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Intuition told her that when the eldest brother said he planned to leave after the New Year, it most likely had to do with that dream. The dream was too mystical; in the dream, she died because of Pei Yu... He felt sick at the thought of Pei Yu, yet when the eldest brother mentioned the sixth brother, Yixuan, he couldn't help but feel anxious.

Liang Zhichen never expected that in trying to be clever, he would actually outsmart himself. His confession to his third brother today was also meant as a precaution. Because if he really did leave on that long journey after the New Year, he feared it might be a while before he could return, and someone would have to look after the home front during that time.

Shujun had actually predicted the danger of this trip—could this be a case of lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own foot?