Marrying a concubine and swallowing her dowry? The mistress turns around and marries a high-ranking

Chapter 725

The guard instantly drew his sword and pointed it at Fu Shiyan's back, but Fu Shiyan neither dodged nor avoided it, and didn't even look back.

“Madam Shen, don’t be afraid. I’m not here to arrest you. I know you have hostages being held in the palace. As I just said, I have a way to rescue them.”

Shen Lingjun remained vigilant and asked, "What method?"

Fu Shiyan: "I know a secret passage from over a hundred years ago that leads to the interior of the palace, and it is still usable today."

The Northern Yi Palace has a history of three hundred years, spanning more than twenty dynasties. Many secret passages from previous dynasties remain unknown to the public today. Princess Pingkang once used one of these secret passages to bring her private army into the palace and launch a coup.

The assassination skills of "Naihe" were once second to none in the world. It is not surprising that Fu Shiyan, as the leader of "Naihe", knew about such secret passages.

Shen Lingjun: "Where?"

Fu Shiyan smiled and said, "I am still considered an assassin for now. Assassins need payment for their missions. If I tell Madam Shen, can you grant me one request?"

After Mo Chonggui breached the headquarters of "Naihe" at Naihe Mountain, less than half of the assassins escaped. Fu Shiyan later gathered a group of people and rebuilt "Naihe" at another headquarters location.

However, all the resources that "Naihe" had accumulated over the years had been wiped out, and seven or eight out of ten of its members had been lost. The current "Naihe" is no longer the largest assassination organization it used to be.

Shen Lingjun: "I can give you any amount of money you want, and I can also give you other rare treasures. I can return double the amount of the things that we took from Naihe Mountain before."

Fu Shiyan shook his head.

"I don't want any money or valuables."

Shen Lingjun frowned: "Then what do you want?"

Fu Shiyan glanced at the guards behind her. Shen Lingjun guessed that Fu Shiyan didn't seem to be here to harm her. With a look, the guards hesitated for a moment, then withdrew.

Fu Shiyan then said, "I want you to come with me."

Shen Lingjun glanced at him and asked, "Are you or one of your subordinates poisoned or injured and need my help to treat you?"

Fu Shiyan said calmly, "It's not because of that. I just want you to leave with me."

Shen Lingjun stared at him, puzzled, not understanding his meaning for a moment.

"If I leave with you, where will we go?"

Fu Shi Yan: "I might go to a very far place... and never come back."

He didn't know how to explain his request to Shen Lingjun, because even he himself wasn't quite sure what he wanted.

After Naihe Mountain was conquered by Mo Chonggui, the reason he rebuilt "Naihe" was not for revenge or any kind of comeback, but simply because he didn't know what else he could do while he was alive.

That deep-seated emptiness left him in a state of bewildered pain.

Alone, without worries, without ambition, without desires... but he did have one wish, which was now standing right in front of him.

Only when he thought of Shen Lingjun did he feel that his connection with this world might still have some meaning.

Shen Lingjun stared at Fu Shiyan for a long time before she finally understood, somewhat uncertainly, that he meant he hoped to elope with her and that the two of them would stay together forever.

He's taken a liking to her?

But she remembered that she had heard Fu Shiyan say that he had retired and didn't know what he was going to do when she was at Naihe Mountain. She felt that someone like Fu Shiyan probably couldn't be described with such a normal word as "take a fancy to".

What he needs is not just a lover for marriage and children, but a place for himself in the world.

She might be the only person he truly values.