Chai Shao stormed in like a whirlwind.

Knowing his position, Kou Zhong stepped aside. His heart was overwhelmed with bitter, humbling feeling of being wronged. Indeed it was like drinking snow water in chilly weather; only those who had drunk it would know the taste.

Li Xiuning had never expected that Chai Shao would suddenly barge in; she understood Kou Zhong’s feeling from experience. Knitting her brows, she said, “Didn’t you go to the Heavenly Policy Mansion to see Qin Wang?”

Deeply concerned, Chai Shao exhibited his feelings in his speech, saying, “I heard Gongzhu’s noble body is sick, Chai Shao …”

Li Xiuning was afraid he might see through Kou Zhong’s disguise, she cut him off by speaking to Kou Zhong, “Mo Xiansheng is a very busy person, Xiuning does not dare to waste Xiansheng’s precious time. Guards! See Mo Xiansheng off for me.”

Chai Shao’s handsome eyes shot toward Kou Zhong, he said, “Let me see Mo Xiansheng off!”

Kou Zhong hastily said, “Fuma Ye need not be polite; Ning Gongzhu’s illness is due to excessive anxiety, plus she is constantly on the move, hence she caught a little bit of cold. If Fuma Ye could ease up Gongzhu’s emotional issue, she would recover without any medicine.”

Kou Zhong’s mind could move very fast; he guessed correctly that Chai Shao volunteering to see him off was to inquire in private about Li Xiuning’s illness. This aspect he and Li Xiuning had not had common agreement. If later on Chai Shao bring it up and compare it Li Xiuning’s response, they would surely reveal the cloven foot.

Therefore, he specifically mentioned the patient’s condition in Li Xiuning’s presence, so that they would not reveal any flaw.

Chai Shao naturally knew that Li Xiuning was upset about her three elder brothers’ struggle, hence Kou Zhong’s casually grasped cause of her illness was absolutely impeccable.

Although Kou Zhong did not like Chai Shao’s arrogance, but he knew that Chai Shao’s deep love toward Li Xiuning was sincere.

Chai Shao cordially said, “Let Chai Shao see Xiansheng off to the Palace gate!”

Kou Zhong had no choice but to agree.

Actually, he ought to thank Chai Shao for interrupting his talk with Li Xiuning, because he did not wish to see her unhappy. But the other pain in his heart was that Li Yuan already formally decided the engagement between the two.

He, Kou Zhong, could simply put his heart to death.

Today might be an extremely busy day for him.

Last night, he and Xu Ziling have already plotted good deployment plan in response to the latest development. They would split up today to execute their separate tasks, and then they would join hands again to launch the attack.

Before seeing Shang Xiufang, he still needed to find someone. If this person was willing to cooperate with them, their momentum would grow tremendously.

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Finished listening, Shi Feixuan pondered silently. Her beautiful eyes were radiating intelligent rays of light.

Xu Ziling suddenly asked, “Would Shi Xiaojie make your move to deal with the enemy?”

Astonished, Shi Feixuan asked, “Why did Ziling ask such a strange question?”

Because Shi Feixuan’s heartless hint rendered a heavy blow, which wound he had to bury deep inside his heart – Xu Ziling recovered his usual calm, confident and at ease manner.

Toward Shi Feixuan, he had never had more than wild schemes and wild fantasy, but between the two, they have always maintained some kind of seeming-neither-close-nor-distant subtle relation. But Shi Feixuan’s action has skillfully smashed this wonderful, hard-to-describe relationship.

Smiling, he said, “Other than stabbing Xiaodi a few times with the sword due to the Jade Annulus of He Clan affair, Shi Xiaojie has only fought a desperate battle against Wanwan; hence Xiaodi’s question.”

Shi Feixuan smiled and said, “Learning the sword is to be used to subdue the demon and defend traditional values, how could it not be used to fight with others? It was because Feixuan has my school’s support behind my back, and those of the same principle in Jianghu give Feixuan enough face that Feixuan has not been involved in situation where weapons of war are being used in a big way. The most subtle thing is that between the demonic school and the side that Feixuan is representing there is an unwritten tacit understanding, which is Wanwan is Feixuan’s match. Supposing someone destroys this balance, it would stir up the huge waves between the Buddhist and Taoist, two schools, against the demonic school.”

Xu Ziling said, “So to speak, is it inappropriate for Shi Xiaojie to personally deal with demonic school people?”

Shi Feixuan’s beautiful eyes staring deeply into his eyes, she said, “Who do you want to deal with?”

Xu Ziling nonchalantly replied, “Shi Zhixuan!”

Even with Shi Feixuan’s level of self-cultivation, her tender body still shook slightly. “Do you know where he is?” she asked.

Xu Ziling replied, “I could te