w.a.n.g Zi

Feng walked around the house several times, touching the all around the walls,

fragments of sand and stones with dried mud stuck to his hands, there was a

little pain like having been pin cus.h.i.+oned.

He lifted

his head to look at the roof, it was very high, it was somewhat difficult to

use the walls to jump up there, this room was like an atrium, there was only

one small window, the dark night penetrated through, no starlight could be

seen, just like the future he was about to face, pitch-black without hope.

“And not

know whether or not he would survive.” w.a.n.g Zi Feng subconsciously mumbled. 

There was no one else in the room, he simply did not know he was talking to

himself.

At noon he

was tied up and brought here, taken away from his dad’s severe and cold gaze.

Before he left, he heard his dad say to that blind man who had suddenly

appeared: “None of you are allowed to touch a single hair on him.”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng had a dim impression of that blind man, he had seen him at Xian Yun manor,

many people respected him. w.a.n.g Zi Feng at that time was fearless, and had

sought the other person out to compete in martial arts, he seems to be called

Jiu Fang Xi?

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng couldn’t remember much, but his father w.a.n.g Yun Feng was fairly afraid of

the other person. Since when Jiu Fang Xi had suddenly appeared in their

restaurant room, his dad no longer had any kind of emotion, like many, many

years ago, the expression when the father and son first met.

Indifferent,

estranged, not a single thought of his could be made out. But w.a.n.g Zi Feng knew

relying on his wild animal instincts, all the muscles in his father’s body was

tensed like a drum, this thin and weak yet strong man used his own power to

stop Jiu Fang Xi from sizing w.a.n.g Zi Feng up.

That blind

man had no eyes, but his entire body emitted a feeling like it was his eyes,

able to see clearly and distinctly everyone inside their room. w.a.n.g Zi Feng

thought he could smell blood, this smell of blood was the aura of death of

someone who could only have rolled about in a pile of corpses all year round,

this Jiu Fang Xi was a person who used the blood of living people to bathe,

it’s reckoned those who act against him would become the corpse beneath his

feet.

At that

time w.a.n.g Zi Feng’s blood vessels were immediately stimulated, something was

hidden inside him, blood-thirsty, a reckless ferocious animal tore at his

heart, wanting to rush out to decide who was superior with that Jiu Fang Xi.

His father

was blocked in by two people on his sides, noiselessly struggling with Jiu Fang

Xi for a very long time, finally allowing w.a.n.g Zi Feng to leave the restaurant

by himself.

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng knew, this was a way of survival won by w.a.n.g Yun Feng for him. Even though

it wasn’t necessary, what he needed was to charge in and recklessly behead the

enemies, he was very unsatisfied.

Before he

left his hands clutched on to the door frame rigidly, staring at this father.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng threw him the coldest glance, coldly saying: “Fen Er, leave here, kill

everyone who stands in your way.”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng was eager: “You won’t scold me, won’t hit me.”

There

appeared to be a trace of bitter smile at the corner of w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s mouth:

“Son, remember, the necessary requirement for me to scold and hit you, you need

to stay alive.”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng glanced at Jiu Fang Xi: “Then can I kill him?”

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng stood motionlessly on the spot.

The sun on

the Dragon Boat Festival was already very hot, coming through the horizontal

bamboo hanging screen, cutting up the person’s body into numerous light and

dark strips. The brightest strip in the room was on the blind person’s Jiu Fang

Xi’s eyes, the darkest strip was on that little spot in the pit of w.a.n.g Yun

Feng’s stomach. With this sentence, the two people on the roof held their

breaths, all the people outside also gasped for breathe deeply, a struggle

could happen at any moment.

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng licked the corner of his lips, both hands hanging down, a kind of position

appearing to be doing nothing but in fact at any time could strike out. Under

his long gown, his pair of knees sunk down a little, one foot outside the door,

one foot inside the door, his eyes sharp and slightly golden reflecting the

suns.h.i.+ne, like a wild animal.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng suddenly smiled, his face with the sun at his back became increasingly

gloomy until it was at its gloomiest: “Foolish son, there’s no way of surviving

here for you. Go, don’t make dad say it twice, and don’t always be so

incorrigible.”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng pursed his lips, seeing that blind man was unconcerned, then did he slowly

walk out.

