Li Yaozhi's letter was sent to Yunzhou, intercepted by Anan, and handed over to Liu Pinjue.

Abei once suspected that he was here to provoke him.

Only Liu Pinjue knew that Xiao Yurong was now in Yunzhou, so how could Li Yaozhi provoke him?

It would be better to say that she could only beg for mercy, begging him to return Xiao Yurong to her, and she would give her whatever she wanted.

It is so sincere and full of emotion that it makes the listeners cry and the hearers sad.

If Liu Pinjue had written such a good article in the past, he would have definitely given Li Yaozhi a review of it as an excellent work.

After reading the letter, Liu Pinjue burned it with an expressionless face.

Want Xiao Yurong now? Don't even think about it.

On the contrary, Xiao Yurong was no different from usual. Except that his freedom was restricted and he could not go in and out freely, even his food, clothing and other expenses were no different at all.

But Liu Pinjue just refused to see her.

Xiao Yurong became increasingly anxious as he could not see the important and relevant people.

Xiao Yurong certainly thought about escaping, but he was in the enemy camp, Liu Pinjue's lair, and it was impossible to escape.

Counting the days, the other party must know that his identity has been discovered and he has been detained.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yurong became even more anxious.

Given Li Yaozhi's paranoid personality that he would finish writing his biography and then burn himself to death after she died, Xiao Yurong had no doubt that Li Yaozhi would write a letter to Liu Pinjue, begging him to let her go, and Li Yaozhi could give her everything.

How can I get Liu Pinjue to come and see her?

Xiao Yurong thought for a while and thought about Liu Pinjue's usual habit. He would definitely ask one of Anan and Abei to look after him.

Just have to give it a try.

Xiao Yurong weighed Ye Xing in his arms, then suddenly drew his knife and pointed it at his own throat.

Almost in an instant, a black shadow flashed out, and a huge force pressed down Xiao Yurong's wrist and took away the knife.

"Xiao Yurong, I think you are really crazy!" Ah Bei cursed while gritting his teeth, his whole body trembling.

The bet was right!

Xiao Yurong suppressed the joy in his heart and said to Ah Bei calmly: "I want to see Liu Pinjue."

"The master won't see you now!" Ah Bei snatched the knife and pushed Xiao Yurong away. "Don't think about committing suicide. I will take away all the sharp weapons on you. Even the hairpin will be blunted for you!"

Xiao Yurong sneered: "Okay, then let's see whether you can defend against me or I have more tricks. It's better for me to die by banging my head against the wall than to be a prisoner!"

Ah Bei said angrily, "Don't threaten me. Do you think this is still the Yujing Taifu Mansion? You can live or die, who cares!"

"Then why are you stopping me? Give me back the knife!" Xiao Yurong spread his hands towards him.

Ah Bei carried Ye Xing on his back and said, "You are still very useful now, but you can't die."

"Then ask Liu Pinjue to come see me! Otherwise I can always find a way!" Xiao Yurong threatened.

Abei confronted Xiao Yurong for a while, but was finally defeated.

He was so angry that his face turned red. "I have burned paper money for you every month, but after seeing you once, you still act so willful and reckless!"

"Who cares?" Xiao Yurong crossed his arms, as domineering as ever, "Go call Liu Pinjue over, or I'll kill myself for you right now."

"You!" Ah Bei was furious and walked away in anger, "You are so unreasonable!"

Xiao Yurong looked at his back and breathed a sigh of relief.

Abei is not good at talking, and as always, he still can't win the argument with her.

After Liu Pinjue heard that Xiao Yurong wanted to commit suicide, he really came.

"When did I teach you this method? Crying, making a fuss and then hanging yourself is simply ridiculous." Liu Pinjue walked into the house.

The wound from when Xiao Yurong stabbed him last time has not healed yet, and his face is still pale.

Xiao Yurong looked straight at him, "How did you find me among all the dancers?"

Liu Pinjue laughed: "The dancers beside you are so tender and affectionate, but your eyes are always like that, cold, hot, and ambitious... Qingqing, when you act, you have to hide your eyes."

Xiao Yurong snorted coldly.

"Why do you want to see me? You went to so much trouble to ask Abei to move in with me, it's not necessarily just to ask this question, right?" Liu Pinjue asked.

Xiao Yurong closed his eyes and calmed down, "What do you want to do?"

"What?" Liu Pinjue raised his eyebrows, "Don't worry, I won't kill you. You are very useful."

He said, "You can be used to threaten the Chu Nan clan, especially the old Zhaoyang clan in Yujing. The Xiao clan, the Huo clan, the Li clan, and even the Wang clan and the Xie clan will be influenced by you."

