Chapter 2772
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Gu Xin Yan sat alone in the corner of the banquet. Everything that happened at the banquet had made the 72 City Lords present uncertain, but all of this had nothing to do with her. She was like a real bystander, guarding the peace in her heart in this night of uncertainty.
"Miss." A voice rang in Gu Xin Yan's ear.
Gu Xin Yan slowly raised her head and saw Ye Mei dressed as a butler appear in front of her table.
"My City Lord invites you to the backyard for a while, I wonder if Miss would like to come?" Ye Mei said.
Gu Xin Yan was slightly taken aback and she subconsciously wanted to reject him. But suddenly, the image of that pair of eyes that seemed so familiar surfaced in her mind and she immediately swallowed back the rejection that was at the tip of her tongue. She did not immediately open her mouth but turned her head to look at the two guards that Gu Ying had sent for her.
The two guards thought for a moment and nodded slightly.
Gu Xin Yan then said to Ye Mei: "Okay."
"Then please come with me." Ye Mei said with a smile.
Gu Xin Yan got up and left the banquet. Many people in the banquet looked over. It was not that they did not think of hugging Highness Ying's thigh, but now that they were shocked by Jun Wu Xie's sudden appearance as a "Lord", they did not have the mood to think about other things.
Ye Mei took Gu Xin Yan to the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion, and the two accompanying guards followed behind Gu Xin Yan.
Under the moonlight, the courtyard lacked the liveliness and lights of the banquet. It was a little cold and quiet. The courtyard was filled with a faint fragrance of grass. It was not as sweet as the fragrance of flowers, but it was more suitable for the cold and quiet moonlit night.
Gu Xin Yan's gaze involuntarily fell on the figure sitting alone in the courtyard. That person was slender and frail. That person's face could not be clearly seen against the moonlight. She just sat there quietly, the shadows obscuring her appearance. However, Gu Xin Yan's heart suddenly skipped a beat. In that instant, that figure overlapped with the shadow hidden deep in her memories.
Stepping on the moonlight, Gu Xin Yan walked step by step towards Jun Wu Xie and sat down on the stone bench opposite Jun Wu Xie. With the faint moonlight, she saw Jun Wu Xie's delicate but unfamiliar face.
"City Lord Yan." Gu Xin Yan nodded her head slightly. Perhaps it was because of that little bit of similarity that the other party had become the only person that she did not hate after she came to the Upper Realm.
"It must have been hard on Miss Gu to come all this way." Jun Wu Xie said as she looked at Gu Xin Yan, the corners of her mouth curling up into a gentle smile.
That smile was very shallow but very warm. It was obviously good-looking, but it made the last trace of extravagant hope in Gu Xin Yan's eyes disappear.
Not her.
That person would never smile so gently. That person's expression was always ice-cold.
If it was said that Jun Xie's imposing manner at the banquet had ignited a little bit of hope in Gu Xin Yan, then this smile had completely sobered her up.
Gu Xin Yan hid the disappointment in her eyes and forced herself to say, "I'm just taking a look at the scenery here. It's nothing hard."
"This congratulatory gift from Highness Ying has made me quite surprised. I don't know Highness Ying. I'm really flattered that Highness Ying is so polite to me." Jun Wu Xie's face deliberately showed a touch of surprise.
Gu Xin Yan could no longer overlap the person in front of her with the person in her memory. She just said lightly, "Highness Ying heard about the Banquet of Heroes, so he sent me here."
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