Shen Ming's body tensed up in an instant.

Under the little girl's gaze, he tried his best to control himself and not run away.

The soft words "Brother Beiyue" came out of her mouth, as if they came across time, and almost instantly made his eyes wet.

It was a royal hunting trip, and ministers were allowed to bring their families along. Because my sister loved to play, my grandfather took him and her along.

The adults went hunting deep in the woods, while the children played in the safe outer woods.

When a group of children were playing hide-and-seek, he ran far away while chasing a beautiful little deer for his sister, and got lost without realizing it.

He was trying to find the way back by memory when he suddenly heard a faint, intermittent sobbing sound. Curious, he followed the sound and saw a little girl sitting alone in an abandoned trap crying.

"Hey, are you okay?"

The little girl looked up and saw him, then she stopped crying and said timidly, "Brother, can you save me? I'm so scared..."

He looked around and saw no suitable tools, so he said, "Wait a moment, I'll find a branch to pull you up."

But as soon as he took a step, the little girl burst into tears.

No matter how he explained to her, she would not let him leave. As long as he left her sight, she would cry.

There was really no other way. Seeing that it was getting dark, he gritted his teeth and jumped into the pit.

Then the little girl burst into tears, hiccuping as she cried: "Now, now, we, we are both trapped here... Wow!"

He said impatiently: "Stop crying, it's so ugly!"

But she continued to cry, and kept crying until he pulled out a dagger from his waist.

The crying sound stopped for a moment, and then it became louder, so loud that it was shocking and moving.

He was too lazy to pay attention to her and silently dug the soil in the pit with a dagger. The soil in the pit was hard. When he finally piled the dug soil into a small mound half a person's height, the little girl had already fallen asleep leaning against the pit.

Tears and dirt mixed together on the little face, looking dirty and pitiful.

He carried the little girl out of the pit. It was already completely dark.

He put the little girl on his back again, found some dry branches nearby, made a fire, and then put the little girl down.

Seeing that her face was as dirty as a poor cat, he used his sleeve to wipe off the dirt on her face bit by bit.

It was at this moment that she woke up. She looked around with her dark eyes and realized that she had come out of the pit.

She seemed a little embarrassed. Under the reflection of the fire, her face flushed red, and she pinched the corner of her clothes with her fingers: "Thank you for saving me."

The little girl stopped crying and wiped the tears off her face. She looked obedient and cute, and her temperament was much softer than that of her always arrogant sister.

He then thought of teasing her: "I saved you, how do you plan to repay me?"

"I, I..." The little girl's face turned even redder and she felt a little at a loss.

A smile filled his eyes: "A drop of water should be repaid with a spring, let alone the grace of saving my life? You said thank you to me, is it just talk..."

The little girl was anxious: "Of course not."

After saying that, he lowered his head again, and after a while he managed to utter, "You...what's your name?"

He raised an eyebrow at her and told her his identity truthfully: "My name is Shen Beiyue."

"Which one?"

"Nanyang Marquis's family, what's the matter? You want to send someone to my house to give me a thank-you gift? Let me tell you, I don't care about those vulgar things like gold and silver."

"It's not gold or silver." The little girl frowned and retorted.

He casually asked, "What is that?"

The little girl blushed and said seriously: "I should repay your life-saving grace with my body. When I reach the age of marriage, I will ask my mother to go to your house to propose marriage."

He was extremely surprised and instinctively wanted to refuse, but when he saw the little girl's appearance, he couldn't say it and simply gave up.

......

Later, every time she met him at various banquets for young men and women in the capital, she would come up to him and call out with a blushing face, "Brother Beiyue."

She never calls others brother.

I think I already consider him my fiancé...

He was only interested in martial arts and didn't like attending such boring banquets, but he went every time just to hear the little girl call him Brother Beiyue.

Later, he went to Huashan Temple with his mother and sister to pray...

I never saw her again.

Now they meet again unexpectedly, but he...

Shen Ming lowered his eyes to hide the sadness in his eyes and chuckled softly: "Miss, did you recognize the wrong person?"

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