Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

103. Killing Intent

Translator: Flying Lines

Early next morning, Xiao Shengnian brought Zhou Zaiyue and Su Jie to the front door of a luxurious mansion.

“What a waste, buying such a big mansion.” Zhou Zaiyue said when he glanced at the stylish front door.

“As a prince, I naturally won’t let Nianxuan suffer.” Xiao Shengnian smiled and waited for Zhui Xing to push open the doors. Then, he led some people inside.

The mansion was really big, but it didn’t make people feel that it was empty. When they first entered, there was some rockery with water features. Further in were well looked-after flower fields. Even though the architecture of the mansion wasn’t an awe-inspiring creation that rivalled nature, its strength laid in its details and elegance. It made people’s eyes shine at the sight. It was very easy to imagine how comfortable it would be to live here.

“Do you like it here?” Xiao Shengnian asked.

Su Jie nodded and asked, “Is this how it was when you bought it? Or did you especially send people here to make it like this?”

“I only sent some people over to clean it up a little.” Xiao Shengnian didn’t say more on this topic. He bought this mansion from a wealthy merchant a few days ago. Because no one had lived in the mansion for a long time, the grass was overgrown. Thus, Xiao Shengnian sent Yu Che to lead some servants to tidy it up. These flowers and the rockery were all brought over at the last minute, but Xiao Shengnian definitely wouldn’t tell Su Jie that.

“Yu Che and Yu Jiang will stay here to look after you. When it is the day of our marriage, I will escort you into my residence personally.”

Xiao Shengnian knew Su Jie didn’t like being looked after, but he decided to leave two people here just in case.

“Sure.” Su Jie answered as he nodded, yet his attention wasn’t on Xiao Shengnian. Instead, he revealed a trace of suspicion.

Seeing this, Xiao Shengnian asked, “What is it?”

Su Jie paused in his steps, not moving forward. He frowned as if sensing that something wasn’t right.

Looking around him, Su Jie’s expression didn’t change, but his gaze rested on somewhere close to the flower fields eventually. The corner of his lips seemed to curl lightly. He laughed, “I can smell… killing intent.”

“Killing intent can be smelled?” Hearing his words, Yu Jiang, who was behind them, chuckled, saying, “Young Master, how do you smell it?”

Nevertheless, before Yu Jiang finished speaking, a man who wore a tight-fitting blue robe suddenly appeared from within the flower fields. At the same time, blue-robed men kept appearing from different places. Willow-shaped hidden weapons shot out from their hands, all heading towards Su Jie. The men were as fast and as strong as cheetahs, and they rushed over with an explosive force.

The sharp weapons flew at him, the sound of wind tearing apart accompanying its journey. Ju Jiang was so scared that he couldn’t even cry out before his older brother, Yu Che, sent him flying to the rockery with just a kick. Even Su Jie looked slightly solemn. The second he said ‘killing intent’ these two words, he was already holding tightly onto some hidden weapons. At this moment, he could see twelve blue-robed men heading towards him. Su Jie understood. These men… were all men of sacrifice.

And they were Prince Qin’s twelve shadows!

The Guqin Master nurtured twelve men of sacrifice, who had great teamwork together, to have them follow Prince Qin around, protecting Prince Qin like they were his shadows. They were the butchers of the night. Although not one of them outmatch Su Jie, they were an invincible sword when they worked together!

Prince Qin sent people to kill him?

Su Jie was stunned, but his actions weren’t slow. He threw out nine concealed weapons himself, which hit the nine hidden weapons that were aimed at him accurately. However, these twelve shadows came at him from different directions. It was difficult for Su Jie to deal with them with just two hands. Thank goodness Zhui Xing was also someone ruthless who could rapidly respond to the situation. However, Zhui Xing and Yu Che both went to protect Xiao Shengnian as their priority, but the twelve shadows’ main target wasn’t Xiao Shengnian this time… it was Su Jie instead!

The thing that the Guqin Master tolerated the least was men of sacrifice betraying him. So even if Xiao Luoxuan was strongly against killing off Su Jie, the Guqin Master was unmoved. As the person who nurtured Su Jie, the Guqin Master knew about Su Jie’s weaknesses and habits the most. Thus, he gave a special order to these twelve men: They must kill Su Jie, in order to completely wipe out the seeds of future danger.

The Guqin Master also gave them a secondary task: If they could make a full retreat, then they should kill Prince Rui as well.

The twelve shadows had great teamwork. They each threw out three hidden weapons. However, Su Jie and his group weren’t damsels in distress either. First, Zhui Xing retrieved a long sword to knock down twelve hidden weapons, then Yu Che’s whip also curled around five to six weapons. Adding in Su Jie blocking nine hidden weapons, the rest of the weapons were dealt with by Xiao Shengnian. Overall, the situation was threatening, but not dangerous.

Yet, this was just the start. Through the numbers of weapons blocked, the twelve shadows were able to determine who was most dangerous. They didn’t forget the target of their most important mission when facing Su Jie’s group, but they decided to attack Yu Jiang first. As expected, when one of the twelve shadows aimed for Yu Jiang, Yu Che became flustered and immediately went to protect Yu Jiang.