Chapter 127 Cicada Robe, Don't Be Afraid
"Haven't made a decision yet? When did Your Highness become so indecisive?" the man in black sneered.
At this moment, Li Xiyan suddenly spoke up, "Your Highness, I knew when the selection of the Crown Princess was underway that it would be extremely dangerous once you entered the game. Therefore, I will not blame you for whatever decision you make today, but there is one thing you must promise me."
Xiao Xuanyou's expression was solemn. "You speak."
"If I die here, you must avenge my sister, no matter how hard you try, or I will haunt you as a ghost."
Her pretty face had a reckless, cold demeanor.
She knew who Xiao Xuanyou truly cared about, and naturally understood his predicament.
Xiao Xuanyou nodded solemnly, "Okay, I can agree to that, but I won't give up on saving you."
The man in black couldn't help but sneer, "Your Highness is being presumptuous. There's no river below this cliff; falling in means certain death. How do you plan to save me?"
"Time is almost up. I'll count to ten more. If you still can't figure it out, then nobody can save you."
"Ten, nine, eight..."
His hoarse voice sounded like a death knell tolling over everyone's heads.
Xiao Xuanyou narrowed his eyes slightly.
He certainly wouldn't be led by the nose by the men in black and choose any of them.
There were many ways to hurt him, but that person chose the one that put him in the most difficult position.
It's likely that their true intention wasn't to kill, but rather to have ulterior motives.
Jiang Zhi had countless thoughts running through her mind, but none of them offered the best solution to her current predicament.
But what she could confirm was that the man in black and the people who had just orchestrated her attack by the bear were not the same group of people.
Xiao Chengjin simply wanted her life, but this person clearly wanted to use her and Li Jinyan to deal with Xiao Xuanyou.
The wind was strong on the cliff, and she was suspended in mid-air, swaying with the wind, with a bottomless abyss below her.
It would be a lie to say I wasn't afraid.
The man in black finally uttered the last number, "...three, two, one."
As the countdown began, the blades of his two hands pressed against the ropes binding the two people.
Seeing that Xiao Xuanyou had been forced into this situation and still hadn't made a decision, he finally showed his anger.
"Time's up, what a pity."
Both of them have to die.
Without pausing, he used both hands together to cut their ropes.
Just then, a whooshing sound rang out.
An arrow shot towards the man in black's face; Xiao Xuanyou's men had finally made their move!
At the same time, Xiao Xuanyou also rushed forward, heading first towards Li Jinyan, who was closest to him.
The man in black was already on guard and immediately increased the force of his grip. The rope was cut in an instant, and then with a "thud," the swift arrow accurately pierced his heart.
Jiang Zhi felt her body suddenly lighten, and then she plummeted straight down the cliff!
Xiao Xuanyou used almost all the strength he had in his life to leave his trusted confidants far behind.
The distance of only four or five zhang felt like it was a world away.
Xiao Xuanyou used his horsewhip to hook Li Jinyan, and with a little force, flung her falling body onto the edge of the cliff.
When Li Jinyan came to her senses, she had already rolled on the ground once.
"Your Highness! Princess Qinghe!" She was untied by Xiao Xuanyou's confidant and quickly used her hands and feet to reach the edge of the cliff and look down.
But Xiao Xuanyou didn't stop at all; he had already fallen off the cliff along with Jiang Zhi.
The wind whistled past her ears, stinging her cheeks. The ropes binding her body rendered her limbs immobile, leaving her no choice but to let her fall.
However, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw Xiao Xuanyou successfully rescue Li Jinyan before she fell.
Then she saw his extremely familiar face, getting closer and closer to her from above.
“Xiao Xuanyou…” Her eyes widened, and she felt a tightness around her waist as his riding whip wrapped around her. Then his broad palm covered her, pressing her body firmly against his.
He spun around in mid-air, cushioning his fall beneath her.
Jiang Zhi was unable to describe her shock at that moment.
Has Xiao Xuanyou gone mad?
As the crown prince, second only to the emperor and the future monarch, his status is incomparably noble. Why would he risk his life for her?
"This time, I won't let you die in front of me." He curled his lips into a smile, then reached out and stabbed the sword in his other hand fiercely into the cliff.
The clanging sounds continued, and Xiao Xuanyou's hand went numb, almost causing him to lose his grip on the sword. The two of them continued their rapid descent. Fortunately, a moment later, the sword slid into a crevice in the cliff face, barely stopping their momentum.
Xiao Xuanyou had one arm around her waist and the other gripping the sword stuck in the cliff; there was nothing else for him to hold onto.
Jiang Zhi couldn't help but look down, only to see a rolling sea of clouds below, its depth still unknown.
Fortunately, after only a short while, Xiao Xuanyou's men threw ropes down from the cliff, and a voice came from afar, "Your Highness, we are pulling you up."
Jiang Zhi breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Just as Xiao Xuanyou was about to switch hands to grip the rope, an unexpected change occurred!
The man in black, who had been pierced in the heart by an arrow on the cliff, used his last bit of strength to leap off the cliff before he died, crashing down towards where Xiao Xuanyou was!
Xiao Xuanyou's pupils contracted violently, but there was no way to avoid it. He used his body to block Jiang Zhi, absorbing most of the force of the black-clad man's fall. He could no longer hold his sword, and the three of them fell off the cliff together.
Jiang Zhi could only hear the screams of the people on the cliff fading into the distance.
As she fell, she finally saw the scene at the bottom of the cliff: jagged rocks everywhere, and a barren landscape with hardly any trees.
She could already picture the horrific scene of her falling.
"You'll be alright," Xiao Xuanyou whispered reassuringly in her ear. Then, he pushed off the cliff face with his leg, controlling their bodies to fall to the other side. Immediately afterward, he flicked the whip wrapped around Jiang Zhi, hooking it onto a tree trunk before landing. He carried Jiang Zhi around twice like a swallow before they landed steadily on the ground.
Jiang Zhi was still a little dazed.
Did they land safely and unharmed?
Xiao Xuanyou reached out and untied the ropes binding her. Jiang Zhi looked up and saw that his expression was not quite right.
Her face, which should have been as smooth as mutton fat jade, was now covered with a thin layer of frost, bloodstains hung from the corners of her lips, and even the hands that were untying her ropes were trembling slightly.
"Your Highness... how are you?"
Xiao Xuanyou reached out to comfort her by squeezing her hand, but found that he had exhausted his last bit of strength. He had suffered internal injuries when he was thrown down and hit by the man in black, and was now at his last gasp.
His vision grew increasingly blurry, yet he still managed to comfort her before slowly collapsing.
"The guards will be down to find us soon, just find a place to wait patiently..."
Jiang Zhi reached out and caught his body, but heard his murmured voice in her ear.
"Cicada Robe...don't be afraid."
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