Bai Musheng failed to convince Xiao Qingyin to accept him as her husband, and therefore could not stay and live in the same room with her.

This put Xiao Qingyin at ease.

She's not a professional actress; she can manage to act occasionally, but she definitely couldn't handle acting all the time.

She really wanted to go outside and see what was going on.

But she had no strength in her legs and couldn't even walk out of the room.

This can't go on.

She needs to find a way to leave some clues on shore when the ship docks for supplies.

Otherwise, Yi Shuihan would never have known that she was being taken to the Southern Dan Kingdom.

When Bai Musheng brought in dinner, she asked, "Why do I have no strength at all? Am I sick?"

Bai Musheng smiled and said, "You're not sick. This is a side effect of the impact. The doctor said it might take a month to get better."

One month!

It's wide enough to travel from Da Xi to Nan Dan Kingdom!

Xiao Qingyin cursed inwardly, thinking that this person was really strict and left no loopholes.

She feigned shock and said, "Does that mean I'll have to stay in the cabin for a whole month?"

Bai Musheng sighed: "I'm afraid so."

“That won’t do!” Xiao Qingyin replied. “People get sick if they don’t get sunlight. I can’t lie in bed all day long.”

Bai Musheng raised an eyebrow: "Where did you hear that from?"

Xiao Qingyin looked like she was trying hard to recall.

But she quickly gave up.

"I don't remember, that's what my brain told me."

Bai Musheng thought about it for a moment and felt that the cabin was too cold and damp, and it was indeed not good to be in the dark for a long time.

He replied, "I can take you to the deck to sunbathe during the day."

"Thanks."

Xiao Qingyin gave him a bright smile.

Bai Musheng's eyes flickered.

He hadn't seen her smile at him like that in a long time.

Ever since their reunion in the capital, he had always stood at a distance, watching her smile at Yi Shuihan like that.

No one knows how much pain he endured and how much loneliness he tasted during those long nights.

But it's all in the past now.

He smiled slightly.

Yi Shuihan would never have imagined that he was from Nandan Kingdom, and even if he turned Da Xi upside down, he still wouldn't be able to find Xiao Qingyin.

The next morning, after breakfast, Bai Musheng reached out to carry Xiao Qingyin onto the deck.

Xiao Qingyin avoided it.

"Men and women should not touch each other. I'm not even sure if what you said is true. How could you lay a hand on me?"

Helpless, Bai Musheng could only call Linglong over.

As soon as Linglong entered the room, Xiao Qingyin recognized her from her eyes and figure. She recognized the masked woman who had been watching the heart transplant surgery when Linglong was abducted to the small mountain village.

But her face remained expressionless, as if she were seeing the other person for the first time, and she asked Bai Musheng, "Is this your maid?"

Bai Musheng shook his head: "She was my mother's maid, but I've assigned her to you now. Her name is Linglong."

Where is your mother?

"She's on the deck; you'll see her once you go up."

After Xiao Qingyin was carried to work by Linglong, a familiar figure was standing with his back to her, watching the scenery on the shore.

Linglong respectfully greeted her, "Madam."

Bai turned around, and a young face of seventeen or eighteen years old came into Xiao Qingyin's view.

This was the face she had seen in the painting by the Marquis of Yong'an—the face of the young lady from the Qiao family.

Just like the face of Princess Zhaoyang that Linlang had swapped in, this face was also well preserved, showing no signs of wear and tear.

Xiao Qingyin was very curious to know what preservative Bai Shi had used.

This preservation effect is absolutely incredible.

If it could be used for organ transplants like the heart, there would be no need to race against time to complete the transplant surgery before the organ fails.

Her thoughts only drifted for a few seconds before she pulled them back.

She looked at Madam Bai with surprise: "Miss, you are..."

“I am Bai Musheng’s mother.”

Bai replied.

Xiao Qingyin's face showed just the right amount of surprise.

“You’re his mother? That’s impossible. You look younger than him.”

Bai said casually, "It's just that I take good care of myself."

Xiao Qingyin asked with great interest, "May I ask what skincare products you use? Could you share them?"

Bai gave her a deep look and replied, "Human blood."

Xiao Qingyin: "???"

She looked at Bai with a blank expression: "What do you mean by human blood?"

“It’s human blood,” Bai said with a smile. “Every night before bed, I put fresh blood on my face.”

After she finished speaking, she stared intently at Xiao Qingyin, wanting to know how she would react.

Xiao Qingyin paused for a moment, then asked her a question: "Did you use your own menstrual blood?"

Bai: "???"

"What did you say?"

"Did you use your own menstrual blood as a face mask?"

Xiao Qingyin said with an innocent look on her face.

"But you can't use your own every day, so you also collected other people's, right?"

The expression on Bai's face cracked.

She was disgusted by Xiao Qingyin.

"How could it be menstrual blood? It's fresh human blood!"

Xiao Qingyin looked confused: "What's the difference?"

"Of course there's a difference!"

Despite his nausea, Bai forced himself to explain to her.

After listening, Xiao Qingyin smiled slightly: "There is no difference at all. No matter which one you use, it's all abnormal."

Bai: "..."

She finally realized that Xiao Qingyin was indirectly insulting her.

She glared at her resentfully and left the deck.

Xiao Qingyin then carefully observed the scenery on the shore and judged from the vegetation that the ship was still in the waters north of Da Xi.

They must have just left the capital.

The journey is still long, and she has enough time to think of a solution.

A few days later, the ship docked.

Xiao Qingyin said to Bai Musheng, "I also want to go ashore and take a look."

Bai Musheng was not very happy about it.

"The dock is chaotic, it's not safe to go up there, you should stay on the boat."

Xiao Qingyin put on a stern face: "Actually, you're not my husband at all, are you? You kidnapped me. You're afraid I'll go ashore and report to the authorities, that's why you won't let me go up."

Before Bai Musheng could answer, she continued, "If people don't touch the soil for too long, they'll get athlete's foot. If you really loved me, you wouldn't have trapped me on the boat and let me suffer from this disease."

"With so many guards, can't you protect me?"

Bai Musheng was speechless.

He reluctantly agreed: "Even if you go ashore, you can only stay at the dock and cannot enter the city."

Xiao Qingyin smiled and said, "I can't even walk, how am I supposed to get into the city?"

Bai Musheng thought about it and agreed, so she asked Linglong to take her ashore.

After getting ashore, Xiao Qingyin sat in a tea stall, ordered a cup of honey water, and watched others unload and load goods while cracking melon seeds.

When it was time for the ship to depart, she obediently followed Linglong back to the ship and did not do anything special.

The same thing happened the next few times they docked, so Bai Musheng gradually relaxed and assumed that she was just bored and wanted to go ashore to sit for a while.

Once they reach the south, he will let her ashore without Xiao Qingyin even having to ask.

Unbeknownst to him, Yi Shuihan, far away in the capital, had already received a message from Xiao Qingyin.