The Story Of Dusk

"L clan." Long Tianmo mentioned the name of it. "Maybe Prince Xiao Jun had not heard about this clan yet, but they are the best within the organization."

Xiao Jun snickered.

How it was possible that he didn"t know about L clan?

L clan was a clan under Xiao w.a.n.g Wei"s influence. All of this thanked to Ye Bai who had managed to dig much more information about all the things that surrounded Xiao Zi and his son.

Feigning ignorance, Xiao Jun asked without changing his expression. "When ?"

Xiao Jun was asking about when he could meet the leader of this group to talk about this matter further.

Chuckling happily without knowing what the prince in front of him had learnt, Long Tianmo answered excitedly. "Tomorrow after the sun set, the leader of the group will be on the Hei Cheng Street."

Xiao Jun nodded in acknowledgment. "How about the golden auction?"

"Ah, about that it will be held four days from today, the same place, the same time." Long Tianmo informed him with the sickening smile that never faded from his lips. "Prince Xiao Jun, shouldn"t we discuss about the Crystal Road?"

Long Tianmo was very eager for having share of the profit of crystal road.

"You can send me the draft and I will sign it." Xiao Jun didn"t even bother to think about it.

"It feels so right to do business with you Prince Xiao Jun." Long Tianmo stood up, bend his body in respect and then left the room."

The burning candles that illuminate the rooms gave a slightly dim ambience, flickered when the wind brushed past them as the woman emerged from behind the part.i.tion.

She strolled across the room slowly and sat beside Xiao Jun.

"Don"t you feel something fishy about this?" Qianru frowned. "He was talking with Elder Mo, obviously he is up to something." She had been hiding and was eavesdrop during the conversation.

"I know." Xiao Jun said curtly. "He colluded with Xiao w.a.n.g Wei to frame me."

Qianru gasped, worry was written all over her face. However her expression only amused Xiao Jun.

"It will be alright." Xiao Jun tousled her hair and took a sip from his tea. "I had predicted this outcome, I didn"t believe him since the beginning." He gave Qianru rea.s.suring smile.

"Did you mean you know all of this since the very beginning?" Qianru asked incredulously. "So why…" She wanted to ask; why he kept doing it if he knew it was all traps?

However she realized it was all part of his plan.

"Sometime we need to be fool to fool a fool." Xiao Jun flicked Qianru"s nose softly. "Lesson number two." He grinned.

Qianru stunned for a moment, but then chuckled heartily. "Prince Xiao Jun… it seems I will have a lot of lesson to learn."

"Yes. You lack of imagination." He criticized her, feigned ignorance with her upset face upon hearing that.

"I hope all of this will go smoothly." Qianru mumbled.

She didn"t want anything bad befell upon him.

"Did I tell you that Ye Bai and prince Qi Xunyi are here as well?" Xiao Jun helped Qianru to stand as they walked back to their room. Hand to hand.

"Uncle Ye is here?" Qianru"s eyes wide opened.

She knew that Ye Bai was Ye Xiu, Xiao Jun"s master, younger brother and he was not in good condition, mentally, recently due to having a great lost.

Who would be in their right mind if you lost your wife and son within a day?

"Ye Bai prefers to be called Uncle Su now." Xiao Jun informed her.

Uncle Su, from Su Zhang Li, his late wife"s name.

Qianru nodded. "Uncle Su." She repeated. "And what Prince Qi Xunyi is doing here?" Actually Qianru didn"t quite understand why that prince chose to linger with Xiao Jun and Xiao Tianyao knowing both of them was someone who had destroyed his own kingdom.

But, Qianru would ask this question later.

"He lives in Greenhill Mountain and helping Ye Bai now." Xiao Jun said. "He will help me later with the L clan."

"Do you know from the beginning that Long Tianmo will use L clan to aid your request?" Qianru was really curious about how he could make a meticulous plan like this.

"Kind of." Xiao Jun shrugged. "You can say I have a good hunch and good connection." He grinned again.

For some reason that Qianru"s couldn"t understand, Xiao Jun seemingly in good mood as he smiled more often and relaxed with her.

Qianru wanted to scoff about his over confidence- self, but she was grinning along in the end. "Well, you can say I cherish the right person."

*** 

The next day when Qianru woke up from her deep slumber, she reached out her hand to touch the spot beside her, but to her disappointment that spot was cold.

Opened her eyes, she stared at the empty spot where Xiao Jun supposed to be there. He was indeed had been long gone.

Xiao Jun must be taking care of some matter by now for the meeting tonight with the leader of L Clan.

Pursing her lips, Qianru got off of the bed as she was about to stand, she felt slightly dizzy and sore.

Pursing her lips, she looked back at the messy bed and tightened her lips into a thin line to suppress her smile with no avail, second later, a broad smile bloomed from her lips when she remembered what she had shared with Xiao Jun.

In that instant, her mood lightened.

She staggered toward the bathroom and freshened up. Made herself looked more presentable.

Afterwards, she walked out of the room and found Feng Jin was guarding her room dutifully.

Looking at Qianru who had just emerged from her room, Feng Jin approached her and said in low voice. "Princess I will escort you to somewhere safe after you have done with your breakfast, please change with this." Feng Jin handed her a package of clothes to her. "Change into this at the public bath at the backyard."

Qianru glanced at the item on her hands and whispered back. "Xiao Jun will meet me there?"

Feng Jin nodded. "Master will meet you after he had done with his meeting with L Clan."

Hearing that, Qianru"s heart skipped a beat.

It would be a long night and filled with restlessness.

