Princess, she is the one who facilitated the extradition.

Pei Xuan shook his head in anguish, "I don't know why she wanted to break up, but I know she loves me."

Seeing how emaciated I was, she couldn't bear to see me continue to despondent, so she took me to the Xuanji Tower.

"How should I bring it?"

Xiao Huaijin asked, "No outsiders appeared at the mansion that day."

Pei Xuan looked at him apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't tell the truth that day, I didn't walk out."

I was in my own room, and suddenly I was in her room.

So bizarre?

Xiao Huaijin looked at Gui Yao.

Gui Yao frowned slightly. "She knows magic?"

"I have no idea."

Pei Xuan shook his head. "I love her deeply. I'm afraid that if I delve too deeply, she will distance herself from me. But she can take me to her room without having to go to the Prince Jin's residence."

She admitted that she had lied to me. She said she was adopted as a child and her marriage was not her own choice. She was unwilling to accept this, so she went to the temple fair to find her ideal man.

The girl who pretended to be longing for me approached me because Xuanji Tower is a secret place that cannot be spoken of to outsiders, and no outsiders can be brought in, otherwise they will be severely punished.

But later, she worried about me and softened, so she took me to Xuanji Tower.

He looked at Gui Yao and said, "Her Xuanji Tower looks exactly like yours. She can even hide it because I searched the whole capital and couldn't find it."

Gui Yao fell into deep thought, "But the place you were in before was exactly the same as Chang Xiang Si, which is why you are so familiar with the real Chang Xiang Si."

The Xuanji Tower is less than 30% the size of the Changxiangsi Tower, and the number of floors is also different.

"I don't know the specifics, but I guess the place we were in before was also Xuanji Tower."

Pei Xuan said sadly, "Because the room in Xuanji Tower is exactly the same as the room where we spent two months together."

Gui Yao nodded. "It must be an illusion."

Xiao Huaijin asked, "Then what happened when she left?"

Pei Xuan smiled bitterly, "I know that's her excuse. As soon as the storybook about the female ghost and the scholar appeared, I guessed it was her doing."

But I also realized more and more that she had her reasons for not being able to see me, but she was afraid that I would die of lovesickness, so she had no choice but to show herself and lie that she had left the capital earlier.

The storybooks were meant to scare me away, but unfortunately, I couldn't control my heart and mind at all, and my body even started refusing to eat.

She could only take me to Xuanji Tower again. She dared not mention breaking up again, so she used the excuse of leaving the capital to appease me. But she didn't know that I didn't want to be separated from her for even a day.

"Since you know perfectly well that she's not telling the truth, why are you still so infatuated?"

Xiao Huaijin was disappointed in his son's lack of progress.

"The prince has never loved."

Pei Xuan said dejectedly, "You can't understand how I feel. I hate who I am now, but I can't stop thinking about her."

Gui Yao pondered for a moment and said, "Something's not right about your situation. Think about it carefully, is there anything suspicious about her?"

Pei Xuan remained silent for a few moments before shaking his head. "No, even if she did, she had her own reasons. Please help me find her, I'm willing to pay any price."

"Since you're convinced she loves you, have you ever considered that perhaps she's going to such lengths to avoid you for your own good?"

Gui Yao had a vague idea in mind. "Even if the outcome isn't what you want, you still want to find her?"

"The girl saw it; without her, I have no will to live."

Pei Xuan looked at Gui Yao expectantly, "Please help me, young lady."

Gui Yao nodded. "Then draw her real appearance."

Although Xiao Huaijin was a prince of another country, he had many capable people under his command and had stayed in the capital for three years. If Pei Xuan had given him a real portrait, it was impossible for him to have no clues at all.

Feeling guilty, Pei Xuan didn't dare look at Xiao Huaijin and nodded, "Okay."

He vaguely sensed that Yu Qinghuan was acting strangely, and fearing that the prince might harm her, he dared not reveal the truth.

The group was talking in a carriage outside Xuanji Tower. Gui Yao took out paper and pen, and Pei Xuan leaned over the table in the carriage to draw.

Xiao Huaijin's face darkened.

Upon learning that Pei Xuan was lovesick, he went to great lengths to help him find someone, only to receive a fake portrait in return.

What a treacherous fellow!

