Mu Tiantian was imprisoned by Juechen.

She tried to struggle to bring him to his senses, but he was too strong and held her hand firmly down.

He barely gave her a chance to speak, acting wildly and violently.

"Juechen... wake up..."

"I'm perfectly sober..."

He was simply following his own inner desires.

"But you now... um..."

Juechen sealed her incessantly chattering mouth.

I don't know how much time passed.

Mu Tiantian felt a little sore all over.

She sat up.

But when she saw the scene before her, her eyes widened suddenly.

She wasn't at the inn, but dressed in an elegant white dress, standing in a grove of trees.

Why did they change locations?

Mu Tiantian: [Seventh Commander, look where I am now?]

Qi Tong: [...You've entered Juechen's dream again?]

Qi Tongyi guessed something from her question.

Because she was sleeping in Juechen's arms at that moment.

Mu Tiantian tried to move, but her body wouldn't move.

She sighed, rubbing her forehead: "Why does he keep having dreams?"

Seven Unifications: [...Is it abnormal to dream?]

Mu Tiantian: [The problem is, how did I get pulled into his dream again? Fine, I'm in, but I can't control my body.]

Qi Tong: [Perhaps... it's due to the influence of inner demons?]

Mu Tiantian: [I didn't see any trace of inner demons either.]

She had just finished speaking with Qitong when she felt a lightness in her body and a sharp pain in her waist.

"Hiss~" Mu Tiantian reached out and touched the painful spot on her waist. This time she could move.

It has a sticky texture.

She raised her hand and glanced at it; it was blood.

"Young lady, are you alright?"

Mu Tiantian heard a voice and looked up, only to see Juechen holding her with a worried expression.

The only difference was his black hair, which added a touch of allure to his already effeminate face.

"Miss?" Mu Tiantian asked in confusion.

I'm dreaming so much I don't even recognize her anymore?

She glanced around; the ground was littered with corpses, dressed like bandits.

She instinctively wrapped her arms around Juechen's neck.

Juechen blushed and tightened his grip on her.

Mu Tiantian breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that those people had just died and their bodies had not yet decomposed.

"It's alright, girl. I've killed all of them. They won't bully you anymore."

When Juechen said this, it was as if killing someone was as easy as killing a chicken.

But since she met him, he has never killed a living being. Even if he accidentally steps on an ant, he will perform a ritual to help that ant pass on to the afterlife before he is satisfied.

"They bullied me?" Mu Tiantian asked. "How...how did they bully me?"

"Girl, have you forgotten everything?" Juechen asked, starting to worry when he saw her bewildered expression. "They're bandits from around here. They want to rob you, and they also want to..."

He coughed lightly, his face flushed, and said, "They wanted to do something improper to you, so I traveled here and killed them for you. It was also to rid the people of a scourge. Don't you remember, young lady? Perhaps you have a head injury?"

Mu Tiantian processed what he said, and it seemed that his dream was a new story.

"Having traveled this far... then you... ouch..." Mu Tiantian felt a sharp pain in her waist and gasped.

It even hurts this much in my dream.

"Please bear with it, young lady, I'll take you to the clinic."

"No need, no need." She saw some herbs growing in a patch of grass not far away, pointed in that direction and said to him, "There are herbs there, take me there, I need to stop the bleeding first."

Juechen dared not delay and did as she said.

He carefully placed her under the tree and helped her pick herbs.

Mu Tiantian reached out and tore open the clothes covering the wound on her waist, revealing a large expanse of snow-white skin, but blood continued to ooze from the wound.

Juechen felt extremely guilty upon seeing this. "I'm sorry, young lady. If I hadn't made a mistake, you wouldn't have been injured."

"If you really feel guilty towards me, then... put your arm over here."

"An arm?" Juechen was a little confused, but he still stretched out his arm.

"Lift it up higher, bring it to my mouth."

Juechen did as instructed.

The next moment, Mu Tiantian applied the herbs to her waist with one hand and bit down on his arm.

Juechen merely frowned slightly, then sat down beside her without changing his expression.

Mu Tiantian bit down while enduring the pain, inwardly complaining.

In a dream, she had to get hurt, and the pain felt so real.

We have to let him experience it.

However, she bit through her clothes, so it probably didn't break the skin.

This herb has a numbing effect, and the pain basically disappears after a while.

Mu Tiantian let go, and there were deep teeth marks on the cuff of her sleeve, pressed against her skin, with her saliva on them.

She asked, "Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt, I'm glad you're alright, girl." Juechen smiled, looking a bit simple-minded.

His smile is just like when we first met, a little silly.

"Tear some strips of cloth for me and help bandage this up," Mu Tiantian said weakly.

Upon hearing this, Juechen hurriedly tore a piece of cloth from his clothes, then tore it into strips to bandage her wound.

When he accidentally touched her fair skin, his already flushed cheeks turned even redder.

"Young master, you said you traveled here, so what did you do before?" Mu Tiantian asked, continuing from where she left off.

After Juechen bandaged her up, he took off his outer robe and covered her with it, saying, "I lost both my parents when I was young. Later, my master found me and taught me martial arts. He took me to travel the world and fight for justice."

His eyes shone brightly as he said this.

"And what about your master?"

"He likes to move around. I don't know where he is now, but he can appear whenever he wants to find me."

Mu Tiantian asked, "Do you want to be a hero?"

"My lifelong wish is to be a chivalrous knight-errant, wandering the world and traveling to all corners of the land."

Looking at his youthful, spirited, and dream-filled appearance, Mu Tiantian recalled her time at Jingling Temple.

She once asked him what he would do if he could choose his life again.

That's what he said to her too, but then he added, "But if that's the case, will I never have met you?"

At that time, she asked, "If you had to choose between meeting me and becoming a chivalrous hero, what would you choose?"

Without hesitation, he said, "I met you."

After hearing what he said, she was momentarily dazed, her heart pounding uncontrollably. After a long while, she chuckled softly, "Love-struck."

He was puzzled. "Love-obsessed? What does that mean?"

Instead of answering, she asked, "Is it worth it?"

He asked, "Isn't it worth it?"

"not worth."

"But I think it's worth it."

The words he had said echoed in Mu Tiantian's mind: "But I think it's worth it."

She looked up at Juechen, whose black hair fluttered in the wind, and asked, "May I ask how you are addressed, young master?"

"My surname is Duan, my given name is Ruchen, and I don't know... what your name is, young lady..." Juechen's voice was soft, and she was a little embarrassed, her face still flushed.

“Mu Tiantian.” She remembered that Master Zhenhui’s original name was Duan Hong, so the master in her dream must be Zhenhui.

Entering the dust...

He didn't want to be detached from the world; he only wanted to be part of it.

Because of his exceptional talent and wisdom, Zhenhui entrusted him with important responsibilities from a young age, disregarding his imperfect desires and only wanting to confine him to Jingling Temple.

Because he was the chosen one of the world's destiny, she tried every means to make him sever ties with the mortal world and conform to the development of the world.

I never considered things from his perspective.

This dream may be an ideal in his heart.

Since she's here, let her accompany him to continue pursuing this ideal...