Chapter 5 — Dark Guard Without Dreams

The owners were leisurely drinking tea and suddenly interrupted:

“Hey, little prince, are you doubting our Thien Co Pavilion?”

Tieu Nghien Tu didn't bother to answer, just pulled my hand hard:

“No matter who you are or what your purpose is — follow me back to the palace!”

I shook my head softly and said:

“The royal family has made it clear, it's better to separate ways from here.”

“My subordinates have protected the Royal Family for ten years, and have seen you get married and live and die, so it is considered that you have not betrayed the old King's teachings.”

Tieu Nghien Tu immediately became angry:

"Based on what? If you want to come then come, if you want to go then go?"

"The one who stubbornly stuck by my side and refused to leave no matter how much I fought, was you. Now the one who says he wants to leave, is it still you?"

“Just because I exposed your identity?”

I just opened my mouth to explain, the owners suddenly stood up and stepped between me and Tieu Nghien Tu.

"The little prince doesn't understand, Thien Co Cac has a rule - female secret guards who are twenty-five years old can leave the Cac and find another way to live..."

"And today, is the twenty-fifth birthday of twenty-six titles."

Tieu Nghien Tu stood still.

“What does that mean?”

The owners opened the folding fan in their hands, waved it gently, and smiled like a spring breeze:

“It means that from today onwards, she has been released from the Pavilion and is no longer a secret guard under the Thien Co Pavilion.”

“Your Majesty, you no longer have the right to freely control her.”

I was stunned. The past few days have been so busy that we have indeed forgotten our own birth. Tieu Nghien Tu frowned, his expression becoming colder and colder.

"Thien Co Pavilion was founded by my father, so I must be the Young Master..."

"Now, I use my identity as Young Master to order: From now on, Thien Co Cac abolishes the regulations on leaving Cac!"

As soon as those words ended, not only did the Patriarchs' faces darken, but even the hidden guards standing guard around the pavilion simultaneously showed murderous intent.

“In the past, the old Vuong family returned to the Immortal, if he hadn't given Thien Co Pavilion to you, someone else would have had to take over... Little prince, have you still not woken up yet?"

“Today, Thien Co Cac is no longer under the authority of Tieu Vuong Palace!”

9

The atmosphere between the two sides was as tense as the tip of a sword unsheathed, and as tense as a bowstring, not what we expected to see.

“Your Majesty, please go back.”

“Didn't you blame me for being troublesome in the past, like a shadow that never leaves, leaving you no place to complain?”

“Isn't this exactly what you wanted now?”

"Besides, your Concubine Trac is still waiting in the palace, aren't you two planning to go pray to Guan Yin? Why do you have to waste time with a humble status like mine?"

Tieu Nghien Tu was speechless, his hand raised in the air seemed frozen. He looked up at me, a trace of confusion flashed through his eyes, mixed with a sense of directionlessness. The pavilion owner frowned, impatiently continued looking, and waved his hand. Immediately, a group of secret guards rushed in, escorted Tieu Nghien Tu and his entourage out of Thien Co Cac, and threw them straight through the big gate. Before being pushed away, he shouted loudly:

“You wait! You will regret it!”

“It's just a small secret guard camp, this king doesn't believe it and can't find out who is the mastermind behind you!”

“This Thien Co Cac, sooner or later this king will return it to Tieu Vuong Palace!”

His loud voice echoed from afar, then gradually faded away mountain wind. I turned and bowed to the Lords:

"Thank you, Lords, for helping to relieve the siege, but... I wonder if this action will implicate your superiors?"

The owners opened the fans, waved their knives, and leisurely replied:

"Ah, that's polite. I'm your superior, it's my duty to protect you."

"And my superior... that person's status is not ordinary, in this life, Tieu Nghien Tu, I'm afraid he won't be able to reach him."

After speaking, out of nowhere, the owners seemed to have transformed, pulled out a contract and handed it into my hand.

“From now on, you are a free man.”

“Find your own way to live.”

10

I'm not going far, just returning to my hometown. A small district next to the area where Thien Co Cac is located. After many years of working as a secret guard, I accumulated a lot of scraps of money, so I opened a small bureau and recruited a few good men. Because he has never failed or failed, his reputation gradually spreads far and wide. During that time, Tieu Nghien Tu's people came to arrest him. The guards in the palace carried portraits and searched every house looking for people. They came to the police station no less than a few times and checked their faces carefully. But no one has ever recognized me. Because a long time ago, I shook off the layer of liquid on my face and restored my original appearance. My real face is not stunningly beautiful, just delicate and dignified. When we first started, when we recruited people, they thought we were helping our husband start a business. No one expected that a slender woman would possess such profound skills. When I was in Thien Co Cac, I deliberately painted myself to look sharp, with bright eyebrows and eyes, and a demeanor no less than that of a man. That's why the guards who came to investigate only glanced once and left, no one became suspicious. Until two months later — I met Tieu Nghien Tu again. Duong Cam Sat walked next to him, her belly was bigger than before, it seemed like she was about to give birth.