A little winter wind, accompanied by dead branches, makes people feel cold.

"Miss, please wake up, please don't be in any trouble!"

A maid was kneeling in front of a bright red skirt, calling out to the woman in front of her whose face was covered in blood, crying very sadly.

The woman who fell to the ground had picturesque features, slanted eyebrows that fell into her temples, and a high nose bridge. Even in such a miserable state, it could not conceal her cold and beautiful temperament.

Mu Yan just felt dizzy, and a familiar yet unfamiliar voice came to her ears. She tried hard to slowly open her eyes.

"Miss, you finally woke up!" A familiar face appeared in front of Mu Yan.

"Shi Ying?"

Didn't she die three years ago?

Shi Ying was a maid who had served her since childhood. She grew up with her and was loyal to her.

Three years ago, Mu Yan was ordered to lead the Yanyun Army to the southwest to suppress bandits. A few months later, Shi Ying was betrothed by Liu to a shopkeeper who specialized in managing a shop for the Mu family as his second wife.

Just three months after Shi Ying got married, she announced to the public that she had died of illness. When Mu Yan returned, only a cold tombstone was left.

But later on we learnt that this man, though gentle and polite on the surface, was actually a beast in private, and Shi Ying was persecuted to death by him.

But what is happening now?

Mu Yan stood up and sat up. The numb feeling disappeared, leaving only a slight pain on her face. She raised her hands, and the fingers that were deformed by torture were gone, leaving her hands clean and slender.

She frowned slightly.

Is this a nightmare?

Shi Ying saw that her young lady remained silent for a long time and looked worried.

"Miss, does the wound on your face hurt?"

Mu Yan came back to her senses from the screams, and she found a stinging pain on her face. She looked around and found that she was being besieged by a group of bandits. There were corpses all around her, and only a woman in black was left struggling to resist. The scene before her was very familiar, as if it had happened before.

She suddenly realized something!

Could it be that God had mercy on her, that not only did she not die, but she also returned to the age of fifteen.

In her previous life, Mu Yan had a serious illness. Her grandfather, Han Zhen, the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, felt sorry for his granddaughter and took her to raise her.

After more than a year, Mu Yan's body recovered, so her father sent someone to take her back to Beijing.

When they were still more than ten miles away from the capital, a group of bandits appeared out of nowhere, not only robbing all their property, but also killing almost everyone. Fortunately, she and Shi Ying pretended to be dead and saved their lives. Her face was also destroyed by the bandits' hacking, which was the beginning of her nightmare.

In her previous life, she was infatuated with the wrong person and died after being humiliated. In this life, she must protect her loved ones and herself, and make those who hurt her pay with blood.

call out--

"Ling Yu, be careful!"

A hidden weapon flew towards the woman in black. Mu Yan shouted loudly and at the same time, pulled out the pearl hairpin on her head and used her internal energy to smash the hairpin towards the hidden weapon.

"Oh!"

The hidden weapon and the pearl hairpin fell to the ground at the same time.

Fortunately, in this life, Ling Yu did not die for saving her. Ling Yu was the maid carefully selected by her grandfather for her. She had practiced martial arts since childhood. In the previous life, Ling Yu died because of being hit by a poisonous hidden weapon while protecting her this time.

At this time, a bandit noticed Mu Yan and picked up a long knife to chop at them. Mu Yan stretched out her hand to push Shi Ying away, and quickly leaned back to avoid the attack of the long knife.

When the bandit saw that his sword had missed his target, he retaliated and raised his sword again, swinging it at her with even more force than last time.

Upon seeing this, Mu Yan raised her right leg high and kicked the bandit's wrist, then quickly turned around and used her left leg to hit him hard in the side of the face.

When the bandit felt pain, Mu Yan took the opportunity to snatch the long knife from his hand.

Seeing this, the other bandits gathered around Mu Yan.

In the critical moment, Mu Yan's murderous aura was fully released, like an evil ghost from hell. The long sword in her hand swept out like a dragon. Amid the flashes of swords and shadows, all her moves were killing moves. In just a moment, all the weapons of the bandits were knocked down.

Then she lightly picked up the long knife on the ground with her toes, turned her ankle slightly and swung it forward with force. The tip of the long knife seemed to have eyes and smashed towards the bandits' chest. In just a blink of an eye, several bandits vomited blood and fell to the ground dead.

Seeing this, the remaining bandits looked at each other for a moment, then turned around and fled. But Mu Yan would not give them a chance. She moved like a ghost and her feet were as fast as the wind. She quickly rushed behind several bandits, raised her long knife, and attacked without mercy.

The last two bandits were so frightened upon seeing this that they dared not run away. They burst into tears, their legs and feet went weak, and they knelt on the ground begging for mercy.

"Lady, please spare me! Lady, please spare me!"

"Lady, spare my life! Please be so kind as to spare my life and let me go. I promise that I will never do anything that harms the world again."

Mu Yan's eyes were filled with mystery. He put a knife on the neck of a bandit and asked in a dangerous and vicious voice.

"Tell me, who sent you here?"

Generally, bandits would not choose to rob officials, and after robbing their property, they would not kill all of them unless necessary, so as to avoid attracting the wrath of the imperial court and causing them to send officials and troops to encircle and suppress them.

Moreover, when Mu Yan was fighting with them, he found that these bandits were ruthless in their attacks and it was obvious that they wanted lives more than money. They must have been instructed by someone.

A bandit's eyes were erratic, and he replied in a coy voice: "My dear lady, we are not ordered by anyone. We are just tempted by the money. If we knew you were so good at martial arts, we would not rob you even if we had eight hundred guts!"

Mu Yan was too lazy to waste any more words with him. Her black feather-like eyelashes trembled slightly, and a cold light flashed in her eyes. She raised her hand and swung her knife. The bandit's head fell to the ground instantly. Blood splattered on her body, and a bloody smell emanated from her whole body.

"what--"

The bandit's head rolled to Shi Ying's feet, frightening her so much that she turned pale and screamed instantly.

The next second, she realized that she had lost her composure and covered her mouth with both hands, but a trace of fear still flashed in her eyes.

There was a flash of surprise in Ling Yu's eyes, but she quickly recovered.

Mu Yan ignored the two of them and put the knife to the neck of the last bandit. She moved her knife-holding hand closer to the neck, and blood instantly flowed out. The bandit, who was not a hero to begin with, was immediately frightened and crawled on the ground wailing.

"Lady, spare my life. I'll tell you, I'll tell you!"

"Three days ago, our boss met a woman in her forties or fifties who was dressed very elegantly when he was in the capital. She was extremely generous."

"After the woman left, the boss handed us a portrait of the girl and ordered us to intercept a carriage with the Mu family logo here today. When we see the woman in the portrait, we must kill her immediately."

The bandit recalled very seriously, fearing that he had missed something.

"What does the woman look like?"

"I really don't know. When the woman came, she was wearing a veil, so I couldn't see her face. You also know that we are doing this for money. As long as we receive money, why would we care who she is?"

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