The Princess Cannot Escape: The Cunning Prince Is Not to Be Messed With

Chapter 90 Difficulty in Cooperation

As if completely unaware of the meaningful glow in Gu Lounan's eyes, Chu Fenghua simply lowered her eyes and smiled. Her two eyelashes cast a fan-shaped shadow, and two shallow dimples appeared on her fair and plump cheeks. In addition to her otherworldly beauty, she gained a touch of coquettishness, like a pear petal covered with morning dew, delicate and fragile.

"I am unworthy of such praise, Young Master Gu is too kind." Nodding and smiling, Chu Fenghua gave a slight bow, her gaze drifting towards Xiahou Ying, who remained standing behind Gu Lounan. Her beautiful, shimmering eyes flickered slightly, then she pursed her lips and asked in a low voice, "This gentleman..."

"He is the steward of my manor..." Gu Lounan said, subtly nudging Xiahou Ying's arm with his elbow. The latter bowed in compliance, but still maintained an expressionless demeanor, and said indifferently, "I am Xia Ying, greetings to the Second Master."

Hearing that clear, cold voice, Chu Fenghua pursed her lips, finding it difficult to look away from his tall, pine-like figure.

Noticing a slight change in Chu Fenghua's expression, Gu Lounan took a step forward, subtly blocking her gaze, and said with a smile, "I am new to this place and unfamiliar with the area. Would you mind showing me the way, Second Master?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Fenghua nodded and chuckled, replying softly, "Of course."

With Chu Fenghua leading the way, Gu Lounan and Xiahou Ying quickly arrived at their destination.

Leaning over to glance at the seemingly endless abyss, Gu Lounan shrugged, then looked away at Chu Fenghua: "This is going to be a real headache..."

Seeing his distressed expression, the latter chuckled softly, and the golden bells all over his body trembled melodiously.

“Getting off isn’t difficult…” she said, walking to his side, a subtle, enigmatic smile playing on her lips. She then turned to the two girls still bowing beside the carriage and whispered, “Jinling, Jinlan…”

The two girls responded in unison, and after groping around on the grass at the edge of the cliff for a while, they quickly grabbed two iron rings as thick as their wrists from among the lush vegetation. Then, with a strong pull, a deep sound of gears turning and meshing was heard, accompanied by a slight tremor in the ground, and a huge hanging basket quickly appeared before everyone's eyes.

"This basket can only carry the weight of two people at a time."

"That second-in-command..."

“I…we don’t need any tools…” Hearing Gu Lounan’s question, Chu Fenghua lowered her eyelids and a faint smile appeared on her lips. She didn’t finish her sentence, but cupped her hands to the two of them and changed the subject, saying, “I can only take you two this far. Please don’t take offense.”

After saying that, she leaped into the air, and the two girls behind her followed suit, leaping high outwards. The three of them quickly disappeared into the thick mist floating halfway up the cliff, leaving only the melodious tinkling sounds.

Turning around with his hands in his sleeves, Gu Lounan was about to say something when he unexpectedly found that Xiahou Ying, who had been standing behind him, had somehow already stepped into the hanging basket.

"If the young master isn't coming in, I'll go down myself."

"Sigh, can't you change your personality?" Gu Lounan frowned and complained with a pout.

"No." Xiahou Ying replied expressionlessly, raising his chin and walking with his hands behind his back. The moment he stepped into the hanging basket, the iron chains began to rotate on their own.

Gu Lounan glanced at Xiahou Ying subtly, then stroked his chin, thinking: It can only support two people at most, but it can only operate with the weight of two people...

Having rescued Xiao Quan Quan, we might as well just leave him here...

Standing with his hands behind his back on the edge of the hanging basket, Xiahou Ying pursed his lips and stared intently at the endless sea of ​​clouds.

It can only carry two people at most, and only two people can move it...

Is it to prevent foreign invasion...?

While relying on natural defenses makes it easy to defend and difficult to attack, conversely, the obstacles that can be created for the enemy will also become a hindrance to oneself.

There must be another secret passage leading to the outside world from here.

After we rescue her, we should just leave Gu Lounan here.

The two, each harboring their own grievances, slowly descended through the thick fog. As they drew closer to the ground, the temperature dropped further and further. Upon reaching the ground, their robes were covered with a thin, visible layer of frost, which emitted a faint, pearl-like halo in the dim sunlight that pierced through the clouds.

Upon reaching the bottom of the cliff, the two were almost simultaneously stunned by the sight before them.

Up there, the two hadn't noticed anything particularly significant, but once they reached the bottom, they realized that this place was actually the bottom of a huge cavern. It was narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, shaped like a funnel. If they hadn't reached the bottom of the cavern, they would never have discovered that such a unique, wondrous, and breathtaking place existed in the world.

Shrugging, Gu Lounan narrowed her alluring, long phoenix eyes, and a barely perceptible curve appeared on her pale orange lips.

Suddenly, at that moment, a jet-black swallowtail butterfly came into his view.

He touched the ground with his toes and shot out like an arrow, quickly catching the butterfly between his two fingers and returning to Xiahou Ying's side.

He held the butterfly in his hand and realized it wasn't a real butterfly at all, but a remarkably lifelike mechanical one. The dark phosphorescent powder on its wings seemed to have slightly crumbled, and it felt slightly damp between his fingers. Frowning slightly, he pinched the two wings between his fingers and gently rubbed them together. The black phosphorescent powder dispersed, leaving behind a clear line of text: "Taigong fishing for a turtle in a jar."

