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  Cheng Shi completely understood, and with a smile on his face, he bowed to Lang Ling and replied sternly, "I will definitely complete the task!" Just as he said this, he carefully added, "However, madam has always been cleverer than others, it's probably not easy to deceive her."

  Just as he said that, he caught the gaze of King Langling and immediately shuddered. He hastily replied: "As you command, Your Highness, this is a trivial matter, entrusting it to a low-ranking officer like myself will certainly not be a problem." As he spoke, he backed away, retreating out the door, and Cheng Shi swiftly fled far away.

  After two spring rains, the sky was clear and bright. Early in the morning, King Lanling took Zhang Yi to a city about 500-600 miles away from Jiankang. He thought that the city was fine in all aspects, and maybe Zhang Yi would like it.

  A horse-drawn carriage, twenty guards, not many people, but the scenery is picturesque. Sitting in the carriage, Langling Wang looked at the beautiful lakes and mountains around him and sighed: "This Jiangnan land is indeed different from the north." He turned his head to look at Zhang Qi and thought: No wonder since ancient times, the most beautiful women have always been born here, it's really a place of spiritual energy and talented people.

  Zhang Qi also lifted the car curtain, looked around with great interest, and after a while, Zhang Qi asked in a low voice: "Chang Gong, did you scare my ninth brother?"

  As soon as this was said, Prince Lanling turned his head around and sternly stared at Zhang Qi, saying lightly: "Ah Qi, why do you say such a thing?"

  Why are you talking like this? She's not a fool, she can naturally guess! Zhang Qi stared at him for a while, and said in a dull tone: "You're just good at scaring people with your expression!" He was so stern that he always made her feel guilty before she even spoke. It's really bullying!

  Seeing Zhang Guihu's angry face, the Lanling King hooked his lips and stretched out his hand to hold Zhang Gui's warm and soft small hand. Just as it was about to enter his palm, a shrill scream suddenly broke the silence, "Not good, there is an assassin!" The voice had just started when a breaking sound "pi" crashed into Zhang Gui's eardrum. She quickly turned her head, just in time for a cold light to flash by in mid-air. She only managed to open her mouth and hadn't let out a scream yet when the icy arrow shot into the Lanling King's chest with a "pu" sound!

  This change was like a sudden clap of thunder, it happened in the blink of an eye. Zhang Qi's eyes widened, and for a moment, her mind buzzed with all sorts of thoughts, but they all turned to nothingness, leaving only a growing sense of hollow panic.

  As Zhang Yi stared foolishly, the Lanling King's body stiffened and he spat out a mouthful of bloody foam!

  As that crimson blood flashed before her eyes, Zhang Qi let out a sharp cry and threw herself at Langling Wang.

  She rushed in front of him, her hands reaching out to him. But the hand stretched out in mid-air, trembling uncontrollably. Listening to the sounds of killing and shrill whistling outside, as well as the crisp clashing of weapons, Zhang Gui felt a buzzing in his ears and darkness before his eyes.

  Chang Gong is injured!

  He was shot by this arrow!

  She trembled with care and supported him as he leaned against her, pale-faced, softly calling out: "Chang Gong Chang Gong..."

  The King of Lanling spat out a mouthful of blood foam, he raised his head to look at Zhang Qi. Confronting his forcibly calm expression, confronting the arrow that was still stuck in his chest, swaying back and forth, Zhang Qi suddenly lifted his head and shouted in a hoarse voice: "The Duke has been shot by an arrow——"

  Her loud cry was heard outside, and the guards were thrown into confusion. Amidst the shouting, Zhang Gui heard the low voice of Prince Langling, "A Gui don't be afraid, I'm all right."

  It doesn't matter!

  Zhang Qi lowered her head, and with trembling hands, she slowly reached for the arrow. As soon as her hand touched it, blood gushed out in handfuls. Looking at the unstoppable bleeding, looking at the half-soaked quilt, Zhang Qi felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. Suddenly, a question that had never occurred to her before floated into her mind: What if Chang Gong were to die...? If he were to die, what would be the point of me living on?

  It was a heaven-collapsing, earth-shattering pain, buzzing, about to explode in her mind, Zhang Qi suddenly became extremely panicked. This was a kind of panic she had never experienced before.

  In her past life, she was offered to the emperor by that person. She had already made up her mind to die and wasn't afraid like this. Two years ago, he told her he would marry Zheng Yu, and she also had a way out planned, without being so afraid.

  It was an indescribable great panic, as if the sky was about to collapse, and also as if her world had entered a dark abyss!

  Zhang Yi supported Lang Ling Wang, she kept trembling, trembling, never had such a moment, making him resent his own powerlessness.

  She stretched out her hand, trembling as she touched the wound, trying to help him stop the gushing blood, but she couldn't. She wanted to help him pull out the arrow, so he wouldn't have to endure the pain with a pale face, but she didn't dare...

  In boundless panic, Zhang Gui just tightly hugged Lang Ling Wang, holding him tightly.

  It wasn't until much later that she heard his weak voice calling out to her, "Ah Gui." The effort of speaking had clearly stirred up his injuries, and he began to pant. Zhang Gui hastily told him, "Don't speak." Afraid of losing him, she unknowingly burst into tears, streaming down her face. Zhang Gui knew there was nothing she could do at that moment; all she could do was lower her head and continuously kiss his face, his forehead, his eyebrows, repeating over and over again: "Don't speak, Chang Gong, don't speak."

  Never has a moment been as long as this, with too few guards and too many black-clad attackers. The guards have been fighting to the present and haven't had a chance to catch their breath.

  Lowering her head, Zhang Gui's face was pressed against his cold face, tears falling like rain. Seeing her sadness, the King of Lanling moved his lips. Seeing this, Zhang Gui hastily stretched out her hand to press on his lips and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't speak, Chang Gong, don't speak."

