In the room next to Liu Ruyan's resting place in the tea house was Li Jingjing's room. The two went upstairs and glanced at Li Jingjing's room, shrugging their shoulders. This mischievous girl made them fully realize what "walls have ears" meant.
"Let's go to the rooftop!" Lu Fan suddenly whispered into Liu Ruyan's ear.
"Isn't that inappropriate?" Liu Ruyan's face immediately turned red. Would this be too thrilling? Too embarrassing? This was a twenty-two-story residential building.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh... The two climbed onto the rooftop. Looking up at the sky from the rooftop, the stars were vast and the breeze was gentle.
"Xiao Fan! No more! I feel like I'm being spied on, as if every star is an eye." Liu Ruyan suddenly lost her courage, her small hands covering her clothes, her face full of tension.
"Then let's just watch the stars here! Also, there's something I need to tell you." Lu Fan didn't push it. After all, he himself felt that being exposed to the cool breeze on his backside wasn't exactly comfortable.
The two sat on the rooftop, gazing at the stars. Lu Fan then told Liu Ruyan about the matters concerning Inoue Renzi and A Ping.
"Something like that happened?" Liu Ruyan looked incredulous.
"This is a big matter, we need to discuss it carefully," Lu Fan said.
"Mhm!" Liu Ruyan nodded.
"Ruyan, let me see if your swordsmanship has regressed."
"Okay! I also want to see how many moves it takes to defeat you!" Liu Ruyan excitedly drew out her Flowing Sunset Sword.
Swish, swish, swish... On the rooftop, two figures flew up and down, sword light flowing.
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In Li Jingjing's room, the little girl was curled up in her quilt but couldn't fall asleep. Suddenly, she crawled out of the quilt, tiptoed to the wall, and pressed her ear against it.
"Huh? Why is there no sound at all? Are they not like the 'rolling on the bed' scenes in the TV dramas?" Li Jingjing pouted and thought for a long time, unable to figure out what was going on.
"Oh no! Could they be dead? I have to go and check." Li Jingjing, barefoot, slipped out of her room and went to Liu Ruyan's door. She listened again, and indeed, there was no sound. She gently pushed the door...
Swish... The door opened, and the room was empty.
"Tch! So they were afraid I'd hear and went to another place to 'roll on the bed'! Hmph!" Li Jingjing pouted and prepared to leave the room.
But the moment she pushed the door open, a dark figure suddenly appeared before Li Jingjing, holding a gleaming double-edged dagger to her face.
"You... Who are you?" Li Jingjing gasped in fright, looking at the masked person in front of her.
"Don't make a sound! If you make another sound, I'll kill you!" The masked person deliberately lowered his voice and forced Li Jingjing back into the room step by step.
"I... I... I won't speak, don't do anything rash. Are you looking for Sister Ruyan? But Sister Ruyan isn't in the room." Li Jingjing quickly lowered her voice and said.
The black-clad person scanned the room, confirming that Liu Ruyan was indeed not there. He slowly lowered his dagger, a sinister glint in his eyes.
Whoosh... He suddenly pushed Li Jingjing onto the bed.
"Don't come over! Brother Fan taught me martial arts, I'm very strong... I'm really very strong!" Li Jingjing, lying on the bed, was so scared that she immediately curled into a ball, still muttering.
"Hehehe! Little girl, you're so tender, it would be a shame to kill you! Come, obediently let me tie you up. After I deal with that person, I'll have some fun with you. Let you know I'm even more formidable!" Saying this, the masked person bit the dagger in his mouth, then took out a roll of tape and was about to tie Li Jingjing up.
"You... Don't come over..." Li Jingjing, with a look of panic, crawled further into the bed while shouting.
"Come here!" The black-clad person suddenly lunged forward, reaching out to grab Li Jingjing's small feet.
Bang... Just as the black-clad person's hand was about to grab Li Jingjing's small feet, Li Jingjing's curled leg suddenly kicked out, hitting the assailant directly in the chest.
Whoosh... The black-clad person was instantly kicked flying. With a bang, he hit the wall and then slumped to the ground.
Whoosh... Immediately after, a pillow flew over. Bang, it hit the assailant on the head. At the same time, a small foot followed, kicking out.
Bang, the foot kicked the pillow. Pfft... The dagger in the black-clad person's mouth instantly widened the corner of his mouth by half a centimeter. Fortunately, the dagger wasn't wide, otherwise, his entire mouth would have been cut open.
"Idiot! I told you I was strong, but you didn't believe me! Hmph!" Li Jingjing smiled triumphantly and snatched the black mask off the assailant's head. Damn it! It was a bald head!
Whoosh... Seeing his mask pulled off, the bald man was instantly terrified and fled outside with a whoosh.
"Brother Fan! Quickly catch the bad guy!" Li Jingjing suddenly shouted.
The black-clad person was very fast, whooshing from the third floor to the first, then jumping out of the window and fleeing across the street.
On the rooftop, Lu Fan and Liu Ruyan suddenly heard the noise and looked down. They saw a black figure rapidly escaping into the distance.
"Oh no, Jingjing...!" Liu Ruyan cried out in alarm, suddenly remembering that Li Jingjing might be in danger.
Lu Fan also frowned sharply, and the two of them rushed downstairs.
Li Jingjing was sitting on the ground, hugging her small feet, her eyes welling up with tears. A bloody scratch appeared on the sole of her foot. Although the pillow had provided some buffer, it was a down pillow and couldn't withstand the force of the kick. Thus, while kicking the assailant, her own foot also sustained a thin bloody scratch from the double-edged dagger.
"Jingjing... Jingjing... Are you alright?" Liu Ruyan and Lu Fan rushed into the room and asked urgently upon seeing Li Jingjing sitting on the floor wiping tears.
"Brother Fan! Look, will I not be able to walk anymore! Wuwu!" Li Jingjing began to cry.
Pfft... Lu Fan burst out laughing. Li Jingjing's sole had only a slight scratch, yet the child was so scared she thought she would be crippled!
"Jingjing! Don't be afraid, Brother Fan will put some medicine on it for you later, and it will be fine soon!" Liu Ruyan also saw Li Jingjing's injury and said with a suppressed smile.
"Hmph! Favoring romance over friendship!" Li Jingjing gave the two a sideways glance and muttered softly, pouting.
"Jingjing! It's all sister's fault! Sister won't leave you alone from now on." Seeing Li Jingjing still wiping tears, Liu Ruyan quickly added.
"Jingjing! Did you get a clear look at that person?" Lu Fan lifted Li Jingjing's injured foot, applied medicine, and asked.
"He was masked, so I didn't see his face clearly. But I pulled off his black head covering, and he was completely bald." Li Jingjing replied.
"Completely bald?" Lu Fan was stunned. "Are you sure he was bald and not a monk?"