Tong Nongzhi thought for a moment, then lowered his voice to speak to Guo Nongzhi: "Why don't we defect to the Chilin Kingdom? We can reveal what we know about Xilin City to Chilin, and they should take us in."
"This..." Guo Nongzhi hesitated. Once they defected to Chilin, it would be an act of treason, and if the Xiyun people saw them, they'd all want them dead.
"I don't want to do this either, but," Tong Nongzhi looked helpless, "this is better than losing our lives."
Guo Nongzhi knew that An Jing and Xiao Changyi would never forgive them for what they'd done in the past, and since he valued his own life dearly, he finally made up his mind after hearing Tong Nongzhi say it was better than dying: "Alright, let's defect to Chilin."
And so, the two began planning how to defect to Chilin.
Meanwhile, Xiao Changyi and An Jing remained completely unaware of the matter.
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