Ping Zhao Lu

Xu Zhouye followed the palace maid leading the way in front of him thoughtfully.

Along the way, he silently observed the surrounding environment and secretly pondered the purpose of this trip.

Finally, they arrived in front of a courtyard.

Compared with other places, this courtyard is particularly quiet, and there are only a few guards standing guard at the door.

The maid stopped in front of the door, then turned sideways to face Xu Zhouye and bowed softly, "Your Highness, this is the place. I will be waiting for you here."

Xu Zhouye nodded slightly to show that he understood. He glanced at the palace maid indifferently, hesitated for a moment, and then stepped into the house.

Seeing this, the palace maid walked forward quietly and closed the door carefully.

After Xu Zhouye entered the inner room, he did not rush to act. Instead, he stood still, slowly turned his eyes, and looked around carefully.

The room was decorated very elegantly, with a fresh and refined feeling everywhere. The tables and chairs were arranged neatly and orderly, the windows were bright and clean, and there was no dust at all.

If it weren't for someone's ill intentions, this place would indeed be a great place to relax.

Xu Zhouye nodded secretly, quite satisfied with the layout of the room.

Then he withdrew his gaze and turned to walk towards the inner room.

Just as he had lightly crossed the bamboo curtain, a bead suddenly rolled out from nowhere and seemed to stop right where he was about to land.

As expected, Xu Zhouye stepped on it.

In an instant he lost his balance, like a wild horse breaking free from its reins, and slid rapidly along the beads.

With a sharp friction sound, he slammed into the solid wooden table opposite.

There was a loud "bang" and his body fell forward involuntarily due to inertia.

The person who had been following him quietly quickly appeared. Looking at Xu Zhouye who was lying on the ground, a look of astonishment appeared on his face, but he soon raised a smug smile.

She didn't dare to delay for even a moment, and quickly bent down, grabbed Xu Zhouye's feet with both hands, and dragged him to the bed with great effort.

In order to prevent Xu Zhouye from waking up, she took out a small and exquisite porcelain bottle from her arms, opened the bottle cap, and poured out a black pill from it.

She frowned, her eyes were firm and fierce, and she stretched out her slender fingers to tightly pinch the sides of Xu Zhouye's tightly closed mouth.

Because she pressed too hard, her fingertips turned slightly white, but she did not hesitate or show any mercy.

Then, with lightning speed, she stuffed the pill in her hand, which was emitting a strange fragrance, into Xu Zhouye's mouth, and quickly let go of her hand, as if she had completed an extremely important mission.

After doing all this, she turned around expressionlessly, waved her arm lightly towards the inner door, and looked coldly at the man standing beside her.

The man was short, with a mean face and a pair of small eyes that kept rolling around.

Seeing the woman's gesture, he quickly nodded and bowed with a smile on his face, and kept saying flattering words: "Don't worry, young lady, I will do my best to handle this matter!"

Then he couldn't wait and walked into the inner room with quick steps.

When the man entered the inner room, the woman stood there quietly, with the corners of her mouth gradually rising into an imperceptible cunning arc.

Then he walked away from the room resolutely without any hesitation.

When she reached the door, she stopped, waved her hand casually, and gave instructions to the palace maid who had been waiting outside the door.

Upon seeing this, the palace maid immediately bowed her head respectfully and followed her away hurriedly through the unguarded path, leaving only the tightly closed door behind her...

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"My beauty, this place is so secluded, why don't we rest here?" The man smiled lasciviously, one hand tightly around the woman's slender and soft waist.

His eyes wandered wantonly over the woman, as if he wanted to eat her alive.

"Oh, that's so annoying, sir, please let me go!" The woman said coquettishly, her cheeks as red as the sunset.

Although she said no, her body half-pushed and half-yielded, and she obediently followed the man's pace.

When she looked up and saw Wu Chi's gentle, handsome face with a bit of evil, her heart began to beat fast and she felt shy.

In this way, the two of them quietly turned all the way to the corridor of the courtyard.

They looked around cautiously, their expressions as nervous as thieves.

Fortunately, there was no one around, except for two guards standing with their backs to each other in front of the gate at the far end of the courtyard.

After making sure it was safe, Wu Chi hugged Cuihuan and tiptoed into the nearest room like two cats stealing food.

As soon as they entered the house, before the door could be closed tightly, the two of them hugged each other passionately like dry firewood and raging fire, their lips and tongues entwined, and their breathing became rapid.

For a moment, the room was filled with an atmosphere of ambiguity and passion.

At the same time, the man with a wretched face was staring at Xu Zhouye, who was unconscious on the bed, with ill intentions, and an extremely evil smile on his face.

He slowly approached the couch, stretched out his dirty hands, and prepared to untie Xu Zhouye's belt.

However, just when he was about to succeed, his wrist was suddenly grabbed by a strong force, and no matter how he struggled, he could not break free.

The man was stunned for a moment, his whole body frozen on the spot, fear and astonishment filled his eyes.

Xu Zhouye, who was supposed to be unconscious, slowly sat up, his eyes as cold as ice, revealing a terrifying and intimidating aura.

Then, he used force to bend the man's arm backwards. There was a crisp "click" sound. When the man was about to scream like a pig being slaughtered, Xu Zhouye quickly blocked his mouth with a handkerchief.

The man's eyes widened, his eyeballs almost falling out of their sockets. His face was full of horror and disbelief, and he could only make painful "woohoo" sounds from his throat, as if he was making his last struggle and resistance.

Xu Zhouye snorted coldly with an expressionless face, and the cold breath made people shudder.

He swiftly swung his hand back, and a sharp knife strike landed accurately on the man's neck. There was another crisp "crack" sound, and the man trembled violently as if struck by lightning, and then fell to the ground like a puddle of mud, completely unconscious.

Xu Zhouye looked down at his right hand which had just grabbed the man's wrist, frowned slightly, then calmly pulled out a snow-white handkerchief from his arms and slowly wiped away any dust that might have been on his palm, his movements calm and elegant.

After wiping his hands, he opened his mouth again and spat the pill in his mouth onto the handkerchief.

A closer look at the pill revealed that it was dark red and emitted a strange smell.

Xu Zhouye wrapped the pill in a handkerchief and crushed it with force. After doing all this, his eyes casually swept across the table, finally stopping on an exquisite incense burner.

He slowly walked to the incense burner, carefully opened the lid, and gently sprinkled the crushed pills into it.

Then he picked up the tinder placed aside and blew gently a few times to make it burn.

Then he brought the flame close to the spices in the incense burner and lit the agarwood inside.

As the fire flashed, the powder mixed with agarwood began to burn slowly.

Wisps of green smoke rose up, filling the entire room and emitting a strange fragrance.

Xu Zhouye stood there motionless, holding his breath tightly, afraid of inhaling even a trace of the smoke.

After the smoke dissipated a little, he reached out and replaced the lid of the incense burner.

At this moment, he turned around and glanced coldly at the man lying on the ground, with a cold glint in his eyes.

After confirming that the man was motionless, Xu Zhouye turned around and walked slowly towards the door.

The moment he stepped out of the door, he suddenly heard a slight noise coming from nearby.

The sound was intermittent. If you listened carefully, you could hear the ambiguous sound made by a man and a woman during sexual intercourse.

Xu Zhouye couldn't help but frown.

After a little thought, he raised his foot, turned into the corridor on the right, and moved closer step by step in the direction where the sound came from.