The Princess Cannot Escape: The Cunning Prince Is Not to Be Messed With

Chapter 92 An Eye for an Eye

Upon hearing this, Jiang Huan's heart trembled slightly. Her originally unwavering belief wavered a little because of his ambiguous questioning tone, but she quickly returned to normal.

"Don't even think about deceiving this manor lord!"

"Let her go!" Before she could finish speaking, the black-clad guard's hoarse voice rang in everyone's ears. Then, with a muffled thud, Jiang Huan's upright figure suddenly staggered strangely. At the same time, two figures, one white and one purple, shot out and rushed towards her suddenly swaying gray-white figure.

With a single palm strike, she was sent flying several feet away. When Gu Lounan turned around, the delirious Yin Quan had already collapsed in Xiahou Ying's arms.

His narrow phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and his tense heartstrings finally relaxed a little.

In a hazy state, Yin Quan felt a warm current, like a gentle spring breeze, flowing into her body. She tried to open her eyes, but all she saw was a blurry white light.

She reached out her hand towards the ball of light, but instead of flying away arrogantly as before, it stayed in place, allowing her to knead and shape it as she pleased.

Burning with lust, she swallowed a mouthful of saliva mixed with blood, ignoring the nauseating stench, and suddenly grabbed the ball of white light and frantically gnawed at it, trying to get rid of the cold, wet clothes clinging to her body so she could get closer to the dry, warm light.

She grabbed his neck and bit him repeatedly, confirming Xiahou Ying's suspicions.

Sure enough, not only were three of his ribs broken by a kick and his shoulder blade pierced, but he was also drugged.

Was it all the work of that woman just now...?

His brow furrowed slightly as he looked down at her, his heart feeling as if it were being tightened by a steel cable as thin as a hair, the pain making even breathing a luxury.

Xiahou Ying took out a porcelain bottle from his bosom and put the bright red pills inside into her mouth, which made her calm down a little.

Carrying Yin Quan, he walked up to the black-clad man who had just used the firearm. His thin lips parted slightly, and a chilling voice escaped from his blood-red lips: "Keep an eye on her for me..."

The guard in black felt the air around him suddenly become incredibly cold, and fear welled up from the bottom of his heart. He almost subconsciously nodded to the man in white in front of him.

As soon as he took Yin Quan's body, which was no longer radiating a sickly fever, he felt a flash of white light before his eyes, followed by a "crack" sound that made his scalp tingle and his internal organs tighten.

"You kicked her like that." With a blank expression, Xiahou Ying moved his thin red lips and kicked Jiang Huan several feet away with just his toes. He then caught up with her in a flash, his cold, hard fingers gripping her equally cold chin and throwing in a jet-black pill. His fair and handsome face remained expressionless: "You poisoned her too."

Looking at Jiang Huan, the master of Qifeng Manor, who was completely suppressed by Xiahou Ying and had no power to fight back or even utter a cry of pain, Gu Lounan frowned slightly. His usually nonchalant demeanor was gone from his charming features, replaced by an unprecedented gloom.

Although he didn't have any good feelings towards Jiang Huan, his extreme approach of repaying blood with blood and teeth with teeth was extremely shocking.

Is this the legendary evil king, whom even ghosts and gods fear?

Recalling the rumors about the Evil King, Gu Lounan's lips curled up slightly, and he quickly recovered from his shock.

His pupils contracted continuously due to excessive shock and fear, until they became a tiny black dot as thin as a needle tip.

Jiang Huan never expected that Gu Lounan would have such a highly skilled and extremely ruthless man by his side.

This person's reaction was a hundred or a thousand times more intense than his. Could it be that she was really wrong?

But... she personally entrusted Chu Fenghua with this information and all the covert arrangements...

Suddenly jolted, Jiang Huan's eyes widened. Anger, annoyance, regret, resentment, and sorrow all rushed in like a bursting torrent, as powerful as a thousand horses and a thousand soldiers, overwhelming and earth-shaking.

Her ribs shattered into dust, piercing every blood vessel and organ in her internal organs. In her ears was an extremely unfamiliar "snoring" sound, which seemed to come from a very distant place, as if the sound was not coming from her own throat.

A salty, fishy liquid kept gushing from her mouth. She grinned, revealing blood-soaked, crimson teeth, like a vengeful ghost from the underworld who ate human flesh and quenched her thirst with human blood. Coupled with her deep-set, faintly dark purple eye sockets, she looked terrifying.

She was wrong!

The mistake was trusting the wrong person!

Her emotions were churning inside her, and the black pill that the white-clad man had forced into her mouth was now churning within her. She endured the biting and acrid sensations of insects eroding her entire body, raised her palm, and slammed it heavily on the icy water, standing up abruptly.

The sudden turn of events behind him caused Xiahou Ying, who had just held Yin Quan in his arms, to raise an eyebrow. Then, a deep purple light flashed before his eyes.

"Take her away."

Before Gu Lounan could finish speaking, several figures suddenly appeared around the previously empty water prison. Along with them appeared the two manor lords, Ba Shanyu and Tie Wantong, as well as Chu Fenghua, whose face was delicate and gentle, shrouded in a thin red silk veil.

