Crowned by the Treacherous Big Shot
Chapter 283 - 265 Congratulations on Joining the Game

Chapter 283: Chapter 265 Congratulations on Joining the Game

The heavy rain poured down, masking a faint noise beneath its sound.

After breaking through the courtyard gate, Meng Qianqian didn’t pause for a moment and fiercely hurled the Brocade Spring Saber in her hand.

A loud crash of wooden splinters erupted from the courtyard, as some mechanism abruptly ceased.

Meng Qianqian’s movements were fluid and seamless, like clouds and flowing water. Bai Yuwei hadn’t even registered what had happened, only feeling instinctively that a terrifying killing intent had been stifled midway.

Meng Qianqian calmly entered the courtyard.

Bai Yuwei followed her, looking up to see the Brocade Spring Saber embedded in the mechanism.

It was a crossbow hidden behind the wall, with five arrows already half-fired. The destruction of the wall revealed the crossbow’s true form.

An ordinary person entering the courtyard would have taken a long time to find it.

Yet Bai Yuwei clearly remembered that after Meng Qianqian broke open the door, she immediately struck.

In other words, she had calculated the exact hiding place of the mechanism just by the angle of the first arrow that was fired.

How did she do it?

Bai Yuwei recalled the time at the Princess Mansion when Meng Qianqian amazed her with her incredible hearing and archery skills in a blindfolded duel.

But her grandfather had clearly said that all worldly masters achieve success only through countless trials and refinements. If Meng Qianqian’s hearing was a natural gift, then her archery skills must have been acquired through practice.

While contemplating, she saw Meng Qianqian leap into the air, almost simultaneously with a fireworks signal rising into the sky.

Meng Qianqian kicked the fireworks into the courtyard’s water tank.

As she landed, Meng Qianqian smoothly retrieved the Brocade Spring Saber from the wall.

"Stop daydreaming, or you’ll lose your life."

Meng Qianqian said to Bai Yuwei.

Bai Yuwei snapped back to her senses.

This woman was strange.

She couldn’t believe that a merchant woman could possess so many skills.

It wasn’t that she looked down on merchant women, but rather, there were too many things about Meng Qianqian that defied logic.

Meng Qianqian, holding the Brocade Spring Saber, looked at the tightly shut doors and windows of the wing room and said indifferently, "Luring me here, shouldn’t someone make an appearance? Will you come out yourselves, or should I go in and drag each of you out one by one?"

As soon as her voice fell, over a dozen shadows burst through the doors, each wielding a long sword gleaming with cold light, and in an instant, a murderous aura suffused the entire courtyard.

"Step back, stand aside, and don’t move."

"I don’t need your protection!"

Bai Yuwei unbuckled the whip at her waist, cracking it on the ground with a snap.

Meng Qianqian: "Suit yourself."

Without further exchange, both sides immediately engaged in combat.

The dozen or so black-clad men split into two groups, one rushing towards Meng Qianqian, the other encircling Bai Yuwei.

Just because Bai Yuwei lost to Meng Qianqian didn’t mean she was truly weak.

After all, few in this world could best Meng Qianqian.

However, Bai Yuwei had never killed anyone; all her moves were to defeat the opponent, not to kill them.

As a result, she easily became passive.

Meng Qianqian’s every stroke was lethal, drawing blood at the neck.

Bai Yuwei’s whip was entangled by a black-clad man; she delivered an elbow strike to another who was sneaking up behind her, but it was skillfully countered.

Bai Yuwei was immobilized.

She watched as the black-clad man grasping her whip was about to sever her hand with a sword.

Terror-stricken, Bai Yuwei closed her eyes.

Swish!

Hot blood splattered across her face, and her eyes flew open.

Her arm was severed at the root, flying through the air.

Yet she felt no pain at all.

"Ah—"

A shrill scream erupted from the black-clad man across from her.

Only then did she realize that the arm was not hers, but the black-clad man’s!

The black-clad man behind her was clearly equally shocked by the scene.

Who could have predicted that a young woman of just seventeen or eighteen would strike more mercilessly than them.

