"The one over there must be his friend," Feng Qishi said.
"Mmm," Mu Anxiao nodded, looking around the creepy, dilapidated room filled with Yin energy. "Strange. The direction Wang Wu was carried away in a coffin was the way they came. Why would he… be here?" She tilted her head to look at Feng Qishi.
Feng Qishi met Mu Anxiao's gaze and sighed, "Perhaps an illusion." He then looked to another side of the room. "There are more over there."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao's heart sank. When she had entered, she had only seen the bed and no other bodies lying there. Now, with the sudden appearance of other bodies, she found it hard to comprehend.
"What in the world is going on?" she asked.
The ugly truth was slowly being unveiled.
Mu Anxiao's heart had taken quite a blow, especially seeing the scene before her. She didn't know whether to grieve for her past, or… what?
In any case, she suddenly felt lost.
"This is your choice," Feng Qishi said, his gaze fixed on Mu Anxiao's profile.
"I know," Mu Anxiao nodded. "It's my choice, but… I really didn't expect it to be like this. And I certainly didn't expect Mu Xi to be involved with a woman from a cultivation sect. This is too much." She clenched her fists.
On the other side.
Young Mu Anxiao gently covered the girl's face with the white cloth again, suppressing the sorrow in her heart. "Don't worry, I won't rely on anyone. I will leave this place. Just like big sister said, only outside… will there be sunshine." After speaking, she turned and left.
At the same time, Mu Anxiao and Feng Qishi remained in their positions. However, young Mu Anxiao's words prompted a deep reflection in Mu Anxiao. She lowered her eyelids slightly, raised her hand to her chest, and said, "I understand all of this, Feng Qishi."
"It's precisely because you understand these things that…" Feng Qishi said with a pang of sadness, "you didn't starve to death."
As Feng Qishi had said, after getting lost, Mu Anxiao found a place for herself. Although life was hard, she lived each day very fulfilling.
There, no one bullied her for no reason. There, she could often smile, and use that smile to earn her own silver.
In the past, Mu Anxiao had felt that her life as a servant was very hard, very hard indeed.
But after seeing her true past, she realized… she wasn't suffering; she was fortunate.
A faint smile touched her lips. "Yes, this is my choice. I must learn to accept all of this." With that, she glanced at Wang Wu again and left.
Minutes later.
Mu Anxiao and the others, following young Mu Anxiao, stopped at a tree not far from the dilapidated room.
Young Mu Anxiao looked up at Xi'er, who was smiling down at her, and said with suppressed fear, "Hello, sister."
"You're still polite," Xi'er said, reaching out to touch young Mu Anxiao's face. "Your face is quite warm." She then glanced towards the dilapidated room and asked, "What is that place over there?"
Young Mu Anxiao shook her head. "I don't know."
"You don't know?" Xi'er reached out and steadied young Mu Anxiao's head. "Then why did you go over there?"
"..." Young Mu Anxiao paused and lowered her head.
Watching young Mu Anxiao's retreating figure, Mu Anxiao's heart suddenly tensed. Following the flow of young Mu Anxiao's thoughts, which reached her ears, she thought, *No, I can't tell this woman where sister's body is. If she sees that scene, she won't pay attention to brother anymore. No, I can't say anything.*
After hearing her own thoughts, Mu Anxiao's eyes darkened. "Foolish girl, they are all people who hurt you. Why are you still thinking of them?" As she spoke, her heart ached for herself.
Feng Qishi said nothing, his head lowered, quietly watching Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao continued to watch young Mu Anxiao.
Xi'er, seeing young Mu Anxiao's demeanor, said impatiently, "Sister's patience is limited. Do you know what's over there?"
Young Mu Anxiao replied, "I don't know what's there."
"You went over there, and you don't know?" Xi'er lightly patted young Mu Anxiao's head.
Young Mu Anxiao's body stiffened. "I didn't go over there."
"Children shouldn't lie, you…"
"I really didn't go over there. That… that's the place my mother abandoned me," young Mu Anxiao interrupted with conviction.
Xi'er was not angered by young Mu Anxiao's attitude. Instead, she smiled. "That's a derelict house?"
"Mmm," young Mu Anxiao nodded slightly.
"Alright, then I won't go over there," Xi'er said, taking a step back. Ignoring young Mu Anxiao's bare feet, she reached out her hand. "Come back with me."
Hearing Xi'er's words, young Mu Anxiao suddenly remembered that she had escaped.
So, her heart sank, and she stepped back. "I was wrong. I'll go back to the woodshed obediently. Please don't take me to mother. I don't want to be beaten, please…"
"I'll take you back to the woodshed, I won't…"
"I can go back myself," young Mu Anxiao interrupted hastily, sidestepped Xi'er, and ran off.
The next second, Xi'er turned sideways, watching the figure of young Mu Anxiao fleeing with bare feet. She curled her lips. "She ran off just like that," she said, looking down at the bloody footprints on the ground, and shaking her head. "So dirty." With that, she strode towards the dilapidated room.
"What is she going there for?" Feng Qishi asked, confused. He glanced at Xi'er's retreating back.
Mu Anxiao calmly observed Xi'er's back, then recalled the look in Xi'er's eyes when she questioned young Mu Anxiao. She said, "It seems this woman is behind all of this." She stared at Xi'er's back, narrowing her eyes.
"Why do you think so?" Feng Qishi asked curiously.
Mu Anxiao replied, "Because I remember now."
"What do you remember?" Feng Qishi asked, surprised.
Mu Anxiao withdrew her gaze, looked in the direction young Mu Anxiao had gone, and said, "That dilapidated room is where my mother gave birth to me. The people here said that because of me, they abandoned that place, calling it unlucky. Two years ago, father and mother declared it a forbidden area, forbidding anyone from going there."
"How did you remember all this?"
"Just now, that woman asked the young me, and the young me said it was the place abandoned by my mother."
"I see. So, where are we going now? Should we follow her… or go find yourself?" Feng Qishi gestured towards Xi'er's direction, then towards Mu Anxiao.
After a moment of thought, Mu Anxiao said, "Let's find the rattan spirit."
"Huh?"
"What 'huh'? I have to go see if the rattan spirit has materialized," Mu Anxiao said, closing her eyes.
Feng Qishi asked, bewildered, "What are you doing?"
"I'm searching for the celestial energy attached to his hand," Mu Anxiao said, opening her eyes. She extended her palm and shot a beam of light in a certain direction.
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