Before Lin Changsheng could speak.
"Forget it, forget it. Of course I don't mind if you're willing to give me more." Sheng Qingqing muttered, tucking the little notebook back into her robes. "Can you still walk on your own?"
"I can. I just need to take a pill and regulate my breathing for a while, then..."
Before Lin Changsheng could finish, Sheng Qingqing interrupted him again.
"Actually, forget it. I should take you somewhere more secluded to recover. The person chasing you is too powerful—I only managed to outrun him, that's all."
"It's useless." Lin Changsheng took out a medicinal pill from his storage ring and swallowed it, then sat upright. "He can find me no matter how well-hidden the place is."
Sheng Qingqing's heart stirred at those words, but she put on a suspicious look. "That impressive?"
"It's not... exactly his own ability."
After answering that, Lin Changsheng simply closed his eyes and began regulating his breath, giving Sheng Qingqing no chance to press further.
Seeing this, Sheng Qingqing merely curled her lips and walked straight toward the riverbank.
She sat on a relatively flat boulder by the river, removed her shoes and socks, and slipped her jade-white bare feet into the water.
The stream babbled on as her pale calves swayed beneath the surface. Several little fish hiding among the rocks on the riverbed were startled and scattered in every direction.
Bright sunlight spilled over the girl's shoulders, plating her in a thin layer of gold.
Behind her, Lin Changsheng, who should have been meditating with his eyes closed, had opened them at some point.
As he watched her back, a trace of something unreadable flickered through his eyes.
Could it be... that I really am overthinking this?
In a world like this, being saved at a life-or-death