"Husband, who is calling you at this hour?"
Wang Yuyan asked with interest as Shen Lang returned to the dining table and she refilled his soup.
"It's Chu Ge. She said she's getting engaged tomorrow and wants me to attend."
Shen Lang stated the facts directly without concealment.
"Do you need me to prepare a generous gift to congratulate her?"
Hearing Chu Ge's name, Wang Yuyan didn't dwell on it and said with a smile.
"No need. While she wants me to attend, she doesn't want me to go and celebrate."
Shen Lang smiled at Wang Yuyan and said, "Don't worry about Chu Ge's matters. I'll handle it myself."
"Alright!"
Wang Yuyan smiled gently at Shen Lang's words.
Unbeknownst to Wang Yuyan, while she and Shen Lang were chatting, Bai Niao and Wu Ya had fled to a dilapidated wooden hut in the southern mountains of Nanling.
"Wu Ya, should be safe here, right?"
After escaping from Baihua Hospital, the two had fled almost non-stop, finally reaching Nanshan in one go.
"It should be safe, at least the enemy won't be chasing us anymore."
Wu Ya said, "Based on my intuition, the person who came was Shen Lang. I couldn't feel such terrifying pressure from anyone else. I just don't know how he knew we were at Baihua Hospital. Did the Young Lady accidentally let it slip?"
"Impossible. If others don't know how meticulous the Young Lady is, don't we?"
Bai Niao retorted, "It's impossible for the Young Lady to have leaked it. It's more likely that Ye Shishi found out, given Ye Shishi's considerable influence in Nanling."
"What? Ye Shishi found out?"
Hearing Bai Niao's words, Wu Ya's expression changed, and he said, "Not good. If Ye Shishi found out about this, then we're in danger now."
"What do you mean?"
Bai Niao asked, "Why do you say we're in danger if Ye Shishi found out about this?"
"Bai Niao, think about it. If Ye Shishi found our whereabouts, why wouldn't she act herself and instead let Shen Lang deal with us?"
Bai Niao said, "The only explanation is that she wants to use Shen Lang's hand to kill us, creating a rift between the Young Lady and Shen Lang."
"Ye Shishi is indeed the owner of Zhongzhou Bank. Her schemes are meticulous and truly terrifying. However, she miscalculated one thing: your sharp sense of death, Wu Ya."
Hearing this, Wu Ya's expression changed, and he said, "Bai Niao, death hasn't left us; it's only getting closer."
"I understand, I finally understand. Ye Shishi devised two poisonous schemes. The first is to have Shen Lang kill us, causing the Young Lady to develop a rift with Shen Lang. The second is to have her own people kill us."
"Run, Bai Niao, let's run quickly."
As Wu Ya said this, his eyes turned red, and he shouted at Bai Niao.
"Run?"
Hearing Wu Ya's words, Bai Niao was stunned, not understanding Wu Ya's reaction.
"You should listen to him and run immediately, instead of asking so many questions."
As Bai Niao finished speaking, a voice as cold as a thousand-year-old ice came from behind, and then a woman, as tall as snow and with a graceful figure, entered the wooden hut.
The woman carried a thousand-jin profound iron greatsword on her back and had a long and a short wooden sword at her waist. Her face was so cold it seemed to be covered in frost, making it impossible to look at her directly.
"It's you?"
Upon clearly seeing the face of the approaching person, Bai Niao and Wu Ya's eyes widened, and they exclaimed.
Bai Niao and Wu Ya had seen the person before, just once, but that single encounter had become their psychological shadow. If they could, they would never want to see this person again, because there was no one more terrifying in this world than her.
"You still remember me?"
Looking at Bai Niao and Wu Ya's reactions, the white-clothed woman said faintly, "Since that's the case, then we can talk."
The woman in white drew the short wooden sword from her waist and played with it in her hand, saying as she toyed with it, "Do you know why I'm here?"
"Dugu Jian, you're here to kill us on Ye Shishi's orders, right?"
Wu Ya looked at Ye Shishi, his eyes filled with fear, and said.
"Very smart, but not smart enough."
Dugu Jian looked at Wu Ya and sneered, "If you were truly smart, you wouldn't have dared to scheme against Ye Shishi a second time, because that's courting death."
"Dugu Jian, I know you are a Grandmaster of Sword Dao in the Dragon Country, but we were hit by hidden weapons and poisoned in the Tang Sect. Our injuries have not yet healed. If you make a move against us now, aren't you afraid of tarnishing your reputation?"
Bai Niao said to Dugu Jian, "If you are truly a Grandmaster of Sword Dao in the Dragon Country, then wait until our injuries have healed before coming to kill us. Then we will have a fair duel to the death."
"Fair duel?"
Hearing Bai Niao's words, Dugu Jian sighed, "In this world, no one can talk about fairness with me, Dugu Jian, because my existence itself is the unfairness of this world."
"A person who had never touched a sword from birth, yet became invincible in the world after touching a sword at eighteen. Is there any fairness in this world?"
"Talking about fairness with someone who is inherently unfair is a joke in itself, don't you think?"
"You..."
Hearing Dugu Jian's words, Bai Niao was choked with anger and said, "According to you, the two of us are bound to die here today. You won't let us go, right?"
"Yes, you are very smart."
Dugu Jian looked at Bai Niao and said seriously, "You can resist, but I can guarantee you that no matter how you resist, you will ultimately be unable to escape death."
"Dugu Jian, you are too arrogant. Do you really think you are invincible? Let me tell you, although we are not your match, we are confident in escaping."
Wu Ya looked at the confident and calm Dugu Jian and said coldly, "You can't kill us."
"Oh? You can try to escape."
Hearing Wu Ya's words, Dugu Jian smiled and said, "You can run now, and I promise not to pursue. But I guarantee that no matter how fast you run, you will ultimately be unable to escape death."
"Bai Niao, run quickly."
Hearing Dugu Jian's words, Wu Ya looked at Bai Niao, shouted, and then ran straight out of the door.
Seeing Wu Ya fleeing, Bai Niao also ran out. The two were very fast, and in less than half a minute, they disappeared without a trace.
However, Dugu Jian, as she had said, did not pursue. Instead, she found a chair in the wooden hut and sat down, quietly gazing at the red clouds in the distance, and sighed, "Flowing clouds, frost in the evening, whose sad song lingers?"
After speaking, Dugu Jian stroked the wooden sword in her hand as if she were caressing a child and said, "Go."
As Dugu Jian finished speaking, she released the wooden sword, and the sword flew out in the direction Bai Niao and Wu Ya had fled.
The killing intent was like a rainbow, unstoppable.