Su Wan didn't know how she had managed to persevere all this way.

All I remember is holding onto Chu Mingyao's hand tightly, running desperately towards the dark mountain in the distance. I slipped and fell in the snow, got up and kept running. I tripped over vines in the snow and fell again, but got up and kept running.

There was no physical pain. When the body is under extreme stress, it releases adrenaline, which makes breathing faster, heart rate increase, and causes pain to be forgotten.

Some guards held shields to protect their backs, while others brandished swords to hold off the pursuers. They escorted them as they fled.

At first, she could hear the sound of arrows whistling through the air and striking shields, and see arrows embedded in the snow around her. Behind her were the sounds of clashing swords, sharp blades piercing flesh, and screams of agony. The cold air was thick with the smell of blood.

The sound of arrows flying stopped. Thank goodness, the enemy probably wanted to capture them alive and stopped firing.

No wonder Chu Yi said they couldn't escape. With her and Chu Mingyao as a burden, they couldn't run fast no matter how hard they tried. Two miles, or a kilometer, seemed incredibly far in the long, snowy night.

After running up the hill... to put it bluntly, both she and Chu Mingyao were holding their knees, panting like dogs.

At times like this, one shouldn't worry about manners.

To the left of the hill was an official road, and to the right was a grove of trees. There was a cave on the hill, large enough for three or four people to squeeze together. Chu Yi said to her, "Miss Su, you and my sister hide in the cave. We'll guard the path up the hill from the outside."

Su Wan and Chu Mingyao knew they couldn't be of much help at this point, so they quickly hid in the cave and sat side by side on the ground in the darkness. Chu Yi led the rest of the group to guard the crossroads.

Chu Mingyao tucked her loose hair behind her ears, gritted her teeth, lifted up her muddy and snow-covered trouser legs, and touched her calves; they were sticky.

With a soft "snap," a small spark ignited in the darkness, illuminating the entire cave.

Su Wan held up a lighter and said, "Sister Chu, your leg is bleeding."

Chu Mingyao said, "It was scratched by a tree branch. Sister, what is that in your hand? It doesn't look like a tinderbox, so how did you light it?"

Su Wan said, "Sister, I am a goddess, it's normal for me to have some special things. This is called a lighter."

"You clearly said before that you weren't..."

“If I said yes, Brother Chu would definitely take me to Southern Chu. I’m already married to Wei Jingzhuo, how could I possibly go with him?” Su Wan placed the lighter in Chu Mingyao’s hand. “Sister, light this for me, I’ll treat your wound.”

Chu Mingyao held up the lighter, looking down at the wound on her calf. A branch had cut her, and she was bleeding quite a bit; her shoes and socks were mostly soaked in blood.

Su Wan took a small bottle of purified water from the pharmacy, opened the cap, poured it on the wound to wash away the blood and dirt, and said, "Sister, the wound isn't deep. I'll disinfect it with iodine and bandage it simply later."

Chu Mingyao watched as she magically produced another bottle and a roll of gauze from her bosom, and couldn't help but ask, "Little sister, why are you hiding so many things on you?"

Su Wan smiled and said, "I'm a doctor, so of course I need to bring these with me."

"Don't doctors all have medicine kits?"

"I don't like that thing, it's too heavy. I prefer to just carry it with me."

Su Wan applied iodine to Chu Mingyao's wound and then wrapped it with bandages.

"Your technique looks very skilled," Chu Mingyao said with a smile. "No wonder you were able to cure Father's illness. You are a descendant of a family of divine healers, right? Then you must have the Life-Returning Pendant?"

"The Resurrection Pendant?" Su Wan stuffed the iodine bottle into her bosom, put it back in the pharmacy, and shook her head, saying, "I don't have that."

She didn't want to tell Chu Mingyao that she had the jade pendant. It would be troublesome if Chu Mingyao told Chu Yi.

“Impossible, the Goddess and the Resurrection Pendant are destined to be together,” Chu Mingyao said, somewhat skeptical. “Really not?”

“Of course not,” Su Wan said. “Sister, you are also from the Southern Chu royal family. Do you know anything about this Resurrection Pendant?”

Chu Mingyao hesitated for a moment, then said, "These things are originally a secret of Southern Chu and cannot be told to outsiders. But my sister first saved my father, and now she is healing my wounds. It's alright to tell you."

The resurrection jade pendant possessed by the family of legendary healers has a magical ability: to transfer souls and spirits.

"Soul transfer?" Su Wan thought she believed in science, and upon hearing such a mysterious term, she couldn't help but blurt it out.

“Yes, the Resurrection Pendant will turn the wearer into a different person,” Chu Mingyao said. “Our royal family doesn’t know how it works. To put it simply, for example, if that person is me, Chu Mingyao, after the soul transfer, I am no longer myself; I become someone else. The body is still my body, but the soul is not.”

Su Wan appeared completely bewildered, but inwardly she was utterly shocked.

So it turns out that I was transported to this world because I came from the body of Pella.

Many things have now been clarified.

Her mother was a descendant of a family of renowned physicians. For some unknown reason, she did not marry the emperor of Southern Chu, but instead fled to Youzhou in the Great Jin Dynasty. After she fell ill and died, her daughter, Su Wan, kept this jade pendant. At the moment of Su Wan's death, the jade pendant pulled her from the modern world into this world.

It feels pretty mysterious.

Chu Mingyao continued, "The family of divine healers will keep a close watch on the woman who brings back the Life Pendant. Once it is confirmed that she has undergone soul transfer, she must immediately marry into our Southern Chu royal family."

"Has it always been like this?" Su Wan asked in surprise.

"I'm not entirely sure either, but that's probably how it is," Chu Mingyao said, looking at her. "Why are you so surprised, little sister?"

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