The woman in pink was tightly gripping the man in black's arm. Because her back was to him, he couldn't see her face, but from her figure and clothes, she looked very much like Xia Yixin.
She was actually pleading with the man, and he was clearly refusing.
"Let go. You can at least pretend and put on an act, right? He does like you, so it shouldn't be too difficult. It's too dangerous to take you away now. You must go back!" The cold voice of the man in black entered Chu Mubai's ears.
Chu Mubai suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, as if he had been stabbed, but he was unwilling to give up and wanted to hear what the woman had to say.
However, at this moment, the Cold War suddenly pulled Chu Mubai into the fray.
bass!
An arrow struck the spot where he had just been standing, its fletching still trembling.
"Protect our master!" Leng Zhan roared, disregarding the risk of being exposed, and a dozen or so experts from the shadows rushed out to join the pursuers.
It was Ninth Prince's men who sneaked over first.
On the other side, Xia Yixin arrived at the shore a few minutes before Leng Zhan and Chu Mubai arrived.
Zi Linglong obediently wrapped herself in the blanket and waited.
She casually took a set of clothes from her storage ring, since most of her clothes were similar, and she didn't pay much attention to it.
After she turned her back to Zi Linglong and finished dressing, she saw that Zi Linglong's complexion had returned to normal, and knew that the aphrodisiac had completely failed. Only then did she feel completely relieved.
However, it wouldn't do for the Ninth Prince and the new emperor's men to keep chasing after her. Therefore, after weighing all the pros and cons, she said in a deep voice, "I will take you back to the capital in a while. You'd better go back to the palace. It's no longer safe with the Ninth Prince."
Zi Linglong was both cold and afraid. Coupled with the collapse of her previous image as the Ninth Prince's elder, she instinctively regarded the man, who had always been cold to her but had a pure gaze, as a friend. She bit her lip and said, "I don't want to go back to the palace. Can you send me away? Anywhere is fine..."
Xia Yixin was so angry she laughed. "Zi Linglong, do you even know your own situation? Do you really think you're omnipotent just because you transmigrated from the modern world?"
Just as Zi Linglong was about to retort, she suddenly heard that word and her eyes widened in shock. "You, you, how could you!?"
"How would I know? It's simple, because I'm just like you." Xia Yixin didn't want to waste words with her. The reason she made it clear was to increase the female lead's favorability. What could be easier to increase favorability than "meeting an old friend in a foreign land"?
To show her sincerity, Xia Yixin took off her mask and smiled at her, revealing her teeth. "My name is Chu Jiu. I came here by accident."
If Zi Linglong was still wary of the other party before, her guard completely disappeared when she learned that the other party was also a time traveler.
Especially when she saw his face, which was three parts evil and seven parts cold, she instantly trusted "him".
"Ding! The female lead's favorability has reached 60%! Please keep up the good work, host~"
Xia Yixin looked at the girl opposite her, her eyes sparkling as if she were looking at her male god, and couldn't help but sigh, she really was a Mary Sue heroine, her intelligence was inversely proportional to her looks.
She snapped her fingers to bring Zi Linglong's attention back, and at the same time put her mask back on. "Zi Linglong, you are delicate and easily pushed over now, and you have no ability to protect yourself. Going back to the palace is the best choice. At least there, no one will dare to touch you."
Zi Linglong shook her head, fear in her eyes. "No, there's someone... He didn't say it explicitly, but I always feel that the way he looks at me is getting more and more terrifying. Originally, I thought Uncle Jiu was a good person, but now..." She looked at "him," mustered her courage, and grabbed his arm. "Chu Jiu, can you take me away? Since we come from the same plane, I beg you to help me. I still remember the recipes for many things!"
A girl's soft, pleading words would likely make any man weak in the knees.
Xia Yixin was quite annoyed. She looked at Zi Linglong with cold eyes and said, "Let go. You can at least pretend and put on an act, right? He does like you, so it shouldn't be too difficult for him. It's too dangerous to take you away now. You must go back!"
Suddenly, a system notification sounded in her mind: "Ding, the male supporting character's happiness level has decreased by 10 points, totaling 70 points."
Why did Chu Mubai's happiness level suddenly decrease?
Before she could even be surprised, she caught a glimpse of several cold lights flying straight towards her out of the corner of her eye. Instinctively, she picked up Zi Linglong and stepped back to avoid them.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Three sharp arrows followed closely behind. Xia Yixin secretly cried out in alarm. She hadn't expected the other side to catch up so quickly, but she clearly remembered that she had already finished them off.
Without thinking twice, she grabbed Zi Linglong and dodged the flying arrows, plunging headlong into the forest.
Before rushing into the forest, she vaguely saw a familiar white spot on the cliff above the waterfall.
"System, is that Chu Mubai?" she asked urgently.
“That’s right, host,” the system replied.
Damn it! What's Chu Mubai doing here? Didn't she tell him to go back to the manor? And what misunderstanding did he just hear?
Xia Yixin glanced at Zi Linglong in her arms and suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Oh my god, could he be mistaking Zi Linglong for her?
While she was thinking, she used her superb lightness skill to dodge the guards from the royal palace who were chasing after her.
Because Chu Mubai's cold war with them delayed them in the rear, it gave her a chance to escape. Near the edge of the forest, she even encountered the Imperial Guards of the Eastern Depot. Fortunately, the forest behind her was filled with the sounds of battle, and they did not notice Xia Yixin sneaking along the edge.
Xia Yixin was worried about Chu Mubai's safety, so she used her lightness skill to the fullest extent, and she managed to cut the journey, which would normally take more than ten minutes, in half.
Finally, we arrived back at the gates of the capital. I put down the girl I was carrying and rubbed my sore arms. "Hurry back to the palace. Here's some advice: hiding won't help when you encounter problems. You need to improve your skills, or you might be controlled by them for the rest of your life."
Zi Linglong was startled by her words and looked at "him" uneasily, asking, "Will I ever see you again?"
"If fate allows, we will meet again." Xia Yixin gave a vague answer, woke up the drowsy city guards with a pebble, and turned to retreat back into the forest outside the city.
Zi Linglong was spotted by the guards at the city gate, and the news immediately reached the ears of the two groups fighting in the forest. They no longer cared whether the group of skilled martial artists they encountered was friend or foe, and turned back to the city gate.
The Ninth Prince and the new emperor also arrived, and the two sides were at each other's throats at the city gate.
In the end, it was only through the personal intervention of the new emperor that Zi Linglong was brought back to the palace. Because there were too many people involved in the operation that night, many people were awakened, and the new emperor had no choice but to announce to the public that the spies from Beiming had been captured, a man and a woman.
On the other side.
Xia Yixin was worried about Chu Mubai, so she changed back into her original clothes and appearance when she found a secluded place. She then went back to the waterfall, but apart from a pool of blood, she couldn't find anything else on the waterfall.
By the time she returned to the Grand Tutor's residence, it was already broad daylight. She went directly to the East Garden, which was eerily quiet and deserted.
Xiaoman just entered the room and rushed over to her, bursting into tears of joy. Then she panicked, "Madam, it's terrible! Young Master just went out saying he was going to find you. He's still injured."
Xia Yixin was startled. "What happened to Chu Mubai?"
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