After the porters had transported the carriage away, the four people began to walk on the crowded street.
After a while, Yue Yao’s previously empty hands were filled with all sorts of items. Although some of them were the trinkets that Feng Chenling wanted, most of the items were actually wedding gifts he wanted to gift Mo Qingli and Feng Qingjue for the ceremony.
“Ai ya, come take a look. What kind of person did they offend, to be hanging like this?”
“Shh!… don’t be so loud. I heard they offended the Second Princess!”
The Second Princess, Mo Qingqin?
Mo Qingli’s sharp ears caught sound of the conversation. Following the sound, she looked to see a young man covered with wounds hanging from an iron pole. Below, many pedestrians crowded around him.
“You guys stay here. I’ll take a look.” Mo Qingli hurriedly ran towards the scene. On closer inspection, she found that all over the man’s body, maggots were crawling over the injuries.
“Ai… he really is pitiable.” A passerby sighed, unable to bear looking at such a cruel sight anymore.
Mo Qingli could only feel that this person looked familiar—wasn’t this the boy who had fled from Mo Qingqin’s clutches last night?
He… how did he end up like this!
Mo Qingli walked over to the metal pole, wanting to save the young man. However, her elbow was caught by another passerby.
“Young woman, don’t bother. I’ve heard that this man stole some goods from the Second Princess’s residence, and was beaten to death and made an example of. If you try to take him down you’ll be made into his accomplice!”
D—dead? Mo Qingli looked up at the young man again. Now that she took a second look, the body seemed unfazed the the maggots squirming over their body. His two lips had become blue, and his eyelids draped down. If this wasn’t death, then what was it?
Mo Qingqin, didn’t you just promise last night that you wouldn’t kill anymore people? It’s only been one night and yet you’ve provoked me in public. Are you doing this on purpose?
“Thank you,” Mo Qingli said to the passerby, then turned away. Inside her heart, she apologized to the young man.
I’m sorry. I harmed you with my good intentions. This time, I will truly avenge you!
“Wife, are you alright?” Feng Chenling asked, seeing Mo Qingli’s unpleasant expression.
Mo Qingli’s lips curved up into a forced smile. “I’m alright.”
“What happened over there?” Feng Chenling asked, looking behind Mo Qingli.
“Nothing.” Mo Qingli grabbed Feng Chenling’s shoulder, changing the subject. She didn’t want such a dirty and disgusting sight to stain someone as perfect as him. “Have you bought everything you needed?”
“Mmm, after we buy some wedding ornaments we’ll be done,” Feng Chenling said, impervious to what Mo Qingli was thinking.
Mo Qingli laughed, grabbing Feng Chenling and walking to the jewelry section of the marketplace.
“Wife, at this rate, if Younger Brother Qingjue sees us it won’t be good!” Feng Chenling was afraid that Feng Qingjue would see the harmonious affection between him and Mo Qingli and become hurt. He turned around to look at Feng Qingjue. “Eh… where’s Younger Brother Qingjue?”
Feng Qingjue had disappeared without a trace.
When he asked Yue Yao, Yue Yao too didn’t know where Feng Qingjue had disappeared too either.
“Wife, Qingjue… he…” Feng Chenling’s eyes became filled with tears as he looked at Mo Qingli. Had Qingjue become so furious that he had stormed off?”
Mo Qingli knew what Feng Chenling wanted to say. Placatingly, she said, “Go shopping with Yue Yao. I’ll go find him. Don’t worry!”
“Mmm.”
Seeing that Feng Chenling and Yue Yao had left the vicinity, Mo Qingli’s face suddenly hardened. Feng Qingjue, was this the real reason you agreed to leave the residence?
Moving her hands, she secretly used a little bit of magic to track down Feng Qingjue’s whereabouts.
“Prince.”
“Rise. It’s been hard to get out as of recently, so if there’s anything hurry up and say it,” Feng Qingjue arrogantly announced to the people in front of him.
“Yes,” the head guard said. Hastily, he added, “Prince, this lowly servant would like to tell you that if you don’t wish to wed the Motian Dynasty’s Sixth Princess, the Emperor will find a way to find a substitute to wed her in your stead.”
