Yuan Dong personally went out and ordered the servants to cut down five pine trees, then had them bound into a raft with rope and rowed it over to the hole. Then, over a dozen servants took great pains to carry the completed raft into the tunnel.
Chiyun Yuexuan started to instruct them on the work needing done. First they used two trunks as support to prop up the raft, then attached the ropes to the tip of the trunks before steadily lowering the raft to the opposite cliff so it could act as a temporary bridge. After Yuan Dong dismissed the irrelevant personnel, the six remaining men carefully crossed the bridge to the other side, breaking out into a cold sweat as they imagined the river under the bottomless cliff.
Upon reaching the stone door, Chiyun Yuexuan meticulously searched for a key point. On the left frame of the door, he finally found a leaf-shaped groove.
Chiyun Yuexuan took out Biwu from his lapel. “Fourth Prince, this is the key to the treasure. First,
After a brief exchange of glances, Tuoba Zhi tacitly understood Chiyun Yuexuan’s idea. It was then that Chiyun Yuexuan took out a paper sheet from his chest and began to discuss with Tuoba Zhi. The left side of the paper recorded the music score with 12 zodiac signs translated from Xianbei’s language, and on the right side were the 12 divinatory symbols hidden in Biwu.Gao Chenghao went over and glanced at the paper. “You guys use my dictionary to decipher the Xianbei characters on the score? The left pillars are simple, just step on the in the order of the 12 animals on the score. As for these 12 hexagrams, I have no idea where you even got them from.”Chiyun Yuexuan gave him a provoking glare. “None of your business where we got them from. I wonder if Fourth Prince has the courage to play stepping on these pillars with me? We each take a side, do you dare? After all, you have to take risks if you want to enter.”Murong Zhining tugged on Gao Chenghao’s clothes and
Tuoba Lan gently soothed Murong Zhining, “Big sis, don’t be scared. General Chiyun isn’t a bad person, that Gao Chenghao is.” Only to be responded with Murong Zhining’s hostile gaze.Tuoba Lan reached out, wanting to stroke her face, but Murong Zhining struggled to swat the girl’s hand away with her body. Unable to bear seeing her like this, Tuoba Lan tearfully walked over to Gao Chenghao, squatted down and pleaded, “Fourth Prince, I beg you, please give the antidote. I’m willing to be your hostage and make sure you can escape.”Ignoring Tuoba Zhi’s dissuasion, she picked up the dagger on the ground to cut the rope binding Gao Chenghao, then delivered the dagger right to his hand.By now, Gao Chenghao had calmed down from his craze. Pressing the tip of the dagger to Tuoba Lan’s waist, he retreated toward the door.Chiyun Yuexuan pressed on step by step. “Lan’er you’ve become muddled! You think you can make him hand over the antidote this way?!”T
Chiyun Yuexuan burst out laughing. “Peepee… Hahahaha that’s adorable hahaha…” He carried her off the carriage and placed her into a bush on the roadside, then returned to the road and stood with his back to her.Murong Zhining yelled with discontent, “What can I do with my hands tied?!”Chiyun Yuexuan walked back. Untying the rope, he warned, “If you dare to run, I’ll kill your foster mother’s family.”Murong Zhining said innocently, “So I have a foster mother, that’s great. If you didn’t tell me, I wouldn’t know.”Chiyun Yuexuan suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness. All of the advantages he had to threaten her with had become useless.While Chiyun Yuexuan walked away with his back facing her, Murong Zhining bent down and untied the rope binding her feet. Around Chiyun Yuexuan, she always felt uneasy and her head was full of the thought to escape. Although she didn’t know where she could run off to, escaping him was her most instinctive idea.Ch
