The candlelight flickered, and the room exuded a faint aura of decadence.
Behind the screen, inside the beaded curtain outside the Fuyao couch, the cannibal brocade quilt that was supposed to cover the bodies of the two of them had already slipped to the edge of the bed, revealing the two people who were still in love with each other just now, but in an instant they became tit for tat.
personal.
With dark anger in his eyes, Liu Mingzhi looked at Tao Ying, who had a delicate and blushing face with lingering fear and disappointment, and a look of deep disappointment and unwillingness in her eyes.
Young Master Liu breathed out gently, looked cautiously at Tao Ying, who was looking at him with faint tears in the corners of her eyes, nodded slightly and put the dagger between her two fingers in front of her eyes to look at it.
The difference from the previous dagger is that there is no quenching poison on this dagger, and it is much smaller.
Although it is not as good as the previous poison-quenched blade that can blow hair and break hair, it is still a rare weapon that can easily kill someone.
If there is a sudden blow to the back of the heart or chest, it will be seriously injured even if it does not die.
Thinking of the moment just now, when Tao Ying suddenly took out the dagger from the inside of the bed and stabbed her in the back of the heart, Liu Mingzhi's heart was still beating fast.
If I hadn't never completely believed that this Tao Ying was the kind of harried woman who would cheat on her and casually have sex with her good brother, I would have really confessed here today!
Silently staring at Tao Ying, who looked regretful and staring at herself in a daze, Liu Mingzhi threw the dagger between his fingers heavily to the ground.
The sharp dagger body directly penetrated the bluestone floor tiles, causing the floor tiles to fall into pieces.
The dagger pierced into the floor tiles with a sharp clang sound, causing Tao Ying, a bewildered young woman with lifeless eyes, to react suddenly.
First she glanced at the dagger that was buried in the floor tiles, and then turned to look at Liu Mingzhi, who had a gloomy look. Tao Ying bit her red lips until they were bloodless, and her eyes flashed with pain that she didn't want to believe.
"How could you possibly escape my sudden attack at the last moment of love...the last moment of confusion and infatuation?"
Liu Mingzhi picked up the robe on the side and put it on his body. He leaned on the bedside and looked at the pretty woman Tao Ying with complicated eyes and exhaled.
"Good sister, you finally showed your hidden fox tail.
If you are a high-quality master, you may be able to sneak attack a man at that moment.
But it's only possible.
If you knew that I was a soldier, you should know why I was able to escape your sudden assassination plan at a critical moment and seize the murderous weapon you were holding to kill me!
The fighting on the battlefield has made me so sensitive to murderous intentions that I can react immediately even in my deep sleep.
Besides, I've been wary of you?
It’s just that I’m very puzzled. Why do you want to kill me even though you can throw away your own innocence?”
Tao Ying lifted the brocade quilt that was placed on the edge of the bed and silently wrapped it around her beautiful body. She curled up on the bedside and looked at Liu Mingzhi, her eyes full of unexplainable meaning: "I...I..."
Looking at the painful look in Tao Ying's eyes, Liu Mingzhi rubbed his forehead and let out a breath.
"Tao Ying, I'd better call you Sister Tao Ying. From your reaction and look in your eyes just now, I have already understood that your identity is indeed not the spy spy I initially suspected.
However, even if you are not a spy, your identity is definitely extraordinary.
What kind of deep hatred do we have between us? Why do you want to kill me so deliberately?
In fact, there are too many people who want to kill me, and one more of you is nothing.
But you can at least let me understand, what kind of grudges do we have between us that require life and death?
Who are you? What is your identity?
And moreover”
Liu Mingzhi glanced at the bright red on the brocade quilt and looked regretful: "You are obviously a girl, why do you pretend to be a woman?
You would rather commit yourself to me and sacrifice your own innocence than take my life.
What kind of deep hatred do we have between us?"
Tao Ying looked at the clear confusion in Liu Mingzhi's eyes across from her. She looked at Liu Mingzhi hesitantly for a long time, with a painful look in her eyes.
"I...I have a mortal hatred for you."
Liu Mingzhi's body trembled, and he looked at Tao Ying's desolate expression in shock: "No... sworn hatred?"
"Yes! I have sworn hatred. If I don't kill you, I won't die in peace."
Looking at Tao Ying with hatred and complexity intertwined in her eyes, Liu Mingzhi carefully examined Tao Ying's appearance, recalling in his mind all the enemies who had been defeated in his hands and died tragically in the past ten years.
However, after spending about two sticks of incense, Liu Mingzhi finally found nothing.
He carefully recalled all the opponents who had a life-and-death hatred with him over the past ten years, but he was surprised that no opponent could overlap with the figure of Tao Ying in front of him.
You can count on one hand the number of enemies you have sworn hatred against.
But the identities of those people should not have anything to do with Tao Ying!
"You...is your real name Tao Ying?"
"Yes! My real name is Tao Ying!"
"Tao Ying! Tao?"
Liu Mingzhi rubbed his temples and fell into memories again.
During Qingzhou's disaster relief, among the officials he killed according to the Dragon Law, there seemed to be no officials named Tao, and they deserved their punishment. Even if there were Tao Ying's family members, they should not have sworn hatred against him.
During the suppression of bandits in Jiangnan? Were there anyone named Tao among the bandits and officials?
It seems that the seventh elder of the White Lotus Sect was named Todd, but although he died in his own hands because of Shan'er's incident, he was the one to blame.
Every time after that, it seemed that there was no enemy named Tao.
Could it be that Tao Ying is Tao De's daughter or sister, and she has come to seek revenge on him?
"Are you a relative of Tao De, the seventh elder of the White Lotus Sect?"
Tao Ying frowned: "No matter how bad the little girl's identity is, she will not be involved with the gangsters."
"But he is the only person with the surname Tao who has enmity against me. Apart from him, I really can't think of anyone else with the surname Tao that I have developed enmity with over the years.
And it’s this kind of sworn hatred.
Let's not make any riddles, just tell the truth.
He spent two years trying to get close to me, and he was willing to give up his innocence just to be able to kill me with this dagger today.
How much you hate me.
You are still an innocent girl, you cannot be someone's wife or concubine.
In this case, apart from your family background, I really can't guess who you are specifically.
Who are you?
If you want to kill me, you have to let me know your identity.
And, do you know who I am?
Are you sure I am your enemy?"
Tao Ying sneered and stared straight at Liu Mingzhi: "Today, I am the king of a country. Liu Mingzhi, you don't know me, but I know you."
Liu Mingzhi raised his eyebrows, narrowed his eyes and looked at Tao Ying for a while, and sighed faintly: "Sister Tao Ying, just before you answered the question, I was still thinking about whether there was something between us.
What misunderstanding exists.
Now it seems that there is really an old grudge between us that I don't know about.
Tell me your origins, and let me understand what grievances I have left behind that have not been resolved for so many years."
Tao Ying was silent for a while, feeling the curiosity in Liu Mingzhi's eyes and her lips slightly opening.
"Tell me first, how did you know that I wanted to kill you?"