You Are Poisonous

"I heard that no one inside managed to escape. Such a pity," Du Jin sarcastically shook his head with a sigh.

Yun Nian looked up and glanced at the man beside her.

"Did you do this?"

"I merely reciprocated the courtesy," he replied.

When Emperor Hong Wen burned down his mother's Fengyi Palace, he retaliated by ordering the execution of Xiao Kaihong.

The Golden Scale Guards were Emperor Hong Wen's trusted subordinates, and with the execution order gone, it was like severing one of Emperor Hong Wen's arms.

Guo Jian's eyes turned bloodshot.

Upon hearing that the execution order was gone, his blood surged, and he raised his sword to strike.

However, he realized that he only held a broken hilt in his hand.

Before he could even stand up, he coughed up blood, feeling pain in his heart and lungs with every breath.

His life force had been shattered by Xiao Chengjun.

Du Jin drew his sword. "Prepare to die."