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Xiao Lan could clearly hear the prince called out by the wind. With a dazed expression, she immediately became clear and quickly looked around.

However, when she scanned her surroundings, she didn't even see a single person.

No one …

Xiao Lan clenched her fists tightly.

Could it be that she was hallucinating?

Probably not.

In the next second, Xiao Lan directly walked swiftly out of the pavilion.

Liu Yan, who was still kneeling on the ice-cold ground, immediately stood up and shouted anxiously when she saw Xiao Lan walking away quickly.

"Princess!"

Xiao Lan's footsteps stopped as he turned around. "What else do you want?"

Liu Yan bit her lip. "Don't leave the prince, okay?"

Xiao Lan pursed her lips. "Why?"

"Princess, if you leave the prince's side, he will definitely be extremely sad. Please be merciful and don't leave him."

A kind heart? Not leave him?

Xiao Lan ruthlessly clenched the palm that was hidden in the darkness. If he wanted her to be merciful, then she should leave even more.

"Liu Yan, I'm sure you've heard a phrase called 'pain is less than pain.'"

Long pain is better than short pain...

Liu Yan stared blankly at Xiao Lan and suddenly realized something. She couldn't stop herself from kneeling and crawling a few steps towards Xiao Lan.

"Princess!"

She begged her so, but she still wanted to leave the prince!

Facing Liu Yan's urgent cry, Xiao Lan didn't look back this time and quickly left.

The prince who had called out like the wind just now, she had hoped with all her heart that it was her hallucination. Xuanyuan Feng shouldn't have heard the words she said when she was in a trance — like him.

In less than half an incense's time, Xiao Lan had rushed back to the courtyard she was supposed to be staying in tonight. The moment she stepped into the courtyard, she saw Ning Xiang running towards her with a panicked expression.

"Princess, where did you go? "You scared Ning Xiang, she searched for so many places and couldn't find you. She thought that you had met with some kind of accident."

As she spoke, her voice became choked with fear.

Xiao Lan paid no attention to the fragrance in the air as her clear eyes swept the courtyard in every direction.

Xuanyuan Wentian was not in the courtyard, he did not have a trace of his aura.

Xiao Lan pulled over Ning Xiang, who was still choking on her saliva, "Where's Xuanyuan?!"

Xiao Lan's ice-cold voice instantly frightened Ning Xiang to the point that her entire body shrunk.

"Your Highness... "Your Highness, he hasn't returned yet …"

Not back yet?

Where had he not returned from?

"Where did he go?!"

At this moment, Xiao Lan was extremely afraid that Ning Xiang would say the word 'mountain'.

When one looked at Ning Xiang, she was completely frightened by Xiao Lan's appearance and her entire body trembled. She only spoke two words after a long time.

"Empress Dowager …"

Her Majesty?

"The prince is still at the empress dowager's place … "He hasn't returned from the empress dowager's place …"

Ning Xiang stuttered as she finally finished her sentence.

These words that were not fluent were like the most powerful Tranquil Heart Pill, causing Xiao Lan Zhang, who was coiled around his heart, to heave a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it wasn't the back mountain.

Xiao Lan, who was only paying attention to exhaling a breath of air, didn't notice the tip of Xiao Lan's ears, which would turn red if Ning Xiang lied.

After a short moment, Xiao Lan, who had put on a tight suit, walked towards the inner room in large strides, and she had only taken three steps when she saw Feng Ru Feng walking in with a cold expression.

Xiao Lan's pupils constricted as his gaze swept over Ru Feng's body from top to bottom with extreme seriousness.

The soles of his shoes were dry. There was no dew at night, and his clothes were clean. There was also no color of grass and trees.

It seemed like the words' prince 'just now had really been just a hallucination. They didn't look like they had been to the back mountain at all.

Like the wind, he calmly faced Xiao Lan's sharp gaze and allowed her to size him up from head to toe. Only when the sharpness in Xiao Lan's eyes slowly dispersed did he bow like the wind.

"Princess, the prince has an invitation. He's waiting for you in the neighboring courtyard."

In the yard next door …

Xiao Lan remembered that this was a temple, even a couple couldn't live in the same courtyard. Thinking back to how she kept on looking for Xuanyuan s existence, she was slightly anxious and confused.

"Alright." Xiao Lan softly responded and steadily took a step forward before turning around and walking to the neighboring courtyard.

Xiao Lan walked far away, and only then did Xiao Chen dare to take in a long and unbridled breath. Beside her, Wind-like, who was also by her side, also breathed a sigh of relief.

Indeed, deceiving the wangfei was a difficult thing to do. Just a single exchange of words had nearly killed them all.

After a moment, Xu Ruo Feng looked at Ning Xiang and asked, "You didn't reveal any flaws, did you?"

Ning Xiang opened her eyes wide and looked adorably at Ru Feng.

"I did exactly as you told me to, word for word, to Wangfei …"

"And then?"

"Then, from the looks of it, wangfei must have believed it …"

"That's good, that's good." Ru Feng heaved another sigh of relief before turning around and walking out of the courtyard.

When Ning Xiang saw that Ru Feng was about to leave, she quickly took a step forward and directly grabbed onto Ru Feng's arm, asking with a puzzled expression.

"Guard Ru Feng, I don't understand. Since the prince went to the back mountain and found the wangfei, why didn't she let her know?"

Windy quickly glanced at Ning Xiang, who was grabbing his arm tightly and frowned.

"Move your hand away first. Don't you know that men and women shouldn't be so intimate with each other?"

Hearing this, Ning Xi quickly let go.

Ru Feng pretended to look at the neighboring courtyard with a serious expression.

"Actually, before you ask this question, you might as well think about why your wangfei came back so panicky …"

Ning Xiang blinked her large eyes.

This...

When the princess came back, she was quite alarmed …

"Why?" Ning Xiang casually asked Ru Feng.

"Why …?" I want to know too! "

She asked him who he was going to ask.

The blurry shadow that was hidden in the dark glanced at the two who were staring at each other with dazed eyes, before he slowly narrowed his cold eyes.

Why? Because one had to escape, while the other had to stay.

Those who wanted to flee wanted to escape completely, and those who stayed wanted to stay completely as well.

When Xiao Lan arrived at the courtyard of the Xuanyuan Clan, she took the first step and her heart uncontrollably tightened.

He stood silently at the entrance of the courtyard for a long time.

After a long time, Xiao Lan clenched her fist, took a step forward, took a deep breath, and raised her head to look resolutely in front of her.

The moment she saw him, a white figure appeared in front of her eyes.

In the center of the courtyard, Xuanyuan Yun stood straight and upright beside the stone table, his entire body was as cold as the coldest block of ice in the hundred thousand meter cold pond.

Seeing this kind of Xuan Yuan, Xiao Lan's heart tightened even more.

Almost subconsciously, she thought about what she had said today that seemed to contain a deadly poison. Xuanyuan Po probably hated her now, but this sort of coldness should be right.

If it was her, Xiao Lan, who treated her like this, she would definitely dig out his heart and see if the person who said such vicious words was completely black-hearted.

When Xiao Lan had just taken his first step into the courtyard, Xuanyuan Yun had already seen her. Now that he saw her unperturbed gaze on the spot, he couldn't help but feel pain in his heart.

Xuanyuan Wentian had never been afraid of anyone, but at this moment, he was actually a little afraid of her.

In the daytime, she frightened the Empress into fainting and told him that she had always hated him, hated him to the bone.

At night, in the cold, windy pavilion, she told others that she liked him.

Was she too good at acting, or was he too stupid? Why couldn't the current him tell which one was the real her?