Living in the mountains, they mostly took care of minor injuries and pains by themselves. Jiang Ruohua cleaned Zhao Yuexi's wound, but he didn't have any medicine for sores on him, and he didn't know when the rain would stop, so he had to go back as soon as possible.

After the hunter and his wife looked at Zhao Yuexi's injuries, they took out their own folk remedies. The hunter temporarily fixed Zhao Yuexi's broken arm with a few wooden boards and ropes, and applied some crushed herbs on it, which saved Zhao Yuexi's life for the time being.

"Sister, you should take care of it too."

The hunter lady brought the herbs and looked at the wound on Jiang Ruohua's arm and said, "If it turns into pus, I'm afraid it won't be good."

"Thank you, sister-in-law." Jiang Ruohua didn't hesitate and simply took care of herself.

Seeing that it was getting late, the hunter lady suggested that Jiang Ruohua and Zhao Yuexi stay overnight with them. Tomorrow, when the rain stops and the road is easy to walk, the hunter will take her up the mountain to find someone. In the middle of the night,

Zhao Yuexi had a severe fever. Jiang Ruohua and the hunter lady took turns rubbing her body to cool her down, but the rain didn't stop. It seemed that she really had to leave it to fate. After

a few days of fatigue, the rain showed no sign of stopping, but Zhao Yuexi managed to survive and no longer had a fever. Jiang Ruohua closed her eyes and took a nap beside the bed, not knowing when the rain would stop. When

she woke up, she looked up and found that Zhao Yuexi had already woken up, sitting alone in a corner of the bed in a daze.

When the hunter's wife saw Jiang Ruohua wake up, she carefully pulled her and said, "Sister, your sister...she woke up and refused to say a word. I brought some food, but she refused to eat. This..."

"Sorry to trouble you, sister-in-law." Jiang Ruohua looked at her apologetically, then took the bowl of porridge. "She must be scared. Let me talk to her alone. You go and do your thing first."

The hunter's wife was very considerate and left the room for them. Jiang Ruohua glanced at the dazed Zhao Yuexi, then said, "Go if you can."

She sat on the edge of the bed, listening to the rain pouring outside. She had felt tired these days, so she simply said this and lay down on the bed, ready to sleep for a while.

Zhao Yuexi cried, but she cried quietly. However, she couldn't escape Jiang Ruohua's ears. She slightly opened her eyes, sat up again and said, "You..."

"I can't leave... I can't go anywhere..." Zhao Yuexi covered her head with her intact hand, crying pitifully, "I... I have nowhere to go. That person... that person said that as long as I do as he says, he will welcome me into the palace when he seizes the throne in the future... I can't do anything..."

Hearing this, Jiang Ruohua wanted to sneer. She interrupted Zhao Yuexi rudely and said, "You are crazy, Zhao Yuexi, don't you know who you stabbed with your dagger? If it wasn't for the heavy rain that made the two of us fall from the mountain, you would have been hacked to death!" If

you assassinate the emperor, the whole family will be implicated. It would be a relief to be hacked to death immediately. If you are caught alive, you will definitely die by extreme punishment!

What is Zhao Yuexi dreaming? She was so stupid that she listened to other people's slander and assassinated the emperor!

"I know!"

Zhao Yuexi's face was pale, and her heart was almost about to collapse. She shook her head repeatedly and looked very wolfish: "I know... I know everything, but the Zhao family already knows that I was abandoned by His Royal Highness Prince Ying, and they are going to send me to those old guys for fun in exchange for the Zhao family's career... If I don't do this, where will my way out be?"

"It's okay, that person's death needs someone to bear the responsibility, no, you are one of the traitors, tell me, which of these will be a way out?" It's

too late to turn back, the dagger was stabbed, and Zhao Yuexi's guilt had been established.

What's more, who among the emperors of all dynasties is willing to leave a stain on themselves? The crime of patricide and regicide, of course, requires someone to take the blame.

"Didn't that person also say that if the matter is exposed, he will put all the responsibilities on King Ying, and then he will try to replace you and change your name? Zhao Yuexi, I never thought you were so stupid before. Once the matter is completely pushed to King Ying, such a high and mighty person, why should he take you? Does he need you to flatter him? Or does he need you to warm his bed?"

"Yes..." Zhao Yuexi did not deny it. She really said that, but she raised her eyes to look at Jiang Ruohua, and her tears could not stop flowing. "But you have no right to say that to me, Jiang Ruohua, you were born with everything, you have a good background, you have a family that loves you, have you ever felt like a hot potato being kicked around? You have never lived like me, living under someone else's roof and having to look at other people's faces!"

"I don't want to argue with you, but I'm not a prostitute! I don't want to be sent by the Zhao family to be entertained by others. The King of Ying is the only one in the world who gave me a glimmer of hope. I just want to live a better life. If I have a good background and a good family like you, who would want to abandon their integrity?"

"I just want a status, even a concubine. At least if I stay with the prince, the Zhao family can't do anything to me. I thought the prince would give me a status if you broke off the engagement. Why did you come back? The prince didn't want me in order to win your favor. How can I not hate you? Why is it so difficult for me to get even a little bit of something that is dispensable to you?"

Fate seemed so ridiculous. Jiang Ruohua remembered Luo Yu saying that everything in this world, especially the fate of the few of them, was arranged by the so-called plot.

She also clearly remembered everything Zhao Yuexi did to her in the first dream, and also clearly remembered Zhao Yuexi's gradually miserable end in her hands in the second dream.

But just as Zhao Yuexi said, if she didn't do this, what else could she do? Would she just willingly accept the marriage arranged by the Zhao family? Would she give herself to that old man who plays with women, and then use everything she has to pave the way for others?

Jiang Ruohua gently reached out and held Zhao Yuexi in her arms. She was thinking, whose purpose could be wrong? But why do their goals have to conflict just because they all want to live well? Must they be forced to confront each other and end up with a death sentence?

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." Zhao Yuexi cried and apologized, "Actually I don't want to hate you, and I didn't think I had to snatch your engagement. I just wanted a status, I wanted someone to rely on... I'm sorry..."

Zhao Yuexi cried uncomfortably. In fact, she knew from the beginning that the King of Ying had an engagement, and she didn't think that it was enough for an orphan girl to become the King of Ying's wife, concubine, or even a lower status. She didn't think she had to be hostile to Jiang Ruohua, nor did she want to blame Jiang Ruohua for all her dissatisfaction. But

fate didn't let her. How could she not understand that many of the disputes between her and Jiang Ruohua were deliberately made by the King of Ying?