Gu Liyan remained silent, glancing at Mo Chen in a gesture of respect. Mo Chen nodded in understanding, moving to stand in front of Gu Liyan and then moving around to face Qingge.

"Your Highness, this hide-and-seek game is so boring! We've been hiding for ages and no cat has caught us, but instead..."

Mo Chen raised the black cat in his hand for Qing Ge to see, "On the contrary, we caught the most powerful cat king!"

Qingge glared at Mo Chen, "You mean us? Mo Han is here too! I will absolutely not allow either of you to come to Weilong Kingdom and act so arrogantly!"

Mo Chen chuckled. "Your Highness, you are just a princess. This Weilong Kingdom has a ruler. It's impossible for you to have the final say in everything, is it?"

Qingge retorted angrily, "The Weilong Kingdom was established with my support, so naturally it is up to me to decide!"

Mo Chen glanced at Gu Liyan, who had remained silent and had not shown himself behind Qing Ge, and said, "Stop threatening me. Let me tell you, we're only here to participate in the competition because of Gu Liyan. If he hadn't begged us to help you, do you think we would have wanted to come?"

Qingge gritted her teeth and said, "I don't need his pretense! Even without him and without your help, I can still accomplish the great task of unifying the country!"

Mo Chen opened his mouth as if to say something, but didn't. He saw Gu Liyan's dejected look behind him and felt a pang of sympathy.

"So you... took his feelings for you as just pretense?" Gu Liyan's voice was that of Mo Han, which surprised Mo Chen greatly.

Without hesitation, Qingge said, "That's right! I never begged him to save me, yet you all acted like I owed him a lifetime of debt. Do you think I wanted anything to do with him? It was all his own doing..."

"Enough! Shut up!" Mo Chen snapped, seeing Gu Liyan's increasingly gloomy expression.

"Let her continue!" Gu Liyan said, enunciating each word clearly.

"Hmph, Gu Liyan is just being wishful! He brought this on himself!" Qingge choked up as she spoke, feeling a strange pang of pain in her heart.

Mo Chen sighed and shook his head helplessly, "Gu..."

Before Mo Chen could speak further, Gu Liyan spoke in Mo Han's voice, "Gu Liyan really brought this on himself! He deserves to know you, he deserves to be hurt by you for the rest of his life..."

Upon hearing this, Qingge's eyes immediately welled up with tears, and she sneered, "Heh, I am his nemesis, so what can you do to me? Even if you kill me, you won't leave here alive!"

Gu Liyan took a deep breath, raised his hand and tapped Qingge's back twice, and said calmly, "You... take care of yourself."

After saying that, Gu Liyan left in a hurry, without looking back at Qingge even once more...