In the hazy moonlight, they saw Xie Wenzhou riding towards them.

Pei Yan's face was filled with fear, and he immediately hid behind Lin Yingqiu, "Could it be that Ah Zhou has come back to settle accounts with me?"

He placed his hands on Lin Yingqiu's shoulders and quietly peeked out his eyes to take a look.

Lin Yingqiu's eyes gradually turned colder, and she slapped his hands away with a look of disgust, "Put your claws back."

"Second Senior Sister, you are too cruel. Do you want to watch Azhou punish me severely?" Pei Yan raised his voice a bit.

Lin Yingqiu looked back at him dimly, "If Fifth Junior Brother wasn't coming for you, wouldn't you be embarrassed?"

Pei Yan cleared his throat and stood aside calmly, pretending nothing had happened.

Xie Wenzhou tightened the reins, and the horse stepped on the ground a few times and stopped.

He glanced down at them and said coldly, "Where did you send her?"

The second brother said, "Since it was getting late, we sent Little Moon to the Fengxin Inn to stay."

There was a coldness in Xie Wenzhou's eyes. He lightly stepped on the horse's belly and rode away.

Pei Yan exhaled a turbid breath, "I thought Azhou was here to look for me, you scared me."

Lin Yingqiu said calmly, "It's getting late, everyone should go back and rest."

They nodded in agreement and turned away.

Lin Yingqiu just turned around and heard Pei Yan slowly say:

"Second Senior Sister, do you think Azhou can successfully bring Xiaoyue back? How heartbroken must Xiaoyue be when she misunderstands that she is someone else's substitute!"

"She was already heartbroken enough when Azhou broke out, and now hearing this news is undoubtedly a fatal blow to her!"

"What if they can't clear up the misunderstanding? Will I become the one who caused them to suffer a miserable end?"

He kept nagging, and Lin Yingqiu's eyebrows were throbbing. She raised her hand to pinch her eyebrows and glanced at him, "Let's leave it to fate."

Pei Yan: “…” What a resigned person, he was speechless.

...

When Xie Wenzhou reached the foot of the mountain, the lonely night in the sky had already hidden behind the clouds, without leaving any shadow.

His jet-black cloak was covered with a thick layer of frost, and his eyebrows and eyes were covered with ice. He wore a silver mask on his face, which saved him from danger.

The horse had been running for a while and now looked tired.

Fortunately, the foot of the mountain is not far from Fengxin Inn, only a few kilometers.

In less than half an hour, Xie Wenzhou arrived at Fengxin Inn.

He asked the waiter to take the horse to the stable, turned around, walked into the inn, and went straight to the counter.

The shopkeeper saw the guest coming and stood up to greet him. "Excuse me, sir, what do you want?"

Xie Wenzhou didn't bother to brush off the falling snow and asked bluntly, "Excuse me, shopkeeper, have you seen a young woman in a fox fur cloak?"

Lest the shopkeeper not know, he added, "Several people from the valley dressed in silver and white clothes had escorted her to stay."

The innkeeper pondered for a moment and said, "It is true, but the girl left the inn an incense stick ago."

"Do you know where she went?" Xie Wenzhou's Adam's apple rolled slightly and his voice tightened.

The shopkeeper shook his head. "This girl didn't leave alone. There were several men with her. I don't know where they went."

Xie Wenzhou came out of the inn with a frighteningly gloomy face.

For a moment he had no direction to look.

There are so many people, where can he go to look for her?

And he didn't know whether the person she was traveling with was reliable.

...

After Pei Wanyue saw off her senior brothers and sisters, she returned to the side room.

She sat in front of the dressing table and looked into those sparkling eyes, the pain spreading from her heart to her whole body.

On the way down the mountain, she suppressed her emotions and didn't let herself reveal any flaws.

She didn't want her senior brothers and sisters to know.

She was even more afraid that her senior brothers and sisters would tell Brother Zhou personally that she was very sad after knowing this.

She didn't want to expose her scars in front of Brother Zhou.

Not to mention that these scars were brought upon him personally.

Pei Wanyue raised her head for a while, held back her tears, and took out the crescent-shaped sachet from her sleeve.

This sachet was given to her by her brother Azhou when she was young.

She relied on it to get through the days when she wasn't seeing her brother Azhou.

There is no need to keep it now.

Pei Wanyue stood up and walked to the window, closed her eyes, and threw it out cruelly.

She suppressed the sour emotions in her heart and wanted to close the window.

But her tender white hands just touched the window.

I could hear the sound of footsteps on the roof.

Before she could react, several men in black approached.

Pei Wanyue was suddenly startled. Before she could scream, her mouth was covered by someone, and she smelled a strange smell at the tip of her nose.

