But this seemingly gentle young man might not give her any face at all. Inwardly, she was extremely panicked, fearing that the young man would kill her to silence her.
And what was worse, she was all alone here, with no bodyguards or escorts.
"Thank you."
Ning Beichen thanked her and turned to leave. He didn't care whether this woman spoke or not.
After Ning Beichen walked out of the door, the woman came to her senses. Looking at Ning Beichen's receding figure, she suddenly, for some unknown reason, chased after him.
"You... you wait a moment."
The woman shouted loudly at Ning Beichen.
Ning Beichen stopped and turned back, puzzled, wondering what this woman was up to.
"What do you want?"
Ning Beichen asked coldly.
"You... you are very powerful."
This woman, for some reason, said something completely irrelevant to Ning Beichen.
"I know I'm powerful, and then what?"
Ning Beichen looked at her as if she were a lunatic.
"I, I want you to help me."
This woman, perhaps she always spoke this way, but her words carried no hint of asking for help. Instead, they came out in a commanding tone.
"Crazy."
Ning Beichen's reply was three words, and then he turned to leave.
"Don't go, stop right there, you!"
Seeing that Ning Beichen ignored her, the woman stomped her feet behind him and shouted.
Ning Beichen didn't even turn his head. Let alone a princess, even if she were a queen, Ning Beichen wouldn't pay her any mind.
Adel saw Ning Beichen walking away as she called out louder, making her stomp her feet in anger. However, she still chased after him, spread her arms, and blocked Ning Beichen's path.
"Excuse me, whether you are a princess or a queen, I have no interest in your affairs. Also, I am not your subordinate. Don't force me to kill you to silence you!"
Ning Beichen's eyes turned cold, like two sharp knives, making Adel shiver. She felt as if the man's gaze could rip through her clothes.
Ning Beichen walked past her and quickly left the place, forgetting about the woman as soon as he turned his head.
He was in a hurry to report back to the old woman. How could he waste time with a pampered and ungrateful princess?
Several days passed in a blink of an eye. Mu Ye also woke up, which greatly relieved him.
However, what he found strange was that there was no news whatsoever about Gong Guoshun's death in the outside world. This puzzled Ning Beichen.
Gong Guoshun was a prominent figure. There was no reason for his death to go unnoticed, not even a stir from his subordinates.
If the old woman hadn't confirmed that he had killed Gong Guoshun, Ning Beichen would have thought he had killed the wrong person, or perhaps just a decoy.
After all, it was reasonable for someone as afraid of death as Gong Guoshun to have several decoys.
But there was nothing. Not a peep from the outside world, neither from official channels, the public, nor private individuals. It was as if the man never existed.
Therefore, Ning Beichen thought of someone who might have the ability to suppress this matter: the woman who was with Gong Guoshun in the room. It seemed her identity was that of some sort of princess.
However, with the matter not escalating, it was a good thing for Ning Beichen, as at least no one was looking for trouble with him yet.
But when Ning Beichen saw that woman reappear before him, he knew his trouble was likely about to begin.
"Ning Beichen, a person from the Eastern Ancient Kingdom, am I right?" Adel said gracefully to Ning Beichen.
"You're investigating me?" Ning Beichen asked her.
In fact, Ning Beichen wasn't afraid of her investigating him, because the information she could uncover was precisely what Ning Beichen had deliberately leaked for others to see.
Apart from his own people, no one would associate him with the King of Darkness.
"I am a princess of the Meng Kingdom. It's very easy to investigate your identity," Adel said.
"You investigated me and still dare to come see me. Aren't you afraid I'll kill you?" Ning Beichen asked her.
"You are not a person who kills indiscriminately. I believe you won't harm me, an unarmed woman." Adel said confidently.
"That's not necessarily true. I don't kill indiscriminately not out of soft-heartedness, but because heaven cherishes life, and they haven't offended me. But you are different. You saw me kill someone with your own eyes." Ning Beichen threatened her with a ferocious expression.
As expected, Adel was startled by Ning Beichen's expression and seemed a little afraid.
But Ning Beichen clearly underestimated this brainless, two-hundred-and-fifty-cent princess.
"I... I'm not afraid. The matter of you killing Gong Guoshun is nothing. I've already ordered them not to pursue or spread it. And... and besides me, no one knows that you killed Gong Guoshun," Adel said with a trembling voice, though she was a little scared.
"What exactly do you want? If you think you can threaten me with this, then you're mistaken. I dared to kill Gong Guoshun, do you think I wouldn't dare to kill a princess?" Ning Beichen was really speechless by this two-hundred-and-fifty-cent princess.
"Ning Beichen, I... I don't think so. I just want you to do one thing for me." Adel was probably accustomed to speaking in a princess's tone and didn't know how to say words like "asking for help."
"I told you, I'm not your subordinate. Whether you're a princess or a queen, I'm not interested in your affairs," Ning Beichen told her.
"Ning Beichen, I... I can give you rewards." Adel had never met anyone like Ning Beichen, who completely disregarded her status as a princess.
So, for a while, she didn't know what to do. After thinking for a long time, she finally managed to utter this sentence, which made Ning Beichen want to laugh.
However, Ning Beichen didn't dare to say "you can't afford me."
Because Adel was a princess, money was not a problem for her.
"I said, I'm not interested in your affairs," Ning Beichen told her.
How could he have time to help her with anything? Mu Ye was fine now, and he was about to return to the Eastern Ancient Kingdom.
"Wait a moment, Ning Beichen. If you help me, I can give you anything you want," Adel hurriedly said to Ning Beichen.
"What can you give me? Can you give me the title of Knight Princess?" Ning Beichen said to her with a hint of sarcasm.
"Ning Beichen, if you want this title, it's not a problem. I can knight you as a Princess Knight right now." Adel said very seriously.