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"Don't look back... "Don't look at me …"

As if he were coaxing a child, there was still a faint smile in his eyes as he gently covered her eyelids with one hand and then turned her around with the other.

Luo Yi gasped heavily as she suddenly sat up from the bed.

"..." "No."

After pausing for two seconds, Luo Yi still did not speak the truth. She shook her head and said that the windows in her room were not closed tightly, and was woken up by the cold wind, but when she closed the window, she accidentally saw sitting in the yard, so she came out to take a look: "What are you doing here?"

She lifted her hand to catch a snowflake and watched it melt in her palm. "Aren't you cold?"

"No …" "Achoo!"

Before he could finish his denial, he was interrupted by a sneeze that suddenly rushed to his mouth. Tang Yuan touched the tip of his nose awkwardly and wrapped the quilt tighter. "If you could save me a bit of trouble, I wouldn't even need to guard you here."

He sighed, stood up from the chair, and pulled Luo Yi along to follow him back to the house: "Also, you clearly know that it's cold outside, yet you're still wearing such thin clothes, you're afraid that I haven't used a needle for a long time, so you want to use a hand to practice right?"

When Tang Yuan said this, he felt like an old father who was worrying his heart out for his disobedient children.

However, the old man was still not satisfied. After boiling the tea, he personally watched Luo Yi drink it and felt that the air in his chest had slightly calmed down. Then, he took the empty bowl and ordered Luo Yi to hurry back to her bed to sleep.

"Hurry up!" He was furious and even yawned as he spoke, "I have to go back to sleep as well!"

The snow outside the window began to fall silently.

The window had already been closed by Tang Yuan when the two of them came back. It was unknown if Luo Yi was really sleepy or not, but when she heard this, she immediately laid back down on the bed. Before the two of them could express their dissatisfaction, she had subconsciously tucked her arm back into the blanket.

Tang Yuan turned his head to look at her. Although his expression was still solemn, he relaxed quite a bit. Before he left, he was still in a good mood as he said, "Good night."

Unfortunately, this good mood was fleeting.

He raised his head to look at the darkening sky and sighed in his heart.

He had found Luo Yi at the outermost region of the Fringe City.

That place was close to the border between the two countries, so there weren't many people there on normal days. During wartime, it was even more desolate, and it was rare to see a single person in half a month. He had heard that there was an extremely rare medicinal herb growing on the mountains nearby, so he carried the basket on his back to try his luck. Who knew that he wouldn't be able to pick the herb?

When he thought of the scene from that day, Tang Yuan's eyes couldn't help but darken.

When he picked up Luo Yi, Luo Yi had already been lying there for who knows how many days, but she was not injured at all, even if she did not wake up, her face was completely bloodless. Tang Yuan had guarded over her for three days and three nights, he did not even dare close his eyes, afraid that he would lose consciousness just by looking at her.

Thus, it was not until Luo Yi opened his eyes that Tang Yuan was so angry that she ignored her for a few days.

"I told you long ago not to go to such a dangerous place …"

Tang Yuan had never been so embarrassed like this in his life. Not only Luo Yi, even he herself was a little unaccustomed to it, but he was really furious and did not even utter a single word. "I'll just let you live and die, so that you won't act so cheap again!"

"Sorry for making you worry …" Luo Yi's attitude was good, she did not dispute a single word, and immediately apologized, causing Tang Yuan to swallow his words, but in the end she went back home with a glare.

He was a few years older than Luo Yi, and because he had grown up together with Luo Yi, he viewed Luo Yi as if they were his own little sister. However, this little sister of his was truly worried, as they had spent countless of times to snatch their lives from the hands of the King of Hell, before they spent the entire night unable to sleep.

At first, Tang Yuan didn't know, but he could only watch Luo Yi lose weight at a speed visible to the naked eye. He thought that it was because she wasn't good at eating, so every day she would cook for him, but who knew that Luo Yi would eat quite a few meals and the meat would not grow at all. Tang Yuan was extremely anxious, he thought that when Lin Ting came back and saw Luo Yi like this, he would definitely fight him to the death! But to ask Luo Yi, the other party did not say a word …

Tang Yuan wished that he could drink the tonics he gave Luo Yi everyday into her head!

However, he couldn't just ignore her out of annoyance. Tang Yuan sighed helplessly. After his anger subsided, he still had to think of another way, until one night he was woken up by the annoying barking of a dog. He woke up in a daze, wanting to go see what had happened.

Tang Yuan was startled — the girl squatting in the yard had a sober expression on her face. She didn't look like she had just been woken up.

After that, Tang Yuan secretly observed her for a few days. He found that Luo Yi really had symptoms of insomnia and asked her the reason …

"I don't dare to sleep."

There was nothing left to hide after being discovered, so Luo Yi answered carelessly while playing with her fingertips.

"What does' not dare to sleep 'mean? "You …"

At this point, Tang Yuan suddenly stopped.

In fact, when he found out that Luo Yi was not injured, he already knew that the reason why she was in such a coma, was because she had a heart disease. However, a heart disease, once treated, would be like being reborn, if it could not be treated, it would be like being salted. As a result, he did not dare to speak of it easily, and only waited for Luo Yi to be willing to speak of it on a particular day, but seeing the situation before him …

Tang Yuan unconsciously lowered his voice. "Where is the person who went with you to the Northern Tribes?"

"Dead."

Luo Yi never thought that Tang Yuan would ask her this question. After being stunned for a second, she still answered honestly.

