Quick Transmigration: The Charming Beauty Who Was Short-Lived and Alluring

Chu Yun's figure quickly disappeared, and the three of them had already arrived at the hall to keep their appointment with Xiao Qi'an.

After greeting Xiao Qi'an, the three of them slowly took their seats.

"Brother, what brings you here?" Xiao Lin asked curiously.

Gu Silang and Gu Huaizhi also turned their gazes to Xiao Qi'an, waiting for his answer.

Xiao Qi'an chuckled, "I've already convinced Miss Wen to cooperate with me; she's now our ally."

"Really!" Xiao Lin exclaimed in surprise.

Gu Silang couldn't hide the smile on his face either.

Only Gu Huaizhi's eyes flickered slightly as he quietly sipped his tea without uttering a word.

“Of course it’s true. I called you here to tell you that you don’t need to hide anything from Miss Wen in the future. You must treat her as one of your own and never neglect her,” Xiao Qi’an instructed.

"Don't worry, brother, I would have done it even if you hadn't told me," Xiao Lin said with a smile.

Gu Silang nodded, "Silang has remembered."

"Alright, Huaizhi and I still have things to discuss. You two go ahead and get busy," Xiao Qi'an said seriously.

Xiao Lin and Gu Silang exchanged a glance, then got up and left. "Yes."

After the two left, Gu Huaizhi put down his teacup. "How did you convince her?"

“I showed her this booklet.” Xiao Qi’an held up the booklet on the table.

Gu Huaizhi was startled. "What?"

"Don't worry, this is just a copy, and when I copied it, I copied it half-truthfully and half-falsely, so it's fine if she sees it," Xiao Qi'an reassured her.

"Are you playing her?" Gu Huaizhi felt relieved.

“She knew perfectly well what was going on, but she didn’t expose me. After all, she knew very well that I didn’t completely trust her. If I were to open up to her at this level of acquaintance, she wouldn’t take the bait. Although not all of this is true, I believed she could see that my strength was not to be underestimated. As it turns out, I wasn’t wrong. She needed my help, and she wouldn’t take my scheming and probing to heart,” Xiao Qi’an explained.

"What did she ask you for?" Gu Huaizhi asked.

“She didn’t say.” Xiao Qi’an’s eyes darkened slightly.

Gu Huaizhi: "The fact that he hasn't explicitly said anything suggests that he has big ambitions."

“It’s alright. As long as she does her job well and can help me get things done, I will try my best to meet any request she makes.” Then, Xiao Qi’an changed the subject, “But if she goes too far and makes unreasonable demands, I will not tolerate her.”

As he finished speaking, a murderous intent crept into Xiao Qi'an's voice.

"You're so ruthless. No wonder she called you a black-hearted fox," Gu Huaizhi teased, a smile playing on his lips as he recalled Chu Yun's expression when she said those words.

"Her?" Xiao Qi'an was slightly taken aback, paused for a few moments, and said, "Wen Chuyun?"

Gu Huaizhi raised an eyebrow. "Besides her, who else could it be?"

“The black-hearted fox is right.” Xiao Qi’an accepted it calmly and even nodded in agreement.

Gu Huaizhi caught a glimpse of the smile in Xiao Qi'an's eyes, and his gaze flickered slightly.

*

As night fell, the sky was pitch black, and only by the moonlight could one make out objects in the darkness.

In complete silence, even the slightest sound is amplified infinitely, let alone the sounds of several people fighting.

Swords clashed as four or five masked men in black surrounded and attacked one of them.

They swarmed forward, their sword strikes fierce and powerful.

The man trapped in the middle suddenly leaped up, drew a long whip from his waist, and lashed it hard at the man in black.

The whip seemed to come alive in her hands, striking the black-clad men's spines like a serpent. Infused with her inner strength, the whip was as hard as iron, whipping each of the men until they coughed up blood, collapsing to the ground like toads, unable to stand up again.

Knowing they were doomed after their mission failed, the men in black bit into the poison hidden in their mouths. The poison seeped into their bones, and within moments they were all dead.

The man holding the whip snorted coldly, stepped over the group of people, and headed towards the hall.

Inside the hall, the lights cast shadows, and the dim yellow light fell on the blood-stained face of the whip-wielder, the bloodstains reflecting off her face and adding a touch of bewitching beauty.

Deep inside the hall sat Xiao Qi'an.

He seemed to have been waiting for a long time. When he saw the person who had arrived, he smiled and said, "Miss Wen, you've come."

The one holding the whip was Chu Yun. She sneered, "Young Master invited me here so late at night just to give me such a grand gift?"

She was referring to the men in black outside the door.

"What do you mean by this, young lady?" Xiao Qi pretended to be innocent.

"Alright, young master, stop putting on an act for me. You deliberately invited me here just so I could get rid of those assassins for you, see how strong I really am, and tell me you know everything that's happening in the manor, so I'll be wary of you and work for you without worry." Chu Yun said as she found a chair and sat down.

Xiao Qi'an smiled and stopped pretending to be stupid. "As expected, nothing can be hidden from you, Miss. I received news that Xiao Changfeng wants to assassinate me tonight, or rather, to warn me. So I wrote to you to come here. But there is one thing you are wrong about. I came here not to test your martial arts skills, but because we have now formed an alliance. It is only right for you to do things for me."

Chu Yun laughed and said sarcastically, "You formed an alliance this morning and are already ordering me around tonight. I think you shouldn't be called Xiao Qi'an, but should be called Xiao the Skinflint."

Xiao Qi'an's smile remained unchanged, "Call me whatever you like, young lady."

Chu Yun was too lazy to argue with him. "Fine, Xiao Changfeng has always maintained a superficial peace with you. Why did he lose his temper this time?"

“I suspect it’s because of that bowl of medicine. Thanks to your reminder, I didn’t take the poisoned medicine. I even wrote a letter to Huai Zhi, ruining Xiao Changfeng’s plan. He’s had a smooth run of success these past few years, rarely experiencing setbacks. Now that he’s stumbled, he naturally wants to get his revenge. Those people are all assassins; he won’t leave me any leverage. Of course, he doesn’t actually want my life; he just wants to put me in a bad light, to make me obediently become his puppet and hand over the position of manor lord to him smoothly at the martial arts tournament.” As Xiao Qi’an spoke, his eyes were filled with icy coldness.

"Poison? Is that bowl of medicine poisoned?" Chu Yun frowned.

"You don't know?" Xiao Qi'an asked in surprise.

Chu Yun shook her head. "I've had an unusual sense of smell since I was a child. I just sensed something was off about that bowl of medicine and guessed that someone had added something to it. I never expected it to be poison. Xiao Changfeng is too blatant. He poisoned you and expects you to obey him. He's dreaming!"

Xiao Qi'an had assumed that Chu Yun knew about the existence of the poison, but he hadn't expected her to be completely unaware. His brows furrowed deeply. "It seems he's convinced that no one in the world, except him, can detect the existence of that poison. He's convinced that even if I brought Huai Zhi, he wouldn't be able to detect that he poisoned me. So he's fearless, thinking that a few empty promises would be enough to fool me and make me obediently listen to him. He really thinks I'm a fool!"

"What kind of poison is it? It's so strange. But Xiao Changfeng is so confident that no one can detect the existence of the poison, how did Young Master Gu know?" Chu Yun looked at Xiao Qi'an with curiosity, but her words were full of meaning.