The carriage curtain lifted by a crack, revealing Elena's breathtakingly beautiful face.
"Two months!"
Su Li stood at the village entrance and raised a hand in farewell.
The curtain fell shut, and the carriage vanished with astonishing speed at the far end of the main road.
Saina wrapped her arms around Su Li's waist from behind, pressing her face to his back.
"Will she really come back?"
"She will."
"What if she brings back a whole army and has you arrested?"
Su Li smiled. "She won't."
"How do you know?"
"Because in her previous life, she lay alone in that big bed for forty years, waiting for me."
Saina fell silent.
She couldn't put a name to the feeling in her heart. Beneath the sourness was an indescribable tangle of emotions.
She hated that woman for stealing her man, but there was nothing she could do about it. In their previous life, she herself had pushed that woman toward Su Li.
"Come on. Let's go home and eat." Su Li took her hand and led her back.
The few men watching the spectacle at the village entrance immediately parted to make way when Su Li approached.
One bold old man even bent at the waist, his face piled high with ingratiating smiles.
Twenty fully armed elite knights had entered the village, the Iris Family crest glaring dazzlingly beneath the sun. That noble young lady who seemed to have the words "I'm rich" written all over her spoke to this blacksmith with a hint of coquettish affection in her voice.
The people of Wading Village might not have been educated, but they weren't blind.
That very night, the threshold of Old Buck's house was nearly trampled to pieces.
The widow next door brought half a cured chicken, the old hunter from