Shen Yun looked up at Ning Yin with pleading eyes, trying to persuade the woman to leave with him. But as soon as he uttered two words, Lan Yue behind him struck him on the back of the neck with lightning speed.

Lan Yue was a martial artist and knew exactly where to strike to quickly knock someone unconscious. With this palm strike, Shen Yun swayed back and forth twice, his vision went black, and he collapsed into Lan Yue's arms.

Lan Yue picked the person up and put them on her shoulder. Without saying a word, she was about to walk outside. After taking two steps, she seemed to be unable to swallow her anger, so she stopped and said to Ning Yin.

“Miss Ning, the reason why the general neglected you back then was not because he didn’t love you, but because Abbot Liaoyuan told him that he had to wait two years before he could get close to you, otherwise the general and his mansion would suffer disaster.”

"He has fallen from a renowned war god to a fugitive, struggling even to survive. I can't bear to tell you this, but I don't want you to misunderstand the general forever and let him live with regret for the rest of his life."

After Lan Yue finished speaking, she carried Shen Yun onto the carriage without looking back. With a sharp crack of the whip, Lan Yue led Shen Yun and his family into the vast night, leaving Ning Yin standing there alone.

Lan Yue's words seemed to be an explanation to herself, but between the lines they were a veiled condemnation of herself.

He felt that Shen Yun's current predicament was entirely his own doing.

Ning Yin suddenly chuckled softly. She walked to the table, sat down, picked up the kettle, poured herself a glass of water, and took a sip.

Back then, when Shen Yun forced her into marriage, did he consult her wishes at that time?

On their wedding night, he received an urgent report from the frontier and left without saying goodbye.

She managed the huge general's mansion all by herself, taking care of her difficult mother-in-law and sister-in-law every day. Did he send her a single letter?

He distinguished himself in battle and returned to the capital in triumph. I personally prepared a table full of dishes to welcome him back, but where did he go? He didn't return all night.

It wasn't until she witnessed Shen Yun leaving her by the lake for most of the day to save a cat for someone else that she finally demanded an explanation from him. But how did Shen Yun respond to her?

He said she was being unreasonable, that as the mistress of the general's mansion, she had no magnanimity at all.

Yes, what more does she have to do for Shen Yun to be satisfied?

Even after he left the general's mansion, this family still came to make things difficult for him every now and then.

Should she repay evil with kindness, and should she kneel down to thank them?

He allowed Yang Shuhuan to come and humiliate him; he agreed to let Yang Shuhuan destroy his only hope.

It was Shen Yun who treated him like an object, taking him when he wanted him and discarding him when he didn't.

Now, on the contrary, they're blaming themselves.

Isn't Shen Yun's current predicament self-inflicted?

With just one sentence from Master Liaoyuan, Shen Yun could have completely erased all the blame he had placed on himself.

It was truly the funniest joke she had ever heard in her nineteen years of life.

Thinking of this, Ning Yin couldn't help but chuckle again, the tears in her eyes blurring her vision.

She suddenly missed her grandmother terribly. If her grandmother were still alive, she could throw herself into her grandmother's arms and cry her heart out, venting all the grievances she had suffered over the years.

But Grandmother will never come back. The General's Mansion and the Ning Mansion are only a street apart, yet she couldn't even see her one last time. How ironic...

Therefore, Ning Yin had no feeling about what Lan Yue said to her before she left, and she would never forgive Shen Yun.

The fact that she was able to prescribe a medicine for Shen Yun and keep Wang Shi alive was already the greatest act of kindness.

I don't know how long I cried, but the sounds outside the thatched hut grew clearer until a tall man in a dark brocade robe appeared at the door.

“A-Ning…”

The first thing Xiao Xuan saw when he entered the room was Ning Yin sitting alone at the table, crying her eyes out.

At that moment, it felt as if his heart had been stabbed, the pain was so intense that he could hardly breathe.

He hurriedly took off his cloak, walked over in a few steps and draped it over Ning Yin, then hugged her tightly in his arms.

"A-Ning, A-Ning, it's all my fault. I didn't protect you well. I'm sorry, A-Ning. Are you feeling unwell anywhere? Did Shen Yun hurt you?"

Xiao Xuan's brows furrowed with worry. He searched the entire capital city, thinking that there was probably no hope of finding the person today.

Unexpectedly, one of the guards discovered that there was a thatched hut deep in the mountains.

He hadn't eaten or drunk anything all day and almost suffered heatstroke and fainted.

However, upon hearing that there were still houses here that had not been searched, they hurried over at full speed.

Fortunately, his perseverance paid off, and he finally found his Ah Ning.

He felt incredibly guilty, wondering why he couldn't go to confront Consort Chen the next day instead of leaving his A-Ning alone in the palace.

He never expected that Shen Yun would have such means to obtain such a powerful sleeping powder, which could easily knock out even the highly skilled Qingyu Guards.

Those Qingyu Guards who failed to protect their master were thrown into death row that very night by Xiao Xuan. If Ning Yin cannot be found this time, none of them will survive.

Seeing Ning Yin crying so hard that her eyes were swollen and her body was trembling like a frightened fawn.

Xiao Xuan's heart was in agony, and he wished he could slap himself. He picked the person up and sat him on his lap, comforting him gently.

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