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"Mistress has been relocated." Liu Wei came up to whisper into Xiao Jun"s ears. "This subordinate just got the news."

Xiao Jun nodded without avert his eyes from the end of the street of Hei Cheng. Waiting.

He had sent Qianru away in case something was getting out of his hand. He didn"t want to get a surprising attack behind his back.

Qi Xunyi beside him was narrowing his eyes and said. "They are coming."

Indeed, not far from them was a man in dark blue clothes, he was so young, maybe around Xiao Tianyao"s age, however to be able to manage a group of a.s.sa.s.sin in such early age, he would be an exceptional person.

Xiao Jun knew the leader of L clan was a young man, but he had never seen him in person.

Now when he faced him, he knew immediately how he could achieve such accomplishment. There was a burning pa.s.sion within those clear eyes and a hidden intention behind his harmless smile.

"Prince Xiao Jun…" He greeted him. "This is our first time we meet, I have heard many things about you." He bent his body slightly as he introduced himself. "I am Yu Aotian, Head of L clan."

Xiao Jun could see a fleeting cunningness in his eyes as he nodded in acknowledgment. "You are so young." He stated that make Yu Aotian"s smile wider.

"Prince Xiao Jun flattered me." He said humbly.

Of course, Xiao Jun didn"t buy his courtesy. "Let"s get down to the business, shall we?"

"Sure." Yu Aotian nodded politely. "I a.s.sumed Prince Xiao Jun is aware about the price that I asked?"

"There is no problem with that."

"And then, how Prince Xiao Jun want this is done? Currently he is a crown prince of Azura, regardless the fact we are in black market, where anything could happen, I don"t think it will be easy to handle this without impeccable plan." Yu Aotian was rubbing his palms against the other, seemingly this was his habit.

"Of course I have one."

Xiao Jun smiling while handing him a small bottle and laid out his plan. He explained all the detail of his plan calmly as if he wasn"t planning to murder someone, the future Emperor of Azura.

Yu Aotian"s eyes flickered a couple of time when he heard Xiao Jun"s plan, both amaze and in daze.

And in the end of the explanation, Yu Aotian pursed his lips as he whistled. "You really come prepare."

"I do." Xiao Jun said calmly. "I want to hear the result a day before the Golden Auction. I a.s.sumed you are aware about the date of the Golden Auction."

"I do." Yu Aotian raised the small bottle in his hands and put it back into his pocket. "Just wait for the good result."

"I hope it will be a good result." Xiao Jun was the first who walked away from Yu Aotian, daringly gave the young leader of L clan his back.

People from Jianghu must have known this rule; to not show your back to your enemy.

Seeing this, Yu Aotian"s eyebrows rose up. "Interesting." He whispered before he turned around and walked toward different direction.

*** 

Qianru was sitting on the bed with her legs stuck to her chest inside a small and ordinary room. It was a hundred percent different from her room in the white pearl inn.

"Did Prince Xiao Jun come here before?" Qianru who had been mute since hours ago finally cracked her voice.

There was another person inside the room as well. A young boy perched on the chair with his mouth busy munching an apple on the table.

"Prince Xiao Jun was here." Xun said ignorantly.

The boy"s answer turned Qianru"s mood became sour. She knew that Xiao Jun wouldn"t do anything, but she still displeased for the fact he was staying at this cheap brothel.

Why should he choose this kind of place?

As if Xun knew what the things that running inside her mind, he answered her unspoken question. "This is my first time also to come here, but Uncle Su said, this place is the safest place in the black market. Very cheap and ugly, no one will believe A n.o.ble man like Prince Xiao Jun would stay."

"Oh." Qianru didn"t utter another question again.

She was just feeling not right to have stay inside this kind of place.

"How long we need to stay here? Will they Xiao Jun come before the Golden Auction." She felt she became a bit whinny.

"I am sure they will bring us to the Golden Auction, but they will not come before it." Xun stretched out his stiffened body and walked out of the room. "Princess Qianru I will leave you here alone. Feng Jin will be right outside the window and I will be next door. I have to check on my brother and Uncle Su, just in case that old man stirs up trouble again."

Qianru chuckled a bit when she heard the commanding words in his tone, such a young age and he had already looked after the people around him.

"I will."

*** 

The next day when Luna woke up, she found herself was lying on the bed with blanket draped on her body.

There was no trace of Xiao Tianyao.

Groggily she sat up and rubbed away the sleepiness from her eyes before she realized there was someone sitting on the chair opposite her.

Knitted her brows tightly, she tried to look that figure clearly and when her face came into her sight, her brows furrowed deepened.

"What are you doing here?" Luna was intended to sound fiercer, but her morning voice couldn"t produce the impact that she wanted. Instead it sounded meek and hoa.r.s.e.

"Xiao Tianyao asked me to look after you, your father asked me to watch after you and your little brother wanted to apologize about his behavior the last time both of you met." Lin crossed her legs and folded her arms across her chest.

"You had seen me, now get out." Luna said sternly, Lin was among those people who she didn"t want to meet.

After she had cried her hear out she was feeling better, but it drained her energy, now she felt giddy.

"Had you divulged Master"s plan to Xiao Tianyao?" Lin tilted her head innocently. "How he knows that Master is heading Black Market?"

With Lin statement, Luna became alert. "Where is he?" She stared at Lin sharply.

"Oh, it"s mean I am right?" Lin"s lips formed a perfect "o" shape as she clapped her hand. "Should I relay this information to Master that Xiao Tianyao is coming his way? So he could give him a surprise?"