Jian Ruonan returned to Deer Song Courtyard and slept so deeply the world might as well have gone dark, only waking at Shen Hour that afternoon.
She had just woken up and had not even had time to stuff her face when a servant reported, "Fifth Miss, there are several men in black lying in the courtyard."
Jian Ruonan followed the maids out to look and saw three black-clad men sprawled every which way on the ground, foaming at the mouth.
Chen Pozi felt their necks. "Fifth Miss, they aren't breathing."
After examining them, Chen Pozi found no external injuries. All of them had died suddenly.
"Don't tell me they came to my courtyard specifically to die?!"
"Do they think this place is a mass grave?!"
Jian Ruonan rummaged through the Melon Patch and discovered that these men were assassins sent by the Prince of the Southeast to kill her.
The Prince of the Southeast had lost two sons in succession, along with several million taels of silver. After the Cao family left the Southeast, commerce there had nearly ground to a halt, and the economy had languished for a long time.
The Prince of the Southeast hated Jian Ruonan so much he ground his teeth, and he had sent out his killer sharks.
Ever since sending them, the Prince of the Southeast had felt as though he was being hanged every day.
He had asthma and usually had some trouble breathing anyway, so he assumed it was an asthma attack and thought nothing of it.
A man like him, so accustomed to suffocating, had not met Great-Grandma even once.
Jian Ruonan poked her head out of the Melon Patch, her face paling in shock: !!
Holy shit, that was dangerous! Terrifying!
*Someone as innocent, beautiful, and kind as her