Xu Jing found the meal utterly tasteless.
Every bite she swallowed required tremendous self-control. The slightest lapse, and she would have vomited all over the table.
To keep the guards from noticing, she endured the nausea and chewed the dry steamed bun one bite at a time.
Before this, she had looked forward to dinner every day.
Four Seasons Valley had very strange eating habits. In the morning, everyone was given only two steamed buns or baozi, and lunch was also very casual.
But once work ended in the evening, it was like attending a banquet. The dishes were different every day, and they tasted great.
During the days she had spent in Four Seasons Valley, she had felt as if she had arrived in paradise.
It was like drifting across the boundless sea for years before finally finding an island lush with water and grass, its supplies abundant.
She had indulged in the food and peace here, and her originally skin-and-bones body had quickly recovered, growing healthier by the day...
But suddenly, one day, she discovered that this island was actually... a cannibal island.
Yet she dared not tell anyone this secret, and could only bury it in her stomach.
Clutching this secret, she had been terrified and restless. The delicious food that once delighted her had all changed in her eyes. She no longer dared to touch it or eat it.
She wanted to leave the island, but vicious beasts guarded the waters around it. She couldn't get away...
Yet just when she was in despair, she suddenly discovered that there was another person who knew these secrets too.
Xu Jing had kept an eye on Jiang You while eating and had tried several times to say something to her.
But every time she was just about to