LOVE OR DESTINY

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"But Xiao Tan, I don't want you to go."

"You just don't want to grow up. I'm still here."

Xiao Tan then sat down on the rock and chased Jing Xin away on the grounds of asking Jing Xin to find her flowers. As long as Jing Xin left, Xiao Tan took out her flute and started practicing.

Surprisingly, Xiao Tan who normally could not play an instrument, could understand the strange arrangement of music well and played the flute with ease. The gift of the strange old man was indeed extraordinary.

Right then and there, Yi Huai appeared to approach him. Thinking of Jing Xin returning, Xiao Tan immediately nagged, she had already told him not to return too soon. "Don't worry, I won't kill myself."

Yi Huai cleared his throat and that was when Xiao Tan saw who had come. Xiao Tan was at a loss as to how to deal with it and ended up greeting her awkwardly, "Hi... Crown Prince, how are you?"

"No need for courtesy. Why is the 8th Prince's Wife not in your residence to recuperate, instead coming to this mountain and the middle of this wild forest?"

Then what about Yi Huai himself, why did he come here? Yi Huai refused to answer and forced Xiao Tan to answer his question only.

Thinking of meeting Yi Huai with Tan Er alone, Xiao Tan muttered a lie. "Mo Lian Cheng, I hate you so much, bed*bah!"

Tan Er appeared right then and immediately dazedly looking at the surroundings. When he saw Yi Huai, he immediately greeted him respectfully. Yi Huai to the point asked Tan Er's opinion of his second marriage Lian Cheng.

But of course Tan Er now could no longer trust him anymore and reminded Yi Huai that she was the 8th Prince's Wife so it was better for Yi Huai to behave properly.

"Mo Lian Cheng was just an opponent I defeated. He can't beat me to get the position of Crown Prince. This time it's the same, I'll take you away from him sooner or later."

"Then what am I? Your war memories? Just for the sake of power, you two don't care about putting me in a difficult situation. You're obviously just thinking about power, how can you say it's all for me?"

Yi Huai tried to get close to him while continuing to try to convince him. But Tan Er immediately turned her face away. The present Yi Huai was no longer the Yi Huai he knew back then, and he was not the old Qu Tan Er either.

"Our love has already gone along with the old Mo Yi Huai and they have already disappeared together."

"You haven't changed at all. All these years, you've been as fragrant and attractive as these flowers. There will come a day when I will take you back."

"When a flower leaves the ground, it will wither. Even if he still smells, he won't be able to go back to the way he used to."

Jing Xin came back then. Tan Er left him.

That night, Xiao Tan continued to practice playing the flute and there seemed to be magic power coming out of the magic flute as long as Xiao Tan played it. But for a long time he stopped playing it, his heart even more upset the more he played it.