Catastrophe Love
Yuncheng City

The trip to Yuncheng city had to be delayed for one day overnight to see the development of Xueyue's condition. Since Shen Qingtian did not want to take the risk, he decided to take a break. Since there were no healers in the entourage, Shen Qingtian felt anxious. But it was fortunate that Lu Guan had little understanding of medical science.

Xueyue who was in the tent seemed to be pondering and thinking hard, what was happening to her body that suddenly received a pain that she rarely felt. Moreover, it was in his heart area.

The curtain of the tent was opened by someone, it was Lu Guan and Zhu Guang. The two stared at each other when they saw Xueyue still pondering and ignoring their arrival. Lu Guan walked over and asked, "Still uncomfortable?"

Shen Xueyue gasped and turned her head. He shook his head weakly, his expression complicated.

"Guan Guan's... You reckon.. Does Shen Xueyue in this world have a history of heart disease?" Lu Guan turned his head towards Zhu Guang, raising one eyebrow.

"It still hurts?" Xueyue said no more. Only this time he felt a little uncomfortable and his feelings were like anxiety. Lu Guan said, "No need to worry, Shen Xueyue in this world has no history of any diseases. Neither do you. Later when we have time to return to the spirit realm, just ask the goddess Bai Huli or elder Chu. They must know something."

"Why not now?" Zhu Guang and Lu Guan shook their heads, making Xueyue frown in confusion.

"Elder Chu is not in place. Goddess Bai Huli herself was in seclusion. No one knew when he would return again." even though one second in this world was equal to one day in the demon spirit world, Goddess Bai Huli herself took over a hundred years to be in her own seclusion.

"Oh..." Shen Xueyue was somewhat disappointed.

"Just calm down, nothing harms your body. When I checked it, it was like a normal collapse symptom but nothing serious to the point of putting your life at risk."

"That should have been the trigger" Zhu Guang said, chiming in. Shen Xueyue said, "Huh?" but Zhu Guang did not discuss it further.

The man just smiled and said, "Rest. Tomorrow we'll go back on our way." followed by Lu Guan who also nodded and asked Shen Xueyue not to worry about unnecessary things.

The next day, Shen Qingtian was still reluctant to continue the journey even though he was already aware of Shen Xueyue's current condition. He checked his sister many times and asked her hundreds of times if he would actually continue on his way. Xueyue stubbornly assured the man that she was fine. And with a heavy heart, Shen Qingtian finally agreed.

Their tents were dismantled at dawn, and they set off just as dawn broke.

During the trip, Shen Xueyue always heard rumors about Yuncheng city which was a very gripping city. In view of how the city appeared in the region of the forest of death, it was certain that everyone would think that the city would also be as terrifying as the city appeared.

The forest of death clearly had a very complicated puzzle, where all the magic arrays were created to seal off all access roads leading to the city of Yuncheng. The person who enters the forest will definitely never be able to come out alive and will be trapped inside the illusory labyrinth of the forest of death itself.

If the forest rangers of death did not allow anyone to freely enter and leave, then the trapped person would still be trapped. If the keeper of the forest of death allows it, then lucky are you who get the opportunity of freedom. But it's obviously impossible. One in a thousand people who can come out alive after being trapped in it.

The forest of death is divided into several gates. For immigrants residing in the northern continent, there will be a gate in the north, in the west, also the same. And so is the other gate. The number is almost hundreds of gates because the vast area of the forest of death is almost like the area of a country.

Shen Xueyue and his entourage came from the southern continent, and they entered the gate that was in the southern part.

The moment they reached the forest of death, when their feet entered the area, one by one they simply disappeared. But they don't go far. The moment they entered the area of the death forest, they were just like passing through a transparent wall that was extremely thin like glass. Entering a new world like any other.

After going inside, it was still far away from the city of Yuncheng. They just set their feet on a path, with on each side of the road there are various kinds of trees that grow densely like a forest. But if looked carefully, the forest was actually not as dangerous as the forest of death they had seen before. Where the forest of death itself looks dark without sunlight entering from the crevices of the leaves in the trees with many poisonous animals everywhere. And the forest they were currently seeing was far from a different word of death. The forest here was very quiet with birds chirping merrily. Full of life and coolness radiated from the incoming sunlight from various gaps in the trees.

They should have entered a very humid forest, without a path where the blue sky alone was not so obvious. There should also be a myriad of ferocious beasts, strange insects and poisonous slithering beasts that they would not be able to deal with easily enough. But the place they were walking in right now was clearly like a peaceful path from the word death. The road was like the streets of a prosperous city and was not much different from their hometown.

"This is supposed to be the road that leads to Yuncheng city." Shen Chengyi chirped suddenly. The young man looked around.

"Yes, you're right Chengyi. Let's go straight. If we go in from that direction, it's definitely this road that leads to the city of Yuncheng." Shen Shiya.

When they were about to continue on the journey, there was something that made Shen Xueyue stifled. He thinks hard.

