"Let's not rush into that. Go change into dry clothes first, so you don't catch a chill." Tu Rong had hurried over as soon as he heard Lin Feng had fallen into the water. Seeing her safe and sound, he finally let out the breath he'd been holding and had time to ask what had happened. "The people with you told me that just before you fell in, you suddenly seemed dazed, then missed a step and went over..."
At least she'd fallen into the water.
They could pull someone out of the water right away.
What if she'd missed a step and fallen off a cliff?
If the people around her had been even a little slow to react, Lin Feng would have lost her life. Tu Rong was no longer the callow novice he'd once been. Years of battle had tempered him into a grown man with the steady bearing of a Great General, his sharpness sheathed. Standing before Lin Feng now, he truly looked the part of an older fellow disciple. "Did someone try to kill you in secret?"
Lin Feng rubbed her forehead, trying to sort through the jumble of memories.
She had been in the water for only an instant, but had lived through more than a year in the dream. So many memories had flooded into her in a split second that even she, a Literary Scholar, found them hard to bear. "Try to kill me? You could say that. The one who did it was probably my second brother... I just don't know when he made his move."
Lin Feng carefully retraced what she remembered from before she fell into the water.
She couldn't find the slightest clue.
The naval camp was heavily guarded. It wouldn't have been easy for her second brother