"Hey, wake up." Wang Qing put one hand behind Mu Tian's back and used the other one to pat his face.

Mu Tian's face was even smaller than Wang Qing's palm. He just wanted to let down their guard, but he overdid it. Now the two were too drunk to tell him anything.

When he watched Mu Tian from a distance, he only found him pretty. Now he looked at Mu Tian closely and he was amazed by Mu Tian's red lips and fair skin that had no pores, which made him swallow.

"Come here," Wang Qing said to the two guards outside.

"My Lord."

He ordered coldly, "Take them back."

One guard carried Feng Ziling on his shoulder quickly, and the other walked up to Wang Qing to take over Mu Tian from Wang Qing.

"It's okay. Let's go." Wang Qing seized Mu Tian around the waist and avoided the guard's hands reaching for Mu Tian.

Mu Tian was even lighter than he expected. Wondering if Mu Tian was eating properly, Wang Qing frowned.

Putting Feng Ziling and Murong Xue in their carriages, Wang Qing and his guards left the city quietly.

At the same time, Prince Yan finally could see Jiu Huang off. Jiu Yan breathed a sigh of relief and walked to Mu Tian's yard. He met Fu on the way there.

Fu asked reverently, "My Lord, are you looking for our guests?"

"Yes." Jiu Yan did not stop his steps, moving toward the yard.

Fu said, "Wait, my Lord. They went out at noon."

Jiu Yan stopped and turned around. "Where did they go? Are there any guards with them?"

Fu kept lowering his head. "They did not tell me where they went. They just said they wanted to hang out. They brought no guards with them. "

"Why no guards? How long have they been away?"

"Before noon, they left after the crown prince came. It has been about six hours and they haven't come back yet."

Frowning, Jiu Yan said, "Send some people to look for them. Just follow them quietly when our men find them." Not knowing why, he had an uneasy feeling.

"Yes!" Fu hurried out of the yard lest he would waste any time.

Fu had thought that the two would come back soon. When the two did not come back or show up for dinner, he had a bad feeling.

A small carriage went out of the city with no problem. The guards in black handed a bag of money to the gatekeepers and the latter just let the carriage leave when they found nothing suspicious after having a quick glimpse from the curtain.

The carriage sped up when it passed the gate, heading for the opposite.

At night, Murong Xue woke up. Once she opened her eyes, she suffered a bad hangover. She felt sick.

Then she saw Wang Qing's face close to hers, which made her eyes wide open. Finding herself in his arms, she recovered from dizziness at once and tried to sit up in a panic.

But a pair of big hands grabbed her by the shoulder and stopped her from standing up. "Don't move." The voice was deep and anxious.

The last thing Murong Xue would do now was to stay in his arms. She struggled harder and harder.

"I told you to sit still. You'd better do it if you don't want me to do anything to you." Wang Qing's attractive voice sounded a little annoyed.

Murong Xue froze for a moment and stopped struggling. She glanced over the carriage and failed to see Feng Ziling, which made her face change several times. "Where is my friend?"

Wang Qing took a cold look at her and opened the cap of a jar on the desk. Holding the jar up to Mu Tian's lips, he said, "Drink the revive soup. Otherwise, you'd suffer."

Mu Tian drank a few mouthfuls and asked anxiously, "Where is my friend?"

"Are you sure he is your friend, not your lover?" Wang Qing's eyes shone cold.

"Let me sit down. Don't you find us pressing each other disgusting?" Murong Xue fell asleep on Wang Qing's lap before. When she woke up and tried to sit up just now, he stopped her by grabbing her shoulder. So now she was lying on his chest.

Murong Xue was very thin, so now it looked like Wang Qing holding her.

"Disgusting? Isn't it disgusting when you are with Feng Ziling?" Wang Qing had never been with men before, but he found Mu Tian acceptable. Mu Tian was a good-looking man and he had a refreshing smell Wang Qing liked.

"What are you talking about?" Murong Xue found it unbelievable.

"Aren't you in a relationship with him?" Wang Qing took Mu Tian by his pointed chin with one hand.

Murong Xue changed her face and her expression was twisted. She asked Wang Qing with a weird look, "Do you think so?" She was so annoyed that she wanted to laugh.

"Aren't you?"

