Creak—squeak—!
As the bathroom door slowly opened, a chill drifted out.
At the same time, a withered hand—its finger bones like branches—suddenly reached out and grabbed the door.
Maid Miss took half a step back and looked down.
The hand pushed the door inward inch by inch. In the dimness, a face with its cheeks almost sunken into itself slowly rose into view... Its hair was completely white.
Maid Miss could even clearly see the almost despairing look in those eyes.
"Oh my, Miss Nero, are you all right?" Maid Miss asked softly.
"You... you try it yourself... twenty days... drinking only water... and see..."
"It was my negligence." Maid Miss's face was filled with sincere remorse. "I'm terribly sorry. Please wait a moment. I'll prepare some food to help you recover right away."
After speaking, Maid Miss hurried away, looking exactly like someone desperate to make amends after making a mistake.
Seeing this, Nero could only crawl out little by little... An ordinary person who went without food for seven or eight days and survived only by drinking water would probably have died long ago. The fact that she had held out this long was naturally thanks to this body tempered through countless trials.
Even so, during this period, the pain Nero had to endure each day had risen exponentially. The injuries covering her body had to be suppressed with medicine at regular intervals. Without medicine, she could only grit her teeth and endure it, which placed an enormous burden on her body.
Moreover, although this body had indeed been tempered through countless trials, the more thoroughly a body was trained, the more astonishing its consumption became.
In the main hall, Da Zhe set the dazed Taiyinzi down—ever since he had picked him up, Taiyinzi had remained in