"Oh?" Jun Qingguo hadn't expected that he would come back with a big fish after just a short walk. He asked, "Where is Yuan Zhan?"
Haitang glanced at the guards around her and closed her mouth, refusing to speak.
Jun Qingguo understood what she meant. She felt that there were too many people here and was afraid that the news would leak out.
Jun Qingguo asked the guards to leave, and only he and Haitang were left in the room.
"Now, can you speak?" Jun Qingguo said.
"No, my only value now is to find Yuan Zhan. If I tell anyone about this, and you use me to capture Yuan Zhan, all the credit will be yours, and then you can silence me..."
Jun Qingguo said: "I'm not as bad as you say."
Haitang shook her head and said, "I don't believe what men say."
Jun Qingguo said impatiently: "Then what do you say we should do? You can't let me become a woman."
Haitang: “…”
Jun Qingguo sat down on the chair and poured himself a cup of tea.
Haitang was still lying on the ground like a caterpillar. She said, "It's easy to make me speak. You have to swear not to hurt me, and after you capture Yuan Zhan, you give me a hundred spirit stones and let me go."
"no problem."
Under normal circumstances, practitioners are unwilling to swear and will not swear easily, but Jun Qingguo felt that he was honest and had nothing to be afraid of, so he swore a poisonous oath on the spot, saying that he would let Haitang go after the matter was accomplished, otherwise he would be burned to death by the green flames.
Haitang was stunned at first. "You...you swear now? You won't even negotiate terms with me?"
Then he was puzzled again, "Why was he burned to death by the blue flame?"
Jun Qingguo said, "I was burned by the blue flame once before. It was very painful, so I remember it."
"You..." Haitang felt that the princes of the royal family were all very scheming and wouldn't be so open and honest. She suspected Jun Qingguo of having some conspiracy, but now that Jun Qingguo had sworn a poisonous oath as she requested, she couldn't continue to refuse. She could only say, "Untie the silk ribbons on me first."
Jun Qingguo made a gesture, and the dark purple silk ribbon quickly narrowed to the length of a belt, and then tied it around Haitang's waist.
Haitang discovered that her cultivation was still sealed. She got up from the ground and said, "I met Prince Rui once before. He forced me to sign a marriage contract with his son."
Jun Qingguo asked, "What is a marriage contract?"
"It's a form of bondage between husband and wife. Because I have a special physique that can nourish Yuan Zhan, Prince Rui uses this method to force me to commit to Yuan Zhan." Haitang's face showed a hint of resentment and humiliation as she spoke. She continued, "As a Young Yuan Realm Spiritual Master, I'm forced to follow a mortal. I dream of killing Yuan Zhan, but because of the marriage contract, I can't hurt him... However, the marriage contract allows me to sense Yuan Zhan's exact location."
The so-called "marriage contract" was, of course, something she'd made up. If she'd honestly said she'd signed a master-servant contract, Jun Qingguo would have doubted it. Could a servant betray his master? But if she'd said it was a marriage contract, it would be different. First, she'd put herself in the position of a victim. Second, she could secretly reverse her and Yuan Zhan's master-servant roles. Otherwise, if the master died, the servant would die too. She was still young, so how could she die with that loser Yuan Zhan?
Jun Qingguo said, "It seems you are also a pitiful person. Do you know how to dissolve the engagement?"
"I know, but this requires Yuan Zhan's cooperation. He's the one who initiated the marriage contract. If he finds out I've betrayed him, he can use the contract to kill me... Therefore, after finding Yuan Zhan, I'll need a drop of his blood to dissolve the contract."
Haitang looked pitiful. She added, "Also, I saw on the bounty notice that Yuan Zhan killed his father. He can even kill masters of the Chengyuan realm. Wouldn't it be very dangerous for us to go looking for him?"
She knew that Yuan Zhan would definitely not kill his biological father, so she asked this question because she wanted to find out the real cause of Prince Rui's death.
Unexpectedly, Jun Qingguo said, "Yuan Zhan was able to kill Prince Rui because Prince Rui loved his son so much that he willingly died at his son's hands. Furthermore, Prince Rui knew his son would be in danger after his death, so before dying, he wanted his son to escape quickly after committing the crime... Yuan Zhan is truly a piece of shit."
Haitang: ???
Do I look like a fool to you?
Jun Qingguo remained calm. After all, this was the reason given by his father. To be honest, the royal family didn't know the real cause of Prince Rui's death, so they simply put the blame on Yuan Zhan. This also provided a reasonable excuse for "arresting Yuan Zhan", killing two birds with one stone.
"I never thought that Prince Yuan Zhan is such a person..." Haitang couldn't say anything to curse Yuan Zhan because he was her "master". The reason why she could bring people to find Yuan Zhan was because the master-servant contract had been partially suppressed by her. As long as she didn't say anything to slander Yuan Zhan, she would be fine.
"Then let's go." Jun Qingguo said.
Haitang said, "Before we set off, I want to ask a question... Is your hatred for Yuan Zhan so deep that you'd go to such great lengths to capture an ordinary person?"
Jun Qingguo said, "I have no grudge against Yuan Zhan, but my father said that if you don't remove the root of the problem, it will only leave behind trouble. Although Yuan Zhan is a loser and the possibility of a comeback is slim, what if Yuan Zhan gets lucky and suddenly becomes a cultivator, soars to the sky, and then comes back for revenge... Therefore, we must eliminate the enemy while he is weak."
Haitang asked, "Revenge? He killed his own father. Who is he coming back to avenge?"
Jun Qingguo explained calmly, "My father has issued an order for his arrest. Isn't this revenge?"
"All right."
"Moreover, he also covets the future Princess Jing."
"Princess Jing?" Haitang was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered the name Yuan Zhan had mentioned earlier and asked, "Lanzhi?"
"Um."
It is a well-known fact that Prince Yuan Zhan covets Lan Zhi. It is not surprising that Haitang can call out Lan Zhi's name.
"You are a prince, why do you have to go out and look for Yuan Zhan yourself? Can't you send someone else?" Haitang was still thinking about escaping halfway. If Jun Qingguo kept the ribbon tied around her waist, how could she escape?
Jun Qingguo replied, "The prince is also in need of cultivation resources. Father has nineteen children in total... and the bounty for Yuan Zhan is a full three hundred spirit stones. If I had the bounty, I could have practiced in seclusion in the mansion forever."
Haitang said, "What if I want to take a bath? Can you take the silk ribbon away?"
"Okay." Jun Qingguo snapped his fingers.
Haitang was slightly surprised. She didn't expect the other party to be so easy to talk to. But she soon realized that she was overthinking it. After the dark purple silk ribbon was removed from her waist, it turned into a thin purple wristband and was tied around her wrist.
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