A piece of Japanese incense

Chapter 241 Change of Face

Zhi Yihe feigned an innocent look. She tilted her head slightly, her eyes bewildered. "Huh? What... did you say...?"

Feng Yan leaned forward slightly, lowering her voice. "You and I are sisters, and our friendship is deep. Now that you've been stranded here, I, your sister, see it with my own eyes, and my heart aches. And if you can just give me that thing in Xiqi... well, the thing you've been guarding, I promise to send you and Tingzhu away from this pirate den immediately. I'll find you a beautiful place where no one can find you, and you'll live a peaceful and comfortable life for the rest of your lives, free from the hardships of wandering. How do you do it?"

She stretched out her hand, wanting to hold Zhi Yihe's hand as a sign of commitment, her eyes full of eagerness to say "this is for your own good".

Zhi Yihe sneered in his heart, his tone filled with a hint of innocent distress: "Xiqi? That was so long ago."

The gentle expression on Feng Yan's face froze, and she patted Zhi Yihe's hand: "Ah He is such a joke. That thing is of great importance, how could you forget it?"

Zhi Yihe sighed, "When I was young, there was chaos and war, and I lost and forgot a lot of things. I don't know what you mean by guarding... I really can't think of anything special that needs to be guarded." She blinked and looked at Feng Yan, "Did you... remember it wrongly?"

Feng Yan took a deep breath, suppressed the unhappiness in her heart, and put on a smile again, but with a hint of coldness: "I really want to help you, and it's also because of our past friendship..."

"Of course I remember the favor."

Zhi Yihe immediately responded with an extremely sincere tone, "I remember all the kindness that Madam has shown me. But what you said..."

She once again showed that confused expression of trying to recall something, then shook her head helplessly, "Perhaps Madam misses her homeland so much that she got things mixed up? Now I just want to live a peaceful and stable life with Tingzhu, nothing else."

"Nothing else you want?" Feng Yan's voice suddenly rose, and the disguised tenderness was completely stripped off. She stood up, and the hem of her luxurious skirt knocked over the teacup on the table, shattering the jade and splashing the tea everywhere.

"Zhi Yihe! I'm trying to talk to you in a nice way, thinking of our old friendship, but you're just playing dumb and playing dumb! Do you really think I'm some clay Buddha who you can fool around with?!"

Tingzhu subconsciously tensed her body and slightly stood in front of Zhiyihe.

Feng Yan laughed in anger: "Good! Very good! Since you have a bad memory, then stay here with me and have a good rest. When you remember, we can talk about it later!" She shouted: "Come here!"

The guards outside the door came in, all of them were burly men.

"Send them to Tingtao Garden! Without my order, no one is allowed to disturb these two girls' rest! Watch them carefully!"

"Sister Yan, what are you doing..." A trace of panic appeared on Tingzhu's face.

"Since you're 'weak,' you naturally need to rest." Feng Yan interrupted her, looking down at her condescendingly. There was no trace of friendship in her eyes, only naked control and threats. "Sister is doing this for your own good. Take him away!"

The guard stepped forward, and although he didn't use any violence, his tough attitude said it all.

Tingzhu and Zhi Yihe looked at each other, and without further arguing, they were obediently "invited" out of the warm room and taken all the way to a courtyard deep in the island that was by the sea but in a secluded location and heavily guarded - "Tingtao Garden".