Mother and Daughter Reunite

As Mu Guiyun and his group stepped into the house, a weak female voice drifted out from the bedroom.

"Is that Nannan back?"

Hearing that familiar voice, Jiang Nannan's eyes instantly turned red, and she rushed into the bedroom with hurried steps.

Seeing her mother's increasingly gaunt appearance, she could no longer control her emotions, throwing herself into her mother's arms and sobbing loudly.

"Wuwuwu! Mom, it's Nannan, I'm back!"

Mother Jiang did not ask why Jiang Nannan had returned early; instead, she reached out with a hand made thin and withered by illness, gently patting her daughter's back as she said softly, "It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back!"

Tang Ya stood to the side, watching the mother and daughter weeping in each other's arms, and couldn't help but think of her own late parents, a sudden bitterness rising in her heart.

Just as Tang Ya was lost in her thoughts, a strong, powerful arm suddenly wrapped around her shoulders, pulling her into an embrace.

Tang Ya blinked in a daze, looking up at the smiling figure before her. The emotions she had been suppressing for so long finally broke through, and she rested her small head against Mu Guiyun's chest, beginning to sob quietly.

"Wuwuwu~ Why are you being so good to me, Guiyun! Maybe I'll just reluctantly agree to be your girlfriend..."

"I'm warning you, don't return kindness with ingratitude."

"Wah!!"

Seeing Mu Guiyun reject her again, Tang Ya immediately cried even louder.

Glancing at the mother and daughter in the distance, Mu Guiyun picked up Tang Ya with both arms and slowly backed out of the room, making sure to close the door behind them as they left.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Nannan's mood finally calmed down. Looking at her mother's increasingly frail face, she hurriedly took a small jade bottle from her Soul Tool and said excitedly, "Mom, this is the Black Tortoise Divine Pill; it can cure your illness!"

The Black Tortoise Divine Pill?

Just a few days ago, Mother Jiang had learned from a visiting physician that only a divine medicine like the Black Tortoise Divine Pill could fully repair the damage to her body.

But wasn't this item a closely guarded secret of the Xuanming Sect? Where did Nannan get it?

Thinking of this, Mother Jiang felt no joy; instead, she looked at her daughter with a serious expression and asked, "Nannan, where did you get this?"

She was now worried that Jiang Nannan might have done something extreme for the sake of her illness.

Seeing her mother's stern look, Jiang Nannan hurriedly waved her hands to explain, "I borrowed money from Guiyun to buy it—that's the boy who was just here."

"Is that so."

Mother Jiang breathed a sigh of relief internally, but as she looked at her daughter's shifty eyes, a hint of suspicion flashed in her gaze: "So, what is your relationship with him?"

"Just... good friends."

Jiang Nannan bit her lip. She still remembered the condition she had offered when she first begged Mu Guiyun for help.

"Please, Guiyun, as long as you help me, I'll do anything you want!"

Recalling her true thoughts when she said those words, Jiang Nannan couldn't help but blush.

"Are you really just good friends?"

Seeing Jiang Nannan's flushed face, Mother Jiang assumed it was just her daughter being shy and teased her with a playful tone: "Mom has never seen anyone go to such great lengths for a mere friend!"

"Besides, the Black Tortoise Divine Pill isn't something you can buy just with money, is it?"

"Oh, Mom, I beg you, please stop!"

Unable to take it anymore, Jiang Nannan buried her pretty face into her long legs.

It must be said, as a Soft Bone Rabbit soul master, her flexibility was truly beyond reproach.

"Alright, alright, Mom won't say anything more."

Caressing her daughter's back, Mother Jiang said gently, "Let your two friends come in; Mom wants to thank them properly."

Meanwhile, in the living room, Mu Guiyun ignored the pouting Tang Ya and began to curiously look around the room.

Jiang Nannan's living conditions weren't exactly destitute, but they were certainly bare-bones.

The entire room was only forty or fifty square meters, and aside from some simple, dilapidated wooden furniture, there was nothing else.

"These conditions are too harsh."

Mu Guiyun shook his head to himself.

Just then, the bedroom door opened, and Jiang Nannan walked out with a bright red face.

"Guiyun, Xiaoya, Mom wants to see you."

Mu Guiyun nodded and led Tang Ya into the bedroom. As soon as they entered, he saw Mother Jiang looking at him with a smile.

Although her face was pale and gaunt due to illness, it wasn't hard to see that she had once been a great beauty—otherwise, she wouldn't have given birth to a goddess-level daughter like Jiang Nannan.

"You must be Guiyun and Xiaoya. It is truly a blessing Nannan has cultivated over several lifetimes to have such dear friends!"

As Mother Jiang finished speaking, she gritted her teeth and struggled to sit up.

Seeing this, Mu Guiyun quickly stepped forward to support her, gently urging, "Auntie, please rest; there's no need for this."

Because of her illness, let alone standing, even sitting up was a stroke of luck for Mother Jiang.

Tang Ya also nodded her little head and said in a well-behaved manner, "That's right, Auntie, you're so sick, you shouldn't get up."

Mother Jiang didn't insist further. She took Tang Ya's hand and said with a smile, "Xiaoya is so pretty, I wonder if you have a boyfriend yet?"

Hearing this, Tang Ya's face instantly flushed bright red. Her gaze subconsciously darted toward Mu Guiyun, and she shook her head, her face full of shyness.

Mother Jiang caught Tang Ya's little movements clearly and turned her gaze to Mu Guiyun. "Guiyun, Nannan has told me everything. Rest assured, my daughter and I will keep this kindness etched in our hearts!"

"It's nothing, we're just helping each other out!"

Mu Guiyun waved his hand and spoke again, "Auntie, you should take that Black Tortoise Divine Pill quickly. The three of us will stand guard for you here."

Mother Jiang smiled gently, and without further delay, she swallowed the Black Tortoise Divine Pill in one gulp.

As the medicinal power took effect, a faint water-blue halo slowly formed, wrapping around Mother Jiang as she drifted into a deep sleep.

Seeing this, Mu Guiyun led Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya out of the room quietly.

Noticing the worry written all over Jiang Nannan's pretty face, Mu Guiyun couldn't help but comfort her, "The medicinal effect of the Black Tortoise Divine Pill is very gentle, Nannan, you don't..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Jiang Nannan turned and threw herself into Mu Guiyun's arms.

This scene left Tang Ya, who was watching from the side, instantly frozen.

"Nannan, you..."

This sudden turn of events caught Mu Guiyun off guard, leaving him at a loss for what to do.

Truth be told, Mu Guiyun was a rather introverted person; in his past life, he wouldn't even dare to sit in the passenger seat of a taxi.

"Thank you, Guiyun. Without you, I don't know what I would have done."

Jiang Nannan felt a bit shy; this was her first time having such intimate contact with a member of the opposite sex.

Watching the two of them embrace, Tang Ya wore an awkward smile.

She felt that she shouldn't be here right now; she should be under the bed.