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Chapter 4514: 5.0266 Scared Senseless

"Oh? Is that so!" An Wushuang blinked, reluctantly accepting the brave man's explanation.

At this moment, however, an elder-looking figure from an aristocratic family stepped out of the crowd, scrutinizing Qiao Mu and the others, his voice tinged with doubt, "That can't be true, can it? You really didn't find anything?"

The people in the little stoic's team were no ordinary cultivators.

Judging by their cultivation aura, they were all above the others present.

A group of nine people, all experts above the Divine Realm, how could they return empty-handed from the Tianji Zi Secret Realm?

They must have hidden some good stuff and were now pretending to be clueless, playing dumb in front of them.

"Hey, isn't that Elder Shi?" Another person spoke with a smile, suddenly glancing to the side.

A fair-skinned, pampered young fop retreated a few steps from Elder Shi's side, silently shrinking into the crowd.

"Hey, isn't that Young Master Shi Jinbao, the Third Young Master of the Shi family?" The person, as if fearing peace, shouted, "Young Master Shi, why are you hiding?"

Shi Jinbao's neck stiffened. He reflexively shrunk further into the crowd, his pale face filled with suspicious panic. He mumbled, "It's not my business, not my business. Fifth Elder brought this upon himself; it's, it's not my fault."

Seeing Qiao Mu's cold gaze shoot towards him, Shi Jinbao immediately felt as though his soul was floating out of his chest.

That feeling of "one Buddha ascending to heaven, two Buddhas leaving their body" was truly marvelous.

He was so scared that his legs were trembling. He suddenly yelled at Qiao Mu, waving his hands repeatedly, "No, no, no, don't hit me, don't hit! I, I didn't do anything! Those words weren't mine. Crown Princess, Crown Prince, it's, it's Fifth Elder who brought this upon himself. If you don't like him, then, then hit him, kill him off."

With that, he scrambled from the front to the back, getting up on all fours and frantically scurrying towards the empty space behind him, using both hands and feet.

However, they were all standing on the beach at this moment, and the several large ships that had been moored there earlier were now nowhere to be seen.

Shi Jinbao's run took him directly from the beach into the sea, where he continued to thrash and wail, plunging into the water.

His appearance, as if he had been greatly traumatized, left everyone looking utterly bewildered.

Everyone's gaze silently converged on the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, their eyes showing a hint of creepiness as they secretly glanced at them.

What hellish deed did this malicious couple commit to scare Young Master Shi so badly that he's jumping directly into the sea, looking like he's lost his mind?

Qiao Mu looked utterly perplexed. She tilted her head to look at Mo Lian, then glanced at Young Master Rong, Ming Yasi, and Ding Yun beside her. "Who is he?"

An Wushuang's mouth twitched. She did have some impression of Young Master Shi Jinbao.

A capital fop, who used to constantly hang out with the young master of Old Jianping's royal family and the other fops from the capital's major aristocratic families, spending their days bird-walking and dog-teasing, never doing anything proper.

"He's the second branch's young master of the Shi family, the little fop Shi Jinbao. Sister-in-law, you should have met him before. He usually hangs out with the son of the Jianping Royal Family."

Qiao Mu decisively shook her head. "Don't know him."

He's so ugly, how could Master Qiao Qiao possibly know him?