I'm competing with the male lead for a woman[GL]

Chapter 167: Who are you?

Inside the Liuli Palace.

Liu Er followed Liu Tianya and entered the main hall.

Sheathed his blood-stained sword and bowed to the person on the seat, reporting, "Reporting to Ninth Princess, we have captured Su Fu and brought him here. He is currently waiting outside the hall. As soon as you give the order, we can take care of him."

The woman referred to as the Ninth Princess by Liu Er didn't immediately respond.

Bathed in the light coming in from outside, she played with a pristine and lustrous white jade finger ring.

It seemed like she was earnestly engaged in a game, furrowing her brows, completely ignoring the two who entered the hall waiting for her response.

Su Tan stood under a palace lamp and couldn't help but cough lightly.

The person on the seat gradually regained her senses.

She pinched the jade finger ring and threaded it with a fine red thread. With a twist of her wrist, she put it away in her sleeve.

"Bring him in."

Liu Er received the order and exited.

When he reentered the hall, he had a hemp rope in his hand and dragged the bound Su Fu, who was completely tied up, from outside.

The translucent Liuli floor revealed a crimson line.

Su Fu was thrown to the ground by Liu Er, a cloth stuffed in his mouth. He widened his eyes in fear as he looked at Chu Shao on the high seat and Su Tan standing beside her.

The demeanor and elegance he had as a noble prince had long disappeared. The incoherent sobbing from his mouth was like the struggling of a dying beast trapped in a cage.

The white robe brushed over the Liuli bricks, leaving behind a dark shadow.

Chu Shao descended the steps and stood in front of Su Fu.

With slightly lowered eyes, she looked at him, her voice still as gentle as ever. "Yesterday, you wanted to kill me."

It was a tone of absolute certainty, without any room for doubt.

Su Fu looked up at Chu Shao, his eyes rounder than the night pearls placed in the hall.

He knew that a great disaster was about to befall him and struggled and sobbed even more urgently, as if trying to say something, to explain it to Chu Shao.

Chu Shao paid no attention and continued, "You sent assassins not only to kill me but also to kill Su Tan."

"By killing us, you can free yourself from the constraints of Chu Yu's last words and continue to control Xinyao, becoming the ruler of your own Yao Country."

"Am I right in what I said?"

Anyone with eyes could see that Su Fu's mouth was gagged with a cloth, making it impossible for him to answer Chu Shao's question.

However, Chu Shao frowned slightly. "Why aren't you answering me?"

Liu Er thought Chu Shao wanted Su Fu to reply and was about to step forward to remove the cloth covering his mouth.

But before Liu Er could take a step, the sound of a sword being unsheathed echoed through the hall.

The sword's edge emerged, silver and bright, piercing deeply into Su Fu's shoulder.

Blood sprayed like a fountain.

Chu Shao looked at the splattering blood, seemingly indifferent.

With a twist of her wrist, she drove the blade deeper and asked softly, "Why aren't you answering?"