Hiss—

In the small room, the bloody aura diffused away.

As soon as Yu Xuanji grabbed Lu Qiange's robe, his face became extremely painful suddenly. His fingers trembled and his back bent.

"How are you feeling?"

Leng Qingtang looked worried and tried to get out of bed when he spoke.

Lu Qiange held Yu Xuanji with his hands, not blaming him at all,

"Believe me. I never know that he is such a cruel person. I only heard that my Master and Imperial Mother Xiao were acquaintances, so for her sake, he taught Huanan Xin Kungfu and taught him to act like an idiot in front of others just to live a good life in the Palace and not to be killed easily."

Yu Xuanji sat on the bed with a sallow face. Sweat dripping down, he sneered,

"Hmph, it's really a good idea to keep a low profile. He can live a good life in this way, but we've taken a crocodile as a pet. Now he even dares to murder us!"

Leng Qingtang uncovered the man's red robe gently, just to see blood seeping out from the back of his inner shirt. His eyes turned dark, and then he comforted him gently,

"Stop that now, otherwise the wound will open up."

Yu Xuanji drooped his head heavily, his teeth biting his pale lips tightly. He felt so painful that he stopped speaking.

Lu Qiange took out a small oval porcelain bottle from his arms, poured out a little red pill, and handed it to Yu Xuanji,

"Here you are. It can help stop the bleeding."

Yu Xuanji raised his head strenuously and glanced at him. He took the pill silently and swallowed it.

Huanan Jiyan stood aside with her hands crossed, watching the once messy scene. Her mind was filled with countless past events.

The girl frowned sadly, her eyes looking watery. She looked at Yu Xuanji and Leng Qingtang, pressing her lips with bitterness,

"You two really cooperate tacitly. A fake eunuch and a beautiful priest. What did you want through serving my Father in the past every day? Since your plan comes to nothing, you start to hate my brother. In my eyes, you two are no different from him!"

"What did you say?"

Yu Xuanji turned furious when he heard the words, and then looked at the girl coldly.

Had it not been for the pain of his back, he would have flown over definitely and grabbed her slender neck to snap it off instantly.

Leng Qingtang was in a daze for a while, seeming to have nothing to say.

Lu Qiange walked towards her a few steps, and scolded her hurriedly,

"Stay out of this. If you keep talking nonsense, don't follow me then. You can go anywhere you like."

Huanan Jiyan turned even more aggrieved immediately. Her eyes were filled with tears, and she trembled and sobbed.

"I'm homeless. Where can I go if I don't follow you? I didn't say anything wrong. They two also covet my Father's throne. Master Leng, I just want to say, no matter how you fight, you are always members of the Royal Family of Da Yi. Just like my Father and brother, your surname is Huanan!"

The girl was heartbroken, crying and pushing the door to run out of the room.

Lu Qiange let out an annoyed sigh, closed the door severely, and walked to the bed slowly,

"Jiyan didn't mean that..."

The frozen expression slowly disappeared on Leng Qingtang's pale face, and he smiled bitterly,

"I understand what she meant, and what she said was not wrong. The fight between me and her Father and her brother is nothing more than the pursuit of power in the eyes of others, and it is destined to be shameless."

"Brother He..."

Seeing the man bowing his head sadly, Yu Xuanji put a hand on his shoulder, comforting him,

"Now there is no turning back. Even if we want to retreat, what about our men in the Eastern Depot, Huaian, and the informants in the Palace? We can't leave them alone."

Leng Qingtang nodded silently, fixed his eyes on the gorgeous Persian carpet under his feet, sinking into deep thought.

Raising his head suddenly, he looked at Lu Qiange and exhorted,

"You should go to comfort Jiyan. She is a nice girl. You were used to being alone in the past, but now you have her. You should learn to get along with her."

"Eh ... "

Lu Qiange's face turned red, and he looked somewhat embarrassed. He turned his head to look at the door and said,

"Well, you can talk, and I'll go to take a look at her. I will arrange someone to change the medicine for High Priest later."

The door closed, and the sound of footsteps became farther and farther. The room fell into unprecedented silence,

"...Yunxi is Ruo..."

Leng Qingtang looked at the handsome man with blank eyes with amazement,

"You've known that?... Xuanji, I'm sorry. I didn't intend to hide it from you. I just want to take good care of her before I make a great achievement and prevent her identity from leaking out..."

