Mu Yi frowned and tried to push away Long Ran's restraints with his elbows. He suddenly shouted——
"Actually, I have been looking for your whereabouts at that time, not just because the jade pendant is a relic of my mother..."
She was stunned and her movements were delayed for a moment——
"Why is that? I don't think I've seen you before, right?!"
"I have never seen it...but...but the jade pendant you took away is a matchmaker token left by my mother to my future wife...and...and it can only be contracted to a woman once..."
The more Long Ran spoke, the softer his voice became. The courage he had just mustered up suddenly faded away, as if he was exhausted.
"Didn't you say there is a way to solve it?!" Mu Yi's way of thinking will never take the ordinary way, "You are not planning to trick me into your palace and kill me, are you?!"
"No!" Faced with the increasingly dark predicament, Long Ran, who was usually comfortable in diplomatic situations, was extremely embarrassed at this moment, as if this was more difficult than getting him to win a century-old tribute from a vassal state.
"I...I saw that you didn't want to have anything to do with me...I was afraid that you would hate me...that's why I..."
Mu Yi was even more confused, but he stopped moving.
"Come on, according to what you said, I took possession of the things left for your future wife?"
He patted his face deeply, but the pain told him that Long Ran beside Mu Yi was not an illusion, and what he said was not a dream.
"Haha... If I had known earlier, I would rather be beaten to death by you than take that jade pendant..."
This is probably the most regretful thing Mu Ji has done in his life!
"You just don't want to be with me—"
Before Long Ran finished speaking, Mu Ji blocked his lips with the back of his hand.
"It's not that I dislike you, it's just that I don't like you. How could I have any unnecessary thoughts about a man I met for the first time."
After yawning, Long Ran refused to let go, so Mu Ji simply gave up his struggle.
"I'm different from you. What's the comparison between a subjugated slave bent on revenge and the heir to the current strongest empire? It doesn't matter whether I like him or not. There's no need, right?"
You don’t have to...but...but I already...
Long Ran screamed louder than anyone else in his heart, but when he opened his mouth, no sound came out.
"Okay! Why are you putting on such a dead expression? It's like you are the one being bullied!"
Seeing his strange expression, Mu Yi also put away the sadness in his eyes, and directly swung Long Ran's arm away with all his strength.
"Actually, I don't hate you. Just like just now, I can actually break free and run away at any time - but you won't hurt me, so there's no need for me to run away!"
She smiled brightly, and her white ankles were slowly pulled out of the river, facing the moonlight, and her eyes were filled with drunkenness.
The person in front of him was not drunk, but it made him feel drunk.
"But don't be too nice to me..."
Mu Yi turned around, a look of sadness that made Long Ran heartbroken flashed through his eyes.
"No one can get anything of value out of someone who is not destined to settle down."
After saying that, she stood up and jumped up, hiding in the shadow of the trees in the dense forest in the moonlight.
Long Ran was still very unwilling——
"Are you asking for it...it's clear that I don't ask for much...are you so timid?"
Or is it that you have already seen the end of the future that you insist on going your own way, so you don’t want to involve anyone?
Yes, she gave everything she had to what she wanted to give, but she never gave people hope for what she couldn't give.
The boy named Bai Yu is like this, and it seems that he is also like this to her.
The window of the tree house was quietly pushed open, and Mu Yi stood by Bai Yu's window facing the moonlight. The boy was half lying on the bed, the clear moonlight outlined his handsome and elegant face, and he was holding a stack of writing in his hand.
A paper full of famous medicinal materials.
She sat next to Bai Yu. He smelled the alcohol on Mu Yu's body and opened his eyes.
"Um...sister, are you back?"
Mu Yi covered Bai Yu's eyes and stuffed a piece of special fish cake into his mouth.
"What is this?" He chewed the soft and juicy fish cake in his mouth, not questioning or resisting Mu Yu's behavior.
"The fish cakes are specially made with candied dates and soothing herbs. You also consumed a lot of them during the ancient battlefield, right?"
Bai Yu didn't like bitter taste very much, so she asked a wood demon from another family to boil candied dates and add the juice to the fish cake, so that he wouldn't feel too uncomfortable when eating it.
"Why cover my eyes?"
He reached out and grabbed her wrist——
"Don't you want me to see your expression?"
The young man could feel Mu Yi's body trembling slightly, and immediately confirmed his guess.
"Can you tell me?"
Mu Yi still didn't speak, but slowly raised his hand and let him touch his cheek.
Bai Yu's fingertips carefully rubbed the side of her face, tracing out every inch of her face.
The eyebrows that should have been raised were frowning at this moment, and the corners of the lips that were always raised towards him were also lowered. The lower lip was bitten tightly, but the expression on the face still seemed to be smiling, trying to hold back and being sad.
Like a child who wants to cry but can't, but still tries to stay optimistic in front of him.
"I won't ask anymore...you...actually can cry..."
Thinking about it this way, it seemed that she had never shown her fragile side in front of anyone in Nilang. Even Bai Yu would only occasionally see her feeling sad alone in a corner.
"I'm your sister...crying in front of your brother...it's too shameful..."
Mu Yi took a deep breath, trying to suppress all the uneasiness in his heart. Bai Yu's fingertips also trembled, and finally hung down weakly.
"You go to sleep, I'll go to the bee demon's place to check on the situation."
A strong wind blew by, and Bai Yu slowly opened his eyes, staring at the empty bedside, feeling lost in his heart.
Bai Yu could probably think of who she was hurt by, but he couldn't interfere...
As long as he is still by her side as a younger brother, he has no right to interfere in the matter between her sister and that person.
"Miss Mu, are you going to the bee demon's territory now?"
In fact, they have already notified the demon clan on the other side, and they will come over to discuss the deal in another three hours.
Ke Muqi clearly couldn't wait... In a bad mood?
After packing up the things in the stone storage, Mu Ji coaxed A Guo to sleep, but Mrs. Chun was still unavoidably worried.
"It doesn't matter. Since it's a transaction, they won't embarrass me too much. At worst, they'll just come back after it falls through."
She covered the boy with a quilt as he gradually fell asleep, her expression extremely relaxed.
"The matter about Young Master Long..."
"I made it clear to him. As for whether he is clear about it, I probably can't control it."
Turning around and leaving the patriarch's tree house, holding the map in his hand, Mu Ji's steps seemed weak and heavy.
"You should stop meddling in their affairs. Although Miss Mu looks careless, she knows better than anyone else."
The leader of the wood demon shook the cradle where A Guo slept and sighed softly, knowing that they might not be able to help Mu Yu.
"Since it is built together by our clansmen, it can only have an additional cultivation effect on our clansmen. There is nothing you can do no matter how you try..."
"That's true... but it's also very amazing! You know, since ancient times, there has never been any demon race in the outside world that can combine its own soul power with demon power and form such a large physical building!"
The powerful demon clan can indeed manifest the soul, but it does not exist for a long time. However, this honeycomb house has been built for thousands of years. If I let my brother know... I will definitely have a green light in my eyes!
The attribute bonuses that this new material can provide will definitely enable many of Mu Xuanji's research to achieve major breakthroughs!