Chapter 1883: Chapter 938: Xinyang’s Fury (Part 2)
Princess Xinyang frowned and said, "Why did you come here?"
Yujin’s eyes flickered, and she laughed awkwardly, "The, the carriage broke down."
The coachman chimed in, "Ah, the wheel is loose! I need to fix it!"
Little Yiyi, nestled in the bride’s arms, wailed, "Waaah!"
Princess Xinyang: "..."
She lifted her chin like a proud peacock, "Don’t bother with these useless things, I won’t go in to catch him in the act."
As a dignified princess of the realm, how could she lower herself to set foot in such a brothel!
Moreover, she and Xiao Ji were not truly husband and wife. They had agreed initially that he could seek pleasure as he wished, and she would not interfere!
She coldly lifted the curtain and said to the coachman, "Is it fixed? If not, you need not come to the Princess Residence tomorrow!"
The coachman shivered in fear, looking at Yujin with difficulty.
This is as much as I can help.
If I do more, I’ll lose my job.
Little Yiyi pursed her little lips.
Princess Xinyang looked at her fiercely, "You too! No crying!"
The mother had a heavy aura of menace.
Little Yiyi closed her mouth in grievance.
Just as Princess Xinyang was about to leave after lowering the curtain, she caught a glimpse of a sneaky figure out of the corner of her eye.
She saw it first, then put down the curtain.
It’s just that human reactions aren’t that quick.
When she opened the curtain again, the figure had disappeared.
She felt uneasy, had a feeling that things were not as simple.
"Hold YiYi well, wait for me in the carriage." She handed Little Yiyi to Yujin.
Yujin, not knowing what she had truly seen, thought she was going to catch the marquis in the act, "Princess, don’t worry, I won’t disturb you!"
Princess Xinyang didn’t explain to her, and disembarked from the carriage.
The person first went into an alley, sliced open General Qian’s carriage with a long knife, found it empty, then turned and entered Ruanxiang Pavilion from the back door.
At this point, Princess Xinyang confirmed that the person was targeting either Xiao Ji or General Qian, most likely Xiao Ji, because this man was known for making enemies effortlessly, with a foe every ten steps.
She followed quickly.
From the front, Ruanxiang Pavilion didn’t seem large, but there were several small gardens in the backyard.
When she walked past the corridor to the second small garden, she immediately saw a figure by the rockery.
She recognized it as Xiao Ji.
"Someone wants to kill——"
Before she finished speaking, Xiao Ji raised the knife and plunged it into the assassin’s heart.
The assassin didn’t even have a chance to scream and fell dead in a pool of blood.
Princess Xinyang stood stunned.
Xiao Ji had already acted before she could speak, unable to retract his move, not wishing for her to witness such bloodiness.
He kicked the assassin’s body into the crevice of the rockery, tossed the weapon in as well, and wiped his hands clean with a handkerchief before turning to look at Princess Xinyang with a casual smile, "Qin Fengwan, you followed me all the way just to say this?"
Followed me all the way... did this guy know she was tailing him?
Princess Xinyang was shocked inwardly but showed nothing on her face, calmly saying, "I wasn’t following you, just passing by! But you knew Yiyi came to find you and still rode with someone else!"
Xiao Ji tilted his head at her, a slight smirk tugging at his lips, "Qin Fengwan, are you jealous?"
Princess Xinyang glared at him fiercely, too lazy to argue with him.
She turned around to leave.
And at that moment, General Qian came from another small garden, walking towards this direction.
She couldn’t let anyone discover her presence there; it would drop her status, and rumors of her catching Xiao Ji in a brothel late at night would spread all over Capital City the next day!
She, Qin Fengwan, couldn’t afford to lose such face!
She gritted her teeth, hurried towards the rockery, planning to hide behind it, but when she got closer, she saw how terrifying the blood stains on the ground were.
She couldn’t step over—it.
"Marquis!"
General Qian greeted Xiao Ji with a smile.
Qin Fengwan shivered all over.
Xiao Ji glanced at her, pulled her over, then took two steps sideways, pinning her against the other side of the rockery where the blood hadn’t splattered, and the ground was clean.
He used his broad body to shield her, propping his arms on either side of her.
The two were excessively close, almost face-to-face.
Their breaths intertwined, causing Princess Xinyang, unaccustomed to such male intimacy, her heart to tighten, her breathing to instinctively become rapid and difficult, and her body to start trembling slightly.
Xiao Ji observed her symptoms clearly, furrowed his brows slightly, and took a step back, creating a bit of space between them.
"Eh? Marquis, what are you doing here?" General Qian asked.