Zhu Xu held Zhao Xue's hand and turned to flee.
"Your Highness, don't you remember me?" The gentle man in moon-white robes, without catching Zhu Xu, quickly called out to her.
Zhu Xu's steps slowed at his words. After a few moments, she reacted.
"Are you Tu Tu?" Zhu Xu turned to look at the man in moon-white robes, recalling the rabbit with the blue markings on its forehead.
Tu Tu?
Zhao Xue heard the intimate nickname Zhu Xu used, and his phoenix eyes instantly darkened like the night.
Seeing that Zhu Xu had finally recognized him, the man's face couldn't help but show joy.
"Your Highness, you finally remember me."
"Xiu Yong, why are you here?"
Zhu Xu asked and then took a step back, uncertainly asking, "You're not here to arrest me, are you?"
Although Zhu Xu hadn't figured out why the Jade Emperor was so against her and Zhao Xue being together.
But from the fact that the Jade Emperor had locked her up, Zhu Xu knew it was unlikely that the Jade Emperor would let her and Zhao Xue leave the Nine Heavens to have fun again.
"Certainly not. I was here to travel, and I happened to run into Your Highness." Xiu Yong quickly waved his hands.
Then Xiu Yong asked, "But Your Highness, why did you suspect I was here to arrest you just now?"
"That's a long story. It's probably blinded by lust." Mentioning this, Zhu Xu uncomfortably touched her nose, her voice becoming vague and quieter.
Her voice was too soft, but how could Xiu Yong's and Zhao Xue's hearing be compared to ordinary people?
As Zhu Xu finished speaking, Xiu Yong lowered his head slightly, a deep sense of loss flashing across his apricot eyes, which he quickly suppressed.
Zhao Xue looked at Zhu Xu, raised his hand to touch his face, his phoenix eyes thoughtful, with a hint of unspoken sadness.
Is it just because of this face?
Then he must protect it well…
"Your Highness, since we've met, let's go together. I've been playing here for a few days, and I can take Your Highness around."
Xiu Yong curved his lips slightly and invited Zhu Xu.
"Okay." Zhu Xu didn't immediately agree. Xiu Yong was discovered by her by chance on a mountain in the human realm when she was five hundred years old. At that time, Zhu Xu saw that the little rabbit was skin and bones.
Zhu Xu couldn't bear it and brought it back to the Nine Heavens as a companion.
It wasn't until Zhu Xu was nine hundred years old that she accidentally brought him to the Nine Heavens' annual grand gathering, where he was recognized as the young master of Nan'an Mountain, and Xiu Yong left.
They hadn't seen each other for almost a hundred years now. If it weren't for Xiu Yong's blue robe, which reminded Zhu Xu of the little rabbit with the blue markings on its forehead back then.
Zhu Xu might not have dared to acknowledge him.
"By the way, Your Highness, which inn are you staying at now?" Xiu Yong asked as he walked beside Zhu Xu.
"Zhao Xue, which inn are we staying at?"
With Zhao Xue by her side, Zhu Xu's heart had already flown to him, and she naturally paid no attention to any inns.
Zhao Xue: "Liuhe."
…
"Imperial Princess, how did you get so badly injured?"
Qing Qiu.
In the bedchamber of "Ling Xue," "Ling Xue" lay on the bed, her face pale. The hastily summoned imperial physician, unfamiliar with "Ling Xue's" temperament, spoke too much at the beginning.
"Don't ask what you shouldn't."
Even with her kidney deficiency and weakness, Ling Xue's tone was still chillingly cold.
As soon as "Ling Xue" finished speaking, the physician immediately fell silent, and beads of cold sweat slowly appeared on his forehead.
After the physician left, "Ling Xue" closed her eyes.
At this moment, no fox noticed that Xiao Bai, who hadn't seen "Ling Xue" all day, was slowly approaching "Ling Xue's" bedchamber.
"Who do you think could have injured our Qing Qiu's Imperial Princess?"
She was injured?
Xiao Bai's already round eyes widened even further.
As Xiao Bai was surveying the surroundings, looking for an opportunity to enter "Ling Xue's" bedchamber, one of the maids guarding Ling Xue's bedchamber suddenly spoke.
"Shh." Another maid frowned, placing her index finger on her lips.
"It's okay, the Princess is already asleep." The other maid lowered her voice.
"I guess it's that immortal from the Nine Heavens who lives in the Peach Forest," the maid who had extended her finger whispered.
"Yin Yu, how do you know?" The maid's tone instantly changed to one of surprise.
"My sisters in the Nine Heavens are on duty near the Peach Forest. She saw our Imperial Princess coming out of the Peach Forest with injuries several times."
Was it him?
Xiao Bai mused, and fierce determination erupted in its round eyes.
"Yin Yu, Zhao Shui."
As soon as the maids finished speaking, a voice came from the Imperial Princess's bedchamber. The expressions of the two maids visibly panicked, and they then went inside.
"Why are you so interested in how I got injured?"
"Ling Xue" opened her eyes and looked at the maids who were gossiping in front of her. Even lying down, she exuded a pressure that made the entire room bone-chillingly cold.
The two maids lowered their heads, not daring to speak.
"Perhaps I should injure you all too, and then find a few more people to guess how you got injured?"
As "Ling Xue" spoke, the shoulders of the two maids couldn't help but tremble.
"Enough, go and receive your punishment."
Upon hearing this, the two maids seemed to be granted a great pardon and immediately got up to leave.
Compared to letting "Ling Xue" personally make them lose a layer of skin, it was naturally better for them to go and receive their punishment themselves.
A moment later, "Ling Xue" closed her eyes again, exhausted.
Time passed little by little, and soon "Ling Xue's" magnificent bedchamber grew dark.
When she opened her eyes again, "Ling Xue" no longer knew what day it was, but the warm breathing sound beside her instinctively made her raise her guard.
"Who is it!"
"Ling Xue" reached out and grasped the other person's vital point. The person under her hand didn't speak, but "Ling Xue" had already recognized them from the soft, warm touch.
Ling Xue always slept lightly. How long had Xiao Bai been by her side?
"Why are you here?" Ling Xue used magic to light a candle, and the bedchamber lit up.
Xiao Bai, who had been obediently by Ling Xue's side, saw that Ling Xue had opened her eyes and seemed to be fine, and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiao Bai did not respond to "Ling Xue."
Seeing Xiao Bai trying to smile, "Ling Xue" inexplicably found it amusing and also started to laugh.
Even if Xiao Bai didn't speak, "Ling Xue" was sure that Xiao Bai was here because she was worried about her.
"Ling Xue" was not an easy person to approach, but she didn't realize that she had unknowingly given Xiao Bai a great deal of trust.