She looked at the half bird and felt too embarrassed to reach out: "Never mind, you can eat it yourself, I've had enough."

Seeing that she wouldn't take it, Su Renzhong didn't force her. He quickly ate the half bird himself and then got up and left.

A short while later, Su Renzhong returned with some water in a leaf and handed it to her: "Have some water."

There is no water source at the bottom of this cliff, so rainwater is the best way for them to replenish their water.

She knew that water was scarce at the bottom of the cliff, but she didn't complain and took the leaf and drank the handful of water.

"Do you have a water bottle?" Su Renzhong asked, noticing that she seemed very thirsty.

She shook her head: "No."

How could she possibly have such a thing on her? Why would she need to bring her own water bag?

Su Renzhong remained silent. He had originally planned to use her water bag to fill it with some water since it was raining, but she didn't have one...

Su Renzhong thought for a moment, then handed her his bamboo water container from his waist: "Here, take this."

She stared blankly at Su Renzhong, not immediately realizing what he had given her.

"This is my bamboo tube for holding water. I just filled it with rainwater outside. You can use this to drink water from now on," Su Renzhong explained, handing the bamboo tube to her.

Holding the bamboo tube, she was suddenly moved: "You gave me water, what will you drink?"

“After the rain, the cliff face here will collect rainwater, so there will be no shortage of water for at least two or three days. I will always find a way to get water. If all else fails, I can just use a leaf to collect it.”

As he spoke, Su Renzhong sat down by the fire and began to take off his clothes.

"You..." She was startled by Su Renzhong's actions again and swallowed hard. "You...didn't you just apply the medicine? Are you applying it again?"

"Your clothes are wet, take them off and dry them." Su Renzhong squeezed the rainwater off his clothes, then glanced at her and, seeing that her clothes were dripping wet, frowned and said, "You should take your clothes off and dry them too."

She stared at his muscular physique, feeling somewhat uneasy: "It's alright, I don't feel cold."

She was indeed very cold just now, but she's very hot now!

It's so hot!!!

Although she knew it was impolite to stare at others like that, the cave was only so big, and she simply couldn't take her eyes off it!

Su Renzhong completely ignored her gaze, wrung out the clothes, and then found two wooden racks to place the clothes next to the fire to dry.

His pants were wet too. Su Renzhong didn't dare to take them off in front of her, but it was really uncomfortable to wear them wet, so he squeezed out the water from his pants.

Su Renzhong thought of her dripping clothes again, and looked up at her: "You really shouldn't take off your clothes and dry them. Wearing wet clothes for a long time can easily make you sick."

She quickly shook her head: "It's alright, I'm in pretty good health."

Although she didn't mind taking off her clothes in front of him, it wasn't appropriate for them to be alone in the middle of nowhere. If they took off their clothes, wouldn't that easily lead to something serious?

The two sat together by the fire, but remained silent.

After a long silence, she looked at Su Renzhong and asked, "Do you think we can go up again?"

"We have to go up," Su Renzhong said casually, his tone very firm.

The entire Su family army is still waiting for him, as are his family. He has to go up; he can't just wait to die at the bottom of this cliff.

Seeing the determination in his eyes, she suddenly felt less panicked.

They should be able to go up, and they must go up.

She couldn't stay here forever; she was the Empress of Western Liang, and she had to go back.

She suddenly looked at Su Renzhong as if she had just thought of something: "Did you guess that we set up an ambush there? That's why you went to the meeting alone!"

Because the war had been stalled for too long, they came up with a plan. They deliberately spread rumors that the Western Liang army would move its camp to Tianlang Mountain in order to lure the enemy deep into their territory, where they would then set up an ambush.

If their Eastern Chu army dares to come, they will surely wipe them out!

But to her surprise, only Su Renzhong came in the end, which rendered her ambush army useless!

Su Renzhong glanced at her and calmly explained, "I don't think setting up an ambush here was your idea."

She seemed to detect something unusual in his words, and frowned, asking, "Why do you say that?"

Su Renzhong raised an eyebrow: "I've been to this cliff before when I was scouting the terrain. It looks like it's easy to defend but difficult to attack, but the terrain is unique, and it's right next to a cliff, so it's actually not suitable for an ambush. If I can think of something, there's no reason you wouldn't think of it. We've fought each other more than once or twice, I don't think you would make this kind of mistake!"

Her expression changed slightly.

Indeed, she didn't think the cliff was a good place for an ambush.

Although this mountain is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is not practical to use this method to ambush the soldiers of Eastern Chu.

She even thought the idea was a bit stupid, because if it was poorly designed, they would be the ones who ended up being besieged!

Seeing that she understood his meaning, Su Renzhong turned his head and said, "This idea was suggested to you by someone, right? And it was someone you trust very much. Now you should think about this person's purpose."

She frowned suddenly and said unhappily, "What are you trying to say?"

She was clearly somewhat resistant to the topic, and even to the answer.

Seeing that she was still protecting that person, Su Renzhong couldn't help but sneer: "We've been off the cliff for a day and a night now, why do you think no one has come down to look for you?"

Upon hearing this, she felt a chill run down her spine again, and her brows furrowed deeply: "Perhaps the cliff is too high, and they can't climb down."

They must have tried to come down, but with a cliff this high, they could have easily climbed down normally.

Su Renzhong snorted coldly again, reminding him, "You are the Empress of Xiliang. Do you think their lives are more important than yours? If they knew your identity, they should have risked their lives to come down the cliff to find you. This cliff is so high; if they had actually climbed it, the chances of them falling would be much higher than if they had climbed down normally. But a whole day and night has passed, and there hasn't been a single living person or a single corpse at the bottom of this cliff! Do you really think they wanted to come down the cliff to find you?"

Su Renzhong's pointed question left her stunned.

He's right. As the Empress of Xiliang, she fell off a cliff, so it was impossible for the Xiliang soldiers not to come down and look for her.

But why is no one coming down to look for it now?

Was it her order?

impossible! ! !

The moment she had that thought, she shook her head frantically.

Impossible! She wouldn't hurt her, and there's no reason for her to do so!

Seeing the incredulous look on her face, Su Renzhong didn't want to say anything more.

This kind of thing, reminding her is enough; whether she believes it or not is her own business! He doesn't want to care and is too lazy to care!