What was even scarier was that her expression didn’t change at all, as calm as an ancient well untouched for millennia.

In the blink of an eye, she was in front of Bai Yuwei, pulling the terrified, stiff-as-a-board Bai Yuwei into her arms and stabbing through the black-clad man behind her with a single thrust.

"Move to the side."

Meng Qianqian released her grip on Bai Yuwei’s nape.

"Mm."

Bai Yuwei nervously stepped to the side.

Meng Qianqian: "If you’re scared, just close your eyes."

Bai Yuwei clutched her whip tightly: "I... I’m not scared..."

This woman usually pretended!

She was an even bigger lunatic than Lu Yuan!

Meng Qianqian left only one alive: "Where are they?"

The last black-clad man lay on the ground drenched in blood and mud, looking weakly at Bai Yuwei by the water tank: "Use her... to trade... otherwise... you’ll never see that child again in this lifetime..."

Meng Qianqian finished him off with a single stroke.

Bai Yuwei was dumbfounded.

Meng Qianqian stood quietly in the rain, holding the blood-soaked Brocade Spring Saber.

Bai Yuwei asked, stupefied, "You... why did you just..."

Meng Qianqian said calmly, "The Twelve Guards, never threatened."

Bai Yuwei hesitated to speak, then turned her face away.

"Is the Mysterious Gu still usable?"

Meng Qianqian asked.

Bai Yuwei picked up a porcelain bottle from the grass: "It’s no longer usable. They must have found the Gu on Bao Shu and left the poison bottle here."

Meng Qianqian surveyed the courtyard environment.

Bai Yuwei said: "Actually, you could have pretended to agree. Isn’t there a saying in the Central Plains that ’all is fair in war’? I wouldn’t mind. I can tell they wanted to drive a wedge between you and me; I’m not that easy to fool."

Meng Qianqian said: "Then what if, halfway, you are rescued as a heroine by someone, and that person gets seriously injured or may even lose half their life to save you?"

Bai Yuwei asked in confusion, "What?"

Meng Qianqian, while examining every plant and tree in the courtyard, responded to Bai Yuwei:

"Let me tell you what will happen if I hand you over. You will suffer inhuman torture, and when you can no longer bear it, Xun Yu will step forward and rescue you from a pile of villains."

Bai Yuwei asked suspiciously, "Xun Yu... is he involved in this? Is it the Prime Minister’s Mansion?"

Meng Qianqian didn’t answer, but Bai Yuwei had already pieced it together in her mind.

Who else but the Prime Minister’s Mansion would dare act against the Governor Mansion?

Meng Qianqian stood before the water tank: "He will not only confess that it is the Prime Minister’s conspiracy but also publicly break ties with his father in front of you. Then what will you do?"

Bai Yuwei fell into deep thought.

She didn’t want to believe it, but she had to admit that Meng Qianqian’s words were highly plausible.

Not for anything else, but because Meng Qianqian was always right; she was the smartest woman Bai Yuwei had ever met.

"But there’s one thing you guessed wrong."

"Oh?"

Meng Qianqian raised her eyebrows, tapping lightly on the water tank with her fingertips.

Bai Yuwei solemnly said: "No matter how flawless Xun Yu’s plan is, I will never bring him back to the Governor Mansion, nor will I trust or accept him. Just because Grandfather said so, there’s not a single good person in the Xun Family."

"Meng Qianqian, I admit you’re smart, you’ve calculated everyone’s schemes, but you’ve never been to Miaojiang; you don’t understand the status of the Miao King in our hearts. He is not only our king but also our faith."

"An unexpected answer." Meng Qianqian nodded, pausing her taps, and smashed the water tank with a palm strike.

A piece of paper sandwiched within the ceramics was flushed out by the water inside the tank.

Bai Yuwei was shocked: "Something was in the water tank?"

Not inside the tank, but within the tank’s ceramic.

"How did you see that?"

Meng Qianqian said: "I don’t know. I seem to have a bit of a knack for mechanisms and the like."

Bai Yuwei frowned: Are you just showing off?

Meng Qianqian unfolded the paper: "Congratulations on entering the game, midnight, Ten Miles Pavilion."