The flames on the torch flickered more fiercely.
The forest was eerily quiet, and Gu Lan could only hear the sound of her own steady breathing.
She lowered her gaze, her eyes cold.
It seemed that from the beginning, when she was assigned to escort the Empress Dowager to Mu City, the Empress Dowager's objective was her.
Everyone knew that Gu Lan was highly skilled in martial arts, and ordinary assassinations would not succeed. To truly succeed in assassinating her, one would have to bear the wrath of the entire Dingyuan Marquis Mansion.
That's why Su Xinyu chose this moment for the assassination, four men from four directions, flawless and certain death.
And once it succeeded, the blame for killing the Young Master Gu would fall on the Su Family's archenemy—they originally came to assassinate the Empress Dowager, and the Young Master Gu died heroically protecting the Empress Dowager, a tragedy worthy of song and tears, indeed a talent envied by Heaven.