Seeing Xiao Yurong's increasingly gloomy face, Liu Pinjue raised the corners of his lips, "Li Yaozhi has sent a letter to beg me to release you, saying that as long as I am willing to release you, he will do anything."

"If I had made a more direct move, I could have just asked him to commit suicide in front of the battlefield, and then used you to exchange for the kingdom from Xiao Yuxie." Liu Pinjue said, "Even if Xiao Yuxie is a bit ruthless and can't get the kingdom in exchange, using you to exchange for Luoti and Pingnan is more than enough."

"No!" Xiao Yurong retorted subconsciously.

"No?" Liu Pinjue glanced at Xiao Yurong sideways, his lowered brows full of intimidation, as if a huge burden was coming towards him, making people shudder.

"Who are you to say this to me?" Liu Pinjue sneered, "Princess? Or a disciple? Who do you think you are?"

Xiao Yurong's expression was blank for a moment, then he reacted.

It seemed as if something had shattered silently.

Yes, she should have come to her senses long ago, so why should she still hold out hope?

She had just survived a life-and-death situation, hasn't she reacted yet?

Xiao Yurong closed her eyes, took out the hairpin that she had hidden away after Ah Bei left, and put it against her neck, "Liu Pinjue, write a letter to Shao Yan, saying that I am already dead and there is no need to save me."

"What do you mean?" Liu Pinjue narrowed his eyes dangerously.

"If you want to force Shao Yan to die, then I will die before him. In this way, how can you use me to threaten them and exchange for the important land?" Xiao Yurong said calmly.

Liu Pinjue stared at Xiao Yurong, "You won't die easily, otherwise you would have died that time you faked your death, and you wouldn't be standing here now."

"Do you want to try it?" Xiao Yurong put the hairpin close to her neck.

The scar caused by Liu Pinjue's pressure on her body began to bleed again, but her expression did not change at all.

"I'd rather die than have you use me to get those things," she said.

"Since you want to die so badly, why not just go ahead and die." Liu Pinjue fixed his eyes on Xiao Yurong and said in a cold tone, "Take your body. Do you believe that Xiao Yuxie would be willing to exchange your body for your whole body, even if it was broken into pieces?"

Xiao Yurong bit her lower lip tightly, and finally swallowed the salty and unbearable taste of blood by herself.

With lightning speed, Liu Pinjue took advantage of Xiao Yurong's unpreparedness and snatched the hairpin from her hand. With his other hand, he grabbed Xiao Yurong's throat and pushed her against the wall.

A silent and heavy figure covered Xiao Yurong. Liu Pinjue held the hairpin tightly in his hand. The delicate and cold gold piece of the hairpin was imprinted into his flesh, oozing blood.

But he seemed unaware of the pain and stared at Xiao Yurong intently, as if it was a sign of a coming storm.

"Xiao Qingqing, who allowed you to threaten me with your own life?" Liu Pinjue placed his hand lightly on Xiao Yurong's neck, forcing her to look up and face him.

The feeling of suffocation made Xiao Yurong blink his eyes with difficulty.

She forced a smile, "Liu Pinjue, you are so reluctant to let me die, could it be that you are in love with me?"

"Heh." Liu Pinjue loosened his hand and threw Xiao Yurong onto the bed.

He said coldly: "How can we maximize the benefits by killing you?"

"What? So when you kissed me, was it also for maximizing benefits?" Xiao Yurong raised his head and gave Liu Pinjue a sarcastic smile.

Liu Pinjue paused and lowered his eyes, "Xiao Qingqing, don't think of using this trick to threaten me again."

He turned and walked away.

Xiao Yurong vaguely heard Liu Pinjue's voice outside, telling Anan: "Liu Bei can't take good care of her, you come and take away all the things that can cause trouble for her!"

"Yes." Anan's voice.

Xiao Yurong slumped down on the ground helplessly and took a deep breath.

The wound on the side of her neck was torn again and it hurt slightly, so she clenched her fists.

We can only find another way.

After all, the only thing she holds in her hands now is her own life.

Knowing that Liu Pinjue cared about her life, and also knowing that Liu Pinjue cared about her to some extent, she could only take a gamble, betting that Liu Pinjue would not be willing to let her go.

If this doesn't work, she can only pin her hopes on Yi Yan.

It doesn’t matter, it’s just a bloody mess.

If this was the price to victory, she could certainly afford it.

Xiao Yurong was quiet for a while, as if he had accepted his fate. He ate and drank as usual every day, but he was a little unhappy.

Also, Xiao Yurong always pestered Anan to let her go out for a walk, or to bring a message to Liu Pinjue.

Of course, Anan rejected all of these, even though every detail of Xiao Yurong's daily news was reported to Liu Pinjue.

