Within the academy!
Upon hearing that Qin Yu was to marry Ming Xiajing as a concubine, Qin Yun couldn't stop smiling!
Qin Yu's dream of becoming empress was thus shattered. She must be extremely unwilling!
Marrying Ming Xiajing as a concubine?
Would she be content with that? It was likely a delaying tactic, just to prevent the Ming family from exposing the matter!
This affair was not up to Qin Yu; it was for her to decide!
Qin Yu's matters were almost settled!
The most important thing now was the imperial examination!
There were only a few days left until the examination!
She needed to prepare well!
While Qin Yun was lost in thought!
A dart landed in front of Qin Yun's desk!
There was a note attached to the dart!
Qin Yun pulled out the dart and took the note to read it!
The note contained all the information about Mr. Jin from the accounting department, provided by Qingshan!
As expected!
Mr. Jin truly had a problem!
However, she did not want to deal with the affairs of the Qin family's inner court for the time being. She would leave it to Xiao Ju and Granny Tian to oversee, as long as nothing went wrong!
Her current goal was the imperial examination!
With the imperial examination approaching, Qin Yun had devoted all her energy to her studies during this period!
Although she was confident of passing the preliminary rounds, the position of Zhuangyuan (top scholar) was still somewhat difficult to attain!
Moreover, this was her first time participating in the imperial examination, and she felt quite nervous!
For several consecutive nights, Qin Yun slept very late!
On this night!
Qin Yun, yawning, finished the last book in her hand and was about to go to sleep!
The lamp was extinguished!
She took off her outer robe and boots, and just as she lay down on the bed...
Qin Yun, not yet asleep, felt that something was amiss in the room, as if someone was watching her sleep!
But it was already dark, and the oil lamp was out, so she couldn't see anything!
She lifted the quilt and got up in a hurry!
Qin Yun fumbled around in the pitch-black night!
Whether she was being overly suspicious or too sensitive, she felt a strong foreign presence around her, and she seemed to have smelled this presence somewhere before!
"Hong Fu? Hong Fu?" Qin Yun admitted that she was a little scared, but she called out twice, and Hong Fu did not appear!
Her heart inexplicably tensed up!
She quickly lit the lamp!
The room lit up again, but there was nothing there!
Qin Yun patted her forehead!
Was she imagining things?
But why hadn't Hong Fu appeared? Wasn't she supposed to protect her at all times?
Qin Yun put her hands on her hips and called out softly again, "Hong Fu?"
"My lady, I am here!" This time, Hong Fu flashed into view!
Looking at Hong Fu's sudden appearance, Qin Yun subtly noticed that Hong Fu was panting, as if she had just been through a fierce battle!
"What just happened?"
"I saw a shadow enter your room, my lady. I wanted to stop it, but I was stopped by a sudden appearance of a black-clothed person! That's why I couldn't come to your side immediately!" Hong Fu said with some self-reproach.
"My lady, are you alright?"
So... it wasn't her illusion just now, someone really entered her room?
Who was that person? Why did they enter her room?
Could it be that they wanted to kill her?
But it didn't seem like it! If they really wanted to kill her, they could have done it with a single blow. Why be so mysterious?
Qin Yun's mind was in a mess!
Could it be Jie Jing'an?
No, no! Jie Jing'an had a boisterous personality and wouldn't be so mysterious, and that person's presence was not like Jie Jing'an's!
"When you fought with that black-clothed person, were you injured? What was their martial arts level?"
Hong Fu frowned. "The other party was a master, more skilled than me. They only stopped me from coming to you, and did not injure me at all!"
Qin Yun became even more curious. "That person's martial arts are still above yours? And they didn't intend to hurt you?"
Hong Fu nodded. "Yes, my lady!"
What was going on?
And someone came to peep at her in the middle of the night?
Thinking of herself sleeping in bed, with someone standing in front of the bed peeping, she felt terrified!
No!
She had to find out who that person was! Otherwise, she would have psychological trauma!
But... Hong Fu couldn't defeat that black-clothed person. It seemed she could only ask Qingshan for help!
"Contact Qingshan. For the next few days, you and Qingshan will protect me!" Qin Yun was feeling very timid now.
"Yes, my lady!"
For the next few nights, Qin Yun slept with the lamp on!
But after several days, she didn't find any suspicious figures!
Perhaps it was because Qingshan and Hong Fu were protecting her from the shadows, and there were no abnormalities during the nights.
Qin Yun slowly let down her guard!
One night!
Qin Yun had just fallen asleep!
While she was fast asleep, a figure once again entered Qin Yun's room!
Because Qin Yun was asleep, she didn't notice that someone else had entered the room!
At this moment, the candlelight shone on Qin Yun's face, and everything looked so harmonious and beautiful!
Qingshan and Hong Fu outside were lured to the back mountain to fight by two masked figures!
Even if Qingshan and Hong Fu wanted to return to Qin Yun's side, they couldn't at this moment!
The opponents were like entwined snakes, refusing to let go!
Most importantly, the two black-clothed people were so skilled in martial arts that Qingshan could only barely cope!
Hong Fu couldn't manage, and was quickly captured!
However, the other party only restrained her freedom and did not intend to harm them!
"Who exactly are you? Whose orders are you following? What do you want to do to our lady?" Hong Fu was acupunctured and couldn't move at the moment!
The masked figures sighed and shook their heads, looking helpless. "Little lady, don't resist. We are all working for our masters, so save your strength! Besides... you can't beat me, why waste your energy?"
"Who is your master? What do they want to do to my lady?" Hong Fu gritted her teeth!
"Don't worry, my master will not harm Young Master Qin. They just can't sleep and want to see them!"
Hong Fu's face was covered in black lines, and she snorted. "Will they be able to sleep just by looking? Is your master a pervert?"
The masked figure said seriously, "Believe it or not, after my master saw Young Master Qin, they could indeed go back to sleep peacefully. As for being a pervert... you'd better not let my master hear that, or you won't even know how you died!"
"Is your master male or female? And why do they have a peeping fetish?"
The masked figure looked helpless!
He thought to himself, Master, your subordinate has tried their best, but this fetish of yours... is indeed quite strange. Even outsiders think you have a peeping fetish!
"Why aren't you speaking?" Hong Fu couldn't help but think, my lady is becoming more and more handsome, and it's inevitable that many beautiful women will like them!
"What kind of woman is your master? Why don't they openly pursue my lady?"
Woman?
The masked figure became even more silent!
He had nothing to say now!
Is the master lonely or something?
In the middle of the night, instead of finding beauties to serve, they came to the Blue Mountain Academy dormitory to look at a man!
Having followed the master for so many years, he couldn't explain what was going on with the master lately!
"Why aren't you answering? Could it be that your master is a female hooligan? Could it be that they have already...?" Hong Fu dared not think further! The more she thought, the more terrifying it became!
She knew it!
They neither harmed people nor robbed them of money, so it must be for lust!
I didn't expect there to be such a shameless female hooligan in this world!