Wang Yuan panicked the moment he heard the news.
From the very beginning, he had known that he wanted Xiao Feng. That truth had never been unclear to him. Xiao Feng meant everything to him, in ways he had never allowed himself to fully examine and admit.
But it wasn't until that moment, until he heard that Xiao Feng was searching for the Emperor's daughter, and if he found her it meant he was going to get married, and not with him, but someone else.. that he truly understood how serious it was.
It struck him with terrifying clarity that if he had to watch Xiao Feng belong to someone else, if he had to see him married and bound to another person, he might not survive it.
The thought alone made him feel as though something vital was being ripped away from him.
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Everyone believed that he and Xiao Feng had found Li Yue together. That was what the story became. But it wasn't the truth.
That day Yuan hadn't gone out to search for her.
