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Chapter 386 A Disaster that Was Caused by a Painting
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Wen Xueran left Peach Blossom Island in a good mood. He had taken the draft from Xia Yuhang, but the person in the painting was not Ning Ziying. Now, he had confirmed Ning Ziying's identity.
In the carriage, Ning Xueyan opened the painting again. She looked at the picture with her jet-black eyes and frowned. She was silent.
Lanning also looked at the picture by her side. After a while, Lanning could not help saying, "Young Lady... She doesn't look like Young Lady Ziying!" At first glance, she found that everyone in the painting looked right, so she did not pay too much attention to the woman in the painting. But when she looked at her carefully, she discovered that her features were slightly different.
"That's not Sister Ziying," Ning Xueyan said with certainty.
She might have thought that the person in the painting was her, because she was angry just now, but now she could see that they were different. The woman in the picture was
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