Chapter 25
The sound of gongs and drums was deafening, and everyone had a beaming look on their faces, making the huge palace even more magnificent.
"Princess, it's time for dinner."
Jiang Jiang led two young palace maids in and saw the little princess lying by the window in a daze.
The sunlight shines into the palace courtyard, filtering through the lush branches and leaves, casting spots of light on the bluestone slabs.
The little princess counted the lights and shadows, from one to one hundred, and then from one hundred to one. This was her only entertainment in this deserted palace.
The festivity outside and the desolation here seemed to form two different worlds, further highlighting the dullness and depression here.
"Princess, today we have your favorite meal." Jiang Jiang smiled and ordered the maid to place the meal on the table. "Princess, come quickly, before it gets cold!"
The little princess turned her head, her big eyes were watery and red.
Jiang Jiang's forced smile disappeared in an instant. She walked over anxiously and held the little princess's cold hand.
She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end said nothing.
The festive gongs and drums outside the palace were getting farther and farther away.
The palace was silent for a long time before Jiang Jiang broke the silence, "Princess, please eat while it's hot."
The little princess looked at the food on the table not far away, and suddenly felt her nose a little sour.
Everyone in the palace was celebrating the emperor marrying a princess from a neighboring country as his concubine, but who remembered that today was her birthday.
After her mother passed away, Jiang Jiang was probably the only one in this huge palace who was truly kind to her.
Jiang Jiang always remembered what she liked to eat, would put on more clothes when she was cold, fan her when she was hot, and sleep with her when she had a nightmare.
However, people's hearts are unpredictable in the harem, and it is too difficult to live a peaceful life with Jiang Jiang.
Seeing the little princess, whom she held dearly, becoming increasingly depressed, Jiang Jiang tightened her hand and said gently, "Princess, the birthday present I gave you is still in my room. When you finish your meal, can I bring it to you?"
The little princess's eyes softened instantly. She knew very well that Jiang Jiang was deliberately asking her to go eat.
She reached out and tugged at Jiang Jiang's ear angrily, not using much force. "Jiang Jiang! I'm coming of age today! I'm not a child anymore!"
Jiang Jiang laughed, "Yes, a princess will never be a child!"
…
Xiaobai opened his eyes.
"Jiang Jiang..."
She began to dream again, and the dream was extremely real.
No, this doesn't seem to be a dream.
As time went on, Xiaobai found that more and more fragments were flashing through his mind.
But the memory is still incoherent, and she still can't remember who she is.
Forget it, the past should... not be important anymore.
Xiaobai stretched, jumped out of bed and prepared to cook.
She saw some good rice balls on TV yesterday, so she decided to try them today.
"noob…"
The early morning air was filled with the aroma of rice, waking up Jiang Jiang in the bedroom. Jiang Jiang rubbed his eyes and walked out. His eyes lit up when he saw that breakfast was rice balls.
She loves rice balls the most!
After washing up, Jiang Jiang packed up his things and put the hot rice ball into his pocket.
She suddenly remembered it when she was changing her shoes.
"Xiaobai, I have to work overtime again today, so I'll be back late."
"I'll pick you up!" Xiaobai raised his hands high.
Jiang Jiang laughed and reached out to touch Xiaobai's upturned nose. "No need. Just wait for me at home. I will try to come back as soon as possible!"
"Okay..." Xiaobai wilted instantly.
Jiang Jiang ignored Xiaobai and went out to work.
Xiaobai took two rice balls and went to Liang Rou's house next door. They each had a rice ball, and after breakfast, they prepared for the new day's work.
The weather today has been gloomy, with thick dark clouds, which looks very depressing.
At around nine o'clock in the evening, the sky, which had been gloomy all day, began to drizzle.
Xiaobai, who was sitting at home waiting for Jiang Jiang to come back, looked at the drizzle outside the window and thought that if she just gave him an umbrella, it shouldn't be considered as picking up Jiang Jiang!
Thinking of this, Xiaobai jumped up, found an umbrella and went downstairs.
Dark clouds covered the moon, the night was as dark as ink, and the rain gradually got heavier.
