Chapter 81 Love You

The only thing to be thankful for is that she had been in the dark for a long time, and now she suddenly fell into this dark place, and she quickly adapted to the darkness here.

It seemed that the wind, thunder and lightning leaked in from the cracks in the stone. Ning Yuan vaguely distinguished that she was now in a cave. There was a thick layer of dry grass where she fell, so she was not injured.

This book is exclusively organized by the LK team for you. She looked up along the stone wall, thinking, I don’t know what the situation in the room is at this time.

If she ran away, would Shen Yan come to find her?

She lowered her eyes and was silent, knowing that now was not the time to be sad, and the most urgent thing was to find the exit quickly and not be caught up by others.

She held onto the wall and groped her way forward, thinking that love was something that only ordinary people could experience.

She had met him when she was a child, and he had always been very cold to her, but somehow, he suddenly became warm to her.

He knew where she was, and he seemed to be able to see through everything she was thinking. Now that she had calmed down and thought about it, perhaps he had other purposes since then.

He was such a smart man, if he wanted to weave a love net for the girl, no one should be able to escape, right?

Maybe it was the rain that was falling, she raised her hand and wiped her eyes.

The cave was deep and quiet, as if it had no end. The mist in front of her seemed to be inexhaustible. It rose again as soon as it dissipated. She could only whisper to herself, "Ning Yuan, don't be afraid. Just get out."

The soft voice was drowned out by the thunder, but it still gave her some encouragement. She hurried forward along the cave, sometimes stepping on rotten soil or kicking away a stone.

She couldn't see clearly where she was stepping. At the beginning, she even thought that those were the dead bones left in the cave.

Later, she thought that if it was used as a passage for them to escape, there would be no miasma or poisonous plants that could trap people to death.

Human potential is really infinite. She didn't expect that she could be so calm now.

When she came out of the cave, it was pouring rain. The dark night sky was full of dark clouds. There was no bright moon or stars. Only the occasional silver snakes that cut through the sky could barely light the way for her.

The overlapping mountains in the distance seemed endless, and the surrounding bushes and trees looked like intertwined ghosts from afar.

She was soaked by the rain, and her clothes were soaked. The coldness seeped in through the layers of fabric, as if she had returned to the cold winter when her clothes were soaked by snow and no one cared.

Her lips trembled as she tried to run forward. This book is exclusively compiled by the LK team. Now she has no time to think whether leaving the village is the right decision, but she knows clearly that if she stops, she might freeze to death in the mountain.

The mountain road is slippery, and she tripped over the pile of dirt at her feet and fell into the mud. Her

slender white hands pressed into the mud and were immediately stained with a layer of dirty and sticky mud. At this time, she could not care so much. Just as she was about to stand up, she inexplicably felt a hint of danger.

"Hiss-hiss-"

is the sound of a snake spitting out its tongue.

At that moment, she regretted running out like this.

For her, it is much easier to deal with a lustful man than to deal with a ferocious snake.

She had no experience walking alone in the deep mountains and forests, so she naturally didn't expect that on such a rainy night, there would still be hungry beasts coming out to look for food.

Fortunately, it was not as huge as described in the strange story books, but it was lingering not far from her, staring at her intently, and the patterns on its body were colorful under the occasional lightning.

It stared at her movements cautiously, as if it was considering whether this muddy monster in front of it would be its meal.

The only thing Ning Yuan could use to defend herself was a hairpin that she had pulled out spontaneously when she was in the cave.

She held the hairpin tightly, and began to expect Shen Yan to come down from the sky with fluttering sleeves like he did in the past, and save her heroically before she was attacked by the snake.

Thinking of Shen Yan, she suddenly held her breath.

...Why must he save her?

She can live without anyone in this world, and live well.

After staring at each other for a long time, the snake finally bravely pounced on her, and she did not dodge in fear, but stared at the direction it pounced on, then held the hairpin tightly and stabbed its body.

Of course, she did not stab it, but the snake did not bite her either. Instead, it curled up its flexible body and quickly climbed onto her calf.

A huge sense of oppression came over her.

She could not stand and fell to the ground. She felt as if her leg bones were about to be crushed by the snake. In order to prevent it from wrapping around her chest, her hand holding the hairpin was shaking constantly. She used all her strength to stab it, with only one thought in her mind -

she had to kill it.

She stubbornly used the hairpin to pierce its body, and the snake

's grip tightened and loosened due to the pain. Before long, a strong smell of blood filled the air. She didn't know where the hairpin had stabbed into her, nor how long it had been slicing. The snake's stranglehold gradually loosened until it was motionless.

