"Hehe, mere palace guards are no challenge for this young master."
Before He Yunxiao could even feel smug for a moment, the sound of orderly running and the clanging of armor immediately came from the other side.
"Catch the assassin! Catch the assassin!"
He Yunxiao instinctively hid in the bushes beside him, only to realize later that this "assassin-catching" was not about catching him at all.
"It was a false alarm."
He Yunxiao: ? I didn't say anything, where did this voice come from?
Turning his head, He Yunxiao was startled to see a man in black squatting beside him.
"Hey! Who the hell are you?"
The man in black said, "Keep your voice down! Are you afraid the palace guards won't hear you?"
In the darkness, the two crouched in the shadows of the bushes, where the light was almost completely cut off, and their figures were vaguely visible, but they could not make out each other's faces.
"First time?" the man in black asked.
"What first time?" He Yunxiao looked at the man in black with suspicion.
What kind of performance art is this guy doing, dressed all in black and crouching in the bushes of the palace in the middle of the night? He doesn't seem like he's trying to assassinate Meng Qingqian, judging from his calm demeanor.
"Oh, oh, oh, trying to fool me." The man in black pointed at He Yunxiao and laughed.
He Yunxiao: ?
The man in black said, "You're an assassin too, aren't you? If you manage to kill Meng Qingqian in the palace and succeed, you get ten thousand taels of gold. If you die inside, you get five hundred taels of silver. If you go in and fail but come out, you get fifty taels of silver. Don't you know that?"
He Yunxiao reacted quickly, "You're here to earn that fifty taels?"
The man in black retorted, "Fifty taels of silver, you wouldn't take it if it were given to you for free?"
He Yunxiao: "Make money."
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