Nan Lingqin sneered as she looked at the person in front of her.
"So, sir, who exactly are you?"
"who I am?"
The masked man suddenly burst into laughter, "Who I am...you can't possibly know, and you don't need to know."
As the masked man spoke, he called out towards the outside of the hall, "Come in."
Immediately, Li Qingru walked in with her head bowed and eyes downcast.
"Nan Lingqin, do you see? The moonlight is beautiful tonight. It's the perfect time for the Yun Clan to use their cloud-stealing techniques and absorb people's essence."
Nan Lingqin's expression changed slightly, "You want to..."
“That’s right.” The masked man laughed. “After taking care of you for so many days, your cloud magic should have recovered by now.”
Xu Yiran pulled Nan Lingqin back.
Nan Lingqin's face darkened, and she demanded sharply, "You are not a member of the Yun Clan, so why do you know cloud magic?"
"To seize, to take the essence of others for one's own use."
"So when you had Yuwen Shi and Yuwen Qingyue capture Xie Danling, did you genuinely want him to threaten me, or... were you protecting him?"
Upon hearing this, the mask's aura changed slightly.
"So, Xie Danling doesn't know who you are, or should I just kill him now?"
Sure enough, the man's expression changed, and after a moment, he laughed again, "You can't kill him, he's in my hands."
"Really? Is it still in your hands?"
No sooner had Nan Lingqin finished speaking than someone rushed in from outside the hall to report, "Your Majesty, Lord Danling has disappeared... gone missing."
"waste."
With a loud shout, the masked man raised his hand and waved it, instantly killing the man who crashed into the palace gate.
The attack was bloody and violent. Nan Lingqin frowned and pulled Xu Yiran back a little.
"Where did you take him?"
The masked man shouted angrily.
Nan Lingqin said calmly, "Let us go, and I will not kill him."
The masked man roared in fury, "How dare you!"
"What do I have to be afraid of?"
Nan Lingqin suddenly shouted, her starry eyes turning cold.
“He’s someone you treat like a younger brother; you couldn’t possibly do something to him.”
"Is that so? You really know me, Prince Yong."
The three words, spoken one by one, caused the masked man's expression to change drastically. The air seemed to freeze for a moment, followed by a burst of wild laughter, "You... you actually guessed it."
As he spoke, the masked man raised his hand and slowly removed the mask from his face.
Suddenly, that handsome and elegant face was exposed to the air.
Yuwen Yong.
Yuwen Shu's younger brother.
Looking at that face, the face of the man she had witnessed die and who had entrusted her with his mission, Nan Lingqin suddenly laughed. How laughable, how utterly laughable.
Yuwen Yong's heart had long been crooked, but unfortunately, she hadn't noticed it at the time.
"Your Highness, you've been planning this for decades. You must be exhausted."
Nan Lingqin looked at him and sneered, completely unsurprised.
"If we succeed, of course we won't feel tired."
Yuwen Yong also sneered, standing there with his hands behind his back, looking at Nan Lingqin, "How did you guess that? It's truly amazing."
"Ha! If you don't want people to know, then don't do it in the first place. Some things, no matter how well you cover them up, will always have loopholes."
Nan Lingqin didn't really take these words as a compliment. Instead, she gave a bitter smile. "I've been thinking about one thing all along. When I arrived in Nanqi, I met Xie Danling. He said that he had been separated from Xu Shixun and was saved by someone, which saved his life. I didn't think much of it at the time. But now that I think about it, you were the one who saved him, weren't you? Because he is your own son, of course you wouldn't let him die."
"You're so clever. I really have to say, no wonder so many men are willing to fall for you."
"So, you didn't tell Xu Yiran any of this, did you? You don't know that you were like a father to him."
"Father? I raised him to be like this and handed him over to the Xu family only because I thought he was intelligent and would be able to help me sooner or later..."
Yuwen Yong was laughing wildly.
“He treats you like family, but you treat him like dirt and stop at nothing to achieve your goals. Yuwen Yong, you are even worse than your brother Yuwen Shu.”
"People die for wealth, birds die for food; this is an age-old truth. I only want the Cloud Technique so that I can live forever; I need nothing else."
"Someone like you think you can live forever? Let me tell you, it's impossible unless you die and remain in the underworld."
Nan Lingqin spat lightly, her hatred palpable.
"So, that corpse in the imperial mausoleum was just an illusion, an illusion you created using cloud magic."
"Yes, I didn't know you were Yun Yishang's daughter back then. If I had known earlier, I certainly wouldn't have waited until now."
"How can such despicable acts be described in such a grand and dignified way?"
"There are some things in this world that you yearn for when you don't know them, but when you accidentally obtain them and happen to glimpse their benefits, they become like a spell, making you unwilling to give them up and wanting more."
“I understand.” Nan Lingqin closed her eyes briefly. “It was Yu Zhengshao. Back then, my mother passed on the Cloud Technique to her, and you glimpsed its mysteries through Zong Zhengshao, which led to your greed.”
"good."
"You betrayed Zongzheng Shao."
"So what? Right now, I want cloud magic. I want to drain the cloud magic from your body and use it for my own purposes."
"You're dreaming."
"Then you can watch Xu Yiran die. Let me tell you, the poison he's afflicted with is far more severe than the Twin Gu poison Yuwen Yao suffered. He won't die, but he'll suffer for the rest of his life. As long as I don't die, as long as I move a finger..."
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