On the other hand, the assassins at the Crown Prince's side were no pushovers; they were utterly ruthless, each strike deadly.

Yunxiao let out a cold laugh.

“My good brother, you will stop at nothing to take my life, you even went so far as to pray for my mother.”

"Enough talk, get them!"

Despite being relentlessly pursued, Yunxiao managed to put up a fierce fight.

Meanwhile, Yun Lian noticed that she had left the center, but the assassins were gradually forcing her to the edge of a cliff.

Yun Lian, with her sharp eyes, noticed the Crown Prince gradually becoming disheveled on the other side.

Make sure Yunna and the others can't see her.

Yun Lian, no longer showing any cowardice or weakness, dodged the sword in the hand of one of the assassins and ruthlessly stabbed them.

"Very well, you've really gone to great lengths to kill me. My elder sister and the others are all more favored than me, yet you all came to attack me, leaving only two or three of them behind."

"How could I let you down?"

While ruthlessly attacking Yun Lian, the assassin leader kept an eye on the Crown Prince.

To his surprise, the Second Miss Yun, whom they had never taken seriously, had killed many of their people in just a short time.

"Miss Yun, blame your bad luck!"

Yun Lian scoffed and ruthlessly stabbed his heart with her sword.

"You're the one with bad luck! I'm incredibly lucky."

The assassin, stealthily dying, had disbelief in his eyes.

"you……"

He never imagined that the good-for-nothing second young lady, whom he had never taken seriously, would have someone with the ability to take his life.

Fearing he wasn't quite dead, Yun Lian quickly stabbed him a few more times.

The other assassins were almost blinded by rage when they saw their leader killed.

I'll make you wish you were dead!

Yun Lian's head swayed incessantly.

"I'm so scared~ If you can't kill me, you lose."

With one hand peeling the skin and the other swiftly chopping down the knife, as if cutting cabbages, the assassins were almost wiped out in an instant.

Meanwhile, the pursuers on the prince's side gradually drove him toward the edge of the cliff.

Seeing his injured arm and disheveled appearance, Yun Lian smiled and flew away.

"Your Highness, why do you always look so disheveled whenever I see you?"

The sudden sound made Yunxiao instinctively raise his sword to stab, but Yunlian skillfully dodged it.

"It's you!"

A passionate light appeared in Yunxiao's eyes, followed by a hint of helplessness.

Every time I meet her, I am at a disadvantage.

He never imagined that Miss Yun would be so skilled last time.

Yun Lian helped him kill the person who ambushed him from the shadows with a single blow.

"Of course it's me, otherwise who else would be kind enough to save you?"

Yun Lian and he stood back to back.

But no one knows what the person behind the scenes was thinking, as more and more people joined the attack.

Moreover, when they saw the two standing together, instead of killing them, they gradually forced them to the edge of the cliff.

Yun Lian and Yun Xiao exchanged a glance, both understanding what the other was thinking.

They all jumped off the cliff together.

The moment Yunxiao fell, he instinctively grabbed Yunlian's waist tightly.

Yun Lian was speechless.

"Your Highness, how can you hold me like this?"

Yunxiao's face turned completely white, and beads of sweat gathered on his forehead.

"Miss Yun..."

During their descent, the two inevitably brushed against the falling rocks.

Surprisingly, she always bumped into Yunxiao by chance, and Yunlian was almost unharmed except for being held by his waist.

Below the cliff was a lake. When Yunxiao woke up, Yunlian had already dried their clothes.

When Yunxiao saw her bare upper body, she blushed almost instantly and hugged herself tightly like a timid wife.

Looking down at the pants he was still wearing, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Miss Yun, thank you so much for saving my life today! I will definitely repay you in the future!"

Yun Lian clicked her tongue, then suddenly moved closer to Yun Xiao, blinking her big, watery eyes and staring at him without moving.

"Your Highness, are you not satisfied with me?"

Yunxiao was stunned for a moment.

"What makes you say that, Miss Yun?"

"Generally, if someone has a good impression of their savior, they will say that they can never repay such kindness and can only hope to repay it with their body."

However, if one does not have a good impression of their benefactor, they will postpone repaying such kindness, vowing to be repaid in their next life as a cow or a horse.

As she suddenly approached, Yunxiao braced himself with his hands behind his back, his chest heaving violently, revealing his unease.

She was so close, her blinking eyelashes seemed to tremble at the tip of his heart.

"I did not mean that."

Yun Lian moved even closer to him, and Yun Xiao was almost lying flat on the ground.

"Then what do you mean? Is His Highness not very satisfied with me?"

It's not like that!

Just as Yunxiao was about to explain, she suddenly turned and left, leaving him feeling lost and with a lump in his throat.

"Miss Yun, I was just afraid of being too forward with you."

Yunxiao recalled the repeated attempts by Yunzhu and Yunna to frame and harm them, as if they were trying to bring the two of them together so that they could reap the benefits.

He stole a glance at Yun Lian sitting by the fire, and felt a dense, itchy sensation rising in his chest.

But he himself was in dire straits, barely able to save himself, so how could he dare to delay the beauty and drag her into danger?

Yun Lian sat by the fire, hugging her legs with her arms. Her hair was not completely dry, and a few drops of water fell from time to time.

"Stop talking, I understand what Your Highness is saying! Since the two of us have fallen off the cliff, no one else will know, so Your Highness doesn't need to take responsibility."

It was only then that Yunxiao realized, in a daze, that Yunlian was only wearing an undergarment, and that her grandmother was being dried on a wooden pole with her clothes.

Yunxiao hurriedly grabbed her clothes and put them on haphazardly.

He barely dared to look at Yun Lian.

Just now, I was so close to him that almost instantly, he smelled that familiar fragrance.

She was the petty thief from that night, but she had done him a favor last time, not to mention that if it weren't for her today, he would definitely be in grave danger.

After careful consideration, Yunxiao finally walked slowly to Yunlian's side.

He asked with utmost seriousness, "Miss Yun, if the Crown Prince's abdomen isn't as good as you imagine, would you still be willing to marry me?"

Once the words are spoken, the rest are not so difficult to say.

Yunxiao pressed on with all his might, getting a little closer to Yunlian.

"I mean, if you don't mind, I'm willing to marry you as my legal wife."

Yun Lian saw the seriousness in his eyes, and a smile in his eyes.

The young prince seems so easily fooled; in just a few words, he even stopped referring to himself as "I" (the emperor).

Yun Lian only became more demanding of him when he got closer.

Yun Lian reached out and touched Yun Xiao's cheek.

"The dignified Pavilion Master of Lingxiao Pavilion is also His Highness the Crown Prince. I am but a concubine's daughter. How can I talk about whether I look down on him or not?"

Yun Lian reached out and hooked a strand of Yun Xiao's hair, twirling and playing with it between her fingers.

"But Your Highness, don't you mind my humble status as a concubine's daughter? Even if we take a step back, can the Ancient Moon Dynasty tolerate your esteemed Crown Prince marrying a mere concubine's daughter?"