Chapter 817: His world has collapsed (2/2)

“Big bro, I’ve almost gone mad with impatience. Just what’s going on here?” Tang Li was quite agitated, but Long Feiye didn’t even look at him. He was still staring stubbornly at Xu Donglin, waiting for him to keep talking. His piercing eyes were filled with a brutal frost and expectation obvious to all who looked.

Xu Donglin finally fell apart. “Your Highness, this subordinate...this subordinate doesn’t know what happened either, but Heaven helps the worthy like esteemed wangfei, so she’ll definitely be alright!”

Long Feiye’s gaze chilled and Tang Li finally noticed the purple muslin robe in his hands. He immediately realized what was going on.

Could it be that Han Yunxi isn’t the West Qin imperial heir and everything passing through Cloud Realm Continent these days were just hearsay? That’s why Long Feiye’s so anxious? If she was, then how could Long Feiye harbor no hatred towards her?

But when he recalled the imprisoned Mute Granny and Gu Beiyue, Tang Li wavered again. Perhaps Long Feiye long knew about Han Yunxi’s identity and was just hiding the truth from everyone, himself included. Tang Li had been ignoring Ning Jing for the past few days, just because this question had been tangling him up.

Xu Donglin fell to his knees, afraid to move a muscle. Long Feiye didn’t trouble him, but simply clutched the familiar purple fabric in his hands as he turned to leave.

“Big bro!” Tang Li panicked and chased after him, but Long Feiye simply leaped onto the roof like a madman and fled at high speeds.

“Big bro, wait for me! Where are you going?!” Tang Li chased after him, flying and running with all his strength for fear of losing Long Feiye. Besides Consort Wan’s death, Long Feiye had never lost his self-control. Even when his mother had committed suicide, the most he did was chose to be silent instead of doing anything outrageous. But now it was obvious that Long Feiye had lost his mind. Tang Li was afraid that he might do something shocking in a fit of impulse and ruin all the hard work he’d put into preparing his revenge and reviving his country.

What did Long Feiye want to do?

Find the missing person, ah!

What else would he want? His only way to redeem himself was to find Han Yunxi!

Although he hadn’t slept or rested for days, he spent one day and one night scouring through all of Medical City, searching every possible corner for her traces. By early morning of the final day, he dragged his exhausted body to the Poison Sect’s forbidden grounds where Gu Beiyue had vanished over the cliff.

Tang Li followed behind him, finally exhaling a breath when he saw Long Feiye stop by the cliff’s edge. Huffing and puffing, he was about to sit down when a sudden thought made him break out in cold sweat. He rushed to Long Feiye’s side and grabbed him by the hand.

“Big bro, don’t take it too hard! If sister-in-law heard that you jumped off, she’ll cry herself to death.”

How could Long Feiye commit suicide? He didn’t know why he came here either. Perhaps it was to look for Gu Beiyue so he could ask him what to do.

He was too agitated to calm down and think anything through.

“Tang Li, find her. Help me find her, search outside the city,” Long Feiye finally looked at him.

“Big bro, how am I supposed to look? The shadow guards and Medical City’s guards have turned over the city multiple times over the past few days. How are they supposed to search outside the city? Are they supposed to search every mountain and hill?” Tang Li asked seriously.

“Even if they search the entire world, they have to look!” Long Feiye said coldly.

“Big bro, can’t you come to your senses?!” Tang Li grew incensed.

“I can’t!” Long Feiye was telling the truth.

“Big bro, I can tell you who kidnapped her, but you have to answer my question first!” Tang Li stared into Long Feiye’s eyes, absolutely serious.

Long Feiye stared back, but he answered before the man could ask his question. “It’s true, Han Yunxi is the descendant of West Qin! Are you helping me or not?”

Tang Li gave a start before he harshly shook Long Feiye’s hand free. “You used me! You’ve been using me this entire time! You don’t want me to help you, but the Tang Clan!”

He always thought that Long Feiye had helped him gain the seat of Tang Clan head just because he didn’t like his father and Aunt Ru being biased against Han Yunxi. Thus, he wanted Tang Li to wrest the power and authority away from those two. But he never thought that Long Feiye was actually worried that the Tang Clan would be beyond his control once Han Yunxi’s identity leaked out! Long Feiye had simply been leaving a way out for himself. He had steeled his heart to stay with the West Qin princess!

Tang Li shook his head in disbelief. “Big bro, you’re insane! She’s the West Qin princess--the West Qin princess, ah! If you don’t explain yourself to the Baili military, Tang Clan, and shadow guards, no one will stay loyal to you anymore!”

Long Feiye remained aloof and indifferent to Tang Li’s fury. He had long steeled his heart after kidnapping Mute Granny. No matter what, he wanted this woman!

He had never truly wanted anything since his youth except for her!

“Tang Li, I’m only asking you once. Are you helping me or not?” Long Feiye asked firmly.