Princess, she is the one who facilitated the extradition.

Gui Yao withdrew the spiritual power, and Pei Xuan slowly woke up.

Upon seeing that it was Gui Yao, he immediately asked, "Have you found Qing Huan?"

"Found it."

Where is she?

Pei Xuan was overjoyed and struggled to sit up. "I want to see her."

"No rush, she's in my Xuanji Tower, she won't run away."

Gui Yao sat down in the armchair in front of the bed. "I not only found her, but I also have a clue about your sister, Miss Pei Liu."

"Sixth grade?"

Pei Xuan asked Xiao Huaijin, who had just entered the room, "Your Highness, is there really news about Xiao Liu?"

He couldn't believe it; he had searched for so many years without finding a trace.

"Um."

Xiao Huaijin walked to the bedside and helped him sit up against the headboard. "But she seems unwilling to return to the Pei family. Pei Xuan, do you know why?"

"Don't want to go home?"

Pei Xuan was stunned, then looked up at Xiao Huaijin, "Your Highness, could you please tell me the details?"

"Let me tell you."

Gui Yao's eyes flickered slightly. "Do you know why Yu Qinghuan suddenly broke up with you?"

Pei Xuan shook his head. He had thought about many things, but didn't know the specifics.

Gui Yao then told her about how Yu Qinghuan tried to seduce Xiao Huaijin but ended up mistaking him for someone else.

"She was originally prepared to go along with the mistake and elope with you, but she suddenly awakened her childhood memories..."

She paused, then said slowly and deliberately, "In my childhood memories, she was the sixth young lady of the Pei family."

"boom!"

Pei Xuan's mind went blank for a moment, his pale face gradually turning ashen. "You mean Qinghuan... is Xiao Liu?"

Gui Yao remained silent and still.

Pei Xuan then looked at Xiao Huaijin.

Xiao Huaijin vaguely understood Gui Yao's intentions, and did not deny it, instead showing a look of sympathy and pity in cooperation.

Pei Xuan was on the verge of a breakdown. "Impossible! How could Qinghuan be Xiao Liu? How could I do such a beastly thing to my own sister..."

His voice grew softer and softer, as if someone were choking him.

Gui Yao remained silent for a moment before speaking again.

"She was in just as much pain as you were, which is why she broke up with you so quickly."

She observed Pei Xuan's expression. "You keep saying she has her reasons, yet you've sought her out time and time again, even going so far as to humiliate yourself to force her to show herself."

I know you are also controlled by the Love-Locking Talisman, and your heart is not your own. Now that I have found someone for you, Pei Xuan, do you still want to be with her?

Pei Xuan clutched his hair in anguish, his head lowering further and lower. After a long while, he finally raised his head and said, "No, she's not Xiao Liu."

Even though a person's face can change, it's impossible for their habits and tastes to completely change as well. Xiao Liu is the most lively, while Qing Huan is calm and collected. Xiao Liu hates scallions, but Qing Huan likes them.

He seemed to be convincing himself, "We are twins, and we were most connected to each other when we were little. If she were in sixth grade, I couldn't possibly not feel anything at all..."

"But her memories are indeed of Miss Pei the Sixth. After being away for so many years, people can change."

Gui Yao continued to ask him, "If you still can't let her go, I can send her here so you can rekindle your relationship."

"No!"

Pei Xuan's face was deathly pale.

But the next moment, he said painfully, "I...I still want to see her."

"OK."

Gui Yao smiled wickedly, "I'll help you. If you're worried about how the world sees you, I can lend you Xuanji Tower. From now on, you two can live like immortals in my Xuanji Tower."

"No!"

Pei Xuan retorted sharply, "We are siblings, how can you do that?"

He then clutched his head, saying, "But I really want to be with her, I can't control my heart..."

After several rounds of back-and-forth struggle, he made up his mind, "No, we can't, not even if it kills us..."

He closed his eyes and muttered to himself as if trying to convince himself.

Gui Yao smiled, "It seems that the Love-Locking Talisman is not entirely able to bewitch people's minds."

She stopped probing and said directly, "That memory was given to Ghost Market by Miss Pei Liu."

"Now, Pei Xuan, you should tell me how exactly Miss Pei was abducted?"

Why did she lose her childhood memories? Even her face, which resembles yours, is deliberately blurred? What did you do to her?

Xiao Huaijin also said, "Pei Xuan, this matter concerns your life and the whereabouts of the Sixth Miss. I hope you will tell the truth."

Pei Xuan had barely had time to be happy when he heard what followed that Yu Qinghuan wasn't his sister, and a look of regret gradually appeared on his face.

"We are twins, but we have completely different personalities. I am quiet, while Xiao Liu is lively, playful, and full of curiosity about the world."

Crawling through dog holes, climbing walls and trees were commonplace for her. When she saw sheep droppings that looked like sugar pills, she would put them in her mouth out of curiosity about the taste, only to end up spitting them all over me.

She didn't like reading or doing homework, but she loved fighting. However, fearing her parents would find out, she would often impersonate me and go out to fight with boys from other families...

Pei Xuan paused for a moment, then leaned his head against the headboard. "I am very distressed about this, but I also love her."

