Chapter 102 [VIP] Shadow Guard (16)



Chapter 102 [VIP] Shadow Guard (16)

There was darkness in Ye Qiuchen's eyes, with murderous intent in them, but without a trace of guilt, and his expression was deep and indifferent. He stared at the man on the ground calmly until the man completely lost consciousness, then he poked his wound with the sword.

The blood that kept gushing out soaked his clothes and dripped all the way to his feet.

After making sure that Ying Shiqi really had no reaction anymore, Ye Qiu let out a long breath and his expression returned to calm, as if he had solved the most important worry of his life.

Then her eyes fell on the pearl hairpin in his palm. After hesitating for a moment, she walked over, pried open the finger that was gradually stiffening due to excessive force, and put the blood-stained pearl hairpin into her arms.

On the other side, Nan Yan had no idea about this.

At this moment, she was sitting in the compartment, waiting anxiously, her knuckles unconsciously clenched, her finger bones were stretched so tight that they turned slightly white, her lips were bitten so that they lost their color, and her face also turned a lot paler.

She was extremely uneasy at the moment. She had no way of knowing the news outside. She didn't know when Ye Qiuchen would bring Seventeen back, nor did she know if the two were injured. If so, how serious were the injuries? And what should they do next? Where should they escape to?

The more I thought about it, the more nervous I became. My heart was beating like a drum and I couldn't calm down.

Just at this moment, there was a burst of hurried footsteps in the yard. Hearing the sound, Nan Yan thought that two people had returned. She didn't think much about it at the moment, and immediately opened the door to check anxiously, "Shiqi, is that you? You're back..."

But before he could finish his words, his voice completely stopped.

Because the people who came were neither Ying Shiqi nor Ye Qiuchen, but two extremely unfamiliar shadow guards with indifferent expressions. They stared at her coldly, like the look of wild wolves surrounding their prey, filled with murderous aura.

This made Nan Yan's face turn pale instantly, and her body took a step back uncontrollably.

When she came to her senses, she stared at the two people in front of her with suspicion and a little fear, her voice trembling, "Why are you here? How did you find me? Where are Ye Qiuchen and Ying Shiqi?"

After all, Ye Nanyue was still the master of Qixia Villa, so the two of them naturally did not avoid her questions.

One of the Shadow Guards stepped forward and explained with a cold face, "Shadow Seventeen colluded with Ye Qiuchen to betray Shadow Tower and was ambushed and killed on the spot. The Fourth Miss is the master, and the owner of the manor has specially ordered two of his subordinates to come and take the master back."

The two men spoke respectfully, but their facial expressions did not change at all. Even their eyes were cold, and a chill emanated from their bodies.

When Nan Yan heard the words "ambush and kill on the spot", her eyes froze for a moment, and then she felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over her head, her heart chilled to the core.

She subconsciously took a step back, loosened her grip on the door frame, and then suddenly raised her eyes. Tears instantly gathered in her eyes, and her face was full of disbelief.

"You are talking nonsense. Seventeen is not dead! He won't die. He promised to come back to see me. Don't try to fool me! I won't go back with you."

The two Shadow Guards clasped their hands together and repeated it again.

"Before leaving, the owner of the manor had instructed his subordinates that if Seventeen was stubborn and refused to confess his guilt, they must do their best to kill him with the sword as a warning to others. Now the traitor Seventeen has been executed, and his body fell off the cliff and its whereabouts are unknown."

"Miss Fourth, please stop making things difficult for us two and return with us honestly. Perhaps we can avoid being punished by the manor owner."

Nan Yan's eyes instantly turned red when she heard that. Tears fell uncontrollably from her eyes. She almost collapsed and shouted at the two of them, "Don't even think about it. I will never go back with you in this lifetime. Liars, you are all liars! Seventeen will not die. I won't leave. I won't leave. I will wait here for him to come back, until he comes back..."

The two shadow guards looked at each other, their facial expressions did not change, and even their pupils did not show any warmth. Then they continued, "We two subordinates are only ordered to take the fourth young lady back. If the fourth young lady insists on going against us, then we two subordinates will have no choice but to offend her. No matter if she is alive or dead, the fourth young lady must go back with us today."

Hearing this, Nan Yan's tears flowed even more, and her body began to tremble uncontrollably.

