Long Qianling looked at him with deep eyes, her expression unreadable.
Her hand slowly slid down his chin and finally landed on his flat stomach.
Bai Qingnian dared not move, feeling the hand that had slid across his body was extremely hot.
"You used her to make me fall in love with you?" Long Qianling's voice was calm, but with a hint of a smile.
"What are you saying?" Bai Qingnian was startled, slapped her hand away, and then swiftly unleashed a burst of demonic power towards her face.
Long Qianling hissed and released him, turning her face slightly to the side, where a bloody mark had been drawn on her cheek by Bai Qingnian's demonic power.
Seeing her standing motionless, Bai Qingnian panicked and took a few steps back before turning and running away.
Long Qianling raised her hand and gently wiped the bloodstain with her index finger. The wound disappeared instantly. She raised her golden eyes and looked at Bai Qingnian, who was fleeing in panic, and smiled in a cryptic way.
"Heh~"
In an instant, Long Qianling turned into countless specks of light and disappeared. Bai Qingnian, who had already run far away, suddenly froze, forced to stop.
He tried to lift his feet, but they felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get it to work.
He looked down, and in that instant, he saw blue demonic flames. His pupils dilated slightly, and the next second, he was engulfed by the blue demonic flames and disappeared from the spot.
...
"Young Master? Young Master, what's wrong?" A somewhat anxious voice sounded in his ear. Bai Qingnian came back to his senses and found himself standing on a stone bridge, with a familiar yet unfamiliar young man standing beside him.
Where am I...?
Bai Qingnian felt a splitting headache and abruptly raised his hand to cover his head.
"Young Master, what's wrong?" Yunzhu asked worriedly as she rushed to support Bai Qingnian.
Bai Qingnian took a while to calm down before he could suppress his headache. He turned to look at the boy beside him, his heart filled with complicated emotions.
He was certain that he knew the boy in front of him—no, to be precise, he knew him in his current identity.
Having experienced the illusion in the Bloodstained Secret Realm before, he knew that he was trapped in an illusion again this time, but the difference was that this time he had his memories with him.
"Young master, don't scare me!" Yunzhu became even more anxious when he didn't respond for a long time.
Bai Qingnian pursed his lips before slowly saying, "Yun, Yunzhu, I'm fine."
Although Bai Qingnian carried the memories of his current identity, the sudden change in identity was still difficult for him to accept.
Yunzhu carefully examined him for a while and breathed a sigh of relief when she found that he didn't seem to be acting strangely.
“Even if you don’t want to marry the Prince of Wuling, you can’t just run away like that! We were so worried about you, afraid that something might happen to you.”
"I……"
Bai Qingnian paused, recalling that her current identity had recently been bestowed by His Majesty upon the only non-royal king in their country, the Wuling King whom Yunzhu had mentioned.
"Niannian, what are you doing here? I've been looking for you everywhere."
A familiar female voice rang out, and Bai Qingnian was slightly startled. He turned around and saw Bai Yaoguang walking up from under the stone bridge with a look of anxiety on her face.
"Third...Sister..." Bai Qingnian instinctively wanted to call out "Third Prince," but he stopped himself in time and used a different title.
Seeing Bai Yaoguang's current state, it seems she has lost her memories and has completely merged into this illusion.
I don't know what happened to me, but I still managed to fall into the illusion while retaining my memories.
Seeing Bai Yaoguang here confirmed that the blue demonic fire was the key to leading them into the illusion. So how could they get out?
Are we supposed to find that woman impersonating Long Qianling and have her set them on fire?
Bai Qingnian felt that this method was unlikely. Not to mention whether she would set them on fire, it was also a question whether he could find her.
Bai Yaoguang looked at his delicate little face, her heart aching: "Silly Niannian, it's all my fault. If I were more capable, I could have protected you and you wouldn't have had to marry that wicked man."
The "demon" that Bai Yaoguang mentioned is none other than the Prince of Wuling.
That woman, who only led the army for four months, conquered an entire country for Dongzhao, making Dongzhao the largest country on the continent overnight.
Yet this woman, with her illustrious military achievements and brilliant tactical skills, was a fearsome figure whom everyone in the entire Eastern Zhao Kingdom avoided.
It was simply because she was a ruthless killer with a strange personality, and would kill people to vent her anger at the drop of a hat.
Words like "brutal and inhumane" and "cold-blooded and ruthless" are clearly insufficient to describe her cruelty.
Bai Qingnian, in his current identity, had never met the Prince of Wuling. After all, he was just a young master raised in seclusion, and the Prince of Wuling was often away fighting wars, so it was very difficult for him to see her.
"Why does Your Majesty want me to marry her? With my status, I don't seem to be worthy of the title of Prince of Wuling..." Bai Qingnian asked, puzzled.
Bai Yaoguang stared at him for a long while, then sighed before slowly saying, "It was the Prince of Wuling who petitioned His Majesty, specifically naming you as his king..."
"What..." Bai Qingnian was incredulous. He searched through all his memories of his current identity again, but he had no memories of him and the Prince of Wuling at all.
Why did she specifically ask to marry him by name?
"This... I don't know either..." Bai Yaoguang shook her head.
She was completely baffled. Her younger brother rarely left the house, so how could he possibly know the Prince of Wuling? Yet, he had clearly stated that he wanted to marry Niannian. She didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. But even if someone like her was good, how good could she be...?
"Alright, let's go home with your sister first. Mother and Father are still worried." Bai Yaoguang changed the subject.
Bai Qingnian also wanted to see what his parents looked like in this illusion, so he nodded obediently.
Last time in the Bloodless Secret Realm, he still remembered everything that happened in the illusion after he came out. He was particularly impressed by Long Qianling's actions.
There's also Wei Zhu, whose personality is exactly like his father Zhi Yan's—equally gentle and loving.
So he was also quite looking forward to seeing what his father would look like in this illusion.
"Then let's go home first." Bai Qingnian gave her a sweet smile.
"Okay, let's go home." Bai Yaoguang breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that he was no longer as lifeless as before.
Heaven knows how much it broke her heart when Niannian looked so utterly hopeless after learning she was going to marry the Prince of Wuling.
He secretly ran away from the manor today, and everyone in the Bai family was frantic with worry, fearing that he might do something foolish.
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