A wild man wearing a grass skirt and a green wreath on his head sprang out of the woods.
His hair was a tangled mess that covered his face, making his features impossible to see.
He wanted to approach but did not dare. He could only watch from a distance, waving his hands helplessly as though he wanted to wipe away Gao Mu's tears.
The moment he appeared, Gao Mu stopped crying and hurriedly hid behind Gao Shiman in fright.
"You finally decided to come out!" Gao Shiman glanced at the grass skirt wrapped around him and frowned deeply. "Where are the clothes I prepared for you last time?"
"I... I left them in the cave," the wild man stammered.
"Why aren't you wearing them?! You're Lord Ten Thousand Woods, one of the Ten Kings, yet you spend all day looking like a wild man. People would laugh themselves silly if word got out!"
Mu Linsen scratched his bird's-nest hair. "I... I don't like them..."
"You have to wear them even if you don't like them! I'm your wife. You have to listen to me!" Gao Shiman took Gao Mu by the hand and walked toward Mu Linsen.
Mu Linsen immediately backed away in a panic. He seemed terrified of people.
"Don't leave. I won't come any closer." Gao Shiman quickly stopped. Watching his panicked reaction gave her a headache.
The outside world only knew that she had risked her life to open a trade route through Ten Thousand Woods and secured Lord Ten Thousand Woods as her backer.
But she alone knew that was not what had happened at all.
Ten Thousand Woods was indeed dangerous, but Lord Ten Thousand Woods was not dangerous in the slightest. As long as no one damaged the plants in Ten Thousand Woods,