"How much longer do you think we have to stay in this godforsaken place? I can't take it anymore. This life with nothing is unbearable. I might as well just die." Nangong Yu gripped the bars of the cell with both hands, a hint of despair on his face. He looked at the only light coming in, as if he was thinking about what heinous things he had done in his life to end up in this place.
Upon hearing this, Fu Ziyi, who was standing next to him, still had the mind to joke with him, saying, "If you were really to die, you wouldn't be happy. You're just talking nonsense here, which is meaningless."
"So what? I have grievances, and now I can't even vent them? You're being completely unreasonable! I just want to talk, I'll keep talking, I'm going to keep talking! Talk, talk, talk, I'll keep talking until you're furious!" Nangong Yu was so confined in this place that he was starting to have some mental problems, and he was almost unable to think straight.
Seeing that they were ignoring him, he lost interest in continuing to talk and just kept looking out the window. Suddenly, he saw a figure and said with some suspicion, "Look outside, on that rooftop, isn't there someone there?"
Upon hearing this, everyone else turned to look. In recent days, the only change they could observe was through this small window, and even that window revealed very little.
Fu Ziyi and Baili Xiuwen turned their heads to take a look. Baili Xiuwen spoke first: "That's Quan Cang, wearing purple clothes. I recognize these clothes."
"Why did Quan Cang come here at this time? Could it be that he wants to come in and talk to us again? I don't think he's that kind of person. Before, he just came to mock us. Now he suddenly remembers us and wants to chat with us?" Nangong Yu rambled on and on. The others around him looked at him with a hint of doubt when they heard him say these words, wondering if he had lost his mind.
“Someone’s here. He must have something to do. He didn’t even look at us. It must be something else,” Shangguan Xi guessed, observing his expression.
Fu Ziyi and Baili Xiuwen both frowned, a hint of worry in their eyes. Xuan Chi, who was standing next to them, noticed their worry and immediately guessed what they were thinking. "Do you think Senior Sister is here?"
"Senior Sister? Could it be that Senior Sister is better? Otherwise, why would she come to this place? Could it be that she came to save us?" Nangong Yu was excited and happy, which was written all over his face. Apart from him, the others did not seem to have much emotion.
Fu Ziyi interrupted the man in a low voice, "She doesn't know we're locked up here, and no one else knows where we went. She has other things to do, and she probably found out about this by accident, and Quan Cang found out too. Now she's probably playing a cat-and-mouse game with him."
Upon hearing Fu Ziyi's words, everyone's expressions became uneasy. Even Nangong Yu, who had been talking noisily, fell silent for two seconds and said with some doubt in his eyes, "I don't think it's that unlucky. To be discovered as soon as you arrive, it must be incredibly unlucky!"
"Alright, all of you, stop worrying. Senior Sister definitely has her own ideas. She's so smart, she'll definitely notice something's wrong beforehand. Our task now is to prepare, or just leave from here, putting Quan Cang in a difficult position on both sides. Wouldn't that relieve some of the pressure on Senior Sister?"
Seeing that everyone else looked worried, Nangong Yu couldn't help but suggest this idea. He thought it was a good idea. Fu Ziyi glanced at him a few more times, as if he felt that this person had changed. Seeing that Fu Ziyi was looking at him, Nangong Yu couldn't help but straighten his back and said with a bit of pride, "How about it? Don't you think I'm a genius for coming up with such an idea?"
"Let's save our energy for now. What if Senior Sister really comes later and we don't have the strength to go out? Wouldn't that be a waste of her good intentions?" Shi Mu, who had been hiding in the corner without saying a word, spoke up at this moment, but his words made everyone turn their heads to look at him.
Nangong Yu stared at Shi Mu, stepped forward, and put her arm around his shoulder, saying, "Shi Mu, when did you become so timid? I remember you weren't like this before. The problems we're facing now are not problems at all, not problems to worry about. The most important thing is to ensure that Senior Sister survives."
"Why? Aren't our lives lives too?" Shi Mu said weakly, but every word was clear, and everyone present heard it.
Everyone who had been observing through the window turned to look at him after hearing this, their eyes filled with confusion and bewilderment. "What do you mean by saying this now? Don't you want to stay with us anymore? What about all those vows and promises you made? You're already calculating your own interests so soon?"
As a woman, Shangguan Xi was naturally more sensitive to this matter and understood the meaning behind those words before anyone else.
Shi Mu lowered his head, his eyes filled with an unreadable expression. After a moment, he continued, "I just think that we should also think about ourselves at times like this, instead of always worrying about what others are going through. What happens to others is their own destiny. We're all together now, aren't we? Senior Sister and we're not on the same path at all."
When the seemingly weak Shi Mu uttered these words, everyone was taken aback. Fu Ziyi sneered and looked at the man with indifferent eyes, "An ungrateful wretch."
After saying that, he turned his head to continue watching what Quan Cang was doing, completely unconcerned about the little commotion this person was causing. Baili Xiuwen didn't say anything. He wasn't familiar with Shi Mu to begin with, and now that things had come to this, there was even less need for him to say anything to ease the awkwardness between them.
Everyone else seemed a bit bewildered, including Nangong Yu. He couldn't believe these words had come from his own mouth. "Don't you feel guilty saying these things? Don't you feel like you've let down Senior Sister? Or is it that in your heart, all of this is normal, and only this kind of situation is normal in your eyes?"
Nangong Yu and Shangguan Xi both understood how Shi Mu got to where he was today, so they were the two who couldn't understand why Shi Mu would say such shameless things.
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