Shi Ye ignored William and shook off the cigarette ash calmly.

"I'm asking you a question!" William suddenly shouted.

Shi Ye glanced at him coldly, "It seems that your sister-in-law is right. You are indeed a moody lunatic."

He was talking quietly, but suddenly he started yelling at the top of his voice, which scared people.

Hearing the name "sister-in-law" again, William was still stunned.

It took me a moment to realize that the 'sister-in-law' Shi Ye was referring to was Gu Jinlan.

He asked in a deep voice: "Where is Miss Lan?"

Shi Ye threw the cigarette butt on the ground, raised his foot to crush the firework, and then looked at William, with an unparalleled arrogance in his firm tone, "You can't trap me, and you can't keep her."

The corners of his lips formed a confident smile that looked down on everyone. "To tell you the truth, even if Shi Mufan didn't come today, you would still let me go."

William was intimidated by Shi Ye's aura for a moment, and then sneered, "The Tenth Master is the first person who dares to be so arrogant in front of me."

Shi Ye shrugged lightly: "After all, I am your brother."

“…” The corners of William’s lips twitched stiffly, and he suddenly couldn’t continue the conversation.

He didn't know whether Shi Ye was deliberately using his status to suppress him or ridicule him, or... he really treated him as his younger brother.

Outside the castle.

Xia Nian brought Gu Jinlan and Qingli to a place where the lighthouse guard could not see them.

"Lanlan, Qingli, you guys just wait here for Master Shi. You won't be discovered. This location is also a blind spot for surveillance. I'll go back and inform Master Shi to come here and meet you."

After saying that, Shanian turned around and was about to leave.

Gu Jinlan hurriedly called her, "If you go back now and run into William, what if he doesn't let you go?"

Qingli stopped and said, "Lanlan, I'm not going with you tonight."

Gu Jinlan frowned: "What did you say?"

Xia Ni'an said: "My son Nuonuo is at Shi's house. Please help me take care of Nuonuo when you go back. I will go to Haicheng to pick him up later."

"Why?" Gu Jinlan couldn't understand why Xia Nian suddenly made such a decision. "Don't you want to stay here? And you finally reunited with your son. Are you willing to leave him alone? Aren't you afraid that William won't let you go in the future?"

Xia Nian smiled slightly and said, "I feel relieved to leave Nuonuo to you, but I am worried about William now. Once his condition stabilizes, I will go back to pick up Nuonuo as soon as possible."

Qingli wondered: "Why are you worried about that pervert?"

Seeing that Gu Jinlan also had an expression of incomprehension, Xia Nian explained:

"Every time someone mentioned William's father, or something happened related to my unknown uncle, William would be very depressed, fall into despair, and do things that hurt himself."

"Lanlan, you just said that Master Shi's father is William's father, and he is already in the castle."

"This is the first time William has met his father. Although I don't know what the situation is like there, from what I know about him, he needs someone by his side right now."

Gu Jinlan was about to say something but stopped trying. Seeing that Xia Nian's eyes showed genuine worry about William, she stopped trying to persuade her.

Qingli asked, "But isn't your relationship bad?"

Xia Ni'an shook her head and talked about her and William's experience: "In fact, we grew up relying on each other. My parents died early. In such a big family, children without support can only be bullied."

"My grandparents have many outstanding grandchildren. People like me and William, who have no one to rely on, are insignificant among their grandchildren."

"In the eyes of outsiders, the Roland Family lives in seclusion in the city, is low-key and not interested in fame and fortune. They all think that the Roland Family lives a life of indifference to worldly affairs relying on their rich family wealth over the past hundred years, but this is not actually the case."

"In our family, the winner is the king and the loser is the enemy. My parents, and William's mother, my aunt Alice, are all losers in this family. As children of losers, William and I had the same fate when we were young."

"I was brought up by my aunt. To be more precise, I was brought up by William, because my aunt was in a daze all day long, like a soulless walking corpse."

"It was William who made contributions to the family through his hard work and earned a place in this castle. Our lives have gradually gotten better."

"William is very good to me, but being too good is also a kind of bondage. He has a strong desire to control me. Even what I wear every day depends on his arrangement."

"Gradually I discovered that in his eyes, I was just a pet that he carefully nurtured. I couldn't go against his wishes. That kind of life was too suffocating..."

"I tried to resist him but always failed."

"We were in love and hate with each other during those years. If it had continued, I would have gone crazy, so I ran away from home."

"Of course, I didn't leave home just because of him."

Shanian said, turning her head to look behind her.

At night, the castle looks like a mysterious kingdom isolated from the rest of the world in a fairy tale.

A sad smile appeared in Shanian's eyes. "This place has never been home to me, and I am just a stain on the Roland family."

"The Roland family is very particular about pure bloodline. Mixed-bloods like William and I are the ones who taint the family bloodline."

"Except for my aunt and William, I hated everyone in there and just wanted to escape."

"But the two of them are always the concerns that I can't let go of."

After listening to Xia Nian's story, Gu Jinlan and Qingli remained silent.

It turns out that the princess in the castle is not as happy as outsiders think.

Gu Jinlan slowly exhaled, "But you betrayed William. If you go back now, will he let you off easily?"

A smile appeared in Shanian's tearful eyes: "Don't worry, he won't really hurt me, and he has never really hurt me."

Gu Jinlan no longer opposed Xia Nian's decision. "Okay, then I won't persuade you. Don't worry, Nuonuo is at the Shi family. If you need my help later, feel free to contact me."

Xia Ni'an nodded: "Well, don't worry, William won't really hurt Master Shi."

"I'm not worried about Aye." Gu Jinlan looked confident.

She believes in her man.

They were reunited with great difficulty, and Shi Ye would never abandon her and Ranran and risk his own life to do something uncertain.

Shanian added, "In fact, William is a person who values ​​family affection very much. I had a cousin who almost killed him. After he turned over a new leaf, he did not kill his cousin. The madness he showed was all his self-protection. In fact, he is very kind at heart and usually adopts and rescues many small animals."

Gu Jinlan couldn't help but laugh, seeing through Xia Ni'an's thoughts, "You suddenly talked about all his good points, are you worried that Aye and I will retaliate against him later?"

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