She Holds the World After Being Reborn-Chapter 574 - 573: High-priced Bounty, Su Bai Appears Again
Yan Wanqing thought not at all, "Go home."
She had not seen her mother and sisters for three years, and she was truly suffering every minute and every second.
Wu Bie listened to her saying this and nodded, "Going home is appropriate. I’ll accompany you back, and it’s a good chance to meet the Lady of the State as well."
"We shall set off in a bit," Yan Wanqing suggested, surveying the surroundings. The area seemed rather faint, and she soon lost consciousness from exhaustion after jumping into the river, not knowing where she had drifted.
Wu Bie, understanding Yan Wanqing’s concerns, nodded and said, "You sit and rest, I’ll handle the packing."
Wu Bie swiftly packed some of his personal items into a bundle with practiced ease, which had typically been placed on the horse before it vanished.
Unexpectedly to him, it seemed that providence was watching over them. Not long into their journey, they spotted the horse leisurely grazing in a meadow, which delighted Wu Bie immensely. He hurriedly loaded their bundles onto the horse, easing their way forward.
Horse: You two are quite an item, eh?
Along the way, almost every city gate bore a portrait of Yan Wanqing.
"This Emperor of Dawei really is cutting corners, offering just a thousand silver coins. Look at Chu Kingdom, offering five thousand," Wu Bie chuckled as he compared two notices mounted together on the wall.
Yan Wanqing tugged at the cloth on her face, "That’s enough, let’s hurry."
What an embarrassment.
She never imagined that in her lifetime she would experience such a situation; previously, it was always others’ portraits she had hung on city walls. Now, it was finally her turn. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Seeing her like this, Wu Bie said with a laugh, "All right, all right, stop tugging at your veil. We’re in disguise now. Don’t let the city guards spot you."
Yan Wanqing, upon hearing this: "...You think I don’t know that?"
Your disguise was helped by me, after all!
It wasn’t like she had spent the last three years in a cradle; she didn’t need every little thing taught to her all over again, making her feel like a child.
Yan Wanqing felt quite frustrated inside.
"Got it," she said obediently nonetheless.
She had transformed her original peach blossom eyes into thin phoenix-shaped eyes, which made her look quite formidable.
Thus, the guard merely glanced at them before waving them through.
Yan Wanqing readjusted her veil, her eyes inadvertently catching the reward poster on the city wall.
She couldn’t help but roll her eyes.
Truly, what goes around comes around. A mix of emotions overwhelmed her.
"Into the city we go, finally we can have a good meal today," Wu Bie inhaled deeply, savoring the aromatic street food, his eyes squinting with delight.
Yan Wanqing quickly cleared her throat, "Awan thinks the meals you cook are the best."
An hour later.
Yan Wanqing burped, having eaten her fill right in the restaurant.
She kept emphasizing, "The meals you cook are the best."
She had Wu Bie entirely charmed, "What a good sister, what a sweet talker she is. I need a sister like her."
Full of food and drink, Wu Bie remembered that Yan Wanqing’s cold hadn’t fully cleared up. He sent her ahead to rest at the inn while he went to the pharmacy to pick up some medicines. Paying a little extra for the pharmacist to prepare them would save much hassle.
When Yan Wanqing returned to her room, she felt dizzy and the world spun. Fortunately, she managed to steady herself by the bedstead, preventing a fall.
When she next opened her eyes, she realized that Su Bai, absent for a long while, had finally returned.
As soon as Su Bai returned, he began chattering non-stop, "Why didn’t you say anything before jumping into the river? You scared me to death! I thought I was a goner!"
"And there you went, not long into the swim and you passed out! Do you know how hard it was for me, just swimming on and on!"
Su Bai was bouncing up and down in the Inner Sea like a monkey.
Only then did Yan Wanqing realize that it was Su Bai who had relayed her past the pursuers after she had fainted from exhaustion during the river jump.
"So that’s why you needed so many days to rest," Yan Wanqing asked, puzzled.
Su Bai was still yawning.
"Who knew? I thought my form wasn’t supposed to feel tired, but waking up this time, I felt particularly exhausted," Su Bai explained, and this also answered some of Yan Wanqing’s own questions.
Do you also feel tired within the Inner Sea?
Why doesn’t she?
Su Bai sighed, "Let me take over. I want to sleep well." After having self-control, he wondered if he could catch up on lost sleep.
Yan Wanqing agreed without a word.
Su Bai threw back the covers and lay down to start snoring heavily.
Yan Wanqing couldn’t sleep and could only count sheep in the Inner Sea. Soon, she thought, they would arrive at Qin State. She wondered how her mother had been over the years, whether her child had been named, what they looked like now...
She still remembered how wrinkly and monkey-like the baby had appeared at birth. By now, they must have grown up.
Her child, Yan Wanqing’s child, couldn’t be ugly.
"Um..." Su Bai spoke weakly, "Can you be quiet for a while?"
Yan Wanqing: "?"
"You keep chattering and projecting images in my mind. I simply can’t sleep."
"But you were just snoring," Yan Wanqing pouted.
Su Bai stubbornly retorted, "But I just can’t fall asleep."
"Okay, okay, I’ll stop thinking. Let’s sleep together." Yan Wanqing conceded and closed her eyes. Soon, both of them drifted into dreamland.
What kind of state is the soul’s rest? When Yan Wanqing awoke, it felt like she had just blinked—an instant event.
But at that moment, Wu Bie knocked on the door, and the bitter scent of medicine seeped through the crack.
"Awan, are you awake?"
Su Bai yawned and turned over, not planning to respond.
"He’s calling you," she said.
Yan Wanqing had nothing else to say, "Then you should switch with me."
Su Bai was comfortably asleep and wouldn’t agree, "I’ll go, I’ll go. After I take the medicine, I’ll keep sleeping."
She opened the door and was met face to face with Wu Bie.
Wu Bie, suspecting nothing, entered and put down the tray, "Awan, come and take your medicine."
Su Bai walked to the table, picked up the medicine bowl with one hand, and gulped it down in one go.
"Awan!" Wu Bie exclaimed, astonished, "It’s hot!"
Su Bai’s tongue was burned, but she didn’t forget about sleeping, "It’s done, now leave."
All she wanted was to return to her bed and embrace sleep.
Wu Bie noticed her tone was different from during the day, slightly furrowing his brow, wondering what was wrong with the child.
Where had his sweet-talking sister gone?
Had she gotten up on the wrong side of the bed?
"Awan, this was the first batch of medicine. In three more hours, I’ll come again,"
Wu Bie instructed.
Su Bai dived back under the covers and waved her hand, indicating she understood.
"This form is the most comfortable to sleep in," Su Bai couldn’t help but mutter.
Wu Bie, pausing at the door to leave, raised his eyebrows slightly, his expression frozen.
Had she been cursed?
What was she saying, and why couldn’t he understand?
Yan Wanqing saw Wu Bie leave and let out a sigh of relief, thankful they hadn’t been discovered.
Su Bai’s existence couldn’t be revealed to others yet.
"In your family, probably only Xiaoliu would believe what you say. Anyone else would tie us both to a post and burn us alive," Su Bai mumbled indistinctly. The next second, she plunged back into deep sleep again.
She really needed the rest.
