Chapter 616
Breaking the Deadlock
Chapter 616 Breaking the Deadlock (Thanks to readers)
Xu Zhi's mistake cannot make this assassination attempt disappear.
Seeing this, the Yue man regretted listening to the advice and agreeing to let the young lady make the first move. He hadn't expected her skill to be so poor, and she had actually missed! He cursed under his breath, quickly drew his weapon from his back, and nocked an arrow!
Just as he raised his hand to release the arrow, his arm was suddenly struck by a heavy object that seemed to come from nowhere!
The earthenware jar shattered with a crash. Before I could even look at it, the wind blew, and the wooden window—the window through which the assassination attempt had failed—was broken.
Splinters of wood flew everywhere, and the wind tore the curtains in as well.
A window was separated by a horizontal beam, and the railing beyond that beam had been heavily stepped on.
The Yue people witnessed a scene they would never forget in their lives!
That young lady must have been possessed by some evil spirit! She actually broke through the window and escaped.
The wind blows, scattering the peach trees, and the blossoms fill the sky.
I don't know if it was due to gravity tilting me, but the moment I stepped onto the windowsill, the hairpin that had bound my hair was gone. My hair was loose, extremely black, as thick as ink, and the wind scattered it, making it very shiny in the daylight, like brocade.
Combined with the wildly blowing petals, it creates a truly stunning visual impact.
Immediately afterwards, the arrow she fired swiftly cut off another arrow coming from the opposite direction.
"Ah Yan, no!"
The moment she uttered those words, the young man on the opposite building trembled with shock. The high-ranking official was actually his good apprentice, Brother Li Xian!
In this world, if Zhang Liang were to make a decision to take action, he would certainly be fully prepared.
If he wanted Li Xian dead, then he wouldn't have had the chance to live to cross the shadow of Liangxia.
However, no matter how clever a person is in setting up a scheme, they should not underestimate the admirable courage of their opponent.
Half an hour ago, right behind that window, memories stirred.
Even though Xu Zhi suffered brain damage from the accident, it cannot be ignored that she is a smart person.
She was in pain, yet she was lucid.
Fortunately, she forgot about the man in front of her, and thus she could see through the scheme with the calmest attitude. Why was the man surnamed Song testing her, and why did he want to use A-Yan to kill Li Xian?
He met her gaze.
Amber eyes are rare, yet they felt strangely familiar to her; they seemed to reflect so much of the past.
She wanted to escape.
But my arm felt heavy.
The sound, along with the breath, fell from mid-air.
His tone remained calm, yet impossible to ignore.
"Where do you want to go?"
She forgot him, but her body couldn't forget him.
At first, it was her arms that were being held by those hands, and then a tremor ran through her entire body.
Xu Zhi felt she had already suffered enough. She changed her perspective, wondering if this way she could recall all those complex and chaotic things in one go.
She didn't back down; instead, she looked up and returned the gaze.
In that instant, as they locked eyes, Zhang Liang recalled countless previous eye contact, each filled with an unwavering determination to never admit defeat, which sent a jolt through him.
Xu Zhi did not give up thinking because of Zhang Liang's momentary hesitation.
Her heart ached, and the moment she looked into his eyes, she trembled uncontrollably, as if a night had fallen.
For some reason, the sound of her firing the arrow was quite loud, and given the speed at which the Qin people worked, they should have surrounded them in less than a quarter of an hour. Yet, she didn't hear any other sounds.
Unable to break free from him, she still refused to give in and left the attic with him.
This was probably the first time she had taken the initiative to shake off Zhang Liang's hand.
"Where do you want to go?" he asked again.
As Xu Zhi looked over, the answer became obvious.
"Ah Zhi, do you want to go back?"
A-Zhi? How could he call her that like Li Xian?!
She raised her head, frowned, and met that handsome, dignified face.
Like countless times in a dream.
Memories layered upon each other, hazy and indistinct...
Tormented by breathing and memory, even these words, which had been brewing for a long time, were spoken with trembling.
