Heavenly Fate: The Complete Journey of a Star-Crossed Concubine

  "Hey, hey, I'm telling you to slow down, okay? What's wrong with you?" Lan Lingxuan dragged An Weixin forward in large strides, and just as An Weixin had voiced her complaints countless times, Lan Lingxuan finally came to a stop.

  "Hey, why did you suddenly stop?" An Weixin rubbed her sore nose and complained, and when she looked up, she bumped into Lan Lingxuan's deep eyes.

  "What's your relationship with him?"

  "Who? Who is that? Ah... you mean Shao Wen?" An Wei's eyes widened as she thought for a moment, "He's family, no, more accurately, he's someone even more important than family."

  Hearing An Weixin consider Shao Nian as family made Lan Lingxuan feel much more at ease, his large hand grasped An Weixin's small hand, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curve upwards.

  "Be careful, man, are you jealous? Hehehe." The blue Ling Xuan who was being teased felt a bit uncomfortable and turned his head around, pulling An Wei Xin to continue walking forward. An Wei Xin followed behind him, constantly giggling.

  ……。

  "I didn't expect you to be the sister of King Xuan, I've heard that King Xuan's reputation in Qingling country is even higher than that of the crown prince... " Shao Nian said for half a day before suddenly realizing that the person beside him had no reaction at all. He lowered his head to take a look and saw that Lan Ling'er was frowning, lost in thought. "Ling'er, Ling'er?"

  "What did you say?"

  "What's on your mind, girl? I've been talking to you for half a day and you haven't heard a word."

  "Uh, that...". Blue Spirit hesitated, seeming to have made some kind of decision after a long pause. "What's the relationship between you and my imperial sister?" Blue Spirit asked, looking at Shao Nian with tension.

  "Empress?" Shao Nian was puzzled for a moment, then thought of what she said about An Wei Xin. "As for me and Wei Xin, we are friends, buddies, confidants, and also each other's family."

  Lan Ling'er was stunned by what he said about their relationship, but she also knew that the two of them weren't in the kind of relationship she had imagined. Her originally gloomy mood suddenly cleared up.

  "Ah, we've reached the exit. Follow me closely." Shao Nian pulled Blue Spirit behind him, shielding her with his body, causing her to blush uncontrollably. After descending a dozen or so flights of stairs, they came face to face with a door. Unaware of what lay beyond it, Shao Nian exercised caution. Beside the door was a protruding metal ball, which he slowly pressed down on. The door creaked open, revealing a room. The secret passageway was hidden behind a bookshelf. Fortunately, the room was empty. As they exited the room, they found themselves in an ordinary residential house. Shao Nian and Blue Spirit circled around the courtyard but didn't find anyone.

  "There's nobody."

  "Then let's go to Yue Lai Inn and wait for Brother Huang and the others."

  "Let's go." The two of them swaggered out of the main gate, and Blue Spirit let out a curious "huh?", "What's wrong?"

  "Isn't that the county yamen?" Blue Spirit pointed to her left and said, Shao Nian followed the direction of Blue Spirit's pointing hand and looked over, indeed it was the Suicheng County Yamen.

  "This gang is really bold, their den is actually right next to the county government office."

  "What shall we do now?"

  "Go back first."

  "Uh-huh."

  ……。

  "Wow, this secret passage is so long!" Nan Gong Ran and An Chuyi had been walking for the time it took to drink two cups of tea, but they still hadn't reached the end. Nan Gong Ran was getting frustrated, wondering why he had chosen this route in the first place. Just as he was complaining for the nth time, the two finally saw the exit. "We must have walked out of the city by now."

  The exit is above, and the two of them lifted up the round wooden cover on their heads, and indeed they had already reached outside the city. It seems that this road should be used for escape.

  "Let's go back to the inn, I'm exhausted." Nangong Ran was leaning on An Chuyi, his entire body hanging on him, An Chuyi just looked at him and didn't push him away, the two of them walked back like this.