She didn't seem to mind at all, and the tone of her voice was not the same as when she was arguing with him. She even remembered to remind him if the medicine was going to be ready in the kitchen.

"Ugh …" "Soon." Tang Yuan estimated the time according to her words and then casually changed the topic, "It's only natural for people to die from old age and sickness. You don't have to be too sad, but he has taken care of you for so long, so we should express our gratitude."

"Is there anyone else in his family?"

"Is there anything you can tell me on your behalf?"

"Where is the cemetery? We can also burn incense in the clear. "

He asked again and again, his tone still as calm as ever, yet, under these questioning, Luo Yi almost couldn't sit still. Since he had nothing to hold on to, he desperately clenched his hands, forming red seals in his palms one after another.

She had her parents at home, and her last words were still lingering in her ears. After she died …

There was no fixed location.

It was unknown which of the three sentences had provoked her, but Luo Yi's eyes instantly turned scarlet, and he almost wanted to pinch his nails into his palms to make himself bleed. Just like at that time, Xu Heng's blood had also dyed her entire hand.

She looked to be in an extremely sorry state, but Tang Yuan sat to one side and did not speak a word to comfort her.

The process of extracting the poison was like a change of blood. Only when the poison in the body was cleared by extreme pain would new and cleaner blood begin to circulate.

Luo Yi finally cried, but due to the great tragedy, he lost her voice, making him look like a mute. Her heart was clearly filled with extreme pain, yet she was unable to make a sound.

That day, she didn't notice that there was another person in the forest. When she was knocked unconscious, she vaguely heard Liu Liangyun say that he was going to take her somewhere.

She hadn't heard the details of the location clearly, but it shouldn't be a good place, so Luo Yi had never thought that she would see Xu Heng again.

When she woke up, she felt pain at the back of her head. Her first reaction was to reach into her bosom and touch the piece of jade that Chen Long An had given her. She breathed a sigh of relief. It was still there.

It was only at this moment that she had the mood to observe her current position.

A three-sided wall, a narrow passageway... Luo Yi frowned, thinking that Liu Liangyun had probably thrown her into a dead end.

But why?

A group of crows flew over her head. Luo Yi carefully made her way to the entrance of the alleyway, and just as she stuck his head out, she was caught off guard and bumped into a pair of eyes.

Luo Yi was startled.

His pupils enlarged slightly but his reaction was shockingly fast. As he shouted to stop the man who was carrying him as he sprinted, he reached out his hand and dragged Luo Yi deeper into the alley.

The man tilted his head in confusion and glanced at him, but he did not make any objections. He only turned his head to look at the soldiers that had not caught up to him yet and reminded them in a slow and unhurried manner, "Be careful, give chase."

This was a dead end, hiding here would only result in death. The man did not believe that the only son of the Li Kingdom's prime minister did not understand, but he took money to help the man – the man who gave him the money only said that he would listen to the man's words, as for whether or not he could save him in the end …

It doesn't matter.

With this thought in mind, he didn't say anything else and just leaned against the wall.

Xu Heng was wearing a prison uniform and wearing an outer coat, which was already drenched in blood. He turned his head to look at the alley entrance, and spoke with a voice that sounded a little strange: "Why are you here?"

She was completely unaware of Liu Liangyun's motive for leaving her here, but she clearly knew what kind of situation Xu Heng was in right now. She forcefully pushed him, urging him to run: "Run! Didn't they say that the pursuers would catch up to us soon? "

"What about you?" Xu Heng lowered his voice and asked.

"I'm fine …" Luo Yi wanted to say that now was not the time to worry about her, and his words were cut off by Xu Heng before he could finish: "Liu Liangyun left you here, right?"

Stupid girl.

A helpless look surfaced on Xu Heng's face, "Didn't I tell you not to trust anyone?"

Luo Yi, "..."

She immediately realised her bad intentions, but when she was nervous, her mind suddenly turned faster than ever, thus she quickly made her choice. However, Xu Heng's movements was always faster than hers, so before she could even speak, her eyes were covered by someone: "It's useless."

Xu Heng said: "They want me."

"But the one who truly controls the fate of Li Kingdom is you."

He and Luo Yi made the same decision at the same time.

Then, as if he was coaxing a child, Xu Heng gently covered her eyelids with one hand and coaxed her to turn around with the other. "Don't turn your head, don't look at me."

There was a thin cut on his finger, and the dried blood left a red smudge at the corner of her eye. It looked like she was crying blood.

The smell of blood was not strong, but this faint scent was magnified in her countless dreams of the future, and eventually became a nightmare that wrapped itself around her for the rest of her life.

Luo Yi lowered her eyes as her eyelashes swept across the center of Xu Heng's palm, giving rise to an itch.

She knew what Xu Heng meant. Compared to an ordinary girl, the Northern Tribe was obviously more interested in the only son of the Li Kingdom's prime minister. If she was the one caught here today, then the entire Northern Tribes would be under martial law.

"Send her away."

As he spoke, Xu Heng's hand was still on Luo Yi's eyelids. The man who was leaning against the wall raised his eyebrows, as he was unable to understand the direction of the strange story in front of him.

At that time, Luo Yi was very obedient and did not turn her head back, nor did she open her eyes, but it was probably because she did not see anything, and when she heard the news, her mind would immediately replay the scenes they had painted, regardless of how they were rendered or how they were processed.

"I heard that he …" Luo Yi paused for a moment, and then said with a throaty pain, "I always dream about the scene when he was executing her punishment."

The blood ran all over the ground, and then it was trampled under the shoes of the people who came and went, and it was as if every inch of the earth had been stained with his blood.