The woman stood at the entrance of the alley, pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on her nose, and stared at the slender figure in front of her behind the lenses, her fingers trembling unconsciously.
She could feel her heart beating so fast that it was about to burst through her chest.
It’s her, it must be her!
The girl walking with an umbrella should be the "immortal" recorded in the ancient books passed down from her ancestors!
The rain was cold, dripping down her hair and onto her black raincoat.
She stared at the girl's exposed skin without blinking.
Suddenly, there was lightning and thunder. Under the lightning, the girl's exposed skin turned bluish-white, and she did not look like a living person.
That’s right! It’s her!
This is the unique characteristic of the undead recorded in ancient books!
The woman was ecstatic, the corners of her lips kept widening. Her ancestor was a crazy sorcerer who spent his entire life researching and developing the elixir of life. Unfortunately, the emperor at that time was incompetent and thought it was poison, so he ordered the execution of her ancestor and his entire clan.
Fortunately, the ancestor's son escaped the disaster at that time, and the incense was able to continue.
However, the contents of the ancestors' research were sealed by their sons for fear of another disaster.
It was not until her grandfather discovered these ancient books that he discovered them. However, he did not understand the contents and only told her some of the records as a story.
When she was young, she remembered the story of the undead and vowed to research it.
She looked at the girl, excitement dancing in her eyes, quickened her pace and rushed towards the girl.
There are no cameras nearby!
Because she ran too fast, the hood of the black raincoat slipped off, revealing the woman's neat short hair.
Soon, the short hair was completely wet by the rain.
But these still cannot affect the woman's eager pace.
Hearing the hurried footsteps, Xiaobai paused and slowly turned around.
At this time, lightning streaked across the night sky, illuminating the earth.
The skin on her face was so white that it was almost transparent, with a hint of blue in it, and her big, dark eyes were bottomless.
The roar of thunder seemed even more terrifying in this rainy night.
The woman swallowed unconsciously. She was not scared, but became even more excited. Her eyes behind the lenses were filled with madness.
She stopped not far from Xiaobai, and her right hand quietly reached for her waist, where she found a medicine she had specially researched based on the characteristics of the undead described in ancient books. It was now in a syringe.
If nothing unexpected happens, this potion should be able to paralyze the immortals.
"Is there anything wrong?" Xiaobai asked with her head tilted in confusion. She felt that the short-haired woman in front of her was very strange.
The woman smiled. "Hello, I want to ask you something."
She made excuses and approached slowly and quietly.
Xiaobai didn't seem to realize the woman's purpose. He still stood there with the umbrella, looking at the woman in confusion, waiting for her next words.
As they got closer, the distance between the woman and Xiaobai was about one meter.
Now! She rushed forward with astonishing speed.
However, just as the needle was about to pierce Xiaobai's arm, Xiaobai's alarm bells went off, and he subconsciously took a step back, and his arm fell to the ground.
Seeing an arm falling to the ground, the woman was stunned for a moment, and then she was ecstatic!
She had found the right person! Xiaobai was her ancestor's "experimental subject"!
The arm lay quietly on the ground, exposed to the rain, motionless, with the syringe stuck straight into it.
Xiaobai looked grim, and she looked at the woman warily, because she noticed that the detached arm had lost sensation.
The woman reacted quickly and pounced on Xiaobai, trying to catch him.
However, Xiaobai quickly dodged sideways, his clothes swaying gently in the wind.
Seeing the woman stagger forward due to inertia, Xiaobai's face was grim. He kicked the woman in the lower back, making her fall to the ground.
Xiaobai saw that the woman's target seemed to be her, so she quickly picked up her arm from the ground and pulled out the syringe.
After taking a look at the syringe, Xiaobai frowned and a bulge appeared between his brows.
She didn't understand what this thing was and had never been exposed to anything like this, but her arm was completely paralyzed after being pricked by it once. She was afraid that the thing inside was not something good.
Fortunately, her arm fell off in time, so only her arm lost sensation.
"You..." The woman got up from the ground and saw Xiaobai observing her syringe. Just as she was about to speak, Xiaobai, who was standing in front of her, squatted down.
The two looked at each other at eye level, and the woman even saw a hint of a smile in Xiaobai's eyes.
