The young lady sat on the bed, her forehead covered in many crystal clear beads of sweat.
Thinking carefully, it seemed Zhao Qingyan's seemingly calm words earlier were also tinged with a slight tremor.
This indicated that the young lady had not fully recovered and was merely forcing herself to speak.
At this thought, Zhao Yan relaxed a little.
"Young lady, this time I'll consider it a good deed, and I don't expect any reward from you. Let go of my hand now."
Zhao Yan deliberately lowered his voice, making himself sound more mature, and slowly spoke.
Hearing this slightly deep voice, even the young lady who had forcibly calmed herself could not help but laugh indignantly.
Zhao Qingyan found it hard to believe that absorbing demonic qi could only be done in such an extremely shameful way.
She was almost certain that this person in front of her had done it on purpose, and she felt that the necklace her mother had once given her to wear on her jade neck was also gone.
This was one of only two heirlooms her mother had left her when she departed.
"Give me back my necklace, and I'll let you run for a month."
Forcibly suppressing her chaotic thoughts, Zhao Qingyan slowly spoke.
"Give it back?"
Hearing Zhao Qingyan's words, Zhao Yan couldn't help but feel a bit confused.
Especially since the necklace had already fused with his spirit sword.
Not to mention the issue of his soul being torn, even if he wanted to force it, even this spirit sword would absolutely not agree.
The young lady said to give her back her necklace, so the necklace he gave her was also her necklace, right?
Besides, they were both sky blue, so there shouldn't be much of a difference, Zhao Yan thought guiltily.
"Alright, you should be out of strength now, so I'll put it on for you."
After Zhao Yan finished speaking, seeing Zhao Qingyan nod slightly.
Zhao Yan didn't delay, he directly took out the "Wundons Blue Diamond" necklace he had drawn from his storage ring and put it on the young lady.
Feeling the young man's approaching body and his familiar aura, Zhao Qingyan's complexion became slightly unnatural.
As Zhao Yan put the necklace on the young lady, he unavoidably touched her fair, jade-like skin, causing the latter's earlobes to blush slightly.
"There, now can you let go?"
Seeing Zhao Qingyan still tightly gripping his wrist, the young man spoke.
After a moment of silence.
The young lady raised her forehead and looked at him, saying, "This, this is not the necklace my mother gave me."
Although Zhao Qingyan's beautiful eyes were covered by black silk, Zhao Yan could still sense the seriousness in the young lady's tone.
"Cough, they're both sky blue, how are they different?"
"Young lady, I promise you, I will definitely return it to you later. You let go of me first, alright?"
Zhao Yan coughed lightly and said sincerely.
But the young lady's silence and the soft small hand holding his wrist tightened, showing Zhao Qingyan's attitude.
"I said I would return it to you later, and I will definitely return it to you. I will not break my promise."
"If you keep holding onto me like this, don't blame me for being ruthless."
Zhao Yan lowered his voice a bit more and spoke as if in anger.
"You've already done this to me, what more ruthlessness do you want to show?"
Zhao Qingyan sneered and said.
"Young lady, it's not convenient to explain right now, I have my difficulties."
Ultimately, he admitted he was somewhat in the wrong, so Zhao Yan explained.
Then, the young man tried to break free from Zhao Qingyan's soft small hand, but the young lady still held on tightly.
"Are you letting go or not?"
The young man's face slowly approached Zhao Qingyan, and he said in a deep voice.
His uncles had finally managed to buy him time, and he absolutely could not endanger them.
If the young lady still didn't let go, he would have to resort to some extreme measures.
Feeling the hot air from the young man's breath, Zhao Qingyan's earlobes became even hotter.
The young lady knew in her heart that letting go at this moment was the best choice for her.
But for some reason, she, who had always been calm and composed within the clan.
At this moment, the more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt, and she couldn't swallow this insult.
"I won't let go, what can you do to me?"
Zhao Qingyan paused slightly, then said coldly.
As soon as the young lady's voice fell, Zhao Yan immediately gave her an answer.
The young lady's exquisite face was very close to him, and with a slight lean, Zhao Yan could touch her tender, soft lips.
The result was as Zhao Yan had expected.
The moment he bit her lips, the young lady's body went limp.
Seeing this, Zhao Yan did not linger on the deliciousness of her lips, immediately broke free from Zhao Qingyan's soft small hand, and walked out without looking back.
"Hoo."
Long after Zhao Yan had left, the young lady's beautiful eyes were still full of shame and anger, but she had managed to regain her composure.
Zhao Qingyan's spiritual power had also recovered somewhat, and she was now able to move.
She slowly walked to a bookshelf, opened the cabinet, and took out a jade box from inside.
Looking at the exquisite jade box in her hand, the young lady's thoughts were in turmoil.
She remembered that her mother had solemnly instructed her back then.
If she met someone she could entrust her life to in the future, she should give this necklace to him and then open this jade box.
But so many years had passed, and she had met many young talents and heavenly prodigies, but none had made her heart beat faster.
So the necklace remained around her neck.
Thinking that the jade box had not yet been opened, and the necklace had already been taken by that scoundrel.
For a moment, the young lady was consumed by rage.
"Zhao Qingyan, calm down."
Suppressing the rage in her heart, the young lady murmured softly.
Thinking about it, today's situation was indeed extremely eerie.
How could that person have coincidentally appeared just as she was losing control due to demonic qi?
Where were her guardians? Did they just let him in?
Although the voice just now was extremely ancient, the feeling Zhao Yan's lips and his hand gripping her wrist gave the young lady was definitely not that of an old person.
Could it have been arranged by the Great Elder? After all, Zhao Xiu often arranged for the talented individuals of the Zhao clan to try and get to know her.
For example, the Second Venerable and Third Venerable of the Zhao clan, but she was not interested and had ruthlessly refused them.
She had a ninety percent certainty that it was definitely a descendant of the Zhao clan.
When Zhao Xiu returns, she must ask him properly.
If it was indeed arranged by him, and if it was one of those two guys.
She would kill those so-called Second Venerable and Third Venerable even if it cost her life.
"Wait, I will definitely catch you."
Zhao Qingyan's beautiful eyes were filled with coldness.
At the Zhao clan's headquarters, near a mountain range.
"Zhao Tu, what is this?"
Looking at the mountain range being razed to the ground by Zhao Tu and the other seven figures in blood-black battle armor, and the faint bloodstains still remaining.
After a moment of silence, Zhao Xiu said in a deep voice.
"Reporting to the Great Elder, we unintentionally discovered a Northern Barbarian spy and have already eliminated him."
Ignoring the gloomy old man's deep gaze, Zhao Tu said with an impassive face.
"I thank you first for eliminating an enemy for our Zhao clan."
"The problem is, according to my senses, this person was only at the Seventh Rank realm in life."
"As for the eight of you teaming up to use our Zhao clan's inherited great formation to suppress him."
"Isn't this making a mountain out of a molehill?"
Zhao Xiu paused, his expression strange, and said.
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