I am the villain, plundering the destiny of the heroine.

The Profound Tian Continent is vast, and the most prosperous and wealthy area is the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River.

Unlike other provinces and counties under the jurisdiction of the sects, the Jiangnan area south of Qinhuai is directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, with Qinhuai as the dividing line, and no sect can interfere.

"Xiao Yan, did you really see him in Jinling City?"

In the busy city of Jinling, a man and a woman were walking side by side on the street. The girl was extremely fair-skinned and beautiful, like a lotus emerging from clear water, with a natural and elegant temperament. At this moment, she frowned and looked at the boy next to her.

"I would never dare to deceive Miss Zhou!"

The young man named Xiao Yan assured the girl, "I did see a person who looked like the person in the portrait in Jinling City half a month ago. But I am not completely sure whether he is the Mr. Li that Miss Zhou is looking for."

"Just a suspicion..."

The girl muttered to herself for a moment, and a stubborn look suddenly appeared in her beautiful eyes. She thought to herself, "It's better to have a suspected target than to look for a needle in a haystack aimlessly. Anyway, no matter where the rapist runs to, I will find him! How can someone abandon his wife and children after having fun?!"

The girl was none other than the current princess Zhou Furong. After a moment of hesitation, she continued to ask Xiao Yan: "Where did you see the suspected figure?"

Xiao Yan reported truthfully: "In the southern suburbs."

After he finished speaking, he saw Zhou Furong was about to rush to the southern suburbs, and hurriedly dissuaded her, "Miss Zhou, it's getting late now, why don't we find an inn to stay in first, rest for a night, and then look for someone."

"Besides, I first saw that suspicious figure half a month ago. Now that so much time has passed, even if he is indeed the person Miss Zhou is looking for, he will definitely not stay where he is."

Zhou Furong sneaked out of the palace alone this time. She didn't find the rapist, so how could she have the mood to rest? She refused without even thinking:

"Let's go to the southern suburbs and ask around first to see if anyone else has seen him!"

Seeing Zhou Furong's anxious attitude, Xiao Yan couldn't dissuade her anymore. He could only sigh silently and follow her footsteps.

Since Jinling City is under the direct jurisdiction of the Dayan Dynasty, the local government has very strict control over the martial arts monks. A no-fly formation has been set up in the city. Once a monk uses his spiritual power to disrupt order, he will be surrounded and suppressed by the city defense forces in the shortest time possible.

Zhou Furong is the princess of the current dynasty. Once she reveals her identity, not to mention a small no-fly magic circle, even the governor of Jinling City will have to rush over to greet her.

But she had sneaked out of the palace this time, and once her identity was exposed, she would be escorted back to the palace immediately. Therefore, she had always tried to keep a low profile in her words and actions, and she would never dare to confront the no-fly formation in Jinling City. By the time she flew all the way to the southern suburbs that Xiao Yan mentioned, the sky around her had become completely dark.

"Miss Zhou, you haven't eaten yet?"

Xiao Yan pointed to a brightly lit inn ahead and suggested, "Why don't we go into the inn first and fill our stomachs..."

"Aiya! Are you annoying?"

Zhou Furong said impatiently: "These days, you have been following me, either asking me to eat or to rest. My mother - cough! Even my mother is not as nagging as you!"

"I know what to do and what not to do. If you really feel tired, just go and rest. Anyway, I know the place now, so I don't need you."

Xiao Yan said awkwardly: "I don't feel tired, I'm just worried that Miss Zhou is too weak to withstand the long journey."

"I want you to worry about nothing!"

Zhou Furong said bluntly: "Don't think I don't know what you are planning."

"The reason why you are so eager to help me find someone is simply because you are attracted by my beauty."

"I needed you to lead the way a few days ago. You can worry about it if you want. Now that I have found the place, I will tell you directly that I have already been engaged, and you have no chance at all!"

"..."

Xiao Yan was silent for a while, then said bitterly: "I guessed it. The Mr. Li that Miss Zhou has been looking for is the one who has made a marriage contract with Miss Zhou, right?"

Zhou Furong's pretty face turned red unconsciously. Suddenly, Xiao Yan's question made her speechless. She stumbled and said, "You, what nonsense are you talking about!"

"The man I'm looking for is... a rapist. I'm going to beat him to death when I find him!"

Xiao Yan: “???”

"Slut?"

