To be honest, I was unwilling to leave just like this.
I wasn't the murderer, yet I had to flee like a criminal.
The label of fugitive really didn't sound good.
As Liu Lan had said, they knew I wasn't the real murderer, and quite a few people knew it too. But I was leaving with the crime of murdering the Yu Family's Old Patriarch hanging over my head.
The Yu Family's Old Patriarch had been quite an extraordinary figure on Little Barren Island.
Those who knew the truth were one thing, but who knew what those who didn't would say about me behind my back?
But I had no choice but to leave. If I didn't, then just as Liu Lan had said, Little Barren Island might descend into internal conflict, perhaps even chaos. Bloodshed would break out on the island, and those ambitious people would make a huge issue of this, destroying the hard-won balance Little Barren Island had maintained for sixty years.
If the alliance of the Four Great Families fell apart, what would Little Barren Island become?
I truly didn't dare imagine it.
"Get on. We'll head to Fool's Wharf right now."
I jumped onto Liu Lan's speedboat. She started it, and we sped away from Little Barren Island like an arrow loosed from a bow. Watching the island gradually recede, I sighed. "I didn't even get the chance to say goodbye to Yu Xiang."
"What do you think would happen if you went to say goodbye to her? She might abandon everything and leave with you. She might even give up being Island Lord, just like I did. Can't you see it? She likes you. She even secretly told me that you liked looking here." As she spoke, Liu Lan pointed at her own chest.