It was dawn and the sky was still dark, Shu Ren felt some movement outside their inn.
He went over the window, and made a small opening, so he can peeked the situation outside.
Frowning his brows, he saw some black shadows moving from inn to inn.
[Shit! It looks like the Lord was desperate to find us.] Shu Ren quickly went to Rae Gu's room.
Seeing her sleeping, he decided to carry her out for a escape and went beside the bed, but when he reached out his hand in her back to carry her up, a savage glint appeared in Rae Gu's eyes, and a dagger nearly pierced his chest.
Luckily, Shu Ren was quick and agilely dodge the incoming attack.
[Phew!That was close.] He rubbed his chest and thought about his near death experience which made his soul nearly went out from his body.
Wiping his imaginary sweat, Shu Ren never thought that the mistress was always on guard and would decisively attacked anyone who would approached her.
"Whoa! Hold your horses, it's me Shu Ren." Shu Ren was in his defensive stance and made himself known in a low voice or she might attacked him again.
"Oh? Sorry, I thought it was a flower theft. What are you doing here this early?" Rae Gu was unmindful to his feelings and just looked at Shu Ren indifferently while expertly put the dagger back to its scabbard.
[Flower theft? The hell...] Shu Ren's mouth twitched and now he really wished to strangle his mistress to death.
But he suddenly sense a slight movement outside their room, so he whispered to her,"Shh... There are enemies outside. We need to go."
"Those people are here for us?" Rae Gu was dumbfounded to know that those people were here to find them, she was able to sense them earlier and just ignored it because they had nothing to do with them.
But now, Shu Ren broke the news to her that made Rae Gu's inner ego shouted mournfully, [What messed did i get myself into?]
"Yes Mistress, hurry now, let us escape through the window." Shu Ren urged Rae Gu to hasten up and quickly went to the window to peeked outside and checked if there was no one there.
With no other choice, Rae Gu crept out from her bed and hurriedly followed Shu Ren to the window.
"Can you keep up with me? Or do you need me to carry you?" Shu Ren asked in a low voice.
"No need, I can run myself. Let's Go." Rae Gu skillfully went down on the window from the second floor.
Shu Ren raised his brows and was amazed after seeing his mistress capably climbed down the window without his assistance.
Apparently, his mistress surely knows how to surprised him every time, for sure she was no simple character but instead a crafty one.
[Huang, have good luck on pursuing her.] Shu Ren laughed inwardly. He couldn't wait to see how that prideful Lord would chased his own wife.
Shu Ren then hurriedly followed Rae Gu down, and both of them stealthily ran towards the alley and found a way out of the town.
....
The leader of the pursuer,who was wearing a silver mask was patiently waiting outside the town, he looked towards his subordinates who were approaching him to his position.
"Captain, we haven't found them inside the town." a man with bronze mask bowed his head when he reported.
"Hm. Let's go to the next town. We must find them at all cost." Their Captain nodded his head and went to leaped from tree to tree followed by the others, and completely blended their shadows in the dark.
Shu Ren and Rae Gu was hiding behind the tree not too far from those people. They both breathed a sigh of relief after they saw them gone.
Thankfully, that man sealed his beastly aura, so it would be hard for them to sense their presence, and they will only think that Shu Ren and Rae Gu are human bystanders.
[My Lord, my apologies but i need to hide her existence for now, and i hope you would deal with those traitors as soon as possible, so we can finally go back to your side.] Shu Ren knows that the Lord must've found out that they were together, since the Lord even sent out his personal elite troops, called the Phantom Corps.
The Phantom Corps were personally trained by the Lord, and only the Lord could command them.
"We need to go to a more secured place." Shu Ren face Rae Gu.
"Where can we possibly hide?" Rae Gu furrowed her brows. She can tell that those people were elite, and it'll be hard to hide from them.
"The Onyx City, North from here. It was a place where a human garrison was located." Shu Ren could only thought of that place.
