Chapter 3 A Double Exposed Disguised

In the midst of the night, one could discover that there was a dark shadow leaping around from rooftop to another rooftop, wide alley to narrow alley and hopping from tree to tree. Dressed up in a dark green thin robe, he was chasing a black-clothed intruder in the palace that had fought three rounds with him just now!

'Those foolish guards! Benwang clearly asked them to track down this black-clothed guy! But where the heck are they?'

'Tsk. This intruder seemed to be quite a strong opponent. And what was that powder he had used? It smelled so weird.'

'It can't be sleeping powder? But so far, it has no any reaction...'

He continued to roam around the town and finally decided to have a look from the highest peak of the town. From there, he could see some remaining imperial shadow guards scattered around heading to the outskirt of the town.

'Why are they tracing in a completely opposite route?'

His pupils dilated and a flash of coldness can be seen. If one was to pay attention, there was a subtle smirk as well. He flew and followed the traces that were left behind by his imperial shadow guards.

'Seems like there were more than one intruders. Let this prince see what are the remaining tricks that you have.'

Right in front of the entrance of the forest, the imperial shadow guards had lined up in fifteen rows forming a big army formation. They dare not intrude this mysterious forest at night. This what so-called the Guardian Forest seems safe and tranquil during the day but at night, no one civilian in this country dares to intrude. Even if there was an emergency and they need to pass this forest to get to the next town, they will wait till sunrise. Well, it was said that there was a thousand-year-old monster lived in the middle of the forest and it will come out during the night to hunt. There was one time where one man accepted the challenge to explore the forest after sunset and he never came back. He never. And this had stayed mysterious until now as nobody knew what had happened to him.

"Imperial shadow guard Xing! Are we really getting in there?"

"That... I am not sure either, let us wait for master first."

"Imperial shadow guard Xing! What if master really wants us to get in there? It is haunted at night!"

"Well...." Before he finished, a dark green robe shadow flew through and entered the forest within seconds.

"Well imperial shadow Nian, do we have a choice?"

There were two categories of imperial guards in the palace. The imperial golden guards donned the golden armour uniform and they receive orders directly from the TianDi (King). However, their job scopes are limited to guarding the palace and ensuring the safety of the TianDi.

This had made the fourth prince worried. To ensure stricter security, he suggested to the TianDi to form a secret organisation as he needed a batch of imperial guards that can protect in secret and multi-tasking various dangerous miscellaneous tasks. Hence another batch, the Imperial Shadow Guards was established. The fourth prince personally picked every imperial shadow guard. They had tough training and went through a lot of life and death missions before they were eligible to serve as the imperial shadow guard.

It was also the TianDi who personally approved the existence of these guards. However, they only show loyalty and receive orders directly from the fourth prince. Matching their name shadow, this meant that nobody knew their existence as they donned a fully black uniform and only operated at night.

"The prince did not give any order yet so let us wait till half an hour before sunrise."

Deep inside the forest, the black clothing intruder opened her facemask and the moonlight shone through her face. A pair of bright and big eyes were immediately revealed. She had a cute nose, which is round and pointy, and her lips were small yet plump and pink, just like a popped cherry.

'Hah! I told you! This big sister here is not that easy to be captured! Huh! I almost managed to have a look! Ugghh... So annoying!'

A gushed of light wind can be heard.

'Hmm... There is someone else here... Want to peep me stripping eh?'

A dark jade green silhouette was currently hiding behind a giant forest tree while admiring the beauty in front of him. His eyes flickered when that intruder let go of her hair and was currently trying to strip off.

'So it turned up that she is the other intruder. This maiden had the gut to intrude the palace and now this mysterious Hei Xing Ye Lin alone.'

'She actually managed to escape from those imperial shadow guards.'

'Interesting...'

That man who was hiding wanted to look but was in a dilemma. He continued watching that girl stripping off and some black pieces were starting to fall off to the ground.

'Tsk. This feeling... Are you going to seduce this prince? Tsk.' A cold sneered could be detected if one has a high martial art skill.

Slowly the girl finished stripping the black layer off and a set of dark sea green colour Hanfu was revealed. It was true that there is a saying 'sea green colour compliments fair skin' and this maiden in front of him appeared fair and bright under the moonlight. Something was stirring and heating up his body deep down. That was annoying him! He never had such feeling towards any maiden! Uhmm... Well when his best friend showed him some Chun Gong Tu, he was all heated up and stirred at that time! However, that was the first and the last time. Right now, he felt that his arrogance and pride are all smashed down. Sneaking a peep at a maiden, he was embarrassed.

"Chivalry is dead anyway", the man secretly chided in his heart. His body continued to grow in heat. He was unsure of what was happening either.

He calmed down his beating heart, adjusted his facial expression and turned back again. Just when he thought that there will be some extra stripping scene...

"Tsk. Where is she?"

By the time he sensed a small motion just right behind him, a little finger poked his shoulder and he had a bad feeling about it.

'Tsk! She discovered me?'

He turned and faced the person behind him. While maintaining a cool and poker face, he secretly scanned the girl right in front of him. He does not usually praise someone especially when it comes toward maidens...but looking at this girl, he had a special attraction towards her. Physically and emotionally.....yet. Alienating his gaze, he pretended to cough lightly.

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Benwang=a title where a prince uses to address himself. Sometimes, the king or similar ranking also use it

Hei Xing Ye Lin=Black Stars Night Forest (translated literally, it is a metaphor in Chinese indicating that the forest is kind of dark and mysterious filled with night stars)

Tiandi=a title for the King in some ancient Chinese term

Chun Gong Tu= some well-known adult book in the ancient time