Can a System Have Bad Intentions? - Chapter 181

The Crown Prince watched as Gu Zongming pointed at his woman and cursed, saying such horrible things, and his face turned green in an instant.

“What are you waiting for? Do you want to wait until this man rebels and kills the emperor before you act? Seize this insolent dog!”

With an angry roar from the Crown Prince, the Imperial Guards behind him stepped forward in unison.

Gu Zongming let out a furious roar. He was bewildered himself, breathing heavily, stumbling backward. He wanted to explain something.

But the voices and images in his head wouldn’t stop.

The ridiculous plots made him feel nauseous.

The crazy man Lu Tang imagined was now preparing to cut out someone’s heart.

Damn it!

Gu Zongming had done all sorts of immoral things in his life, but he never thought he could encounter something this depraved.

Unable to endure the mad inner voice any longer, Gu Zongming, swaying unsteadily, grabbed a long sword from a nearby attendant and slashed at Lu Tang, “You die!”

He suddenly erupted, causing Lu Tang to jump and dodge. The Crown Prince, who had already leaped into the fray, kicked Gu Zongming away.

Gu Zongming’s attendants immediately caught their master. A group of guards, who had been hiding in the villa, drew their swords and confronted the Crown Prince’s Imperial Guards.

The Crown Prince, with a cold face, shielded the Crown Princess and Lu Tang behind him, glaring at Gu Zongming, “Are you rebelling?”

Having learned much through Lu Tang’s inner thoughts, Gu Zongming knew that even if he didn’t break off relations now, they wouldn’t let him off easily. Given this, why should he pretend to be submissive?

Gu Zongming, struggling to ignore the chaotic noises in his head, commanded, “Kill them all, leave no one alive!”

With his chilling order, the guards around him attacked with ruthless efficiency, revealing themselves to be trained assassins. The Imperial Guards couldn’t withstand their onslaught.

Fortunately, both the Crown Prince and Crown Princess had their own secret guards.

Lu Tang…

Qin Mo had also assigned her two secret guards, but they had never shown themselves before.

The battle quickly escalated, but despite the skills of the secret guards, they were outnumbered and gradually lost the upper hand.

【Host Daddy, save me, I’m suffocating. They put me in what seems to be a coffin and buried me.】

【Host Daddy, can you hear me?】

【Wuwuwu】

【System detecting new task, please check the details.】

【Please complete the task of Picking Flowers and earn the title of Flower Thief.】

Lu Tang: …

You’re suffocating in a coffin, and you want me to pick flowers? Wait, picking flowers?

Could it mean the coffin is buried under the flowerbed?

The fight became more intense. The Crown Prince, with a grim face, wielded his sword, planning to have the Crown Princess and Lu Tang retreat when possible.

However, as he turned around, he saw the two women each holding a hoe, jumping into a flowerbed.

The flowerbed was surrounded by a fence. The Crown Princess, lifting her skirt and jumping over the fence, looked exactly like the days when they used to skip school together to eat snail noodles.

However, Gu Zongming, able to hear Lu Tang’s thoughts, was enraged and shouted venomously, “Kill those two first!”

In the villa, two men dressed as servants, armed with long swords, charged at Lu Tang and the Crown Princess.

At this moment, the Crown Prince realized he had no idea how many people Gu Zongming had hidden in this villa.

Even if his men could defeat the current attackers, how many more waves were there?

No chance of winning, the best strategy was to escape.

At that moment, a thunderous noise came from outside.

It sounded like divine thunder, shaking the ground.

This sudden noise drew everyone’s attention.

The secret guards of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess clashed with the attackers aiming to kill them.

In the distance, the thunderous noise approached, followed by a cloud of yellow dust.

Everyone: !?

In the swirling dust, Lu Tang squinted. Why did it look so familiar?

It looked just like the scene of a stampede they had staged in Yuhang during a play.

“Heaven King Covers the Earth Tiger!”

Guo Dawei’s loud voice came from the other side of the dust.

Lu Tang: Damn it!

She grabbed the Crown Princess and ran, shouting, “Get out of the way!”

Zhou Shu and the others had somehow gathered a herd of horses. The horses’ tails were tied with long whips, and as the firecrackers went off, the frightened horses charged wildly.

There weren’t thousands of horses, but the sudden chaos was enough to create a distraction for those needing to escape, like the outnumbered Crown Prince and his people.

“How did you get here?”

“When the Sixth Princess found the Third Princess, she was at our inn talking with Fourth Princess and Xu Shen about setting up a drama troupe. Xu Shen wanted to start a theater troupe, and he hit it off with Fourth Princess. Once we heard you were here, how could we stay put? We rushed over.”

Zhou Shu eagerly explained.

“And where did you get these horses?”

Liang Cheng and Xu Shen said simultaneously, “The villa had them.”

Lu Tang: ?

You found them in such a short time?

Er Bao squeezed through the crowd, proudly shouting, “I found them.”

Lu Tang: ?

“You came too? How did you know there were horses here?”

Er Bao replied, “My brother mentioned it in a letter. He said there was a wealthy family in the Western Mountains with many horses. He even drew a map of their estate for me, marking where the horses were kept.”

Lu Tang: …

It wasn’t just Xu Shen and the others who had arrived. The Sixth Princess and her personal guards had also come.

No matter how skilled the assassins or secret guards were, facing battle-hardened soldiers, especially those personally led by the Sixth Princess, the tide quickly turned.

【Host Daddy, the task is about to end. Please complete the task within the specified time.】

The system’s voice suddenly reappeared, and Lu Tang instinctively froze.

The voice sounded off?

But there was no time to think about it now. She urgently said, “Quick, dig up that flowerbed. Someone might be buried underneath.”

Before, it had just been the Crown Princess and Lu Tang. Now, with many hands at work, the task was much easier.

However, despite turning the large garden upside down, they couldn’t find the coffin.

【Host Daddy, the task failed. Awaiting punishment task.】

“You think you can find someone? Dream on. Without me, you won’t find anything!” Gu Zongming had been captured by the Sixth Princess, now bound and furious. He glared at Lu Tang with fierce eyes.