329: Chapter 237: Are You Right, Third Young Master?
329: Chapter 237: Are You Right, Third Young Master?
Outside, the wind and snow were swaying, and Li Zhaoyuan stood alone within the silent great hall.
Suddenly, he found his thoughts to be a ss, as a sense of powerlessness from failing to find a way out, despite racking his brains, rose again in his heart.
A long-lost feeling.
The words said earlier by Xu Changtian made him recognize once more the gap between himself and his royal brother.
It wasn’t a gap in abilities, but a sheer discrepancy in birthright.
The Crown Prince, a towering mountain pressing down on the hearts of all Princes.
No matter how hard you struggle, how ingeniously you plot, it’s difficult to surpass.
After standing for a long while, Li Zhaoyuan heaved a sigh and turned to walk toward the desk.
And just at that mont,
“I didn’t expect…
Zhaoyuan, that you would show such an expression.”
A delicate female voice abruptly rose, breaking the silence in the hall, carrying a hint of tease as if she was quite familiar with the Second Prince.
“…….”
Upon hearing the voice, a flicker of tenderness unconsciously appeared in Li Zhaoyuan’s eyes, but when he glanced sideways, his expression had already returned to calm, even with a trace of disgust.
A woman in plain white snow garnts appeared at the entrance of the great hall.
A nose like a jade hill, and cherry lips, her snow garnts hanging to her elbows, exposing her fragrant shoulders and fair, exquisitely detailed collarbones in full view.
Beautiful yet chilling.
The woman seed to materialize along with the falling fog of snow at the doorway.
With each step she took, the ground ford a layer of white frost.
If Xu Yuan were still lingering in this council hall at the mont, seeing the attire of the woman, he would recognize that she belonged to one of the three royal figures of the Ancient Abyss’s Fox Tribe.
After all, there are not many who are both poor and generous in Cang Yuan.
Nan Jinxi of the Snow Foxes.
Not the female lead of Cang Yuan, but a very special BOSS.
Although she is one of the three kings of the Fox Tribe, she was not present during Ancient Abyss’s invasion of Dayan.
For many tilines, she stayed secretly within the mountains deep inside Dayan territory.
Considered a neutral BOSS.
Killing her will yield equipnt and intelligence.
If not killed, she will assist you once later on, but only against the Pri Minister’s Mansion.
Hearing this teasing remark, Li Zhaoyuan’s face didn’t show any emotion:
“This prince is human, of course I would feel defeat.”
After a pause, he asked in a sober voice:
“Nan Jinxi, why have you co here?”
Nan Jinxi tilted her head to think, then with her slender figure moving forward and a soft chuckle, she said:
“With such a big commotion that Xu Yinhè and your imperial father are causing at the Northern Frontier, it’s hard for us not to co here.
Hearing from so little beasts in the city that your presence was at this Governnt Office, I ca to see you.”
The Demon Race is almost unmatched when it cos to the collection of intelligence.
Their bloodline allows them to control so low-level Demonic Beasts, even ordinary beasts, to gather intelligence for them.
But this control has its flaws.
The controlled Demonic Beasts retain a faint trace of Origin Qi connection, which strong individuals like Lou Ji can easily sense and then trace back to the source.
Li Zhaoyuan glanced outside the hall:
“Doing this…
Aren’t you afraid you might stay in Northern Border City forever?”
“Zhaoyuan, are you concerned about ?”
Seeing his handso appearance, Nan Jinxi curved her eyes in a smile:
“Don’t worry.
Lou Ji has already headed north away from the city.
As long as I don’t get too close to your imperial sister, no one here can find .”
As they spoke,
she, dressed in her light plain clothes, had already crossed the hundred-ter hall to stand close to Li Zhaoyuan.
Li Zhaoyuan’s expression revealed neither joy nor anger, and he asked pensively:
“Lou Ji has left?”
Nan Jinxi’s fair and smooth shoulder gave a playful shrug as she said with a smirk:
“I wouldn’t dare to show myself if that woman didn’t leave.
She seems to have gone to deliver sothing important.”
While speaking,
she reached out to take a roll of docunt on the desk.
Unfortunately for her, Li Zhaoyuan, who stood by the desk, had already taken the docunt into his hands with a slight smile:
“Are you that afraid of Lou Ji?”
“I can’t beat her~”
Nan Jinxi showed a pathetic expression, stretching out her hand to continue reaching for another docunt while saying with a smile:
“If it weren’t for that woman sohow injuring her foundation, she might have beco a saint by now.”
Seeing her actions, Li Zhaoyuan directly collected all the docunts from the desk into the Suru Ring, his voice slightly cold:
“Enough, if you want to spy on intelligence, go find soone else.”
Nan Jinxi’s deep blue eyes stared at Li Zhaoyuan, saying:
“Just a joke, you blockhead…
You really don’t understand won at all.”
Li Zhaoyuan’s dark pupils looked down at the woman:
“Won?
Are you human?”
“….”
Hearing this, Nan Jinxi was stunned for a mont, and then anger flickered through her beautiful eyes.
Li Zhaoyuan’s eyes remained deep and unmoved.
A stare, a silence.
After a long while,
Nan Jinxi’s eyes lost their anger and she murmured to herself:
“I know that soone of your status cannot be involved with , but…”
“Enough.”
Li Zhaoyuan interrupted, standing straight:
“Nan Jinxi, I indeed saved you once, but let’s not continue with this trite story of the white fox repaying a debt of gratitude.”
Nan Jinxi pinched her slender fingers fiercely:
“Li Zhaoyuan, I sacrificed my lifespan to take on a human form, what do you think that was for?”
Li Zhaoyuan remained completely unmoved, even showing a hint of impatience:
“If you have sothing to say, speak plainly.
The war situation at the Northern Border is urgent, and if you keep wasting ti, I shall activate the formation.”
“….”
The hall fell silent,
and the frail figure of the woman trembled as she spoke in a low voice:
“I ca only to tell you, hurry and leave Northern Border City.”
“Leave?”
Li Zhaoyuan frowned slightly, knowing that she risked being killed by appearing here, it was likely she wouldn’t lie.
After a mont of contemplation, he uttered two words:
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