Dawn came before the dew had fallen, before the sun had risen.
Bai Feiyu walked through the thin mist and returned to Ouyang's side with mixed feelings.
Half asleep, Ouyang was wrapped in a blanket with only his head exposed, nodding over and over, his mind still wandering. Bai Feiyu stood before him with bloodshot eyes.
"Eldest Senior Brother, this isn't right!" Bai Feiyu said, his voice somewhat agitated.
The dozing Ouyang jolted all over. Looking up at the hapless kid before him, he snapped, "Are you trying to scare me to death so you can burn offerings for me?"
Bai Feiyu paid no heed to Ouyang's complaints. With agitation in his eyes, he asked, "Why? Why did those two humans sneak away?"
Bai Feiyu had stood beside those two dilapidated thatched huts all night. At midnight, he had seen the doors of both huts open at the same time. The woman and the man, their youth restored, had shouldered their belongings and slipped away under cover of darkness from the huts where they had just sworn their love by the seas and mountains.
They had left with utter resolve, disappearing into the night without so much as looking back.
After the two left, the two Yao still inside the thatched huts had not woken-or perhaps they had long since woken and were merely pretending to sleep.
Bai Feiyu did not understand why. While he and Ouyang had been there, these two couples had sworn their love by the seas and mountains, their devotion stronger than gold.
Had two loving marriages fallen apart over a single bottle of pills that could restore their youth?
Why on earth had this happened?
Unable to figure it out or understand, Bai Feiyu had stood there until dawn, when the two thatched huts suddenly