She trembled as she pulled out a small and exquisite dagger from her bosom. It was the self-defense weapon Seventeen had given her. Then she shouted at the two men in fear, her voice trembling.

"Bullshit!"

"Have you forgotten who you are..."

She stumbled back, stumbling a few steps, her body unsteady, "How dare you be so presumptuous... If you dare to come forward again, I will really kill you..."

But before she could finish her words, the two Shadow Guards had already taken a step further, obviously not taking her words seriously, especially the long swords in their hands that were glowing with a cold and eerie light, and the murderous intent was so sharp that it almost hurt her skin.

But Nan Yan couldn't dodge, and she really didn't know what to do at the moment. She retreated in panic, her body swaying, and her tears became more and more abundant. In the end, she could only hold the dagger tightly and stab the man in front of her regardless.

This time, she failed miserably. She knew no martial arts and her strength was pitifully small. The two Shadow Guards dodged her attack with an easy leap, and then counterattacked her with the back of their swords, hitting her wrist heavily.

The dagger fell to the ground with a clang.

Make a crisp sound.

Nan Yan's whole body suddenly fell forward uncontrollably due to inertia. She was also unlucky as there were some sharp pieces of gravel on the ground. She was about to get a bloody head when something strange happened.

"careful!"

At the critical moment, someone leaped over and hugged her tightly, as if he was afraid that she would be injured or die if he was a step late. Nan Yan felt so tight that she could hardly breathe.

At this moment, the attack from behind had not stopped yet. When the two Shadow Guards saw Ye Qiuchen appear, their attack immediately became severe and urgent, and each move became more and more fierce and oppressive. However, because Ye Qiuchen wanted to protect Nan Yan, he could not dodge in time, and his whole body completely blocked Nan Yan, protecting her seriously.

This time all his weaknesses were exposed. He was accidentally stabbed by a sword from behind, which almost pierced his shoulder. Then he was kicked in the wound. He let out a muffled groan from his throat, which sounded painful and suppressed, and his face turned pale in an instant.

When Nan Yan heard the voice, she looked up at him subconsciously, worry in her eyes. She touched his back with trembling hands, only to feel that her hands were full of sticky wetness.

"Qiu Chen..."

Her face turned pale and she trembled as she called out his name.

Ye Qiuchen only felt a sharp pain on his back and almost knelt down on the spot. However, his body reacted subconsciously. He pressed her head against his chest and protected it tightly. The two rolled on the ground for several circles. When he stood up again, he spat out a mouthful of blood uncontrollably.

Nan Yan came to her senses and immediately went forward to hold his chest, panicked and worried, so nervous that tears rolled down her cheeks, "Ye Qiuchen, what's wrong with you?"

The situation was urgent at the moment, and Nan Yan was in no mood to ask him about Seventeen anymore. She could only protect his wound to prevent the bleeding from increasing.

Ye Qiuchen coughed twice, and a trickle of blood flowed out of the corner of his mouth. He tried hard to suppress the fishy sweetness in his throat. Seeing Nan Yan's panicked expression, he said soothingly, "I'm fine, don't worry too much, there are still many things to be resolved."

The unresolved issue naturally refers to the two people opposite.

Nan Yan still couldn't help but worry, her voice choked with sobs, holding his hand tightly, "But your injury..."

"Ahem, don't worry, I'll be fine."

Ye Qiuchen stared at the two people in front of him with murderous intent in his eyes. Nan Yan wanted to go forward to help him up, but he carefully pushed her aside. He was afraid that she would be hurt if a fight broke out.

Nan Yan staggered after being pushed, and it was then that she realized that Ye Qiuchen in front of her was covered in wounds. The blood on some of the wounds had even dried and scabbed. His face was forcing a tired look, and his chest was heaving violently, obviously having just been through a fierce fight.

She clenched her fingers subconsciously.

Especially when I saw him rushing up and fighting with the other two without caring about anything, my heart felt as if it was being tightly grasped by a hand, for fear that he would get hurt again.

The smell of blood in the yard became stronger and stronger, and the sound of swords clashing was so loud that it hurt people's eardrums. Fortunately, Ye Qiuchen's martial arts skills were not bad, and he was able to hold off two enemies at the same time. In the end, he used another stab in the shoulder as a lure, and pierced the chest with a sword, luckily killing one of them.

