Chapter 13 Hooking the Warrior
After we meshed well, I officially began work as cook, maid, and Spy.
We followed the same road as Diaochan, centering on sowing discord between father and son. Seduce the son first, then the father, tailoring every move.
We rolled up our sleeves and vowed to conquer Hechi next year and make Yin Xiu Empress Dowager within five years.
Su Chengyu spread word that Yin Xiu would visit Anfu Temple on the first day of the month.
We waited for “Lü Bu” to take the bait.
Herdanba, the Hechi King’s adopted son and an unmatched genius warrior of the grasslands, had made Hechi bold enough to invade the south.
Su Chengyu had arranged for them to glimpse each other on the grasslands before. Herdanba lusted after her beauty and followed her all the way to the southern border.
Following the rule of keeping a man dangling, Su Chengyu locked Yin Xiu away for three months. Herdanba looked frantic like a monkey with a burned backside.
He could not storm an official villa, so he posted men to watch every day.
Finally the beauty emerged. We were intercepted on the road exactly as planned.
A dozen riders circled our carriage.
Herdanba shouted for the delicate passenger to come out, share wine, and let him taste her lips.
I knelt beside the carriage, trembling on cue.
Yin Xiu softened her face, lifted the curtain slowly, eyes dewy and brows full of sorrow.
If I had not known her real profession, I would have believed the woman who had gnawed apples with me earlier had been possessed.
Professionals truly changed faces faster than anything.
Herdanba proved himself a starving ghost of lust. Seeing no southern guards, he reached straight for her.
Yin Xiu played the chaste maiden and struggled. I pressed down on her skirt hem at the right moment.
The beauty twisted her silver waist and “accidentally” fell into the barbarian’s arms.
Herdanba groped her several times. His laughter grew wilder.
Then Yin Xiu changed her tone. She looked up with teary eyes and cried out.
“You are… You are the benefactor who saved me that day?”