In those few breaths, the thin gray mist shrouding Li Yanyan had already seeped into her, turning her once radiant, beautiful face a stark grayish white. Even her lustrous, translucent skin had grown dull and ashen!
"Yanyan! You..."
Jian Shang flashed to Li Yanyan's side and swept her dazed, dying body into his arms without hesitation. His heart churned as he cried out, his eyes stinging and his throat tightening.
Everyone loved beauty; it was merely the nature of that love that differed!
When Jian Shang first met Li Yanyan, she had been with Qi Ji, and she had left quite an impression on him. But they had seldom interacted afterward, and neither she nor Jian Shang was particularly outgoing or proactive. In truth, their paths had not crossed all that often.
In all honesty, Jian Shang did have feelings for Li Yanyan. He could even say he liked her, but it was far from love, and he believed the same was true of her. He even suspected that, if not for Sishui Royal City, she might never have followed him!
Who could have imagined that, in that hairbreadth moment between life and death, Li Yanyan would resolutely trade her life for his!
Her life for his!
What virtue or merit did Jian Shang possess to deserve such devotion from Li Yanyan? Was this the influence of the ancient women's three obediences and four virtues? Surely there was more to it than that!
Meanwhile, Yu Ji, who had noticed first, had been continuously casting powerful secret arts capable of bringing back the dead, including Vital Healing Art and Phoenix Blesses All Life. They had some effect, but could not cure the root of the problem. She simply could not expel the aura of death within Li Yanyan or restore