Prince! The political conspiracy is not a play, the show is real

The wind grew stronger and stronger, blowing the fallen leaves and mud everywhere.

Chu Huanjun smiled and said, "I think you should know who I am."

"Let's not even mention that, as the prince of Great Chu, you're not worthy of threatening me with such despicable tactics—but today, I don't want to discuss these bullshit status issues. Do you think, with your kung fu, you can defeat me?"

Chu Huanjun spoke word by word, moving forward step by step, with gusts of cold wind blowing sand and rain behind him.

"Since I dare to go to the meeting alone, I have the ability to take away all the people who need to be taken away."

Chu Huanjun stood five feet away from Tao Yao.

"You have no right to make me choose."

Before he finished speaking, Lu Che turned the short knife that was originally across Tao Yao's neck towards Chu Huanjun, stopping him from getting any closer.

Tao Yao had an idea - after lying dormant for so long, the opportunity has finally come.

It's now!

Tao Yao instantly opened her arms and pounced on Lu Che, giving him a big bear hug.

Lu Che was obviously caught off guard. Just as he was about to lift his leg to shake Tao Yao off, he suddenly felt her biting his trouser legs fiercely with her teeth. She had already bitten several holes in them. Then, something sharp took advantage of the holes and entered, quickly piercing his skin.

Before she could think about what she was doing, Chu Huanjun's folding fan had already flown in front of her, and Lu Che quickly raised his knife to block it.

But Chu Huanjun's attacks became more and more intense, and his moves were faster and faster. Lu Che's legs were twisted tightly by Tao Yao and he could not move. Only his upper body could barely cope with Chu Huanjun's continuous attacks. After all, he was unable to split his body into two parts. No matter how many times he could withstand, he could not withstand more than forty or fifty moves. I'm afraid he would be defeated soon.

At this moment, Tao Yao, who had been clinging to Lu Che's calf, suddenly loosened her grip and turned to Chu Huanjun, shouting, "Xiao Chu, hurry up and leave! Take my dad and my sister with you! Hurry!"

Chu Huanjun's eyes flashed, and the folding fan in his hand had been swung into a round mirror. Special hidden weapon sharp blades instantly burst out from between the fan bones, shining with a cold light, turning the airflow raised by the fan into cold.

The cold airflow hit Lu Che's face repeatedly, like a rough stone mill grinding up and down, and soon countless bloody marks appeared on his cheek.

"If you don't leave, I won't leave."

Chu Huanjun's voice came from above into Tao Yao's ears.

For a moment, Tao Yao seemed to feel her heart skip a beat, but her senses quickly returned, prompting her to turn around and pounce on Chu Huanjun.

Chu Huanjun subconsciously bent down to catch Tao Yao, but suddenly saw Tao Yao stretching out her five fingers with their nails sharpened to an extremely sharp point towards him.

Before he could react, he felt a sudden chill in his Adam's apple, as if something was flowing down his neck and dripping into his clothes.

In the night, he saw Tao Yao's eyes flickering, just like the dreams that had haunted him for so many days and nights over the years, that night when the moonlight flickered, the water flowed, the sand faded, and the clouds vanished.

The wind was so loud that he could hardly hear what she was saying.

Chu Huanjun subconsciously touched the wound on his throat and felt something cold. He raised his finger and saw blood, but it seemed to be more than just blood.

There was also some light red liquid that could not mix with the thick blood. It slowly slid down his knuckles to the palm of his hand and gradually formed a small crimson lake.

At this moment, the wind finally died down, and Chu Huanjun could clearly hear Tao Yao's voice.

"Who said... that you have to take me away?"

The next second, thick purple smoke exploded in front of Chu Huanjun, and the sour smell of the drug made him unable to open his eyes for a while.

When the smoke cleared, Tao Yao and the kidnappers had disappeared without a trace, leaving only the unconscious Shi Yiqian and Shi Lanxin still there.

Chu Huanjun was shocked and looked around, but could not find any trace of Tao Yao.

He couldn't help but sigh - Shi Taoyao was really an unpredictable and uncontrollable "variable".

Ever since Tao Yao scratched him, Chu Huanjun felt his vision becoming increasingly blurred, and his heart felt inexplicably anxious and painful.

His experience in the underworld told him that he was poisoned.

"This is a big trouble." He said to himself.

Even the powerful King Yi would one day fall into the trap of such a small sect.

Chu Huanjun lamented the fickleness of fate, blew a secret whistle to the sky, and had to sigh helplessly as he went to clean up Shi Yiqian and Shi Lanxin who were unconscious in a mess.

***

At midnight, there was a wild pine forest a hundred miles outside the capital.

When Tao Yao regained consciousness, she found herself lying in a dilapidated carriage. She could hear the breathing of others nearby. She quickly got up, only to find Lu Che dozing off beside her.

Hearing the noise, Lu Che slowly took off the bamboo hat that was pressing on his head and looked at Tao Yao with a slight flicker in his eyes: "You're awake."

Tao Yao looked at him quickly and found that he had rolled up his trouser legs and bandaged the areas where she had scratched his nails with bandages.

Feeling Tao Yao's gaze, Lu Che grabbed a bottle of medicinal wine from beside his feet and threw it into Tao Yao's hands: "Drink this, it has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis."

Tao Yao took the bottle, shook it in her hand, and said with a slight change of expression: "Thank you."

Lu Che nodded, then slowly closed his eyes to rest, saying calmly, "Chu Huanjun took them away. I guess they've returned to the city safely by now."

"Oh...I see."

One question, one answer, and then no one spoke again. In the small space, the silence was so quiet that only the sound of each other's breathing and their own heartbeats could be heard.

Tao Yao stared at the pair of plain shoes on her feet that had long been stained yellow by mud, and helplessly reached out to pat the grass debris stuck on the toe of her shoes.

The injury on her knee had not yet fully healed, and after all this commotion, she was injured again. I'm afraid it would take more than the three months Chu Huanjun had said for her to be able to stand up again.

Seeing that Lu Che remained silent, Tao Yao simply leaned against the wall with her arms folded, mimicking his doze. However, she turned a blind eye, keeping a constant eye on the dangerous individual beside her, fearing he would make another move.

Come to think of it, this was the first time Tao Yao looked at Lu Che's face seriously.

It was a moonless night, and the cold wind outside was roaring fiercely, shaking the straw curtains covering the tattered carriage windows. Inside the carriage stood a palm-sized candlestick, burning with a tiny flame. The straw curtains were leaking, and the cold night wind rushed into the carriage, causing the tiny flame on the candlestick to tremble.

Lu Che leaned sideways against the car wall, his thick, crow-feather eyelashes trembling slightly. Half of his face was facing her, the other half was immersed in the darkness. The flickering candlelight occasionally fell on his face, dancing, like a lamp cast into the heart of a deep snowy lake, then fading away in an instant.

His breathing was long and smooth, but Tao Yao knew in her heart that he was poisoned by the oleander and was just holding on.

"If you have any questions, just ask. I will tell you everything I know."

Lu Che suddenly spoke, breaking the dead silence.

"I want to know, who is that woman?"