The blood in her body solidified bit by bit, her vision began to go black, and she lost consciousness.

...

When Pei Wanyue woke up again, she was in a dark and damp room.

She moved and found that her hands and feet were tied up and a cloth was stuffed in her mouth.

After trying hard to spit out the cloth in his mouth several times, he finally got it out.

"Help!" Pei Wanyue shouted.

The next moment, the tightly closed door was kicked open.

Several men in black walked in with ferocious looks. "You bitch, you actually spit out the cloth strips! You really have grown in skill!"

After they finished speaking, they walked impatiently to Pei Wanyue and pretended to stuff it in.

Pei Wanyue turned her head away, her eyes filled with determination. "Who ordered you to kidnap me?"

If she guessed correctly, the person who kidnapped her must know her.

Either he hates her to the core, or he harbors evil intentions towards her.

The man in black pinched her jaw and tried to stuff the cloth back in.

Suddenly, a tall figure appeared at the door.

The man was wearing a long green robe, a golden crown on his hair, and a jet-black mask on his face, which completely concealed his appearance.

Only those narrow eagle eyes were revealed.

The man raised his hand.

Several men in black threw the cloth strips on the ground, saluted respectfully, and turned to leave.

The door was closed.

Only one lamp was left, emitting a faint light.

Pei Wanyue glanced at him lightly and asked in a stern voice, "Who are you?"

The man walked forward slowly without saying a word.

Pei Wanyue struggled mightily, her delicate wrists and ankles blushing bright red. She bit her lower lip tightly, "What do you want?"

The man had a wicked smile on his lips as he pinched her slender neck and pretended to kiss her.

A look of horror flashed in Pei Wanyue's eyes, and her sharp voice echoed in the silent room.

"I am the Ninth Princess of the Northern Kingdom. If you bully me, my brother will cut you into pieces!"

The man sneered, "Of course I know you are the Ninth Princess of the Northern Kingdom, otherwise I wouldn't have had you kidnapped."

His tone was so sinister that a chill ran down Pei Wanyue's spine.

She had never heard such a voice before.

I don't know who the man in front of me is.

Pei Wanyue frowned and spoke word by word:

"Do you dare to take off the mask?"

"Would I be so foolish as to let you see my true face and let your royal brother come after me in the autumn?" The man sneered.

Pei Wanyue's forehead was covered with a thin layer of cold sweat, and he said calmly:

"I can ask my brother to meet your request, provided you release me."

Disdain flashed in the man's eyes, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly, "I want to have a kiss with you today."

Before his voice had even finished, Pei Wanyue was grabbed by the waist and turned over.

Pei Wanyue's cheek was pressed against the table, and the coldness spread through her skin to her whole body. Her face was pale and her hair stood on end.

"You are madly testing the limits of your own life. Once your crime is exposed, you will be utterly destroyed!"

A scream escaped his throat.

But her whole body couldn't stop shaking.

The man put his hand on her waist and moved it down, pretending to lift up the hem of her skirt.

Pei Wanyue shuddered, her beautiful face filled with horror, and she struggled desperately to resist his wanton moving hands.

However, she was unable to move her hands and feet, and was now pressed against the table, like a fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of others.

She couldn't stand the humiliation.

When she was about to bite her tongue to commit suicide, she heard the sound of fighting outside the door.

The man stiffened slightly and looked up subconsciously.

Before he could see what was happening at the door, a figure flashed up to him, grabbed his collar, and threw him to the ground.

"Ouch..." The man suddenly became angry and growled, "Who are you? How dare you disturb my good fortune?"

Pei Wanyue heard some movement behind her and turned around suddenly, only to meet a pair of deep and worried eyes.

It turned out to be Brother Zhou.

Xie Wenzhou lowered his eyelashes, stepped on the man's face, and a murderous aura surged from his body. "How dare you attack her? I think you want to die!"

The man rubbed his face on the ground, speechless in pain.

It took him a long while to find his voice again, "I didn't do anything!"

Xie Wenzhou let him go and walked towards her with a red ribbon in his hand.

Pei Wanyue didn't know why he appeared here.

I only know that he saved me.

Otherwise, I would have been abused long ago.

Before Xie Wenzhou came closer, Pei Wanyue lowered her brows and spoke in a distant and cold tone, "Thank you, Master Xie, for saving my life."

Xie Wenzhou paused, his eyes dark and gloomy, he suppressed the emotions in his heart, and then continued walking.

He first untied her and then blindfolded her with a red ribbon.

There was no trace of blood on Pei Wanyue's face, and her eyes were covered with a red ribbon, which made her look bright and eye-catching.

As soon as her jade hand touched the silk ribbon, she heard his low voice, "Don't take it off."

