With her superb skills, Qin Kou'er quickly swam towards the driftwood. She first grabbed the driftwood with all her might, and then pushed Lan Xiuyuan onto it. She herself remained in the water, like an eagle in the night, searching for the shore.

Lan Xiuyuan felt he had reached the surface and immediately opened his eyes. Clinging tightly to the driftwood, he saw Qin Kou'er still struggling in the water. He quickly reached out and shouted, "Give me your hand, I'll pull you up!"

"No! I have to figure out a way to go with the current and use it to push the driftwood to the shore. If we keep going with the current, we'll be swept downstream very quickly, and there's a cliff there. We'll fall straight down the cliff!"

As she spoke, Qin Kou'er found an opportunity and immediately began to move the driftwood to the left with the current.

Lan Xiuyuan looked up and said, "The river has been widened on both sides. It'll be very difficult to cross with the logs! Why don't we swim across..."

"No! The waves are too big! And without this piece of driftwood, it will be very difficult for me to carry it. The current is strong, and there are undercurrents. We'll both be swept away by the whirlpools, so we must have this piece of driftwood. Only by pushing it can we get to the other side. Don't worry, once we get ashore, we'll be saved!"

As she spoke, Qin Kou'er ignored Lan Xiuyuan and focused solely on pushing the driftwood, trying to find an opportunity to push it towards the shore.

Lan Xiuyuan also saw the critical situation before him, so he stopped talking and instead used the advantage of the higher driftwood to guide Qin Kou'er and help her avoid the whirlpool and undercurrent in advance.

Finally, after continuous efforts, Qin Kou'er managed to push the driftwood to the shore.

As soon as they approached the shore, Qin Kou'er leaped out of the river like a dragon emerging from the sea, grabbed Lan Xiuyuan by the collar, and dragged him to the shore with her.

However, as soon as they reached the shore, Qin Kou'er collapsed to the ground, exhausted, and lay down on the ground herself, facing the wind and rain, panting heavily.

Lan Xiuyuan knew that Qin Kou'er must be exhausted. He turned his head and looked at Qin Kou'er with concern. For no reason, he felt a pang of heartache and tenderness when he saw her disheveled appearance in the wind and rain.

"Kou'er, are you alright?"

Lan Xiuyuan struggled to climb to Qin Kou'er's side and reached out to touch her face.

Qin Kou'er reflexively flinched, then struggled to sit up, panting as she said, "I'm fine, I just feel a little tired!"

Lan Xiuyuan's hand awkwardly froze in mid-air, a sense of loss in his heart as if his hand had fallen to the ground at the same time.

However, Lan Xiuyuan was a man of profound cultivation.

He smiled slightly, then subtly withdrew his hand, propped himself up, and leaned against Qin Kou'er, panting heavily.

Qin Kou'er frowned when she saw that Lan Xiuyuan's leg was still straight, and asked, "Is the injury on your leg serious? Let me see!"

Without waiting for Lan Xiuyuan's approval, Qin Kou'er moved over with great effort and forcefully pulled open Lan Xiuyuan's trouser leg.

"ah!"

Because of Qin Kou'er's tearing, Lan Xiuyuan let out a short cry, and his legs, which had been numb, suddenly felt a sharp pain.

Qin Kou'er noticed that Lan Xiuyuan's leg trembled involuntarily, so she deliberately reduced the force and carefully and gently turned him over.

There were no visible external injuries, but his entire lower leg was visibly swollen, and after being soaked in the heavy rain, the pale swelling was even more pronounced.

Qin Kou'er gently touched it. Every time she touched it, Lan Xiuyuan flinched, but he held Shuangquan tightly and said nothing more.

"A tree branch broke my leg! It needs to be treated!"

As she spoke, Qin Kou'er struggled to her feet, looked around, pulled out the dagger that she had always concealed in her sleeve, grabbed a branch beside her, and forcefully tore off a section of it.

With a few cuts, it was chopped into several pieces.

She tore off the gauze ribbons from her clothes, ripped them into pieces, and quickly tied them around Lan Xiuyuan's legs.

"That's good! It prevents the bones from dislocating, which would make it impossible to set them back together later!"

After all that commotion, Qin Kou'er, panting heavily, sat down next to Lan Xiuyuan's legs.

Lan Xiuyuan leaned against the tree, quietly watching Qin Kou'er, and suddenly lowered his head and smiled.

Qin Kou'er looked up at him in surprise, "What's wrong? Is something funny?"

Lan Xiuyuan's laughter grew increasingly exaggerated, to the point that he seemed to be struggling to breathe.

Qin Kou'er was puzzled by his laughter. She looked down at herself, then glanced at Lan Xiuyuan, and suddenly couldn't help but laugh too.

The two of them sat in the heavy rain, laughing foolishly at each other for a while.

Finally, Lan Xiuyuan stopped laughing, looked at Qin Kou'er, and sighed, tilting his head back, "I never imagined that my world-renowned gentlemanly demeanor couldn't compare to a downpour from the heavens. Look at the two of us now, in such a sorry state, no one would believe it if word got out!"

Qin Kou'er also sighed deeply, "Yes! No matter how powerful a person is, in the end they are no match for God! If God is unhappy, he can make us die without a burial place!"

Upon hearing this, Lan Xiuyuan lowered his head and quietly looked at Qin Kou'er in front of him, then suddenly asked indifferently, "Do you regret it? You listened to my willful arrangements, and this is how you ended up!"

Qin Kou'er curled the corners of her lips and looked at Lan Xiuyuan calmly, "What's there to regret! If I hadn't gone through such a storm, I might have really believed that human will can conquer nature!"

After saying that, Qin Kou'er winked playfully at Lan Xiuyuan.

Lan Xiuyuan's peach blossom eyes immediately turned into beautiful crescent moons when he smiled.

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