1.11

Li Luo was riding a snow white horse. From time to time his horse would turn around and look at Qin Yu's black horse, which was to the left.

That night, he had called out to Qin Yu several times, but he still didn't respond to him even once, so he had fallen asleep unconsciously. Since that day Qin Yu had not spoken to him for two months, and every time he saw him, his face immediately became ice cold.

Throughout these two months, led by Qin Yu, the Xiang Bei Army went south of Ling City and captured two other cities. Although those cities' protection wasn't as good as Ling City's, the speed, with which they captured them, was enough to make one be speechless.

Meanwhile, Nangong Ao immediately led Xiang Nan Army to Qin Yu's location after he heard the news of his victory. Once they joined together they proceeded to Xirong City and when they arrived, they attacked it.

Nangong Ao and Qin Yu struck from two sides and once they were done with it, they advanced towards Bian Capital City's direction.

The further the south they went the lusher the greenery became and the richer the cities were.

A day after the symbolic attack, they pretended to being unable to penetrate its defences and bypassed the Jing Wang fiefdom, which was one of their secret supports. Qin Yu and the others walked for another three days, and finally reached their next target—Yunxi City.

A city situated in Jiangnan river area with developed waterways and thriving trades. It was brightly lit both day and night, which made it a very bustling scene.

However, nothing was forever. When the forces of 300.000 troops arrived in the front of city gates, the lively atmosphere was shattered right away, just like the reflection of the moon in a disturbed lake. The commoners in the city closed their doors one after the other, while the merchants who had come to do business in Yunxi city shivered inside their booked rooms. There were also many people, who couldn't find a place to stay, so they could only cower in a street corner, waiting the outcome, feeling anxious and frightened.

The city gate was tightly closed and on top of city walls were situated soldiers, who vigilantly watched the army at the border of the city.

But little did they know that the protagonist, who was the leader of these 300.000 troops, had long ago sneaked into the city and at this moment was hiding in an empty house, waiting for the night to arrive.

Li Luo was quietly sitting on a stone bench that had been wiped clean by a soldier and observed the very quiet Qin Yu.

He didn't know what Qin Yu was angry about, but more than two months had gone by and he unexpectedly still hadn't calmed down, so Li Luo didn't know what to do.

Suddenly the sound of light knocks resounded in the room from outside the wooden door of the house.

Qin Yu immediately clenched the sword on his side, looking sharply towards the door. Two soldiers dressed up as commoners, looked murderously at the door as they walked quietly towards it and slowly pulled out their daggers.

"Who?"

"Mucheng gege, this is me, why are you still not opening the door." The low and soft voice of woman sounded from outside, like a spring breeze in March.

Li Luo and Qin Yu glanced at each other, their faces showing a trace of surprise.

Li Luo stood up, he walked two steps to arrive in front of the wooden door. Opening the wooden door, he saw a girl in light green garments standing behind the door, she was an incomparable beauty. It had been a few months since the last time he had seen Liu Ruoyan.

Once she saw the door being opened by Li Luo, Liu Ruoyan beautiful apricot pupil immediately lit up, her charming face also flushed red, "Mucheng gege, you really are here." She said as she pouted her small mouth, and then threw her delicate body into Li Luo's bosom.

Just when she was about to come in touch with Li Luo, a honey-coloured big palm took ahold of her shoulder, making her body unable to move further.

Liu Ruoyan looked at Qin Yu's direction, her slender eyebrows wrinkled before straightening out almost immediately. She had no choice but to straighten her body. After fixing her clothes, Liu Ruoyan said, "Qin Yu gege, you're also here."

Seeing how Qin Yu and Liu Ruoyan's interacted, Li Luo could not help but get a headache. They were his novel's male and female protagonists, yet for some reason they practically looked at each other with disgust.

He really didn't know why the interactions between them was like that, they didn't get along at all.

You both are childhood sweethearts. What's wrong with him that makes you not want to get married to a gentleman like him, and what's wrong with her that makes you not want to marry your wife?

At this point those two were simply a pair of enemies, who saw each other as an eyesore.

Since the appearance of Liu Ruoyan, Li Luo obviously noticed that the oppressive force which Qin Yu's body emitted was become even more pronounced. He could not help but feel his headache worsen. Looking at the still pouting Liu Ruoyan, Li Luo displayed an expressionless look, and asked: "Ruoyan, what were you thinking by coming to this place? It is dangerous here."

"I'm here to help you!" Liu Ruoyan lifted her little chin, and said.

Li Luo thought back, there was something like that in the novel. Although Liu Ruoyan was a delicate and weak woman, her master was actually the world's best doctor, and she was her master, the God Doctor Miao Yunyun's last disciple.

Doctors, they both had the ability to save people, and to kill them.

Liu Ruoyan not only had an extraordinary skills in the art of healing, but her talent in refining poison also far exceeded an ordinary person's. Since Yunxi City's governor residence was protected by many layers, it was not good to enter forcefully. Yunxi City had both a wide network and abundant resources. It was one of the most important properties of Qin Yan, so it was naturally protected very closely. The soldiers were also well equipped.

