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"You are the one who is stubbornly refusing to see the truth."
A golden longsword suddenly appeared in Yun Xinglan's hand, pointing at Qu Qingcheng's heart, and he said coldly, "Get out of Miss Cui's body."
“Sure,” Qu Qingcheng said without flinching, her eyes growing even colder. “Once I’ve eaten the hearts of everyone here, I’ll leave.”
No one knows what she did to the food and wine, but everyone in the Cui family courtyard, including Master Cui, was unconscious and slumped over the table.
The two were locked in a stalemate when suddenly a thud came from the corner of the wall, and they both looked towards the corner.
Lu Yixin stood up again, rubbing her throbbing temples with one hand, and pointed at Yun Xinglan with the other, shouting, "You, Yun Xinglan, you actually plotted against me!"
Yun Xinglan looked in the direction she was pointing and saw that everything had gone off to her grandmother's house.
How did she wake up?
Could she be someone other than an ordinary person... Damn it, yeah, Yun Xinglan cursed herself inwardly. What kind of ordinary person could know that person?
Strange, why has he become stupid?
"oh?"
Qu Qingcheng's eyes darted around, and she covered her mouth to laugh, her laughter as light as an autumn wind chime. "Little sister, who are you? Our usually cold-hearted Golden Crow Guard seems to be quite fond of you."
Miss Qu needs to get her eyes checked, Lu Yixin thought to herself.
She flew to Lu Yixin's side, touched her face, and exclaimed in amazement, "I really envy that such a poor and remote place as the Sen tribe can produce such beautiful skin as you, little sister. Even if you ate a hundred fresh hearts, you couldn't achieve this."
"Stay away from her!" Yun Xinglan rushed over and shielded Lu Yixin behind her, saying in a deep voice.
Eat hearts? Lu Yixin frowned, looked at the more than one hundred people behind her, and immediately understood.
"Miss Qu, with me here, you won't be able to hurt anyone here."
She stopped hiding it and pressed her wrist down, causing the flower vines to float in the air like snakes, while a vine bow immediately appeared in her hand.
"Otherwise, don't blame me for not showing any mercy to a beautiful woman."
Qu Qingcheng chuckled, her beauty shining even brighter. "Who said I was going to hurt anyone? Little sister, don't wrong me. Besides, the past is the past, and now is the present... and now... isn't there you?"
Before she finished speaking, golden smoke immediately rose around her. Yun Xinglan was a step too slow and was startled. When she tried to grab Lu Yixin, she missed. Only Miss Cui's body was lying on the ground, her life hanging in the balance.
"Miss Deer!"
—
Qu Qingcheng looks thin and weak, but I didn't expect her to have such great strength.
Lu Yixin was being held by the collar with one hand as she flew thousands of feet in the air. She closed her eyes tightly, her face pale, and begged and pleaded for the quality of her clothes to be up to standard and not to be as fragile as her outer garment.
“I heard Yun Xinglan call you Miss Deer, so I’ll call you that for now.”
Qu Qingcheng's voice is even more beautiful now, like a charming white fox.
"Miss Deer, you've never seen the view from above before, have you? Why don't you open your eyes and take a look?"
"No need!"
Lu Yixin's palms were sweaty, and she prayed in her heart that Qu Qingcheng would hold on tight and not slip.
"Miss Qu, where are we going?" A sudden thought struck her, and she asked pitifully, "Are we going back to the Phoenix Clan? But I don't know anyone here. Will I be bullied?"
"Stop with your little schemes," Qu Qingcheng chuckled softly. "You want me to take you to the Wutong Tree, don't you?"
"Wow, you even know that! Miss Qu is truly amazing!"
“Because I can read minds, maybe it’s because I’ve eaten too many human hearts,” Qu Qingcheng laughed even louder. “Miss Lu is so cute.”
"No way, this is too sneaky," Lu Yixin thought to herself.
"Is Miss Deer cursing me in her heart?"
"...I'm sorry, I was wrong."
It seems she should think less about God and his ways.
Qu Qingcheng flew her to a cave located in a towering mountain. As soon as her feet touched the ground, Lu Yixin immediately lay down outside and dry heaved.
Qu Qingcheng was born with a beautiful face, with exquisite features and a stunning beauty, truly deserving of the title "Qingcheng" (meaning "alluring beauty"). However, there was a vague sense of familiarity between her brows. Lu Yixin vomited for a long time but nothing came out, and she lay weakly on the ground.
"Miss Qu is not a demon, so why would she eat human hearts?"
“Of course I have to maintain this appearance,” Qu Qingcheng squatted down and poked Lu Yixin’s face, smiling. “You also think I’m very beautiful, don’t you?”
"Yes, very beautiful," Lu Yixin said hesitantly, "Is Miss Qu related to the Phoenix Clan's God-King and Phoenix Maiden by blood?"
She said that Qu Qingcheng looked familiar no matter how she looked at her, and indeed she did, she and Huang Nu looked like they were made from the same mold.
"She is my aunt."
Qu Qingcheng was not surprised that Lu Yixin knew about the Phoenix Maiden. Last year, her aunt led a large group of people to Mitianze to capture the Dragon God's orphan. The incident was so grand that even she, who was not in Wutongmu, had heard about it.
