After her transformation and rebirth, she manipulates the innocent and ruthless to overthrow the wor

The soldier was taken aback by Xiao Ran's words, and he even began to doubt his own resolve.

As she was thinking, she heard a man's unique, cool voice from the side.

"But you deserve it."

Xiao Ran was taken aback.

Chu Ling?! What's he doing here?

“Young Master Chu…why did you come without telling me or my father?”

She looked at Xiao Mu, clearly her father was also taken aback.

She was about to jump down from the pear tree when Chu Ling called out to her.

"No need to get down."

As he spoke, he leaped up and, using the tree trunk as leverage, sat down next to Xiao Ran.

The pear tree wasn't very big to begin with, and with another person sitting on it, it looked even smaller. Xiao Ran had to move further in, but she still ended up next to Chu Ling.

Chu Ling was dressed in a black close-fitting outfit, with a black fox fur coat over it, and her neatly tied high ponytail swayed gently in the wind.

He sat reclining on a thick tree branch, one hand supporting his raised knee. The exquisite mask on his face accentuated his strong jawline, and his whole being exuded an untamed and spirited air.

Xiao Ran could sense that he seemed to be in a good mood.

He asked, "Do you still stand by your word?"

"……what?"

Chu Ling chuckled: "Didn't Aran say that she would grant one request to whoever takes you down?"

Xiao Ran was taken aback: "What did you call me...?"

"Aran."

As the man's thin lips moved, Xiao Ran's eyes were filled with shock.

"……Who are you?"

She hadn't paid much attention to Chu Ling's attire just now, but when she heard the name 'A Ran,' perhaps eager to confirm it, she noticed the man's forehead ribbon... This was the one she gave him before Duan Li left.

She turned her head again and saw a sword on the man's back. It had been covered by a black fox fur coat, but now the red tassel of the sword was showing.

Xiao Ran was so shocked that she was speechless.

Duan Rong was worried about her, so he went up to her, but Yun Fu stopped him.

Yun Fu shook Duan Rong's sleeve: "Brother Duan, Young Master Chu and Sister Xiao are old acquaintances, so please let them recognize each other."

Duan Rong had no choice but to give up.

Xiao Ran jumped down from the tree.

Her heart was in turmoil.

During the years Duan Li was missing, she did try to find him. She even asked Master Qi to go to Wangyue Tower, but the person she found was not him.

She was scared.

Over the years, she tried so hard to believe that Duanli was alright, but with each failure, she grew more and more desperate.

But now, all the talk about separation is about that man in the pear tree.

His sword tassel, the headband she gave him.

Chu Ling and Duan Li are practically two different kinds of people. One is a young general from the Chu Kingdom, and the other is an innocent young assassin from Liuyun Valley.

How could they be one person?

What if the person behind that mask isn't Duan Li?

Chu Ling also jumped down from the tree.

He walked over to Xiao Ran and stopped beside her, then reached out and tucked a pear blossom into her hair.

"I'm sorry, I really didn't prepare a gift this time."

Yunfu couldn't help but complain from the side: "Young Master Chu is really something... If you don't have a gift, you don't have to bring one. What's the point of putting in a pear blossom that can be found anywhere... Sister Xiao definitely won't like it!"

Xiao Ran suddenly looked up.

Pear blossoms...?

She suddenly remembered her coming-of-age ceremony a few years ago. At that time, Duanli secretly hid in the pear tree in her courtyard, just to say "Happy Birthday" to her.

He also gave her a pear blossom hairpin that he had carved himself.

She turned around, but accidentally bumped into his arms.

A scent of pine resin wafted over.

He has grown a lot taller.

When Xiao Ran looked up again, her eyes gradually welled up with tears.

She raised her hand to remove his mask, but her voice trembled uncontrollably:

"Don't you dare lie to me!"