Unruly Phoenix Xiaoyao

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"Those are still my guards," Ning Xiaoluo insisted stubbornly. "I want to see them. If they're dead, then I want to see their bodies."

"Aren't you afraid of dying?" Ning Xiaoyao asked.

"Th, that's why I wanted you to come with me!" Ning Xiaoluo shouted at Ning Xiaoyao.

"Do I owe you anything after saving you?!" Ning Xiaoyao roared back.

"I'll bring you there," Lou Zigui said as he pulled Ning Xiaoyao back before she got into yet another fight.

"Whaa?" Ning Xiaoyao said. "Are you serious?"

"How else will he believe our words unless he sees his guards' bodies?" Lou Zigui bent down to whisper in Ning Xiaoyao's ear.

Ning Xiaoyao said, "Is it really okay for us to trick an idiot like that?"

"Capturing military targets is a matter that concerns military strength," Lou Zigui poked Ning Xiaoyao's face with a finger. "We'll talk about tonight's events after we get back."

Military strength was an excuse that Ning Xiaoyao couldn't deny. She cast her conscience aside and told Ning Xiaoluo, "It's not that you can't go to the Grand Preceptor's estate, but that you can't be impulsive. You can't implicate our Supreme Commander!"

Ning Xiaoluo stood in the rain with his swollen face, looking rather helpless.

"Let's go," Lou Zigui shot a glance to a Dragon Guard to give up his horse, then gestured for Ning Xiaoluo to follow him.

"You're someone from the Black Frost Cavalry?" Ning Xiaoluo asked Ning Xiaoyao after he got on the horse. If he didn't get a name now, how was he supposed to take his revenge in the future?

"Let's never meet again," Ning Xiaoyao said with a wave of her hand. "We can just forget about each other forever."

Shadowgale struck Ning Xiaoluo's horse with the flat end of his blade, causing it to gallop ahead. Lou Zigui brought five Dragon Guards with him to chase after Ning Xiaoluo. Once they were gone, Shadowgale asked Ning Xiaoyao, "Your Majesty, are you planning to go back to the palace?"

Ning Xiaoyao shook her head. She pointed at the body of the young man she'd left by the side of the road. "I have to bury him first."

Because of the lack of light, none of the Dragon Guards had noticed the corpse lying beneath the eaves. Ning Xiaoyao ran to the body and pulled down the robes covering the youth's face so Shadowgale and the others could see.

One of the Dragon Guards struck a match before immediately blowing it out. The youth's bloody, mangled features had made them all suck in a breath. Killing someone like this was pure abuse.

"This person was--that is, this servant means to say--Your Majesty, where did you find him?" Shadowgale asked.

"At the third house on the right in Fragrant Gauze Alley," Ning Xiaoyao replied. "It's one of the Grand Preceptor's properties. Head Steward Xie Laibao's lover lives there."

"The Grand Preceptor again?" another Dragon Guard exclaimed in alarm.

"Yeah, it's him again," Ning Xiaoyao replaced the robes neatly over the youth's head. She lowered her voice and added, "I don't know whose child he is, either. By the time I got there, he was already dead."

Shadowgale said, "Your Majesty, you can leave this to us servants."

"Alright," Ning Xiaoyao nodded. In her world, the dead were always cremated. She had no idea how humans in this world buried their peers. Two Dragon Guards lifted up the youth's body and started walking to the end of the street.