Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

60. Assassination

Translator: Flying Lines

The next day, Xiao ShengNian and his group got on the carriage and prepared to leave. The difference was that this time, Xiao ShengNian, Su Jie and Zhou Zaiyue sat on the first carriage while Sun Shu was arranged to be seated on the second carriage.

“Let’s go,” Xiao ShengNian gave the order to Zhui Xing who was outside driving the carriage.

The carriage slowly wheeled out of the city gates while the officials in City Hao watched upon them leaving.

Throughout the journey, Sun Shu didn’t make any trouble. Every day, he would eat and sleep on time. Except for being like a numb puppet, he was very cooperative. Sometimes, he would look at Su Jie with something inexplicable in his eyes. It was alright if it was once or twice. However, Su Jie began to notice it when it happened too many times.

“This uncle couldn’t have possibly fallen for me, could he?” This was Su Jie’s first thoughts. He got a fright from that and goose bumps appeared all over his body. Su Jie could not guarantee that if Sun Shu looked at him again, he could refrain from slaughtering this squared face middle-aged man right on the spot.

Since Sun Shu did not know what was on Su Jie’s mind, he continued to glance at Su Jie after his meal.

Su Jie’s face had started to darken.

These days, the journey had been bumpy and the days passed were boring. Su Jie’s mood had already been dampened. Besides, Sun Shu’s gaze was too weird, which made Su Jie annoyed.

Su Jie was contemplating if he should have a “talk” with Sun Shu.

If he continued to peep at him weirdly, Su Jie was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to withhold himself from gouging Sun Shu’s eyeballs out.

Currently, the sun had not set yet. The sky was burning red and the clouds were blooming gorgeously. Su Jie raised his head and looked at the sky, they would definitely not be rushing on the road again tonight. Xiao ShengNian was out with Zhui Xing, leaving Su Jie, Zhou Zaiyue, Yu Che, and Sun Shu in the inn.

‘Why not make use of this opportunity and have a talk with Sun Shu?’ Su Jie thought.

Su Jie stood up, his red robe was as bright as fire, making his skin even fairer. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, he looked a little dreamlike and unreal.
However, just as Su Jie was about to approach Sun Shu, Zhou Zaiyue suddenly stretched out his skinny hand and held onto Su Jie’s arm.

“Elder Zhou?” Su Jie turned his head slightly and called out in surprise.

“Accompany this old man to play chess,” Zhou Zaiyue showed a kind smile.

“…Okay.” Su Jie stared at Zhou Zaiyue for a while and found that the old man’s expression was a bit mysterious. He seemed to have something to tell him, so he nodded.
When chessboard was set, the two then began to play chess.

There was silence all around, and Su Jie was focusing on the chessboard. At this moment, he seemed to hear a faint voice.

Su Jie’s five senses were more sensitive than ordinary people. Even sometimes, he had a certain ability to perceive danger. He had seen too much blood, so he was relatively familiar with certain smells.

For example… Currently, Su Jie was able to feel that there was some abnormality in the atmosphere.

To be precise, he felt a murderous air.
Su Jie had always felt that murderous aura was very mystical. Take a butcher who slaughtered pigs for example. After a long time, this instilled a type of fear into the pigs, being afraid of the butcher. This was an intriguing feeling. If a killer killed a lot, his appearance would naturally put pressure on ordinary people.

In this regard, the Guqin Master’s explanation was: As the number of  people you kill increases, the resentment and grievance of those you killed will be infected upon you. After a long time, naturally, you will have a killing aura that will shock ordinary people. When more of such pressure accumulates, your special aura will be formed. Sometimes you can feel that the surrounding air becomes solidified with the appearance of a certain person, and that is affected by the aura.

Su Jie did not have a deep understanding of these words, but he could clearly feel the existence of murderous intent.

Su Jie naturally had a murderous aura, but he masked it very well. There are things that you may not do well in the beginning, but after doing it for a long time, you can always gain some experience and skills. In the beginning, Su Jie’s murderous aura was like this, overt and easily perceived by people of profound marital skills whenever he appeared. However, as Su Jie experienced more killing, the murderous aura on him could be perfectly restrained. From then on, he could disguise as anybody without being seen through as he could adjust his aura according to his disguise.

Su Jie felt the murderous aura, and Yu Che felt it after a moment, who, eyes narrowed, reached out for Sun Shu and shoved him towards Su Jie and Zhou Zaiyue’s side. With an anxious tone, he said, “Take him and hide in the house!”

As he said these words, black-masked figures emerged from the other side of the wall, each of them rushing over without concealing their killing intentions.

“Hide yourself in the house!” Zhou ZaiYue’s first reaction was to protect Su Jie. He didn’t care about Sun Shu’s safety. But, how could Su Jie hide? The blood in his body was about to boil. These black-clothed and masked men were most likely Men of Sacrifice, the least kind Su Jie would be afraid of confronting. After all, they were of the same kind with the same cruelty. Moreover, Su Jie couldn’t allow an old man to protect him. Since there weren’t any useful weapons to be used, he had no choice but to grab a handful of chess pieces and said to Zhou Zaiyue: “You should get in the house now, leave this to me!”

As soon as he said that, a bright sword went straight at Su Jie intending to pierce his chest.