Chapter 36 Renegade (1/2)

Tang Xia turned around again, stroking the hair hanging over her forehead, ”Is there anything else?”

Shun Decai looked at her with sparkles in his eyes, as if he placed his last hope on Tang Xia.

”Your Grace, you own such a mild temper, you can definitely help the emperor make a difference in the future. I hope you can think it over to grasp this opportunity.”

”So Shun Decai takes great pains to catch me up and talks so much just for Helian Jue's good.”

”I got it. Thanks for your consideration.” Tang Xia said.

Tang Xia increased her pace so that Lyuyou had no choice but to hasten her steps to keep up with hers.

”Your Grace, do you believe Eunuch Shun's words?” Lyuyou asked.

Tang Xia's deep phoenix eyes had an obvious ripple skimming over her eyes.

”Let it be. No one can fully understand what the emperor is thinking.” Tang Xia said with a cold but somewhat disembodied voice.

But Tang Xia could not help thinking about it.

”Could it be true? What Shun Decai had said?”

At the same time, Helian Jue's charismatic eyes appeared in her mind again. And he could attract people's eyes as long as he sat there.

”If Shun Decai's words are true, would it be lucky that Helian Jue likes me?”

Tang Xia shook her head, thinking that she was ridiculous to believe an NPC's words so easily.

”Tang Xia.”

A cold voice came from behind. The voice was as deep as the hooting and drawn-out clarino, and Tang Xia would become senseless every time she heard his voice.

Turning her head around, what Tang Xia saw was Chu Tiankuo in silver armor against the sunlight. With a glittering smile in his eyes, he wore a haughty and unruly look on his calm face.

Tang Xia stepped close to him and said, ”There you are.”

”What did Guard Chu call Your Grace? Is it... Xia?” Lyuyou scratched her head trying to recall the name.

Tang Xia got startled for a while and glanced at Chu Tiankuo with resentment, then she pretended to keep her countenance, ”What I heard was 'Yue Ji, Your Grace'. Is your hearing worse than mine?”

Lyuyou stuck her tongue out awkwardly, lowering her head.

Chu Tiankuo raised his eyebrows and said in a cold voice, ”I have made progress.”

With those concluding words, Chu Tiankuo left without looking back in the other direction.

Dissatisfied with his unruliness, Tang Xia just frowned then caught up with Chu Tiankuo slowly.

When they arrived at the imperial barracks, Chu Tiankuo unfolded his long fingers.

There was a note.

Tang Xia took it from his hand and unfolded the note gently -

My death was so miserable that I would behead anyone who had killed me in Hecheng hall at midnight!

Lyuyou tilted her head forward and fixed her eyes on the note for a moment with somewhat of a glimmer of fear in her eyes.

”All the people related to this must die at midnight.” Lyuyou said in a trembling voice, raising her thin eyebrows high.

Then Tang Xia and Chu Tiankuo looked at each other.

It was indeed a letter of challenge.

Lyuyou frowned her eyebrows as her face turned red because of fear. Tang Xia could not bear to see her suffering, so she unloaded a sigh of relief.

”You don't have to be so disturbed.” Tang Xia's voice was so nice that she soothed Lyuyou's nerve.

After hearing her words, Lyuyou gradually calmed down, ”You mean that there is a way to solve this problem?”

Tang Xia smiled so beautifully that it eclipsed the colors of flowers.

”Of course not.” Tang Xia's voice was as gentle and long-lasting as a yellowbird's voice, ”There is no ghost at all. So it must be man-made.”

”This letter is literally a death notice, but if we read between the lines we can find from the note that the rumored executioner will be waiting in Hecheng hall at midnight.”

Lyuyou said with a glimmer in her eyes, ”If it is indeed man-made, Your Grace can find who the executioner is, so long as you wait at Hecheng hall at midnight.”

Tang Xia raised her chin haughtily and said with compliments in her eyes, ”You are worth teaching.”

”But...” The glimmer in Lyuyou's eyes died out as if she thought of something, ”But the executioner must have predicted that Your Grace will figure out what she means so that she dares to say so. Your Grace and Guard Chu will be ambushed by her if she waits and prepares in there.”

Tang Xia raised her thin eyebrows for a moment as she thought of meeting Huangye in the Royal Garden that day but wore a smile in her face right away.

”Then I can inform the imperial troops in advance to arrest her.” Tang Xia said in a relaxed tone, but Lyuyou was surprised by her words.

Lyuyou's voice trembled so badly that it was clear to see that she was alarmed.

”Does Your Grace plan to inform the imperial troops in advance?”

Tang Xia looked her up and down but remained silent, then she said, ”Certainly not.”

”I will meet individually with the executioner.”

She said raising her eyebrows with haughtiness in her eyes.

Lyuyou asked cautiously, ”What is your plan?”

”She is going to find out what the executioner's real purpose is.”

Lyuyou turned her eyes to Chu Tiankuo's face, following his voice.

As a breeze swept by, Chu Tiankuo wore a trace of indifference on his handsome face in the light of the sun.

”Right. I'm going to find out what the executioner wants to do such that he framed me several times.”