He was instantly filled with surprise and doubt:
"Could it be, Miss Zhou, that he has given you..."

"Bah bah bah!"

Zhou Furong spat on the ground in shame, then turned to glare at Xiao Yan: "What are you thinking about!"

"That rapist didn't do anything to me. He just...he just offended my friend. I'm going to catch him and teach my friend a lesson!"

"I see."

Xiao Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and then a fierce light flashed across his face: "Don't worry, Miss Zhou. If that rapist dares to offend Miss Zhou's friends, I will definitely pull him out from the vast crowd and vent my anger on Miss Zhou's friends."

"Don't mind your own business!" Zhou Furong frowned.

"I have a personal grudge against that rapist. If I really want to vent my anger, I have to do it myself. You are not allowed to touch a hair on his head!"

Xiao Yan thought about it and said obediently: "Well, I will just help Miss Zhou find him."

"No! I've already talked to you about it, and you still want to help me?"

Zhou Furong spoke bluntly again: "You have done your best to take me to the place where I saw the rapist before. You can't help me with anything else. Besides, I am really engaged. No matter how much you help me, the most you can get is two words of thanks from me."

Xiao Yan remained calm and said sincerely, "Miss Zhou may have misunderstood me."

"When I travel around the world, besides gaining knowledge, the most important thing is to make friends with heroes and heroes."

"When I first saw Miss Zhou three days ago, I was deeply impressed by her courage to travel thousands of miles to find someone! The reason I was eager to help was all out of respect for Miss Zhou, not because I was concerned about her beauty."

Zhou Furong was skeptical: "Are you so kind-hearted?"

"I have always been kind-hearted, and everyone who knows me knows that." Xiao Yan explained, "I really just admire Miss Zhou as a person, and I want to make friends with her. If Miss Zhou doesn't believe me, I will leave after I help her find someone."

Zhou Furong hesitated for a moment, thinking that it was indeed better to have these two idiots around to help wholeheartedly than to be alone and weak. As long as he was not interested in her beauty, there was no need for her to be on guard against him.

It is worth mentioning that although Zhou Furong grew up in a honeypot called "the palace" and lacks experience in the world, it does not mean that she is simple-minded.

Zhou Furong was extremely alert at first when Xiao Yan, a young stranger whom she had just met, suddenly showed him great courtesy to her. However, she was too eager to find Li Xu. In order to get clues about Li Xu, she could only follow Xiao Yan to Jinling City while being on guard.

After three days of traveling, Zhou Furong became more and more defensive against Xiao Yan due to his increasingly flattering behavior. That was why she had confronted Xiao Yan directly after arriving at the destination just now, and lied that she was engaged, in order to force him to part ways with her.

However, after hearing Xiao Yan's heartfelt words of admiration for her, Zhou Furong's desire to force him to go their separate ways began to waver.

"If this idiot really wants to make friends with me, I might as well accept his favor."

"In the past three days, apart from being overly attentive and enthusiastic, he didn't show any bad intentions towards me. I might as well trust him for a while. Anyway, I have the life-saving magic weapon given by my mother. Even if he has bad intentions, he can't hurt my ability."

With this thought in mind, Zhou Furong nodded reluctantly:
"I accept your help, but please take back your intention to make friends with me. I am going out this time only to find that rapist, not to make friends with others."

Xiao Yan: "?"

I helped you accept it, but you rejected my kindness... How can you be so smart? ?

"Let's make it clear in advance." Zhou Furong emphasized, "You can help me if you want, but you are not allowed to keep nagging me, and once you find the rapist, you must leave immediately."

"no problem."

Xiao Yan laughed dryly and agreed: "Everything will be done as Miss Zhou said."

You are such a fool! You can even agree to such a condition...

Zhou Furong secretly complained in her heart, thinking that the world of martial arts was not as sinister as her mother said. Even a fool like Xiao Yan could come out to travel, and her mother was actually worried about her at first?
Little did Zhou Furong know that, just as she did not tell Xiao Yan her true identity, Xiao Yan also did not tell her his true identity.

Xiao Yan openly claimed that he was the son of an official family and that he had come out to travel the world to gain experience. In fact, he was the young master of Tianfu, one of the top sects in the world.

This trip was not to gain knowledge, but to go to the Imperial Capital to make secret arrangements - this was his original plan.