A full-stomatched Murong Zhining seemed particularly quiet. She sat inside the carriage, silently combing her long hair. The scattered sunlight pierced through the window and danced upon her, painting the girl so pure that it hastened Chiyun Yuexuan’s heartbeat.Chiyun Yuexuan quietly looked at her. Suddenly she felt so strange in one moment, then familiar in the next. Chiyun Yuexuan once again fell into the endless cycle of questions he set for himself, which drove him to the verge of insanity.All of a sudden, as if recalling something, he rushed into the carriage and pulled Murong Zhining over. The latter exclaimed in shock and instinctively struggled to move back, but Chiyun Yuexuan held her head in the crook of his arm. He pushed aside her long hair. In the back of her ear, a small mole was there, providing him with the most accurate answer.Chiyun Yuexuan’s voice was as gentle as water, “Little Tabby, don’t struggle. I’m not gonna hurt you.”Murong Zhin
Meng Xia hissed in pain and got up. “Peh! I thought you didn’t beat women?”Chiyun Yuexuan snorted, “I don’t see it. Where do you look like a woman?”Meng Xia flew into a rage out of embarrassment. “You dare say I’m not?! Then I’ll just make your little lady into my woman.”Chiyun Yuexuan suddenly remembered that he couldn’t act out of whim just for a moment of satisfaction when Murong Zhining’s life was still in the hands of others’.Thinking of Murong Zhining, his heart ached with every beat. After his sanity had returned, however, he could understand her fear and the reason why she couldn’t help but run away from him.“I have been offending. I’m asking you, Miss Meng, please return my wife to me. I’ll be very thankful.”Meng Xia arrogantly snorted. “If that young miss is your wife, why was she so afraid of you? And even ran away from you?”Chiyun Yuexuan painfully frowned. “She was fed a poison of Wuli and lost her memory. Please do not m
As Chiyun Yuexuan gently stroked Murong Zhining’s hair, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sadness. “One day, if Ning’er remembers what I had done to you, you sure wouldn’t forgive me."Murong Zhining innocently kicked the water with her foot. "Then confess your crimes now and strive for leniency."Chiyun Yuexuan was full of guilt. “I was worse than an animal. I don’t dare to face the sins I have committed."Murong Zhining looked at him. "There’s no sin that cannot be forgiven. Ning’er hereby forgives General, so you’re not allowed to say such things about yourself. You are someone who insisted to drink poisoned wine for Ning’er. Ning’er does not believe that you will do anything to hurt me."The two sat quietly on the stone by the river. Murong Zhining softly rested her head on Chiyun Yuexuan’s shoulder. All of a sudden, Flash let out a long neigh. Murong Zhining grasped Chiyun Yuexuan’s clothes. "What’s happening now?"Chiyun Yuexuan he glanced up at th
Chiyun Yuexuan lowered his voice and warned Cai Sang, "Don't forget, she is my wife. When you two are away, it was me who helped her bathe. Step aside."Luo Siyao tacitly dragged Cai Sang out of the room and took her to Wu Siyuan's room next door.Seeing Cai Sang sit at the table with a displeased face, Wu Siyuan shook his head with a wry smile. "Cai Sang, you should do something about that stubborn temper. Heaven made the princess lose her memory for a reason. Don't you want her to live happily? Only you would dare to talk to General Chiyun like this, and he doesn’t make a fuss about it because of Princess. But don't be too willful. If anything, he’s still a general who commands hordes of troops, you can't make him look bad in front of others.”Luo Siyao asked Wu Siyuan, "Will General be punished for taking away Princess when we return to Huayan?"Wu Siyuan frowned. "I'm worried about this too. General has really thrown all caution to the wind this time. For
Murong Zhining turned back at once and flashed Chiyun Yuexuan a mischievous look. "Let General Chiyun marry Princess Jingrong himself.”Chiyun Yuexuan tightened his arms around her waist and warned, "Naughty girl, not afraid of being punished again? Your husband only needs you! In the three thousand rivers, I take only a ladle of Ning’er water.”Murong Zhining leaned on his chest. “But... I…"Chiyun Yuexuan blew into her ear. "No buts. Don’t even dream of leaving me without my consent."Murong Zhining hit him in the chest with the back of her head. “I mean General Wu doesn't want to be a princess’ husband, so I only helped him come up with an idea."Chiyun Yuexuan bent over and nibbled on her ear. "You dare? You are pushing your husband into the fire pit! Be a good girl and don't add to the fuss. It’s his fortune to marry the princess.”Wu Siyuan sighed with feeling. "If I don’t enter the fire pit, who will…"As the group chatted and laughed