Gu Qinghe then realized that he had ignored the person outside the door and waved for him to come in.

Without the pressure and dominance of a superior, the young man looked brighter and more cheerful. He was wearing a dark red suit with a cloud pattern on the collar and a jade belt around his waist, looking noble and neat.

Gu Qinghe hadn't realized anything was wrong yet, so she softly asked the person who had disappeared for a day and a half and suddenly appeared again, "Is there something wrong?"

Wei Yanshi understood as soon as he saw her expression, and immediately swallowed all the words he had prepared. He looked at her ankles and changed the subject: "I'll have someone prepare a carriage to take you back?"

Gu Qinghe moved her ankle, and the pain made her nod subconsciously. After she came to her senses, she realized something was wrong, and her brain started to work quickly. She asked hesitantly, "Liu Bai... Are you the prince of the banquet? Is your surname Wei?"

No wonder she realized it only now. It was because the impression of the first meeting was too deep. She could not regard the silly and cute Liu Bai and the noble and elegant young man in front of her as the same person.

A hint of vigilance began to fill her eyes.

Wei Yanshi finally let go of his worries and started to speak out the prepared speech: "Qinghe, have you heard of the Prince of Yong'an?"

Gu Qinghe didn't know, but that didn't stop her from wanting to know: "Are you him?"

Wei Yanshi's expression did not change, he nodded and said, "Yes."

Gu Qinghe crossed his arms, with a look of disbelief: "If you are a prince, why do they all call you Prince?"

"My father served as the late emperor's successor and endured humiliation for him for decades. In the end, he was nowhere to be found. To make up for my father, the late emperor bestowed on me the title of prince."

"I was weak and sickly since childhood and was locked up at home to study. Later, when I was older, an old Taoist priest told the late emperor that I would be healthy only if I learned martial arts. So I was sent to other places and have been traveling and learning martial arts ever since."

Wei Wu, who had been standing outside the door, felt ashamed when he heard that his master had stolen the identity of the Smiling Tiger. He lowered his head silently and dared not utter a sound, for fear that he would not be able to control himself and betray his master.

Gu Qinghe stared at the slightly fleshy face of the boy in front of him, as if he wanted to see through him: "You didn't lie to me?"

There are very few documents about Yan Chao in modern times. There are not many records even about the emperor, let alone a prince.

"I didn't lie to you." Wei Yanshi frowned and said seriously, "My last name is Wei, and my name is Yongzhen. Qinghe, if you go to Yandu in the future, you can find out whether what I said is false."

The sunlight from outside the door shone onto the young man through the wide-open windowsill, making him look hazy.

Gu Qinghe put aside her doubts and asked him, "What is your relationship with Prince Wei Yanshi of Yan Dynasty?"

Gu Qinghe is the only one in the world who calls the Prince by his full name.

Wei Yanshi said: "Political enemies, disagreements."

The six light words encompassed the relationship between the two people. Gu Qinghe stared at him again and again, never expecting that the person she resented and hated would be so incompatible with the young man she rescued.

She asked, "Was it him who caused you to fall off the cliff after being seriously injured a dozen days ago?"

"No, I'm still checking."

"Then do you know where he is now?"

Gu Qinghe couldn't explain what he was thinking at that moment, but he was inexplicably eager to know about that person, as if he was breaking through the wall of time and space to travel through another dimension to explore that person's seemingly wonderful but actually ill-fated life.

She wanted to know everything, good or bad.

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