"Awake? How do you feel?" By the time Mo Lian opened her eyes, the sky had already begun to darken.
She sat up in shock, staring at her own hands in disbelief. Though her body was still weak, it was far better than the hopeless state she had been in during the day. The fine stitch marks on her body had vanished as well. "I... I should have been dead."
As the person involved, she knew the situation better than anyone. Let alone out in the wilderness—she could not have been saved even in the most renowned hospital.
Yet this had happened, in the place where it should have been least possible. She had been restored to a relatively stable condition... well, probably the state her body had been in a few months ago. As for completely eliminating the aftereffects plaguing her, she no longer held much hope.
"Well, whether you died or not aside, dying doesn't necessarily mean the end... Anyway, can you tell me what you came here for?"
Jiu Ming held an injection syringe in his hand, with a little medicinal fluid still left inside. It was not emergency medicine, but something specifically meant to keep her body from collapsing. He had found it on her.
"Of course I came to stir up trouble." Mo Lian glanced back toward the forest. "Who else would come to a place like this for no reason?"
"And? Did you succeed?"
So she had come seeking revenge? Raising an eyebrow, Jiu Ming asked. Though he already had the answer. During the time she had been conscious after White Fox threw her over, she had shown neither fierce obsession nor utter unwillingness to accept defeat. In other words, there was nothing left tying her down.
"You didn't need to save me like