Murong Xue slapped his hand away and pushed his body to keep some distance. "You are insane. Of course not. The one I love is not him." She tidied herself up and found nothing unusual, which relieved her. "Where is my friend? Where are you taking us?" She revealed the curtain to see the outside, but it was so dark that she could only see the trees on both sides vaguely. She saw no people except them.

"So you two... really not?" Wang Qing wondered if he misunderstood them. "If so, why did two men hold hands? Don't you find it disgusting?" He suppressed the uneasy feeling inside him while talking to Mu Tian.

"He is like a brother to me. As for holding hands, why are you so obsessed with others' habits? Where is he?" Murong Xue doubted if Feng Ziling was killed and wiped out.

"Relax. He is in the other carriage." Wang Qing did not stop surveying Mu Tian with his eyes.

"I want to see him." Murong Xue would not rest assured until she saw him in person immediately.

"Sit back."

Murong Xue froze for a moment and still raised the curtain, but Wang Qing held her back before she could jump off the carriage. Now she was in his arms again.

"I'm interested in you. Do you want to be my concubine?" Wang Qing's breath swept over Mu Tian's face.

Murong Xue snapped, "Are you crazy? I'm a man." She doubted if he found her secret, but it did not seem possible.

"Huh, I know you are a man." Wang Qing gave an evil smile.

Murong Xue's face paled at once and her eyes were wide open. She pointed at Wang Qing and asked in a shaking voice, "Do you have that hobby?"

"What? Do you find it disgusting? I think I am good enough for you as someone who is second to none in the world." Wang Qing did not mind that Mu Tian was a man. In fact, many men were waiting in line to get the chance to lie down with him.

Murong Xue pushed him away fiercely. "Stop making fun of me. I only like women." If her voice had been firm, it would have sounded much more convincing.

"How do you know you dislike men? Maybe you'll prefer men to women after you have a try." Wang Qing eyed Mu Tian up and down.

"Freak! I'm in love with someone. If you force me, I'll kill myself." Murong Xue gave him a cold stare.

"Don't worry. I never force people to do things. You'll want to lie down with me and beg for my love one day."

Murong Xue bit her lip in a rage of humiliation. Glaring at Wang Qing, she did not expect a seemingly decent man to be so disgusting. But she knew the most important thing now was to see Feng Ziling.

"Come and sit here. Why are you keeping a distance from me? I won't hurt you." Wang Qing asked Mu Tian to sit next to him with a gesture.

Murong Xue found it ridiculous. She was not stupid enough to sit by someone who was coveting her. She moved further into the corner and all huddled together.

She would have chosen to hide her real face if she had known that men would want her. She wondered if the gay relationship was trending here and why Wang Qing was so open to it.

And then it occurred to her that she could get rid of him by becoming a woman since Wang Qing liked men. Murong Xue's eyes lit up and darkened.

"I want to see my friend."

"You'll see him when we take a break later."

"Where are you taking us?" Murong Xue found that she was getting further and further away from the city.

"To my country."

Murong Xue changed her face. "Your country? Where are you from?"

"Why are you so surprised? Haven't you already known it? I'm the king of Fire Country, Qing. You're lucky enough to be with me."

Murong Xue was sure that she never wanted this kind of luck.

She was thinking about what she should do now.

"We are not your people. Is it okay to take us to Fire Country? What if we are spies?"

"Relax. I'll treat you as spies."

Choked by his answer, Murong Xue was annoyed.

But she missed the smile on Wang Qing's face.

Murong Xue felt silent as she was thinking about how to get away. She was never planning to go to Fire Country. Fire Country and Wind Country had decided to cooperate and the world was going to have an earthquake. One month was transient, and she had not produced gunpowder yet. More importantly, she did not have time to verify the news she got in the restaurant that the crown prince of Snow Country was of the bloodline of dragons. She had to stay in Snow Country with Feng Ziling anyway because it was the fastest way to leave.

"What are you thinking?" asked Wang Qing.

Murong Xue threw him a glance and remained silent. He and she were supposed to be enemies, so she felt that they should not talk to each other.

"Speak!"

"I have nothing to say to you. I don't know what you're up to, but we are normal people who want to stay away from the competition between your countries. You'd better drop us off here now. Aren't you worried that Jiu Yan comes to look for you?" Murong Xue mentioned Jiu Yan directly, trying to intimidate Wang Qing.

Wang Qing answered contemptuously, "I don't believe a word you said. Who cares about Jiu Yan? Do you think you are so important that he would go after me with the army?"