Chapter 48 It's Better If You Die

Xie Mianmian ran frantically while looking back, and unexpectedly bumped into something soft.

The woman was chatting and laughing with someone when her wine glass was accidentally knocked over by a child. The liquid spilled onto her skirt, staining it with a bloody red stain.

The woman exclaimed in surprise, but the next moment she was amused by the man accompanying her and laughed heartily.

Xie Mianmian had no choice but to continue running in circles around the crowd. No one paid any attention to her. The child felt a little desperate, as if she were being strangely isolated.

The child who fled in a disheveled state seemed to exist in a different time and space from the people indulging in extravagance, without interfering with each other.

"No one will save me," Xie Mianmian thought.

The child, exhausted, staggered and was about to fall forward.

A pair of hands appeared, put their arms around Xie Mianmian's shoulders, and then pulled her wrists to run forward.

She recognized those hands because they had saved her from fire countless times.

Xie Mianmian looked at the newcomer with surprise and delight. It was the Seventh Prince!

She looked back, ignoring the strange man, and saw Eunuch Li pushing and shoving his way through the crowd.

"I'm saved," the child thought happily.

But Eunuch Li hadn't arrived yet, and the strange man was relentlessly pursuing them.

So the seventh prince grabbed the child and ran upstairs to the second floor, pushed open a dark and empty room, and hid inside.

"Huff huff~" Xie Mianmian supported herself on her knees, breathing heavily. Even though she was in so much pain, she still managed to talk to the Seventh Prince.

"Seventh Prince, you're amazing! You always manage to find Mianmian." The child looked at him with sparkling eyes.

"Who told you to always run around like that?"

Do you know how dangerous that was? Do you know how hard it was to find her? What kind of veterinarian is as disobedient as her? The Seventh Prince glared angrily at the child.

Just then, the voices of a man and a woman came from outside the door, as if they were about to enter the room.

The Seventh Prince quickly pulled Xie Mianmian into a cabinet and closed the door tightly.

"Squeak~" Someone came in and then closed the door. The person did not light a lamp, and the room remained dark.

"I've missed you so much, give this old man a kiss first." A slightly greasy middle-aged man's voice rang out.

Then came the indescribable kissing sounds.

The seventh prince, his face dark, tightly covered the child's ears.

"Oh dear, Vice Envoy Zhang, what about my brother's ship..." a woman said coquettishly, nestled in the man's arms.

"It's a small matter. Let him pass. With me here, no one will dare to check his boat. Come on, have another one!"

Hearing this conversation, the two children looked at each other.

Vice Envoy Zhang and the ship... that sounds like my father's men," Xie Mianmian gestured with her eyes.

"What, can't even my hands cover your ears properly?" The Seventh Prince looked at the child with annoyance.

Just then, a loud banging came from outside the door.

A fierce female voice rang out, "I know you're in there, get the hell out here right now!"

"Oh no, your wife is here! Hide! Quick! Don't let her find you!" Vice Envoy Zhang pushed the woman away from his arms and told her to hide quickly.

Hearing the cursing outside the door, the woman rummaged through drawers and cabinets looking for a place to hide.

As they approached the cabinet, the two children clung tightly to the cabinet door.

The woman left without pulling it open, and then hurriedly hid behind the veil.

Deputy Envoy Zhang coughed a few times, straightened his clothes, opened the door, and said, "What are you yelling about? Don't I have any dignity?"

"You want to save face when you're out on a date? Pshaw, you get all the good things."

"I just came in to rest because I was drunk, you're overthinking it."

The noisy sounds outside the door gradually faded away.

The room fell silent.

The two children couldn't help but hold their breath.

"Ha!" A woman's delicate, cold snort came from the side.

Then came the sound of light footsteps, and the woman left.

The two children breathed a huge sigh of relief.

After a moment of silence, the Seventh Prince said, "I'm going to find someone. You stay here quietly and wait for me to return, understand?"

He needed to ask his elder brother, the Crown Prince, for two guards. Xie Mianmian couldn't show her face yet; if that strange man discovered her, he wouldn't be able to protect her.

Xie Mianmian nodded obediently. There were strange people outside who ate children, so how could she dare to run around?

Soon, the Seventh Prince also left.

The room fell silent again.

With a loud "bang!", the door was suddenly pushed open.

"Hehehe, you've hidden yourself well, divine deer! This top scholar is coming to find you!"

Upon hearing that familiar voice, Xie Mianmian's heart skipped a beat, and she covered her mouth with both hands, her breathing becoming rapid.

The strange man staggered over, slowly opened the cabinet door next to him, then suddenly turned around and bent down to peer under the table.

He seemed to sigh with regret when he found no trace of the child.

The strange man gradually became impatient, and his movements became faster and faster.

I heard the cabinet door opening and closing with a bang right next to me.

It felt as if the cabinet door where the child was hiding would be opened at any moment, and then the child would be face to face with the strange man.

Thinking of this, Xie Mianmian felt a chill. The child mustered up her courage, gently pushed open the cabinet door, and then quickly hid under the table.

The strange man caught sight of the child out of the corner of his eye and burst into laughter, "Found you!"

He shouted loudly.

The child under the table could only see his messy steps circling around it. Wherever the strange man's feet went, Xie Mianmian's eyes followed.

Suddenly, the strange man fell silent, and the room became deathly quiet. Xie Mianmian took a deep breath, feeling a sense of foreboding.

Suddenly, a pale and terrifying face peered in from behind, its voice eerie, "Hehe, found you."

"Ah!" Xie Mianmian was so frightened that she quickly crawled in the opposite direction of the strange man.

A hand gripped her foot tightly, and feeling the restraint, the child kicked her leg back desperately.

Those little feet that once kicked Xie Huaijin's chest, almost making him vomit blood, are now kicking haphazardly at the strange man's head and shoulders.

"Ah!" The strange man let go of his hand, clutching his head in pain.

Xie Mianmian quickly got up, looked at him warily across the table, and tried to run out of the room.

To everyone's surprise, the man covered his head and stood in front of the child, pressing closer and closer.

Xie Mianmian slowly backed away.

The person spoke, their voice gentle, "Wouldn't it be better to just let me eat you up? That would be a worthy death."

The child, recalling the shrew's curses, opened his mouth and spat out only one word: "Pah!"

She added viciously, "You're shameless!"

Gradually, Xie Mianmian retreated to the balcony, her back touching the railing, with dark buildings behind her.

"If you come any closer, I'll jump!" the child threatened.

The man's eyes lit up. "It would be even better if he fell to his death, then I could devour the flesh and blood of the divine deer raw, hehehehe."

After saying that, the man lunged at him, and the child stubbornly pushed him away.

Before she knew it, Xie Mianmian was pushed backward. She reached out but couldn't grab anything, and her small figure fell backward.