With that, they started attacking her ferociously and targeting all her deathly points. Despite her devil trainings and martial arts skills, she is definitely not on par with professionals who fight everyday, sharpening their skills with each battle gambling their life.

By the end of the fight, she is injured with multiple cuts on her arms and legs, luckily she avoided most of the deathly attacks but, she is running out of stamina.

Plunging the sword onto the floor as a support to hold her bodyweight, she force herself to stand upright to face her enemy.

Bowing down and being on the floor is a disgrace for her and her family, also for her Master (Shi Fu).

Fighting off the pain she is facing, she wanted some answers.

"Who exactly sent you here?"

"I accept missions without asking reason, and today is the day you need to die."

As though that is the best answer the assassin can give, he proceed to slash her head.

Jae-in closed her eyes, waiting for the pain to come while reflecting the short period of life she manage to enjoy for this life, she smile thinking that this is good enough for the third life.

However, the pain did not come as someone block the attack and soon the battle resume. This time with one more ally on her side fighting off the assassin.

Opening her eyes, the view of the person who saved her life shocked her.

"Are you alright?" One of the shadow knights that was assigned by Xuan Di appeared.

'Why is he here? D-Did he know who am I?' Jae-in paled at this thought.

"Master, there is no time and please head for safety. I will fight off these people." The shadow knight disrupt her thoughts and continue the attack.

The two shadow knights, who were assigned by Xuan Di to secretly protect her, were always there since the beginning of the kidnapping.

They also witness how she manage to avoid the attacks of the 3 men, how she show off her combat fighting skills that he could never imagine an Empress of Xuan to have.

They also witness her escape back to Long Feng Ke Zhan, with the thought that she will be safe in the Ke Zhan, one of them sneaked away to return back to Xuan Di to inform him her exact location.

Little did they know, moments later, Jae-in reappear at the outdoor garden in the night attire and a face mask along with a baggage on her back. It seems like she is on a run.

Shadow Knight one, who remain behind, follow her to the exchange inn and saw the bunch of assassins that appeared from nowhere. He decided to leave a marking behind for Shadow Knight Two to follow, quickly he followed the chase and step in to protect his master.

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Xuan Di sat in his chair, waiting patiently for the positive news of Jae-in while feeling afraid. He is unsure why he felt this way, and this foreign feeling that he is experiencing made he angry.

He dislike these unknown feelings, conquering his mind and control over his emotions. He hated these moods that he had and every changing factor is evidently related to Jae-in.

Ever since he married her, nothing great comes out of it. Many things changed within him without him knowing, being affected by her over little minor things.

As a strong reminder of the feud he had with her at the back of his mind, he decided to put a distance between them and started to react coldly towards her since the beginning of the marriage.

But the moment he heard that she got taken away, the possibility of bad things happening to her, or worse, she might never reappear in front of him, shook his calm and confidence mentality.

"Master Xuan, Jae Fu Ren is currently back at Long Feng Ke Zhan. She is safe and sound, also we have eliminated the 3 men." Shadow Knight Two kneel on the floor as he report back to Xuan Di.

"Back to the Ke Zhan." Xuan Di instructed and leave the Yang Household immediately, hopping onto the horse readily prepared at the door.

"Master Xuan!" Beauty Belle Su shouted but was stopped by Merchant Yang as he do not want to witness any bad incident happening to his precious daughter after the kidnap.

"No! Let go of me Father! Your Imperial Majesty!! I am still here!" Beauty Belle Su cried out.

'Why? Why is this happening to me? Why doesn't things go according to plan?'

With shadow knight two following Xuan Di's direction by using his qing gong on the rooftop, he suddenly saw a familiar symbol.

Immediately, he stopped Xuan Di's track and kneel in front of the horse.

"Master Xuan! Please hold up! There might be a change of location."

After stopping his master, shadow knight two proceed to the nearby exchange inn that they passed by. Verifying the mark made by shadow knight one, he sniff the air and return back to Xuan Di.

"Master Xuan, please follow my lead."

Disembarking the horse due to the change in direction that shadow knight two is heading, the 2 men walk swiftly towards the crowd.

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A nervous gulp that made her swallow her saliva as she see this masked man protecting her by pushing her to hide behind his back.

'Does that mean Xuan Di knew her plans to leave already?' she worriedly stare into the broad shoulders in front of her.

Although shadow knight one is a very skilful knight, fighting against 13 men while trying to protect his master, seems to be a difficult task. Unable to fend off all the deathly attacks, he decided to focus on making his master escape.

While using a nearby wooden plank, he aimed for the legs of the assassins which made them fall. Using this chance, he used his internal strength and grab Jae-in's shoulder to throw her to the other side, nearer to the entrance of the alley.

"Master! Please make your run!" Shadow knight one shouted.