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nTranslator: Storm in a Teacup

nThey resumed their journey by carriage.

nLiu was staying with Long.

nLiu said, “If you can’t fall asleep, let me help you.”

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n“Oh? How can you help me?” Long didn’t understand.

nLiu laughed. “Of course I’ll hit your acupoint to make you sleep.”

nLong stared at him.

nLiu said with a smile, “This medicine can’t relieve the symptoms of a cold if you don’t sleep. That means that you have taken the medicine for nothing.”

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nThe corners of Long’s mouth twitched, but he still said, “I’ll close my eyes and try to rest for a while.”

nLiu said indifferently, “You can just give it a try.”

nLong closed his eyes, but it was not so easy to fall asleep.

nAfter a long time, Long felt some pain in his chest and then he lost consciousness…

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nLiu curled his lips. “I knew you couldn’t fall asleep. You did need my help, didn’t you?”

nLong couldn’t answer him anymore.

nAs the carriage was moving, Liu also closed his eyes to have a rest.

nLong didn’t open his eyes until evening.

nWhen he woke up, he saw there were stars in the sky.

nLong didn’t expect that. “It’s already evening?”

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n“Yes, it’s already evening.” Liu grinned.

nLong glared at him. “You hit my acupoint, right?”

n“Yes.” Liu didn’t think he was wrong, so he nodded directly. “I did it. Otherwise, when would you fall asleep?”

nLong snorted. “How dare you offend the emperor?”

nLiu blinked. “Your Majesty, how will you punish me?”

nLong sneered. When he was just about to say something, his stomach began to rumble.

nLiu burst into laughter.

nLong rolled his eyes. “I haven’t eaten in a day. Isn’t it normal that I feel hungry?”

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n“Yes, it’s normal. It’s quite normal,” Liu said.

nLong glared at him. “It’s very normal. Alright, go get me some food.”

nHearing Long’s order, Liu said with a smile, “Your Majesty, I am not your servant.”

nLong smiled, “I guess you prefer my Shadow Guardians to practice martial arts with you?”

nLiu’s face darkened when he heard it. He really admired Long for being so shameless.

nLong smiled at him.

nLiu curled his lips. “Wait here. I’ll go get it.”

nLong didn’t get off the coach and they stopped in the wild. He wished that his empress would arrive in the evening.

nAlthough Liu seemed unwilling to leave, he still did it very fast.

nHe came back in a few minutes.

nThere were tonics and they smelt good.

nIt could be seen that the tonics had been prepared a long time ago.

nLong knew that Liu’s bark was worse than his bite. Otherwise, Liu would not come to perform this difficult task with him.

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nHaving such a friend really felt great…

nLong smiled. “It must’ve cost you a long time.”

nLiu waved his hand. “I don’t know. You should ask your Shadow Guardians.”

nLong said smilingly in the same way as Liu, “I thought it was you who cooked it.”

nLiu said coldly, “You think too much. It wasn’t cooked by me.”

n“Oh…” Long drawled. He looked so annoying that anyone who saw him would want to beat him!

nLiu became a little impatient. “What does that mean? I said it wasn’t cooked by me.”

n“Oh, I know.” Long said calmly.

nLiu felt angry.

nLong still didn’t see his empress after he finished dinner leisurely, so he asked, “When will they arrive?

n“I don’t know.” Liu also looked outside.

nLong summoned his own Shadow Guardian to ask about it.

nYing Feng said, “They’re on the way and will arrive in two hours.”

n“It still needs such a long time?” Long raised his eyebrows.

n“Yes.”

nLong sighed. “Okay, you can leave.”

nYing Feng left.

nLong looked at Liu and suddenly said, “You haven’t seen him for a few days. Do you miss him?”

nLiu was slightly stunned. “Hmm?”

nLong curled his lips. “So you don’t miss him.”

nLiu smiled. “How do you know I don’t miss him?”

nLong nodded. “You miss him.”

nAfter a short silence, Liu said, “Yes, I miss him.”

nLong laughed. “I also miss Qingzhou…. Sometimes I feel that humans are really amazing.”

