Chapter 115 What bad luck! Chapter 115...
Chapter 115 What bad luck!
Sikong Zhaixing knew his martial arts skills weren't particularly outstanding, but he was certain of his superior agility. If his agility wasn't good, he wouldn't have dared to do so many things that would obviously get him beaten up. Combined with his ability to disguise himself, this allowed him to thrive in the martial world.
Before today, he had never imagined that his lightness skill would be so easily defeated. He seemed to have been caught up with very easily, and then defeated just as easily. In fact, Sikong Zhaixing seemed to have only seen a flash of silver light before he collapsed.
What's going on? Sikong Zhaixing was a little confused.
"Sikong Zhaixing?"
Lying on the ground, Sikong Zhaixing looked at the moon in the sky and listened to the female voice in her ear. She felt like she was dying. "You've mistaken me for someone else."
“That’s it.” The woman stood next to Sikong Zhaixing. “Someone spent ten thousand taels of gold to buy your life.”
Sikong Zhaixing smiled bitterly, "I've already told you I'm not Sikong Zhaixing, you've really mistaken me for someone else." He knew the other person had already figured out who he was, but he still wanted to struggle a little.
“You’re very valuable,” the woman said with a smile.
The other person was beautiful, like the moon in the sky, but to Sikong Zhaixing, her smile was no different from a death knell. "May I ask who you are?" he wanted to know who had gotten him into trouble with.
"Good day."
Sikong Zhaixing: "!!!"
Seeing the fear and despair on Sikong Zhaixing's face, Ling Hao couldn't help but feel speechless. She knew what the other was thinking, but it was precisely this knowledge that left her speechless.
Gongzi Mingyue suddenly appeared and kicked Sikong Zhaixing's shoulder. "Do you even have a brain? It's your honor that my Ah Hao is willing to catch you. What's with that expression? If you weren't a flower thief, you wouldn't be in danger of becoming a eunuch. Take that expression off, or I'll make you a eunuch right now."
With Ling Hao out, it was impossible for Gongzi Mingyue not to be absent. The moment he saw Sikong Zhaixing's expression, he knew that Sikong Zhaixing must also know about the false rumors circulating in the martial arts world regarding Ling Hao. He was instantly enraged. If it weren't for Ling Hao's presence, he wouldn't have simply kicked Sikong Zhaixing in the shoulder; he would have actually made him a eunuch.
Ling Hao adapted well to Gongzi Mingyue's current state and didn't try to stop him. Actually, she quite wanted to say that herself, but she had to maintain her public image. Now that he had spoken, she didn't need to, which was much better. Most importantly, when friends stand up for you and defend you, you should definitely stand by your friends' side.
Therefore, Ling Hao remained silent on the matter.
Sikong Zhaixing understood that he wouldn't become a eunuch now, but if his attitude wasn't good enough, he definitely would. So, he immediately changed his expression, "I was wrong. My mind was filthy, and I actually used improper thoughts to speculate about a great hero. I'm just a nobody, insignificant. I hope the great hero will be lenient and let me go."
Although he was a thief, he was very observant and could tell at a glance that the woman held a higher status than the man. Therefore, when he spoke to Ling Hao, he genuinely hoped she would release him. Even if she didn't release him, he'd at least avoid being beaten.
Sikong Zhaixing wasn't someone with any particular fetish; he preferred to avoid being beaten if possible. Besides, the man was looking at him fiercely, and he worried that if he didn't beg for mercy, he might not even get a chance to be beaten, and the man might just destroy the evidence.
He's still young, and there are so many wonderful things he hasn't seen yet. He doesn't want to die.
"Let you go? Dream on." Gongzi Mingyue thought Sikong Zhaixing was a glib-tongued person who was no good, so she simply hit him again, knocking him unconscious. "Alright, let's take him back."
"Okay." Seeing that Young Master Mingyue had already arranged everything, Ling Hao smiled and accepted. It felt quite nice to have hit someone without having to drag them back herself.
Of course, it wasn't Ling Hao who dragged the person, much less Gongzi Mingyue; it was a guard who appeared out of nowhere. And he dragged the person directly back, instead of staying behind to go back with Ling Hao and Gongzi Mingyue.
He's not stupid. Everyone knows this, so how could he not know it? With the poetry girl's advice, they all understood that they had to keep their distance when the young master and your daughter were together, or they might be in trouble someday.
So he dragged Sikong Zhaixing along and left.
Ling Hao wasn't surprised to see him walking so fast, after all, that's how everyone under Gongzi Yu was. The two of them walked slowly under the moonlight.
"Okay."
"What's wrong?" Linghao turned to look at Gongzi Mingyue.
"I feel like something's not quite right." A rare look of confusion crossed Gongzi Mingyue's eyes. "I feel like... something's not quite right."
"What's wrong?" Ling Hao's heart jumped. She wasn't worried about anything else now, except that he might have lost his mind. (Not an insult.)
He is now two people, both Gongzi Yu and Gongzi Mingyue, both the older and younger brother. They share one body, and if one of them is harmed, the other will be affected. One is her beloved, and the other is her friend; no matter who they are, she doesn't want anything to happen to them.
