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Yue Ziyue's heart tightened. She immediately patted her horse's butt, wanting to fight with Yan Muqing.

However, the horse that Yan Muqing was riding had eaten an unknown amount of food. With a loud roar, it lifted its horse's hooves and galloped away. Not long after, it disappeared at the end of the road.

Yue Ziyue was discouraged. She slowly stopped the horse and looked behind her. Seeing that no one was following her, she had an idea. She dragged the horse and entered the forest.

"I never thought that such a shrewd person would actually think that I would escape halfway. What a fool!"

As Yue Ziyue spoke, she began to feel a little sleepy. In addition, the forest was very quiet, and the horses moved very lightly. Unknowingly, she began to doze off on the horse's back.

Yan Muqing was the first to arrive at the finish line. After waiting for a long time, she still did not see Yue Ziyue's figure. At this moment, Xue Chao, who was standing on the tree trunk, was leaning against it with his hands behind his back.

"Master Four, it's just a little girl. You can order us to deal with her after stealing her jade pendant, but why do you have to let her off so slowly? She thought we were playing with her!"

The cold moonlight shone down on Yan Muqing's face, clean and intoxicated.

"She'll come back herself."

Finishing her words, Yan Muqing raised her whip and spurred her horse back to the inn where they had set out.

At the end of the dark alley, a bright light gradually appeared. Xue Chao walked out of the inn and walked to Yan Muqing's side, reminding her, "Master Four, the sky is almost bright."

Yan Muqing seemed to turn a deaf ear to his words. She accepted a cup of tea from her follower and took a sip. As she raised her head to look, she saw a horse slowly walking down the path.

"He's coming."

Xue Chao looked over and the person on the horse was Yue Ziyue, who had escaped earlier.

Yue Ziyue was resting on the back of the horse. The horse beneath her was swaying rhythmically like a shaking bed, causing people to feel like sleeping.

Suddenly, the horse stopped. Yue Ziyue opened her sleepy eyes. After walking for so long, she must have been far away from the inn. She was finally free from this predicament.

Yue Ziyue stretched lazily as she sat up from the horse. She hadn't even finished her yawn when she saw the group of people in front of her glaring at her. All of them had hostile looks on their faces, as if they had been waiting for a long time.

"You lost."

Yan Muqing's voice rang at the right time. Yue Ziyue came back to her senses and looked around. After confirming that this was not a dream, she jumped down from her horse in anger.

"Are you messing with me?"

Yue Ziyue was infuriated. Seeing the smile on Yan Muqing's face, she felt even more displeased.

"What is this? "Young lady, you ran away halfway, are you trying to trick me?"

Yue Ziyue couldn't think of any words to say to stop Yan Muqing, so she could only stammer. Furthermore, the other side had too many people, so she could only bear with it.

"Why isn't the lady saying anything?"

Yan Muqing was holding a teacup in her hand, looking relaxed and at ease. Yue Ziyue's face did not show even the slightest bit of anger, but instead contained a bit of a teasing expression.

Yue Ziyue felt the enmity of humiliation and anger rising in her heart.

"The jade pendant is no longer in my hands. If you want to kill or cut me, do as you wish."

When Yan Muqing heard this, her face darkened, "Where is the jade pendant?"

Yan Muqing's tone was stiff and dignified, unlike in the past, she didn't give Yue Ziyue any kind of gentleness.

"I sold it."

Now that the situation had come to this, Yue Ziyue decided to break all ties and tell her the truth.

"To whom?"

As Yan Muqing continued to question him, Yue Ziyue swallowed her words back down her throat. It seemed that she still had a large amount of banknotes in her pocket that she had yet to spend.

"I don't know that person, but he seems to know you."

"Xue Chao, I'll leave it to you."

Yan Muqing put down the teacup in her hand and stood up in anger. As she turned around to leave, she told Xue Chao some things that Yue Ziyue didn't hear clearly.

After Yan Muqing left, Yue Ziyue was personally escorted by Xue Chao to the tavern to see what was going on.

Yue Ziyue sat on the bed once again, thinking about her conversation with Yan Muqing. There seemed to be something wrong with it.

She had only stolen Yan Muqing's jade pendant unintentionally. She did not expect to steal his flesh and blood, which would bring about her death.

After that, she met with the man who did not leave his name and bought the jade pendant. Yan Muqing did not look too good after that. If they knew each other, why would they be so serious?

Yue Ziyue couldn't understand the grudge between Yan Muqing and that man, or could it be that that jade pendant was really of utmost importance to Yan Muqing? If she, Yue Ziyue, accidentally sold the jade pendant to that man, would she be skinned alive?

The more Yue Ziyue thought about it, the more frightened she became. If she knew earlier, she would have waited a bit longer and stole all the money she could get from Yan Muqing. Now, however, she didn't know if she could see the sun tomorrow.

At noon, Xue Chao came in with a bowl of porridge. His expression was still the same as this morning, with a solemn face.

It had only been less than two days since she teleported to Li Jing, but Yue Ziyue had encountered such a troublesome problem. After experiencing this incident, Yue Ziyue finally understood.

In order to survive in this era where blades and spears were so blind, not only did he have to be familiar with everything here, but he also had to understand the temperament of the people around him.

Her eyes rolled around in her eye sockets and then landed on the ridiculing Xue Chao. Yue Ziyue's heart was big, and Xue Chao didn't really care about her attitude.

Instead, he joked, "Hey, is your Master Four married yet?"

Xue Chao suddenly frowned and looked at Yue Ziyue in disgust, "How do you know about my Fourth Master?".

"I heard you call me Fourth Master, I'm not deaf."

Yue Ziyue, who was leaning on the bed with her head supported, annoyed Xue Chao a little. Her tone was not good, "Are you the one who called Fourth Elder? "According to our investigations, you are just a little beggar. I don't know how you snuck into the brothel, but don't think that you can turn your body just by relying on your face. Let me tell you, Lord Four won't forgive you!"

"Oh?"

Yue Ziyue rolled over and sat up, and asked: "Is that jade pendant really that important to your Fourth Master? "It's just a jade pendant."

"A dying man is not worthy of knowing about Lord Fourth, not to mention that it's a secret!"

With that, Xue Chao slammed the door and left. Yue Ziyue seemed to have understood something, there must be a grudge between Yan Muqing and that man, if not she wouldn't be so anxious about losing her jade pendant.

Li Jun City.

The palace wall stood tall and tall. Yan Muqing had changed into a long green robe, standing under the palace wall with her hands behind her back. Behind her was a man in black, who was bowing and scraping.