Standing atop a tree, gazing at the boats searching the river in the distance, Zheng Dan sighed softly, "It seems we should head back."

Zuan nodded. Although those people were still some distance away, it was only a matter of time before they found this place: "Are those people from the Giant Whale Gang or from Bright Moon City?"

Zheng Dan shook his head: "It shouldn't be the Giant Whale Gang. The Giant Whale Gang doesn't wear this kind of clothing. Judging from the looks of it, it should be..."

As the leader of the Giant Whale Gang, she naturally knew how to distinguish between these things.

Seeing her hesitant manner, Zu An laughed and asked, "Is it Sang Qian's river defense battalion?"

Zheng Dan's face darkened, and she hummed in agreement.

"Looks like this guy actually cares about you quite a bit," Zuan couldn't help but remark.

Zheng Dan's expression was somewhat complicated: "He has always treated me quite well."

Zuan: "..."

"Why does what you're saying make us sound like adulterers?"

"Pah!" Zheng Dan spat, her cheeks instantly flushing red. "How can you talk about yourself like that?"

Zuan laughed and said, "Alright then, let's pack up and go back."

Having been missing for so long, I wonder how worried the academy and the Chu family are.

Zheng Dan nodded and jumped down from the tree with a light touch of her toes.

Actually, there wasn't much to pack. I had fled in a hurry while being chased and didn't bring any luggage.

The only thing left to deal with is that pile of red dragon treasure.

"How can we possibly carry all this stuff?" Zheng Dan asked, looking at the piles of gold and silver jewelry before her.

Zuan smiled slightly: "No need to worry."

Arriving before the piles of treasure, he channeled his spiritual power, silently chanted "collect," and the glittering treasure vanished instantly.

"A spatial artifact!" Zheng Dan exclaimed, her face suddenly flushing red. "No wonder I couldn't find those IOUs and banknotes on you before. So you had something like this, which caused me..."

Zuan embraced her waist, which was even more supple than a willow branch, and kissed her hard on the cheek: "If we didn't do this, where would our destiny come from?"

"What a terrible fate~" Zheng Dan snorted, but finally couldn't stand his hands touching her all over her body. Her face turned red and she turned to leave.

Zuan laughed and followed him out.

"By the way, I heard that dragons are vengeful creatures. You emptied its house, will it come after you in the future?" Zheng Dan couldn't help but ask after they came out of the cave.

"Don't worry, that dragon isn't coming back." Zuan smiled slightly.

Zheng Dan's expression changed slightly: "It seems you do indeed have a super expert by your side."

The Sang family had assigned her this task before, but they didn't expect to find out about it in this way. The price they paid was quite high.

Zuan couldn't help but say, "Couldn't I have killed him?"

"You're such a braggart," Zheng Dan spat. "Don't worry, I won't tell the Sang family."

She naturally didn't believe that Zuan had the ability to kill such a terrifying dragon, and besides, there was no corpse of the dragon, so it must have been driven away by the powerful people around him.

To be able to defeat such a terrifying dragon, just how high was that expert's cultivation level?

She had always been confident that the Zheng family would replace the Chu family, since the Chu family was going against the tide. But with such a top expert helping them, the outcome was really uncertain.

He subconsciously wanted to win Zu'an over to the Zheng family, but then he remembered his engagement to Sang Qian, sighed inwardly, and ultimately didn't speak.

"What's wrong?" Sensing her sadness, Zu'an took her hand.

"It's nothing." Zheng Dan forced a smile, then suddenly realized something and hurriedly asked, "Since that powerful figure is with you, then these past few days...we...haven't we been seen by him?"

Thinking about her dissolute behavior these past few days, she was so ashamed that she almost wanted to crawl into a hole. She didn't mind showing her passionate side in front of Zuan.

But when others saw her, she was so ashamed she wanted to disappear.

"Don't worry, no one saw it," Zu'an reassured her somewhat guiltily. Besides, the Empress is a woman, so it wouldn't matter if she saw it.

Speaking of Mi Li, she's quite the cunning one. She said she was going to sleep, but she still secretly watched.

After some comforting, Zheng Dan gradually calmed down.

"Wait a minute~" After walking for a while, Zheng Dan suddenly turned around and ran back to the cave.

Zuan looked puzzled, wondering what she was up to. But when he followed her, he discovered that she was cleaning up the places where the two of them had slept before.

The messy straw was tidied up, and finally she even mobilized the water element to wash everything clean.

Zuan: "..."

Zheng Dan rubbed the hem of her clothes somewhat embarrassedly: "It would be a bit embarrassing if someone found out."

Zuan found it hard to reconcile the shy young girl in front of him with the fiery and unrestrained beauty from just a few days ago.

As the two descended the mountain, when they were about a hundred meters away from the officials, Zheng Dan suddenly grabbed Zu An: "Zu, you shouldn't come with me."

"Are you worried about your fiancé finding out?" Zuan said with a smile.

Zheng Dan hurriedly explained, "No, it's not that. The main problem is that Sang Qian is narrow-minded and has long been dissatisfied with you. Now that we're in the middle of nowhere and there's no one else around, it would be troublesome if he decided to kill you."

Zu An thought about it and realized it made sense. The surrounding area was full of the Sangqian River Defense Camp's men, and it was deserted. That guy might really have murderous intentions.

"Alright then, take care of yourself." Zuan said goodbye to her reluctantly.

Zheng Dan suddenly threw herself into his arms, stood on tiptoe and gave him a passionate kiss, and they parted after a long while.

"Dan'er, is that you over there?" Sang Qian's voice called out from afar.

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