"Don't be nervous, it's nothing. I'm leaving tomorrow, but I wanted to come see you again tonight."
"I miss you a little."
When Gu Lingchen heard Liu Sisi's words, it felt as if a feather had gently brushed against his heart, causing a flutter of excitement.
This was the first time he had heard Liu Sisi say she missed him, and he was so overjoyed that he didn't know how to express it.
He could only take her hand and place it on his chest to express his reluctance to part with her.
"Sisi, I miss you too. I've been thinking about you all night. I know you're different from ordinary people. You have to go out to cultivate, and I can't stop you."
"But the thought that you might have to leave me for another year or two makes me really reluctant to let you go."
"Sometimes I think, if only I hadn't been born into the royal family, or been the crown prince, then I could go wherever you go. But that's not possible right now, I..."
By the moonlight, Liu Sisi saw Gu Lingchen's incomparably handsome face and couldn't help but quickly and gently kiss him on the cheek.
After the kiss, her face quickly flushed red.
Gu Lingchen stood frozen in place, his eyes fixed on Liu Sisi's alluring face and delicate lips. He took a deep breath, trying to suppress the surge of blood and qi in his chest.
He really wanted to kiss her, but he held back. They weren't married yet, and he was afraid of offending Liu Sisi and making her angry.
"Gu Lingchen, if you are still willing to wait for me when I come back from this trip, I will marry you. I know it's a bit unfair to make a prince like you wait for me for so long, but I really don't want to get married so young." Liu Sisi's voice was a little shy.
"I'm willing to wait. As long as you're willing to marry me, I'm willing to wait as long as it takes. I won't feel wronged."
Gu Lingchen couldn't hold back any longer and hugged Liu Sisi tightly.
"Sisi, just let me hug you for a little while. I won't do anything inappropriate. Just let me hug you, okay?"
"Okay," Liu Sisi hugged him back. After hugging for a while, Liu Sisi finally spoke.
"I have to go back now. I'll leave 30 courses of beauty pills with you. You can send them to Yulong Pavilion tomorrow. I need to get some sleep when I get back. I'll leave first thing tomorrow morning."
Even though Gu Lingchen was reluctant, she could only let go of his hand. "Okay, take care of yourself. I'll wait for you to come back."
At this moment, Gu Lingchen looked just like a young wife seeing her husband off to war.
"Yes, I'll try to come back as soon as possible."
After Liu Sisi returned home, she washed up in her spatial dimension and slept in bed until morning. Li Caiping gave her the clothes and food she had prepared for her. Without saying goodbye to her family, she rode a horse out of the capital city.
After going far outside the city gate, he put the horse into his spatial storage and took out the map of the continent.
Having located the Cloud Edge Kingdom, and based on the clues on the map, imagining what their country looked like, he took out his magic pen, drew a circle in the air, and flew over it.
Upon arriving and landing, my first impression of the place was "dirty, messy, and terrible." A strange smell permeated the air.
Liu Sisi took a mask from her spatial storage and put it on, then released a horse from her spatial storage and rode forward.
She looked around and realized that this place seemed to be a city in the Yunbian Kingdom. The environment here was so poor that it couldn't be the capital. She wondered where she had ended up.
After walking for about the time it takes to burn an incense stick, I finally saw people on the road. They were all dark-skinned and thin, and regardless of age or gender, they all looked like they were starving.
Seeing this, Liu Sisi thought to herself, "Given the situation, why kidnap people? Who can afford to buy them? Or are they all going to be sold abroad?"
While Liu Sisi was lost in thought, some people started staring at her, their ill intentions written all over their faces.
She initially guessed that these people, who looked like they lived in a slum, were just trying to rob her because they thought she was rich and well-dressed, and had nothing to do with human traffickers.
So she ignored them and quickened her pace, riding forward to see if there was anything that looked like a human trafficking den before stopping to investigate.
But as soon as she sped up, people started running after her, and slowly it became a group of people chasing her.
Then everyone she met on the street started to make things difficult for her.
Liu Sisi thought to herself, "Is everyone in this country a villain? Why are so many people trying to harm me?"
Just as she was about to continue running, she heard someone behind her shouting loudly at the person next to them, as if giving an order.
"Go and call the boss over. Tell him we've found a fat sheep."
"Boss? Fat sheep?" Liu Sisi stopped running when she heard this. It seems the map given by the space was indeed reliable! It directly sent her to the human traffickers' den. No wonder they were all chasing after her.
As soon as she stopped, someone came over with a machete, intending to cut the legs of the horse she was riding and force Liu Sisi to dismount.
"Stop! I'll come down and come with you. Don't use your knives!" Liu Sisi called out to stop the man.
"Oh ho, so you're being sensible now? Not running away anymore?"
The leader tried to reach out and touch Liu Sisi's face, but Liu Sisi dodged him.
However, his hand tore the mask off, revealing Liu Sisi's stunningly beautiful face.
"My God, we caught a really fat sheep! We're rich now! If the boss is satisfied when he sees the sheep, all the brothers will get credit."
They tied Liu Sisi up with ropes, and soon after, a tall man with curly hair, bulging eyes, and a round face came over.
Liu Sisi immediately thought that this person looked like a frog.
As soon as he arrived, he looked Liu Sisi up and down, nodded, and seemed quite satisfied.
"Hmm, not bad, not bad. Take her back! Lock her up separately. I'm going to send her to Lord Adaya. I'm sure I'll make a fortune then."
Liu Sisi heard the name Adaye; she had heard Gu Lingchen say that he was the leader of their organization.
It seems that the man who looks like a frog is just a small leader and not Adaya himself.
"Where is your Lord Adaya? Can I go see him now?" Liu Sisi asked tentatively.
"You wish! Lord Adaya isn't someone you can just see whenever you want. Even we can't see him."
The leader stopped there and changed the subject.
"Lock her up first. Don't touch her face or torture her. She's a perfect fat sheep. Don't ruin my money-making scheme, or I'll make you pay, you know?"
After speaking, his sharp gaze swept over the crowd, and several people who had been eyeing him shrank back in fear.
They took away Liu Sisi's horse and led her to a dilapidated-looking courtyard, where they activated a mechanism.
As soon as she opened it, Liu Sisi saw a scene even more disgusting and tragic than the one in the courtyard of Tianlong Kingdom...
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