Wading across the water, it wasn’t long until they touched the flight of steps at the front; Tu Laoyao held the lamp above his head, and with both hands supporting it, stepped up first onto the bank, and immediately pulled up each of the women. A Yin stood at the side, wringing out the bottom of her outfit; just then within the waters had been warm, and now, on the bank, the shivers came one after the other; for a long while she didn’t enter the tomb, her posture truly a bit affected. Tu Laoyao crouched across from her, taking off his shoes and dumping out water; Li Shiyi wrung her pants dry, and said to Song Shijiu, “Roll up the legs of your pants.” Song Shijiu obediently complied with her speech, her lustrous, pale lower legs, in the cave, seeming to have the brightness of the crescent moon, and even Tu Laoyao, on seeing the smooth skin, sighed with emotion. Their actions coming to an end, only then did the group begin walking inwards; luckily, the cave didn’t have any other living c...

Looking at Chen Man, Jiang Xichu opened her mouth, and only after half a day uttered a single sentence: “Can…” Chen Man moved softly, her gaze fixed on Jiang Xichu, without letting a single thread of her change of mind let go, and after a long moment, that sentence of Jiang Xichu’s finished: “Can you not ask me?” Chen Man’s expression immediately became rigid, and she stared at Jiang Xichu blankly, her expression some degree of vacant and helpless. Jiang Xichu struggled, and Chen Man let go of her; Jiang Xichu sat on the floor, and she rubbed her aching temples, saying lowly, “I’m fine, it’s just, I need a bit of time to slowly…” As she spoke, she raised her head, looking at Chen Man appealingly, saying, “Don’t ask anymore, alright; if I could tell you, I would already have told you, just…I can’t tell you.” Chen Man looked at her for a long time, and only then silently nodded her head. Before, Jiang Xichu had never found out that Chen Man was docile and obedient when it came to her; ev...