The door,

in a flash was closed.

Outside the

room, stood an upright and straightforward Zhuang Hei Zi.

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng forgot to ask: “Killing mother’s old friend, is also not a problem?”

Sadly, w.a.n.g

Yun Feng would not give him an answer.

The beast

inside w.a.n.g Zi Feng again hibernated after leaving the room, he calmed down,

alone following Zhuang Hei Zi he left the restaurant, leaving the bustling

dragon boat compet.i.tion. He was too quiet, that’s why no one suspected.

Zhuang Hei

Zi knocked him unconscious half way, again waking up he was here in this oddly

lofty, four blank walls room.

He had hit

all around the walls, there was only an echo from one wall, indicating there

was a hidden room, or another room, only at this moment he could not find the

switch.

And not

knowing when it was, that heavy metal door was opened, someone threw two plump

things in, rumbling they rolled to his feet.

Those

things got up, one was the crown prince Gu Qin Tian, one was the young princess

Shang Jin.

Three

children, six eyes, looking at each other.

The crown

prince raised his hand in greeting: “So you’re also here.”

The young

princess had already patted her clothes and sorted out her clothes, setting her

hair bun right: “There’s only three of us, is there anyone else?”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng asked: “How did you get here?”

“We were

tied up.” The young princess said, already familiarly starting to look around

their surroundings, in this dark place, the greatest source of light was the

gold sparkling necklace on the young princess’s neck.

“Elder

brother invited us to watch the dragon boats, on the way we were separated. On

our way back we were besieged on, the forbidden guards are dead, we came here.”

The crown prince finished speaking and shrugged his shoulders, “I wonder if my

two brothers are still alive.”

The young

princess smiled yet not a smile looking at him.

The crown

prince spread out his hands: “Fine, maybe, this was all premeditated. My two elder

brothers may still be rampantly arrive, perhaps have returned to the palace at

an earlier time, to complain to emperor father and empress mother, saying I

only wanted to have fun and had disappeared.”

The young

princess reached out her hand to poke the crown prince’s forehead with all her

strength, poking the crown prince so hard his head rocked back and forth, his

whole body almost like a roly-poly toy.

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng couldn’t put up with it any longer, suddenly helping the young princess by

pus.h.i.+ng him once, the crown prince hit the ground with a bang, crying out

sorrowfully: “You bully me together! Seeing I’m on my own you think I’m easy to

bully? Believe that if I die you will have a good life?”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng simply did not know where the unfathomable fury came from, the young

princess actually knew, laughing she said: “You’re two elder brothers are very

stupid, maybe they have been exploited by others.”

The crown

prince smiled, with a trace of sinister evilness: “Maybe they are also using

someone to do their dirty work, eager for someone to kill us, they just sit to

gain from others work.” He thought about it, turning around he jumped up,

patting the dust off his clothes: “Forget it, I’m used to it. It’s better for

us to think about how to get out of here.”

As he

spoke, that wall with an echo slowly lifted up, exposing a cage behind it. The

cage was somewhat familiar, the three children were even more familiar with the

thing inside the cage.

“It’s the

lion.” The young princess’s eyes glowed, almost rus.h.i.+ng head first over, the

crown prince had already held her back: “Slow down, something’s wrong”

The lion

had clearly been caged for a very long time, it was slightly lazy, lying inside

the cage weakly and without strength. When he saw the three children, that wild

animal actually got up, slowly walking to the cage opening. His head knocked

against it, the cage door actually opened up just with that knock.

The crown

prince pulled the two children back a few steps, watching the lion salivating

with its b.l.o.o.d.y mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl: “It must be hungry.”

