Love is deep but fate is shallow, this beautiful wife has waited for a thousand years

Zhao Minna didn't ask any further questions after hearing this. She knew Ling Xiao was not a person who would lie. He either didn't say anything, or if he did, it must be true.

"What should we do? There are eighteen elders of the Silent Organization hiding around the Ice Cave. It won't be easy for us to get in."

Ling Xiao pondered, "The key issue now is not how we can save her, but whether Duanhun is willing to leave. If she didn't want to be punished, she could have just left. But she insisted on going back to be punished. Maybe there is something we don't know."

"Then shall we wait here?" Zhao Minna looked at the two people guarding the cave entrance.

"I can only challenge the elder." Ling Xiao clenched the sword in his hand.

Zhao Minna opened her eyes wide in surprise when she heard this. "Are you crazy? If you want to enter the Ice Cave, you must defeat five elders in a row. So far, no one has ever succeeded in the challenge."

"I don't want to defeat the five elders," Ling Xiao paused, "I just want an answer."

Zhao Minna was puzzled. She wanted to ask more, but Ling Xiao had already flown out and landed in front of the ice cave. She had no choice but to hide her body and watch his every move.

The two guards drew their weapons and one shouted, "Ghost, what do you want to do?"

Ling Xiao clasped his fists and said, "Don't be nervous, my two brothers. I'm here to challenge the elders, not to break into the cave."

After saying this, he did not wait for the two to answer, and said loudly: "The ghosts of the silent organization want to enter the ice cave. Elders, please give us some advice."

"You can't enter the Ice Cave without a crime, and you can't enter without the lord's order. If you really want to challenge, no matter the death or injury, have you thought it through?" An old voice sounded above the Ice Cave, but no human figure was seen.

Ling Xiao said: "I have thought about it."

Before he could say anything more, Mu Xiaoqiao's voice came from inside the cave, "He hasn't made up his mind yet. Sorry to bother the elders. Ghost, retreat quickly. I entered the Ice Cave voluntarily. It has nothing to do with others."

Ling Xiao curled his lips, "In that case, Ghost will leave."

He turned around and left without asking any more questions. Zhao Minna followed him and asked after walking a long way: "Did you know that Duanhun would stop you?"

"Duanhun is extremely smart. When she heard me challenge her, she must have guessed that I was going to go in and ask if she needed help. Since she tried to stop me, it means that she has her own way to deal with the Ice Cave and we don't need to help."

Zhao Minna shut up. For some reason, the lack of tacit understanding between the two made her feel uncomfortable.

Mu Xiaoqiao had been in the ice cave for an hour. She spoke up to stop Ling Xiao from coming in because as soon as she came in, she saw an unexpected person, Ruan Haoyu.

"Why are you here?"

Although this ice cave is not a forbidden area, not just anyone can enter. Normally, there are eighteen elders guarding it, so it can be said that not even a fly can fly in. Why is this person here?

Ruan Haoyu sat on the ice and said helplessly, "I don't want to be here either. It's cold here, there's no bed, and there's nothing good to eat. I don't want to come even if you invite me."

"But no one invited you, yet you are here anyway." After the initial shock, Mu Xiaoqiao regained his composure and sat down directly on the spot.

Ruan Haoyu shook his head. "A dog bites Lu Dongbin, and he doesn't know a good person's heart."

He tossed a white jade pendant back and forth, and said nonchalantly, "If my old man hadn't told me to save your life, do you think I would have come?"

"Old man? Who is he?" Mu Xiaoqiao has never figured out why Ruan Haoyu knows her so well and goes out of his way to save her. Now it seems that there is someone behind him, and it seems that this is not an ordinary person.

"Don't worry about who it is. If you keep asking, you'll turn yourself into an ice sculpture." Ruan Haoyu stood up, walked to Mu Xiaoqiao and handed her a pill.

"Eat it, and I guarantee you won't die within twelve hours."

Mu Xiaoqiao took it and put it into her mouth without even looking at it. She seemed to have a natural sense of trust in this person.

"Aren't you afraid that it's poison?" Ruan Haoyu was a little surprised to see her eating so quickly.

"What is there to be afraid of? Being poisoned to death is better than being frozen to death." Mu Xiaoqiao closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing. Sure enough, he felt the coldness in his body recede bit by bit.

At this moment, Ling Xiao's voice came from outside the cave.

After sending Ling Xiao away, Ruan Haoyu said playfully, "I didn't expect that there would be someone among the assassins who would risk his life for you. It seems that you have good relationships with people."

"Maybe better than you." Seeing him sitting down leisurely again, Mu Xiaoqiao couldn't help but ask, "Are you planning to stay here with me for twelve hours?"

Ruan Haoyu raised the corners of his lips handsomely, "Yes, are you very touched?"

Mu Xiaoqiao looked at him, her black and white eyes were full of inquiry. Ruan Haoyu looked at her for a moment, defeated, and said unwillingly: "Okay, I tell you, the 18 old men outside owed my old man a favor, so they let me in. I don't want to be discovered by others, so I can only wait until you leave before going out."

Mu Xiaoqiao closed her eyes again and adjusted her breathing, then said calmly, "I didn't ask you to explain."

Ruan Haoyu was furious. Is this guy taking advantage of others and still acting like a good kid?

"There is something I need to tell you. I saved you only because my old man asked me to do it. I had to do it. You didn't have to say anything about repaying my life-saving favor last time."

He doesn't want to be entangled with this woman for the rest of his life.

Mu Xiaoqiao opened her eyes and saw that he was trying to avoid her. She was not angry, but said calmly, "I swore that I would only show my body to one person in this life. If you don't marry me, I will kill you. You choose one."

"..." Ruan Haoyu was overwhelmed, "Is there a third option?"

"No." Mu Xiaoqiao refused bluntly.

In her hazy childhood memory, she once went to the river to play with several friends. The weather was hot, and the little boys took off their clothes to bathe and play in the river. She also took off her clothes and went into the water to play. Later, her mother came, pulled her ashore, and told her that as a girl, your body is very important and you can't show it to others casually. If you are seen, you have to marry that person.

Not long after that, her mother died. Her mother's appearance had become blurry in her mind, but she always remembered this sentence.

Ruan Haoyu saved her, and after seeing her body, she couldn't kill her savior, so she had no choice but to marry him.

Ruan Haoyu was speechless for a while. "I had no choice but to save people. Besides, in the eyes of doctors, the patient's body is just a combination of organs. There is nothing special about it. If I had to marry a person for every one I saved, I would have had many wives and concubines by now."