Chapter 1659 — The Might of the Heaven Rank: Bing Tang Seethes — Have I Become Your Wife's Guard? Yet She Must Protect Those Two in the Carriage, One Her Own Sister and One Her Junior Disciple — Both Equally Important.
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They at once sensed that something might be wrong and hurried to the scene. Sure enough, there was no sign of the enemy's corpses — but their own three men had been beheaded and were long since dead beyond doubt.
Seeing this, the leader among them immediately called his superior. Such a thing had happened before, but three men dying at once, all beheaded, was rare indeed!
"Well? Is the mission done?" When the call connected, a gloomy voice came from the other end.
"Brother Neng, the mission failed. All three assassins are dead, beheaded. It looks like they were killed in a single move — judging from the scene, it was at least an Earth Rank adept!" The leader briefly described the situation, without any trace of emotion.
They had seen such things many times. Even assassins had their failures.
"Bring the bodies back," the man called Brother Neng said after a moment's silence, ordering the leader on this end.
"Yes..." The leader hung up, had his men load the corpses into a car in the distance, and quickly left the scene...
By now Wei Zhao and the others were already nearing the territory of the Hidden Tang Family...
"So the Hidden Tang Family invited Tang Zhi's family entirely because of you — they want to latch onto you, Bing Tang, the Ice Palace Mistress?" Arriving before the main gate of the Hidden Tang Family, Wei Zhao looked at the imposing, grand estate, stopped the car, and asked.
"What do you mean, latch onto me? That sounds so crude!" Bing Tang's face flushed slightly, and she said in annoyance, "Could you watch your mouth a little?"
"As long as you get the meaning," Wei Zhao said with a shrug.
"More or less." Bing Tang was so exasperated by Wei Zhao that she had no temper left and nodded. "But from what I see now, Father and Mother don't much care for the Hidden Tang Family, and neither does Auntie. So I'll have to reconsider how the Ice Palace and the Hidden Tang Family stand with each other."
"That's up to you. I've no fondness for them either way." Toward a family that had nearly thrown Tang Zhi away, Wei Zhao felt a deep-seated dislike. If Tang Zhi had not been switched out by Uncle Da back then, she might well have frozen to death in the snow!
On this matter, Wei Zhao still felt somewhat guilty toward the Heaven Rank girl. After all, she had suffered in Tang Zhi's place. If not for her Pseudo Ice-Heart Jade-Bone constitution, she might have frozen to death as well — and there would be no Ice Palace Mistress today!
"Let's see what Father and Mother mean to do first," Bing Tang said with a nod.
"You go in. Tang Zhi, Xiaoxiao, and I won't be staying here — we'll stay at a hotel outside. What day is the birthday banquet? I'll come by then." Wei Zhao had no fondness for the Hidden Tang Family and naturally did not want to stay on their territory.
"The day after tomorrow. There may be a great many guests." Bing Tang said, "If you don't want to stay here, then so be it."
Bing Tang did not press the matter. To be honest, if her present identity were not that of the Ice Palace's master, she might well have thrown a tantrum and refused to give the Hidden Tang Family the time of day. But since the Ice Palace had chosen the Hidden Tang Family as its eyes and ears, she could only maintain this relationship for the time being.