The blue steel blade of the dagger shimmered as it pricked through the fair and smooth skin of her throat, eliciting a slight dribble of blood as the cold and sharp edge of the steel threatened to slice deeper inside to claim her life.

Clank!

The curved dagger was flung out of Lan Yingying's grasp.

"What do you think you're doing? Trying to escape all this mess that you've wrought upon my student by seeking death?" Li Mu uttered with frost. ...