"Sister Tian. Can we talk to you for a second?" Shen Xueyue suddenly held back Shne Qingtian who was about to return to walking. The man furrowed his brows looking at the serious-looking Shen Xueyue.

Shen Xueyue flinching. He glanced at his other sisters who were watching the two of them before nodding, "... Alright."

The two then moved away from the group and pulled over near the forest. Causing their conversation to be unheard by them, especially since Xueyue herself had suddenly chosen to do so using a voice transmission that only she and Qingtian had heard. It made Shen Qingtian surprised by Shen Xueyue's unusual ability.

"But Yue'er!" Shen Qingtian screeched in surprise upon learning the purpose of their topic of conversation.

"Please brother. I just don't want anyone else to know that I'm a princess of the Hou Kingdom like you guys. I want to make friends according to my own abilities without using my status." Shen Xueyue said trying to explain the reason.

In Shen Qingtian's heart understood and agreed. But he was really still very anxious about having to leave his sister far away from his supervision. Moreover, after the incident where Shen Xueyue had suddenly almost fallen due to feeling some pain a while ago. He was still worried because of that.

"There's Lu Guan and Zhu Guang. One understands the medical. There was Bai Lang who my father trusted to take care of me. So you have to believe that I'm gonna be okay in the future."

Shen Qingtian turned his head towards their entourage who was staring at them curiously. Then he turned his eyes to Zhu Guang and Lu Guan who looked indifferent without paying attention to the two of them. It made Shen Qingtian doubtful because his sister's two new bodyguards didn't even seem serious at all. However, from some of Zhu Guang's rude actions when Shen Xueyue suddenly experienced a state of collapse some time ago, Shen Qingtian's worries eased slightly. Zhu Guang's actions that he thought were too reckless were very fast even though the man looked lazy and cold outside.

Shen Qingtian could not deny, that Shen Xueyue's bodyguards were the ones who cared the most about Shen Xueyue's safety more than anyone else. In added Lu Guan who also would not leave his supervision.

In the end, Shen Qingtian looked at Shen Xueyue who was begging him with a complicated feeling. If he as an elder brother had to treat Xueyue as if a stranger every time they met, it felt like it was extremely painful. But what Xueyue was trying to say was completely not wrong.

Others would definitely lick them if they knew they were a prince. Although the Yunshu academy itself had revoked their nobility status in the beginning from the time they were accepted, yet people who had arrogance and sky-high arrogant nature would definitely exaggerate their status by petting him in front of everyone.

"But you have to promise me. If anything happens, call me immediately." Xueyue sparkled brightly. He had indeed not mistakenly chosen Shen Qingtian for him to talk to. He knew, as long as Shen Qingtian could understand what he was saying, the man would definitely agree.

"Thank you brother! Then, brother and the others leave first. We'll catch up."

"Don't run away." Shen Qingtian said. Shen Xueyue chuckled softly then shook her head violently.

Raising his two fingers that formed the letter 'V', Xueyue said confidently, "I promise. Won't run away and it'll catch up as soon as brother gets inside."

Of course he knows, the rules when you start entering the area of the death forest. He can't mess with this.

Shen Qingtian rejoined his entourage and said, "Come on!"

"Crown Prince"

"alright. I must inform you before we actually enter the Yunshu Baishan academy." Shen Qingtian held back Shen Shiya and cut his call for a moment. Everyone was curious to know. Seeing Xueyue slowly approaching, Shen Qingtian watched everyone.

"From today on, there was no connection between master and master." the princes were only stunned for a moment before returning to a relaxed manner as Shen Qingtian blurted out his sentence. However, it was different from Shen Jia who was immediately pouting and upset. Shen Qingtian added, "No one wears the status of prince or princess, and there is no such thing as family relations."

Shen Jia exclaimed in disbelief, "Crown Prince's brother! No kidding. What about us? We have no basic powers. We are just a woman. How can we protect ourselves if we don't bring our bodyguards?" 

"Yes, sister. What about us who are just women?" Shen Lingling chimed in with a nod of agreement.

"Shen Qingtian, what does all this mean? And..." Shen Shiya glanced at Xueyue with suspicious eyes, "..does this have anything to do with the conversation you two had earlier?"

Hearing this, Shen Jia inflamed and looked fiercely at Xueyue. He roared, "Xueyue! Whatdoyouwant?! Don't poison the Crown Prince's brother's mind with that useless prank of yours!"

"Shen Jia, enough!" Shen Qingtian squinted his eyes at Shen Jia coldly. Shen Jia's body suddenly shrieked with a cold sweaty back. Shen Qingtian took a deep breath, before exhaling slowly trying to neutralize his emotions, "This thing has nothing to do with A Xue. It's my own decision. Although the truth is, this only applies to Xueyue as she asked me not to take her as a family and behave like a stranger during our time at Yunshu academy."

Shen Shiya gasped, turning towards Shen Xueyue with a look full of disbelief. And everyone did the same except for the two personal bodyguards Shen Xueyue and Bai Lang who had been able to read Shen Xueyue's wishes for a long time.

