Chapter 67

"Do it!"

At his command, the guards around him brandished their swords and rushed up.

He has money, so the guards he keeps are all top experts who can fight ten people each.

"Careful!" Gu Nian'an sensed the sound behind him, and as he looked back, he saw the swords and shadows rushing toward them. He was anxious and wanted to break free from Lin Qingyue to fight those people.

But the black-skirted woman holding the red umbrella and dragging him was truly strange; with his life hanging by a thread, she remained calm and didn't even turn her head.

Just as more than a dozen swords were about to fall, she suddenly spun around and pushed Gu Nian'an to the side, throwing the scarlet oil-paper umbrella into mid-air like a startled swan.

Her fingertips flicked the hidden compartment of the umbrella handle, drawing out a sword as thin as a cicada's wing, silver light appearing like flowing fireflies.

"Swish, swish!" Several clear sword lights flashed in the night—

The guards holding the knives still maintained their slashing posture, but suddenly stood still like clay sculptures. Only a thin line of wounds cracked on their necks.

Not long after, "thump" sounds followed one after another; those stiff, motionless bodies fell one by one, the blades hitting the ground and splashing up fine dust.

At this time, the red oil-paper umbrella slowly spun down, just in time to catch the cold light of the sword, fitting perfectly with the umbrella handle.

Gu Nian'an was stunned, and Gu Huai was also stunned.

After a few breaths, Gu Huai staggered back half a step, trembling and scolding angrily: "You... you are an official of the imperial court, yet you dare to kill the innocent!"

"Innocent?" The red-umbrella woman turned around gloomily, her fingertips rubbing the umbrella ribs as she chuckled, "Why, only they are allowed to point their blades at me, but I'm not allowed to pay back blood with blood? Gu Huai—"

She suddenly raised her eyes, cold light appearing in her pupils, "This seat has always been one to pay back every grievance. You just ordered your guards to take my life, and now—"

She walked elegantly, pressing forward step by step.

When Gu Huai staggered back, his heel tripped, and he fell to the ground, cold sweat soaking his clothes, looking extremely disheveled.

"Deputy Envoy Lin, you... don't mess around! This Marquis, this Marquis is the Wen Shang Hou, the imperial merchant and richest man of Da Qi! Not some outcast with no status! If you kill me, you'll have to pay with your life!"

"But just now, you assassinated an imperial official! Oh, if you think my mere fifth-rank official position isn't enough weight..." A cold sneer curled on her lips, "What about the legitimate daughter of the Changning Hou Mansion, the Princess Jin? Can you afford the crime of murdering a current Princess?"

Gu Huai was extremely shocked: "What? You, you are Princess Jin? How could Princess Jin... how could she..."

How could she come out and show her face, doing this dirty work of transcending ghosts?

Speaking of which, it's all Dongfang Yan's fault for disliking Lin Qingyue's Xuanjing Division position for being embarrassing, and ordering the news to be blocked.

Therefore, even though she had publicly appeared at the Zheng family just a few days ago because of the Mother-Child Twin Fiends case, very few people knew her true identity.

Someone like Gu Huai, a titular Marquis, was even less likely to know the inside story, and had always regarded Lin Qingyue as an ordinary minor official, which is why he dared to take action against her.

He never expected to kick the hardest iron plate.

After realizing this, he hurriedly knelt down to beg for mercy: "Princess Jin, please forgive me; I didn't know your identity and almost hurt you by mistake. Princess, please don't hold a grudge against a small person. Don't bother with a scumbag like me! Gu Nian'an, if you want to take him, take him; do whatever you want with him!"

In order to make Lin Qingyue vent her anger, he even started slapping his own face wildly.

How arrogant he was before, and how humble he was now in order to survive.

"Bah! You are truly shameless!" After Gu Nian'an cursed, he said to Lin Qingyue, "Let me go, let me kill this bastard and avenge my sister and my mother!"

Lin Qingyue waved her hand, and the ropes on Gu Nian'an's body all snapped.

His face lit up with joy, and he picked up the knife on the ground, just about to kill Gu Huai, but was stopped by a phantom.

"Sister, why are you stopping me?"

Gu Nianxue shook her head slowly, "Don't kill him."

Seeing his sister's ghost, the impulsive and reckless boy's face was filled with sorrow, "Sister, he harmed you so miserably; why do you still stop me from killing him?"

"Because..." Gu Nianxue's voice was cold and faint, her speed slow, "Your hands cannot be stained with blood."

"But last night I already..."

"That wasn't you!" Gu Nianxue interrupted his words, saying word by word, "The one who took revenge was me, and the one who killed was also me!"

"Sister..." Gu Nian'an was stunned for a moment, and when he realized it, he was already in tears.

His eldest sister, even after becoming a ghost, was still trying hard to protect him and take the blame for him!

Gu Nianxue slowly turned her head to look at Lin Qingyue, her pale face showing a look of pleading: "I am willing to leave and no longer hold resentment. My brother is a good child; don't arrest him."

Her thoughts were actually still very chaotic at the moment, but she still vaguely remembered that a life must be paid for a life, especially killing relatives and elders, which would be an even greater crime.

And protecting her brother and taking the blame for him were just things she wanted to do subconsciously.

Lin Qingyue had a faint smile on her lips: "The Xuanjing Division is only responsible for transcending ghosts and protecting the safety of one side. As for those murder cases, they are not under my jurisdiction."

Gu Nianxue floated in front of Gu Huai and called out gently: "Daddy."

But it made Gu Huai shake all over, "Ah?"

At this moment, Gu Nianxue's thoughts seemed to be clearer, and her tone of voice was the same as when she was alive: "Daddy, Nian'an is your eldest legitimate son; I hope you will consider the blood relationship and not blame him for his previous recklessness."

Gu Huai, in order to survive, no longer dared to have any other thoughts, and hurriedly said: "As long as he no longer hates Father, Father naturally won't harm him. Even a tiger doesn't eat its cubs!"

Gu Nianxue seemed to believe him very easily, and turned to exhort Gu Nian'an: "Go back to the Gu house with Father."

"Sister, why do you want me to go back to the Gu house? Mother isn't there, and you aren't there; that's not my home at all! Woo woo... Sister, I really want you and Mother to come back, I really want our family to go back to the way it was!"

"The way it was..." she sighed leisurely, "We can't go back. But you still have to go back, because that is also the home Mother left for you. You must take back what belongs to us!"

She reached out and stroked her brother's tearful face: "Nian'an has always been the most obedient and the most well-behaved. Finally, listen to Sister one last time. Okay?"

"Okay! Okay!" he promised, choking, and reached out his hands, carefully hugging Gu Nianxue's thin and small soul.

"Sister, look, Nian'an is taller than you now. I can be your support; I'm no longer as weak and incompetent as I was when I was little. Sister, don't go, okay? As long as you don't go, I'll promise you anything."