Chapter 242: She has the right to be provocative (2/2)

“Han Yunxi, your lordship’s said before. You don’t have the right to act so outrageous before your lordship!” Jun Yixie’s cold voice rang out before he slapped his hand against the floor, sending all the needles stuck in the ground back to the air. All of them shot unceasingly towards Han Yunxi, their speed difficult to avoid.

“Careful!” Gu Qishao grabbed Han Yunxi’s waist and protected her with his embrace as he turned. His red robes floated up and created a current of air that deflected all the incoming needles.

“Jun Yixie, it’s the first time this young gentleman’s seen someone raise a hand against a woman, hehe,” Gu Qishao smiled mockingly.

“She brought it on herself,” Jun Yixie was still too angry to care about being a gentleman.

“A man should act like a man, and yield to her more,” Gu Qishao was still smiling. He looked like he was joking, but it was all satire. As he spoke, he pulled Han Yunxi behind him again and glanced at a window out of the corner of his eye. When you couldn’t defeat an enemy, the best choice out of the 36 Stratagems was to flee!

“Gu Qishao, it’s not easy to leave as you like after making an appointment with your lordship!” Jun Yixie could tell Gu Qishao’s plans at a glance. He slipped the poison water into his sleeve and flickered over. Immediately, Gu Qishao dodged out of the way. This time, Han Yunxi was obedient enough to stay in his arms as she quietly stared at Jun Yixie’s sleeve while considering an idea. Jun Yixie gave chase while Gu Qishao dodged. Though Gu Qishao’s strength wasn’t comparable to Jun Yixie’s, he was no weakling. As long as he didn’t fight him directly and just evaded here and there, it was still easy to protect Han Yunxi. He even jeered at Jun Yixie a few times while he avoided him. Of course, Jun Yixie had already used poison multiple times during their chase, but Gu Qishao had detoxified them all in turn. During the entire process, Han Yunxi was unnaturally silent, almost enough for others to overlook her existence altogether.

Suddenly, Jun Yixie stopped and reached for his sword. Gu Qishao’s gaze sank as he grew guarded. Jun Yixie didn’t waste any more words speaking, while Gu Qishao knew that talking to him now was useless. The room turned still as the atmosphere grew tense. But in the silence, Jun Yixie suddenly gave a low groan before his right hand dropped uselessly to his side. His sword fell with a clang on the ground!

This…

Before anyone could react, Jun Yixie hastily took out the bottle of poison pond water from his sleeve.

There was poison! Someone had tampered with the poison pond water, which had now injured his hand!

What a treacherous Han Yunxi. So she’d provoked him on purpose, not because she was stupid, nor because she was arrogant, but because she had a motive! Jun Yixie was one of the top poison users in the field, but he’d fallen before this woman again and gotten poisoned. His right hand suddenly lost all strength, while his wrist, elbow, and arm joints began to hurt. It seemed like Hundred Leaf Purple Jade (Bone Poison), but wasn’t completely identical! Dammit, he couldn’t even tell what kind of poison it was right now, nor whether it’d spread beyond his arm.

“Han Yunxi, you’re despicable!” Jun Yixie tightened his grip on that bottle of poison pond water and threw it at Han Yunxi, but before it left his hand, the bottle suddenly burst open to reveal a cloud of toxic fog. This was Han Yunxi’s true motive. Who knew she had one last move?

Jun Yixie didn’t have time to get rid of the bottle and was spurted in the face with the toxic fog. Dammit, it was another poison he couldn’t recognize at first glance. He could only try to evade and retreat from the poison.

“Jun Yixie, this wangfei dared to meet with you, not because I believed you, but because I believed in myself! This time, this wangfei will kidnap you!” Right now Han Yunxi was just like before, calm and self-confident. Her elegant demeanor sparkled with a brilliance that nobody could ignore, making her the focal point of the entire world.

“Gu Qishao, what are you standing there dazed for? Why aren’t you making a move yet?” she said in a low voice.

But before Gu Qishao could take action, Jun Yixie gave a whistle. Twenty Poison Humans dressed in black robes suddenly appeared from the windows on four sides to protect him. Soon after that, 20 more black-robed Poison Humans entered to rush towards Gu Qishao. In the chaos, Jun Yixie was the first to escape via the window. Nobody noticed the white figure that appeared at the same time he jumped out, nor the rainstorm of Pear Blossom needles that pierced his shoulder guard. Soon after that, a foot kicked him straight up into the air.

“Tch…who’s he guarding against? He brought along so many people!” Gu Qishao spat. He had no way to chase after him and only thought of escaping first. Though he could fight off these black robed Poison Humans, he had a Han Yunxi to protect and couldn’t take the risk. Han Yunxi didn’t expect there to be so many Poison Humans hidden in their midst. It seemed like they couldn’t catch Jun Yixie this time. Still, when she was about to give up, she suddenly felt a strong wind gush past her. Before she figured out what was going on, she was wrested roughly out of Gu Qishao’s arms and into another embrace.

“Kill everyone on site!” a cold voice commanded from above her. Han Yunxi looked up and saw that clean, clear, well-defined chin. This man looked good even when he was talking.

It was him, Long Feiye!

Tang Li had gone off to chase after Jun Yixie. Aside from Han Yunxi and Long Feiye, the only other person present besides Jun Yixie’s men was Gu Qishao. What did Long Feiye’s ‘Kill everyone on site’ mean?

One after another, Tang Clan bodyguards bearing assassination weapons appeared. There had to be at least 50 of them, all of whom tightly encircled the rest. They’d completely overwhelmed the two waves of Poison Humans. The fighting turned even more intense with more people present. Gu Qishao’s figure was just about swallowed up in the sea of black-robed figures. Long Feiye’s steps were as calm and self-possessed as ever. One hand held on tightly to Han Yunxi’s waist as he walked her out of the chaos with a cold face. By now, Han Yunxi’s entire body had turned stiff. How could she imagine that he…would show up?