"Traitor! How dare you betray me!" The moment Jiang Huan saw Chu Fenghua, she roared and rushed towards her like lightning, but Tie Wantong preemptively struck her in the chest with a hammer, slamming her into the water and instantly staining the river red.

"It seems that what Second Master Chu said was true; Jiang Huan has long harbored malicious intentions." With a regretful look at the glaringly red river, Ba Shanyu spoke softly.

"If it weren't for Second Master Chu's timely report, we would both still be in the dark! What a vicious woman!" Tie Wantong, with his full beard, spat viciously into the cold river water after glaring at Ba Shanyu.

The crimson that had gathered and solidified in one place was quickly diluted and dispersed by the flowing river. Ba Shanyu nodded to a strong young man in a dark blue outfit behind him, who quickly understood and jumped into the river to pull out Jiang Huan's lifeless body.

Having confirmed Jiang Huan's death, Ba Shanyu looked at Gu Lounan and said, "Miss Yin is seriously injured. If Young Master Gu trusts this old man..."

"Thank you for your trouble, Master Ba!" Before he could finish speaking, Gu Lounan gave an affirmative answer without hesitation.

He knew all too well what these old scoundrels were thinking, yet even so, he still chose to jump into the pit willingly.

After all, he couldn't risk Yin Quan's life under any circumstances...

Looking ahead through the rain and Tie Wantong at the unconscious Yin Quan and the radiant, reserved Gu Lounan, Chu Fenghua slowly straightened her lips.

After a day and a night, Yin Quan finally woke up, but she was completely unable to move.

Staring intently at Xiahou Ying, she first frowned, then closed her eyes, then opened them again, repeating this process for a long time before finally moving her pale, dry lips and uttering a faint, almost inaudible murmur: "Am I dreaming?"

Upon hearing this, Xiahou Ying, who had been frowning, immediately softened his gaze, and his previously taut lips suddenly relaxed a crack: "It's not a dream."

"I'm not dead?"

"not dead."

"Let me pinch you..."

“…” After staring at her expressionlessly for a long time, Xiahou Ying couldn’t help but start to question whether her mental state was normal.

Even though he had his doubts, he still placed his hand in hers.

I can't squeeze it...

Yin Quan was a little depressed.

It seems that it really wasn't a dream.

"Where is Jiang Huan?" she asked, lifting her eyelids as if suddenly remembering something.

"Dead." Xiahou Ying replied expressionlessly, slowly withdrawing his hand from her palm.

"It's you..." Yin Quan tentatively spoke, her lips twitching slightly.

"It is."

Hearing his ambiguous answer, she pursed her lips and remained silent.

Since that's the case, it wouldn't be him who made the move directly.

"Your presence here means that Gu Lounan is also here..."

"Oh, Xiao Quan Quan, why did you only remember me now? It breaks my heart."

Before she could finish speaking, Gu Lounan's somewhat roguish and flippant tone came from behind Xiahou Ying, making her frown.

He's always so noisy...

It would really be better to have the other two major estate owners join forces to eliminate him...

Suddenly, as if she had remembered something, she turned her head and looked at the beautiful, smiling face that was leaning over Xiahou Ying's head.

Xiahou Ying lowered her gaze slightly, pursed her lips, and walked away from the couch, giving her seat to Gu Lounan.

"The idea of ​​using me as a hostage to blackmail you was first proposed by Jiang Huan. Don't you think there's something wrong with that?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Lounan stroked his sharply defined chin and quickly replied, "You mean, Jiang Huan was intentionally deceived by someone?"

“Xiahou Ying once proposed to me in front of all the people in the capital. How could Jiang Huan, such a meticulous and thoughtful person, make such a basic mistake…” Yin Quan said in a low, hoarse voice, as if talking to herself. She looked away from the light blue curtains, then suddenly turned to Gu Lounan and asked, “With Jiang Huan dead, who will succeed her as the head of the manor?”

"Miss Yin is awake?"

Before Gu Lounan could speak, Chu Fenghua's soft and gentle voice came from outside the door.

As she spoke, she stepped over the threshold and came in, bringing with her a faint tinkling of bells.

"Second Master, oh no, I should call you Master Chu..." With a smile on his face, Gu Lounan turned around and stepped forward, taking a few steps. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, he stopped Chu Fenghua, who was walking into the room.

"What master? Young Master Gu, you flatter me. The master just left, and the manor is in chaos. I'm just acting as the head of the household." With a lowered gaze and a smile, Chu Fenghua's every word and expression was perfectly coordinated, as if she had undergone extremely rigorous rehearsals. She was gentle, polite, elegant, and refined, possessing both the tenderness expected of a woman and the upright and heroic spirit of a woman of the martial world. These two seemingly contradictory qualities were almost perfectly blended in her.

As Chu Fenghua spoke, she took a delicate small sandalwood box from the girl beside her, opened it, and handed it to Gu Lounan, saying, "I know that Master Jiang and the other two masters have done some things to Young Master Gu that violated the code of the martial world. Consider this Purple Gold Nine-Turn Pill as a small apology from Qifeng Manor to Young Master Gu. If there is anything Qifeng Manor can do in the future, Qifeng Manor will do its best to help Young Master Gu."