After being reborn, I became the apple of my enemy's eye.

It was only a matter of time before they set their sights on Ru Qing.

Yan Yun instructed Ru Qing to cover her face before leaving the manor and to have the steward say that he had given the order to have someone accompany her.

Ru Qing remembered her instructions, but was worried about her mistress instead.

Yan Yun goes to the academy every day, and she is even more worried if those bandits are determined to take revenge.

"Miss, it's your situation that's the problem."

Yan Yun wasn't too worried about himself. After all, Yun Yi valued him now, and he also had the person who taught him. Yan Yun felt that those bandits wouldn't dare to lay a hand on him.

This tells Ruqing not to worry about herself.

Yan Yun said, "If I dare to rescue you, I can protect you."

Ru Qing suddenly chuckled softly.

She stared intently at Yan Yun and said, "Miss, you are the one who should be protected more."

Yan Yun smiled in response.

"You should go back and rest first."

After Ru Qing left.

Yan Yun was thinking about the silver the city lord had taken from the Zheng residence, supposedly to wipe out the mountain bandits, but now the bandits had infiltrated the city and no one had noticed? This was rather absurd.

She was deep in thought.

Someone asked, "What are you thinking about?"

The man in black jumped into the house. He had already called out once, but Yan Yun didn't hear him, so he spoke again.

Upon hearing the voice, Yan Yun reacted and exclaimed in surprise, "Master!"

Yan Yun called him "Master".

The man in black, who hadn't even stood still yet, shuddered and immediately denied it sharply: "I'm not your master."

Yan Yun has already acknowledged Mr. Shu as his master. If he is going to teach her martial arts, she can certainly call him master, since he is going to teach her.

Yan Yun didn't pay much attention to the title.

Instead, he tentatively brought up the matter of encountering bandits that day.

The man in black sneered, "The city lord collects contraband within the city and colludes with the bandits, so naturally he can see the bandits within the city."

Upon hearing that he knew everything, Yan Yun immediately pressed, "So you knew all along?"

The man in black didn't want to say more about it and warned Yan Yun, "This is not something you can interfere with."

Yan Yun had a hunch that even if he didn't intervene, the bandits would still come looking for him.

As the candlelight flickered inside, Yan Yun looked at the man in black and said, "But I have already stabbed their leader with a dagger."

The man in black had been masked, so his expression was impossible to discern. His prolonged silence prompted Yan Yun to ask, "So you're scared?"

She asked the question tentatively, but the man in black immediately burst into laughter.

"Although I know what you've done, hearing you say it yourself now seems absurd. You, girl, many times, I don't think you're like a child."

Yan Yun didn't miss what he said. Although she knew that his arrival was not without reason, she looked at the person in front of her carefully, trying to figure out who he was from under his dark face.

But she was watching it intently.

The man in black grabbed Yan Yun's face with one hand.

Don't be curious about who I am.

They were both testing each other.

"Since you dared to stab someone with a dagger, have you killed someone before?"

The man in black asked, puzzled.

Yan Yun immediately denied it: "Of course not."

The man in black clearly didn't believe her and kept staring at Yan Yun, who let him stare.

The man in black withdrew his hand, drew a dagger from his waist, and handed it to Yan Yun. "Can I use this?"

Yan Yun reached out to take it.

The other party then stabbed the table with the dagger.

Yan Yun reached out to pull out the dagger, but he didn't have enough strength to hold it.

The other party simply moved a finger to stab the dagger, but Yan Yun used all his strength.

The man in black told Yan Yun, "Your strength will never catch up with a man's. It's much faster to take down a group of people from the shadows than to fight them head-on in a fair one-on-one battle."

Yan Yun looked at the dagger, then at the person in front of him, not understanding his meaning.

To make it clearer for Yan Yun.

He explained softly to Yan Yun, "Don't worry about being aboveboard. As long as you want to get what you want, you can try any means necessary."

Yan Yun still didn't understand.

He grabbed the dagger and drew it in one swift motion. Holding the tip of the blade, he handed it to Yan Yun: "Hide behind someone, strike silently, and take what you want."

Yan Yun understood somewhat.

Seeing Yan Yun hesitate, he asked, "Now that you understand, do you still dare to accept that dagger?"

Yan Yunyi gripped the dagger handle.

"of course."

The hand gripping the dagger was still tightening.

"You really are..."

"what?"

Yan Yun vaguely heard him say something, but when she asked, the man in black said nothing.

"Let's start practicing today, but we're still a long way from being able to actually do it."

The next day, Yan Yun left the mansion looking listless, and Ru Qing followed her in the carriage.

Yan Yun lifted the carriage curtain and looked out onto the street. Many people were heading towards the carriage. Yan Yun looked at one of them and felt that he looked quite familiar.

Just as those people approached.

Yun Yi's carriage blocked the way ahead, and Yun Yi called out to her from outside: "Zheng Ning'er."

It was only after Ru Qing nudged Yan Yun that she remembered that Zheng Ning'er was her name, and she pushed open the carriage door.

Yun Yi stood outside and saw Yan Yun emerge from the carriage. Yun Yi immediately reached out his hand to her.

Yan Yun turned around and glanced at Ru Qing.

Ru Qing was quite sensible.

"Miss, you can go ahead. There's a coachman here, so it's alright."

Yan Yun jumped off the carriage and got into Yun Yi's carriage.

After the two sat down, Yan Yun pointed to the carriage over there.

"Someone is watching us."

Yun Yi knew that this was the reason he had come. "Don't worry, I will protect you."

Yan Yun did not tell Yun Yi what the man in black had said.

She thought it had nothing to do with what the city lord and those bandits were up to.

I stayed at the academy until the afternoon.

Then something happened in the city.

The place where the incident occurred is still related to Yan Yun.

Zheng Jihua's money shop was robbed.

Ru Qing was injured while protecting the money shop, and Yan Yun only learned of this after returning to the Zheng residence.

The steward rushed off to report to the old lady.

The old lady berated the head manager, saying, "The bank has plenty of servants; are we just going to let them rob us like this? Outrageous!"

The steward looked troubled. He vaguely knew some of the inside story, but he didn't know whether he should tell the old lady. He decided to write to the master first and deal with the matter after the master replied.

The old lady instructed the steward to summon the head manager.

The steward lowered his head.

"The head manager is dead."

When the money shop was robbed, the head manager was the first to step forward. The Zheng family's money shop was guarded by the city lord, and these people dared to cause trouble without any sense of propriety.

The other party completely ignored the head manager's orders and stabbed him to death. All the servants who resisted lost their lives.

The old lady was furious: "Among so many people, is there not a single one who is truly useful?"

The manager wasn't entirely clear on the situation either; he only learned these things from the escaped workers.

"What is that city lord doing? Shouldn't he be guarding our bank?"

The steward vaguely felt that without the city lord's authorization, those people wouldn't dare to act rashly, but they also wouldn't dare to speak out, because those people had all been arrested by the city lord's men.

"Madam, the master said he will return..."

The old lady angrily scolded the steward: "They're all useless."

Yan Yun rushed to the side room upon hearing the news, but the doctor had already left.

Yan Yun stayed by Ru Qing's side, looking at the blood-stained clothes that hadn't been cleaned up on the ground, feeling both heartache and emotion: "It's a good thing that you came back alive."

Ruqing was crying uncontrollably; even though her face was bandaged with herbs, the bloody wounds on her face continued to bleed.

Ru Qing called out to Yan Yun in despair.

"Miss, they ruined my face and said they would kill us."