After being forced into a marriage with a wealthy family, the virtuous wife caused a huge uproar.

Li Xuanye was having a great time; it had been a long time since he had ridden a horse so thrillingly.

But before he reached the finish line, he saw Rong Yingluo waving anxiously at him, so he had no choice but to stop halfway.

"What's wrong?" Li Xuanye asked, noticing Rong Yingluo's serious expression.

"Princess Jinyang's horse went mad because someone tampered with it. I suspect someone is targeting me. We need to return to the capital quickly," Rong Yingluo said urgently.

Li Xuanye frowned.

If anything happens to the princess, the emperor will definitely not let go of the people who came with him today.

"Let's go." Li Xuanye knew the gravity of the situation.

Princess Jinyang's Akhal-Teke horse was temporarily kept at the racecourse, and she and Rong Yingluo rode in a carriage together.

Yu Qiannian and Fang Yuening originally wanted to ride horses to follow, but Rong Yingluo asked them to sit in the carriage.

At his master's request, Wu Guishan drove the carriage very fast.

But even at the fastest speed, it's still more than ten miles to get into the city gate.

Just as they were halfway there, an arrow shot straight at them from the side.

Just then, Ling Feng was protecting this side and parried the attack with his sword.

"There's an assassin!" he shouted.

As soon as he finished speaking, twelve masked men dressed in black suddenly appeared from both sides of the road and rushed towards the carriage.

Each of them held a long sword, clearly indicating they were highly skilled assassins.

"Kill them all, leave no one alive!" Li Xuanye's eyes swept over the black-clad men rushing towards him like those of a hawk. He drew his long sword from his waist and charged forward.

Rong Yingluo had two bodyguards, Princess Jinyang had two bodyguards, and Li Xuanye had two bodyguards.

Yu Qiannian and Fang Yuening each brought only one maid.

There were only seven men with martial arts skills, while there were twelve men in black.

"Yinghong, give the sword to Uncle Wu," Rong Yingluo calmly instructed, her eyes sharp.

That's quite a grand gesture.

Yinghong immediately handed the sword from under the stool to Wu Guishan outside.

Wu Guishan was specially selected by the Rong family. He used to often accompany the Rong family head on long trips and had some martial arts skills.

After receiving the sword, he guarded the carriage door tightly.

The girls were all brave, and none of them screamed in fear.

Li Xuanye was the first to engage in combat with the man in black.

As soon as they engaged in combat, he knew these people were assassins, as every move they made was aimed at vital points.

Someone paid someone to rob and kill them.

Whether the target is the young Taoist priest is unknown at the moment, but that doesn't stop him from going on a killing spree.

Instantly, the sound of swords clashing rang out.

Rong Yingluo also realized that these men in black were assassins, and her brows furrowed even more.

When the Zhao family fell into the water, the person hiding in the water had a mark on his body, which Gu Ce immediately recognized as a secret guard from the Xuan Prince's Mansion.

This time it was a hired killer. If she can't find out who hired the killer, then all the losses she suffered today will have been for nothing.

Then there's no need to keep these people around.

Rong Yingluo stood up.

"What are you trying to do?" Princess Jinyang grabbed her.

"I'll go help." Rong Yingluo couldn't just sit and wait to die.

"Why would a woman like you cause trouble? You must trust Prince Li." Princess Jinyang placed all her hopes on Li Xuanye.

The heir of the Liao Prince's Mansion is no ordinary man. Although she didn't know how he suddenly became capable of fighting, as long as he was there, they wouldn't die here today.

Princess Jinyang was very pleased with Li Xuanye's performance today. Few men in the world could have rescued her on horseback at such a high speed, but he did it with ease.

"You lot, stay in the carriage. I know what I'm doing." Rong Yingluo pushed away Princess Jinyang's hand and resolutely got out of the carriage.

She held a short dagger in her hand.

"Who let you out? Go back inside!" Li Xuanye shouted angrily when he saw her come out.

