“Dan’er, are you there?” Sang Qian’s call came from a distance away.
Zu An hid behind a large tree so that the commander couldn’t see him.
Zheng Dan’s face was slightly flushed as she pushed him away. She secretly waved goodbye to him, and then walked out into the open. “Commander Sang, I am over here.”
Sang Qian was shocked and overjoyed. He quickly rushed to her side. “Dan’er, it really is you!”
Zheng Dan felt a twinge of remorse when she heard the concern in his voice. “I’ve troubled Commander Sang.”
“Not at all, not at all!” Sang Qian laughed loudly. He was clearly extremely happy to see his fiancée fine and well. Suddenly, his eyes froze. “Are your legs injured?”
Zheng Dan was taken aback. “No. Why would you ask that?”
“You seem to be walking differently from how you usually do, although I can’t really tell what’s different about it.” Sang Qian scratched his head. He stared at her legs with a perplexed expression.
Zheng Dan’s face reddened immediately. She thought about how, day after day, she had let Zu An’s preposterous…
Her heart began to pound, and she quickly changed the topic. “By the way, how did you manage to find this place?”
Sang Qian also snapped out of his daze. “A spy from the Whale Gang relayed a message, saying that something had happened on the island. I was concerned, so I brought some men along with me. Hmph, to think that Chen Xuan would be so brazen as to go after the Whale Gang! I would never have sucked up to the Shi clan if I knew that things would turn out this way.”
Only then did Zheng Dan feel relief. The Sang clan was not the only one with spies on Whale Island, even the Zheng clan had their own. However, she never expected Chen Xuan to incite all of those higher-level figures against her.
Things had happened so abruptly that she had no chance to react properly.
However, now that the Sang and Zheng clans had been informed, there was no way either of them would sit idly by.
“I heard that Chen Xuan and Liu Chan’s band of conspirators were chasing you. They… didn’t do anything to you, did they?” Sang Qian asked nervously. As a man, there were some things he was most worried about. Many terrible scenarios appeared in his head.
Zheng Dan’s face reddened slightly, and she quickly shook her head. “Of course not!”
She felt rather guilty. Even though Chen Xuan’s group had not touched her, Zu An…
Sang Qian sighed in relief when he heard her reply. “Where are they? Don’t worry, I will make sure anyone who bullies you will have their corpses hacked to pieces!”
Zu An, who was currently hiding on a tree while under the effects of Mirror Mirage, had a strange expression on his face. Could what he had done during this period of time be considered as bullying Zheng Dan?
She seemed pretty happy through all of it though, so I’m probably in the clear, right? I’m definitely not one of those people Sang Qian is talking about.
“All of them are dead,” Zheng Dan replied.
“Dead?” Sang Qian didn’t dare believe what he was hearing. Liu Chan and the others were one thing, but Chen Xuan had managed to evade the efforts of the Chu clan and the city lord to capture him for all these years. Did he really die here?
“I fled into the depths of Hidden Dragon Mountain. In the end, we accidentally stumbled into a dragon’s territory. All of them were killed by the furious dragon. I used the chance to get away,” Zheng Dan explained, leaving out some parts of what happened.
She had spent these past few days thinking about how to explain what had happened to anyone who asked, and she replied without any hesitation.
“A dragon!” Not just Sang Qian, but even the surrounding soldiers were shocked. “There really is a dragon in Hidden Dragon Mountain?”
Zheng Dan nodded. “That dragon is extremely formidable. It uses the fire element. It burned Liu Chan and the others to ashes with a single breath.”
These were things Zu An had told her. She retold everything in a vivid manner, and even described the dragon’s appearance in great detail.
Sang Qian was satisfied. He roared with laughter. “Who would’ve thought that we would profit from this disaster? I will bring some troops over to hunt down this dragon. We’ve struck it big this time! This is a legendary dragon we are talking about! Every single part of its body is a treasure!”
Zu An had a very different thought in mind. I feel like your fiancée—not the dragon—is the one whose entire body is a treasure.
If he had spoken this out loud, the reaction it drew would have been second only to ‘your wife was so wonderful’. He would’ve surely raked in a ton of Rage points.
However, out of consideration for Zheng Dan’s circumstances, he held his tongue.