Jiang Li's long eyelashes trembled slightly, and her gaze subconsciously shifted away from Chu Ninghan.

She did not contact Chu Ninghan immediately after finding Jiang Jingyou, nor did she ask Chu Ninghan to provide news about the "little brother" or the child who was left behind.

Jiang Li took a deep breath and said calmly.

"It is my freedom to ask the prince to fulfill his promise when it comes. The prince does not need to be anxious."

Her cooperation with Chu Ninghan ended after she detoxified him, and she also knew the answer Chu Ninghan promised before the detoxification.

Therefore, the only thing that made her dare not let go was the news about her child.

However, given Chu Ninghan's personality, once he knew where Jiang Jingyou was, he would most likely compete with her for Jiang Jingyou.

So after Yan found Jiang Jingyou, she did not contact Prince Yong's Mansion, and secretly ordered to stop Prince Yong's Mansion from sending any news back.

If I want to contact Chu Ninghan actively, I have to wait until she has settled Jiang Jingyou before I can feel at ease.

Besides, the reason for not taking the initiative to contact was... her selfishness.

This is the final collaboration.

Once the cooperation is reached, she and Chu Ninghan will no longer have anything to do with each other.

Even though she already knew that Chu Ninghan once regarded her as a burden and didn't want to recognize her, she still fulfilled his wish.

However, Jiang Li still hopes that this day will come later.

Who would have thought that Chu Ninghan would come out directly from Kyoto and come to Cheng'an.

He couldn't wait to draw a line between himself and her.

"Not in a hurry?"

Chu Ninghan couldn't help but take a step forward, and the expression on his handsome face, as white as frost and snow, seemed slightly out of control.

His voice seemed to be suppressed to the extreme, hoarse, and revealed a bit of unwillingness.

Isn’t Jiang Li in a hurry?

She just doesn't care anymore.

After Jiang Li confirmed her identity at the waterside pavilion, she had let go of what happened that year.

All the subsequent efforts to detoxify and save him were also to repay the final favor.

Chu Ning stared at Jiang Li coldly, his eyes like cold stars tinged with blood.

"Jiang Li, you know very well..."

But when the words came to my lips, I couldn't say them. Instead, they turned into a ball of depression that stuck in my heart, causing unbearable pain.

Suddenly the atmosphere became cold and quiet. Jiang Li frowned and looked up at Chu Ninghan.

I was actually shocked by Chu Ninghan's ugly expression. He rarely lost control like this. Even during the Autumn Hunting, I had never seen him show his emotions so openly.

Jiang Li's long eyelashes drooped in panic, she pursed her lips, and her heart sank into the abyss.

Chu Ninghan was indeed extremely annoyed with her.

I just want to draw a line between myself and her as soon as possible.

Jiang Li took a deep breath, concealed the sadness in his eyes, opened his eyes and looked at Chu Ninghan again, forcing a smile.

"Please explain clearly what your Majesty means."

You can say she is shameless or that she is bringing shame upon herself.

She had to hear Chu Ninghan’s final words in person.

It just happened to cut off her last thought.

From then on, no matter how many mountains and rivers we have to cross, we will never meet again to bother him.

The moonlight was like a silk thread, pouring into the quiet courtyard, casting the shadows of Jiang Li and Chu Ninghan.

The shadows are vague, at the ends of the world.

"I'm the little brother you're looking for."

Chu Ninghan dropped a bomb as soon as he opened his mouth.

Jiang Li subconsciously clenched his palms and tried his best not to lower his head in embarrassment, still staring at Chu Ninghan.

As if it was a dream from the Medicine Valley, she listened to the final verdict.

"I haven't recognized you for a long time, not because I regard you as a burden."

Jiang Li's expression went blank for a moment, wondering if she had heard it wrongly.

Chu Ninghan said she was not a burden to him?

Shouldn't he just draw a line between himself and her?

"Seventeen years ago, when we met, I didn't tell you my name and appearance. My father, mother and concubine were murdered by the royal family, and I was regarded as a thorn in their side. To protect my safety and prevent the royal family from finding me, an iron mask was welded on my face. When I can take off the mask, it will prove that I have the ability to protect myself. That will be the time for me to return to Prince Yong's Mansion."

"After you were forcibly taken away, I took off the remaining veil as quickly as possible and returned to Prince Yong's Mansion. Afterwards, I looked for you and found out that you were the second daughter of the Duke of Anguo's Mansion."

Chu Ninghan looked at Jiang Li's pale face. He clenched the sword in his hand and told Jiang Li the whole story.

"That was shortly after Xiao Ao ascended the throne, and Prince Yong's Mansion was in great danger. Although I found you, I didn't dare to recognize you directly."

He was too weak at that time.

He couldn’t protect Prince Yong’s Mansion, let alone Jiang Li.

He couldn't even reveal that he had had a relationship with Jiang Li, otherwise Jiang Li would be in greater danger.

During the nine years in the military camp, he could only protect Jiang Li secretly.

It was not until eight years ago that he left Beijing and marched to the northern border and gained his own power, and finally became qualified to face the royal family directly.

"The northern border had not yet been completely recovered. Xiao Ao was afraid of my rising reputation, so he stopped the war and urgently summoned me back to the capital. He assassinated me all the way. I found you at Phoenix Ridge."

Chu Ninghan paused for a moment and told Jiang Li everything about the past in Phoenix Ridge that had been reduced to ashes.

"That night I led you out of the village and set fire to the entire village. I wanted to wait for you to wake up before leaving with you, but the people chasing me came after me because of the fire in the village, so I had no choice but to move you to a safe place and leave the jade pendant behind to lure the assassin away."

Chu Ninghan took out the jade pendant that he had taken back from Jiang Li at the water pavilion.

Looking at the jade pendant lying in Chu Ninghan's palm, her eyes turned red, and the misty water almost condensed into beads.

Jiang Li said in a hoarse voice: "Behind Phoenix Ridge, why did you seem to have never known me? Let Xie Jun impersonate me? Let..."

It took more than two months from the time the Yongning Marquis's mansion proposed to the time she actually married into the mansion.

If it was true as Chu Ninghan said, that he had never abandoned her, then why didn't he show up, but let everything happen.

Although he was injured at that time, he could ruin the marriage with just a flick of his finger.

Chu Ninghan said: "I have lost my memory."

"Back then at Phoenix Ridge, although I had your help and was able to suppress the poison for a short time, I soon lost my eyesight. After being rescued by Prince Yong's Mansion, I was in a coma for three months, and when I woke up, I had lost most of my memories. It was not until this year that you cured all the poison in my body, and I gradually remembered all my memories from that year."

Chu Ninghan pursed his lips and his face became paler.

His words sounded like he was shirking responsibility, but they were indeed true.

"I'm sorry, Ali, I broke my promise for many years."

When he was in Qingyang, he promised to protect her for the rest of her life, but he failed to do so.

If it hadn't been for the accident that year, Jiang Li would never have jumped into the fire pit of Yongning Marquis' Mansion, and their children would not have been left outside and suffered so much.

Jiang Li lowered her head, tears already streaming down her face. She never imagined that God would play such a big joke on her.

"So, my lord, what do you want now?"

Jiang Li raised her head, her smile mixed with tears.

Therefore, in the Marquis' Mansion, on top of Jade Peak, in the manor, and in Prince Yong's Mansion, when Chu Ninghan had not yet recovered his memory, he denied his identity time and again out of his true feelings.

Now that I recall it, it won't change anything.

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