Crossing the Passenger Sacrifice

Li Huoyue's study is a separately designed room and is not located in Li Huoyue's courtyard.

It is a two-story building with an empty ground floor, designed like a pavilion. One has to climb up a wooden ladder on the side to reach the second floor.

The surroundings are empty, with no flowers, only a shallow lawn and a path formed by white gravel in the middle, which looks extremely simple.

As soon as Xu Jiaoer stepped onto the gravel road, a crunching sound was heard.

She paused, feeling that it was a bit strange for her to make such a loud noise here, as sinful as eating potato chips in the library.

She wondered how Li Huoyue walked and why she was the only one who made a sound.

When she looked up, the woman was already waiting for her at the stairs.

"Why are you walking so fast!" Xu Jiaoer followed him angrily.

Li Huoyue saw Xu Jiao'er catching up and walked up the stairs, saying, "You hesitated there for too long, not because I walked fast."

This time when going up the stairs, Xu Jiaoer deliberately observed and found that even Li Huoyue made a sound, so she followed him with confidence.

Unexpectedly, when she stepped on the wooden ladder, it made an even louder noise, as if it would collapse at any time.

The noise frightened Xu Jiao'er so much that she dared not move. She stood on a wooden step and complained to Li Huoyue above her, "Aren't you rich in the Li Mansion? Why did you use such shoddy and shoddy construction? You didn't even bother to repair this staircase when it's in this state? What if it breaks one day and you fall to death?"

While Li Huoyue was complaining, she had already reached the second floor. She stood on that high place, looking down at Xu Jiaoer who was clinging to the railing tightly and dared not move.

"Are you going to stay there forever?" Li Huoyue asked.

No matter how much Xu Jiao'er gritted her teeth, there was nothing she could do. She could only control her inner fear and move upwards.

Li Huoyue went into the room early and prepared tea for her.

After a while, Xu Jiao'er also entered the room, complaining as she entered, "You will fall to death sooner or later. By then, there will be no one here. You will have to wait three days before someone comes to collect your body!"

"Why do you have such malice towards me?" Li Huoyue said calmly, not getting angry or irritated by Xu Jiao'er's vicious curse. "I will withdraw from the marriage, and I don't want your life. We don't have any conflicts, and we are even irrelevant. You don't focus on how to survive, but instead focus on me all day long. Is this good for you?"

Xu Jiaoer opened her mouth, but couldn't answer.

She always felt that when facing Li Huoyue, she should do something to show that she was better than her, better than her, and more worthy of love.

But why she did this, she couldn't figure out.

Isn’t that what happens in TV dramas?

When the time-traveling heroine appears, there will definitely be a lady from a prominent family or a princess who is very beloved by the royal family who will come out and compete with her.

However, Li Huoyue did not rob her of anything.

She also said that she wanted to cancel the engagement with Brother Qing, whom she had originally wanted to snatch away. And it was not just talk. In the past two days, she heard that Mother Sang had been discussing the matter with the elders of the clan.

She later heard that the Sang Mansion that was smashed before was purchased with money from Li Huoyue. From the big things in the house and the stone tables to the small things that Sang's mother used on a daily basis, all were assets of the Li family.

Li Huoyue didn't steal anything from her, so why did she target him from the beginning?

Li Huoyue must be too bad.

Yes, this missing person notice directly sold her information!

She must want to find the time traveler and kill him!

Her father is a special inspector, and the family motto may not necessarily be to kill time travelers!

"You sold my information, you will die!" Xu Jiaoer sat down and slammed the table angrily.

Li Huoyue's missing person notices had been destroyed long ago, and no time travelers really believed them. Most of the time travelers who were exposed nowadays were approached by organizations as soon as they showed up.

"What information?" Li Huoyue took a sip of tea slowly.

Seeing that she was still pretending to be stupid, Xu Jiaoer stood up and walked to Li Huoyue's desk and took a photo of the missing person notice at that time.

Pointing at the picture below, Xu Jiaoer said angrily: "Do you have anything else to say?!"

"You mean this picture was drawn by you? I just posted your drawing of guns?" Li Huoyue glanced at the picture but didn't care much. She was much more familiar with the things in the notice than Xu Jiaoer.

"... This, this is not the case..." Xu Jiao'er couldn't draw pictures of guns. "I just felt that you used the information I gave you to seek your own interests! But you were not willing to give me some information in return! You are such a mean person!"

"The information you gave me?" Li Huoyue nodded. "Yes, you told me that you attracted His Majesty's attention with the gun drawing. Then, is this the gun I drew?"

"...No, I didn't draw it, and I don't know the model of the gun." Xu Jiao'er's momentum weakened. "But you dare to say that you didn't draw this picture because of my prompt?"

"It's because of you." Li Huoyue admitted generously and took another sip of tea. "Then what?"

"What are you going to do with this?! Don't you just want to catch the travelers?! What did we travelers do to you?! Do you have to find ways to kill us?! You are such a vicious woman!!"

Xu Jiao'er became angrier and angrier as she spoke. She became even angrier when she saw Li Huoyue's indifferent attitude. She reached out and overturned the teacup on the table.

The ceramic cup couldn't withstand such heavy damage and shattered into pieces as soon as it hit the ground.

The warm tea wet the ground, a faint tea fragrance filled the air, and a brief silence appeared in the room.

"What do you think your identity and position are to allow you to question me with these questions?" Li Huoyue did not stand up. He remained sitting and looked straight into Xu Jiaoer's eyes.

"I..." Xu Jiao'er stood there, but felt that she was inexplicably shorter. "Of course, it's for those travelers who were persecuted by you!"

"You didn't answer me directly." Li Huoyue pointed out Xu Jiao'er's trick, "But it doesn't matter, I don't care about the answer, I just want to remind you to think clearly before talking to me.

As you said, I'm not a good person, so you'd better stop provoking me.

If you want to talk, sit down and talk. If you get mad, I won't be polite."

Xu Jiao'er and Li Huoyue stared at each other, and within a few breaths they gave up and sat back in their original seats shyly.

"You took advantage of me, you should feel guilty and apologize to me," said Xu Jiaoer.

"Apologize?" Li Huoyue wondered if he had heard it wrongly. "You want to apologize???"

Xu Jiao'er snorted with disdain and sneered, "I knew that you noble ladies would never bow your heads and would never admit your mistakes."

Xu Jiaoer's idea really impressed Li Huoyue.