Oh my, in the original story, she treats her brother as one, but might he develop some feelings towards her that he shouldn’t?

It’s not that Jiang Xue is confident, it’s just too coincidental, so many people didn’t make it, yet he did, and in every rescue scene helping her, he is there; could it be that in this lifetime, she ended up with her brother as the official couple?

Perhaps to ease the awkwardness, Shui Yixuan suddenly pulled her into his embrace, tapped onto his toes, and headed down the mountain, scaring Jiang Xue into instinctively grabbing his clothes and screaming: "Ah... What are you doing?"

"Don’t you want to see the bottom of the mountain? Walking on two legs is too slow; this way is faster – hold on tight!"

Next, Jiang Xue felt like her eyes couldn’t catch up, because Shui Yixuan was using his strong arms, leveraging the surrounding plants as easily as a wild goose, to soar and dive through the canyon. If she was tense at the start, afterwards she discovered many beautiful new sceneries, and even some rare medicinal materials growing on cliff edges, exciting her to shout at Shui Yixuan who could only helplessly yet indulgently look at her. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"Okay, okay, stop shouting, when we get a chance, I’ll bring you over to pick them – hold on tight, there’s cold pond water below."

What? Pond water?

Jiang Xue looked down and was momentarily silent: "So did wild boars fall into the water too?"

"Whether the wild boar fell or not, I don’t know; but we’re definitely going in."

As soon as he finished speaking, the two tightly embracing each other plunged into the deep pond; the speed and weight caused them to sink for a while, with the ancient clothing being quite heavy and the pond water exceptionally icy, Jiang Xue’s feet cramped upon entering the water. She cursed under her breath, trying to swim back up, yet ran out of breath, gulping a lot of water, when thankfully she was lifted by her chest upwards...

No idea how long it was before, nearly suffocating, he brought her to the surface, gasping for air, feeling all her strength was almost drained, unable to speak; he seemed to notice her discomfort, gently holding her and brought her to the shore.

Jiang Xue’s face turned pale from the stimulation of the icy pond water, quivering all over, as Shui Yixuan carried her out of the water and laid her flat on a sun-warmed stone, urged his inner strength to drive the cold away for her, drying her clothes; as the warm current flowed, she unconsciously fell into a nap from the sudden change in temperature.

Shui Yixuan carefully checked she wasn’t knocked out, finally sighed, looking at her fragile body, couldn’t help but frown.

"Always boasting how healthy you are, seems I overestimated you – so thin and feeble, need to nourish you better in the future!"

After her clothes had dried, he took off his outer garment and covered her, scanning the surroundings, not daring to go too far, he dove into the water to look for edible fish.

When Jiang Xue woke up, the sun had already set, she rubbed her eyes, sat up from the stone, touched the soft clothes, and looked – it was Shui Yixuan’s blue outer garment. She paused, began to look around, not finding anyone, she took the clothes and climbed down the stone, searched by the water’s edge, until she walked to a downstream pond, seeing a man with a bare upper body, wearing white underwear, pinching his pant legs, holding a makeshift fish spear, seriously searching for fish – his back fascinated her.

The mythical eight-pack abs, broad shoulders, and narrow waist on a man; although not as muscular as a gym coach, he’s not weak at all; thinking of how hard his chest was when he held her, Jiang Xue blushed, couldn’t help but slap her infatuated face, the sound coincidentally caught Shui Yixuan’s attention, who immediately stood upright: "Awake? Hungry?"

Jiang Xue was about to say ’not hungry’ when her stomach inconveniently rumbled, embarrassed her immensely.

Shui Yixuan broke into laughter, waded to the stone, grabbed his inner clothes, made his way to the shore to dry, and seeing the woman still standing afar, gestured towards her holding the outer garment: "Hmm?"