Moreover, reinforcement from Bian Capital City could arrive to this place very fast. So the siege this time must be promptly resolved in the shortest time possible or no further war of attrition such as Ling City can be taken.

Therefore, it was necessary to dispose of Yunxi city's governor, before they attacked Yunxi city.

In order to be able to capture Yunxi City with quickly, three days ago, Li Luo and Qin Yu took a few trusted soldiers with them and infiltrated Yunxi City. They were disguised when they entered.

However, after observing the governor's residence for three days, they had failed to find out a way to prevent the guards from being alarmed when they infiltrated the residence.

There were two layers of soldiers armed with spears outside the residence, not to mention the patrolling soldier that changed shifts every hour, it was almost comparable to an iron wall.

In fact, whatever strategy Qin Yu made, it always had a trace of a thorny problem.

In this case, the best plan was to release a wide range of knockout drugs, that would take care of all soldiers in one swoop. Then it was vital to find the governor and kill him before the next shift of soldiers arrived.

Afterwards when they allocated a few people to dispose the soldiers guarding the city gate, the plan would be a success. However, if they failed to dispose of the governor, they would execute the next plan which was to open the city gate, and let the 300,000 troops outside the city in. This plan would cause some casualties from the commoners' side. Therefore, it was for the best that the first plan succeed.

The problem was that they actually didn't possess such effective knockout drugs. They also couldn't search for any senior doctors in the city to employ.

As if she had the ability to read their mind, Liu Ruoyan had arrived just in time to provide help in their hour of need.

This was even written in the novel, in order to enhance the feelings between the male and female protagonist.

After all, the female protagonist was so delicate and weak, but unexpectedly in spite of danger she came to help the male protagonist, it proved how strong and deep her passion towards him was.

However, the present situation was that the heroine and the protagonist seemed to avoid each other, as if they got involved with each other they would pollute the air.

When the two of them started staring at each other, angry sparks went flying from their eyes. Li Luo had become invisible as Qin Yu's gaze, which was as though want to eat people, was on Liu Ruoyan. "Does Nangong bobo know that you did something like this?" Li Luo said.

"He does, Yan'er got his approval. Why? Doesn't Mucheng gege want to see Yan'er? Yan'er hadn't seen you for long, so she missed you." Liu Ruoyu's agrieved eyes looked at Li Luo. Since Qin Yu's palm was still clutching her shoulder, she could only pull her arms away from Li Luo's and act coquettishly.

As Li Luo saw Liu Ruoyan's dazzling misted almond eyes, his otaku heart was softened by half and then softened even more when he looked at that little hand that grabbed his own. suddenly his brain was blank. The brain center: "Ahahahahahah, the female protagonist from my novel is shaking my hands, and just a moment ago she wanted to hug me, I feel like I can to die without regrets now."

Li Luo's white cheeks suddenly become red, his shy appearance attracted his mild colour corner of the mouth. Outwardly he didn't look like his heart flooding with excited, instead he looked very gentle, "Mucheng gege naturally also missed Ruoyan."

After Liu Ruoyan heard that, she proudly sends out a glance at the darkened Qin Yu. After some struggle, she opened Qin Yu's palm and while grinning she pulled Li Luo outside the yard.

Qin Yu stood still, watching Li Luo obediently follow Liu Ruoyan, his face became dark like ink, his palm clenched tightly at his side. It seemed he wasn't progressing fast enough, he would need at least half a year to have that position. He had to rethink his plans, because he couldn't wait much longer.

...

That night, there was no moonlight shining in the sky and the stars were sparse, only one or two decorated the night sky. Everything was shrouded in darkness.

It was 'sizhi'[1] three-quarter, the most dark time of the night, even nearby things could only be seen as a hazy outline, not to mention those further away.

Qin Yu and Li Luo had learned martial arts, so at night, they could see much better than normal people.

The six people wearing dark night clothes were traveling swiftly across the alley streets. They accurately arrived at the side of governor residence, where the guards were dead.

Qin Yu stood in the forefront and headed out to scout the corner. He saw in the distance several people above the walls with a torch guarding the governor residence.

Against the torch's background, the governor residence's rough situation was obvious.

He observed the distribution of the soldiers and reached out his hand to feel the wind direction. Then he turned around and waved his hands, Li Luo immediately understood his meaning and moved in the wall. He indicated to three people behind him to scout in another direction.

They all skillfully spread out and soon arrived at a willow tree that blocked the mouth alley.

Qin Yu once again looked at the soldiers that guarded it and went with the wind. He slightly nodded his head and left one person behind. The rest of them left in another direction.

After leaving a person behind, Qin Yu and Li Luo searched for a suitable place to put on their black scarves, that were smeared with the antidote. Qin Yu took out a powder package from his bosom and waiting a while before raising his hand, releasing the powder in the wind towards the guard's direction. It spread and surrounded them.

After only one burned incense stick, the once straight soldiers started swaying and fell to the ground.

Li Luo followed Qin Yu out of the alley, he passed the soldiers on the ground and softly jumped over the wall. The other four people guarded the main gate and the back door to prevent emergencies.