I hastily wiped away my tears with my hands, then suddenly remembered the first aid knowledge I had learned in school.
Although tearing his clothes into strips and binding them to his wound might not have much effect, it did stop the bleeding a little.
"I'll bring you back to heal your wounds!"
But he reached out to stop me from taking him away: "What are you doing? I'm taking you back now."
"Believe me, I didn't approach you because of the imperial edict."
At this moment, he was still trying to explain, which made me even sadder, as if I was the one who caused his injury.
"I trust you!"
He looked at me with a doting smile; his pale and weak face was heartbreaking.
"Now I finally have the chance to protect you, which can be considered as making up for my regret from back then!"
I am now powerless to dwell on the past, and tears are falling like beads from a broken string.
"I...I understand!" I choked up like a little child!
"Hold on, I'll take you back right away."
I finally managed to help him up when a sudden gust of wind swept in. I thought to myself, "Oh no, is it going to be another sandstorm?"
The yellow sand was swirled up several meters high, and the sand stung my face.
The bleeding in his body has stopped, but he is now extremely weak and his face is frighteningly pale.
"Ye Lisheng, are you alright?"
He weakly lifted his eyelids, moved his lips but couldn't make a sound, and I knew he must be in excruciating pain.
"Hold on, I will definitely bring you back safely."
As they were talking, they suddenly stepped into thin air. It turned out they had encountered mud and sand, and their feet sank quite a distance into the mud.
He fell heavily to the ground.
Ye Lisheng's pure white clothes were now stained with large patches of red.
As my feet sank deeper and deeper, I couldn't help but sigh, "Thank goodness it was me who sank in."
"Help!"
Is anyone there?
I shouted loudly, but all I heard in response was the howling wind and the pain of the yellow sand hitting my face.
"I'm sorry, I probably can't take you home."
Perhaps because he heard me speak, his eyelashes trembled slightly in the sunlight.
"Ye Lisheng, can you hear me?"
"Ye Lisheng".
By this time, my body had sunk most of the way in, and I had heard of at least ten cases of people dying in the mud and sand along the Lan-Yi border.
After they died, their bodies could not be found, and eventually their ashes merged with the yellow sand.
If you're lucky, the wind will blow the sand mixed with ashes to your family.
If I die, will the wind carry me to Ye Lisheng?
I've been obsessed with finding out who's behind my assassination attempt, which is why I'm not in a hurry to return to the 21st century.
If I die, will I return to my original world?
Looking at Ye Lisheng's profile, I felt a pang of reluctance.
"Thirsty, I'm thirsty!" he uttered weakly.
"Are you thirsty?"
Without thinking, I took off the hairpin from my head, cut the delicate part of my palm, and dripped the blood into Ye Lisheng's mouth.
Perhaps I was too hasty, and for a moment I forgot about the pain.
"Drink more, this is the last thing I can do for you."
The mud and sand have reached up to my chest.
Ye Lisheng felt dizzy and as if he were in darkness.
But the metallic taste of blood in his mouth was pulling him further into the darkness.
"September, you can't die!"
"In September, the afterlife is still waiting for you."
"September!!!"
A strange sound kept ringing in his ears, and Ye Lisheng frowned, forcing himself to open his eyelids.
The wind had stopped, and everything had returned to calm. Ye Lisheng slowly opened her eyes, and in the moment of disorientation, she saw a silver-haired woman looking at her amidst the alluring red spider lilies.
When he closed his eyes and opened them again, all he saw was endless yellow sand.
The taste of blood still lingered in my mouth.
Looking down, I saw that my hand was bleeding profusely, and I was almost sinking into the mud and sand.
Okra!
Okra!
The mud and sand pressed against my chest, and the suffocating feeling made it hard for me to breathe.
"You're awake!" I exclaimed in surprise, but a greater sense of powerlessness made me lose my energy.
"Prince Anyang, you are responsible for protecting the safety of the people here, so you must return safely!"
"You must come back with me."
The incision was throbbing, but Ye Lisheng used her strong will to stay awake and used her meager strength to pull me upwards.
"Don't waste your energy, it's useless."
"Go back quickly."
"I came here to take you away. How can I go back alone?"
The force caused the wound to tear open again, and blood seeped through the bandage, flowing onto the ground and staining the yellow sand red.
"Do you want to die here with me? You are the Prince of Anyang, you still have people to protect!"
"If you can't even protect yourself, how can you protect others?"
Ye Lisheng used all her strength to pull me up, her whole body aching and trembling, but it was no use.
After several rounds, his strength was completely drained, and he collapsed to the ground, barely alive.
"Okra, since I can't save you, then I'll just have to die here with you."
The scorching sun baked the ground, and waves of heat and a feeling of suffocation rushed towards me all at once.
At this moment, our hands are clasped tightly together, as if we are inseparable.
"Ye Lisheng, if there is a next life, I will definitely remember you."
"That would be my honor."
My body sank little by little, and just as my neck was about to be submerged, I don't know if it was a hallucination, but I suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves running towards us.
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