“Ah?” Feng Qingjue’s face wore a surprised expression. “Father’s found a capable substitute?”
The head guard replied deferentially, “Yes, Prince. After several searches we’ve finally found one.”
At this point, Feng Qingjue found himself hesitating. If he left, his father would find some random person to impersonate him and marry Mo Qingli. And yet… why did he feel some sense of unwillingness?
Thinking of his marriage to her, Feng Qingjue’s heart became filled with a small amount of expectation.
But… she was a princess from a female-dominated kingdom. At her side would doubtlessly be countless men! Thinking of this, as someone who had grown up in a patriarchal kingdom, Feng Qingjue’s heart was filled with some distaste.
“Prince,” the head guard repeated, meeting Feng Qingjue’s silence.
“I… let me consider it!”
This statement shocked the head guard. Hadn’t the prince always been unwilling to marry that idiot princess? Why was he hesitating now?!
However, in his capacity as a royal bodyguard, his only role was to ensure the prince’s safety. Therefore, he led the group of guards away, disappearing into the crowd.
Feng Qingjue closed his eyes, his mind flashing back to the first time he ever saw Mo Qingli at the Moon Festival. She had been kneeling in front of the entire crowd, loudly declaring that she wished to marry him, her face filled with determination. Afterwards, she had coarsely grabbed him, demanding his true intentions for coming to the kingdom. And even later on when he had been humiliated by that crowd of women, she had descended like the moon, rescuing him. Hehe… her intelligence, her wit… although the world mocked her for being an idiot, it seemed that they themselves had been the true foolish ones.
As Feng Qingjue closed his eyes and reminiscenced, a flush of red appeared on his cheeks. Suddenly, a pickpocket, taking advantage of the fortunate timing, grabbed Feng Qingjue’s wallet and ran.
By the time Feng Qingjue could react, the thief had already ran away from the vicinity. Reluctantly, he decided that it would be too much work to chase the thief.
A hand pinched his forehead.
Grabbing his forehead in pain, his eyes swept around him “Who was it, who dares to pinch this old man?”
“I pinched you. What are you doing looking around foolishly when your money’s been stolen?” Mo Qingli laughed, looking at Feng Qingjue.
Before he could even think to retort, he saw a flash of gold in front of him. Mo Qingli was now quickly pursuing the thief.
Feng Qingjue also attempted to run after Mo Qingli. However, after a while, he found that his body was unable to exert so much energy and was forced to a stop. Grabbing his chest, he gasped desperately for breath.
“Hey, catch!” Mo Qingli threw the wallet that the thief had stolen back to Feng Qingjue. “You really are stupid. When the thief went to steal your money, you didn’t even react!”
“You…” Before, Feng Qingjue had almost been moved by the action. Hearing Mo Qingli’s words, however, the gratitude completely vanished. Reattaching the wallet to his waist, he coldly looked at Mo Qingli. “It’s none of your business!”
After which he turned back to return to Feng Chenling.
Mo Qingli, hearing these words, also became furious. She grabbed Feng Qingjue’s shoulder. “How come you can’t recognize someone else’s good intentions? Come on, let’s return back to the residence. Chenling was extremely worried about you, don’t you know? You didn’t even tell us before you disappeared. Can’t you think about other people’s feelings too?”
“What’s with you?”
Mo Qingli only noticed that something was wrong with Feng Qingjue towards the end of her rant. She grabbed both sides of his faces, cradling it. However, Feng Qingjue pushed her away, yelling, “It’s none of your business!”
“Ai…” Mo Qingli realized that she might have been too hard on him with her scolding. In a gentler tone, she said, “I didn’t mean it that way, don’t lose your temper. Let’s return back to the residence, okay?”
She thought of him like this the whole time? That he had only been throwing a temper tantrum the whole time? Feng Qingjue couldn’t help but feel upset that she had misunderstood him the whole time.
“I don’t want to. I’m not returning to the residence. You tell Brother Chenling that I’ll be alright,” Feng Qingjue unhappily said. It looked like he didn’t suit this place after all. He wanted to return back to his own nation, not marry Mo Qingli.
“Why are you…” this unruly.