Pei Wanyue paused, and finally put down her hand.

Xie Wenzhou raised his eyelids slightly and saw the man running to the door tremblingly.

He frowned, revealing a fierce look.

A sharp blade flew towards the man at high speed.

"Bang——" The man was stabbed in the left shoulder and fell to the ground weightlessly.

Even though Xie Wenzhou was wearing a silver mask, he couldn't suppress the coldness and cruelty that was surging out of him. He pressed his knee against the man's lower abdomen with great force.

The man howled, "I haven't even done anything to her yet. Can you please let me go, man?"

Xie Wenzhou's face darkened and he kicked him several meters away.

He took a quick step forward and stabbed the dagger into the back of the man's right hand. He said coldly, "Was it this hand that touched her just now?"

The blood beads on the ground were like a mandala, instantly dyeing the ground red.

The man's face was pale, he was sweating profusely from the pain, and he couldn't make a sound.

Xie Wenzhou pulled out the sharp blade with a cold face, and then it fell on the man's left hand.

"Ah!!!" A hoarse voice echoed throughout the room.

"Noisy." Xie Wenzhou's face darkened and he stuffed the cloth strip on the ground into his mouth.

"Hmm..." The man's eyes were bloodshot, his face was pale, and his chest was heaving.

Pei Wanyue, who was standing there in a daze, finally understood why Xie Wenzhou blindfolded herself.

It turned out that he didn't want her to see such a bloody scene.

The house returned to silence, and the screams were gone.

I guess he was the one who stuffed the cloth into the man's mouth.

But what puzzled her was, didn't he treat her as a substitute?

Why come to save her?

Why seek revenge for her?

Too many questions piled up in Pei Wanyue's mind, making her feel a little breathless.

She is more in shock now.

Endless anger burned in Xie Wenzhou's eyes. With a twist of his wrist, the dagger pierced directly into the man's heart.

Pei Wanyue happened to take off her red silk ribbon and saw this scene.

She stepped back in fear, her hands on the table.

The bloody and brutal scene frightened her deeply.

She was a princess from the northern country, and had been loved and pampered since she was a child. When had she ever seen such a scene?

Xie Wenzhou slowly stood up and looked back to meet her terrified gaze.

He stepped closer to her.

Pei Wanyue had nowhere to retreat, she pressed her hands on the cold table, lowered her eyelashes and dared not look at him.

Xie Wenzhou stopped in front of her, his arms resting on her sides, loosely holding her in his arms, his voice lukewarm:

"You blame me for killing him?"

Pei Wanyue bit her red lips and shook her head subconsciously.

She certainly didn't blame him.

After all, the other party deserved it.

She was afraid of his explosive anger.

After not seeing each other for many years, he had many faces that she had never seen before.

How could she be calm and composed without any ripples?

Xie Wenzhou's dark eyes swept across her pale face, and he said softly:

"I am a vindictive person. Only by completely annihilating them can I avoid future troubles."

There were clear tears hanging on Pei Wanyue's eyelashes. They trembled slightly and the tears rolled down.

When the man touched her, she was so scared that she couldn't control her tears.

There were still many tear marks on his face.

Xie Wenzhou felt a sudden pang of pain in his heart, and his voice was extremely unstable. "I'm sorry, I made you worry."

He raised his hand and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, his eyes dim.

Pei Wanyue avoided his touch without leaving a trace, and said in a very calm voice:

"Thank you, Master, for saving my life. I must repay you greatly for this favor. If you have any requests, please feel free to ask. I will have my brother satisfy them one by one."

Her distance made his heart sink.

Xie Wenzhou was silent for a long time, his eyes moving to her lips which were tightly bitten by her teeth.

He lifted his fingertips slightly, forcing her to loosen her teeth. "If you bite again, you'll draw blood."

Pei Wanyue turned her head, opened her red lips slightly, and said to him:

"Master Xie, have you not thought of your needs yet? If so, once you have thought of it, we can send someone to deliver your wishes to the Northern Kingdom's Palace."

Xie Wenzhou's eyes didn't move half an inch, his Adam's apple rolled slightly, "I don't need anything in return."

"Since this is what Master Xie asked for, I won't force it." Pei Wanyue wanted to get out of his arms, but saw that he showed no sign of retreating.

She frowned again and said, "Mr. Xie, could you please move aside?"

Xie Wenzhou stood still, his dark eyes swept across her red and swollen eyes, and pain quietly spread in his heart.

Tears welled up in Pei Wanyue's eyes. "What on earth does Master Xie want to do?"

He used her as a substitute.

Now that she had left on her own initiative, he suddenly came to her.

Don't let her leave yet.

Why is this?

She couldn't see through him anymore.

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