Mr. Song,
"It seems you knew earlier than I did that Li Xian was the Qin official they were talking about. Could it be that Zhang Cang told you that?" "Then the thing you carved by the water really is related to the Lingcheng incident."
These words amazed Zhang Liang; the person he had taught was indeed intelligent.
As soon as Xu Zhi finished speaking, she saw several masked men quickly gather together on the opposite pavilion, and one of them, holding a crossbow, was actually Yan Sheng!
Why is that child here?!
A few days ago, he kept saying that he wanted to kill the high-ranking official in Lingcheng.
The person who taught her how to fire the crossbow said that speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness are the three essentials.
She knew very well that Yan Sheng had only been training for a couple of days and was not the main force in the assassination.
But whoever commissioned him to do this must have known about the relationship between Li Xian and Yan Sheng in the village...
Later, when she regained her memory, she learned that Li Xian had learned A-Yan's later name—Chen Sheng—from Uncle Chen.
He did indeed arrest Uncle Yan and send them to prison, all in order to orchestrate this assassination.
Having witnessed the situation unfold to this point, Li Xian felt he had seen things clearly enough.
Wang Jian died of illness. On his way back, Li Xin was appointed to govern Lingnan. His father, Li Si, came to Lingcheng from Xianyang, while Fusu and Meng Tian went to the north to guard the border.
Hehua suffered amnesia after the collision.
The prince beside the emperor was none other than Hu Hai.
People have different minds, and some are restless and eager to do something.
The seven-day end was the chaos he wanted to exploit.
He wanted Chen Sheng to kill him.
Let him kill Hu Hai.
Let her be forever separated from the fallen Qin Dynasty.
Li Xian killed too many witches in Chu, causing the Jing clan's great witch to hide in Yue, but then he encountered Li Xin and Han Xin who were winning victory after victory.
Forced into a corner, the high shaman had no choice but to resort to the divination of the Zhao family surnamed Ying in order to survive.
During the reign of King You of Zhou, the fifth-generation descendant of Zao Fu, Shu Dai, moved to the State of Jin and formed the Zhao clan of Jin. His branch, Zhao Su and Zhao Cui, assisted the ruler of Jin. By the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhao Zhao was established by sharing the State of Jin with Han and Wei.
Ying Zheng belonged to the Ying clan and the Zhao family, and according to the customs of the pre-Qin period, he should be called Zhao Zheng.
The shaman told Li Xian, "Lord Li, don't forget that your father came from Shangcai in the state of Chu. If you want to be precise, you are only half a Qin person; the other half of you remained in the state of Chu."
—Think about your past and present lives. The fall of Qin will inevitably be caused by Chu. How can this not be considered a prophecy?
The chess pieces were in complete disarray.
Some people took the lead.
Some people remain on the sidelines and watch.
In this assassination attempt, the one person many people didn't anticipate was her.
To the Qin people, the person who broke through the window was none other than Princess Yong'an!
They could not use her as a signal to assassinate him.
Even though the Yue people heading north wanted to take advantage of the chaos and kill more Qin people while rescuing the affected civilians, the Chu princess's actions disrupted their plans.
—
They all misjudged the situation.
Xu Zhi neither turned back to Li Xian nor was she taken away by Zhang Liang.
She dragged along fragmented memories and an injured arm.
Ran.
She leaped down from downstairs and spotted a haystack. The fall caused her excruciating pain in her internal organs.
The smell of blood emanated from her mouth. She made the panicked Yu Ji release her, and tightly gripped the sachet embroidered with fish at her waist in her hand, quickly instructing, "A Yu, take A Yan away quickly. I believe Jing Qian won't kill Uncle Yan and the others. If he's unwilling, take this and say that I asked him to release them."
"Your Highness..."
When she heard those two words, she was still a little incredulous, but she really couldn't remember anything more.
The moment she stepped out the window, the wind blew past her ears, and she heard two names.
One is 'Hehua', and the other is 'Azhi'.
She saw two more people: one was Ying Zheng, and the other was wearing a Zhongshan suit.
"Don't tell anyone where I went."
After saying that, she wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, propped herself up, and disappeared into the gray, drizzling rain.