Before Mo Qingli could respond, she felt a strong sense of killing intent appear towards her.
“Be careful!” Mo Qingli saw a black-clothed person direct a sword towards Feng Qingjue’s back. She pulled Feng Qingjue behind her back, then kicked the black-clothed person in the stomach. Another similarly dressed person raised a fist towards Mo Qingli’s vitals. Because Mo Qingli feared hurting Feng Qingjue, she could only use one hand to grab onto the waist, and the other to fight against the black-clothed people that appeared. It was clear, however, that it was hard for her to move and she was at a clear disadvantage.
The secret Fengchao Dynasty bodyguards in the shadow prepared to take action. However, Feng Qingjue shook his head, forcing them to bide their time and wait.
Mo Qingli knew that she wouldn’t be able to rely on brute force alone to defeat these fearless assassins. It didn’t matter; taking her left hand, she congealed some magic energy, then whispering a few words under her breath, directed it towards the assassin’s direction.
A golden light flashed quickly in front of the black-clothed people’s directions. A heaven-defying force impacted against them, forcing them onto the ground with peals of pain.
Of course, Mo Qingli was reluctant to use this maneuver because it exhausted all of her body’s strength. Her current state was different from her previous body; one had to be careful with using small bursts of energy, let alone a large multi-faceted attack. If she hadn’t absorbed Xiaoyao Yunyan’s blood a few days ago, perhaps she wouldn’t have been able to pull it off.
She now used the remainder of her strength to stand up, grabbing onto Feng Qingjue and leaning on his body.
Before she could even breathe another swath of black-clothed people appeared on the vicinity, brandishing blades. At this point the guards in the shadows could no longer hold back. They circled around Feng Qingjue and Mo Qingli, fighting against these people.
Of course, there were always fish that escaped the net. At this moment, one assassin suddenly rammed through the wall of people, raising a sword and preparing to strike
Mo Qingli used one final burst of strength to block Feng Qingjue. Afterwards, an icy cold object pierced through her body. The last thing she saw as she slowly fell down were Feng Qingjue’s red eyes before she collided; afterwards, she knew nothing.
After the porters had transported the carriage away, the four people began to walk on the crowded street.
After a while, Yue Yao’s previously empty hands were filled with all sorts of items. Although some of them were the trinkets that Feng Chenling wanted, most of the items were actually wedding gifts he wanted to gift Mo Qingli and Feng Qingjue for the ceremony.
“Ai ya, come take a look. What kind of person did they offend, to be hanging like this?”
“Shh!… don’t be so loud. I heard they offended the Second Princess!”
The Second Princess, Mo Qingqin?
Mo Qingli’s sharp ears caught sound of the conversation. Following the sound, she looked to see a young man covered with wounds hanging from an iron pole. Below, many pedestrians crowded around him.
“You guys stay here. I’ll take a look.” Mo Qingli hurriedly ran towards the scene. On closer inspection, she found that all over the man’s body, maggots were crawling over the injuries.
“Ai… he really is pitiable.” A passerby sighed, unable to bear looking at such a cruel sight anymore.
Mo Qingli could only feel that this person looked familiar—wasn’t this the boy who had fled from Mo Qingqin’s clutches last night?
He… how did he end up like this!
Mo Qingli walked over to the metal pole, wanting to save the young man. However, her elbow was caught by another passerby.
“Young woman, don’t bother. I’ve heard that this man stole some goods from the Second Princess’s residence, and was beaten to death and made an example of. If you try to take him down you’ll be made into his accomplice!”
D—dead? Mo Qingli looked up at the young man again. Now that she took a second look, the body seemed unfazed the the maggots squirming over their body. His two lips had become blue, and his eyelids draped down. If this wasn’t death, then what was it?
Mo Qingqin, didn’t you just promise last night that you wouldn’t kill anymore people? It’s only been one night and yet you’ve provoked me in public. Are you doing this on purpose?
“Thank you,” Mo Qingli said to the passerby, then turned away. Inside her heart, she apologized to the young man.
I’m sorry. I harmed you with my good intentions. This time, I will truly avenge you!
“Wife, are you alright?” Feng Chenling asked, seeing Mo Qingli’s unpleasant expression.
