The withered yellow fallen leaves sprinkle the rugged paths in the Leraso Mountains. Occasionally, the autumn wind blows, and the forest rusts, as if disturbing the quiet mountains, and the birds chirping.

At this moment, the crisp sound of horse hooves came faintly, and the deep mountains and forests seemed to be ushering in the adventure travelers again.

"Do you want to kill me? You must want to kill me..."

Xia Lan led the horse and stepped calmly on the bumpy mountain road, her deep eyes kept staring ahead.

The horse was carrying a petite figure in rags. Every moment, the other party kept gritting his teeth and groaning in a low voice.

Winnie, who was next to the horse, kept wiping sweat between her forehead lightly. Every step she took seemed quite difficult. Her body and mind were already exhausted, and even the words of the injured girl on the horse's back could not be heard clearly.

They have been on the road since the early morning. Except for the short rest at lunch, they have never stopped resting for the rest of the time. With such high-intensity exercise consumption, Winnie is almost collapsed, and even hallucinations appear in her sight.

If it weren't for the support of her strong willpower and the spiritual potion she had drunk secretly, she might have fainted now.

She didn't understand why Xia Lan was so inhumane and had no intention of caring for women. Isn't he clear that not everyone is as powerful as him?

She didn't understand, so she chose to follow her stubbornly without hesitation!

Because, she doesn't want this man to underestimate her!

This is Winnie's pride as a woman!

The sun sets in the west and at dusk.

Xia Lan and her group finally stopped their pace of traveling. Their current location was in a dilapidated wooden house near the top of the peak.

This wooden house looks like it has been abandoned for many years. But after pushing open the rotten wooden door, you will find that it is not as dilapidated as imagined. Just the bonfire extinguished in the middle of the wooden house can tell the signs of someone who has been here.

"What's going on with this wooden house?"

Sitting exhausted on a low wooden chair, Winnie gasped.

"The business trips that once traveled through the Leraso Mountains were built to facilitate overnight stays."

Xia Lan patrolled back and forth and observed the beams and pillars in the wooden house.

"Will we stay here overnight tonight?" Looking up at a broken beam, Winnie couldn't help but worry: "What if it suddenly collapses?"

Xia Lan reached out and knocked on a pillar of the wooden house and said, "Don't worry for the time being, unless the mountains move, the wooden house will not collapse easily."

"Hey, don't leave me outside!"

At this time, the wounded girl suddenly screamed weakly outside the wooden house.

...

The shabby wooden house was filled with the fire. After a simple dinner, Winnie fell asleep heavily under a thin blanket. The day of traveling made the girl completely overdraw her body's energy. She was extremely tired and wanted to have a quiet and sufficient rest!

The injured girl who had been chattering on the horse's back for a whole day was lying on the recliner, but she kept making a slight painful whisper in her mouth.

"Don't scream, that little injury will not kill you at all!"

Xia Lan, who was sitting by the fire without saying a word, suddenly said.

"What a cold man."

The girl on the recliner stopped moaning, and her little face covered in blood and mud stains looked at Xia Lan and said in a very indifferent manner.

Seeing Xia Lan not responding, the girl sighed and said, "Lorel Pandillia."

"Drank Xialan."

After exchanging names with each other, Pandillia expressed the doubts that had been bothering her for a long time.

"Drank. Why do you want to save me?"

"Why can't I save you?" Xia Lan said calmly.

"Because you are not the kind of person who will give help from others easily."

Pandilia's eyes moved to the sleeping Winnie and said softly: "And, after this day, you have never even cared and pityed the little girl who followed you silently. Although I don't know what kind of relationship she has with you, other men would never be as cold and ruthless as you."

"This is her choice." Xia Lan said.

“Born, numb, dull…”

Pandilia shook her head and said, "If it weren't for your strong power, a man like you wouldn't have attracted any woman to be liked!"

"I don't need to be burdened with it." Xia Lan said indifferently.

"Then why do you want to take her?" Pandillia said with a sting.

"Because I can abandon her at any time."

"I don't want to get involved in this issue anymore. I just want to know why you want to save me!"

Pandilia looked at the unchanging cold face of the man through the fire, and said in a deep voice.

“Sometimes, you don’t want to know the truth behind it.”

"What if I had to know?"

Pandillia stared at the other party and said.

After a long silence, Xia Lan grabbed a dead branch beside her and threw it into the vigorous fire, as if she didn't care about Pandilia's aggressive attitude at all.

"Because I really want to know why Princess Pandillia, who was strangely missing in the Principality of Sissinia, appeared in a mess today in the mountains of Leraso!"

For a moment, as Xia Lan finished speaking, the atmosphere in the entire wooden house suddenly solidified.

"Who are you?"

Pandilia on the recliner was briefly stunned and returned to her normal expression. She squinted her eyes, and a chilling chill appeared in her cold eyes.

"A traveler walking through the mountains of Leraso." Xia Lan said calmly.

"Do you think I'll believe this answer?" Pandillia smiled instead of anger.

"Believe it or not."

Xia Lan continued to fiddle with the fire and said, "Actually, it doesn't matter who I am. The key is that I am not your enemy."

"hehe……"

Pandillia's sneer came, and the meaning was self-evident.

"Over the years, people in the Principal of Sissinia have believed that the young children of the Grand Duke of Sissinia who had disappeared inexplicably had long died, but now as the Princess of Sisinia, you are alone and flee here. According to the soldiers who pursued you in the early morning, your identity must have been completely exposed to the eyes of a certain force in the Principal of Sisinia. I think you should be very clear about what dangerous situation you are in."

“So what?”

"You have no choice."

"So can I only trust you?" Pandillia sneered again.

"The Kingdom of Adria can no longer give you asylum! If you want to return to Querofi in Sissinia safely, you can only trust me now!"

The burning dead branches in the fire made a burst sound, and sparks were flying in the air. Pandilia stared at Xia Lan for a long time. She wanted to understand the true thoughts of this man, but he was always like a mystery without threads that made people feel deeply unsolvable.

"I trust you."

She can only choose to believe it. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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