"Qianlan, what are you thinking about?"
Seeing Huo Qianlan lost in thought, Song Quan asked with concern.
"Nothing. I was just thinking about what I should do when I meet your parents. I'm a little nervous."
Huo Qianlan shook her head and casually made up an excuse to brush the question aside.
"Don't worry. My parents will definitely love you."
Song Quan suspected nothing and offered a few words of reassurance.
Hah, of course they'll love her. A scapegoat has arrived to die in their daughter's place. Who wouldn't love that?
Jiang Nuan, who had been keeping an eye on them, sneered inwardly at his words.
No, I can't just watch her walk into a pit of fire. Guagua, we'll go warn her tonight.
Jiang Nuan couldn't stand by and watch an innocent person come to harm, so she decided to warn her.
Hearing her thoughts, Huo Qianlan felt warmth fill her heart. They had never met before, yet Jiang Nuan was willing to lend her a hand. She was a good person.
Huo Qianlan silently stamped Jiang Nuan as a good person, while wondering how she would warn her that night, when Song Quan's maid and manservant would both be guarding the carriage outside.
But when the dead of night came, she found out.
With so much weighing on her mind, she had been unable to sleep. Just as she was groggily drifting off, she felt something being slipped into her hand.
She quietly cracked her eyes open to look, but saw nothing. She was alone in the carriage.
That jolted her fully awake.
She looked at the thing in her hand and discovered a small slip of paper bearing only one short line:
He's taking you back to offer you as a live sacrifice. Run now!
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