Everyone was stunned.
A sudden scream rang out as a crossbow bolt, seemingly coming from nowhere, embedded itself into the commander’s shoulder, just missing his armor.
“Assassins! Protect the Empress! Seize Prince Qi!”
In response came more short crossbow bolts, but the nearest armored guards had already closed in on Fang Zhiyi. In the next instant, Fang Zhiyi twisted to dodge an attack, turned, and struck the guard’s wrist with his hand, sending the sword flying. He caught the blade midair.
“Look, if it were that cold-blooded Emperor, I could understand—I might even feel relieved. But me? I can’t stand being played for a fool.”
He struck out with his left hand, and a guard crumpled to the ground clutching his throat.
“You say I’m the one attempting assassination? That’s not entirely out of the question.”
The Empress was dumbfounded. She watched as Prince Qi and Leng Shaobai, shielded by the crossbow fire, actually carved a path straight through!
The group of guards numbered fewer than twenty and had been caught completely off guard by the sudden upheaval.
The Empress gritted her teeth. At least she had come prepared.
“Men!”
At her call, a troop of armed guards appeared from around the corner.
“Prince Qi, didn’t expect this, did you? I have my own escort,” the Empress said with a triumphant smile, then pointed at Fang Zhiyi. “Prince Qi has committed an offense against his superior. Kill him!”
Fang Zhiyi let out a laugh. “You really want to go this far? Your pettiness knows no bounds.”
“So what? You know the rule: among we transmigrators, only one can survive. I won’t leave a menace like you around.”
A swordsman tried to attack from the side, but another blade blocked his path. Leng Shaobai’s face twisted with fury. “You’re looking for death!” He dispatched the man swiftly. “My Prince, I don’t understand half of what you’re saying, but let’s run! They’ve got too many!”
The Empress covered her mouth with an exaggerated laugh. “You’re skilled, but do you never tire? I tell you, today is your day to die!”
Fang Zhiyi hefted his sword and stepped forward. “Too many? You’re challenging me to a numbers game right outside Prince Qi’s mansion?”
A sharp whistle split the air.
Leng Shaobai was stunned. The Empress was stunned too.
The trembling street vendor nearby suddenly tore off his stall’s cover and pulled a sword from a crate. The shopkeeper at the wine shop leaped up, retrieving a weapon from behind the signboard. Even the customers who had been watching from the wine stall changed their expressions at the whistle, pulling out hidden weapons from nowhere.
A crossbow bolt whistled past Leng Shaobai’s cheek, and he turned to see an attacker crumpling to the ground.
“And you talk about how you used to run the Operations Hall?”
A stooped figure carrying firewood slowly set down his carrying pole and removed his bamboo hat.
“Pfft. You couldn’t even die properly!” Leng Shaobai cursed. “Who do you think you’re fooling?”
Zhu Hong let out a grating laugh.
“Kill them! They’re nothing but rabble! Kill them! Kill Prince Qi, and I’ll reward you handsomely!” The Empress was panicking now. She’d never imagined that the area outside Prince Qi’s mansion could be filled with his people. How was that even possible?
But no matter—this would just make it easier to claim Prince Qi was plotting rebellion.
Then screams erupted from behind her. The Empress whipped around to find that another group of oddly dressed, armed rebels had appeared from the rear!
“You want a numbers game? Who was it? Let me see!” Old Dog’s voice rang out in the distance. “Listen up, everyone! Someone’s trying to take away our livelihood! What do you say?”
“No way!”
“Then what do we do?”
“Crush them!”
Finally, the Empress was truly terrified.
She had come today intending to kill Fang Zhiyi, but she never expected a prince who spent all his time cooped up at home to command such a force! It looked like there was an entire street’s worth of people!
As she turned in panic, she saw Fang Zhiyi grab a guard’s arm and twist—there was a crisp snap. Then he drove his blade straight into another guard’s gut before kicking him away. The kills were swift, brutal, and unnerving.
Another guard swung his sword at him. Fang Zhiyi, as if anticipating it, sidestepped just in time, his free hand instantly latching onto the guard’s throat. With a slight squeeze, a crack sounded, and the guard went limp, collapsing to the ground. Even as he did this, Fang Zhiyi raised his sword to block a second strike and then—incredibly—headbutted the man hard. A sickening crunch followed as the attacker let out a pained scream and collapsed.
In less than a minute, Fang Zhiyi stood only a few steps from the Empress!
“System! System! Give me something to save myself, right now!” The Empress was desperate, regretting her overconfidence.
“Host, this system can only provide tools for seducing men and charm enhancements. Everything else, you must handle yourself,” the System replied flatly.
“If I die, you won’t benefit either!”
The System’s voice stayed mechanical. “The host may purchase the Seduction Aura on credit to make these men fall for you. Would you like to buy it with borrowed points?”
“Buy it!” At this point, she had no other choice.
But just as the System was about to apply the aura, a slender tentacle suddenly shot out from behind Fang Zhiyi, snatching the System away and dragging it off.
“System?” The Empress was stunned.
From behind Fang Zhiyi came crunching and chewing sounds. “Tastes awful, but at least it’s a little nourishment.”
Ignoring Little Hei for the moment, Fang Zhiyi kicked the wheel of the carriage beside the Empress, while his blade whistled past her face and lodged itself into the carriage’s opposite side.
“Say that again. Who are you going to kill?”
The Empress’s face twisted into an ugly smile. “We’re both transmigrators. Can’t you be a little understanding? I’m just a woman…”
“Does being a woman mean something?” Fang Zhiyi looked at her with amusement.
But the Empress’s eyes darted toward something behind him. One of her trusted men was bringing his sword down on his back. The blade never reached him. The man and his sword were kicked aside, and a group of four or five immediately swarmed him.
Listening to her men’s screams, the Empress felt utterly defeated.
“Can we negotiate?”
Fang Zhiyi’s gaze was mocking. “Don’t worry. I’m not going to kill you.” He’d figured it out by now—this transmigrated woman’s system was probably one of those romance-strategy types, standard for palace intrigue.
Lucky he was always cautious. Some of his hidden operations had never been exposed, still bringing in money.
Otherwise, today might have ended very differently.
“Your Majesty! Something terrible has happened!” A eunuch came sprinting into the Imperial Study. “A riot has erupted outside Prince Qi’s mansion! The Empress is there too! Prince Qi has truly rebelled! Your Majesty!”
The Emperor stared at him in a daze and then, after a moment, asked, “Who rebelled? Second Brother rebelled?”
The eunuch faltered. “Prince Qi has rebelled! When the Empress sent men to arrest him, he led those rioters in open rebellion…”
The Emperor rubbed his forehead, feeling an immense headache coming on.
The eunuch watched the Emperor, suspecting he might still be hungover from last night’s drinking.
After a long moment, he looked up again at the eunuch.
“How did the Empress end up there? And why did she order the arrest of Prince Qi?”
The eunuch looked at the Emperor with some confusion: “Your Majesty, have you forgotten? The court officials all impeached Prince Qi for harboring disloyal intentions, and at that time, you yourself said that Prince Qi...”
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