The other person was too seriously injured to withstand Ye Qiuchen's counterattack and was finally chopped off by the sword. The bloody scene frightened Nan Yan so much that her face turned pale. She bit her lips tightly to prevent herself from screaming.

Only after completely dealing with the two men did Ye Qiuchen's knees go weak, and he suddenly fell to the ground uncontrollably as if he had lost his strength. Blood gushed out from the wound on his shoulder, and the flesh was turned inside out, exposing the bone. He looked truly miserable at the moment, his face as pale as paper, and his body covered with scales.

Nan Yan rushed over almost subconsciously, and with red eyes, she helped the man up, carefully preventing his wound from reopening again, "What's wrong with you? Do you want to be treated? I'll find a doctor for you now..."

Before she finished her words, someone grabbed her wrist. Ye Qiuchen shook his head at her, and after a long time of calming down, he finally recovered a little bit of his energy and blood. He coughed a few times and said, "No, you can't go out now. There are still many shadow guards outside looking for you. I'm not seriously injured. I won't die. These are just superficial injuries. They look scary, but they will be fine after they are bandaged up."

Nan Yan seemed relieved when she heard him say that his life was not in danger, but she still looked worried.

She helped him up and helped him sit on a stone bench in the yard. After his breathing became steady, she released her hand that had been supporting him. Then she looked towards the door several times with an uneasy look on her face and asked hurriedly,

"Where's Seventeen? Is he injured too? Why can't I see him? Didn't you say you would bring him back?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Qiuchen's eyes darkened slightly, his body suddenly stiffened, and his expression clearly looked a little unhappy.

He looked up at Nan Yan, moved his lips but said nothing. He remained silent, as if he didn't know how to say this.

And Nan Yan seemed to have expected something.

Her eyes were red, and she clutched his hand tightly to try to hide the panic in her heart. Her lips trembled slightly, and she didn't know whether she was trying to convince herself or to tell him, "I know, he is seriously injured, right? It must be like this, you are injured like this, he must be more seriously injured than you..."

"That's it, it must be like this..."

Her voice was choked with sobs, and she cried until she was a little hoarse. "Ye Qiuchen, can you tell me? Is it because he was too badly injured to walk, so you settled him in another safe place, so he didn't come back with you? Is that right? He didn't die, right?"

Nan Yan was looking forward to it, with a pleading look in her eyes.

She was afraid that the answer he gave would be the same as what the two shadow guards had just said. She was about to have a breakdown emotionally.

Ye Qiuchen's gaze gradually calmed down. He hugged the emotionally broken Nan Yan tightly into his arms. After a long silence, he said in a hoarse voice,

"I'm sorry, it was too late when I got there. Seventeen was too badly injured to make it down. Although I didn't see his body, I heard from the group of Shadow Guards who were chasing him that Seventeen did fall off the cliff by accident."

This time Nan Yan really couldn't help it.

Tears burst out instantly.

Big tears rolled down my chin, the sound was intermittent.

"You lied to me..."

"Seventeen, he won't die. He promised me that he would protect me and take care of me for my whole life. We are going to get married, he won't die..."

She didn't even finish her words because the shock was so great that her chest suddenly felt stuffy and painful, her head ached, and she fell into a coma. She was dying, and her face was abnormally pale.

"Yan Yan..."

Ye Qiuchen's heart tightened when he saw this, and he even called out her name in panic.

He pulled her into his arms, then subconsciously grabbed the hand that was hanging by her side. He carefully felt her pulse, and after making sure that she was just fainting from a palpitation, he quickly picked her up and carried her into the house.

He was extremely nervous the whole time, carefully protecting her head with his hand and slowly placing it on the couch, fearing that she would accidentally bump into something and not paying any attention to the injuries on his own body.

As for the messy corpses and bloody incidents in the courtyard, after settling Nan Yan down, Ye Qiuchen quickly instructed his subordinates to clean them up, so that she wouldn't be frightened when she woke up and saw them.

Afterwards, he quickly asked a nearby doctor to prescribe some calming and nourishing medicine. Women's physiques are different from men's, and palpitations can easily lead to other diseases. Especially since she has been sad and crying for the past two days and has suffered such a great blow and fright, Ye Qiuchen is really worried that she will fall ill and never get better.

