"Xue'er, I'm back."
Inside the Crown Prince Palace of the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
Everyone knew that the Crown Prince had befriended a gifted little brother. While Ouyang Ling could not exactly come and go without obstruction, at the very least, the guards had become familiar with his face.
At that moment, his voice arrived before he did.
He pushed open the study doors, and Xue Qinghe's refined yet noble face came into view.
"Little Ling, you're back." A smile immediately appeared on the face that had previously been stern.
But before Qian Renxue could say anything else, Ouyang Ling kicked the door shut behind him. With her tacit approval, he reached out and peeled off the human-skin mask, revealing her noble and breathtakingly beautiful face.
"You look better with your real face."
A smile tugged at Ouyang Ling's lips.
There were no outsiders here, so Qian Renxue naturally indulged him. "There really is no need to hide anymore."
The disguise dissolved, and her golden hair cascaded down. Her charming, alluring figure was revealed as well. She lightly tucked the loose hair by her temples behind her ear and smiled.
"What? You finally decided to come back?"
"Listen to yourself." In a flash, Ouyang Ling appeared behind Qian Renxue and naturally placed both hands on her shoulders. Feeling the soft touch beneath his fingertips, he began kneading with thirty percent of his strength.
"I've missed coming back."
"Look, the moment Dugu Bo successfully condensed his Poison Pill, I came straight here to see you."
"Smooth talker!"
Qian Renxue scolded him with a smile, though she was clearly in high spirits. Ouyang Ling's return had obviously made her very happy.
Even when he had been studying at the academy, she had seen him less often than when he had been at