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Duan Cheng Xuan, I don't owe you anything, I'll return the favor.

If you kill Gu Liuyan, I will kill you and pay you back in blood.

When she heard the commotion in the forest, Gu Danyan intentionally sprained her leg before descending the mountain. She frowned as she looked at Duan Chengxuan and said, "Go look for Cheng Shan and the others to pick me up, or else we'll all die here tonight."

"If you are here alone, you will become the food of wild beasts." Duan Cheng Xuan carried her on her back with a dark expression.

Gu Liuyan felt that something was wrong.

In the next moment, an arrow flew past her nose. In order to dodge, Duan Chengxuan only threw her down. He drew his long blade and surveyed his surroundings.

Gu Danyan was still holding the bottle of medicine in his hand. Seeing the black-clothed men closing in on him, he could only stare blankly without saying a word.

The Third Prince had indeed sent someone to attack.

"Come here." Gritting her teeth, she really wanted to struggle free. However, for some reason, she followed behind Duan Chengxuan and said with a sneer, "You already have the secret formula, and you also have the medicinal materials. Now you still care about my death?"

"Shut up." Duan Chengxuan angrily shouted, then only brought her to flee deeper into the forest.

Gu Liuyan's heart beat faster. The guilt and guilt in her heart almost made her want to lean forward and fall to the ground.

Why do you still care so much about my life …

"What are you standing there for? Run!" Duan Cheng Xuan abruptly pulled her forward, bringing her along as she traveled through the forest.

Gritting his teeth, Gu Pingyan broke free from his hand and said: "Their goal is you. They won't do anything to me, so hurry up and leave."

No, Gu Liuyan, you should have killed him.

"You can escape by yourself."

He killed Gu Liuyan and hurt you.

"Leave me behind."

The words in his heart could not be put into action.

She didn't want Duan Chengxuan to die at all, no matter if it was the tacit understanding from the past, or last night amidst the snowstorm.

She still couldn't make up her mind.

Maybe she would regret it.

However, Duan Chengxuan didn't abandon her. Instead, he dragged her away and said, "I don't need to rely on a woman to break out of this predicament. There's a river at the bottom of the mountain ahead."

"Impossible. We can't even get there."

Gu Liuyan still wanted to struggle free from Duan Chenxuan's grasp, but to no avail.

The black-clothed person behind him pressed forward step by step, and when Duan Chengxuan caught up, he would only swing his saber to chop off that person's head. He only threw Gu Danyan in front of him as he said, "Jump into the river and find Chengshan."

Gu Danyan was shocked and quickly ran away.

Traveling through the forest, finding the location of the cliff based on the location that Duan Chengxuan had told her seemed to be somewhat impossible. Her heart was beating like a drum, and her fingers tightly gripped the medicinal wine in her bosom.

She was lost in the forest, so she had no idea where she was going.

When the two black-clothed men landed in front of her, one of them pointed his long blade at her. "Crown Princess Jing, I apologize."

"Aren't you people sent by Duan Chengrui?" Gu Danyan took a few steps back vigilantly.

The two of them looked at each other, both seemingly at a loss. "We've killed you for the sake of the third prince, so we'd like to invite Crown Princess Jing to her death."

She barely managed to dodge the first strike, and the second strike on her shoulder caused her to flee into the forest in a panic.

He shouldn't have made a deal with the third prince!

She could not help but say this, but she heard the sounds from the forest gradually approaching. Just as she was about to find the cliff, she saw that Duan Chengxuan had broken a person's neck and looked him in the eye. Duan Chengxuan walked over with scars all over his body and pulled her, speeding up as he ran towards the cliff.

Gu Liuyan couldn't say a word.

"We can't let them escape! Send someone to watch by the river! " The people behind him almost shouted.

No one could react before jumping off the cliff, but Duan Chengxuan had pulled her along and killed two black-clothed men with a single slash. One of them directly slashed towards Gu Liuyan, and in her panic, she could only remember to protect the medicinal wine in his bosom.

However, there wasn't any pain. Duan Chengxuan used his arm to block a strike for her.

Her pupils constricted as she subconsciously pulled Duan Cheng Xuan to her side, but she didn't know where she got the strength to bring him to the other side.

If there was no Duan Cheng Xuan, she would definitely die.

Third Prince broke his promise …

Thinking up to this point, she could only tightly hold onto Duan Chengxuan's hand as she arrived at the execution path and tightly held Duan Chengxuan within her embrace before tumbling down the slope. At the bottom of the slope, Duan Chengxuan ignited something he didn't know, causing smoke to rise into the air.

However, the two of them didn't dare to stay any longer. Gu Mingyan saw that his calf was injured, so she only watched as his shoulder continued to walk further in.

The group of guards almost completely stopped the person behind them.

Gu Mingyan originally wanted to wait a while, but Duan Chengxuan, who was beside her, stepped on empty air as he dragged her down the hill. Duan Chengxuan's head was struck and he was unconscious.

"Search!"

When she woke up, she realized that the two had long since moved away from their original positions. At the same time, a few panting secret guards beside her said in a low voice: "I hope that the wangfei can bring the prince away. We will come to the back of the hall."

"Alright." Gu Daiyan dragged Duan Chenxuan along as if she was filled with lead, feeling her way through the darkness.

The miserable screams of several people sounded out from behind him. Gu Daiyan had no time to continue walking forward. Seeing so many corpses on the ground, he could only directly acupuncture himself and Duan Chengxuan and use the blood of the dead to paste them into his body, feigning death.

The people sent by the Third Prince were similarly heavily injured, and after they probed Duan Chenxuan's breathing, they quickly left. The remaining two people probed Mingyan's breathing before lightly sighing, "Crown Princess Jing, we are all thinking for the Third Prince's sake."

Gu Danyan was curious. Did the Third Prince really not know that these people would make a move against her?

However, she never thought that so many people would actually be unable to survive, and both sides had suffered heavy losses. Gu Liuyan had only brought Duan Chengxuan to a broken house at the foot of the mountain, a wall that had almost no side to it. There was nothing above her head, but it was at least better than staying in the mountain forest.

Duan Chengxuan was injured, and he was currently suffering from a high fever, causing his wounds to become infected.

"I'm sorry." Gu Liuyan whispered. She didn't think that she would pick up a rock and smash her own feet with it, but she stumbled over the herbs in the box as she bandaged them up. When she was done, she heard a terrifying sound coming from the forest and saw countless pairs of eyes staring at them from the darkness.

Swallowing his saliva, Gu Daiyan could only smell the scent of blood on his body. His face darkened as he said, "This is troublesome."