"How could that lead to your death?" Aunt Guan asked, puzzled.
"I'm not quite sure either. He told me to keep the jade pendant safe and that he would come to pick me up later. The day before yesterday, I missed him, so I took it out to look at it. I wasn't looking at it properly, and three scoundrels stole it. Later, Hua Yuhe somehow arrested me and forced me to tell her who gave me the jade pendant and where the person was."
"Did you say it or not?" Aunt Guan asked anxiously.
"I certainly can't admit it. I'll just say I don't know how I got this jade pendant. I don't know how Murong Bai is doing now either." Butterfly was still thinking about her beloved.
"You are not allowed to mention this to anyone again, not even a single word," Aunt Guan warned Butterfly sternly, staring into her eyes.
Seeing Aunt Guan's serious expression, Butterfly felt inexplicably nervous. To this day, she still couldn't understand how a jade pendant could have almost cost her her life. She hurriedly asked, "What exactly happened?"
Aunt Guan was only guessing and wasn't sure if she was right. She said with great concern, "We shouldn't get involved. The world is dangerous."
…
Qiu Zeyu's trip was indeed to find his younger brother. He happened to hear that Murong Bai had appeared in Longyang Town, intending to cripple the Murong family, but it turned out to be a false alarm. However, meeting the strange girl Lan Yamei made the trip worthwhile.
Back at the inn, Qiu Zeyu said to the young man in white, "Go back to Xiangyang City tomorrow and tell my father that I'm staying for a few days; I still have some things to take care of."
The young man in white smiled and said, "Has the young master fallen for that girl?"
"Nonsense, I just think this woman is a bit interesting, but unfortunately she's a bit ugly." Qiu Zeyu didn't admit it. For so many years, he'd been like a killing machine, never thinking about matters of love and romance, but these past few days, the girl's face had inexplicably surfaced in his mind.
"Still denying it, young master, you can't fool me. That day at the Flower Pavilion, you didn't kill her, which shows you've already fallen for her."
"Go to sleep, little kids don't understand."
…
After receiving the jade pendant from Ouyang, the Murong clan chief breathed a long sigh of relief. He then imprisoned Murong Bai in a water dungeon, leaving him to fend for himself.
An emergency meeting of clan elders was held in the luxurious hall of the Murong family. A group of highly respected old men sat together. Their average age was around eighty, but they walked with a vigorous gait and were in good spirits.
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