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Chapter 22
Ye Zhaoyan steadied himself vigorously, shook his head to get rid of the sense of confusion, and tried to stay awake.

"puff!"

A mouthful of blood spewed out, and she swayed for a while, finally unable to support herself and knelt down on one knee.

The boy smelled a bloody smell and opened his eyes.

Seeing Ye Zhaoyan vomiting blood and kneeling on the ground, his pupils shrank slightly.

"She is seriously injured, let's take her away quickly." A man in black whispered.

"Stop! Don't move her!" The boy suddenly struggled to stand up with an angry expression on his face.

"Aren't you poisoned?" The man in black frowned and asked.

"You don't need to bother!" The boy sneered.

After all, he still took the risk of residual poison invading his veins.

"Take care of your own life and don't meddle in your own business." The man in black sneered, then walked towards Ye Zhaoyan.

The boy dodged in front of Ye Zhaoyan.

Seeing this, the two men in black looked at each other, and one of the men in black sneered, "You're overthinking yourself, this woman is out of your control!"

His words completely angered the boy.

The young man's eyes were red, his eyes were round, and he said in a word: "You don't want to touch her!"

"In that case, we have no choice but to deal with you!" The man in black snorted coldly, and swept out the long sword in his hand.

The sword energy was sharp and sharp, and it was straight at the young man's face.

The young man's face changed slightly, and he quickly turned sideways to avoid the attack, his left arm was scratched by the point of the sword, and bright red blood slowly flowed down his clean white clothes.

Regardless of the pain in his shoulder, he grabbed another man in black by the hilt of his sword, and with the help of the reaction force, he flew backwards.

Caught off guard, the man in black let go of his arm, and the boy grabbed the hilt of his sword.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Three cold lights shot out from his left and right sides, and went straight to the boy.

The boy's pupils shrank suddenly, and he hurriedly dodged aside, but there was still a scar on his right shoulder.

"Pfft!"

Blood spurted out and splashed on Ye Zhaoyan's cheek.

The young man clenched the hilt of the sword tightly, enduring the severe pain and threw the man in black out, holding the sword directly into the man in black's chest.

The man in black's eyes froze, and he fell heavily to the ground, with his own sword still stuck in his chest.

He widened his eyes, looked at the young man in front of him in disbelief, opened his mouth, but in the end he couldn't make any sound, his body twitched a few times, and died.

Ye Zhaoyan looked at the young man, and his heart instantly rose to his throat.

The expression of the other man in black changed drastically when he saw this, and he looked at the boy with a pair of vulture eyes, and sternly said, "You dare to kill my brother, I will fight with you!"

"boom!"

There was a loud noise, and the man in black punched the boy in the chest.

The boy paused, suppressing the surging blood in his chest, and kicked away the sword of the man in black.

While turning around to dodge, the soft sword in his hand sliced ​​through the body of the man in black.

The man in black held his waist and abdomen, gritted his teeth to stabilize his body.

His hand reached into his sleeve, and a delicate Hidden Blade was slowly aimed at the boy's throat.

"I will let you survive..."

His eyes widened before he finished speaking, a sob stuck in his throat.

A dagger pierced the man in black's neck.

He covered his neck and looked at Ye Zhaoyan in surprise.

Ye Zhaoyan was panting, his face was covered with sweat.

She looked up at the towering ancient tree, took a deep breath, and pulled out the dagger.

Blood spurted out, staining her snow-white clothes red.

The man in black fell forward stiffly.

There was a soft ticking sound, and it was blood flowing down the arm onto the grass.

Half of Ye Zhaoyan's body was already stained red with blood.

Holding the blood-stained sword, the young man turned his head to look at Ye Zhaoyan, with guilt and heartache in his eyes.

Ye Zhaoyan forced a smile, looked at the boy, and said, "I'm fine."

"I'm the one who dragged you down." The boy raised his right hand to wipe off the blood from the corner of his mouth, without turning his eyes for a moment.

A pair of bright and clear pupils flickered, and there was a bit of moisture in a trance.

Ye Zhaoyan took a breath and said, "Let's keep going..."

Before he finished speaking, the young man shook his body and fell to the ground with a plop.

A trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, his eyes stared blankly into the distance, and his lips trembled.

Seeing this, Ye Zhaoyan's expression changed immediately, he hurriedly helped the boy up, and shouted worriedly: "How are you?"

"cough cough"

The young man shook his head and looked at Ye Zhaoyan with worry in his eyes.

His body was getting weaker and weaker due to the onset of toxins in his body.

If they couldn't escape this time, they might all die here.

"Ahem, I. Ahem"

He coughed violently, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Seeing the blood he spit out, Ye Zhaoyan frowned, and tore off a corner of his underwear to help him wipe the blood off his lips.

"I'll take you out of here." She said softly.

The boy wanted to stand up, but his eyes turned black, and he fell limply to the ground uncontrollably.

"Hey, wake up, don't scare me." Ye Zhaoyan looked at the young man's pale face and the blood overflowing from his lips, and said anxiously.

The boy's lips moved, and he opened his eyes with difficulty and said, "Take another path."

His voice was soft, but extremely firm.

Ye Zhaoyan felt the boy gently hold her hand
Then he touched something warm.

She lowered her head and saw a jade pendant lying in the boy's hand.

Ye Zhaoyan took the jade pendant in his hand and looked at it carefully.

The jade is crystal clear, carved into exquisite patterns, and exudes an elegant fragrance, which is intoxicating.

The jade pendant is round, with a line of small characters engraved in the center.

【Zhuo Yibai】

Her heart skipped a beat, and she couldn't help but blurted out.

Zhuo Yibai
It turned out that the young man's name was Zhuo Yibai, and he was named Zhuo just like the people in Zhuo Wang's mansion.

"You are. Zhuo Yibai?"

Zhuo Yibai didn't answer Ye Zhaoyan's words, his eyelashes fluttered slightly, as if he wanted to struggle to wake up, but his body was weak and he couldn't open his eyes no matter what.

Her heartbeat continued to accelerate, and a wonderful feeling rose from the bottom of her heart.

Looking at the face in front of her that was five or six points similar to Lord Zhuo, her mood was extremely complicated, as if her throat was blocked by something, and she couldn't speak a word.

She remembered that in her previous life she had heard someone say that Lord Zhuo had a little boy who was living outside, and he didn't bring him back until he was half-grown.

Later, there was civil strife in Zhuowang's mansion, and the young master was sent to the western border to guard, and he returned to the capital at the age of fourteen.

Ye Zhaoyan also knew that Zhuo Wang's Mansion and Ye Mansion also had a relationship.

The Ye family's ancestral home was in the south of the Yangtze River, General Ye was named a general when he was young, and Lord Zhuo's father was the former grand tutor of the current dynasty.

General Ye and Tai Tuo have been married since they were young, and the two families have a good relationship. Unfortunately, some things caused the relationship between the two families to deteriorate. Later, they even fought each other. Until later, Ye's mansion was copied.
She thought of everything that happened in her previous life, her face paled slightly.

In the previous life, it was because of Lord Zhuo's rebellion that General Ye was designed at a crucial point...

Ye Zhaoyan clenched his teeth, stretched out his hand and gently stroked the jade pendant, with a hint of bitterness on his face.

(End of this chapter)