The rich fragrance seemed to have solidified into substance, enveloping Li Wei completely.
It was a warm and enchanting floral scent, completely different from her own.
She moved her eyelids, her head felt dizzy, as if filled with lead, and her temples were throbbing with pain.
Where is this?
[Am I not currently chatting with that Gu Jinzhi in the Upside Down Domain?]
The memory is a little fuzzy, as if it were covered by a thick veil.
She struggled to recall, but the image was fragmented.
She remembered that she had defeated many octopus monsters, and then she was exhausted...
What next?
Oh...Gu Jinzhi is here.
Then, they seemed to talk for a while.
And then... she couldn't remember anything.
Li Wei struggled, trying to raise her upper body.
When you touch it, you can feel a cool, soft and flexible texture with a strange elasticity.
She slowly opened her eyes.
What comes into view are layers of huge petals that are slightly inward-curved and fiery in color, with a faint orange-red glow.
She...seemed to be lying on a huge "lotus pod".
The lotus pod and the closed petals formed a relatively enclosed space that wrapped her up.
The space was small, and she could only barely sit up, but her limbs could not stretch freely.
She pushed at the petals again, but couldn't move them.
"Hello! Is anyone there?!" Li Wei shouted at the top of her voice.
"What are you yelling about? You just woke up, can't you be quiet?"
A pleasant female voice, with a hint of laziness and familiarity, came from outside the "petals".
Li Wei was stunned.
"grandmother?"
She shouted uncertainly.
"Hmph," Jiang Xinyue's voice came again from outside the petals. It wasn't an illusion. "Why, you open your eyes and don't see your little lover. You feel empty inside?"
Little lover?
Li Wei was confused for a moment.
Who is it?
After a few breaths, she suddenly realized that Jiang Xinyue was referring to... Gu Jinzhi?!
boom--!
A surge of hot blood rushed to Li Wei's head, and she felt like she was about to explode.
"Grandma! How can you slander someone's innocence out of thin air!" Her voice rose eight octaves.
Jiang Xinyue chuckled outside, her tone full of teasing: "Even after hugging each other, you still say you're not my little lover?"
"Hug...hug?!" Li Wei's eyes widened. "What do you mean hug? Who hugged who?!"
"Who else could it be," Jiang Xinyue said slowly, "It's your family member, of course."
"You were unconscious, and he carried you all the way out of the chasm."
"Tsk tsk, he's so protective of his child. I want to take you in, but he's reluctant to let go."
Jiang Xinyue paused deliberately, as if recalling the scene, and added, "That boy looked at you as if he were looking at some rare treasure, afraid of bumping into it."
"That disgusting look, tsk tsk..."
Li Wei felt a black screen in front of her eyes and a buzzing sound in her head.
Gu Jinzhi...carried her out?
"Gu Gou—!" Li Wei screamed in grief and indignation, "I will never coexist with you—! We will fight to the death—!"
Outside, Jiang Xinyue was amused by her sudden outburst and laughed so hard that it took her a long time to recover.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore."
Jiang Xinyue's voice suddenly grew quieter, taking on a certain solemnity. "How did you get yourself into this state? It's bad enough that your body is severely overdrawn, but even your soul is damaged."
After a pause, she added with a touch of sadness, "Especially your natal lotus, it's all wilted..."
Li Wei rolled her eyes and made an excuse: "At that time... the situation was urgent, and I was only thinking about saving people. I didn't pay much attention..."
Then, she quickly looked inward... and sure enough...
The little white lotus, which used to be independent and swaying gracefully in the sea of consciousness, now seemed to be "critically ill".
With its head drooping and its petals wrinkled, it looks extremely pitiful.
[Hiss!]
[Fuck, this is too much...]
"Is it that serious?" she muttered to herself. "It seems so. My head hurts now, and I don't have any strength left..."
[Damn it, killing monsters by myself is so tiring and risky, and it's so risky. I'm always worried about getting caught by monsters... The front lines are better, because I can hang out there...]
[Sigh... I don't know how long it will take to recover from this situation.]
"Humph, saving someone?" Jiang Xinyue laughed angrily, "I asked you to pretend to be a Great Perfection, and you believed it yourself? You, a shortcut body, went to save a Great Perfection? I say, did you get kicked in the head by a donkey?"
Li Wei didn't dare say anything.
[I'm really not going to rescue anyone, I'm just passing by to kill monsters...]
She defended herself in her heart.
Jiang Xinyue, who was outside the petals, was silent for a moment, as if she had suddenly figured something out. She said, "That's right. If she had a healthy mind, she wouldn't be so foolish as to take the blame for that brat Gu Jinzhi."
[I'm really not going there to take the blame, I'm just passing by...]
She continued to defend herself in her mind.
Jiang Xinyue sighed softly: "Those hidden injuries on your body will be almost healed in a day or two."
"However, if the trauma to the soul is to be healed naturally, it will take at least a year and a half."
"A year or two?!" Li Wei suddenly became anxious.
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