As You Yuanzhi left Yan Ning's sight and walked a few steps away, his men stopped him. "Master, more than twenty of our followers have been captured by Qing soldiers."
"I understand." You Yuanzhi looked into the distance with eyes full of hatred.
She took several wrong turns, but luckily the county town wasn't big, and Yan Ning somehow ended up back on the street where the opera house was located.
From afar, she saw Fukang'an standing outside the opera house, so she rushed over and stood beside him. He was ordering his soldiers to deal with the people they had captured.
Seeing Yan Ning return unharmed, Fukang'an's eyes flashed with a complex light.
He took Yan Ning back to the inn to rest. Afraid that he would worry about her, Yan Ning took the initiative to explain as soon as she sat down.
"A group of soldiers just arrived and started fighting with the people in the theater, but a man named You Yuanzhi rescued me."
Fukang'an helped Yan Ning tidy her disheveled hair, and seeing the white lotus that Yan Ning was holding protectively, he pondered. Her eyes were clear and natural, her expression innocent and naive, but why was she rescued by You Yuanzhi of the White Lotus Cult?
Noticing that Fukang'an seemed lost in thought, Yan Ning waved her hand in front of his eyes as he stared blankly. Fukang'an then gave a slight twitch of his lips and looked at her.
"It's getting late today, you should rest first, we'll go back to the camp tomorrow."
"Um."
Yan Ning smiled as she saw Fu Kang'an off.
She had slowly come to accept Fukang'an's kindness towards her and wanted to reciprocate. After all, not all love stories have an ending; as long as it was once experienced, she didn't need it to last forever. Yan Ning had always longed for a love that would be unforgettable.
She harbored some expectations for this love that transcended time and space.
After placing the white lotus beside her pillow, Yan Ning drifted off to sleep with a smile.
When Yan Ning woke up in the morning, the first thing she saw was the white lotus on her pillow, and a deep smile appeared on her face.
Noticing that some of the petals were withering, Yan Ning got up and went downstairs to ask the waiter for a crudely made vase. She put the white lotus in water and kept it there. Although she knew that it would wither in a few days, Yan Ning looked at the white lotus and said dreamily, "I will let you bloom in your beauty while you are alive."
Just like her love with Fukang'an, she would let it fully bloom in a short period of time.
Back on the second floor of the inn, Fukang'an, who always got up earlier than her, was already up in the bright daylight. Yan Ning knocked on the door of Fukang'an's room next to hers.
"Come in."
Yan Ning went inside and saw the soldier who had spoken at the theater yesterday. She glanced at him in surprise.
"Why are you up so early?" Fukang'an, who was sitting at the table, stood up and pulled Yan Ning to sit down.
"I want to take a shadow puppet back with me. It's so boring in the military camp." Yan Ning thought about how the shadow puppet show yesterday was ruined before it was finished, and she really liked those little figures.
Fukang'an was delighted to see Yan Ning take the initiative to make a request of him, knowing that she had accepted him. He glanced at the soldier standing beside him, who immediately understood and said, "I will take care of it right away."
Back at the military camp, Yan Ning laid out the entire set of shadow puppets on the wooden bed and immediately ran to find Fukang'an to watch them together.
“General, yesterday, Miss Yan Ning was holding the white lotus you gave her. Indeed, a member of the White Lotus Cult whispered something to her, and it was that person who rescued her. If Miss Yan Ning wasn’t a member of the cult, the cult members probably wouldn’t care about her life or death.”
Yan Ning stood at the entrance of the military council tent, thinking of what You Yuanzhi had told her yesterday.
"If you don't like to hold and admire white lotuses, why would you appear with a white lotus in hand where soldiers are lying in ambush? You should think about this carefully when you get back."
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