He Yunxiao watched as the antidote pondered silently, without disturbing her, and waited quietly opposite her.
Fifteen minutes later, He Yunxiao saw the antidote and rubbed his temples again.
Having anticipated this, he silently took out a packet of candied fruit from his pocket, opened the package, placed it on the table, and pushed it in front of the girl who had received the antidote.
Lost in thought, Meng Qingqian didn't think much of it. She smelled the candied fruit and habitually picked one up and put it in her mouth.
After eating two, Meng Qingqian realized something was wrong. She suddenly noticed the extra candied fruit on the table, and then looked up at He Yunxiao.
He Yunxiao smiled and said, "Please go ahead, I bought it especially for you, don't be shy."
Meng Qingqian realized that she had been incredibly impolite, eating someone else's food without permission, making her even less polite than a child. Her face flushed bright red.
That tingling sense of shame washed over her again.
My heart was racing, my mind was completely blank. I couldn't think of anything.
He Yunxiao quickly asked, "Miss Li, what's wrong with you now?"
He Yunxiao was a little confused. How come the girl who used to be full of bad intentions and often mocked and ridiculed him was now acting like a little girl, blushing, embarrassed and ashamed all the time?
One of the three great illusions in life—She wouldn't like me, would she?
He Yunxiao glanced at the antidote's favorability rating: a mere fifty. And it wasn't the fifty Nan Zhu got after a second attempt, nor the fifty Zi Ruo earned step by step. Her fifty was an "unintentional" result; she hadn't deliberately cultivated any favorability. It should have been quite weak.
For someone with fifty points of favorability, her reaction is far too much. Even Namjoo wouldn't blush like this. As long as the word "yang qi" isn't mentioned to Namjoo.
He Yunxiao kindly said, "Miss Li, would you like me to call a royal physician for you?"
With the help of the bell, Meng Qingqian once again suppressed the shyness in her heart.
"No need, let's continue talking about the border map."
He Yunxiao said, "That's all I know about the border defense map."
"What about the others?"
“Other…” He Yunxiao kept them in suspense, “I also know that the Yan Emperor is planning to assassinate Princess Xiaoyue.”
Meng Qingqian said, "If that's the case, then there's no need to say more. Her Highness is being assassinated every day. On the busiest day, twenty-three assassins can be caught. In the past few years, no fewer than a hundred ninth-rank martial artists have died at the hands of Her Highness's guards. There are even three Grandmasters among them."
He Yunxiao was shocked once again.
In the entire martial arts world of Yinjing, excluding the palace, the Six Doors, and the army, there were only about ten ninth-rank martial artists. Yet, the Yan Emperor used a hundred ninth-rank martial artists just to assassinate Meng Qingqian!
He Yunxiao didn't know whether to say that Yin Jing's martial arts world was too weak, or that the Yan Emperor's power was too strong.
"Are there really that many high-level martial artists in the Yan Kingdom?"
Meng Qingqian, who was in charge of the assassin organization Chang Le Fang and knew the inside story, shook her head and said, "It's not that the Yan Emperor has many martial artists under his command, but that the Yan Emperor uses bounties to summon martial artists from the entire martial arts world to kill Princess Xiaoyue. Of these hundred ninth-rank assassins, at least half are from the Qi Kingdom's martial arts world. Only a very small number of elite assassins are truly under the Yan Emperor's command. For example, those three Grandmasters."
He Yunxiao sighed, "Grandmaster realm! The Yan Emperor has really gone all out."
Meng Qingqian added, "Those three grandmasters are nearing the end of their lives. If they don't risk killing Your Highness, they probably won't live much longer either."
He Yunxiao: ...
Hearing what the girl who gave the antidote said, He Yunxiao suddenly understood.
No wonder the Emperor of Yan wanted Sister Jiang to kill Meng Qingqian. It turns out it's because Sister Jiang doesn't know any martial arts at all! In this way, others will lower their guard against her, and this weak woman who can't even kill a chicken will have a higher success rate in assassination than a Grandmaster.
“Miss Li, the next assassination attempt by the Yan Emperor is one that he has been planning for two years. You would never guess how he intends to kill Meng Qingqian. So, in exchange, I’m telling you this secret. You not only have to protect my spy friend, but you also have to do me a favor.”
He Yunxiao began paving the way for Sister Jiang to redeem herself through meritorious service.
Meng Qingqian was completely unconvinced by He Yunxiao's rhetoric. She simply considered the "two years" timeframe along with the name "Jiang Wuyou" and immediately came up with the so-called "Yan Emperor assassination plan".
She raised her chin slightly. "So, you're having Jiang Wuyou perform a sword dance at His Highness's coming-of-age ceremony, and then seize the opportunity to kill him? By the way, your beautiful spy friend, isn't that Jiang Wuyou?"
He Yunxiao: ...
Seeing He Yunxiao's speechless expression, Meng Qingqian became even more smug and pleased. "Hmph, I guessed right, didn't I?"
He Yunxiao is quitting; someone's cheating, so it's unplayable. They're just playing openly.
"Yes. That's right. Jiang Wuyou's parents and siblings are all controlled by the Yan Emperor. She either chooses to assassinate Meng Qingqian or not. If she doesn't kill her, someone has to rescue her family."
Meng Qingqian said indifferently, "Now that I know about this, she can't kill His Highness."
He Yunxiao said, "That's not important. What's important is that I don't want her to make a move. If she does, Qi society will not tolerate her."
Meng Qingqian said even more nonchalantly, "She is a spy from the Yan Kingdom. What more do you expect from the Qi Kingdom? Not killing her is already showing mercy."
"Jiang Wuyou first mentioned the impending war between Qi and Yan, then the theft of information about Qi's border defenses, and finally the assassination attempt on Meng Qingqian. These three points alone constitute a great achievement for her. I don't ask you or Meng Qingqian for any reward; I just want her to stay peacefully and quietly in the Marquis's residence."
Seeing He Yunxiao become assertive, Meng Qingqian retorted without backing down, "Leaving aside the fact that the first and third points are completely useless, even the second point is that, as a spy for the Yan Kingdom, she probably deserves some credit for the leak of our Qi Kingdom's border defense arrangements. Considering that she abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, I have already shown mercy by sparing her life. He Yunxiao, don't push your luck."
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