The cold-faced man waved his hand to interrupt Leng Qingtang, and looked into his eyes. His facial features twitched as if he was enduring severe physical and mental pain,

"I'm not a good brother. I'm sorry for her. You were poisoned by Ming Lan that year. I couldn't bear to see you suffer, so I instigated Yunxi to go to Mansion of Ming to change the antidote..."

His tears rolled down, and the man’s weak heart could no longer withstand the crushing grief. He threw himself into Leng Qingtang’s arms, crying and confessing,

"I didn't know that she is just Ruo and she is my sister whom I've been searching for many years, and after she changed her appearance to enter the Palace, I even made things difficult for her several times. Brother He, please scold me and beat me, so that my heart can feel better. I really deserve to die. I don't deserve to be a descendant of Zheng Family, and I'm sorry for Aunt Pei..."

Leng Qingtang's heart ached so much. His eyes and nose gradually turned wet and red, and he spoke to the sad figure in his misty vision,

"It's not your fault. It's not your fault. I'm also responsible for that. I was too selfish, and I used you two. Xuanji... Xiu, we'll be in Wei Sea soon, and we'll meet with Ruo then. From now on, everything will be okay. Everything will be okay."

…

The red sun sank below the horizon, the afterglow sparkling on the vast water faded away. The sky turned purple, and the stars were shining.

The man in a dark black robe stood on the bow of the ship with his hands crossed behind, facing the sea and listening to his subordinates' report. His handsome facial features became tenser and tenser.

"Is the information accurate?" he asked.

Behind him, the man dressed as a guard knelt down on one knee, nodding firmly,

"Our people were on the ship of the declaring eunuch and witnessed the shipwreck of Leng Qingtang's fleet."

The man in the black robe gazed into the distance, and spoke slowly,

"Sure enough, as I expected, Huanan Xin really can't wait anymore. It is estimated that Eunuch Liu should have arrived in Wei Sea, so the next person Huanan Xin will deal with must be Min Rui!"

The guard continued,

"Please rest assured that I have made proper arrangements and will surely let Cheng Wanli and others keep Duke Min alive."

The high black ponytail of the man in the black robe fluttered in the wind. His deep eyes were fixed on the wide sea surface. Watching thousands of dark blue and silver-white light patterns intertwined and layers of dark waves continue to flow, he put on a solemn expression,

"It's okay to keep Min Rui alive temporarily for the sake of Dongqing Fleet. It's just my ninth brother is such a poor man. He has pretended to be a eunuch and has endured much humiliation. After staying in the power market for more than ten years, he was buried in the bottom of the sea finally... I will do the unfinished things for you..."

Closing his eyes, the man said silently in his heart,

"I will protect the person you care about..."

His big hand stretched into the open-breasted robe.

At the stern, Gu Yunxi was hiding behind a thick mast, listening to the conversation of the people at the bow of the ship.

Just now, Qinger's strange behavior finally made Gu Yunxi suspicious. She escaped from the bedroom, looked down quietly from the third floor, and saw the Master discussing things with people on the deck.

Gu Yunxi came downstairs lightly and walked around to the stern, trying to eavesdrop on what they were saying.

Unluckily, she was somewhat far away from them. Except for the whistling sea breeze blowing through her ears, she couldn't hear any other sounds at all.

The girl couldn't help feeling anxious. She peeked toward the bow with scorching eyes, just to see her Master draw a flute from his large robe.

As if hit by thunder and lightning, Gu Yunxi was stunned on the spot for an instant. Widening her shocked eyes, she looked at the seven-foot ebony flute across the sky in disbelief. Under the sky full of stars, it emitted purple-black demon light.

It turned out to be him! How could it be!

A cold and horrible air crept up on her back. The girl was so shocked that her whole body was trembling. The hairs prickling, she staggered back, and was tripped over by a bundle of twine on the ground accidentally.

The unusual muffled noise made the people on the bow notice something, and they gathered around the place where the incident occurred.

Gu Yunxi sat on the ground in horror with a pale complexion, and her body was so soft that she was unable to get up.

Her tears overflowed, and she stared at the handsome man walking in the front of the crowd in amazement, gazing at his facial features. Her neck seemed to be pinched tightly by an invisible big hand. Her voice was completely stuck in her throat, and then she said in a light and hoarse voice,

"You... Why do you..."

"Why do I look exactly like him? You wanna ask about it, right?"

Five steps away, the man stopped calmly, his long eyelashes drooping slightly. The pale and terrifying face of the girl was clearly reflected in his deep eyes,

"It's been a long time since the battle at Yangfangkou in the capital. Has he never told you that he has a twin brother?"