Mo Qingli’s lips curved up into a forced smile. “I’m alright.”
“What happened over there?” Feng Chenling asked, looking behind Mo Qingli.
“Nothing.” Mo Qingli grabbed Feng Chenling’s shoulder, changing the subject. She didn’t want such a dirty and disgusting sight to stain someone as perfect as him. “Have you bought everything you needed?”
“Mmm, after we buy some wedding ornaments we’ll be done,” Feng Chenling said, impervious to what Mo Qingli was thinking.
Mo Qingli laughed, grabbing Feng Chenling and walking to the jewelry section of the marketplace.
“Wife, at this rate, if Younger Brother Qingjue sees us it won’t be good!” Feng Chenling was afraid that Feng Qingjue would see the harmonious affection between him and Mo Qingli and become hurt. He turned around to look at Feng Qingjue. “Eh… where’s Younger Brother Qingjue?”
Feng Qingjue had disappeared without a trace.
When he asked Yue Yao, Yue Yao too didn’t know where Feng Qingjue had disappeared too either.
“Wife, Qingjue… he…” Feng Chenling’s eyes became filled with tears as he looked at Mo Qingli. Had Qingjue become so furious that he had stormed off?”
Mo Qingli knew what Feng Chenling wanted to say. Placatingly, she said, “Go shopping with Yue Yao. I’ll go find him. Don’t worry!”
“Mmm.”
Seeing that Feng Chenling and Yue Yao had left the vicinity, Mo Qingli’s face suddenly hardened. Feng Qingjue, was this the real reason you agreed to leave the residence?
Moving her hands, she secretly used a little bit of magic to track down Feng Qingjue’s whereabouts.
“Prince.”
“Rise. It’s been hard to get out as of recently, so if there’s anything hurry up and say it,” Feng Qingjue arrogantly announced to the people in front of him.
“Yes,” the head guard said. Hastily, he added, “Prince, this lowly servant would like to tell you that if you don’t wish to wed the Motian Dynasty’s Sixth Princess, the Emperor will find a way to find a substitute to wed her in your stead.”
“Ah?” Feng Qingjue’s face wore a surprised expression. “Father’s found a capable substitute?”
The head guard replied deferentially, “Yes, Prince. After several searches we’ve finally found one.”
At this point, Feng Qingjue found himself hesitating. If he left, his father would find some random person to impersonate him and marry Mo Qingli. And yet… why did he feel some sense of unwillingness?
Thinking of his marriage to her, Feng Qingjue’s heart became filled with a small amount of expectation.
But… she was a princess from a female-dominated kingdom. At her side would doubtlessly be countless men! Thinking of this, as someone who had grown up in a patriarchal kingdom, Feng Qingjue’s heart was filled with some distaste.
“Prince,” the head guard repeated, meeting Feng Qingjue’s silence.
“I… let me consider it!”
This statement shocked the head guard. Hadn’t the prince always been unwilling to marry that idiot princess? Why was he hesitating now?!
However, in his capacity as a royal bodyguard, his only role was to ensure the prince’s safety. Therefore, he led the group of guards away, disappearing into the crowd.
Feng Qingjue closed his eyes, his mind flashing back to the first time he ever saw Mo Qingli at the Moon Festival. She had been kneeling in front of the entire crowd, loudly declaring that she wished to marry him, her face filled with determination. Afterwards, she had coarsely grabbed him, demanding his true intentions for coming to the kingdom. And even later on when he had been humiliated by that crowd of women, she had descended like the moon, rescuing him. Hehe… her intelligence, her wit… although the world mocked her for being an idiot, it seemed that they themselves had been the true foolish ones.
As Feng Qingjue closed his eyes and reminiscenced, a flush of red appeared on his cheeks. Suddenly, a pickpocket, taking advantage of the fortunate timing, grabbed Feng Qingjue’s wallet and ran.
By the time Feng Qingjue could react, the thief had already ran away from the vicinity. Reluctantly, he decided that it would be too much work to chase the thief.
A hand pinched his forehead.
Grabbing his forehead in pain, his eyes swept around him “Who was it, who dares to pinch this old man?”
