Xin Sui: "Otherwise what?"
Li Beibei collapsed onto He Ruike.
"The messages I sent you were so suggestive, how come you didn't notice anything was wrong?"
Xin Sui: It seems her previous guess was correct.
Feigning ignorance, she looked at He Ruike and asked, "What does she mean by this? What happened?"
Just as He Ruike was about to speak, Li Beibei rolled her eyes at her.
"What else could have happened? It's all your fault. You won the food festival competition, got the Dragon Tooth Dagger, and stole the show."
"You're safe now that you're hiding, but it's been tough on me and Ak. Those people came to our door and threatened to kill us if we didn't lure you out."
"What can I do? I can only do as they say."
"And all that effort I put into hinting to you, hoping you'd realize something was wrong and bring people to rescue us, and you—"
"Alas, it seems we are going to die here today."
He Ruike put his arm around her and comforted her, "Beibei, don't be discouraged. I'm a member of the He family, and you're my fiancée. They won't dare to do anything to us."
Li Beibei: "You make it sound so easy. This is Bright City. Even the power of the Aristocratic Alliance can't get in here. What use is the name of the He family?"
"Don't tell me you're just from a collateral branch of the He family. Even if you were from the main branch of the He family, what wouldn't they dare to do?"
"Do you think the He family would go to war with Bright City for your sake and force the city lord to hand over the people who killed us?"
Xin Sui looked at Li Beibei with some surprise.
Surprisingly, she's still quite clear-headed.
"Who are those people you're talking about? Where are they?"
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