The customs and landscapes of the Great Yong Kingdom and the Great Jin Nation are not too different; they also have many beautiful sights and cultural relics. The two of them toured the Great Yong for over a month, and having almost seen all its beauty, they returned to the Great Jin.

At this time, the Capital of Great Jin was not peaceful. The perpetrator of the fire still hadn’t been caught, and the people were restless. Mu Chongwen, the prefect of Ying Tianfu Prefecture, was also quite overwhelmed, expanding the search for Dong Wan’er from the capital to the surrounding cities. The Emperor, Nangong Jin, even issued an order to search in Tongzhou and Lingbei.

However, Dong Wan’er seemed to have vanished into thin air. No matter how they searched, there was no clue. After Cai Wei and Nangong Yi returned, they heard of this matter and immediately sent Brother Ying to find Dong Wan’er’s whereabouts.

Brother Ying flew into the air, looked around for a moment, and then burst into laughter, saying: "Master, the person you’re looking for is almost at Xianbei, no wonder everyone can’t find her."

It turned out that on the night of the arson, Dong Wan’er had taken advantage of the chaos to run to the city entrance. After daybreak, she mixed into a carriage transporting water, quietly left the city, and headed straight north toward Lin’an Prefecture.

On the road, she met a merchant going north for business and lied, claiming she was a concubine of a big household in the city, driven out by the main wife who couldn’t stand her.

Because she was young and beautiful, gentle, and reasonable, the merchant was quite enamored and took her in, the two becoming a pair of transient lovers.

The merchant was in a hurry to go north for business, and thus didn’t know about the events in the capital. He thought he had found a gem with Dong Wan’er, and treated her kindly and generously throughout the journey, spending several hundred taels on her head decorations and clothes alone!

Moreover, Dong Wan’er claimed her pass and household registry were withheld by that big household, leaving her without an identity. To please her, the merchant stopped at Lin’an Prefecture to buy a girl from the Broker House close to her age, gave her the girl’s identity and household registry, and went to the government office to restore her status.

Having obtained what she wanted, Dong Wan’er found the merchant no longer of use.

One night, she deliberately got the merchant drunk and ran away with the jewelry and dozens of taels of silver he had gotten for her.

She knew this merchant was from the capital and would surely find out what she did eventually. Merchants are profit-driven; he would certainly betray her without hesitation then, so it was better for her to leave him now.

The next day, the merchant woke to find his beautiful lady had absconded with the silver, furious and intent on tracking her down, but alas, the lady was free and held the identity he gave her, not a slave or concubine. Even if found, he couldn’t do anything about it.

Aside from that, she was essentially a runaway concubine; seriously pursuing her would expose him to charges of human trafficking!

Better to have less trouble than more; the merchant had wasted several hundred taels of silver but resigned to bad luck. In a hurry, he sighed for a while and let it go.

With her identity and silver, Dong Wan’er, once free, immediately hired a carriage and horses, rushing non-stop towards Xianbei.

She couldn’t go to Tongzhou or Lingbei to find her dad and mom; at present, the best place to go was Xianbei, where Great Jin had little interaction.

Dong Wan’er traveled day and night, a weak woman carrying many valuable items, the hardships of the journey need not be mentioned.

However, after enduring numerous hardships, she finally reached Ji’an City at the border of Xianbei and Great Jin. As she exchanged her pass at the city gates, waiting for her was a cold iron chain.

"What are you doing? How can you arrest me?" She struggled and screamed angrily.

The general guarding the city casually opened a scroll in his hand, shook it twice before her, and said languidly, "Dong Wan’er, you’re the person in the painting, right? Three days ago, an Eight Hundred Miles Emergency Order came from the capital, instructing us to wait here for you, the arsonist murderer demoness!"

"No, how can it... this is impossible..."

Dong Wan’er shook her head unbelievably and collapsed to the ground. She couldn’t believe after all her hardships and secrecy, she was discovered.

However, the guards didn’t care what she thought and didn’t bother how hard her escape was. With a wave of his hand, the guard summoned two soldiers to drag her with iron chains onto the prison car...