Yin Feiqiao and Qian Baoyu's sneak attack failed, and both faces flashed with regret.
Lu Feng paid them no heed. He bent down, wholly focused on tending to the woman who had taken the blow for him.
Sadly, her body had been pierced through in several places by the long needle. Her heart and lungs were shattered, and no life remained.
"Why were you so foolish!?" Lu Feng reproached the woman in his arms, his tone carrying a trace of blame.
Just before this, he had been chatting and joking with her, even sharing his nut snacks with her.
When he heard her say, "I've never eaten anything this delicious in my life," Lu Feng had felt a pang of sorrow.
This woman was none other than Xiao Tao, the maid Jun Zi Shuo had arranged to lead Lu Feng to the guest room in the rear courtyard.
Had he not known her name, she might have been nothing more than a maid to Lu Feng. Seeing her step forward and die before him might not have hurt him so deeply.
Yet during their idle conversation over the past short while, Lu Feng had come to know this maid named Xiao Tao. He had seen her adorable innocence, and they had formed a fairly good rapport.
Dark bluish-black blood kept choking from Xiao Tao's mouth. With her last breath, she glanced toward Jun Zi Shuo, then forced out a faint smile as she answered Lu Feng, "You are a guest... invited by Young Master... You must not... come to harm... or it would bring trouble to Young Master..."
Her words came in broken, sobbing fragments, too unclear to make out. Before she could even utter the last few words, her life was completely extinguished.
But Lu Feng understood what Xiao