Reborn as a concubine's daughter and entering a noble family: Xie Lang, don't be too seduc

The news of Xie Erlang and his newlywed wife being attacked in front of the Marquis's mansion spread throughout Shengjing in less than an hour.

In broad daylight, assassins dared to ambush the Marquis's mansion, intending to harm Xie's second son and his wife. Such blatant behavior caused widespread panic in Shengjing...

As everyone knows, Xie's second son is a good-for-nothing.

He was merely a deputy general, serving under his elder brother, and spent his days drinking and making merry, indulging in the Moon-Viewing Pavilion without any ambition.

But he doesn't have any other bad habits.

To say that you offend someone in officialdom... is absolutely impossible.

No one could have imagined that it was some kind of assassin sent to take the lives of him and his wife.

As a result, everyone was on edge, secretly worrying whether they were spies from an enemy country, lying in ambush in Shengjing, and possibly attacking other prominent families.

Xie Lin got off the carriage completely unprepared and took several blows from the assassin. He only managed to fight back after he managed to grab a knife.

At first, he did sustain some injuries from those few moves. When Liao Bin came to deliver medicine as Xie Shu had instructed, he happened to find Xie Lin sitting shirtless in the room, waiting for Huo Sanghua to apply the medicine...

Immediately, Liao Bin's face darkened, and he put the things on the table and left.

"What's wrong with him?" Huo Sanghua was confused and thought that Xie Lin had offended him again.

I was looking for medicine to treat my injury when I saw the medicine bottle Liao Bin had put down. I picked it up and sniffed it...

No problem, it should be wound medicine!

Without the slightest hesitation, she poured the powder from the bottle onto Xie Lin's wound...

Xie Lin winced in pain, his muscular body jerking violently. "Slow down a bit!"

“Slow down, and you’ll bleed more. It’s better to stop the bleeding quickly and heal him sooner.” Huo Sanghua had his reasons. Before Xie Lin could say anything more, he pushed him back down as he turned away to beg for mercy.

Without wasting any time, he quickly applied the medicine to his wounds.

She muttered under her breath... "I thought you were a good fighter, but you got beaten up so badly."

You've really overestimated him!

Xie Shu doesn't seem to be injured!

"Hey!" Xie Lin protested a thousand times, "I was completely unprepared! I never expected them to ambush me in broad daylight, suddenly appearing out of nowhere. I didn't even have a decent weapon, and I had to take care of you!"

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been beaten so badly.

Huo Sanghua ignored his words. More than Xie Lin's injury, she was concerned about... "You've fought with them, so do you know who sent them?"

Xie Lin paused, as if he were reflecting on the process of their recent exchange.

"Uncertain. Their skills don't seem like those of soldiers, and they shouldn't be assassins trained in the capital either. They're more like people from the martial arts world."

"A person from the martial arts world?" Huo Sanghua was somewhat confused.

Why are people from the martial arts world involved?

"Don't worry, we left them alive. Our brother will definitely be able to get some information out of them. Who knows, maybe someone bribed assassins outside to ambush us in Shengjing." Xie Lin said this, but he felt he wouldn't get anything out of them.

If they were truly from Shengjing, they would bribe assassins from the martial arts world to infiltrate Shengjing and lie in ambush, waiting for them to appear before silencing them.

This suggests that the person behind all of this knew all along that things might be exposed.

He had outsiders handle the matter because he didn't want the blame to fall on him if things went wrong.

And what happened next was exactly as he had guessed.

Those who survived were all captured, and even though Liao Bin used every interrogation method available in the military, he couldn't obtain any useful clues.

It's not that these people are tight-lipped, but rather that they simply don't know.

The person in charge of the liaison only told them—

Someone in Shengjing was willing to pay them a sum of money to ambush the Marquis of Anding's mansion and take action against the Xie family's second son and his wife.

They had never met the person who hired the hitman.

As for the middleman they mentioned...

They described them as bookish, refined, and not at all like people skilled in martial arts. Their clothes were made of fine material, they spoke with a strong local Shengjing accent, and they wore a jade pendant with two dragons spitting out pearls around their waist.

He had never met this person before; he said he found them through someone else's introduction.

Xie Shu had the painter draw a picture based on their description, intending to distribute it to various camps and ask the brothers in the camps to secretly help him find this person.

The old lady's courtyard was eerily quiet.

Once things calmed down outside, and those who needed to be arrested were apprehended...

As dusk fell, Li's mother returned home, looking travel-worn, and hurried into Old Madam Xie's room. "Old Madam..."

Madam Xie was sitting in front of the Buddha statue, seemingly worshipping devoutly, when she heard footsteps entering the room and involuntarily held her breath.

She opened her eyes only when Li's mother approached.

After dismissing the other servants in the room, Li's mother approached the old lady and said, "...Don't worry, they've already left the city, they definitely won't be able to find out."

"That Hawthorne is really lucky." Madam Xie was worshipping Maitreya Buddha, but the image of him was completely different from the kind and serene appearance of the Buddha statue; in her eyes, it was sinister.

She simply couldn't understand how someone like Hawthorne could be killed.

"Originally, the second young master also suffered a loss and was injured. They never expected to be ambushed in front of their house when they returned from the palace. But the eldest young master was supposed to inspect the camp outside the city today, but for some reason he was delayed and was talking to someone..." Madam Li was also extremely regretful.

They had everything arranged perfectly.

Huo Sanghua died outside the Xie family compound, and Xie Lin, who was by her side, could not escape blame, especially since they had just returned from the palace.

If they had followed their original plan, they could have eliminated both Huo Sanghua and Xie Lin at once!

But the coincidence lies with the eldest son...

Who knew that Xie Shu was at home today and had not gone to inspect the camp? So when he heard that Xie Lin and Huo Sanghua had been attacked outside the Xie family's gate, he immediately led his men to reinforce them.

That's how they escaped disaster.

Madam Xie worried, "None of that matters. If we can't kill him the first time, we can do it again. The most important thing is whether Shu'er has figured out what we've arranged!"

"Don't worry, the person we found is a complete stranger; he doesn't even know which family we belong to. Not to mention the people he went to find!" Madam Li reassured the old lady. So far, they hadn't left any clues and shouldn't arouse suspicion. "Besides, who would have thought that the one lying in ambush on the Xie family in Shengjing was actually a member of the Xie family ourselves?"

The fact that Xie family members were ambushed in front of the Xie family's gate suggests that this was done by someone with a conflict with the Xie family.

Who would have thought that it was they who caused this mess?

"However, we failed to eliminate Huo Sanghua this time, so we need to be more careful in the future. It's not difficult to eliminate her, but the difficult part is how to eliminate her without implicating the Xie family... We need to plan carefully and not fail again."

Li's mother was worried that their purpose would be discovered sooner or later.

If they had been exposed before eliminating Hawthorne, all their subsequent plans would have been useless.

So they got what they wanted after eliminating Hawthorne...

Even if it were exposed then, Xie Shu would definitely cover for her to save face for the Xie family.

"That's right." Madam Xie offered incense, her expression as cold as ever. "We have to wait patiently. Let's not make things too difficult for her, lest she notice something."