"I'll help you." Relying on her excellent lightness skills and the poison she had on hand to save her life, Rong Yingluo picked up a sword that an enemy had dropped on the ground and also met an assassin.

First, she threw a handful of powder at the man, then dodged the attack with a quick movement.

In this way, she sprinkled muscle-relaxing powder on the three assassins.

When Ling Feng and Ling Yun saw their master come out, they slowly approached Rong Yingluo.

In the end, it turned into the two of them covering for Rong Yingluo so that she could poison her.

Seeing that someone was protecting her, Li Xuanye felt relieved and focused on dealing with the assassin.

He was the most skilled in martial arts among the seven men.

They showed no mercy when it came to killing; their swords flashed and fell, leaving a trail of blood.

Princess Jinyang, inside the carriage, stared intently at Li Xuanye, her eyes gleaming with admiration.

At that moment, her heart was pounding and her cheeks were flushed.

It was the first time Yu Qiannian and Fang Yuening had witnessed such a bloody massacre. At first, they were too scared to watch, but after seeing how brave Li Xuanye was, they were no longer afraid and looked out at the battlefield with Princess Jinyang.

With Rong Yingluo's muscle-softening powder, a battle with a huge disparity in strength was over in just over fifteen minutes.

Li Xuanye killed five people by himself.

"That was exhilarating! It's been so long since I've had such a satisfying fight." Li Xuanye pulled his blood-stained sword from the chest of the last enemy, a broad smile on his face.

But before he could finish laughing, his body went limp and he collapsed to the ground.

"Master!" His two guards were shocked and ran over to help him up.

"My God, how could this happen? I...it hurts so much." Li Xuanye was in so much pain that he could hardly breathe.

"Madam Gu, come quickly and see what's wrong with my young master!" a guard shouted anxiously.

"Calling me won't help. This is the consequence of taking the medicine before the appointed time. He can only suffer it. Let's lift him onto the carriage." Rong Yingluo had no other choice.

It's good to teach him a lesson so he'll know that medicine shouldn't be used indiscriminately.

After a while, Li Xuanye recovered and his body was no longer in as much pain as it had at the beginning.

"Mrs. Gu, why didn't you tell me it would hurt this much?" Li Xuanye asked with a hint of reproach.

"You didn't ask either," Rong Yingluo said innocently, only telling him to bear the consequences himself.

Actually, she didn't know either, since she hadn't experienced it herself; she was just inferring it from medical theory.

"What's going on?" Princess Jinyang jumped off the carriage.

She had wanted to get down for a while. Her two companions held her back, fearing there might still be assassins, so she had to wait until the battle was over.

"He was poisoned with a strange poison. In order to save you, he took medicine to suppress the poison while at the horse farm, which temporarily restored his ability to use martial arts, but it could only last for two hours."

But he exerted himself too much just now, greatly shortening the duration of his performance. So he suffered a backlash. For the next few days, he couldn't even get out of bed. "Take good care of yourself," Rong Yingluo explained very clearly.

She hoped that Princess Jinyang would remember Li Xuanye's kindness.

Princess Jinyang will definitely tell the Emperor about what happened today, and Li Xuanye will hold even more weight in the Emperor's heart from now on.

"Then quickly lift him onto the carriage." Princess Jinyang hadn't expected him to make such a great sacrifice to save her.

She was deeply moved and felt as if she had drunk honey.

Two guards lifted the person onto the carriage.

Rong Yingluo quickly treated the wounds of several injured guards, with Yinghong assisting her.

She had just finished treating the injured when the city defense team arrived, led by none other than Gu Jingcheng, Gu Ershu.

"Liuli, how come it's you guys?" Gu Jingcheng's heart skipped a beat when he saw so many people dead.

When he saw that Princess Jinyang was still in the carriage, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat despite the freezing weather.

"Greetings, Princess Jinyang. Your humble servant has arrived late to save Your Majesty."