When Mingyue woke up this time, Linghao noticed something was off about him. She worried that he would vanish silently like the morning mist when the sun rose. So when she heard him say something was wrong, Linghao was genuinely worried.
Gongzi Mingyue looked at Linghao with a puzzled expression. "Ah Hao, we're friends, right?"
“Of course.” Ling Hao nodded. “Who told you we weren’t friends? Don’t believe that person; they’re definitely lying. We are friends, best friends.” She knew that both Gongzi Yu and Gongzi Mingyue harbored deep-seated insecurity, so she always made her thoughts clear to them. Just like now.
Ling Hao was also a little puzzled. Who exactly had the opportunity to talk nonsense with Mingyue? Since he woke up this time, he had been by her side the whole time and rarely left her side. There couldn't be many people who could take advantage of this time to talk nonsense with him, right?
“Yes, I believe Ah Hao.” Gongzi Mingyue thought of the conversation she had overheard between the guards and decided to trust Ling Hao. “No matter who said it, I will definitely believe Ah Hao.”
That's right, he and Ahao were just friends. How could he possibly have such strange feelings for Ahao? He knew from his biological parents that the most unreliable kind of relationship between people was so-called love. How could that kind of fleeting, dew-like feeling possibly be the kind of feeling he had for Ahao?
He would never treat someone like dirt one moment and discard them the next. He and A-Hao were the best of friends, their bond was the strongest, not the kind of friendship they described. Casting aside her confusion, Gongzi Mingyue cheered up again, "A-Hao, your best friend has to be me."
"Okay, it's you," Ling Hao replied with a smile. She thought to herself that when she got back, she'd ask Shi Ci if anyone had been talking nonsense with Ming Yue. If she found out who it was, she'd definitely teach that person a lesson. Thinking this, Ling Hao's fingers caressed the scattered snowflakes.
Sikong Zhaixing felt he was incredibly unlucky. He had been caught red-handed and forced to do someone a favor; to make matters worse, he messed things up and implicated his friends; he couldn't escape when he tried to run away and was caught; and to make matters worse, he was dragged away like a piece of cargo.
"What bad luck! How can someone be so unlucky?" Just as Sikong Zhaixing felt utterly miserable, she opened her eyes to see a familiar face. "Lu Xiaofeng?"
"Hey, you stinky monkey, still alive?" Lu Xiaofeng chuckled. "I never thought you, Sikong Zhaixing, would have a day like this. How pathetic."
While Lu Xiaofeng and Sikong Zhaixing are indeed friends, there are different kinds of friends. These two are more like mischievous friends; if they see the other suffer a terrible misfortune when there's no danger, that's a real cause for celebration.
Just like now, Lu Xiaofeng saw Sikong Zhaixing being dragged back tied up like a dumpling, and his laughter echoed throughout the entire courtyard. Luckily, the place was big enough, otherwise he would probably have been scolded by the neighbors.
"You..." Sikong Zhaixing finally realized what was happening. "So, you're the one who sent Ling Hao to arrest me, aren't you? You've gone too far! I just accidentally tricked you, did you really need to hire that person to deal with me?"
Cats have their ways, mice have theirs, and thieves certainly have theirs. Sikong Zhaixing, being well-informed, naturally knew that Lu Xiaofeng and Ling Hao were friends. Now that he saw Lu Xiaofeng's face, he naturally assumed that Lu Xiaofeng was the one who asked Ling Hao to arrest him.
"You think you can't find me? You actually hired people to arrest me? Do you know how scared I was?" Sikong Zhaixing kept rambling on, perhaps because of the lingering fear in her heart.
“It wasn’t me who invited him,” Lu Xiaofeng shook his head. “I don’t have ten thousand taels of gold. It was someone else who was tricked by you and is very rich who invited him. I think you should know who that person is?”
Sikong Zhaixing's face immediately turned green. "I really didn't mean to."
“If you dared to touch the Zhu family’s daughter, you should have known you’d be in trouble.” Lu Xiaofeng reached out and poked Sikong Zhaixing’s unlucky face. “I didn’t know you had such guts.”
"I'm not very brave," Sikong Zhaixing said with a bitter face. "Otherwise, the Zhu family's daughter wouldn't have escaped unscathed." After learning that the person those people wanted him to steal was Zhu Xi, he knew he had been dragged into trouble.
He'll die if he doesn't help them; but he'll also die if he does exactly as they say. Zhu Xi is a daughter of the Zhu family. Putting aside how many experts Zhu Fugui has paid to protect the Zhu family, just consider Shen Lang. If he knew what had happened, could he remain indifferent?
That was his in-laws' family; even if he retired from the martial world, there were plenty of people willing to do things for him. The thought of being dismembered by the Zhu family sent chills down Sikong Zhaixing's spine. Therefore, he devised a compromise, hoping to extricate himself from the situation.
-----------------------
Author's note: Sikong Zhaixing: Family members, do you think I can still live a full life?
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
