His Rui

It took Li Rui a few moments to compose herself.

It was only when she saw a trail of blood spreading on the ground from under Xi Ying's body, she realized that she couldn't waste the time.

She crouched down on the floor and took Xi Ying's pulse. It was faint…very faint.

Li Rui's hands were still trembling but she didn't have any time to pay attention to them now. With her whole strength, she pushed Xi Ying's body so that he was lying on his stomach.

Then she saw his robes dyed in red blood.

Almost the whole of it from the back was covered in blood.

Her face went pale at this sight.

She clenched her fingers to stop the trembling.

'This was not the time to become weak, Rui. You have to save this man …the man who fought to save you …who was in this condition because of you.'

Li Rui said inside her heart. It surely helped her in reducing the trembling of her hands.

Although they were still trembling a little, it was still better than before.

With those hands, she felt the wound, and then where the wetness was more, Li Rui tried to see any cut of the robe. She finally found it and slowly removed the torn robe from that place.

"Haa…."

A very sharp sigh escaped from Li Rui's lips when she saw the wound.

It was a very deep cut …very deep.

The trembling of her hands started again as she sat down on the ground in a daze.

"So you are here?"

It was then Li Rui heard a voice.

Still, in a daze, she raised her hand. However, when she saw the figures standing in front of her eyes, her clean black and dazed eyes instantly went cold and emotionless.

They were shadow guards in black clothes…those who were sent to kill her …and those who perhaps injured the man lying in front of her.

They were three …just as Xi Ying had predicted that three of them were still alive.

The three shadow guards also saw the unconscious Xi Ying lying on the floor.

Their eyes flashed with confusion, panic, and fear.

"How did he get injured? Who did it? Didn't you remember what His Majesty had said? Prime Minister Xi was meant to be not harmed at all."

One of them said as he glared at the other two. However, the other two glared at him with equally angry eyes as they whispered so that their words were only audible to them.

"I didn't."

"And I also …didn't do any such thing."

The second and third shadow guard said instantly.

At these words, the first shadow guard looked confused.

"Then who the he….ah..."

The shadow guard couldn't complete his words.

With wide eyes, he looked at the other two shadow guards who looked confused at his sudden stop. It was only when the shadow guard slid down to the floor with his eyes closed; they did realize that he was dead.

Now their eyes were wide as they raised their head to see the person who had killed their companion. However, when they saw who it was their eyes were filled with anger.

"You woman …how dare you kill him? I will show you what are the consequences of whatever you have done."

One of two shadow guards said as the other sneered while looking at Li Rui from up to down.

'She was a beautiful woman.'

He thought inside his heart as he sneered again already knowing what he would do with her.

Li Rui, however, fully aware of what their gaze held still stood there fearlessly.

Her eyes were cold and calm as she asked

"Out of you …who attacked him?"

The two shadow guards sneered when they heard the question.

To them, the sword in Li Rui's hands was merely a joke. But they didn't know that the woman in front of them could become their death also.

One of them stepped forward with a mocking smile on his lips, as he said

"I did it. What will you do?"

The coldness in those clean black eyes increased so much that for a moment even the shadow guard facing them felt intimidated.

However, he soon composed himself.

As a result, when Li Rui raised the sword she had taken from Xi Ying's belt, he immediately tackled it with his own sword. It didn't take him long to realize that the woman in front of him really knew the swordsmanship.

However, the shadow guard looked excited by this.

The other shadow guard who had been standing aside quietly also noticed this and his companion's thoughts also, so he decided to join this fight also.

He took out his sword to fight against the alone woman with his companion but before he could attack Li Rui, he heard someone's voice from his behind.

"B****ds"

The shadow guard immediately turned around and saw the sword coming his way.

However, he successfully avoided it.

It was An Ping who was fighting with the other shadow guard.

An Ping had never left actually. He had felt that something was not right because he had smelled blood …the smell of human blood.? That's why he went to the nearby areas to check where this smell was coming from.

The thought that this smell of blood could belong to his Master never entered An Ping's mind. Because in his eyes, his master could never be injured by these shadow guards no matter how large their amount was.

So An Ping searched nearby areas thinking that perhaps the remaining shadow guards were wounded by his master and hence he would be able to find them by this smell of blood.

However, as he went away, he could no longer smell blood.

It was at that time, An Ping started to have a bad premonition inside his heart.

However, still, he thought that it must be Lady Li who was injured, and hence he decided to come back and take a look. But when he reached he saw Li Rui fighting with the shadow guards.

An Ping felt happy that he returned when he saw the other shadow guards ready to fight with his mistress who was already fighting with one shadow guard skillfully.

As he fought with the other shadow guard, An Ping glanced towards Li Rui to check if she was doing well. However, the shadow guard he was fighting with took advantage of his distraction and ran away.

When An Ping noticed, it was too late.

He really wanted to follow the man and then kill him but he didn't wish to leave Li Rui alone now. It was at that moment, An Ping realized that he didn't see his Master.

However as soon as this thought came to his mind, he couldn't pay attention to it because at this moment, Li Rui had skillfully managed to make the shadow guard throw away his sword.

Now he was lying on the floor with his eyes full of fear fixed at Li Rui who had very cold eyes.

It was only at that moment, he realized that the woman in front of him could really kill him.