The swordsman and the lamplighter were also furious when they saw the portrait.

Young Master Pei is truly admirable, making them spend these days carrying fake portraits and looking for people all over the capital like clowns.

Pei Xuan knew he was in the wrong, so he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at them, focusing only on his painting.

A moment later, he put down his pen.

Several people peeked over.

With willow-leaf eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, and an oval face, she was a very beautiful woman, but Gui Yao's brows were furrowed.

"You didn't draw it wrong?"

Pei Xuan shook his head, "I hope you can help me find the person, I would never dare to make a mistake."

Xiao Huaijin sensed something and asked, "You know him?"

Gui Yao is unknown to me.

but……

She put the tassel hat back on, then took it off again, and there was the face painted on.

Pei Xuan blurted out, "Qinghuan!"

Gui Yao then looked at the bird that had been standing quietly in the shadows, eavesdropping on gossip, and said, "Mao Dan, come here."

Mao Dan was also curious about the portrait and flew over with a whoosh. After seeing the portrait clearly, it turned around and was about to fly away, but Gui Yao grabbed it.

"who is she?"

Mao Dan shook his head. "Master, Mao Dan doesn't know."

"Then why do I have her face?"

Gui Yao said menacingly, "If you don't talk, I'll pluck all your fur."

She has 5,001 faces, and she doesn't know why she has them.

But Pei Xuan painted one of her faces.

The hairy bird trembled and cried out, "Master, you can't say it! I am a spirit bird, formed from the power of a loyal soul. If I say something I shouldn't, I will vanish into nothingness."

It blinked its eyes, squeezed out a tear, and touched its heart with its feathers. "Is Master really going to put Hairy Egg to death for an outsider?"

If the master truly wants to know, Maodan's willingness to sacrifice itself and stay by his master's side for three years is a blessing from heaven. Maodan only wishes for the master's future peace and happiness.

It overheard a conversation and actually learned Yu Qinghuan's tune.

Gui Yao sighed, "Say what you can say."

Pei Xuan cannot live without Yu Qinghuan, and she cannot live without Mao Dan.

Her expression suddenly froze. If this was love, then her love was Mao Dan.

Thinking this way, she softened her grip on the bald egg a little.

Mao Dan wiped his eyes with his feathers. "All I can say is that this woman is dead, and all the faces my master possesses are those of dead people."

"impossible."

Pei Xuan was still shocked that Gui Yao could change her expression so quickly and that a bird could speak human language. Now, upon hearing this, he didn't care about thinking anymore and hurriedly confirmed, "Qing Huan is a living person."

They had shared a bed for over two months; she couldn't possibly be dead.

Mao Dan rolled his eyes. "I don't know about Yu Lang. Anyway, this face is that of a dead person, unless there is someone in the world who looks exactly the same."

A grown man, crying and wailing over a woman—Mao Dan had no liking for him.

He added, "Also, the only owner of Xuanji Tower is the owner. Your so-called Qinghuan could not possibly have Xuanji Tower. Even if she did, it would be fake."

His words were so earnest that Xiao Huaijin knew there was more to the story.

"Can Yulang tell me?"

If you need something from a bird, you can only go along with it; the prince is also someone who can bend and stretch.

Gui Yao couldn't help but glance at him.

Mao Dan, remembering his earlier concern for Gui Yao, scoffed, "The Xuanji Tower was formed from the master's Xuanji bone; how could anyone else possess it?"

"The Xuanji Bone?"

None of them had heard of it.

Mao Dan said proudly, "It is the master's dragon bone, or as you humans would call it, the spine."

"The master's Xuanji bone possesses innate intelligence and the imprint of the Heavenly Dao. It was formed from divine power, and there is only one like it in the world. He was destined to be extraordinary from birth..."

"Alright, let's get down to business."

Gui Yao interrupted Mao Dan, saying that she didn't even know her past, so how could she be considered extraordinary from birth?

Continuing with Pei Xuan's matter, "As it stands, Yu Qinghuan doesn't want you to die, but she also has no intention of seeing you again."

Even threatening to cut his wrists didn't work.

Gui Yao smiled as she looked at Pei Xuan, her dark eyes like unfathomable pools, her expression gradually turning sinister. "Then you might as well die."