Under the effect of the ointment, Mu Anxiao's thoughts began to teeter on the edge of collapse. Clutching her head, she shook it from side to side, recalling fragments of her past.
Feng Qishi, remembering Jia’s words, stepped forward and without hesitation crouched before Mu Anxiao. He gently placed a hand on her shoulder, unsure how to speak, and after a few moments of hesitation, asked softly, "Mu Anxiao, are you alright?"
"I am Mu Anxiao..." Mu Anxiao said foolishly, raising her head. With a bewildered look, she blinked at Feng Qishi and asked, "Who are you?"
"Mu Anxiao, are you alright?" Feng Qishi felt a sense of foreboding.
"I..." Mu Anxiao uttered a word, then lowered her head to stare at Feng Qishi's hand on her arm. She chuckled foolishly and said, "I'm fine." With that, she pushed Feng Qishi's hand away and stood up.
Feng Qishi was startled and stood up with her. "Mu Anxiao, are you faking it?" he asked, observing her facial expression.
Conversely, Mu Anxiao ignored Feng Qishi, looking around and saying, "I remember now, my name is Mu Xiao." She then turned back to Feng Qishi and chuckled foolishly.
Feng Qishi: "Your name is Mu Xiao, you..." He hesitated, unable to believe it. Had she lost her memory in just a few minutes?
Mu Anxiao: "Mm, I'm going home. You..." She stopped mid-sentence and her expression suddenly turned grim.
Seeing this, Feng Qishi was startled. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine," Mu Anxiao's voice turned cold. She slowly turned around, tilting her head up to look at the two children in the pavilion, saying, "You brats, you scared me again." With that, she walked towards the pavilion.
"..." Feng Qishi was stunned and quickly followed Mu Anxiao.
Moments later.
Mu Anxiao stopped in the center of the pavilion and looked down at the little boy and girl standing by the stone table and chairs. "You're still playing rock-paper-scissors. How childish."
"..." The two children looked at Mu Anxiao, remaining silent.
Mu Anxiao glanced at each child's face. "If you won't speak, you were quite talkative just now. I'm telling you, I'm not afraid of you."
At the same time, Feng Qishi stopped behind Mu Anxiao and asked, "Mu Anxiao, who are you talking to?" He still couldn't see the two children.
Upon hearing this, Mu Anxiao turned to look at the perplexed Feng Qishi and said, "Shen Yan, why are you here?"
"..." Feng Qishi remained silent, thinking… could her memory be stuck sixty to seventy years ago?
Seeing Feng Qishi's silence, Mu Anxiao realized with a start. "Oh, I remember now, you're Shen Moyun now. You've come at the right time," she said, pointing to the two children. "Look at them."
Feng Qishi thought, perhaps he was overthinking.
As he thought this, he followed Mu Anxiao's gaze towards the stone table and chairs, saying directly, "Mu Anxiao, wake up." He reached out and nudged her shoulder.
Mu Anxiao's body stiffened. She shifted her gaze from the children and turned her head, looking at Feng Qishi with disdain. "I've always been awake. Don't you know men and women should not touch? Why are you touching me?" she said, deliberately dusting off her shoulder.
Feng Qishi was speechless. "Mu Anxiao, I advise you to be sensible." As he spoke, he inadvertently noticed… Mu Anxiao's lips were starting to turn red. To understand Mu Anxiao's condition further, he stared intently at her lips.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao quickly raised her hand to cover her mouth and asked, "Why are you looking at my mouth?" She took half a step back.
Hearing this, Feng Qishi came back to his senses, afraid Mu Anxiao would misunderstand. "You've been poisoned, don't you remember?"
"I'm poisoned..." Mu Anxiao suddenly had no memory of this. She fell into thought.
Feng Qishi watched Mu Anxiao, her lips quivering as she tried to speak and a thoughtful expression on her face. After a moment's thought, he tentatively asked, "Have you remembered anything?"
Mu Anxiao took two deep breaths, pulled herself out of her thoughts, and looked up at Feng Qishi, asking, "You mean… I'm poisoned?"
"Yes."
"Why would I be poisoned?" Mu Anxiao had forgotten.
Feng Qishi glanced at Mu Anxiao's reddened lips, then thought of the pitiful coachman and his daughter Bing'er, his heart sinking. "I can't tell you. All I can say is, you are poisoned."
"You know, and you're deliberately not telling me?" Mu Anxiao's eyes widened.
Feng Qishi wished Mu Anxiao could forget about it, but… he couldn't just watch her be consumed by the poison, eventually becoming a fool.
He found himself in a dilemma.
"..."
Mu Anxiao frowned. "Shen Moyun, I'm asking you a question, why aren't you speaking?"
"I..." Feng Qishi sighed. "Once your poison is cured, you will know who it was."
"Can't you just tell me…?"
"No," Feng Qishi said coldly.
Hearing Feng Qishi's indifferent tone, Mu Anxiao nodded slightly and said, "I understand. That person must be very important to you. In that case," she said, disappointed, "I won't force you." After speaking, she turned to look at the two children who were smiling at her.
"Are you mocking me?"
They both shook their heads.
"No, why are you smiling?" Mu Anxiao narrowed her eyes. She didn't care at all… about Feng Qishi's feelings; she simply wanted to talk to them.
The little girl pointed at Feng Qishi.
Mu Anxiao looked confused. "Why are you pointing at him?" she asked, with no intention of turning around.
The little boy stood with his hands behind his back, stepped forward to shield the little girl, tilted his head up, stared at Mu Anxiao with his reddened eyes, and smiled.
Mu Anxiao looked at the little boy's eyes, which were particularly striking in the darkness, and said, "Your eyes are really red, really bright." She didn't want to think too much.
The little boy continued to smile.
The little girl skirted around the boy, stepped forward, and similarly looked at Mu Anxiao with her reddened eyes, smiling. She then turned and pointed to the night sky outside the pavilion.
Subsequently, Mu Anxiao once again followed the little girl's finger and glanced at the night sky, saying faintly, "You want me to fly?"
The little girl lowered her hand, looked back, and nodded.
Mu Anxiao: "But I can't fly, my abilities..."
Unexpectedly, before Mu Anxiao could finish, the little girl suddenly walked forward, tugged at her clothes, looked up at her, and smiled sweetly, as if telling Mu Anxiao, you can do it.
Mu Anxiao looked down at the little girl smiling sweetly at her and said, "If I really listened to you, wouldn't I be a fool?"
However, the moment Mu Anxiao uttered these words, Feng Qishi's eyes widened, and his heart suddenly began to feel uneasy.
The little girl shook her head, indicating to Mu Anxiao that she was not foolish.