  ……。

  An Wei Xin was pulled by Lan Ling Xuan, the two of them one in front and one behind, "Hey, why do you always suddenly stop?" An Wei Xin felt like her nose was going to be flattened.

  "We're here."

  An Weixin raised her head and indeed saw a wooden door in front of her, she knocked on it with her hand and it seemed to be hollow, she pushed it open with force and just as she was about to use more strength, Lan Lingxuan pulled her back, the door opened and what came into view was a study room, that door was actually a bookshelf.

  "What place is this?"

  "This is... someone's coming." Lan Lingxuan wrapped his arms around An Weixin, who had just jumped onto the beam of the study room. The door opened and a person walked in. An Weixin was taken aback when he saw that person. That person walked to the bookshelf where An Weixin and Lan Lingxuan had come out from earlier and pushed it open to walk inside.

  Lan Lingxuan brought An Weixin down from the beam, "I said you Qi Lingguo officials are actually human traffickers! No wonder we couldn't find any clues for so long." That's right, the man just now was indeed the county official of Suicheng, Chen Fuchen, "I've always said that this Chen Fuchen is not a good thing. Hmph! What do you plan to do?"

  Lan Lingxuan glanced at An Weixin and said, "First return to the guest house and see what Chu Taizi and Ling'er have found."

  An Weixin and Lan Lingxuan returned to the inn when Lan Linger and Shao Nian had already arrived, only waiting for Nan Gong Ran and An Chuyi.

  "Where does this road lead to?" An Wei Xin asked after taking a sip of tea.

  "It's just an ordinary house, with no one inside, and it's right next to the county government office. This thief really has a big nerve."

  "If you knew what we found out, you wouldn't think that thief's guts are big." An Wei smiled smugly.

  "Oh? What did you find out?"

  "The exit of our road is a study room, and the owner of the study room is... Chen Daren, the county official of Suicheng!"

  "What? Is this true, Imperial Brother?" Blue Spirit asked disbelievingly.

  "Uh-huh."

  "Ah, you're all back." The voice of Nangong Ran echoed from the doorway. Everyone turned around to see Nangong Ran clinging to An Chuyi's body. An Weixin gave Nangong Ran a flirtatious wink, and Nangong Ran responded with a confident smile.

  "Big brother, why are you back so late?" An Wei Xin pushed away Nan Gong Ran who was hanging on An Chu Yi's body and asked while hugging his arm.

  "We took the road that leads out of town, so we came back a bit late."

  "Outside the city? That means they'll be transporting people out of that secret passage tonight."

  "Perhaps it won't be until tomorrow night, if they find out someone has escaped, they will definitely transport people overnight," said Shao Nian.

  "What shall we do now, Your Majesty?"

  "We'll go outside the city now, would you mind showing us the way, Crown Prince of Chu?"

  "Good."

  "Ling'er, stay at the inn and don't go out." Lan Lingxuan turned around and instructed.

  "Be careful, brothers."

  One hour later, outside Suicheng.

  "It seems they've discovered someone has escaped." In the dense forest on the outskirts, which was also the exit of the secret path that Nangong Ran and An Chuyi had found, there were over thirty people all dressed as merchants.

  "In a while we'll think of a way to sneak in, and wait until they transport the people out before making our move," Lan Lingxuan said.

  "Xuan Wangye, you're not going to have us wear their clothes and pretend, are you?" Nan Gong Ran asked exaggeratedly, his expression clearly showing that he didn't want to do so.

  "Do you have any good ideas?" Blue Ling Xuan glanced at Nan Gong Ran.

  "I'd rather not wear those stinky men's clothes, it's disgusting!" Just thinking about letting him wear someone else's clothes, and still those of a stinky man, made Nan Gong Ran feel a chill run down her spine, she didn't even want to think about it.

  "How about this, I and Shao Nian are good at long-range attacks, let's have Dye sister join us in a surprise attack on them. As for you few, just disguise yourselves as their people, how about it?" An Wei Xin proposed a compromise, which also counts as inside and outside coordination.

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