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Chap 818

Chapter 818: Empty-handed, Ning Jing reveals a trap

Faced with the resolute question, Tang Li realized that this was the first time that Long Feiye was begging him for help. Technically speaking, it couldn’t count as begging. Without Long Feiye, he would have never become the Tang Clan head or have the right to hear Long Feiye plea for help today.

No one understood Long Feiye better than Tang Li when they were growing up. In fact, Tang Li had more or less guessed the truth on his own, but he didn’t want to believe it, nor could he accept it. Now he could neither accept nor refuse Long Feiye. 

“Big bro, it’s just a woman,” he said, but even he felt those words to be insincere. He had seen too many exceptions when it came to Long Feiye’s treatment of Han Yunxi, including how he’d excused his severe mysophobia to protect her, or hold her in front of a crowd, or kiss her deeply.

He doted on her to his very bones, loved her into his very blood. How could he throw someone like that away after four years of spoiling her?

“Big bro, even if you don’t care about her status--even if none of us East Qin adherents minded--what about her herself?” Tang Li asked seriously. “She’ll hate you. She’ll think that you were using her!”

Hadn’t Long Feiye hid the truth of her identity from Han Yunxi because he feared this very fact? The hatred of the West Qin princess towards the East Qin crown prince! Love was supposed to come from both sides in a couple. No one had the right to force others to sacrifice and give up the same things. Nor did they have reason to believe the other party was willing to do just as much.

For example, just because he could ignore her status, it didn’t mean she could do the same. Tang Li’s words made Long Feiye’s heart sink. 

Sighing, Tang Li added, “Big bro, actually, I like Ning Jing too, but…” he smiled bitterly, “How could she really like me? Would she actually want to bear my children? We’re both just fooling ourselves.”

He had played around with Ning Jing quite a bit since their wedding, especially during the first month, but there had been no news from that woman’s stomach at all. It was obvious that she’d been taking drugs to prevent getting pregnant. 

Undoubtedly, Tang Li’s feelings for Ning Jing surprised Long Feiye, but he didn’t have time to consider that now. Instead he asked coldly, “Do you know who kidnapped her?”

Seeing that Long Feiye wasn’t pressuring him to help out anymore, Tang Li silently exhaled. His single statement made everything clear to Long Feiye.

“I’ve been waging a cold war with Ning Jing over the past few days,” said Tang Li. “After leaving the house, I doubled back twice on purpose but didn’t see her in her rooms. Last night I waited until the middle of the night before she came back. Seeing me gave her a fright.”

Ever since the Apricot Woods Conference concluded, the military officer from Tianning had left, while Cloud Realm Trade Consortium’s businesses in Medical City had long been handed over to Ning Nuo. Thus, Ning Jing should have no dealings with either of those things. But what could keep her busy until the middle of the night? It was obvious that she was trying to hide it from Tang Li, too.

“Big bro, maybe Ning Cheng himself’s in Medical City. Last night I’ve already sent people to investigate. If Ning Cheng’s not in the battlefields, then he must be here! He must have kidnapped Han Yunxi.”

Tang Li glanced at the purple muslin robe in Long Feiye’s hand and said seriously, “Big bro, at a time like this, there’s only two types of people that would target Han Yunxi: our East Qin faction or West Qin’s people.”