“Moreover

its been starved for a very long time, exactly the same as when my Tibetan

mastiff was starved for three days and three nights.” The young princess said

in hindsight, “it wants to eat us!”

The crown

prince wordlessly rolled his eyes, w.a.n.g Zi Feng subconsciously searched around

everywhere, wanting to find a weapon close to hand, sadly there was nothing

here.

The lion

was completely aggressive staring at them, the sole of its paws soundlessly

touched the ground, heading drooping down slightly deep, this made the children

s.h.i.+ver uncontrollably.

The young

princess first showed her teeth: “I, I’m a beautiful girl, you, you need to

protect me.”

The crown

prince look at her in disdain: “I’m still the heir to the throne, you first

feed it until it’s satisfied, then it might not eat me.”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng tilted his head, deciding to also be a little selfish, muttering: “I’m the

youngest.”

The two big

and small children in front of him together turned their heads, `pei`: 

“Shameless.”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng felt he had been treated unjustly, aren’t they the ones who are shameless,

how did it become himself: “You are very hateful.”

“You’re the

most hateful!” The two honourable incomparable big and small children also spat

at him.

The three

people unwittingly had withdrawn into the corner of the walls, the lion stopped

three paces before them, as if considering which of the mischievous children

out of luck would best to bite first.

The young

princess was already trembling from head to toe: “What, what to do?”

The crown

prince pulled on the jade pendent at his waist, with a light sound, there was

actually a secret box inside: “I only have five poison needles. It is too big,

the toxicity may not be enough.”

The young

princess clenched her teeth, pulling out the gold pin from her hair, pulling

apart one of the p.r.o.ngs: “I have poison, antiaris toxicaria, but how do we make

it eat it?”

The crown

prince said: “It can take a bite of you, we’ll throw it in.”

The young

princess grinded her teeth: “Your flesh is the most tender, it’s best to eat

you.”

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng had already noiseless drew out a flexible double-edged sword, this was a

gift his father had given him, he had always worn it next to his skin hanging

from his waist. 

Under a circ.u.mstance without a weapon, even though he didn’t

like the flexible sword it can face a struggle.

The crown

prince handed the concealed weapon to the young princess, taking w.a.n.g Zi Feng’s

flexible sword: “I’m better at the sword than you, I’ll do it.” Saying this he

placed w.a.n.g Zi Feng behind him.

w.a.n.g Zi

Feng stared blankly, looking at the short figure in front of him. The young

princess also stood by the crown prince’s side, figuring out the opportunity to

attack with him

The lion’s

front paw scratched the ground in front of it, very impatient. It had indeed

been starved for several days, it already didn’t have any trace of patience, it

also did not have much strength, it directly leaped up, pouncing at the crown

prince who looked the most delicious.

The young

princess rolled from her spot, moving to the side. The crown prince resisted

the lion with the sword, w.a.n.g Zi Feng who was behind him simply jumped without

the slightest thought, directly flying over the back of the crown prince to behind

the lion, with one hand he grabbed its tail. The lion was angry, turning around

to pounce on him.

The crown

prince’s flexible sword was very good to use, the young princess was waiting

for the right time all along, two silver needles already wedged between her

fingertips, w.a.n.g Zi Feng was very nimble, holding the lion’s tail he ran and

leapt about, like a monkey bullying a lion.

The two

boys often competed with people in martial arts, regardless if it was at the

Xia residence or the palace, there would be a sparring partner, and on top of

that the martial arts experts at the academy and amongst the people, the two

children had ample experience in sparring. The young princess also did not have

a delicate temper, when she was in her Prince father’s territory she would

already pick fights with people on the main streets, not scared of whoever

acting like an overlord, coming to the Imperial city, she also spent quite a

lot of time bullying people with the crown prince. Dragging it on for a few

moments, the three children slowly had a mutual understanding, their former

experience facing enemies also made them be a little bit less afraid, seemingly

if they rely on each other they will definitely survive.

