How To Survive as a Villain

Chapter 194: Chasing.

Yan HeQing took a look at the distorted blood on the ground, but he couldn’t understand what Tian Xiang had written. He could only assume that this girl must be mentally unstable. So, he stood up, and told her to leave.

When Tian Xiang saw that Yan HeQing had no reaction after seeing that design, she immediately lost her breath. She dejectedly sat on the ground, until someone kindly reached out to help her up.

On the other side, Yan HeQing stopped abruptly after taking two steps. As if he thought of something, his breath became short and hurried. Then he abruptly turned around and walked back to the place where Tian Xiang had just painted with her blood. Before, he was looking at the words facing Tian Xiang, so he couldn’t understand that pattern at the beginning; but now, he was looking at that pattern in the same way Tian Xiang saw them.

The bloody words were crooked. There was a great separation between the horizontal and vertical strokes; but when Yan HeQing looked at it, his eyes suddenly fluttered and he started to tremble all over. His jaw tightened, his hands clenched, and suddenly, he turned and ran towards Tian Xiang.

After being helped up, Tian Xiang was waiting for her punishment to be arranged with a sad look on her face, but suddenly, her shoulder was held from behind with great force. When Tian Xiang looked back and saw that it was Yan HeQing, she was frightened to death.

Yan HeQing couldn’t even speak fluently at this time. With the last trace of reason, he asked Tian Xiang with a trembling voice: “Who taught you to write this?”

…

Xiao YuAn stared blankly at the scene in front of him.

Just now, the eyes of the man who wanted to kill him were full of consternation and panic. After spitting out a mouthful of blood, the long sword, which was a few millimeters away from Xiao YuAn, fell on the ground with a clang, while a sharp arrow pierced through the man’s chest.

Just at the most critical moment, the sound of horse’s hooves suddenly came from a distance. A sharp arrow whistling through the sky, steadily passed through the chest of the black-clothed man who wanted to stab Xiao YuAn.

A man with a bow and arrows, led several Imperial Guards to a gallop as he shouted: “Stop! Who dares to touch Xiao Jun Wang again?!”

After seeing that the situation had reversed, the black-clothed men hurriedly retreated, each running in a different direction, and disappearing in a short while.

Xiao YuAn, who had just survived an assassination attempt, sat down on the ground and let out a long breath. Only then did he realize that his clothes had been cut by the sword, his body also had some deep and shallow wounds that looked kinda ugly.

Chen Ge, who came to the rescue, came forward on his Imperial horse, stopped in front of Xiao YuAn and dismounted. As he stretched out his hand to pull him up, he said: “Xiao Jun Wang, have you been seriously injured? I was late.”

Xiao YuAn waved his hand: “It’s no big deal.”

Chen Ge took a long breath: “Fortunately, we arrived in time. Otherwise, the consequences would’ve been unimaginable.”

Xiao YuAn suddenly realized something. He immediately grabbed Chen Ge’s arm with shining eyes, and his tone of voice was slightly higher: “Did His Majesty send you to come to me?”

Looking at Xiao YuAn’s expectant gaze, Chen Ge’s face showed some reluctance. After he deliberated for a long time, he finally opened his mouth: “No, it wasn’t His Majesty. Ah, it was General Xue who asked me to come, because he had the feeling that someone would have bad intentions, silently waiting for the right opportunity to ambush you on the road and kill you. So, he asked me to keep you safe. Ah right, even though General Xue Yan has already begged for his old bones1, and he’s no longer a General, I just can’t help to keep calling him like that. I ask Xiao Jun Wang to not mind it.”

Xiao YuAn’s eyes darkened, and with a trace of hope, he asked: “Can you take me to see the Emperor?”

Chen Ge scratched his head in distress and said: “Xiao Jun Wang, I can’t take you to see His Majesty. But I’ll let my subordinates send you to the Western Shu Kingdom safely. Moreover, with your status, why do you need to humiliate yourself in the Southern Yan Kingdom? You’d better go as soon as possible and leave the Southern Yan Kingdom’s territory.”

Finally, under the half-persuasion and half-pushing of everyone, Xiao YuAn once again got in the carriage, resuming his journey to the Western Shu Kingdom. After Chen Ge instructed his subordinates to make sure that Xiao YuAn would be sent back to the Western Shu Kingdom safely, he then watched as the carriage went away.

A Deputy General next to him asked: “General Chen, the next time we’ll meet with Xiao Jun Wang, will also be the time when we’ll ‘meet’ with the soldiers of the Western Shu Kingdom, right?”

Chen Ge sighed: “The Western Shu Kingdom has good relations with the Southern Yan Kingdom. In order to avenge the destruction of our Kingdom, His Majesty attacked the Northern Kingdom, and in order to take back the conquered territory of our Kingdom by the Eastern Wu Kingdom, His Majesty conquered the Eastern Wu Kingdom. However, it’s against his good faith to attack the Western Shu Kingdom. But, since someone a while ago said that they wanted to see His Majesty’s unified land, he….. Ah….. Forget it, let’s not speak about it. We should go back.”

As soon as Chen Ge said those words, the sound of urgently galloping hooves suddenly came from a distance. When Chen Ge turned his head with confusion, and after seeing the man more clearly, he was momentarily surprised. As the horse neighed in the dusk, the dust left behind by the horse was flying in the air, and the shadow of a solitary figure grew longer and longer. As soon as the man pulled the reins on the horse, stopping right in front of Chen Ge, he glanced at the blood stains on the ground and the corpse of a black-clothed man. The indifference in his eyes became extremely dark and deep as he asked with an unkind tone: “Where is he?”

Of course, that man didn’t mention any name, but for some reason, Chen Ge suddenly understood who he was asking for, and quickly pointed in the direction: “He’s not far away!”

Without hesitation, the man raised the whip, and after hitting the horse, the white horse galloped like an arrow towards the direction pointed by Chen Ge.

Chen Ge mah boi 💖💖💖💖✨😭💕💞

Ahhhh XYA is safe, and YHQ now knows that he came back!!!!

They’re so close to meet each other!!!! (o´罒`o)♡

Footnotes

乞骸骨 qǐ hái gǔ; Chinese idiom, it refers to the request of ancient Officials to retire due to old age / Pretext to retire from work in ancient Chinese Officialdom. During the Western Han Dynasty, the Crown Prince’s tutor, Shu Guang, who was already old, requested the Emperor to retire with his nephew so that his old bones could be buried in his hometown. Their request was approved, and when they left the Capital, the public Ministers and great Officials bid farewell to them outside the city.