Xiao Yurong behaved very normally, and even Anan relaxed his guard.

"Go tell Liu Pinjue to stop hiding from me and come out to see me." Xiao Yurong started with an opening statement as usual, "Otherwise I will commit suicide right away in front of him!"

She is still as willful and talkative as she was when she was a child.

Anan could almost recite Liu Pinjue's reply: "Stop it, I've been using this trick since I was a kid."

"Hmph!" Xiao Yurong curled his lips.

Anan found some books and writing materials for Xiao Yurong to kill time.

"Your calligraphy and painting are still so exquisite." Anan praised.

Xiao Yurong curved his lips and raised his eyebrows, "Then I'll give you these paintings and calligraphy. In exchange, you let me go out for a walk."

This kind of topic had come up between them more than once, and Anan was used to it.

He shook his head helplessly, "You know this is impossible."

"Last time I helped you hide it from the master, and the master punished me severely, but he didn't punish you." Anan said.

"I knew it." Xiao Yurong sighed.

Anan didn't take it seriously, "You're almost ready for dinner, I'll wait outside."

Xiao Yurong ignored him, and he didn't care either, and walked out.

Xiao Yurong sat there, quietly waiting for something.

Until night fell, the person who delivered the meal brought the sumptuous meal out of the food boxes and placed it on the table one by one.

In front of the person who delivered the meal, Xiao Yurong stabbed his wrist with the candlestick without any warning.

With a crisp "crackling" sound, the food scattered all over the floor.

Seeing the blood gushing out, the waiter rushed out screaming, "Someone come! Someone come quickly!"

When the dishes and chopsticks fell to the ground, Anan was already alert.

Hearing the noise, Anan immediately controlled the panicked waiter with one hand and rushed in.

Seeing the blood all over the place, his eyes were bloodshot.

"Princess!" Anan held the wound on Xiao Yurong's wrist, picked up Xiao Yurong and rushed out.

At this time, he couldn't care less and rushed out to call for a doctor.

The commotion was so big that almost everyone knew about it in no time.

The lord's right-hand man, Deputy General Liu Nan, rushed out holding the lord's canary and the bloody Miss Fu Guang.

Liu Pinjue rushed over as soon as he got the news.

Ah Bei was extremely anxious. Seeing that Liu Pinjue's face was as pale as Xiao Yurong's, he hurried to meet him.

"What happened?" Liu Pinjue asked.

Xiao Yurong was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, unconscious.

"She lost too much blood." Ah Bei said, "She was saved soon after being found, but her body was weak to begin with..."

Liu Pinjue took a deep breath and suppressed a dizziness. "Keep an eye on her and don't let her do anything stupid again."

Anan's hands were still covered with Xiao Yurong's blood, and he didn't even have time to wash them.

He was so anxious that he choked up and looked at Liu Pinjue helplessly, "Master, she has done it again and again, and we can't guard against it. If there is a next time... If she really..."

"Shut up." Liu Pinjue shouted.

Anan closed his mouth.

Liu Pinjue closed his eyes and said, "When she wakes up this time...send her away."

"Send her away?" Abei was a little bit unbelievable.

He knew that Liu Pinjue would not kill Xiao Yurong, but he believed that Liu Pinjue would at least exchange Xiao Yurong for something.

"What else? Leave her to die in Yunzhou?" Liu Pinjue almost loosened his clenched fists powerlessly.

He didn't know whether Xiao Yurong was willful or smart.

When he opened his eyes, they were clear, "Abei, send a message to Li Yaozhi, tell him to get ready to pick up Xiao Yurong. Also, ask him to give me the Li family's copper mine in Xishan."

After all the scheming, all the things that could be gained were finally exchanged for a copper mine.

Liu Pinjue even wanted to laugh at himself.

But what can he do?

"Yes." After a moment of silence, Abei accepted the order.

"Anan, keep the news secret and don't let anyone discover her true identity." Liu Pinjue said again.

Anan responded.

Liu Pinjue looked at Xiao Yurong's pale face under the moonlight, his eyes wavering.

He has already compromised too many things for Xiao Yurong and done too many impossible things for her.

This is fine. This is fine.

Out of sight, out of mind. Cut losses in time.

He should not have been so obsessed with it at that time and followed Xiao Yurong's wishes, pretending not to recognize him and letting Xiao Yurong stay in Yunzhou under the name of Fu Guang.

The done deal is done, it’s too late to regret.

Liu Pinjue stretched out his hand hesitantly and gently stroked Xiao Yurong's cold cheek.

"Qingqing..." He whispered, like a sigh.

When he fled to Yunzhou at night, he was thinking about following his nature and being true to himself.

But what does he want?

I don’t even know myself.

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