"Um," the woman standing at the back finally spoke up as she looked extremely reluctant to open her mouth, "Can I go now?"
"Hmm?" Cao Haoran frowned as he turned his head toward the woman, looking as if he had just heard some kind of joke or something. "You want to run away after wrecking my life?"
"Well, I told you, I only did it because I wanted to save myself. How could I have known I'll be declared dead in such a short time as if I don't exist?" Xiu Ying looked like she didn't know what happened, which was the ultimate truth. She really didn't know what happened all of a sudden to the demon lord.
Hadn't he married her to maintaining the peace treaty between the two kingdoms? Sure, Cao Haoran was the person the demon actually wanted, but Xiu Ying knew both sides would have something to blackmail one another because of which they both signed a peace treaty.
