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Shen Tangning tried her best to remain calm, even though she was being carried on someone's shoulder rather ungently, and her stomach was churning from the bumpy mountain road.
She couldn't immediately recall who she had offended.
If she had any grudges against anyone recently, it was only with the Lady of the Marquis. But the Lady of the Marquis would never go so far as to send someone to kidnap her, since it would not benefit the Lady of the Marquis if the matter were exposed.
Chi Yan wouldn't realize she was missing for a while, so she had to calm down and try to save herself.
She heard someone say, "Brother, where are we taking this young lady? What if her family reports us to the authorities?"
The leader was clearly very experienced: "If someone has been missing for less than a day, the government won't take care of it. Just find a random place and send them back tomorrow morning."
Shen Tangning thought groggily that, fortunately, the other party did not seem to intend to kill her.
For a woman to be missing for so long is no small matter, and in any case, the perpetrator's intentions are clearly malicious.
The group of thugs had gone halfway when several uninvited guests suddenly appeared in front of them.
Four men in black blocked their way, their gazes cold and hostile. Sensing danger, the gang leader put on a fawning smile: "Brothers, what brings you here?"
One of the men in black said coldly, "Put the person down, and you can leave."
The underling immediately flew into a rage: "What do you mean? Brother, what gang are you from? Don't you know the rules? First come, first served?"
The gang leader was also unhappy, but his intuition told him that the other party was not someone to mess with, so he tried to negotiate: "Brother, this job is ours. Isn't it making things difficult for us by interfering like this?"
The man in black flashed, and the henchman who had been there earlier was now wide-eyed, falling straight to the ground, a sword slit in his throat.
"Dead...dead!"
The thugs turned pale. This was just a mob; they had never seen anything like this before.
The gang leader acted decisively, signaling his underlings to put the man down. He nervously swallowed, saying, "Boss, we'll give him back. We were just being unreasonable. Please forgive us!"
The man in black's eyes remained expressionless: "Too late!"
The thugs exchanged glances, and their survival instincts compelled them to turn and run.
However, these men in black were clearly professional assassins, and in the blink of an eye, the thugs were dead.
The man in black slit the throat of a thug without batting an eye.
Shen Tangning struggled out of the sack and saw this scene; her blood ran cold.
She had only one thought in her mind: run!
She couldn't let herself fall into the hands of these people. While the man in black was dealing with the thugs, she got up from the ground, lifted her skirt, and quickly disappeared into the woods.
Her movements were quickly noticed.
"The person has escaped."
The man in black frowned: "Chase!"
Shen Tangning exerted all her strength, not daring to look back, her throat feeling like it was being sliced ​​by a razor blade with every breath.
Those people were clearly professional assassins, or even possibly bodyguards kept by wealthy families. She really couldn't understand when she had offended such people!
But she knew that once she fell into their hands, her chances of survival were extremely slim.
However, she was a young lady from a secluded family, unable to carry anything, so how could she possibly outrun these highly skilled assassins?
Soon, a knife was placed in front of Shen Tangning. If she hadn't stopped in time, she would have run into the blade!
"Miss Shen, if you take another step forward, I won't be able to stop this knife."
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