Translated by Eve

　　Edited by Wuxian

　　Next, Sui Yuan's path to recovery could truly be described with 'frightened, the chicken flies and the dog jumps'. Nan Gongyi was like a loyal little puppy, guarding him closely and baring his soft and immature fangs at any and all targets that approached him while harbouring evil intentions. Meanwhile, the chicken, was probably the Demonic Cult Leader, Ning Ze, who never forgot to show off his rich and diverse plumage. Although these two people were like enemies who would oppose one another measure for measure whenever they crossed paths, Sui Yuan unexpectedly saw that they seemed a bit like a quarrelsome but loving couple.

　　This was probably the innate compatibility between the protagonist gong and shou. Even though they didn't think much of each other after their first meeting, once they truly got to interact with one another, they were able to slowly develop goodwill between them. For example, in the world before the last, there were Le Sen and Huo Ke who got together at the very end. Again, in the last world, although Sui Yuan's intervention made [Lone Wind Wan Yi] and [Wind-Like High Official] to be a couple destined to meet but not fated to be together, they still became close friends.

　　Sui Yuan wished that he could let Nan Gongyi and Ning Ze have more interactions with one another to cultivate the feelings between them. Thus, when Ning Ze came to pay a visit, he never coldly drove him away. He only pretended to still be injured, and thus too tired to talk much, and completely pa.s.sed on to Nan Gongyi the work of 'entertaining the guest'.

　　Meanwhile, Ning Ze just interpreted this as Sui Yuan expressing that he wasn't fed up with him yet, and consequently, became even more diligent. He acted even more indulging towards Nan Gongyi because of Sui Yuan. Only, Nan Gongyi became more and more uncomfortable towards this. He was itching for his family's Da s.h.i.+xiong to immediately recover so that they could go back to their s.h.i.+fu's the very next day.

　　Of course, compared to Nan Gongyi, Zhao Xihe's day was obviously even worse.

　　Although he and Ning Ze maintained their master and subordinate relations.h.i.+p on the surface, truthfully, they had already shred up all pretenses of cordiality. In order to prevent Zhao Xihe from hindering his pursuit of the beauty, the unscrupulous Ning Ze abused his authority to settle matters in his private life— he gave his family's Chief Protector orders on top of more orders, keeping him frantically busy. He pushed all sorts of trivial troubles from the Cult onto Zhao Xihe. It was to the extent that, when Zhao Xihe managed to squeeze out some time to come meet with Sui Yuan, his whole person evidently became increasingly gloomy and dangerous. If it wasn't for Sui Yuan making a supreme effort to stop him, Ning Ze would have died who-knows how many times by now.

　　If one talked now about how the Zhao Xihe from before all of this only planned to overthrow Ning Ze because of the plot without even any serious thought, the Zhao Xihe at present would've kicked him from his position as the Demonic Cult Leader so much that he'd even dream about it. After doing so, he'd trample all over his brain and throw all sorts of miscellaneous Cult administration tasks onto him.

　　If you don't seek death, you won't die. When Sui Yuan recalled Zhao Xihe's tone that made it sound like he was itching to bite off Ning Ze's flesh while he was still alive, he couldn't help but want to light him a giant row of candles. Even though Ning Ze would eventually become lovers with Nan Gongyi and have their happily ever after, with Zhao Xihe's petty, grudging, needs-to-avenge-even-the-smallest-grievances nature, Sui Yuan felt that he would probably be unable to pa.s.s his days happily.

　　Ning Ze: …Yi? The beauty is looking at me with a really weird expression. Why do I feel afraid?

　　Aside from wasting a great deal of time and energy in appeasing Zhao Xihe, Sui Yuan naturally did not forget to think about a way to stop Nan Gongyi from returning to their s.h.i.+fu. After discussing with Zhao Xihe, the two people decided to carry out a simple and crude plan.

　　Across all texts within this genre, what the Jianghu never lacked were a.s.sa.s.sin organizations. Although the organization's name, authority, and rule system were all different, they all played a lively part within each text. This world was no exception.

　　The House of Profound Theory was the most outstanding a.s.sa.s.sin organization in this world. They carried out all kinds of □□: they stole intelligence, a.s.sa.s.sinated entire families, and did other cruel tasks like that. There was even a certain member of the organization who once shared a 'short-lived predestined love' with Nan Gongyi; a relations.h.i.+p budded from their understanding of each other's pain. Unfortunately, before anything real had come out of it, because he had sheltered Nan Gongyi and thus committed the taboo set by his leader, the above-mentioned member was □□ and quickly and neatly turned into cannon fodder. For a period of time, Nan Gongyi was heartbroken because of this, and personally experienced what was known as the cruelty of the Jianghu.

　　Sui Yuan hired an a.s.sa.s.sin, naturally not because he truly wanted to kill Nan Gongyi. He had paid a lot of money to request the a.s.sa.s.sin to pretend to encircle and kill. He only wanted to herd the two people to a specific location in order to complete the task—of course, he could also control the time in which they met.

　　The best part of hiring this kind of a.s.sa.s.sin was the anonymity. As long as you handed over the money, they would not investigate who their client was or their reason for hiring them. Even if they were captured, they would keep their mouths shut like a closed bottle and would even directly take their own lives. Of course, if they completed the task and one does not give them the money, hehe, then that was simply seeking death.

　　After arranging everything, Sui Yuan finally felt at ease. He only had to wait until he had completely recovered before he could continue to proceed with the plot.

　　As was planned in the plot, a few days later, Ning Ze had no choice but to take his leave because of the hidden treasure. After all, as a Cult Leader, he had to personally oversee this kind of major event, especially now that he could not be at ease because of his Chief Protector who was eyeing his position.

　　Not long after Ning Ze had left, Sui Yuan recovered completely from his injury.

　　The two people packed up their belongings and left the inn to return to their s.h.i.+fu. Naturally, they encountered the a.s.sa.s.sin who had been lying in wait for them.

　　Just where would Nan Gongyi, who had just the Jianghu, ever have encountered an a.s.sa.s.sin organization?! He was scared stupid from being chased after by a killer! He could only flee, running after his family's s.h.i.+xiong with his head in his hands while bewildered. He completely did not notice that they had already seriously deviated from the path that would have led them back to their s.h.i.+fu.

　　Who had hired these a.s.sa.s.sins to come kill them? Why were they trying to kill them? It couldn’t be that there was a secret on them that they didn't know about? Or, was this due to a grudge from a previous generation? Nan Gongyi considered this from all sorts of angles but could not figure out why they had ended up in this kind of predicament. And during this predicament, he was even more dependent on his s.h.i.+xiong than he ever had been before.

　　#Even though he had just recovered from a severe injury, my family's Da s.h.i.+xiong can still protect me against the vicious a.s.sa.s.sins time and time again and escape unscathed!#

　　#My family's Da s.h.i.+xiong is always so awesome!#

　　#Da s.h.i.+xiong is omnipotent!#

　　——Sui Yuan, who was the main culprit, met his family's silly s.h.i.+di's wors.h.i.+pping gaze and sent him a smile filled with tenderness.

　　5237: …Suddenly feel that the silly host has blackened. Was it an illusion?

　　Who knew if it was the protagonist's halo's attractive force, but although it wasn't the right time and place, although it was different from the plot, that cannon fodder a.s.sa.s.sin known as An Qi still made Nan Gongyi's acquaintance. Fortunately Sui Yuan had requested to stay anonymous at the time of commissioning the task, so he neither exposed himself, nor ended up arousing Nan Gongyi's suspicion.