Qin Mohan saw her staring at him with a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes, so he simply lay down on the bed and stopped caring.
He was going to sleep here tonight anyway.
Su Qiao was nearly furious at his shameless behavior. She stretched out her foot and kicked his leg.
"Get up. Let me ask you—when you said you were bitten by a venomous snake and went blind, was that on Lotus Mountain in the outskirts of Bai City?"
Qin Mohan froze. He suddenly flipped up and looked at her with a cold, sharp gaze. "How do you know?"
Su Qiao was not frightened in the slightest. She rolled her eyes. "Back then, you taught an eight- or nine-year-old girl to help you gather medicinal herbs, didn't you?"
If Qin Mohan still did not understand after hearing that, he really was an idiot.
His gaze locked onto her, burning with intensity. He did not blink even once, and even his voice trembled slightly.
"You... You're the little girl who gathered medicinal herbs for me, aren't you?"
Qin Mohan grabbed Su Qiao's arms excitedly. He had never been so agitated before; even the corners of his eyes had reddened.
"You... You even fed me water from your little flask. After helping me finish gathering the herbs, you went down the mountain to find someone for me. That little girl was you, wasn't she?"
Her arms hurt a little. Su Qiao tried to pull free, but she could not break his grip.
She rolled her eyes at him irritably. "What are you getting so worked up about?"
"But how do you still remember everything so clearly?"
She did not even remember feeding him water.
She only remembered helping him gather herbs under his guidance.
Qin Mohan opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
It felt as though his throat were stuffed with cotton. His nose stung, and the corners of his eyes grew moist.
Of course he remembered.
Although he had been unable to see back then, he remembered the circumstances with perfect clarity.
He had been sixteen at the time. On his way to school, he had been kidnapped and taken to an abandoned Chemical Plant in the outskirts of Bai City.
When he was thirsty and starving, his parents had finally found him.
But the kidnappers had never been after money. They had wanted the lives of all three members of his family.
His parents fought with the kidnappers. In the end, just before they died, they pushed him out of the abandoned Chemical Plant through a narrow window. They themselves dragged the kidnappers along and died with them.
The explosion at the Chemical Plant had reverberated through the heavens. Even now, it seemed to thunder in his ears, keeping him awake at night.
At the time, he had clung tightly to his father's words: "You must survive! No matter what, you must survive!"
Tears streaming down his face, he gritted his teeth and ran forward desperately.
Stumbling through uneven ground, he had no idea where he had run. He only knew that there were trees and bushes everywhere.
That was why he had accidentally been bitten by a venomous snake.
He had noticed at the time that the snake's head was triangular.
Overcome with despair, he had thought then:
I might as well die!
His father and mother were both dead. They had died to save him. He was guilty, so he should die with them.
Later, remembering his father's last words, he gritted his teeth, picked up a sharp fragment of Shi, and forcefully sliced open the wound on his foot where the snake had bitten him. He sucked out a great deal of blood with his mouth before staggering onward.
He did not even know where he was headed. There was only one thought in his mind: keep moving forward, keep moving forward.
Later, when he woke up again, he found everything before his eyes shrouded in gray haze.
At that moment, he fell into despair once more. He felt that even Heaven itself refused to give him a way to live.
It was then that he encountered a little girl.
Although the little girl had been frightened at first, after discovering that he could not see and that he had also been bitten by a venomous snake, she actually mustered the courage to come and support him.
Her appearance was like a ray of dawn in the darkness, instantly illuminating his entire bleak world.
His vision was blurred, and he did not know what kind of place he was in or how far away he was from any inhabited area.
The snake venom in his body made him desperately anxious, leaving him no choice but to try anything,
Fortunately, his father and grandfather had taught him since childhood as though he were the heir to the Qin family, so he had acquired broad knowledge.
He taught the little girl to gather some medicinal herbs for him.
And the little girl had been remarkably capable. She actually managed to gather the medicinal herbs he needed.
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