forehead.
"Alright, you spent the whole night trying to get rid of him, but I took care of him with just a few words. Shouldn't I be better than you?"
Huo Yanqing, "..."
"Okay, you're good." He was speechless, but stopped dwelling on the matter.
Lin Qixia packed up her medicine kit and said to him rudely, "Alright, you can leave now."
Huo Yanqing remained standing in the same spot.
"You want to see me change clothes?" Lin Qixia asked bluntly.
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