"Speak."
"Back when we were competing for a spot in the Palace Front Office, you clearly escaped, so why did you turn back to save me?"
Pei Yunmeng was taken aback and chuckled, "Why do you still remember that?"
"Cut the crap."
He replied indifferently, "I am a hero, after all. Seeing you getting beaten so badly, I felt uncomfortable. Consider it a good deed."
"Oh." Xiao Zhufeng stepped forward, surpassing him and said, "Hero, then you better watch out for yourself tonight."
"If someone chops you to death, I definitely won't come to save you."
Pei Yunmeng tsked several times, "Heart of stone."
He then placed a hand on the silver knife at his waist, gazed into the deep night, and smiled, "Fine then, bring on however many there are tonight, and I'll kill them all—"
...
"Dong—"
The distant sound of the bell drifted with the night breeze, and inside the Qinzheng Hall, Emperor Liang Ming abruptly woke up.
