Luo Yang’s face was full of gossipy curiosity!

These past few days, he would take out this painting from time to time to look at it.

His curiosity had been hooked again and again.

Now that he’d finally caught this opportunity, he had no reason not to ask.

For three years, Ji Yunshu had never mentioned anything about Jingrong to anyone.

And no one had ever asked her about it the way Luo Yang was doing now.

In her deep eyes shone a cold air: “My affairs have nothing whatsoever to do with you!”

Luo Yang shrugged: “True, it has nothing to do with me! But I’m curious!”

“…”

“It’s just one person, isn’t it? What’s there that can’t be said? Who exactly is he?”

“I’ll say it one more time, it has nothing to do with you.”

“If you won’t say, then I’ll guess myself!” Luo Yang continued racing down the road of courting death, and going further and further…

Even knowing that Ji Yunshu’s heart was filled with boundless fury at this moment, he still wanted to pluck hair from the tiger’s body.

It seemed that provoking this woman’s anger had already become an indispensable habit in his life.

And once a habit formed, it was extremely terrifying! He began pondering on his own, stroking his chin, squinting his eyes and saying: “Someone a person would risk their life to find is generally either a lover or an enemy. But you carry his portrait with you and are so nervous about it, so he’s not an enemy, which means he must definitely… be your lover! Judging from his features, he doesn’t look like a scholar, but rather like someone who practices martial arts. Good physique, broad chest, definitely not an ordinary farmer. Looking at his clothes, they’re quite nice too, so he’s not poor, which means he’s wealthy. Hmm… could he be a general? No, he should be…”

He immersed himself in the pleasure of speculating about Jingrong’s identity.

Guards, physicians, young masters from noble families, martial arts champions…

He just didn’t guess that he was a prince!

After all, if a prince of a nation went missing, the entire country would surely search for him with all their might. How could a weak woman traverse mountains and cross deserts to search for him?

Ji Yunshu’s expression grew increasingly dark. Taking advantage of this moment, she snatched the painting away.

And lightly rebuked: “Stop talking!”

Luo Yang looked at his empty palm, smacked his lips a few times, blinked his bright eyes, and asked: “Did I guess everything wrong?”

“Some things are better left unknown, otherwise, they could bring you mortal danger at any time.”

A warning!

Seeing her fierce expression, Luo Yang also trembled slightly and waved his hand: “Fine, I won’t guess.”

“I need to rest now. Please leave.”

“You’re crossing the river and demolishing the bridge! When you need me, you can’t wait to tie me to your side. When you don’t need me, you can’t wait for me to get as far away as possible. They say women are the most ruthless, and it’s indeed true.” He said sourly. “Weren’t you always furious that I used Xiao Ba’s life to threaten you into coming to Qujiang with me? And you kept thinking of ways to get rid of me along the way. Now you’re free, Xiao Ba didn’t take any poison, isn’t this what you wanted? Since that’s the case, why are you still following me?”

Luo Yang was momentarily speechless, his eyes rolling round and round in their sockets.

He didn’t know what was wrong with himself either.

Clearly, he had tried every means to escape this woman’s control, and now being free of it should be a fortunate thing.

He could even take the three hundred taels of silver he’d stolen from Nanny Yao and find a place somewhere with Xiao Ba to settle down properly.

But inexplicably, he wanted to follow this woman.

He wanted to see her get angry at him each time.

Truly adorable!

For a moment, the emotions in his heart were thrown into complete chaos. He swallowed and said very stubbornly: “Did I say I was following you? Jiahe Town is just this small, there are only so many inns. If you can come here, why can’t I? I’ll stay wherever I want, it has nothing to do with you. This young master… wouldn’t follow you.”

“Since that’s the case, I won’t see you out.”

An eviction order issued!

Luo Yang’s eyebrows furrowed for a while, then raised high for a while.

In the current situation, he couldn’t find a reason to continue staying.

In the end, he could only leave dejectedly!

When he returned to his own room, Xiao Ba was eating meat and fish with gusto.

His mouth full of grease.

“Brother, did you return the painting to Miss Ji?” Xiao Ba said unclearly with meat in his mouth.

“I did!” Luo Yang frowned, looking unhappy.

Then he sat down opposite Xiao Ba and poured himself a cup of wine to drink.

An inexplicable sorrow lingered between his brows.

Xiao Ba continued eating, swallowing hard, and seeing that Luo Yang seemed quite unhappy, asked: “Brother, what’s wrong?”

Luo Yang didn’t speak.

He continued drinking.

A pot of wine was quickly emptied.

Xiao Ba was too lazy to ask further and continued eating with relish.

Suddenly—

“Bang!”

Luo Yang slammed his fist on the table, straightening his back, his narrowed eyes staring straight ahead, unfocused and visibly dazed.

Because he’d been drinking, his face was flushed red.

Xiao Ba was so startled that the chicken leg in his hand fell. He froze, then reached out a finger to poke him, asking softly: “Brother, did you… drink too much?”

“…”

“Brother?”

Luo Yang suddenly asked himself: “Why am I like this? Why?”

“What why?”

He suddenly grabbed Xiao Ba’s hand excitedly: “Xiao Ba, tell me why I’m like this?”

“Huh?”

“Why do I… have to follow her?”

“You mean Miss Ji?”

Luo Yang nodded.

Xiao Ba said: “I don’t know what you’re thinking either. Aren’t we free now? We have money, we can go somewhere else and open a bun shop. The two of us can live together, how great would that be!”

Yes, how great that would be!

Why was he so foolish as to want to follow Ji Yunshu and suffer?

And be constantly ignored!

At this moment, his thoughts were in complete chaos, making his head throb with pain. He shook his head hard and pounded his fist on the table with a muffled thud.

Xiao Ba stared in stunned disbelief.

This was the first time he’d seen Luo Yang like this.

And moreover—

It was over a woman.

Luo Yang simply lay down on the bed, covering his chest with both hands, looking at the faintly swaying gauze curtain overhead.

Whether in his mind or his heart, there was an indescribable feeling.

Blocked up inside his body, it was unbearably uncomfortable.

Yet he couldn’t think of a way to resolve it.

So he tossed and turned on the bed…

Xiao Ba first expressed some concern, but in the end was still drawn entirely by the food’s attraction. Too lazy to care about Luo Yang, he continued eating.

The next day.

Ji Yunshu left the inn very early.

Partly to catch the boat, partly to prevent those two tagalongs from following.

She couldn’t understand it. Previously in Zhuxin City, she’d had to use tactics to get Luo Yang to agree to cross the Nansai Desert with her to Qujiang. Now they were free, yet they still insisted on following her.

They say a woman’s heart is a needle at the bottom of the sea. Wasn’t a man’s heart the same?