'Golden Wind' brought back a fleet laden with spoils, and blew in damp clouds as well. The gale and torrential rain that had begun in the evening continued until morning. Drizzle pattered against the roof tiles and pond lotus flowers, dripping and splashing, sometimes fierce and sudden, sometimes light and gentle.
Thorn Heart Villa, master bedroom.
"Awake?"
"Mmm..."
"You asked me to wake you up last night. Didn't you say you had something important to do today and couldn't sleep until noon again?"
"But it's raining, so I don't want to go out anymore..."
"Good girl, get up. Get up, ge~t up~"
"Hiss—"
Drip, drip, splash, splash, sometimes fierce and sudden, sometimes light and gentle.
The rain continued without stopping.
An hour and a half later, Le Yu had taken a bath and eaten breakfast before leisurely leaving with Qing Lan. Accompanying them, besides the family heirloom old workhorse Jing Shou and two guards, were also two squads of Coastal Army soldiers carrying loaded guns.
Ever since the Coastal Army had stationed itself in Profound Candle Prefecture, Le Yu had of course hurried to assign two squads to himself, displaying an impressive degree of self-awareness.
In fact, over the past few days, more than a dozen assassins had tried to break into Jing Garden, only to be quickly shot dead by the guards and soldiers working together.
One servant had even been bribed and suddenly slashed at Le Yu as he passed by. Fortunately, one of the benefits of Le Yu's Ice-Blood Physique was that he could enter a combat state at any time. His instinctive counterattack knocked the assassin unconscious.
If the White-Haired Assassin hadn't refused commissions from the Silver Blood Society, Le Yu would probably have opened his eyes one night to find a white-haired figure causing him