The hairpin fell on the stone with a clang.

She held back the nausea that surged in her stomach, and struggled out of its stranglehold, covered in mud and snake blood.

She looked at the dark road ahead, and realized belatedly that there might still be some unknown beasts hiding in the rainy night in the deep mountains, and they would eventually be attracted by the strong smell of blood on her body.

Going forward was almost a dead end.

She covered her eyes with her hands, thinking of the mad wolf that had splashed its warm blood on her body.

At that time, he protected her behind him and asked her why she insisted on being stubborn.

Ning Yuan didn't know if she could still trust him, but except him, she seemed to have no one to trust.

The tears finally mixed with the heavy rain recklessly, and she couldn't help thinking of him in her heart.

She was really scared.

After crying for a long time, she felt a little relieved and planned to go back to the cave to take shelter for a while.

People who are used to the wildness of the mountains always like girls who are gentle and soft, but now she is a fierce woman who killed a snake with her bare hands, and she is already so savage, dirty and smelly.

Even if the mountain boss catches her, he will not be interested, right?

She struggled to get up from the mud and planned to go back along the original path, but she vaguely heard a few wolf howls.

Wolf howls.

She couldn't help but shudder.

She knew vaguely that wolves were different from snakes.

Wolves were social animals, and the reason why she was not strangled to death by the snake before was because it had insufficient experience dealing with humans, and it climbed up her leg first, so her hand holding the hairpin could still move.

And it didn't grow very big, perhaps it was a new snake.

It can be said that the right time, right place and right people are all indispensable.

But if she was asked to resist the wolf pack with the power of a hairpin, it would be almost impossible. But even if it was

impossible, she had to try it anyway. She couldn't just sit there and wait to die, right?

She exhaled deeply, tightly grasped the hairpin that had been washed clean by the heavy rain, and walked carefully up the mountain.

She looked around vigilantly. The wolf howl did not sound again, but behind her there were chaotic footsteps and heavy breathing that was getting closer and closer.

The water splashed and fell into the mud again, finally settling very close to her.

At the same time, she turned around and slashed at him fiercely with the hairpin.

The man did not hide.

"Yuanyuan." The voice was almost hoarse and unusual for him.

She stood there in a daze, and saw that he held a sword in one hand, and the scabbard had been thrown away somewhere. The whole person was also wolfish, but much cleaner than herself. Only the corners of his robe were stained with the dark mud and blood.

The bright red on his waist and abdomen also seeped out.

It was the slash she had just made.

It was like a red plum blossom, extremely charming.

"Shen Yan..." She trembled as she spoke.

He didn't care about the new injuries she had caused him. He pulled her into his arms and held her tightly, as if he wanted to melt her into his bones and blood. His originally rapid breathing gradually calmed down, and his lips pressed against her earlobe trembled a little. In a moment, she heard a very light voice: "Fortunately, I found it."

Ning Yuan was a little dazed, and the hairpin slipped from her palm into the mud.

The moment before, she still felt that she was surrounded by dangers, but the moment she saw him, her anxious heart seemed to have found a place to rest. Whether it was wind, rain, thunder and lightning or jungle beasts, all the fears here were wiped out.

She always had an almost instinctive trust in him.

But when the fear was completely gone, greater sadness rose from the bottom of her heart. She sobbed and cried in his arms, from sobbing to wailing. He just waited for her patiently, wiping the water on her cheeks with his cold fingertips again and again. He

couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears.

After a long time, he sighed slightly: "Are you scared? How did you fall into the agency?"

"I'll take you back."

Ning Yuan nodded, crying breathlessly, "Don't do this to me, okay?"

"I don't like being with that kind of rough man."

"If you want money, I can give it to you, just divorce me."

Shen Yan: "..."

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Ning Yuan sat awkwardly in the steamy bathtub.

When he carried her back to the village, the heavy rain showed no sign of abating. Sanniang and her men were waiting in front of the door with umbrellas to shield her from the wind and rain for a while. She heard Sanniang calling Shen Yan "the big boss".

...So the lady who controls the village that he mentioned was actually her?

She was worried for half a day, and she made such a big mistake and hurt him.

She blamed herself and felt guilty, wondering why she couldn't ask clearly at that time, and secretly angry that he didn't explain it to her in advance.

But when she used the light of a candle to see through the lingering water vapor and clearly saw Shen Yan's tightly pursed pale lips and hair wet by the rain, her anger dissipated a lot.

