Fengqin stared at his departing figure, stamped her foot, and had no choice but to mount her horse and chase after him.
After chasing him for only a few steps, Cen Xi stopped in front of him and looked at him leisurely.
Feng Qin felt uneasy under her gaze, so she had no choice but to rein in her horse and ask directly:
“Madam… is there anything else you need? Please feel free to ask.”
“I think I forgot just now. There’s a wise man in our camp. What if he runs away after everyone else has left? I’ll go to Haicheng alone. You stay here and guard the wise man. If he runs back to Di Rong and comes up with any more bad ideas, I, the princess, will tear you to pieces.”
Cen Xi had a smile on her face, but what she said was anything but simple.
"No! The young master said that I must stay with you every step of the way. If you do this, I will not be able to complete the mission. I will stay, and you, Princess, must also stay."
Feng Qin suddenly felt a sense of tension, for some reason. He had a feeling that Cen Xi had ill intentions.
"I have to go to Haicheng, and you have to go and guard the wise man, otherwise everything we did last night will have been for nothing, so you must obey my orders!"
Cen Xi narrowed her eyes slightly, but still smiled and said.
"Then bring the wise man along. I'll give him some muscle relaxant powder and a little poison to make him mute. He won't cause us much trouble if he comes with us. Mistress Feng Qin is just a lowly subordinate. If you're angry with the young master, you can go find him in person and talk to him. Why make things difficult for me like this?"
Feng Qin refused to budge an inch; he was even prepared to die.
"Ha! You really are a good subordinate of Shen Jinchen. Fine, then perhaps I'll bring the wise man here. I'll wait for you here for half an hour. If it's less than half an hour, then that's your own business."
Cen Xi curled her lips in a mocking smile, then gave Feng Qin a meaningful look.
“I’ll go then! Mistress, wait here for me a moment, I’ll go and bring the wise man here right away.”
Although Feng Qin disagreed with Cen Xi's words, he also knew that he had finally captured a wise man and could not afford to lose him, so he agreed.
"Okay! I'll wait for you!"
Cen Xi maintained her smile as she looked at Feng Qin.
Feng Qin returned a glance, then turned her horse around and headed to the camp to tie up the people.
After he left, Cen Xi quickly took out the jade ring, put it on her wrist, looked at Feng Qin's back, revealed a triumphant smile, raised her whip, and rode in the opposite direction from where she had run.
Her goal was never Haicheng, but rather to get revenge on Shen Jinchen and toy with him this time.
She trusted him, but he didn't trust her.
Those who cannot fight alongside us are always self-righteous; we must teach them a lesson.
Half an hour later, Feng Qin carried the wise man, who was tightly bound, on a horse to their agreed location. There was no sign of him; only a few scattered hoofprints remained in the darkness.
Frustrated and angry, he chopped down a tree. Good heavens, it turns out he'd been tricked after all.
To make amends for his mistake, he had no choice but to tie up the wise man and travel a thousand miles to find his young master.
After the two left, Lu Duling appeared with Tian Ying at the spot where they had left.
"Everyone's gone, but you still won't let me go."
Tian Ying looked at Lu Duling with great annoyance.
"Don't you understand yet? Her Highness the Princess never treated you like a maid. Otherwise, she would have thought of you when she ran away. Ah Ying, how long are you going to keep this up? Will you only forgive me when I die?"
Lu Duling had just seen Tian Ying trying to chase after Cen Xi, so he grabbed her and controlled her until now. Now, seeing Tian Ying lashing out at him, he felt terrible because he really didn't know how to coax her back.
"Yes, die! If you die, I will forgive you, because then I will have avenged my father and all the elders in the clan!"
Tian Ying was so annoyed by Lu Duling's pestering that she didn't think twice and just went along with Lu Duling's last sentence.
"You really think so?"
Lu Duling's breathing became somewhat sluggish.
"Yes, that's what I think! Your death is the best solution."
Tian Ying gritted her teeth and said something that didn't reflect her true feelings.
"Alright! I heard there's a war in Haicheng. It would be too shameful to commit suicide in front of you. Since you like the Princess so much, I'll help her one last time before I die. I'm going to Haicheng! Tian Ying, take good care of yourself while I'm gone!"
Seeing Tian Ying's hatred for him, Lu Duling's heart gradually turned to ice. Fine, if she wants him to die, then he will die.
If I can't give her happiness, then I'll give her everything she wants.
After saying that, he didn't even look at Tian Ying's expression, and directly mounted his horse and headed towards Haicheng.
As Tian Ying watched his departing figure on horseback, she suddenly felt extremely panicked. She had only said those words in anger; would Lu Duling have taken them seriously?
Why is he doing this to himself?
"Lu Duling, come back! I was just saying that in anger! Just saying that in anger!"
Tian Ying shouted frantically towards the place where he disappeared, but in the end, all she heard in response was the sound of the wind around her.
She had no horse with her, so she couldn't catch up with him at all.
She could only anxiously run back to the camp, searching everywhere for a horse to take her there. Fortunately, the old man who raised the horses had saved one last horse for himself.
When Tian Ying arrived at the stable, she rushed to his horse, mounted it, and was about to chase after him.
She was thrown off the horse after only a few steps. She seemed to have forgotten that she didn't know how to ride a horse at all. She was a pampered noblewoman in Miao territory and had no intention of leaving Miao territory in her life. How could she learn horsemanship?
What could she possibly use to stop Lu Duling from going to her death?
She really shouldn't have said those things just now. She shouldn't have been angry with Lu Duling. If Lu Duling didn't do it, Lu Moxiu would have found someone else to do it. She really shouldn't have taken all her anger out on the man who loved her the most.
But what's the use of regretting it now?
Lu Duling is about to die.
And because of her words that led to her death, Tian Ying is now filled with unbearable regret and shame.
After crying for a while, she suddenly pulled out a dagger fixed to her calf and aimed it directly at my neck.
"Young lady, what are you doing? Why are you trying to kill yourself?"
When the old man saw that the girl had stolen his horse, and that she had fallen off after only a few steps, and then started crying and then threatened to commit suicide, he was terrified. He rushed over and snatched the knife that Tian Ying was about to stab into his throat.
"Uncle, let me die! I have no face to live anymore. I'll go first and wait for my Lu Lang in the underworld. I'll go there to apologize to him."
Tian Ying never expected someone to snatch her knife. Heartbroken, she wiped away her tears and tried to take it back.
"Die? Your lover is already dead?"
The old man looked at the girl and frowned deeply.
"Not yet. He's heading straight for the Di Rong army to die, and I can't even ride a horse. I don't even have the ability to stop him. Uncle, do you think he's doomed?"
With her eyes red from crying, Tian Ying stared intently at the old man in front of her.
“You can’t, but I can! Come on! Get up with me, I’ll take you to him. If you really want to die, it’s not too late to kill yourself once you’ve found your lover.”
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