Chapter 243: The Trace of Shadow Guards (1/2)
Translator: Guy Gone Bad
As the fretful Gong Qianyu flicked his fingers, dark blue flames burst out and walloped General Zhang’s long sword, whose impact blew him up into the air and tossed him to the ground a dozen feet away...
Gong Qianyu then gently pushed himself off on tiptoe, and in a blink of eye, floated into the air like a cloud. He took a look at Murong Xue down there and mumbled, looking reluctant to leave her, “I’ll come to see you again...”
Again? Didn’t he remember that he was the commander of Nanjiang, the enemy of Qingyan soldiers? Every time he broke into the Qing Yan military camp, he would cause heavy loss of life...
Murong Xue sighed helplessly, looked up and only found Gong Qianyu fading into the distance with his black sleeves fluttering, as if a lotus in bloom.
On the soldiers’ arrival, “Go!” the outraged General Zhang commanded them to chase Gong Qianyu in the air. As soon as their rapid footsteps vanished, the solemn military camp became half-empty...
“See you again? You’re so close with Gong Qianyu!” there came a clear voice of Ouyang Shaochen. He walked to her slowly with his white sleeves fluttering like butterflies, embodying his inherent elegance and dignity.
The gleam in his dark eyes and the weird smile on his face gave Murong Xue a sense of impending doom, so she sputtered, “Well, it was the third time we’ve met, so we are not that close...”
“In that case, he still risked breaking into our military camp to deliver medicine to you...” doubted Ouyang Shaochen, looking at her with his eyebrows raised.
Murong Xue’s eyes flashed unnaturally and she answered, “I have no idea why he came here suddenly... Maybe he regards me as a good friend...”
“It’s well known that Prince of the Nan Jiang Kingdom was born to be arrogant and defiant. He even treats the emperor with little respect. How come he treats you as a friend only after meeting you three times? How rare it is...” Ouyang Shaochen said in a calm but suspicious way.
His words disgusted Murong Xue, who then goggled angrily at him and said, “Ouyang Shaochen, let’s make this clear. He delivered medicine to me, not the other way around. If you want the true reason, go get Gong Qianyu in his camp, interrogate him, and leave me out of this!”
Finishing her words with resentment, Murong Xue turned around and strode away. Her anger could still be seen vaguely in her cold eyes. She just had a few words with Gong Qianyu, how come Ouyang Shaochen picked at her for no reason? It didn’t make any sense...
She hurried inside the tent and tossed the curtain so hard that the noise jolted the soldiers on patrol...
Staring at the fluttering curtain, Ouyang Shaochen squinted and thought, she was really angry...
Inside the tent, Murong Xue got changed after a bath behind the screen and had some snacks, then she lay down angrily on a rough bed and fell fast asleep soon.
While she was half awake, she sensed someone next to her from the aroma of the bamboo and the slight warmth of water on the tip of her nose. She frowned unhappily and turned around against that person, Ouyang Shaochen...
As Ouyang Shaochen watched the angry look of hers, with his eyes sparkling a bit, he said casually, “Xun Feng sent me a letter with some information for you, if you’d like to know.”