His slender jade-like fingers stirred up ripples in the water. He held her shoulders and checked her injuries by candlelight. Such meticulousness made her a little shy, but she did not resist.

Perhaps because he saw that she was not seriously injured, his tense expression relaxed a little. He stood up and seemed to leave. Ning Yuan quickly grabbed his hand and splashed water.

"Where are you going?" She looked at him pitifully.

"Go change your clothes."

"Your injury..." She pointed at his side, "Does it hurt?"

He rubbed her hair to comfort her, "It's okay, I'll come see you later."

After she finished bathing and changed into dry clothes, he arrived as promised, bringing a bowl of ginger soup and ointment with a stronger smell. Together with the medicine on his body, it covered up the cool plum blossom fragrance on his body, and he seemed to have turned into a medicine jar.

She gulped down the ginger soup, and he carefully applied medicine on the scraped skin for her, and then they lay on the bed together, holding her in his arms. This book is exclusively compiled by the LK team. After a while, he said, "When I was fifteen, I went hunting with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in autumn and encountered a trap set by others."

Shen Yan rarely talked about the past. Ning Yuan pulled up the quilt and planned to listen to this story carefully.

"At that time, we were young and energetic, and we only wanted to go to the mountains to get a bigger prize. We didn't bring too many people with us, and ended up being trapped in a jungle with few people."

"It was also a rainy day like this. The people who harmed us were afraid of being tracked down by His Majesty at that time, so they didn't dare to do it themselves. They set up a trap used by hunters. After we fell into the trap, they took away our weapons and shot a bag of pig's blood with arrows, intending to attract wild beasts to fight for food."

She was still able to move freely. She was extremely scared standing there. If she fell into the same situation as him...

She couldn't help holding her breath, tightly grasping his sleeve and said, "Then what?"

He said calmly, "Then I discussed with His Majesty to protect the vital parts, and wait for the wild beast to bite through the rope net that trapped us, and then fight to the death to kill it. The weapon used is similar to yours, oh... maybe it will be a lot bigger, that is, the arrow shot to splash our pig's blood."

"I don't know how many beasts' throats I cut with it. When I came out, I was covered in blood, but I wasn't scared."

"Later, there was a mutiny and I was almost dead... I was not scared."

"Well... you have always been very good." She praised softly.

She had never seen him afraid before. In front of her, he always looked like a fallen immortal in the clouds.

"But I was very scared just now." He said, "I have never been so scared before."

"Why do people get scared?"

She didn't know.

She was afraid of many things.

Fear of death, fear of betrayal, and even fear of insects.

"I thought about it for a long time, and only when I saw you did I realize that fear is because you don't want to lose."

"I'm not afraid of death, but I'm afraid of losing you."

"Especially when I saw a dead snake covered in blood on the ground... I was so scared at that moment that I opened its abdomen with trembling hands, afraid to see your bones, but fortunately, there were none."

He hugged her tighter.

"At that time, I thought that as long as I could find you, I would pay any price."

"Then I met a group of wolves, about six or seven of them, who seemed to be looking for something by smelling the blood in the air."

"I thought maybe it was God's guidance to me, so I killed them all and followed the direction they went up the mountain, and I really found you."

"It's my fault."

Ning Yuan said embarrassedly: "No... I am also wrong..."

He continued: "You are so stupid, you don't know how to fight, and you always think you are smart. This is your first time here, and you don't feel safe. How can I keep you alone for so long?"

Ning Yuan protested: "I killed a snake! At that time--"

Before she finished speaking, she felt a drop of liquid falling into her neck.

He whispered, "You know? I love you very much."

"Shen Yan, did you cry?"

She was a little excited and wanted to turn around to look at him, but he stubbornly pressed her in front of him.

"...I didn't cry, but I got a little wet in my eyes because of the rain."

"I think you have water in your brain." She said dissatisfiedly.

"Do you really want to see it?" He loosened his restraints a little.

"Of course."

She turned around with interest and bumped into his gentle and affectionate eyes.

"Do you still remember the past? You said--"

She deliberately imitated his tone: "I can swim and I also have martial arts. I think any capable man with a conscience will not stand idly by and watch you."

"Were you afraid at that time?" She looked at him with bright eyes.

"...not afraid."

She pouted again: "Why aren't you afraid? I was tied up and dragged to the river before dawn! You didn't even get up! Not to mention knowing what happened to me!"

"Oh, that's not right..." Ning Yuan is now familiar with his living habits, "You go to bed late, so you never get up so early. How did you know what happened to me that day?"