Proofread by Men Shunde

On hearing of his words, Nangong Ning stares at him angrily, but then she was pulled down from the sedan chair rudely.

  "My uncle Regent told me to take you nicely here only. But he didn't say anything about the things from now on, which will be controlled not by the Regent but me, the Crown Prince!" says Jun Zixuan.

Nangong Ning is forced to kneel down with a plop.

"It is about six hours before the dawn comes. I don't think it is a problem for the eldest daughter of the Nangong family to kneel for six hours," says the Crown Prince. 

The priority for Nangong Ning is to save her own life. In doing so she has to take the herb "the gra.s.s of the nether world" within 4 hours. Otherwise she will be dead due to the outbreak of the toxin, so she says, "Give me the gra.s.s of the nether world first."

"The gra.s.s of the nether world? You yourself may beg my father, the Emperor, to give you the gra.s.s of the neither world in six hours. But I don't think the Emperor will give it to you, since you are bold enough to challenge the authority of the Royal Family."

Nangong Ning really wants to scold him, "Are you an idiot or not?"

However, before she could have the time to, Jun Zixuan, with two sneers, says to the guards, "Keep your eyes on her and be careful not to let her escape again!"

  "Yes, Your Highness!"

With her clenched teeth, Nangong Ning desperately tries to rise up. But as soon as she moves, a sharp sword appears in front of her, the flash of which is as white as the snow light.

"Miss Nangong, you had better refrain from moving and stay on your knees," says a guard gelidly.

Nangong clenches her teeth.

She is running out of time and she must come up with a solution quickly.

But obviously there is nothing she can do now.

She looks around and sees something not far. With her eyes fixed on it, she asks, "What is that?"

Looking in the direction where she points, the guard says indifferently, "That's the Xuanwu Drum."

The Xuanwu Drum? Nangong Ning tries hard to search for the information for the Xuanwu Drum in her mind. Meanwhile her body moves a little, which makes the four guards around her move their bodies on the alert and one of them warns her in a cold voice, "Don't move!".

With her head down, Nangong Ning bites her lip, and her eyes fall on her wrist.

She finds that there is an acupuncture needle in her wrist, which is left there by Mr. Zong when he gives her the acupuncture to help her detoxify her toxins. Her wrist is where most toxins acc.u.mulate in her body due to the fact that she uses her phoenix bracelet to transfer the toxins from the Regent.

She can't deny that Mr. Zong's acupuncture method is very effective in helping her suppress toxins a lot. As a result, the needle itself now is poisonous.

Thinking of this, Nangong Ning bends down a little. With one of her sleeves covering her wrist, she takes the needle off secretly.

"Ouch!..."shouts out Nangong Ning.

"What's up with you?" One of the guards asks in surprise when he hears her crying out. He looks at Nangong Ning, who does not respond but with her head down, shouting out increasingly.

The guard gives a look at the other three, and then he comes over and bends down at the side of Nangong Ning, who just looks up and seizes the hand of the guard with her stretched hand, shouting, "It's so painful!"

The guard gets so startled by her shouting that he doesn't notice a slight sting on his wrist.

"Don't play tricks!" says the guard with a forceful swing of his arm.

The guard swings his arm so hard that not only his hand gets free from hers, but also Nangong Ning is thrown down on the ground. With her clenched teeth, she kneels up again.

After staring at Nangong Ning for a while, the guard returns to his original position without paying further attention to her.

Nangong Ning starts to count silently.

One, two, three.

Exactly when she counts the number of three, the guard plops forward and down without any omen.

"What's up?" The other three guards come up in a hurry to see what happens to him, with no one suspecting Nangong Ning.

They all know that Nangong Ning's health is very weak now, but they don't know this eldest daughter of the Nangong family could use poison.

"Gos.h.!.+ His face turns black!" One of the guards lifts the fallen one up and says anxiously.

Another asks, " Why is his face black?"

  "Because he is poisoned."

The three guards are startled to see that it is Nangong Ning speaking.

"You did?" asks one of them, who reacts very quickly.

Nangong Ning rolls her eyes at him, saying feebly, "Do you think that I have the poison to do that or I have the strength to do that?"

Of course, it is not possible for her … The three look at one another. They couldn't understand, nor can they figure out what has happened.

"If you do not try to save him now, I am sure he will die in half an hour due to the outbreak of toxins," warns Nangong Ning.

"How do you know?" asks the one who reacts quickly again, looking at Nangong Ning suspiciously.

Nangong Ning curls her lip, saying, "It's my guess. Everybody knows it by looking at his dark face, which is common knowledge. Don't you think so?"

The three guards look at the man's black face again, and find that it is darker than it looked before.

"What should we do?" One asks another. Their duty here is to guard Nangong Ning. How could they leave here without instructions?

Nangong Ning gives them an advice.

"Two of you can carry him to see the doctor, and one remains here to watch over me, for a person like me would be easily controlled by one of you."

  The eyes of the three all fall on Nangong Ning.

Somehow, the girl seems to them a little out of place, but what she says seems reasonable.

  Soon they make the decision: two of them take the poisoned one as quickly as possible to see the doctor, and the one remains here, who is the most capable person in terms of martial arts.

  Seeing them going too far to return back, Nangong Ning says to the guard, "Actually I have seen how the man is poisoned."

"What?" The guard is startled, turning his head to look at Nangong Ning.

  With the corners of her lips lifted up slightly, Nangong Ning crooks her finger to beckon him.

  Somehow, the smile on Nangong Ning's face seems a little evil to the guard. Nevertheless, he cannot refrain from coming up to her.