"Actually, we were asked by Xueyue not to consider him a family that wasn't just me, but us." Shen Jia snorted cynically.

"That's already appropriate for him." Shen Jia whirled.

"But it doesn't apply to us. However after I considered it, Xueyue's reasoning was really quite good. I think I'm using it for us too. This is meant so that we know, which people will sincerely want to be friends with us if we keep a low profile in front of them. That's obviously very helpful in assessing one's nature."

Suddenly Shen Shiya was silent a thousand languages. Trying to digest all the information conveyed by his brother. Pros and cons are definitely there. But what they say, has a very useful purpose in the future.

"alright. I agree."

Shen Jia held her breath staring in disbelief at her siblings, "Sister!" Shen Sheyi glanced at her glance with a cold glint of eyes. Shen Jia shivered because of the terror given by Shen Shiya.

"I don't care what you think, Shen Jia. But I will follow whatever big brother Qingtian commands."

"I agree too." Shen Chengyi followed.

"Xuey! It's all your fault!" hiss Shen Jia, looked at Shen Xueyue full of hostility.

"Shen Jia's! Stop that stubbornness of yours! This is not in your Hou kingdom. The Yunshu Academy the Baishan sect. And you can't seem to be acting pretentiously in power outside the borders of our kingdom." recalls Shen Shiya who was beginning to get caught off guard by his sister's attitude.

"Emmm.. Shen Jia's... Let's just follow it." Shen Lingling pulled up Shen Jia's sleeves looking conflicted. If they continue to argue, they will lose.

"Sad..." Shen Jia stomped her feet and re-entered her carriage. Shen Lingling took a silent breath, and exhaled her breath slowly heavily before she also followed Shen Jia to get inside the carriage, his steps were stifled as his gaze fell on the figure of Shen Xueyue whom he thought that Shen Xueyue had been much different from the Shen Xueyue they used to know.

Shen Lingling slightly daydreamed as Shen Jia called out to her, her body jolting back and then entering the carriage.

Shen Lingling was still watching Xueyue through the gap in her carriage window.

A thousand questions sprang up in Shen Lingling's mind. The desire to get to know Shen Xueyue even further made him want to get close to the girl. But now, the girl was getting more and more very difficult to reach. It's very hard to understand. A lot of things have changed. And he found it increasingly difficult to get a chance to know his brother.

Her... It was eager to get close to Shen Xueyue for Shen Chengyi to glance at her and not hate her. Not to pretend, but he really intended to have a sibling relationship with Xueyue. He missed the figure of an elder brother, but ever since he got closer to Shen Jia, everything changed.

Shen Lingling subconsciously lowered her head deeply. Almost a tear fell from his eye patch if he couldn't hold it.

She sings slowly, singing her mother's song that is always sung to calm her troubled heart. Hearing Shen Lingling sing, Shen Jia who ignited emotions rolled her eyes panted while clucking lazily. His face was crazily bent, he shouted, "Can you just stay in your seat? Stop singing because your voice makes my ears almost break!"

Shen Lingling gasped with Shen Jia's heart-wrenching babble. Being snapped by Shen Jia, he had never imagined it would happen before. Today was truly the day that made her aware of the true nature of her sister.

Can regrets still be corrected? He wants to fix everything.

After Shen Qingtian's entourage and Shen Jia's carriage went quite a distance away, Shen Xueyue looked at her two best friends. But he was suddenly shocked when he saw Bai Lang staying together with them.

"Shifu. Why are you still here? I don't need you as my bodyguard. Having Lu Guan and Zhu Guang here for me is enough." Xueyue said the circus fiercely towards Bai Lang before throwing her face and starting to run her horse back.

"Xueyue I'm sorry"

"Guan Guan, Guang Guang. Let's go." even though he told Qingtian that Bai Lang would be in the same entourage as him, it didn't mean he wanted her to stay close to him for now. It was better for him to ignore the man and move as far away as possible.

Zhu Guang glanced at Bai Lang with a look of pity before catching up with Xueyue.

"You better keep your distance from him for now. Knowing that you are Bai Lang our former teacher in the previous parallel world, of course it was a heavy blow to him."

"Hm.you're right." Lu Guan learned the facts about Bai Lang after Xueyue finally wanted to tell him before they left for the forest of death. He naturally knew how Bai Lang was feeling at this moment. Moreover, he actually did not intend to give Xueyue any false hope.

At any rate, Bai Lang had feelings he shouldn't have for his own sister.

"We're leaving."

Bai Lang, ".." he was speechless and could only let go of them empty-heartedly.

But after Xueyue and her two bodyguards disappeared from her sight, Bai Lang changed his expression and slapped his face sharply glancing towards the forest. "Get out!"

"Sir."

"I will enroll as an ordinary disciple in the academy. Once registered, I'll see grandfather soon."

"Good." the person immediately disappeared after hearing Bai Lang's words in the blink of an eye.

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