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Only after hearing Chen Xuannan say this did Li Ling feel the pieces fall into place.

She wasn't actually stupid. Even if Li Yang was now a fugitive from the Imperial Court, he was still her older brother, whom she had grown up with. She had guessed that he wanted to ask a favor of her; she simply hadn't imagined that he would act against her.

After thinking calmly for a while, Li Ling felt that things really did seem that way. If she refused, Li Yang's men certainly wouldn't let her leave.

Once word of something like this got out, their hopes of resurrecting the Dragon Emperor would be nothing but a fantasy from the Arabian Nights.

At that thought, Li Ling furtively looked around. Once she was sure no one was there, she asked Chen Xuannan, "Then what should we do?"

In fact, the moment Chen Xuannan had stepped in front of her earlier had given her a little affection for him.

But in her heart, the Mysterious Man who had helped her countless times was the one she was drawn to.

Whenever she saw that masked Mysterious Man, she felt that he had an otherworldly air, with a touch of proud aloofness.

Chen Xuannan seemed so ordinary that Li Ling truly had never connected the two.

"Go back to the Imperial Capital, then use all sorts of excuses to stall. Make it look like it's not that you're unwilling to help him, just that you really can't find an opening. Would he dare go to the Imperial Capital and abduct you? But don't seem too eager to leave, or he'll realize you're just brushing him off."

Handling a little matter like this was child's play for Chen Xuannan. He didn't even need to switch to his other,