In the desolate and cold mountain valley, Ye Chaoxi wrapped her clothes tightly around herself and searched around in the woods with a small bundle on her back.
My adoptive father passed away a month ago.
Before his death, her adoptive father gave her a jade pendant, saying that it was the jade she was wearing when he found her in the suburbs of the capital. He said it might be related to her background and that he hoped she could use the pendant to find her biological parents.
Ye Chaoxi agreed with tears in her eyes.
After arranging her adoptive father's funeral, Ye Chaoxi packed her things and took the jade pendant to the capital to find her relatives.
During this month, Ye Chaoxi was filled with anticipation and even fantasized about the happy family reunion after finding her relatives.
Unfortunately, that expectation came to an abrupt end tonight.
When they reached the outskirts of Beijing, it was already late. They still had to cross the mountain to reach the capital. Ye Chaoxi found a flat spot, lit a fire, and rested, planning to continue their journey the next day.
Right here, she had a dream.
In her dream, she traveled thousands of miles to the capital and, after searching, finally found her biological parents.
It turns out she was the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Pingchang.
But the Earl of Pingchang and his wife had already adopted a daughter and treated her like their own. When Ye Chaoxi returned, while they were happy, they were still more biased towards their adopted daughter, Ye Muling, whom they had raised since childhood.
Ye Muling disliked her very much and often secretly tripped her up, causing the Earl of Pingchang and his wife to have a very low opinion of her, thinking that she was from the countryside and could not be presented in public.
Later, the Earl of Pingchang and his wife arranged a marriage for her, marrying her off early to a poor scholar who had just passed the imperial examination.
Life after marriage... was chaotic and complicated, and hard to describe in a few words.
Just as her husband, from a humble background, entered the cabinet and rose rapidly through the ranks, she was poisoned to death by him.
Ye Chaoxi woke up from her dream, drenched in cold sweat. The scenes in the dream were so real, as if they had already happened, yet also as if they were about to happen.
Before she could recover, a small space appeared in front of her, filled with various pills.
What are these "fertility pills," "daughter-birth pills," "twin pills," "ecstasy powder"... The more Ye Chaoxi looked at them, the redder her face became.
What are all these things?
There was also a note inside, which said that if she wanted to change her future fate, she had to save Xie Qinglan, the heir of the Marquis of Yongyi, and bear him a child.
Heir apparent to the Marquis of Yongyi?
Ye Chaoxi searched her mind for this person. Wasn't this the one Ye Muling married in her dream?
This dream was absurd and outrageous. Normally, Ye Chaoxi would never have believed it, but this space felt so real, and the people in the dream were people she had never seen before.
Ye Chaoxi took a while to process it, but she was still somewhat skeptical.
She took out a location map and tried to locate Xie Qinglan.
Surprisingly, it actually located her, and the map showed that Xie Qinglan was in this mountain, nearby!
Ye Chaoxi's eyelashes trembled.
She didn't want to end up like in her dream, dying tragically from poison administered by the man beside her.
So Ye Chaoxi ate all the beauty pills, body shaping pills, melodious sound pills, and fragrance pills in the space.
Feeling the changes in her body, Ye Chaoxi completely believed in this precognitive dream.
She refused to believe that any man could resist someone like her!
After packing up, Ye Chaoxi shouldered her bag and headed southeast, following the map's directions.
The mountain path was difficult to walk on at night, but fortunately Ye Chaoxi had left a torch, which was enough to illuminate the path beneath her feet.
After walking for about half an hour, I kicked something warm; it was a person.
By the light of the torch, Ye Chaoxi bent down and saw the unlucky guy she had kicked.
Tall and slender, his white robes were stained with mottled blood and dust, and his jade-like profile was also stained with blood. His nose was high and straight, and his eyes were closed, as if a drop of blood had melted into the cold snow water of the Tianshan Mountains, cold and broken.
The location on the map is right here; this person should be Xie Qinglan.
Ye Chaoxi checked his breathing; he was still alive, which was good.
We were already deep in the mountains, and faint wolf howls could be heard from the distant woods from time to time, one after another, sending chills down one's spine.
We need to move people to a safer place quickly; they'll either be eaten by wolves or freeze to death here.
The man was too heavy, so Ye Chaoxi had to drop the torch and use all her strength to lift him up.
Fortunately, she passed by a cave on her way here.
After a great deal of effort, Ye Chaoxi was panting heavily as she carried the people into the cave. The cave wasn't large, roughly enough to hold four or five people. She then rebuilt a fire inside the cave.
With the light, Ye Chaoxi could finally see how serious Xie Qinglan's injuries were; her robes were mostly stained red with blood.
Ye Chaoxi pulled up his trouser legs, revealing a pair of bloody, mangled legs, with blood still flowing from the wounds.
The blood seeping from the wound is dark red, indicating that the wound is poisonous.
Ye Chaoxi's adoptive father was a doctor and often treated people in the village. Ye Chaoxi grew up by his side and also learned some medical skills.
She took out wound medicine and antidote pills from her small space, crushed an antidote pill, mixed it with the wound medicine, applied it to the wound, tore off a piece of fabric from her clothes to bandage the wound, and fed him another antidote pill.
"I wonder if I can take advantage of your kindness. I saved your life, so it's not too much to ask you for a child, is it?" Ye Chaoxi muttered to herself.
After finishing all that, Ye Chaoxi was exhausted and sleepy, and couldn't hold on any longer. She closed her eyes next to Xie Qinglan.
While unconscious, Xie Qinglan vaguely knew that she had been saved by a woman.
As she helped him walk, Xie Qinglan smelled a sweet and refreshing fragrance emanating from him, like the scent of flowers, sweet and intoxicating.
He tried desperately to regain his senses, but excessive blood loss left him oscillating between consciousness and unconsciousness.
The girl's voice was also the most melodious and pleasant he had ever heard before, like spring water splashing on rocks, clear and melodious.
But what was she saying?
Want a... child?
"Absolutely not!" This was Xie Qinglan's last thought before she completely fell into a coma.
The next morning, Ye Chaoxi woke up to find Xie Qinglan still unconscious. She checked the injury on her leg and thankfully the medicine in the small space was good; the bleeding had stopped, and the deep wound that exposed bone had begun to heal.
I expect to wake up today.
Ye Chaoxi decided to find something to eat first.
After picking some wild fruit in the woods and catching a fish in the nearby river, Ye Chaoxi was satisfied and returned to the cave with her things in her hands.
However, they found that the person who should have been lying on the ground was gone, and the entire cave was empty except for a pile of burnt charcoal.
Alright! Xie Qinglan has run away!
Even with legs that are almost broken, he can still run so fast!
Ye Chaoxi sat down angrily, restarted the fire to grill the fish, and ate it as if it were Xie Qinglan!
After eating his fill, Ye Chaoxi shouldered his bundle and set off again. Once he crossed the mountain, a little further on, he would reach the gates of the capital city.
Looking at the city gate that was just like in her dream, Ye Chaoxi secretly vowed in her heart that she would never live like that in her dream!
Upon entering the city, Ye Chaoxi found the Pingchang Earl's Mansion.
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