TSFLIP Chapter 523

Fengguang asked lazily, “So… that Chen Yu saved you, fell for you, and now he wants to force himself on you?”

“Yeah…” At the mention of this, Nan Xiaoxiao’s face darkened. “He locked Yan Yu up. And after he realized I was a woman, he reported it to the Empire and requested that the Emperor grant me to him. Tonight is the night he plans to mark me. I only managed to get out by using the excuse that I needed some air. But Fengguang, you saw it yourself—he sent so many people to follow me. If it hadn’t been for you two, I’d never have gotten away!”

“I’m curious—how did he find out your identity?” Fengguang asked, not unreasonably. After all, Nan Xiaoxiao wore a bracelet that suppressed her pheromones, and there’s no way Yan Yu would’ve exposed her. So, how had Chen Yu figured it out?

Nan Xiaoxiao’s expression turned complicated. After a moment of hesitation, she gritted her teeth and admitted, “He walked in on me while I was soaking in the hot spring at his estate…”

“…Let me guess—Chen Yu’s pretty good-looking, isn’t he?”

This time, Nan Xiaoxiao answered without hesitation. “Even though he’s the kind of guy who likes to force others into things, he’s undeniably handsome. They say he’s the most beautiful man in the Empire.”

Fengguang: “…”

Just as I thought. Any guy lucky enough to stumble across the female lead in the bath is never ugly—he’s usually a major supporting male character.

While she was inwardly nodding at her accurate prediction, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in the hand being held. Reflexively, she turned to look at the man beside her. He was smiling gently, but it made her spine go cold. She immediately declared her loyalty, “Of course, no matter how good-looking Chen Yu is, I’d never be interested in him!”

Xu Wang’s expression finally eased a little.

Nan Xiaoxiao glanced at Xu Wang, then looked at Fengguang and pleaded, “Fengguang, can you help me rescue Yan Yu?”

Fengguang knew Nan Xiaoxiao wasn’t asking her, but rather the man at her side. She didn’t answer right away and instead asked, “Isn’t Yan Yu a general in the Alliance? Does Chen Yu dare lay a hand on him?”

“You don’t understand,” Nan Xiaoxiao said urgently. “Chen Yu claimed he was keeping Yan Yu at his estate to help him recover. But Yan Yu is seriously injured. In other words… if Chen Yu reports that Yan Yu died from his wounds, no one would question it!”

She was frantic with worry, her concern for Yan Yu evident.

Fengguang, on the other hand, stayed calm. “Why don’t you go to Yan Yu’s subordinates? Get them to storm Chen Yu’s estate and break him out.”

“Yan Yu’s troops… after that last battle with the Zerg, most of them are either dead or seriously wounded. They’re in no shape to launch a rescue.”

At the mention of the Zerg attack, Fengguang suddenly remembered—that was the same incident where she had met Xiao Xiao, or rather, Xu Wang. She narrowed her eyes and looked at Xu Wang, silently asking with her gaze if he had been behind that whole thing.

Xu Wang shook his head innocently. That incident hadn’t been his doing. He’d just heard there was a Zerg outbreak and went to check it out.

Fengguang barely believed him but decided to let it go. She turned back to Nan Xiaoxiao. “So you want us to rescue Yan Yu—how exactly do you expect us to do that?”

“I… I don’t know…”

“You’re not seriously thinking we should just charge in there and snatch him out, are you?” Fengguang sighed. “That’s the home of the Minister of Internal Affairs. You can bet it’s crawling with guards, and they’re not your average foot soldiers. If we just bust in, we’d be throwing our lives away.”

Even with a protagonist’s plot armor, there are limits, you know.