  While talking, she leaned over and kissed him randomly on the lips.

  At this time, her other hand was gently grasped by him, and with her small hand in his, he said in a low voice: "I haven't been hurt fatally, A Qiu, I won't die yet."

  It's impossible, he lost so much blood, so much blood!

  Zhang Qi choked back a sob, shaking her head vigorously as she begged: "Chang Gong, don't say anything, you...you can't leave me behind alone..."

  His low and weak voice came over, "Ah Kui, are you scared?"

  Zhang Qi nodded desperately, her voice choked with sobs: "Without you, what's the point of me living? Please don't leave me behind, I'm scared, I'll be very, very scared."

  He lifted his head, his handsome face pale with pain, and a trace of blood on his lips. He looked at Zhang Qi gently and said softly, "You don't blame me anymore?"

  Zhang Qi shook her head vigorously and said desperately, "It's not your fault, I won't blame you anymore." She choked with sobs: "In the past, it was my mistake. I actually didn't want to blame you long ago, but I just stubbornly refused to be good to you." Zhang Qi lowered her head, her cherry lips covering his, and her tongue drew in the fresh blood from the corner of his mouth into her belly. Zhang Qi's tears wouldn't stop, "Chang Gong, please, don't leave me alone." "I won't,"

  "You have to keep your word." Zhang Qi choked with anger and couldn't catch her breath. "You can't cheat me."

  "Good." As he spat out this word, he suddenly felt short of breath and looked up at her with an unblinking gaze, his eyes fixed on her exquisite eyebrows and eyes. He murmured: "A Qiu."

  "Alright."

  "Don't be afraid."

  "Okay, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid..." Amidst the rolling tears, Zhang Qi choked and said: "I just want you to be alive, as long as you're alive."

  Upon hearing this, Lang Ling Wang's pale and handsome face drew a bitter smile as he said in a low voice: "But once I recover, you'll hate me again."

  "It won't happen again, ever." Zhang Qi shook her head desperately, biting her lip and stuttering as she spoke: "I will never, ever be angry with you for the rest of my life."

  "Really? Really?"

  "Really."

  "Do you love me?"

  "Ah, I've always loved you." Zhang Qi buried her face in his black hair and murmured: "I don't want anything else, I don't ask for anything else, as long as you're fine, as long as you're still alive." Because she was too afraid and too painful, her tears overflowed like a dam. "Chang Gong, you must be okay, if something happens to you, I won't live either."

  She said that here, the man in her arms seemed to be satisfied. He closed his eyes and murmured: "I am too, Ah Kui, I have always been like this."

  He said in a low and weak tone: "At that time, I thought you were dead, and I didn't want to live either." His voice was also choked with sobs, "How can you be so heartless?"

  "How can you bring up old scores at this time?" Zhang Qi was a bit puzzled, but this little puzzlement was soon overwhelmed by panic. She sobbed and said, "I won't, I won't do it again."

  "You won't scare me again?"

  "I won't, I won't." Zhang Qi shook her head desperately, tears flying everywhere as she said sorrowfully: "I really won't, Chang Gong, I just want you to live. From now on, even if you drive me away, I won't leave."

  "Really? Really?" He was so delighted that his voice trembled with joy.

  Zhang Gui hastily nodded, but unexpectedly, the delighted Lanling King suddenly started coughing with his waist bent. Hearing his heart-wrenching cough, Zhang Gui was frightened and let out a sharp cry, "Chang Gong, Chang Gong, don't scare me——"

  Just then, a panting voice came from outside, it was Cheng Shi asking: "Milady, milady, how is the Duke?"

  Zhang Qi hastily lifted the car curtain, her face covered with tears, and she couldn't stop crying as soon as she opened her eyes. "He's coughing, he's badly injured." She glanced outside and saw seven or eight corpses on the ground, and those black-clad men who had come to commit a crime were nowhere to be seen. Zhang Qi was overjoyed and trembled with voice: "Quickly, quickly take the Duke to find a doctor."

  "Yes, yes." Cheng Shi hastily replied.

  Fortunately, this is a prosperous place in Jiangnan, and you can't walk twenty miles without having a prosperous village. When Cheng Shi and others carried Langling Wang out of the carriage, Zhang Qi also stumbled and followed. But she was too frightened, her legs were all soft, and she fainted to the ground after walking a few steps.

  Seeing her struggling to get up and follow, one of the guards couldn't help but take a step forward, which was noticed by Cheng Shi. He stared at him with his eyes wide open, curled up the corner of his mouth and smiled, as if saying: "You little rascal, you've got guts!"

  As soon as he smiled, the guardian's footsteps stopped moving forward.

  Until Zhang Gui climbed back onto the carriage, and the carriage slowly entered the village, and with the support of two women, Zhang Gui was able to walk into a house where a traveling doctor was.

  As soon as Zhang Qi entered the door, she hurriedly asked: "How is he?" With tears streaming down her face, she looked at Cheng Shi with a sad and fearful expression, and trembled: "How is Chang Gong?"

  Seeing the absolute beauty's face full of panic, Cheng Shi didn't know why, but he turned his head to one side and pinched himself hard before turning back to say: "The Duke is fine. Ah, no, the doctor said that the place where the Duke was shot by an arrow wasn't fatal, medicine has been used, and there shouldn't be any major problems."

  As soon as these words came out, Zhang Qi's heart relaxed, and his legs could no longer support him, and he fell to the ground.

  Seeing her sitting on the ground covering her face and crying bitterly, several guards looked at Cheng Shi. Cheng Shi's mouth twitched a few times, raised his hand to slap himself, but didn't dare make a sound.