Besides they could also escaped from Huang Ryu, since he wouldn't dare to send his men inside a military post of the humans, or it would only break their treaty and started a war.
"Okay. Let us go then." Rae Gu nodded and also thought that it was also a good plan, as they always said that their enemies would least expect for them to hide within their own territory.
Shu Ren looked at Rae Gu from her head to her toes. "You need to change your clothes first."
"Huh?" Rae Gu looked down and realized that her clothes was change into a new set. She glared at Shu Ren, "You?!"
"Don't worry it's not me, it's the daughter of the physician who change your clothes." Shu Ren answered with dullness.
"Let's go back to the town." his rushing his steps towards the Emerald Town.
"Hmp!" Rae Gu scoffed, but after she confirmed that it was not Shu Ren who change her clothes, her mood lighten, and followed him to the town.
...
After the sun rises, the shops were finally opened. Rae Gu strolled at the busy and boisterous streets with Shu Ren.
Amazed by the liveliness of the people presenting their goods and consumers haggling their prices, Rae Gu's face was plastered with a smile.
It was her first time seeing such an ancient setting of stalls on the streets, unlike those big building of malls that she used to went, this place was more refreshing.
Rae Gu suddenly stop and pointed at a certain restaurant, "I want to eat there." She looked towards Shu Ren like a kid begging for a candy.
Shu Ren followed her sight and saw a restaurant. "Okay."
Hopping towards the store, Rae Gu happily went to the restaurant and looked around to find herself a vacant table to sit on.
When the male attendant saw them, he went to door and politely asked after seeing them dress in a fancy clothing, "Do you have some reservations dear customers?"
"No. We just came to this town. Do we need to asked for a reservation first before we could dine?" Rae Gu asked innocently.
"No no no. Do you perhaps want a private room?" The attendant shook his head and asked.
"Yes please." It was Shu Ren who answered the male attendant this time. As much as possible, he doesn't want bothered while he dine.
"This way please." The male attendant gestured his hand welcomely, and leaded them to the second floor.
Both of them followed the male attendant, and stopped at a certain door.
"Please." The male attendant opened the door and requested them to went inside.
Sitting inside the private room, Rae Gu looked at their menu but bit her lips and looked at Shu Ren with a helpless looked.
She doesn't know what kind of dishes was in their menu, for her, their naming sense was really exaggerated, like the dish called double-cooked wolf ribs, Peking phoenix, and many more, but what she didn't know was that, they were really using those meat to cooked for each dishes.
After seeing her helpless gazed, he wondered if Rae Gu didn't want to eat here anymore and asked her. "You don't want to eat here anymore?"
"Nevermind." Rae Gu sighed and just ordered anything that sounded tasty.
Dish after dish, Rae Gu almost ordered everything in their menu. The male attendant was very delighted to serve such a extravagant customers.
Shu Ren turned agape by her order, "Can you eat everything?"
"Yes, of course." Rae Gu haughtily answered.
Shu Ren speechlessly stared at Rae Gu's petite body and helplessly waved his hand to the attendant, letting him go and prepare their order.
...
Thirty minutes later, the dishes were served one by one.
Rae Gu was famished and couldn't wait to dig in.
Rubbing her hands together, she picked up the chopsticks and took a sample in all dishes.
Rae Gu was munching non-stop until only half of each dishes were left, which made Shu Ren flabbergasted by the sight and just keep on holding his chopsticks without eating.
Seeing him not eating, Rae Gu stopped her eating frenzy state, and asked, "You don't like to eat this? Then i'll just help myself then."
Shu Ren faced turned dark, how could he eat after seeing someone pigging at their food like there's no tomorrow.
"Okay, okay, you go ahead and eat." Shu Ren put down his chopsticks and only drunk his tea. He looked at Rae Gu's flat stomach and thought, [Where the hell did you even put that much food?]
There are clearly 12 dishes on the table and each serving size was good for three person, but now with Rae Gu, all the dishes were cleanly wipe out.