Seeing Lu Yixin's surprised look, she smiled and said, "Isn't she fierce?"
"Actually... it's alright," Lu Yixin said, going against her conscience to save face.
“You don’t need to do that, I know all that,” Qu Qingcheng sat down and said slowly, “Even many people in the Phoenix Clan dislike her, saying she is ruthless and cruel, but she is very good at handling political affairs and is very powerful. No one dares to say that to her face.”
"You asked me why I eat human hearts. One reason is to maintain my appearance, and another is to prolong my life."
She shushed Lu Yixin and winked, "Even Yun Xinglan doesn't know about this. Besides my family, I only told you."
"Why?" Lu Yixin asked blankly.
The current Qu Qingcheng is completely different from before. She has lost some of her coldness and gained more innocence, becoming more like a young girl.
"I don't know either, but I always felt that you were very sincere."
Being praised is always a pleasure, and Lu Yixin couldn't help but grin. Then she asked in confusion, "But since you are a blood relative of the God-King, you should be at the very top of the divine ranks. Why do you need to use such a shameful method to prolong your life?"
It's quite a contrast that someone as naive as the Phoenix Queen has such an innocent niece...
"My mother was deceived by villains when she was young... Never mind, this is a secret of the Phoenix Clan, I won't tell you for now."
“I know this is wrong, but I have no choice…” she sighed. “My aunt has always been upright and incorruptible, but she tacitly approved of this. Originally, she was supposed to send her trusted confidants to the mortal world every day to retrieve my heart, but I took the initiative to suggest leaving the paulownia tree. This is my own business, and I don’t want to trouble my aunt.”
"But before the proposal was made, Yun Xinglan accidentally discovered that I was eating human hearts. He was the first guard of Luan Palace. He was usually carefree and irresponsible, but he reacted strongly to this matter. He petitioned my aunt many times to execute me, saying that keeping me alive would be a disaster. But my aunt suppressed the matter. She was afraid that Yun Xinglan would cause more and more trouble, so she found a pretext to expel him from Wutong Tree."
"I never expected to run into him in Qicheng, let alone that he would be the one to catch my embroidered ball. Originally, I just wanted to use Miss Cui's body to dig out her heart, but now that plan has fallen through."
The instigator, Lu Yixin: ...eyes shift.
So that's what happened.
"So, are you going to eat human hearts again today?" Lu Yixin asked worriedly. "Isn't there any other way?"
"Auntie has tried everything she could," Qu Qingcheng said, hugging her knees and gazing at the stars outside the cave entrance. "It's okay if we don't eat today. I ate more than ten of them in one go a few days ago."
Wow, that's a terrifying statement.
Lu Yixin looked around. The cold cave was only covered with dry grass, and there was nothing else around. She whispered, "Then you'll stay here."
Is she being placed under house arrest?
It's alright, I'll just keep this lonely girl company.
"I haven't put you under house arrest," Qu Qingcheng laughed.
Okay, let's forget about her mind-reading ability.
"Believe it or not, Yun Xinglan will definitely come over within ten seconds."
As soon as she finished speaking, Yun Xinglan's voice, filled with gritted teeth, rang out from outside the cave: "Qu Qingcheng, give Lu Yixin back to me!"
"Wow, that's so fast!" Lu Yixin looked out of the cave in shock.
"If you dare to do anything to her, I will disregard the dignity of the Divine Lord and..."
Yun Xinglan stopped mid-sentence, staring at the two women holding hands like best friends in the cave, speechless for a moment.
In just a few minutes, Miss Deer has switched sides?
"Xinglan, you're here!"
Lu Yixin jogged over, smiling, and took his hand, while holding Qu Qingcheng's hand in the other. "From this moment on, I declare that you two have turned your hostility into friendship and are now on good terms with each other!"
...What medicine did she take wrong this time?
Qu Qingcheng and Yun Xinglan resonated in unison, a rare occurrence.
“I understand that you both have your own unavoidable difficulties,” Lu Yixin said earnestly, patting their hands. “But the most valuable thing about people is to be tolerant and understanding of each other. What conflict in the world can’t be resolved?”
"Qingcheng, we're friends now, so please do me a favor and make peace with Xinglan for now."
"Xinglan, I won't say any more."
Yun Xinglan leaned against the wall with a forced smile. "Since Miss Lu has spoken, as her fiancé, I naturally have no choice but to obey."
Here we go again. Lu Yixin was utterly speechless.
Qu Qingcheng shifted her gaze between the two in disbelief, her expression constantly changing, before finally patting Lu Yixin's shoulder heavily: "Miss Lu is very fortunate."
If she hadn't emphasized the word "good fortune" so much, Lu Yixin would have believed it...
The three sat facing each other on the ground. Lu Yixin looked at the two Phoenix Clan members. One had been expelled from the country and was forbidden from returning to Wutongmu without imperial decree, while the other had sworn a solemn oath never to return to Wutongmu. She took a deep breath and asked solemnly, "I'll ask you one last time, can't you really take me to Wutongmu?"
“Miss Deer, you also said it was the last time when you asked ten seconds ago.”
“I can testify that it was the same twenty seconds ago.”
"Heavens above, why am I so miserable!"
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