Seeing this, Gu Lounan brought his hand closer to Xiahou Ying's eyes and whispered, "What do you think this means?"

Upon hearing this, Xiahou Ying lowered her gaze, her eyes, as clear and cold as the moonlight, darkened, and her thin red lips pressed into a straight line.

Jiang Taigong...

A turtle in a jar...

"Is there anyone with the surname Jiang at this meeting of the manor lords?" After a long silence, Xiahou Ying slowly moved his lips and raised his gaze to give Gu Lounan a brief look, his eyes cold and indifferent.

"Jiang?" After thinking for a while with his arms crossed, Gu Lounan suddenly widened his eyes: "Jiang Huan, the master of Qifeng Manor! Could it be that someone released these phoenix-tail butterflies?"

"I'm afraid the owner of Qifeng Manor has other purposes in luring you here by using Yin Quan as a hostage." Xiahou Ying spoke expressionlessly, glancing at the swallowtail butterfly in his hand, and then asked, "Do you know where this swallowtail butterfly came from?"

"This is a real challenge for me..." After hearing this, Gu Lounan smiled helplessly, wiped the damp phosphorescent powder off his fingertips, and suddenly had an idea.

"I heard that this place belongs to Fengyun Manor, and Ba Shanyu is a famous mechanic in the martial arts world. This mechanical butterfly may have been released by Ba Shanyu's subordinates."

"If Jiang Huan finds out the plan has been leaked, will she still spare his life?" Raising an eyebrow, Xiahou Ying, whose brow was slightly furrowed, didn't even look at him, and asked the question as if talking to himself.

“Unless… she still has a use for that person…” Gu Lounan continued Xiahou Ying’s words by stroking his chin. He pondered for a moment, and as he spoke, he turned the mechanical butterfly in his hand into dust.

Upon hearing this, Xiahou Ying turned his gaze, staring intently at the person beside him, and asked, "You just said that Ba Shanyu is a renowned mechanic in the martial arts world. In that case, imprisoning Yin Quan here is probably the safest option..."

His tone was extremely low, so low that one could only see the shape of his slowly moving lips, but could hardly hear the sound coming from those two thin, rosy lips.

Inside the water dungeon, as Jiang Huan, with bloodshot eyes, covered in blood, and a skeletal face, approached her in an instant, Yin Quan gasped for breath and cursed inwardly.

I don't know where this old woman got her strength from, but she kicked the black-clad guard to death with one kick. If she had actually touched me, wouldn't I have died even more miserably!

Your grandfather's...

Xiahou Ying, you bastard, when are you going to find me?!

Suddenly, in the instant Yin Quan was slightly distracted, a cold, hard, withered hand gripped her neck, accompanied by a pungent, fishy smell that went straight to her lungs.

She felt as if the air in her lungs had been squeezed out of her chest in an instant. Her vision went black and her mind went blank. For a moment, she couldn't even make a sound. She could only stare at Jiang Huan's already distorted face.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you right now..."

A strange, eerie laugh reached Yin Quan's ears. Yin Quan glared at Jiang Huan, only to see the latter curl his lips into a smile, his dark eyes flashing with an eerie crimson light.

Not kill her?!

Damn it, are you going to torture her to death?!

She'd rather that perverted old woman just give her a quick death!

"Kill...me!" Yin Quan managed to utter, her face flushed, letting out a hoarse moan.

"No..." Jiang Huan uttered softly, her face suddenly turning cold. She then released her grip, and with her toe, she picked up a long knife and pierced through Yin Quan's shoulder blade, pinning her to the ground.

"No, do not attempt to command, this master of the manor!" With each word he uttered, Jiang Huan pressed his long sword down a fraction, his eyes bloodshot.

With a piercing scream of pain, Yin Quan stared at Jiang Huan's hideous old face, which flickered in the firelight, until she bit her teeth until they bled, and then suddenly smiled.

"You!..." Jiang Huan's eyes widened, and he roared, grabbing her hair and pulling her up in front of him, shouting angrily, "What are you laughing at!"

The burning pain inside her body gradually numbed Yin Quan, and she could no longer clearly hear the low growls in her ears.

"Speak! Talk to me!" Grabbing the slender body and shaking it violently, Jiang Huan roared more and more hysterically, her bloodshot old eyes almost bulging out of their sockets.

"I've heard that... before a person dies... their mind will, like... a carriage, replay all the people they met in their life... and the things they did..."

With a smile always on her lips, Yin Quan spoke haltingly, as if talking to herself, her voice low and somber.

"Actually, I have an... ex-boyfriend..."

Hearing her start using bizarre and fantastical words, Jiang Huan suddenly frowned and tensed up, realizing something was amiss.

Chu Fenghua and Tie Wantong should have Ba Shanyu under control by now, so why is there still no news...?

The sound of the fierce wind crashing against the mountain wall became increasingly piercing. She lowered her gaze to the increasing number of small pebbles that were slightly jumping on the damp ground, then looked up at the steps at one end of the water prison. Suddenly, she understood what was going on and turned to walk out, but unexpectedly, Yin Quan suddenly grabbed her leg.