Xu Nian didn't really intend to act impulsively. "Yuanbao, help me check if anyone is guarding outside the house."

"Host, no one is here."

Xu Nian gripped the dagger and approached the door. Yuan Bao quickly pointed the way, saying, "Turn left after you go out, go straight, don't move, there are people around. Quickly hide in the artificial hill."

Xu Nian entered the cave in the artificial hill and stared at the spot where she had just been standing. After a short while, a man in a purple robe walked over, followed by an attendant.

"Host, that person went to the room you were in just now," Yuanbao reported.

"Yuanbao, find out who he is?" Xu Nian clenched his fist. This person must be the important figure that the Liu family wanted to curry favor with.

"The current emperor's younger brother, Prince Lixian, has only one hobby: beautiful women, and he especially likes married women," Yuanbao told Xu Nian, sharing the information he had found.

"It seems that the Liu family really did get close to Prince Lixian by relying on the original owner of this body." Xu Nian frowned. The other party was a member of the royal family, which was not a good thing.

If she kills this Prince Lixian, she'll have to be buried with the Liu family; it's not worth it.

"Host, run! He's discovered you're missing and is ordering a search of the entire courtyard," Yuanbao urged.

"Yuanbao, scan the area for any secret passages." Xu Nian thought of scenes from TV dramas and decided to take a gamble.

"Host, how did you know there was a secret passage here?" Yuanbao showed Xu Nian the map of the secret passage. Coincidentally, the entrance was right in this artificial cave.

“Prince Li Xian is keeping a mistress here, secretly meeting with beauties. These beauties were all privately presented to him by various officials. In order to avoid the emperor suspecting that he is colluding with the officials, he must have prepared a secret passage for himself to leave. I’m afraid he came through a different secret passage.” Xu Nian finished speaking and followed the map Yuan Bao had given him.

They entered through a hidden door and cautiously walked through the narrow, dark passage. "Yuanbao, watch out for anyone guarding the exit."

Yuanbao: "Nobody's here, host."

After exiting the secret passage, Xu Nian found herself in an abandoned mansion. She quickly covered the entrance and hurried away.

"Host, where are you planning to go after leaving the Liu family mansion?" Yuanbao asked.

"I'm not going anywhere, I'll just stay in the capital." Xu Nian had no intention of running around blindly. Putting aside the issue of cannibalism in ancient times, the snakes, insects, and rodents that jump out of the grass outside the capital could poison her with just one bite.

There are also various methods of human trafficking.

In this era, a woman who is powerless to even kill a chicken is like a commodity waiting to be sold; the original owner of this body is the most vivid example of this.

Xu Nian considered returning to the original owner's family, but when she thought of the original owner's father's ideas about women being expected to follow the three obediences and four virtues, she gave up.

She might be tied up and taken back to the Liu family mansion the moment she gets back.

The only option now is to hide in the mansion within her dowry.

Because the house belonged to her dowry, only servants cleaned it. As long as she didn't appear in front of others, no one knew where she was.

Xu Nian had a clear goal. Based on the memories the original owner knew, she found a suitable courtyard, evaded the guards and cleaners, and became the hidden master of this courtyard.

"Host, if you disappear like this, won't the Liu family search everywhere for you?" Yuanbao didn't understand.

"The Liu family is guilty of something, so even if they look for me, they won't do it openly. If they can't find me, they'll either say I eloped with someone or that I committed suicide," Xu Nian said with a dark look in her eyes.

"Besides, the person entered Prince Lixian's courtyard, but then disappeared. Even if they want to make a fuss, they should go to Prince Lixian."

She has vanished without a trace, neither alive nor dead. The Liu family had sent her away with all their hopes dashed, and now that those hopes have been dashed, they are not about to let it go.

As for why the Liu family didn't send another beauty but had to send the original owner of the body!

Of course, it was the original owner's identity. On the surface, she was also the daughter-in-law of the Marquis of Liu's mansion. With this identity, those who had touched the original owner's body would not be easily dismissed by the Marquis of Liu's mansion.

The original owner was truly a rare beauty, with a cool and otherworldly temperament, a face that resembled that of a banished immortal, and a pair of clear and bright eyes. Underneath her clothes, however, she possessed an extremely alluring figure.

Such a beauty is too difficult to find everywhere, so since there is one readily available, the Liu family naturally set their sights on the original owner.

While Xu Nian was lost in thought about these things...

Yuanbao's tearful voice echoed in Xu Nian's mind.

"Yuanbao, what's wrong?" Xu Nian asked, puzzled. What happened to the system?

"Wow! The female lead eloped with another female supporting character!" Yuanbao burst into tears.

"???" The female lead eloped with the female supporting character? Do you want to hear what you're saying?

Xu Nian had a very bad feeling. She tentatively asked, "So, Yuanbao, what do you want now...?"

Before Xu Nian could finish speaking, Yuan Bao choked up and said, "Yes, we still have to rely on you, host, to save the male lead's life."

"No, my mission this time is to avenge the original owner of this body. Whether the male lead lives or dies has nothing to do with me." Xu Nian refused. Just thinking about the consequences of the previous two missions made her not want to get involved with the male lead.

“Host, the points required to save the male lead in this world are 10,000,” Yuanbao said, sniffling.

Ten thousand? The male lead is worth that much?

How many tasks would she have to complete to get 10,000 points? Of course, she has to be saved.

"Yuanbao, where is the male lead now?" Xu Nian immediately put on a professional fake smile.

"Hey! He's coming toward you, host," Yuanbao exclaimed in surprise.

"What?" Xu Nian quickly looked around. Since it was nighttime and the cleaning staff had all gone to rest, she simply lay down on the tatami mat to sleep.

Knowing that the male lead would be coming soon, and not knowing his current situation, Xu Nian immediately wanted to find a place to hide.

She had only taken two steps when a pebble was launched in through the window.

Xu Nian stood frozen in place, horrified. How could this be? Aren't all martial arts novels just lies?

"Yuanbao, didn't you say this was just an ordinary small world? Turns out, they're playing high-level martial arts." Xu Nian felt indignant.

"Host, I didn't know it was like this either!" Yuanbao scratched its head. Its data did not show that the small world could fly over rooftops and pluck leaves and flowers.

"Yuanbao, you're such a liar! The scripts you've given for these worlds are all wrong. The female lead died in the first two worlds, and this time, she eloped with someone. Are you sure there's nothing wrong with your mission worlds?" Xu Nian was panicking. She was frozen in place, not knowing what the male lead was planning to do!

How did the male protagonist, who was supposed to be rescued, manage to get through this on his own?

"Host, I'm going to report this to the main system. There must be a problem there." Yuanbao hurriedly cut off the connection with Xu Nian.

"Yuanbao? Yuanbao?" Xu Nian's calls went unanswered. Standing alone in place, Xu Nian realized that she had been tricked.

When she saw the male protagonist push open the door and walk towards her step by step, she realized how thoroughly she had been tricked.

The man was clearly not in the right state; he was delirious, his face was flushed, he was breathing rapidly, and his eyes were bloodshot. Moreover, the way he looked at her was as if he were looking at a locked-on prey.

She had nowhere to escape.

Damn Yuanbao, this isn't a mission to save the male lead, it's clearly a mission to "sacrifice oneself".

No wonder it hurriedly shut down its contact with her; it felt guilty.