“I pinched you. What are you doing looking around foolishly when your money’s been stolen?” Mo Qingli laughed, looking at Feng Qingjue.
Before he could even think to retort, he saw a flash of gold in front of him. Mo Qingli was now quickly pursuing the thief.
Feng Qingjue also attempted to run after Mo Qingli. However, after a while, he found that his body was unable to exert so much energy and was forced to a stop. Grabbing his chest, he gasped desperately for breath.
“Hey, catch!” Mo Qingli threw the wallet that the thief had stolen back to Feng Qingjue. “You really are stupid. When the thief went to steal your money, you didn’t even react!”
“You…” Before, Feng Qingjue had almost been moved by the action. Hearing Mo Qingli’s words, however, the gratitude completely vanished. Reattaching the wallet to his waist, he coldly looked at Mo Qingli. “It’s none of your business!”
After which he turned back to return to Feng Chenling.
Mo Qingli, hearing these words, also became furious. She grabbed Feng Qingjue’s shoulder. “How come you can’t recognize someone else’s good intentions? Come on, let’s return back to the residence. Chenling was extremely worried about you, don’t you know? You didn’t even tell us before you disappeared. Can’t you think about other people’s feelings too?”
“What’s with you?”
Mo Qingli only noticed that something was wrong with Feng Qingjue towards the end of her rant. She grabbed both sides of his faces, cradling it. However, Feng Qingjue pushed her away, yelling, “It’s none of your business!”
“Ai…” Mo Qingli realized that she might have been too hard on him with her scolding. In a gentler tone, she said, “I didn’t mean it that way, don’t lose your temper. Let’s return back to the residence, okay?”
She thought of him like this the whole time? That he had only been throwing a temper tantrum the whole time? Feng Qingjue couldn’t help but feel upset that she had misunderstood him the whole time.
“I don’t want to. I’m not returning to the residence. You tell Brother Chenling that I’ll be alright,” Feng Qingjue unhappily said. It looked like he didn’t suit this place after all. He wanted to return back to his own nation, not marry Mo Qingli.
“Why are you…” this unruly.
Before Mo Qingli could respond, she felt a strong sense of killing intent appear towards her.
“Be careful!” Mo Qingli saw a black-clothed person direct a sword towards Feng Qingjue’s back. She pulled Feng Qingjue behind her back, then kicked the black-clothed person in the stomach. Another similarly dressed person raised a fist towards Mo Qingli’s vitals. Because Mo Qingli feared hurting Feng Qingjue, she could only use one hand to grab onto the waist, and the other to fight against the black-clothed people that appeared. It was clear, however, that it was hard for her to move and she was at a clear disadvantage.
The secret Fengchao Dynasty bodyguards in the shadow prepared to take action. However, Feng Qingjue shook his head, forcing them to bide their time and wait.
Mo Qingli knew that she wouldn’t be able to rely on brute force alone to defeat these fearless assassins. It didn’t matter; taking her left hand, she congealed some magic energy, then whispering a few words under her breath, directed it towards the assassin’s direction.
A golden light flashed quickly in front of the black-clothed people’s directions. A heaven-defying force impacted against them, forcing them onto the ground with peals of pain.
Of course, Mo Qingli was reluctant to use this maneuver because it exhausted all of her body’s strength. Her current state was different from her previous body; one had to be careful with using small bursts of energy, let alone a large multi-faceted attack. If she hadn’t absorbed Xiaoyao Yunyan’s blood a few days ago, perhaps she wouldn’t have been able to pull it off.
She now used the remainder of her strength to stand up, grabbing onto Feng Qingjue and leaning on his body.
Before she could even breathe another swath of black-clothed people appeared on the vicinity, brandishing blades. At this point the guards in the shadows could no longer hold back. They circled around Feng Qingjue and Mo Qingli, fighting against these people.
Of course, there were always fish that escaped the net. At this moment, one assassin suddenly rammed through the wall of people, raising a sword and preparing to strike
Mo Qingli used one final burst of strength to block Feng Qingjue. Afterwards, an icy cold object pierced through her body. The last thing she saw as she slowly fell down were Feng Qingjue’s red eyes before she collided; afterwards, she knew nothing.
