His Rui

General Li did come to talk to Xi Ying about the same thing he had thought. However, he first talked about what Xi Ying did inside the cave. 

"Prime Minister Xi, how could you ask me to talk in front of Li Rui when you knew clearly what I was going to talk about to you?"

The middle-aged General was clearly seething with anger.

Since childhood, he had not let his daughter know that she was in constant danger of being killed by someone and he wanted to let it that way.

According to General Li, living a life with a constant fear of being killed could anyone insane and he didn't want his daughter to experience such feelings.

It would be better to protect her silently for him.   

However, Xi Ying's face didn't change even a little at General Li's question as he told the middle-aged general.

"She already knows it, General Li."

General Li looked confused for a moment and then frowned.

"What do you mean by that?" 

"Rui already knows that attack was meant for her. She also knows that someone is trying to take her life."

Xi Ying's fists were clenched as he spat out these words.

Every time he said or thought about this matter, he would feel his heart burning in a fire. His Rui…she was also snatched away from him because of that person in his last life.

General Li, on the other hand, was very shocked after hearing Xi Ying's words. 

"Who told her? Is it you?"

Xi Ying smiled coldly at General Li's question and enlightened him indifferently.

"She is an intelligent woman, unlike your wife."

General Li's eyes went red after hearing Xi Ying's words and he whispered darkly

"Prime Minister Xi, it would be better if you will not drag my wife in our conversation again in the future."

Xi Ying ignored General Li words completely and continued what he wanted to say.

Actually, General Li was doing the same mistake he did. In his overprotectiveness, he tried to hide everything from Li Rui something his wife didn't like even a bit, and hence they had a cluster of misunderstandings between them.

But there was a difference between Li Rui and her mother.

Li Rui was intelligent enough to find out when a person is lying or speaking truth. She has a good understanding of human nature but Yi Jie, on the other hand was too naïve.

In Xi Ying's eyes, the woman of that kind could be called dumb also. The only good thing about them was that their heart was clean from any malice.

Realizing that his thoughts were drifting far away, he composed himself and told General Li what he had wanted to say.

"After too many attacks that had happened on her, Rui is not stupid to not understand what is going on."

Since the first attack when Li Mei had died, Li Rui knew that someone else other than Princess Wenling was trying to kill her.

It was not something that Xi Ying told her. It was something she and Yi Junjie had found out themselves.

General Li's face was grim as he heard the new revelation and asked

"Too many attacks …Has she been attacked before also in these four years also?"

When Xi Ying just stared at General Li silently for a few moments, General Li got his answer and his face went grimmer.

His daughter was attacked again but he didn't even know about it.

Xi Ying didn't feel any sympathy for General Li as he enlightened him more.

"Last night, it was the third time she was attacked in the past four years. The first time was when you were at borders, General Li. Rui would …"

Xi Ying took a deep breath to complete his words. Even saying something like this about Li Rui pained him so much.

"I would have lost my wife if it had not been her maid, Li Mei who sacrificed her life to save her in the first attack."

  "Li Mei is dead?"

General Li's face went pale as he whispered his question.

Regardless of how shocked General Li was, Xi Ying continued

"In the second attack, it was Li Hua who saved her and got wounded and in the third attack, fortunately, I was there otherwise…"

"But you also got injured."

General Li interrupted Xi Ying for the first time and completed his words. 

Xi Ying frowned and wanted to correct General Li. He was not injured by those enemy shadow guards. The wound was something that he himself didn't know how came on his body. But he knew that it must have been related to his dreams from last night.

According to him, the man in white clothes who called himself God of Destiny instilled it in him.

However, he couldn't tell General Li all that.

General Li, on the other hand, had completely different concerns as he whispered

"I thought that she will be completely safe with you."       

General Li's heart was sinking with every passing moment.

He married his daughter to a man who despised her just for the sake of her safety but he seemed to have thought wrong.

Last night, even Xi Ying got wounded while protecting his daughter.

Anything could happen to her while Xi Ying was unconscious.

Xi Ying understood General Li's concerns completely after he heard his words and his face went emotionless.

A moment later, he heard General Li saying more outrageous words.     

"The three attacks …they happened when Li Rui was out of Xi Manor. Why did you let her out of Xi Manor? You should not have done that after I had told you that her life is in danger."

Xi Ying's narrowed for an infinitesimal second before he chuckled coldly and said

"So you want me to cage her in my Manor just like you did with her for fourteen years?"

Seeing General Li going silent, Xi Ying was very angry and continued

"I will not even apologize to you, General Li but I will never do that. Li Rui is my wife. She should not have any fear when she goes out of Xi Manor and I will make sure of that."

After he snatched every power from Zhao Wang Lei then that sick Emperor would not be able to attack Li Rui again.

General Li just scoffed seeing Xi Ying's confidence and asked 

"And how will you do that?" 

What he meant was that Xi Ying didn't even know who was behind those attacks so how could he do what he was saying.

However, he had just finished his words, when a soft and calm voice called out General Li.

"Father"