Yuan Xingzhou heard her stop halfway through her sentence and instead stare intently at his feet. Sensing something was amiss, he quickly put on his clothes: "You treat him with such care, but why do you still refuse to accept him?"
"His Highness seems particularly interested in our marital relationship. He knows things that others don't." Zheng Quchi's tone suddenly became sharp.
Yuan Xingzhou replied calmly, "Because I care, I will naturally take the initiative to find out."
She stood up, her expression turning serious: "Let's get back to our previous topic. If Yuwen Sheng knew your background and identity, he would surely guess that an unprecedented conspiracy was being carried out against him. In addition, the Julu Kingdom would certainly not let go of such a good opportunity to encircle and kill him. This trip of his put him in a dangerous conspiracy, and in the end, he was surrounded and killed by the combined forces of various parties, dying on the border of the Julu Kingdom."
"His death sounds like a certainty, but it wasn't necessarily so... So why did it end up like this?"
Yuan Xingzhou answered her question: "Yuwen Sheng is just a person. He may not be able to predict everything. You are working backward from the result to the past, but if a person were in that situation, they might not be able to think so clearly."
His words weren't without merit, but Zheng Quchi still felt something was amiss: "He knew that if he turned back and took me away, we would inevitably encounter numerous difficulties. There were heavy troops at the Julu Pass, and the people from the Gongshu family of Beiyuan were also on their way to meet us. Yet, he was so arrogant that he ordered everyone to set off back to Ye, leaving behind not the highly skilled Runtu or Brother Wei, but only Fu Rong, whose martial arts were mediocre and who was better at intelligence gathering and disguise..."
Why Fu Rong?
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