So I would help her with her schoolwork, and when her parents found out she was fighting, I was willing to apologize on her behalf. I didn't feel bitter, but there were times when I was annoyed with her.

That year, I became fascinated with all sorts of folk tales, and with two classes to complete, I never had enough time.

But Xiao Liu was very curious. She wondered why men liked to go to brothels, so she disguised herself as me and sneaked into a brothel through a dog hole in the middle of the night.

As a result, an acquaintance discovered this and told my father. My father thought it was me and that those folk tales had corrupted me, so he burned all my storybooks and punished me by making me kneel all night.

I was furious. When Xiao Liu was kneeling with me as punishment that night, I threatened her that if she caused any more trouble, I would sell her to human traffickers.

She laughed it off, not taking it to heart. She knelt all night and still had plenty of energy. She said that a variety show had come to the city and invited me to watch as an apology.

I had no interest in such excitement and preferred to stay home and read, but I couldn't bear to disappoint her.

But I'm also afraid of her impulsiveness; once she's in a crowded place, she becomes as slippery as an eel.

To intimidate her, I pretended to be fierce again and threatened her, saying that if she didn't obey me after we got out, I would sell her to human traffickers...

Pei Xuan's eyes glistened with tears. "I never imagined that she would actually be abducted by human traffickers."

In the countless days and nights that followed, I regretted saying those words; Xiao Liu must have thought I really sold her.

"In that case, you should bring Miss Six back even more."

Xiao Huaijin looked at his friend and said, "Let's talk to her face to face and make things clear again."

Gui Yao looked at the person holding the lamp and said, "Bring that maidservant here."

Zhangdeng glanced at Xiao Huaijin, and seeing him nod, turned around and brought Xing'er over.

Gui Yao pointed at Pei Xuan and asked Xing'er, "You've met the real Sixth Miss Pei, and you know why she abandoned her memories, right?"

She remembered Xing'er's cold laugh, which was full of contempt and disdain.

Xing'er didn't want to suffer anymore, so she nodded.

Where is she?

"She was rescued."

Xing'er was lost in memories, "Back then, a dozen or so of us girls were locked up together. She was the boldest and the most clever. I don't know where she found out that we could exchange with the manager."

She persuaded the manager to exchange her memories for a marrow cleansing powder that could help with martial arts training.

Three years later, she led us to escape, but we were discovered by the guards, who were vicious and broke our legs as soon as they caught us.

Timid as I was, I retreated back to that cage; bold as she was, she never looked back even after being injured by the guards.

Xing'er's eyes held envy. "She and another girl escaped. I overheard the guards talking amongst themselves; they were rescued by nobles from the capital."

Soon, the envy in her eyes turned into sadness, "But I think they might be dead again."

Because the face Yu Qinghuan is currently wearing belongs to another girl.

The Ghost Market is a den of iniquity; no one can escape its control. They must be being hunted down by the Ghost Market.

"No!"

Before Pei Xuan collapsed, Gui Yao said, "I calculated her birth date. She is still alive and is in the North."

"really?"

Xing'er was even more excited than Pei Xuan, "There really is someone who can escape the control of the Ghost Market."

As if she had seen a glimmer of hope, she took the initiative to say, "The Ghost Market poisoned us on the very first day we fell into their hands, and we need to take the antidote regularly."

"Yu Qinghuan is unaware of this. Were you secretly giving her the antidote?"

Xing'er nodded, "Miss Yu is someone they use to win people's hearts, so naturally they can't let such a person alienate them from the Ghost Market."

The antidote only needs to be placed in food and water, and they won't notice. When we left, the ghost market gave us the antidote for six months.

"If we don't get the antidote in six months, we'll die. But you say Miss Pei is alive, which means the poison in the Ghost Market isn't incurable."

Perhaps she also has a chance to live.

Gui Yao understood the meaning behind her initiative to make friends, "What martial arts skills does Miss Pei have, and what weapon does she use?"

Only after finding her did we learn how she had been cured of the poison.

Since Pei Liu used the Marrow Cleansing Powder, his skills must be quite good; this is an important clue.

Xing'er said, "She said her twin brother sold her, so she didn't want her childhood memories. The steward felt that someone who had abandoned the past would be more reliable."

So they taught her the Collarbone Ribbon and the Flying Willow Step, the most deadly techniques from the martial arts manual the steward brought. Her weapon was the Ink-Patterned Mysterious Cloud Ribbon.

"A collarbone ribbon?"

Gui Yao was slightly taken aback, then raised her hand, and a ribbon that was entirely black, with fine thin steel teeth sewn along the edges, and a small three-sided silver cone tied to the end appeared in her hand.

Xing'er's pupils suddenly contracted.

Gui Yao subconsciously twisted her wrist, and the ribbon unfurled like flowing clouds, flying out like a serpent and wrapping around a chair.

When it was retrieved, the part of the chair that had been wrapped around it had crumbled into wood chips.

"Ink-patterned Xuanyun Silk?"

Xing'er stared at Gui Yao in shock. "This is Pei Liu's weapon! How did Pei Liu's weapon end up in your hands? Who are you?"

Gui Yao looked at Mao Dan blankly. Mao Dan had already buried its head in its wings and was tiptoeing backward.