A moonless and windy night.
Prefect Cao was enjoying a precious mont with the Loulan beauty in the room.
Suddenly, a powerful guard hurriedly ascended the steps and urgently reported at the door: "Sir! Sothing has happened!"
Prefect Cao, in high spirits, was abruptly interrupted and unhappily frowned: "Get out! Deal with it tomorrow if it’s important!"
"Sir, co on~"
The Loulan beauty seductively entangled him, captivating Prefect Cao into a trance.
Prefect Cao imdiately pounced on her once again.
"Sir, the Loulan Prince... has been killed!"
Prefect Cao’s body froze violently.
The Loulan beauty pushed him off, lifted the curtain, and stepped down, disregarding her disheveled clothes. In quick strides, she reached the door and opened it to ask, "What did you say? Who has been killed?"
The guard replied, "Loulan Prince."
The Loulan beauty held onto a sliver of hope: "Which Loulan Prince?"
The guard, steeling himself, said, "Prince Amushan."
"Bastard!"
The Loulan beauty slapped the guard to the ground and imdiately dashed out the door.
"Beauty! Beauty!"
Prefect Cao erged, clutching his waistband, but the beauty was nowhere to be seen.
He angrily asked: "What exactly happened? Who dared to kill my nephew?"
The guard said, "I don’t know, sir. I followed your orders to guard Prince Amushan secretly, but his horse ran too fast, leaving far behind. By the ti I caught up, Prince Amushan was already dead."
Prefect Cao staggered back a few steps, his face pale: "Where’s the body?"
The guard replied, "The Loulan people took it away."
Prefect Cao paced back and forth in the room: "I’ve heard that the Loulan people are savage, and now the Loulan Prince has died on my territory. This is bad... Hang on... he ntioned he was going to kill the court official staying at the ng Family, could it be... that the official silenced him instead? If so, then this has nothing to do with !"
He halted his steps, "You heard it too; I tried to stop him! I told him not to act impulsively and to consider things carefully, but he wouldn’t listen, insisting on doing it his way..."
"I, I, I have to report to the court! To say he killed the Loulan Prince!"
"Oh? How does Prefect Cao plan to report to the court?"
A leisurely voice sounded from beyond the door.
Like a breeze in the night, yet laced with a chilling danger and murderous intent.
Prefect Cao was taken aback.
The guard quickly drew his sword, standing protectively in front of him: "Who are you?"
Shangguan Ling kicked the guard aside.
Lu Yuan walked in, hands behind his back, bathed in the moon’s cold light, with graceful ease.
His posture was tall and slim, with a face captivating enough to topple a kingdom, yet possessing eyes as dangerous as Yama’s.
Prefect Cao had seen Lu Yuan before, yet the man before him seed different from the day.
He seed to have erged from Purgatory, exuding an endless aura of blood.
Prefect Cao wondered if he was seeing things, sensing a veil of blood mist enveloping the man.
He suddenly recalled a phrase Amushan told him at night—a strong dragon does not oppress a local snake.
At the ti, he agreed wholeheartedly.
But now, he felt inexplicably guilty.
"S-S-Sir!"
He saluted, beads of cold sweat forming on his brow.
Shangguan Ling dragged a chair over for Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan sat down and simply voiced a nonchalant "Hmm."
Prefect Cao instantly knelt down in fright.
Shangguan Ling held the hilt of the Brocade Spring Saber, standing imposingly beside Lu Yuan.
The guard had long since fainted, unconscious.
Prefect Cao’s eyes darted around.
Lu Yuan said indifferently, "Stop looking; your n have been dealt with."
Prefect Cao’s heart sank.
With only one guard, this man defeated all of the Cao Family’s top fighters?
And did so silently...
What kind of monstrous expert is this...
"M-May I ask, sir... was it you who killed Amushan?"
Lu Yuan replied, "Are you interrogating ?"
"I dare not!"
Prefect Cao quickly bowed his head to the ground, "I tried to warn Amushan against disrespecting you, sir, but he wouldn’t listen. He’s the Loulan Prince; I tried hard to stop him, even sent soone to inform you..."
Shangguan Ling mocked: "Keep lying and I’ll cut your tongue out!"
Prefect Cao’s face changed drastically: "Spare , sir!"
Lu Yuan said, "Tell what you know."
Prefect Cao asked nervously, "What do you an, sir?"
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