n“What do you mean?”

n“We are called humans because we have feelings. Those that don’t have feelings are just animals.”

n“Animals also have feelings,” Liu said.

nLong smiled. “Well, the domesticated ones have feelings, but the other ones don’t.”

n“Why did you suddenly mention this?” Liu thought that Long was a little strange this evening.

nLong smiled. “Nothing. I just had an urge.”

nLiu narrowed his eyes. “Oh, it’s like this…”

nThe two of them were having a chat. After a long time, the faint sound of horses came from afar and Long was excited to hear that. “Qingzhou is arriving!”

nJust then, the horse that pulled Long’s carriage suddenly raised its hooves and screamed as if it was mad.

nLong didn’t hold on to his seat and his head hit the board of the carriage.

n“Ah!” Long exclaimed.

nLiu didn’t expect this, either. Although he steadied himself, he didn’t have time to pull Long earlier.

nAfter Long was hit, Liu grabbed his wrist.

nThe carriage was running very fast.

nLiu took Long’s arm and the two of them jumped out of the carriage.

nThe carriage went on running like crazy.

nWhen they got outside, Long found that many assassins suddenly appeared.

nThere were a lot of assassins and Long saw that the Shadow Guardians had begun to fight with them.

nHowever, there were only half as many Shadow Guardians as assassins!

n“Fire the flare.” Liu said that while protecting Long.

nAt this moment, Liu was glad that he was chatting with Long in the carriage earlier. If Long was alone, the consequences would be unimaginable.

n“Yes.” At the critical moment, Long was still very calm and he didn’t panic at all, although he couldn’t do great martial arts.

nLong took out the signal flare and set it off.

nAt this time, the assassins came to attack him.

nYing Feng appeared and stopped the assassins, so Liu was the only person by Long’s side.

nHowever, there were four assassins fighting against Ying Feng.

nLiu gritted his teeth and said, “We can’t stay here for long. The signal flare has been set off. Let’s go.”

nLong said calmly, “Where should we go?”

nLiu had a certain direction in mind. “Let’s go to the city. There are guards over there.”

nIt cost most of the day for them to get here from the city.

nThey didn’t have enough time to get back to the city, but they could only go in that direction. Otherwise, they would be easily besieged.

nLong nodded. “Let’s go.”

nLiu took Long’s hand and mounted a horse with him. Then, the horse galloped away…

nLong sat behind Liu. The horse ran so fast that he had to hold Liu’s waist tightly.

nLiu suddenly said, “You sit in front of me.”

nWhile saying that, Liu pulled Long and Long immediately came to the front.

nLong didn’t understand. “Why?”

nLiu said coldly, “If they shoot arrows, you will be in danger behind.”

nLong didn’t think of this problem earlier.

n“You can dodge in front.” After he said that, Liu whipped the horse hard and it ran even faster.

nAfter about a quarter of an hour, the sound of horses came from behind.

nLong’s expression changed slightly. “They’re pursuing us.”

nLiu heard that and looked around. The horse was running on a major road. It wasn’t easy for their enemy to ambush them, but they were also conspicuous.

nAlong the major road, there were paths full of weeds.

nLiu said, “Long Xiaoyuan, you choose. The major road or the path.”

nAfter a short silence, Long said, “Can you tell how many people are behind us?”

n“There are about twenty horses.”

nLong was shocked. “There are so many. More than 200 people appeared this time!”

n“Yes, they are all very powerful.”

nApart from half of the Shadow Guardians taken by Shi, there were still about 80 around them.

nBut the number of assassins who just appeared was more than twice that of Shadow Guardians.

nAll the Shadow Guardians joined the fight. Instead of waiting for them to stop fighting, Liu took Long away first.

nThey believed that the Shadow Guardians would stop all the people there. They wouldn’t let those people chase Long.

nHowever, so many assassins arrived in such a short time. The only explanation was that these assassins were not among those who fought against the Shadow Guardians earlier!

nThe assassins knew their whereabouts, so they had arranged a big counterattack a long time ago!

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