The people

outside strained to hear the sound of activity in the room, once in a while the

cry of fear from a child could be heard, as well as the loud roar of the lion,

every person controlled their legs from weakening. Usually they were in charge

of the lion’s food and drink, they had a profound fear of the lion’s sharp

teeth and sharp claws.

All of them

were certain, the three children would not survive.

The smell

of blood gradually emitted from the room, those guarding outside the room

listened against the wall for a while, each one rubbing the goose b.u.mps which

had appeared on their bodies, looking at each other, everyone saw the alarm

from each other’s eyes. However, they weren’t going to say anything, they were

already used to using the method of destroying the body and obliterating the

evidence, numb, even if this time it was three innocent children inside…

When Luo

Luo quietly came with a food basket, she appeared to be somewhat depressed. 

One

of the guards puzzled smiled and said: “Lady Luo why are you here?”

Luo Luo

lowered her head: “Everyone is very busy, I’m the only one idle, that’s why I

want to help by doing something within my power.”

The guard

took the basket from her hands, there was a very uncommon chicken leg inside: 

“There’s also wine!” Another guard called out, “Thank you for Lady Luo’s generosity,

there’ll be extra food tonight.”

Luo Luo

smiled drily, her eyes falling onto the key hanging on the guard’s waist,

noncommittally she nodded: “Enjoy your meal, I still need to deliver food to

other people.” She took two steps forward, seeming to hear the blood-curdling

screech of a girl, he entire shoulders trembled: “Inside is there…someone?”

The guards

raised their heads from the chicken leg, looking at each other, one person

laughed heartily: “How can that be, the lion king is trapped inside, we just

fed it, it must be very happy. You don’t know, when that wild animal chews on

bones, the creaking noise is as scary as a ghost, not less people, even a tiger

would not dare to approach it.”

Luo Luo

dubiously looked at the st.u.r.dy wall, pulling at the corners of her mouth she

reluctantly said “That’s true”, not saying any more, she walked round the

corner of the room, quietly standing where no one was motionless for quite a

while.

The sky was

completely dark, starlight simply could not be seen, there wasn’t even wind.

Luo Luo

stood there soullessly for a while, again when she regained her senses she saw

that familiar figure walking over from the door. She was a little fl.u.s.tered, it

was not good to continue hiding, yet she didn’t dare to leave, she could only

pretend to have been pa.s.sing by, kneading her handkerchief she came out,

calling out in a whisper: “Brother Hei Zi.” 

Pausing, her mouth opened several

times, unable to spit out another word.

Not knowing

since when, she already did not know how to speak with Zhuang Hei Zi 

properly,

speaking loudly and laugh, act like a child openly and without fear. Most of

the time she stood silently behind him or five steps beside him, watching his

body s.h.i.+ning with warm sunlight or starlight, her heart soured in distress.

Sadly,

Zhuang Hei Zi was even more quiet, this was a maturity which saw through this

mortal life. He only paused in front of her for a while: “What are you doing

here?”

Luo Luo

relying on her feeling that something was wrong, tears hung on the corner of

her eyes unseen: “No, nothing.”

“Then don’t

linger here, go back to your room.”

Luo Luo was

still not ready to move, Zhuang Hei Zi deeply `en-----` once, Luo Luo’s

shoulders subconsciously trembled, leaving far away under the gaze of Zhuang

Hei Zi, returning to her own room.

Closing the

door, the door opened again, more than an hour pa.s.sed, Luo Luo under the heavy

darkness once again left. What she didn’t know was, the darkness was also

alive, with a movement, those shadows also noiselessly drifted along, sometimes

close, sometimes far, like they were stuck onto her back.

The side

courtyard was already completely quiet, the two guards at the door were lying

on the ground, the remaining wine in the wine pot also stained the ground, a

sticky puddle.

Luo Luo with

the tips of her fingers and standing on tiptoe took the key from the guard’s

waist, several times she couldn’t open the lock. She irritably swung her hands,

looking left and right, again trying once more, finally she opened it.

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T/N: Quite a long chapter but it's building up to the final chapter tomorrow ^_^