Bai Ruyi froze at those words. More than that, however, he was awfully tempted.
Because Qing Xue was right. An ordinary and peaceful life was not in either of their futures if they stayed in this place.
But he was too old and had already gone through too much to be able to indulge in fantasies or think they could be made into reality.
So he gripped the back of Qing Xue’s clothes as he said, “There is no way that Father… that your father will let us get away. You know that, Xue. You know what he’s like. He’ll stop at nothing to hunt us down. There is nowhere we’d ever be safe.”
Pulling back a little from the other man, Bai Ruyi met his eyes and continued, “And even if we waited until he died… by then it would be too late. We are both dead men if the Yuans get the throne. Our only real
