32: Chapter 0032 Possess You

Leng Bingyan looked at Qin He. "Aren't you going to talk him out of this? Don't you think this is practically suicide?!"

Qin He's expression was complicated. "Miss Leng, I think... given the Commander's martial prowess, he might actually pull it off."

Leng Bingyan felt Qin He was beyond hope too, utterly blind in his following!

She said irritably, "Fine! If you die, I'll take Qing'er and leave. I'd be more than happy to!"

"Heh heh, why do I get the feeling you're worried I might die?" Lin Xiao said with a mischievous grin.

"I... I am not! You're insane!"

Behind her veil, Leng Bingyan's pretty face flushed red. She turned around and said, "Just you wait!"

Not long after, Leng Bingyan returned, having procured a set of servant's clothes from the marquis's estate from who knows where.

"Miss Leng, did you... kill someone?" Qin He asked.

"You're the one who kills people! I stole them!"

Leng Bingyan didn't seem embarrassed at all. "When traveling the jianghu, you have to learn a bit of the art of nimble fingers."

Lin Xiao didn't waste words, directly changing into the servant's clothes.

"Where's your saber?"

Leng Bingyan found it strange. She noticed Lin Xiao's weapon always seemed to vanish as if by magic.

"My saber can be long or short. What, want to see for yourself?" Lin Xiao said with a straight face.

Leng Bingyan froze for three seconds before reacting, spitting out a "Pah!"

"Fine, don't tell me! Follow me!"

The group of them arrived at the base of a wall in the rear courtyard of the Prefects Mansion.

"Scaling the wall from here, there are rockeries right inside that can provide cover. No one will notice."

"But if all three of you go in, that might be a different story."

Leng Bingyan glanced at Yao Gang and Qin He. "With their skills, they'd probably go in but not come out."

Qin and Yao both felt somewhat awkward. When it came to qinggong, they were indeed inferior to Leng Bingyan.

"They don't need to go in. They can just find a spot to wait outside the gate."

"If I need them, I'll call for support then!"

Truth be told, Lin Xiao would have preferred to go alone. Every head was cultivation power!

Bringing Qin and Yao along was mainly for handling the aftermath and doing odd jobs.

After making things clear, Lin Xiao leaped up directly, nimbly scaling the high wall.

With 50 years of cultivation in the Dragon Soaring Steps, his qinggong could be described as light as a swallow, scaling walls and running along rooftops!

Even Leng Bingyan was momentarily stunned, not expecting a man's qinggong to be so exceptional!

"Let's go. Loitering here will attract attention and ruin his plan," Leng Bingyan reminded them.

At her prompt, Qin and Yao both quickly left.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao, inside the rear courtyard, began moving about like a ghostly shadow.

With several hundred years of cultivation in various techniques combined, he was highly sensitive to even the slightest disturbance.

Avoiding the ordinary servants was extremely easy.

The banquet had just begun, with drinks just starting to flow. Lin Xiao was in no hurry.

He planned to find a safe, hidden spot and wait until they had drunk enough and let their guard down before making his move.

As he passed through a corridor, a guard ahead, carrying a large sack, caught Lin Xiao's attention.

If he wasn't mistaken, wasn't that clearly a person inside?

After delivering the sack into a room, the guard furtively closed the door and left.

Intrigued, Lin Xiao quietly slipped into the ornately decorated room.

The sack was dumped beside the bed. Walking over and untying it, a beautiful young woman in green robes came into view!

Su Wansha!?

Why was it her!?

Just as Lin Xiao was puzzled, he heard someone approaching from outside.

"Mission accomplished?"

"Inside, waiting for the young master's enjoyment!"

"Heh heh heh... well done. There'll be a reward later!"

The door opened, and a pale-faced young man in fine brocade robes, with dark circles under his eyes, walked in.

Licking his lips, he took one look at Su Wansha, immediately excitedly bolted the door shut.

Lin Xiao, hiding behind a curtain, glanced over:

[Lu Shaoyuan, 27 years old, son of Baishui Prefect Official Lu Yang. Aptitude: yellow grade]

[Technique: Nine Bends Sword Art (5 years cultivation). A sword art favored by many scholars in the jianghu, with flashy moves and numerous variations. Grade: yellow grade]

Lin Xiao suddenly understood. So it was the superior's son trying to forcibly take the subordinate's daughter.

This kid looked like a spoiled, dissolute playboy who spent his days in revelry without studying or learning any useful skills. He only had 5 years of cultivation? That was practically like not having practiced at all!

After checking the ropes binding Su Wansha, Lu Shaoyuan took out a medicinal incense pill as an antidote and waved it in front of the girl's nose.

Su Wansha slowly awoke, her eyes shifting from confusion to a flicker of fear!

She remembered coming to the banquet with her father, and a maidservant said she would take her to the rear garden where the womenfolk were gathered.

But not far along, she had lost consciousness!

She never would have dreamed that someone would dare, on such an occasion, in the Prefects Mansion, kidnap the daughter of an imperial official!?

"Young Master Lu... you... what are you doing!?"

"Heh heh... Su Wansha, you're Baishui City's top talented maiden. Surely you understand what this young master wants to do?"

Su Wansha's lovely face turned deathly pale. "Young Master Lu, my father may only be a minor ninth-rank official, but he is still an imperial appointee! And I am Elder Zhu's disciple!"

"If you dare lay a hand on me, even the Prefect won't be able to protect you!!"

While loosening his clothes, Lu Shaoyuan grinned triumphantly. "Silly girl, precisely because you are Elder Zhu's favorite disciple, my father told me to secure you!"

"What!? The Prefect, he..."

"The imperial court is failing. My father plans to pledge allegiance to Prince Bai. Elder Zhu is one of the few great Confucian scholars of our time. If I become your husband... he'll have to help us, won't he?"

Looking at Lu Shaoyuan's sinister, lecherous face, Su Wansha felt utterly despairing, unable to believe this father and son pair could be so vile!

"Help! Help!!—"

"Don't bother shouting. The area around this courtyard was cleared out long ago."

Lu Shaoyuan excitedly stepped forward, reaching out to touch Su Wansha's delicate face.

"Su Wansha, ever since the day you came of age, when I first saw you, I've wanted to possess you! Today... you shall be my..."

*Crack! Crack!!*

Before Lu Shaoyuan could finish, two hands reached from behind, grabbed his head, and directly snapped his neck!

Lu Shaoyuan's eyes widened. In his final moment, he couldn't believe he had died just like that!?