After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 291 Unable to Extricate Oneself

"You should wait for He Yu to return before heading to Cang Tian Yuan. There won't be too much of a rush."

“I’m afraid that if this drags on any longer, many things will change, especially since King Cangli has already suspected that you are from the True Origin.”

After all, we don't know the Cangli royal family's true attitude towards us. If they're hostile, it would be very dangerous for us to stay in the capital. It's better to leave sooner rather than later.

"Do you have anything important in the Crown Prince's residence? If not, don't go back."

There were no important items.

“I know Ji Yunfan has helped you a lot during this time. We’re leaving tomorrow, do you want to go and say goodbye to him?” Shen Xu asked.

"No need, I don't have much affection for him."

Sometimes he felt that if the witch and Li Xiaoyi's personalities were switched, it might be more suitable for their identities.

Li Xiaoyi was unusually indifferent to emotions, as if she didn't care about anything, while the witch was unusually emotional and liked to act on her feelings.

"Manager Wang, is there anything to eat? Please bring some out."

After bringing Li Xiaoyi back to Cuixia Garden, Shen Xu smiled and asked Steward Wang, who was tidying up the room, "What do you mean?"

"You are... the Crown Prince... Miss Li!!" When Steward Wang turned around and saw Li Xiaoyi, the duster in his hand immediately fell to the ground.

"Manager Wang, this is my true appearance; yesterday's was a disguise."

Shen Xu then transformed back into his appearance from yesterday. "Miss Li is my friend. She may be staying here for the rest of the day. Could you please prepare another room for me?"

"This..." For a moment, she didn't know what to say.

Looking at Shen Xu, whose appearance could change at will, and the two people standing very intimately in front of him, Steward Wang immediately imagined a grand palace drama in his mind.

"Don't worry, the Crown Prince knows that I took Miss Li away," Shen Xu explained with a smile.

"what?"

Steward Wang felt increasingly confused. Everyone in the capital knew that the Crown Prince liked Miss Li, so how could he allow another man to take her away?

"Haha, forget it! Let Zhong Wei come back and explain to you! Can you get me something to eat first? I haven't eaten for almost a day."

"Young Master Shen, didn't you go to the banquet with the young master?"

Although she didn't know exactly what had happened, judging from Shen Xu's attitude, nothing serious had occurred.

"I've taken Miss Li away, how could I possibly stay and eat there?" Shen Xu joked.

"That's true... I'll get some snacks now."

Manager Wang seemed to have figured something out; it seemed that Young Master Wei had indeed brought an extraordinary friend this time.

"Is Zhong Wei the person you mentioned who has absorbed the blood of the Qilin?" Li Xiaoyi asked.

"Yes, I'm also very curious about where he got his Qilin blood."

"It may have originated from the True Blood Palace. I saw a record like this in the library of the Cangli Royal Palace:"

It is said that the True Blood Palace contains the essence of many powerful demonic beasts, among which perhaps the essence of a Qilin was brought out by the ancestors of the Yunyang royal family.

“But Zhong Wei said that what he incorporated was only a drop of ordinary blood essence, and I think that if it were Qilin blood essence, the Yunyang royal family would be unlikely to bestow it on an outsider.”

"That remains to be seen, but aside from something as extraterrestrial as the True Blood Palace, I can't think of any reason why Qilin blood would exist in a small world like the Blood Central Realm."

"Xiao Yi, do you think the True Blood Palace is a conspiracy between the demon race and the vampire race?"

In his previous life, he was always busy running around and never had the chance or anyone to tell him about the top level of the True Origin Continent.

"I don't know much about it either, after all, Ningzhou is just a remote place on the True Origin Continent."

However, Ningzhou does indeed show signs of invasion from other races in the void. It is said that the Burial Demon Mountain Range, which separates Xingchuan Domain and Guangchuan Domain, is the corpse of a great demon, and the Blood Fiend Palace in Guangchuan Domain has obtained the blood clan's inheritance.

"You don't need to think too much. We just need to pass on the message. The rest is not our concern." Li Xiaoyi replied softly.

He knew what Li Xiaoyi was talking about. When he first learned about it, he was shocked that many sects in Ningzhou knew that the Blood Fiend Palace had the bloodline inheritance, but still allowed it to occupy a region and act recklessly.

But he later learned that it wasn't that the righteous sects in Ningzhou didn't want to get involved, but rather that they lacked the strength. The three half-saints of the Blood Fiend Palace were enough to place them among the top three in the nine domains of Ningzhou.

Moreover, the Blood Fiend Palace is a pure human force that has long kept its reach confined to the Guangchuan Domain. No region wants to provoke such a powerful and unassuming force.

Even now, he still doesn't understand why the Blood Fiend Palace would invade Xingchuan Domain a few years later.

After all, the two sides had lived in peace for thousands of years, and the Blood Fiend Palace did not have the strength to occupy both regions alone.

If it's just for the sake of stealing some things, that would be incredibly foolish, since they would face a punitive expedition from the entire Ningzhou afterward.

However, he didn't need to care about these things. Whatever the purpose of the Blood Fiend Palace's invasion of Xingchuan Domain, as long as he could escape, it had nothing to do with him.

"You're right. Our most important task right now is to find a way out."

Shen Xu looked up and saw golden sunlight shining through the window onto Li Xiaoyi's profile, her exquisitely sculpted features breathtakingly beautiful.

This made him close his eyes again, and after recalling Li Xiaoyi's sword strike from his previous life several times in his mind, he slowly opened his eyes.

"Am I not pretty? Why do you always close your eyes?" Li Xiaoyi asked softly, picking up her teacup.

"It's because it's so beautiful that I have to close my eyes."

What do you think about when you close your eyes?

"die!"

Am I really that scary?

“You are not scary, I am scared. I am afraid that I will not be able to extricate myself, and I am also afraid of hurting you again.”

"I'm even more afraid you'll strike me with another sword!" But he could only think this to himself.

“But I’m already hopelessly in love,” Li Xiaoyi said earnestly, gazing into his eyes.

Shen Xu sighed softly and then avoided Li Xiaoyi's gaze.

Whether in his past or present life, he never understood why the witch and Li Xiaoyi would fall in love with him, since he was, after all, an insignificant nobody.

In his previous life, he spent time alone with both of them for a period of time. In this life, it seems that the two of them developed feelings for him as soon as they met him.

If the two of them hadn't acted as if they didn't recognize him at first, he would have suspected that they had come back with him.

He wasn't going to waste his breath trying to persuade Li Xiaoyi to give up on him; he believed that what he couldn't do in his previous life, he couldn't do in this one either.

All he needs to do is keep his distance from Li Xiaoyi at all times, and then he can just run away when the time comes.

Just then, there was a soft knock on the door, and then Steward Wang came in carrying several plates of freshly baked pastries.

"Manager Wang, you're being a bit biased! Why didn't He Yu and I get this treatment yesterday?" Shen Xu couldn't help but complain as he looked at the exquisitely presented pastries.

"Well... maybe we were in too much of a rush yesterday," Manager Wang replied with a light laugh.