Young Ji Feiyu was not stupid. When she saw the person at the door making such a gesture, she immediately hid her figure and found a place to take cover.
She knew that something must have gone wrong in the palace. She also believed that her parents would not abandon her. However, she couldn't believe that her elder sister would do such a thing to her. But this incident was so sudden, and she had no other enemies in the palace. Except for her sister's ambition for the crown prince position, she couldn't think of any other possibility.
Suddenly, she recalled the strangeness of her sister's words to her today. She speculated that it must be her sister who had caused the trouble, preventing the search team that should have come for her from showing up.
Ji Feiyu couldn't accept the fact that she suddenly couldn't go back. She always had a sense of unreality, as if it was all a dream.
She lingered around the palace, deciding to find out the situation first before making any decisions.
In fact, the real situation was as Ji Feiyu had guessed. When the king and the queen heard that Ji Feiyu had fallen off a cliff, one immediately sent people to look for her, while the other fainted on the spot. Ji Feiyu's elder sister volunteered to search for her younger sister in person. But in reality, she delayed the progress of the search team by choosing a longer - routed path. Meanwhile, she secretly sent people to take a shortcut to check if there were any signs of Ji Feiyu still alive. If so, they were to eliminate her.
There was a significant time difference between falling off the cliff directly and the search team being sent from the foot of the mountain after the news reached the palace. Since Ji Feiyu had come out with Yong Chengxuan through a smaller, pedestrian - only shortcut, the main road where she was waiting was not on their route. So, she almost perfectly missed both groups of people looking for her.
However, during the long time it took her to walk back to the palace from the town, her elder sister had already informed their parents of Ji Feiyu's tragic death.
Her parents were heart - broken and sent people to search for her again. But her elder sister also sent people mixed in with them to hunt her down.
Ji Feiyu didn't know which of the searchers were good and which were bad. She was unlucky enough to encounter a group of people who wanted to kill her. After that, she tried to avoid the officers and soldiers as much as possible, and at the same time, she lost her last chance of being found by her parents.
The sudden change made Ji Feiyu grow up quickly. At the same time, there was still a glimmer of hope in her heart. She thought that her fall off the cliff was just an accident and that she must have been framed, which was why she couldn't go home.
A few days later, penniless Ji Feiyu felt hungry for the first time. She was dizzy and wanted to grab any food she saw. She suddenly realized that if she wanted to survive in the civilian world, she had to rely on herself.
She began to live in seclusion in the mountains, surviving on the fruits she picked. At the same time, she decided to leave the most dangerous imperial capital and go to some small places to do whatever she could.
However, it was always unsafe for a girl to be alone. When some people lusted after her beauty, she started to make poison powder for self - defense. Of course, during this period, she also met some kind people who helped her.
She began to collect herbs and sell them in the market to make money. She also started to disguise herself to look less attractive. She began to interact with different people, becoming tactful and skillful. She also began to re - understand people's hearts bit by bit and blend in with them.
From then on, Ji Feiyu was no longer a simple, beloved little princess who knew nothing. She had become an ordinary girl who was tactful, eloquent, and quick - witted.
After going through all kinds of hardships, Ji Feiyu had seen many strange people and events. She even learned from all walks of life and could easily win a sum of money in the casino to support herself.
One day, news came from the imperial capital that her father, the king, had passed away. She rushed back to the imperial capital to pay her last respects to her father.
On the crowded street, she followed all the common people, waiting for the king's body to be carried out of the palace and transported to the imperial mausoleum.
Finally, the funeral procession slowly came as expected. Along with the flying white paper money for the dead, she saw many familiar faces in the procession. At the very front were her elder sister and mother. Her elder sister looked solemn, while her mother was grief - stricken. When Ji Feiyu saw her mother, she so badly wanted to go forward, but she couldn't. Her appearance would interrupt the funeral ceremony of her father, and according to the custom of their country, that would make her father's soul restless forever.
She also saw her childhood playmates, her cousins, the imperial physician who had taught her, and her tutor in the funeral procession.
After the funeral, she managed to find her tutor. The tutor secretly took her into his mansion and looked at her with grief - stricken eyes. The tutor used to be full of energy, but now he was filled with sorrow. His eyes, which used to be unfathomably deep, now showed pity and reluctance.
The tutor said to her, "Princess, you should leave. The current situation is beyond your power to change. I will protect this kingdom for you."
"Before you leave, I will teach you one last lesson to keep you safe."
Under the tutor's guidance, Ji Feiyu had learned music since childhood. The tutor had long said that the most powerful aspect of music was that it could arouse people's emotions. He also said that with a little modification, it could also arouse people's internal energy and breath. He had been teaching her this method gradually, laying a good foundation for her. But now there was no time to teach her slowly. He had to tell her the most direct practical operation.
He pressed his palm against Ji Feiyu's and passed on a part of his internal energy to her. At the same time, he told her how to use music to arouse internal energy in combination with her own internal energy and asked her to practice.
After countless failures, the tutor finally completed his last teaching and made Ji Feiyu learn the art of sound - killing.
The tutor said, "Princess, our fate ends here. Leave our kingdom and go to a bigger world. If one day you become strong enough, you still have a chance to come back."
Yes, she had no foundation and no connections now. The tutor simply had no way to assist her. All efforts would be in vain.
If the tutor really supported her without a foundation, he must have had ulterior motives and needed a puppet.
So Ji Feiyu decided to go to Dayong, a prosperous place praised by everyone. Perhaps it was fate's silent arrangement. The first person she met in Dayong was Yong Yaxuan.
It was at the lantern festival. Ji Feiyu saw such a prosperous and lively night view for the first time. This place filled her with novelty. She casually bought a scary mask from a small stall and put it on, then shuttled through the crowd. Unexpectedly, as she walked, she bumped into a broad chest. The person also wore the same mask as hers. It was Yong Yaxuan.