This smile made her feel a chill down her spine.
The next moment, Xiaobai took the injection and injected it into the woman's arm.
"Ah!" the woman screamed, but was quickly drowned out by the sound of rain.
Xiaobai showed a strange smile at the corner of his lips and raised his hand to press the syringe.
The unknown liquid inside entered the woman's body along with the needle.
The woman's body twitched uncontrollably and she lay in the mud in a miserable state.
The gold-rimmed glasses also fell to the ground due to violent convulsions.
Despite this, the woman still had her sanity and tried to control her twitching hands to pull out the syringe from her arm. However, due to the constant twitching, the syringe slipped out of her hand and rolled several times on the wet ground.
She struggled to get up and found that all the muscles in her body were groaning under the strain.
She invented the potion herself, so of course she knew what would happen.
It can paralyze the undead and cause muscle spasms in normal people.
Fortunately, the amount was not too much, otherwise the dosage would be too large, causing spasm of her respiratory muscles and she would suffocate to death.
Xiaobai watched all this coldly and indifferently.
Just because she is nice to Jiang Jiang doesn't mean she is nice to others. In fact, she has long lost the empathy of normal people, and she no longer has the emotions that normal people have.
Only loving Jiang Jiang and being with Jiang Jiang are all she has.
Jiang Jiang told her not to cause trouble at the company, so she didn't go. Jiang Jiang said she liked painting and could go, so she went. Jiang Jiang said she liked eating her food, so she cooked...
"Who are you?" Xiaobai squatted down, not wanting to touch the woman. "Tell me, who are you?"
The woman clenched her teeth, rain and sweat streaming down her forehead.
She knew she had miscalculated. Ancient books only said that "immortals" possessed eternal life, but did not mention that they also possessed such quick reaction abilities.
Xiaobai blinked at the woman, a trace of confusion on his face, "You seem to know me, right?"
"Then... who am I?"
The woman still didn't answer.
Xiaobai frowned slightly, very impatient with the woman's silence.
Just then, sirens were heard in the distance.
It seems that a passerby noticed that something seemed to be wrong here and called the police.
Xiaobai stood up irritably and looked at the woman deeply. She was very annoyed that the woman did not tell her what she wanted to know, but she could do nothing about it.
In order not to cause trouble for Jiang Jiang, Xiaobai quickly turned around and left, his figure soon disappearing in the rain.
The woman lay on the ground, gasping for breath.
The rain hit her face, but she didn't feel the cold.
Did it fail? No, it wasn't a failure.
As the body metabolizes, muscle spasms gradually ease.
She looked at the direction Xiaobai left, and the curve of her lips was weird.
"Hahahaha!" Laughter overflowed from the depths of her throat. Due to the long muscle spasms, her voice was hoarse and harsh, like the sound of metal friction, with a creepy rhythm.
The physical pain could not cover up the joy in her heart.
She had finally found the "immortal" her ancestors had spoken of! After all these years, she had finally found it!
…
Xiaobai returned home holding his numb arm.
Xiaobai let out a breath after throwing the umbrella on the balcony.
The fallen arm gradually regained consciousness. It moved, trying to suppress the numbness, and dragged itself back to Xiaobai's body.
Xiaobai lay motionless on the sofa.
It was obvious that the crazy woman knew what was going on with her body.
So, does that crazy woman know her identity?
Before she had time to think about it, Jiang Jiang came back.
Jiang Jiang got wet because she didn't bring an umbrella. While changing her shoes, she lamented that God was cruel and it suddenly started to rain heavily.
Xiaobai brought a clean towel and handed it to Jiang Jiang, urging Jiang Jiang to take a shower quickly.
"I seemed to see a police car when I came back. I don't know what happened!" Jiang Jiang wiped his hair and walked towards the bathroom, talking about what he saw on the road.
"Well, I'll make some Isatis root for Jiang Jiang!" Xiaobai pushed Jiang Jiang into the bathroom and then ran into the kitchen.
Jiang Jiang came out of the bathroom again because she didn't bring any change of clothes. She looked up and saw the umbrella on the balcony.
Jiang Jiang was full of confusion. Did Xiaobai go out tonight?
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