Nan Yan slept for a whole day and night. She was so frightened and sad that she didn't wake up until noon the next day.

The one guarding her was Ye Qiuchen. He had not treated his own wounds seriously and had only bandaged them roughly. There were still some obvious bruises on his wounds. It was obvious that he had been guarding her for a long time. Now he did not look much better than her lying on the bed, and looked very haggard.

But Ye Qiuchen was completely unaware.

At this moment, all his attention was on Nan Yan on the bed, especially after he felt the subtle movements in his palm.

Ye Qiuchen raised his head almost subconsciously, looking over with burning eyes, but was afraid that he would scare her again, so he even slowed down his voice, "Are you awake? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere? Are you thirsty? Do you want some water?"

As he spoke, he quickly poured a cup of warm water from the table beside him, gently helped her up, and then held the cup and carefully passed it to her lips.

"Come, drink some water before you talk."

Nan Yan coughed a few times, and her throat was indeed a little dry, and she couldn't even speak clearly. She took a few sips of tea from the other person's palm, and her lips finally regained some of their rosy color.

Then she shook her head at him again, and scanned the room. She didn't see anyone else, and her eyes became moist again. She tried to grab his clothes, and a very weak sound came out of her throat.

"What about Seventeen? How is he?"

Ye Qiuchen paused for a moment, and after a long silence, he whispered, "There has been no news of Seventeen since he fell off the cliff. I went to look for him during the time you were unconscious, but I didn't find a body. I only found this on the edge of the cliff."

As he spoke, he suddenly took out a delicate and small pearl hairpin from his arms and handed it to her. Nan Yan's eyes slowly fell on his hand, and when she saw clearly what it was, tears instantly fell.

She took the pearl hairpin from his hand with trembling fingertips. There was a trace of blood on it, which had already dried up. One of the silver petals was even missing, and it no longer looked as delicate and beautiful as when it was complete.

But Nan Yan couldn't hold it in any longer. She pressed the pearl hairpin tightly against her chest and sobbed softly.

"Liar, liar, he promised me..."

Seeing her heartbroken again, Ye Qiuchen felt his chest ache and swelling. He couldn't bear to see her cry any longer, so he could only pat her on the back and soothe her gently, "Please stop crying. You just woke up and you're still very weak. The doctor said you've been worrying too much lately and need to rest. You can't be so happy or sad anymore. It's easy to..."

He didn't say the rest of the words, but his meaning was obvious. However, this consolation had no effect on the other party. She soon cried red eyes again, and even had difficulty breathing because she cried too hard.

Ye Qiuchen simply held her in his arms and patted her chest gently, "Don't cry, don't cry, calm down first, listen to me, Ying Shiqi is just missing, his body was not found at the bottom of the cliff, maybe he is still alive."

That is almost impossible.

Ye Qiu thought calmly, unless he really had a life of his own, and was blessed by God, it was impossible for a normal person to survive after being stabbed in the chest and thrown off a cliff! The reason why the body could not be found was probably because it was eaten by wild wolves. After all, there were the most wild animals under the cliff, and Ying Shiqi had lost so much blood, the bloody smell would easily attract these animals, and they might have dragged the body back and eaten it up?

The reason why he said this was just to appease Nan Yan's emotions. He had to give her a desire to live and couldn't let her be dragged down by this matter at this moment.

Sure enough, after hearing what he said, Nan Yan's crying gradually stopped. She subconsciously grabbed his hand, trying to get some comfort from him, her eyes full of expectation and anxiety.

"Are you telling the truth?"

"You said Seventeen is still alive. Is he really not dead?"

Ye Qiuchen was silent for a moment, then explained, "He just disappeared."

"We didn't find his body at the bottom of the cliff. Maybe someone rescued him, or maybe Seventeen was too badly injured to come back for a while. In any case, you have to take care of yourself first. Otherwise, how can you be with him when he comes back?"

Nan Yan's eyes were slightly red. She obviously didn't believe what he said. She suspected that he was lying to her, but she didn't want to give up this last hope. After hesitating for a long time, she nodded and said with a choked voice, "Okay, I'll listen to you. I will take good care of myself, take medicine obediently, and then wait for Seventeen to come back..."

"When he comes back, I will never bully him again. We will get married and stay together forever."


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