Shen Li didn't want to hear Xuan Yuan Jue's nagging voice. She originally planned to stay silent and ignore him, thinking that he would be sensible enough to stop talking.
However, Xuan Yuan Jue went even further. "Why has Miss Shen suddenly stopped talking? Could it be that I've hit the nail on the head about your past?"
He didn't even notice that there was an involuntary tinge of jealousy in his tone.
Facing Shen Li's cold and menacing glare, he still provocatively said, "Could it be that Miss Shen is now so angry that she wants to murder me?"
The smile on Shen Li's lips gradually widened into a big arc. There was annoyance in her eyes as she looked at Xuan Yuan Jue. She lowered her voice and said to him word by word, "You go down first!"
As she spoke, she stomped on her feet and gave Xuan Yuan Jue a hard kick on the buttocks.
Xuan Yuan Jue, caught off guard, was kicked off the roof by Shen Li.
After kicking Xuan Yuan Jue off, she didn't forget to lower her head and slide down her body. She hid herself completely behind the ridge of the roof.
The direction where Shen Li kicked Xuan Yuan Jue off was outside Xiao Hanzhi's courtyard, not in the intense battlefield inside the courtyard.
However, seeing Xuan Yuan Jue suddenly descend from the roof in a black night - suit with a masked face, the guards of the prince's mansion naturally regarded him as an assassin. Four or five guards immediately rushed towards him with their swords drawn.
Xuan Yuan Jue took a deep breath to hold back the curse words. He stared fiercely at the roof where he and Shen Li had just been, his teeth grinding loudly.
In his heart, he kept repeating, "Good! Very good! Little thing! You just wait for me!"
Watching Xuan Yuan Jue join the melee below, Shen Li felt no apology at all. Although the decision to kick Xuan Yuan Jue off was made in a split - second, it was his own fault for being so talkative!
She was just giving him a little punishment!
However, she didn't completely ignore Xuan Yuan Jue. While keeping an eye on Xiao Hanzhi, she also spared a glance at him from time to time.
She knew that Xuan Yuan Jue was extremely skilled in martial arts. Moreover, she still couldn't figure out his background. Just like now, she found that the martial arts he used were completely different from those she had seen at Pufa Temple last time.
Furthermore, he seemed to know the Fourth Prince's Mansion so well. She still hadn't figured out what the Xuan Yuan Pavilion was. There were too many secrets about Xuan Yuan Jue that she didn't know.
More and more guards of the prince's mansion were gathering, and even the hidden secret guards had been mobilized. After all, there had been a traitor among the guards just now, and they couldn't be sure that all the newly - arrived guards were reliable.
Xuan Yuan Jue also noticed that there were more and more people. He had no intention of lingering in the fight. After killing two guards in succession and temporarily freeing his hands, he tapped his toes and used his light - body skill to fly towards the place where Shen Li was hiding.
While Xuan Yuan Jue was fighting below, Shen Li had changed her hiding place. Now, seeing Xuan Yuan Jue flying towards her, she felt reluctant.
But she was sure that Xuan Yuan Jue was doing it on purpose, just to take revenge for the kick that had sent him off the roof!
The guards of the Fourth Prince's Mansion saw the black - clothed man trying to run away and naturally used their light - body skills to chase after him. Although they were not as fast as Xuan Yuan Jue, they were close enough to see Shen Li on the roof.
"There's an accomplice!" One of the guards exclaimed after glancing at Shen Li.
Xuan Yuan Jue landed on the roof, fought with the two guards for a few rounds, then grabbed Shen Li's hand and flew towards other parts of the prince's mansion.
Although the two guards were not very good at light - body skills, they had loud voices. As they chased Xuan Yuan Jue, they kept shouting, "Catch the assassins! Catch the assassins!"
"They're so noisy!" Shen Li watched the two guards getting farther and farther behind them and didn't understand what Xuan Yuan Jue was up to.
As if knowing what Shen Li was thinking, Xuan Yuan Jue explained to her, "Come on! I'll take you to a fun place today!"
The Fourth Prince's Mansion of Xiao Hanzhi was really big. Xuan Yuan Jue led Shen Li around the guards who were trying to catch them and then came to Xiao Hanzhi's bedroom.
Even though Shen Li had already recognized where it was, she still pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Where is this? Why did you bring me here?"
"This is the Fourth Prince's bedroom. There are some good things here!"
Now that all the guards in the mansion had gone to catch the assassins, there was no one guarding the bedroom. Xuan Yuan Jue stepped forward and opened the door. There was no lamp lit in the room, and it was pitch - black. But to avoid being discovered, neither of them lit a lamp. They only opened a fire starter.
Xuan Yuan Jue walked in front, holding the fire starter in one hand to light the way and always protecting Shen Li with the other hand.
Xiao Hanzhi's bedroom was very big. Xuan Yuan Jue groped around in the room for a while. He carefully turned a white - bottomed blue - and - white vase on the table, then moved the inkstone a bit. Then he saw the bookshelf in the room move, revealing a secret box inside.
Xuan Yuan Jue carefully opened the box. Inside, there was a thick book with a blank blue cover.
Seeing Xuan Yuan Jue casually flip through a few pages, Shen Li curiously leaned in, but Xuan Yuan Jue quickly closed the book.
"You won't even let me take a look. It's so mysterious!" Shen Li pouted and said to Xuan Yuan Jue.
Xuan Yuan Jue put the thick book into his bosom and said indifferently, "It's nothing. Just some old accounts!"
"Something that's worth you going to so much trouble to steal from the Fourth Prince's Mansion can't be unimportant!" Shen Li didn't believe his words at all. Xuan Yuan Jue was just too stingy. He had brought her all the way to the Fourth Prince's residence, taken the thing, but didn't even let her take a look.
"These are just some accounts. The matters inside are too complicated. It's not something a young lady like you should get involved in. The less you know, the safer you'll be!"
Seeing Xuan Yuan Jue acting as if he was doing it for her own good, Shen Li became even more suspicious. "Prince Xuan Yuan keeps saying that he doesn't want me to get involved, but tonight he specifically brought me here to steal things with him! Don't think I don't know what you're up to!"
Xuan Yuan Jue was also quite interested and counter - questioned, "Then may I ask, Miss, what exactly am I up to? Why don't I know anything about it?"
"You..." Shen Li looked at Xuan Yuan Jue angrily. "One day, I'll figure out everything by myself."
"Search carefully! See if there are any more fugitives!" Just as the two were confronting each other, there came a noisy sound of footsteps and the shouts of the guards from outside.
The two of them glanced at the outside at the same time. Xuan Yuan Jue grabbed Shen Li's arm and said first, "Let's go! Leave here first!"
When Shen Li and Xuan Yuan Jue left, they alerted the guards in the mansion again. Fortunately, both of them were very good at light - body skills. They circled around the capital a few times and managed to shake off the guards.