Zhu Qing hurried forward to explain. "Sword Douluo, you've misunderstood. Nothing beyond friendship has happened between Rongrong and Gu Yuan. They're only friends."
"Rongrong, is that true?" Sword Douluo looked at Ning Rongrong.
"What difference does it make whether it's true or not? You've already killed him. I'm going to find him."
All the pride and lofty air Ning Rongrong usually carried had vanished. She looked like a wife who had just lost the man she loved.
"Wait, Rongrong. You don't need to go in there."
As Ning Rongrong moved past him, Sword Douluo caught her slender wrist.
"Let go of me."
With her back to Sword Douluo, Ning Rongrong raised her voice at him sternly for the first time.
Even Zhu Qing stared at her in shock. "Rongrong, don't tell me you..."
Have you fallen for Gu Yuan? That was what she wanted to ask.
Long Aotian, meanwhile, ground his teeth. At this point, did it even matter whether Ning Rongrong had intended to run away with that Gu Yuan brat?
The answer no longer mattered.
She clearly had real feelings for the boy.
Sword Douluo had told Long Aotian about Gu Yuan on the way there.
Gu Yuan had met Ning Rongrong in Suotuo City.
At the time, Ning Rongrong had disguised herself as a beggar to escape her arranged marriage and had been playing hide-and-seek with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Secret Guards.
To get out of Suotuo City, she had picked a passerby she thought would be easy to fool. That passerby happened to be Gu Yuan.
Instead of fooling him, she had ended up being sold out by him.
Afterward, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had paid him two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for it.
Later, Shrek had turned Gu Yuan away