As the saying goes, plans cannot keep up with changes. Three days ago, Xiao Yan disguised himself as an ordinary teenager and was eating in an inn. Suddenly, he saw Zhou Furong coming in with a large stack of portraits. She gave one to everyone she met and asked if they had seen the person in the portrait.

The innkeeper was afraid that she would offend the guests, so he hurriedly tried to stop her. However, Zhou Furong hit him with a gold ingot and he immediately bowed and nodded respectfully.

Different from other people who were amazed at Zhou Furong's generosity and inhumanity, Xiao Yan was deeply attracted by Zhou Furong's beauty that was comparable to that of a fairy at first sight.

As the young master of Tianfu, Xiao Yan certainly had no shortage of women around him, but he was always proud and arrogant, and thought that those female disciples who deliberately approached him were all attracted by his status as the young master of Tianfu, and he looked down on them from the bottom of his heart.

The feeling Zhou Furong gave him was completely different. Apart from her stunning beauty, Xiao Yan particularly loved Zhou Furong's quirky personality. After just a few words with her, he felt his heart beating like never before. He thought that only a beauty like this who suited his taste was worthy of being his match.

Later, he learned from Zhou Furong that she had spent several months walking more than a thousand miles in order to find the person in the portrait. Xiao Yan admired her so much that he even gave up his plan to go to the Imperial Capital for her. He used the excuse that he had seen the person in the portrait before to lure Zhou Furong to Jinling City.

This was the first time that Xiao Yan tasted the sweetness of love. At first, he planned to develop feelings for Zhou Furong over time and slowly cultivate their feelings on the road. However, the more he tried his best to please her, the more wary and disgusted Zhou Furong became towards him.

As a result, Xiao Yan awakened some strange attributes.

Thinking back to when he was in Tianfu, all those pretty female disciples would come up to him and lick him. Now, for the first time in his life, he was trying to lick someone, but he was rejected? !

interesting!
She is indeed the woman who makes my heart beat faster than ever before. She is completely different from other ordinary women!
Woman, you are destined to not escape from my grasp!

While he was determined to win Zhou Furong's heart, Xiao Yan could tell with his keen eyes that Zhou Furong had an extraordinary background and that the difficulty of pursuing her would be the greatest among all the girls he had met in his life. However, it didn't matter because Xiao Yan had already made the corresponding arrangements.

This is also the reason why he lured Zhou Furong to Jinling City.

Jinling City was infiltrated by Tianfu two months ago. Now, there are tens of thousands of Tianfu elders and disciples in the city, even Xiao Yan's father, Tianfu Sect Master Xiao He, is here.

According to Tianfu's original plan, at midnight tonight, Tianfu will experiment with the sacrificial formation that has been set up in Jinling City for many days, draining the blood of millions of people in the city!

"Since I can't develop feelings on the road, I can only try another trick. A friend in need is a friend indeed!"

Xiao Yan said silently and fiercely.

The plan he arranged for Zhou Furong to show her true love in times of adversity was divided into two steps, the first step of which was called "A Hero Saves the Beauty".

He arranged in advance for two Tianfu elders to ambush nearby. Later, the two elders would jump out to attack Zhou Furong. At that time, he would bravely stand up and fight them off for Zhou Furong at the cost of being "seriously injured".

"If nothing unexpected happens, the first step should be enough to make Miss Zhou fall in love with me."

"If that doesn't work, then I have a second step. I will wait for my father to start experimenting with the sacrificial formation and turn Jinling City into a dead city. At that time, Miss Zhou and I will be alone..."

"Whoosh!"

Xiao Yan's thoughts were interrupted out of nowhere.

Zhou Furong took out a stack of Li Xu's portraits from her ring and threw them at him:
"This is the portrait of the rapist. Come with me and distribute it to passers-by around and ask if anyone else has seen him."

……

……

At the same time, in a shadowy alley in the southern suburbs of Jinling City, stood a masked man in a cloak. The man's eyes were deeper than the night, and he stared thoughtfully at the figures of Zhou Furong and Xiao Yan in the distance.

"So, that guy got together with others just to find me?"

Li Xu breathed a sigh of relief for some reason.

At this moment, a rather funny voice came into his ears: "Stinky boy, can you rest assured now? You don't have to worry about your little princess falling in love with someone else and running away with another man!"

Li Xu's face darkened. (End of this chapter)