Chapter 48: Retreat as Advance

  Chu Yixiu's deep and profound eyes, with a hint of a smile, looked at the two spiritual plants she had chosen, and then thought of the purple lingzhi she had bought for a huge sum last time, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Miss Qin, are you using these spiritual plants yourself?"

  Qin Luo Yi blinked her phoenix eyes, and a smile rippled across her bright face: "These elixirs are used for alchemy."

  Her words were implicit, and because the spiritual energy in her body couldn't circulate, it had been quietly staying in her dantian. Chu Yixiu couldn't see that she had any cultivation, so he naturally thought that she was helping someone buy spirit plants, rather than refining them for herself.

  Qin Luo Yi saw his expression and knew he had misunderstood, but she didn't explain. On the contrary, this was exactly what she wanted to happen. Even the surname she told him earlier was not hidden, it was her real surname.

  Chu Yixiu is the noble prince of Chu State, and also her nominal fiancé. Her current appearance is truly unbelievable, she doesn't think she can hide from the world for a lifetime!

  It's better to reveal her true self now rather than being discovered later and misunderstood as having ulterior motives.

  "See His Imperial Highness, the Third Prince!"

  Qin Luoyi and Chu Yixiu had just arrived at the entrance of Xianling Square when two tall and majestic horses suddenly stopped in front of them, about ten meters away. Two slender and elegant figures hastily dismounted from the horses.

  "Cold night, cold ink, you've arrived!" Chu Yixiu's eyebrows rose as he looked at the people coming down, and a clear and warm smile spread across his lips as he quickly walked up to greet them.

  Qin Luoyi's phoenix eyes were on her body, wearing a green dress, and the two dusty people glanced at each other with a faintly familiar feeling.

  Cold night, cold ink... It should be Du Leng Ye, Du Leng Mo! She remembered that Du Yu Die's two older brothers were called by these names.

  "Your Highness, I heard that Yuxiang fell from the cliff and got hurt. How is she now? Is her injury serious..." One of the slightly taller men asked with a hint of anxiety after paying his respects.

  "Leng Mo, don't worry! Yu Die is fine for now..." Chu Yixiu comforted him while explaining the situation to them.

  "It's fortunate that the injury is on your back and you haven't been stung by a mutated red-footed bee, so it's not too serious. Once Master Jiangnan refines the Rejuvenating Pellet, taking a few of them should restore you to normal..."

  Leng Mo and Leng Ye, two brothers, heard this and finally let out a sigh of relief. Since receiving the news, they had been holding their breath in anxiety, but now they could finally relax.

  A cold night, a lip corner raised, a face flashed with a hint of mockery, and unexpectedly said: "Butterfly is too careless, with her cultivation, how could she fall off the cliff? ... However, I didn't expect that this time it was actually the famous Wú Yán Nǚ (Saltless Woman) from the capital who saved Butterfly. Haha, I didn't think that woman, ugly to the point that even a mutated red-footed bee wouldn't bother stinging her, is really too funny!"

  Leng Mo frowned and quietly glared at him, now Qin Luo Yi was the fiancée of the Third Prince, his own brother was too outspoken, what nonsense about a woman without salt... could this be said in front of the Third Prince?

  She looked at Chu Yixiu again with her eyes.

  Chu Yixiu pursed the corner of his lips, and a hint of coldness flashed in his deep, black eyes. He then smiled as if it didn't matter and changed the subject: "You've arrived just in time. Let's go to Jiang Nan's mansion together. The Rejuvenating Pellet needs to be refined as soon as possible, or else scars will be left behind."

  The Nourishing Face Elixir was a fifth-grade elixir, and it wasn't easy to gather all the ingredients. He had even spent several days at the Xianling Bazaar, which had the most complete variety of spiritual plants, before finally gathering everything he needed.

  The two brothers, Leng Ye and Mo, naturally did not object. With their own sister's perfectionist personality, they knew that if she had left any indelible marks on herself, it would be a disaster for the Du family!

  Chu Yixiu turned around and invited Qin Luoyi to walk together.

  Jiang Nan was extremely famous in the capital and even in Chu State, he was the Tai Shan Bei Dou of the alchemy world, able to refine 6th rank dan medicine, and once, he had even successfully refined a 7th rank dan medicine... Even the Emperor of Chu State treated him with great courtesy, often inviting him into the palace.

  Leng Ye and Leng Mo had long noticed the beautiful woman standing beside the Third Prince, and now seeing the Third Prince inviting her to go to Jiang Dashi's mansion together, they were both shocked in their hearts.

  To know the residence of Master Jiang, it's not a place that ordinary people can enter, let alone see him personally refining elixirs... I wonder what kind of relationship this unfamiliar girl has with the Third Prince.

  At this thought, a sharp glint flashed in both of their dark eyes as they carefully scrutinized Qin Luo Yi.

  Her distant mountain-like eyebrows surrounded a clear and elegant breath, cherry blossom-like red lips curled up with confident and charming demeanor. Her skin was as white as condensed fat, born with beauty, bright eyes gazed around, her absolutely beautiful face was flawless... The two brothers looked at her, their eyes flashing with the same surprise and admiration.

  Chu Yixiu caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly a strange feeling floated up in his heart. The warm and smiling corners of his mouth stiffened for a moment, and his tall and handsome body seemed to be blocking Qin Luoyi's face, just in time to block the gaze of the two Du brothers.

  Qin Luoyi glanced at them with a cold hum in her heart, these two were indeed Du Yuxiang's brothers! That damned Leng Ye, knowing that Da Hei had saved Du Yuxiang, actually still called her the Saltless Girl!

  It's really like they're all from the same family, they're all so annoying!

  And this Chu Yixiu, even more detestable, actually allowed others to call his fiancée such names in front of him without any reaction... He's just as despicable! My mind is made up, I will never marry a man like that, not even as a temporary measure. Their engagement must be resolved!

  Withdrawing her gaze from the two Cold Ink people, she hid the disgust in her eyes and smiled at Chu Yixiu: "No, I've been out for a long time, I need to hurry up and take the bought spiritual plants back!"

  After finishing speaking, he bid farewell and left without hesitation.

  Chu Yixiu never thought that she would actually refuse his invitation. To watch Jiang Nan master refine the elixir was something that many people couldn't even hope to achieve!

  Staring at her gradually disappearing beautiful back, the smile on his face stiffened, and he was very displeased in his heart. Then he thought that she didn't have any spiritual power at all, and it seemed that she wasn't interested in alchemy either, and he let go of it.

  A hint of thought in his cold, ink-like eyes.

  The one who dares to refuse Chu Yixiu's invitation, especially a woman, this Qin girl is absolutely the first! Probably also the last one! In the capital city, even in the entire Chu state, there isn't any young lady who doesn't hope to get the favor of the talented and elegant third prince, being able to talk with him for just one sentence makes them feel like they've accumulated good fortune for several lifetimes...

  A strange interest flashed in his eyes. Looking at the Third Prince's appearance, it was clear that he had an unusual interest in this stunningly beautiful girl... It was unclear whether she was truly refusing or intentionally retreating to advance.

  On the lips of a cold night, however, flashed a hint of ridicule and disdain, with a chill in the depths of her eyes, directly taking Qin Luoyi as a cunning and sinister fox spirit who would stop at nothing to seduce the Third Prince.

  Thinking of her own sister who had deep feelings for the third prince, she even said that she would only marry him last time... Her eyes became extremely cold.

  She made up her mind that when she arrived at the Third Prince's mansion later, she must remind her sister once again.

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