Why are you so late?
The courtyard is filled with a spiritual atmosphere.
The afterglow of the teleportation array had not completely dissipated, and a faint light flowed across the bluestone slab.
Yun Qian lost consciousness as soon as she stepped into the house. Her pale face was devoid of color, and her spiritual energy was completely depleted, indicating that she was severely injured.
Bai Chuan hurriedly stepped forward to take her pulse, and his brows furrowed deeply when his fingertips touched her icy wrist.
He took out the pills and then turned over the medicine furnace to use his spiritual power to brew the medicine.
Once everything was in order, Baichuan remembered that he should tell his two junior brothers and master the news.
The communication talisman transformed into a streak of light and disappeared outside the window.
In a short while, spiritual energy surged in the room, and Qin Wu's figure suddenly appeared in the center of the room, startling Bai Chuan so much that he almost dropped the medicine bowl in his hand.
"That's rude," Bai Chuan frowned and scolded. "How can a teleportation array teleport you directly into the house?"
Qin Wu seemed not to hear her. She looked at Yun Qian, her Adam's apple bobbing, her voice dry: "Is this really my senior sister?"
“Yes.” Bai Chuan paused, his expression complicated. “Or rather, she is my senior sister who fought against Yue Sheng a hundred years ago.”
"What?" Qin Wu's pupils shrank sharply.
Bai Chuan himself couldn't explain the reason. He didn't know why time had stopped for Yun Qian, nor where she had gone or what she had experienced in the past hundred years, or why she still carried the severe injuries from back then. Countless questions surged in his mind, but at this moment, none of them mattered.
Just then, demonic energy rippled within the room, and Bai Ji's figure appeared hastily. His usually neat clothes were somewhat disheveled, clearly indicating that he had rushed over. When his gaze fell upon Yun Qian's face, he seemed to freeze. The anxiety that had gripped Bai Ji for a century finally subsided, but his eyes welled up with tears when he saw Yun Qian's pale face.
"Senior sister, what's wrong?" Bai Ji's voice trembled slightly.
"The serious injuries are still not healed; they must be from that battle a hundred years ago," Bai Chuan explained briefly.
Bai Ji nodded gently, "It's good that you're back."
It wasn't until an incense stick had burned that Baichuan realized something was wrong.
Why hasn't Lin Huaiyu arrived yet? There's no way the communication talisman could have been lost. Since it was received, how could he not have come yet?
Lin Huaiyu did receive the communication talisman, but he had no interest in listening to its contents. With a wave of his hand, the talisman dissipated into starlight in the air.
He had searched every place he had been to in Cangmin Mountain, so it seemed that the remnant soul had truly disappeared.
This thought was enough to drive Lin Huaiyu mad, so naturally he didn't notice the unusual commotion at Jinghe Courtyard at all.
After taking the medicine, Yun Qian's breathing gradually stabilized, and she soon woke up. She slowly opened her eyes, her gaze sweeping over Bai Chuan, Bai Ji, and Qin Wu in turn.
A hundred years—that's how a mortal's life would pass by in a hundred years.
So many years have passed, yet they have not left any trace on the three junior brothers.
Yun Qian's gaze swept around the room, and she asked softly, "Where is Lin Huaiyu?"
“Master…” Bai Ji spoke first. Even after a hundred years, he still found it difficult to call Lin Huaiyu “Master,” “His whereabouts are unknown.”
“I’ve already sent a message to my master, but he hasn’t come yet,” Baichuan added.
Yun Qian's brows furrowed slightly.
Could it be that after a century, Lin Huaiyu really... fell in love with someone else?
This thought made Yun Qian's heart ache. She forced herself to get up from the bed, and her three junior brothers hurriedly stepped forward to help her, but she waved them away.
"Don't help me, I'm fine, I won't die," she said softly.
Yun Qian stepped out of the house and stood on the bluestone path in the courtyard, lost in thought. A gentle evening breeze swept by, and everything in the quiet courtyard remained exactly the same as it had been a hundred years ago.
I woke up a hundred years later, and my boyfriend has fallen for someone else. What should I do?
The thought had barely formed in her mind when Yun Qian forcefully suppressed it. Before meeting Lin Huaiyu, all of this was merely her speculation.
But why hasn't Lin Huaiyu arrived yet?
Just as Yun Qian was lost in thought, a familiar figure appeared in Jinghe Courtyard in a panic.
Lin Huaiyu searched every corner of Cangmin Mountain before finally arriving at Jinghe Courtyard.
When his gaze met that figure in the courtyard, he froze instantly.
Lin Huaiyu's long hair, half-disheveled, fell loosely over his shoulders, and his robes were slightly lifted. He stared blankly at Yun Qian, countless thoughts flashing through his mind. So the reason those remnant souls dissipated was... she had returned.
Is he really back?
Or is this just his fantasy or a dream?
Lin Huaiyu froze in place, not daring to take another step forward.
Upon seeing Lin Huaiyu, Baichuan tactfully pulled away Baiji, Qin Wu, and Zhihua, who were unwilling to leave, leaving the two of them some alone time.
As dusk deepened, a gentle evening breeze caressed Yun Qian's clothes. She looked at the figure standing at the courtyard gate and softly asked, "Why are you only arriving now?"
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