This world was a marvelous place.
Sometimes, the people you least wanted to see were precisely the ones you ran into, and the things you least wanted to happen happened anyway.
I was still thinking about that crazy woman. I had just decided not to tell her about going up the mountain to deal with King Yan and rescue Ye Jinghong when I saw her leading two young women toward us from less than ten meters away.
I had no idea when she had appeared. Had she been waiting there all along, or had she only just arrived?
She wore a smile, but her eyes were fixed firmly on Embroidery Woman.
Of course, she would not think I had already rescued Xu Qiuyan, but she had guessed that I had found Embroidery Woman. As long as we took Embroidery Woman to see King Yan, she could save her daughter.
"Jiang Xiaobai, I knew you could do it. You really didn't disappoint me. This must be Embroidery Woman, right?" She walked up to us. Ying Gou did not stop her; they were old acquaintances, and there was still such a connection between them.
Ying Gou looked at me with a touch of schadenfreude, while even Qianqian looked at me with sympathy.
Embroidery Woman stared at the woman, completely stunned.
Her expression made Xu Qiuyan's mother freeze as well. Tears filled Embroidery Woman's eyes, and at last she cried out one word in heart-wrenching agony: "Mother!" Her tears fell like rain, and her whole body shook with sobs.
She threw herself directly into Xu Qiuyan's mother's embrace, weeping softly.
The abrupt shift in tone filled all of us with an inexplicable sorrow.
Xu Qiuyan's mother seemed to have been struck by lightning. She stood petrified, staring blankly ahead, no one knowing what