Chapter 453 - Farewell (1/2)

Half-believing and half-doubting, Qiao Mu was pulled back to the chair. After combing through her head of long hair, Murong Xun stretched out her hands to hug her. “Alright, Master has to leave now. You have to take care of yourself well and hurry home, okay?”

Qiao Mu creased her small brow and nodded hesitatingly.

“That’s right, only obedient children are good children! Alright, Master is going now, so be good when you’re by yourself.” Murong Xun nodded in satisfaction and firmly yanked her gaze from her body, turning around to leave without another look.

Soon, the Holy Water Sect’s party departed. Qiao Mu ran out and stood in a daze at the door, yet she kept feeling that something was not quite right in her heart.

She saw the three peak masters leading everyone out, and Yang Xirong and Lu Yun even turned around to wave at her. Everyone’s faces were full of smiles, bidding farewell to her with a wave.

Qiao Mu was very moody and stood there at the door, staring blankly into s.p.a.ce for a long time.

She only regained her senses when Mo Lian called her softly, and she turned her head in his direction.

“What is it? Did something happen?” Mo Lian held her small hand and squeezed it lightly.

Qiao Mu contemplated a bit, but shook her head in the end. “Are you leaving now?”

He had left the capital for so long. It was time for him to return.

“How about, I send you back to Xijiu City?” Mo Lian said with a smile.

Huifeng appeared by the crown prince’s side like a phantom and said in a cold and mechanical fas.h.i.+on, “Your Highness, the king has ordered you to return within three days.”

“Three days, can We fly? We can’t fly to the capital even if that were possible?” Mo Lian irritably berated.

At this time in the southern study, the king was presently throwing a stack of lousy memorials to the ground with a headache. “Did you dispatch a rider over at the fastest speed? Did the crown prince give a message, saying when he’ll come back?”