Xiang Hanshuang and Jiang Ling rolled their eyes at the same time and turned back toward the villa.
What a coward.
Inside the villa.
Qi Lingwu asked Sheng An, who had just woken up, "Did that use up much of your power?"
He sat on the edge of the bed, watching her sit up.
Sheng An rubbed at her unruly hair and explained, "I wanted to test my time superpower anyway. Rewinding only Lou Mingwei's time didn't take much-not even a tenth of what it took to rewind Old Chu's."
In fact, though, she had rewound Lou Mingwei's time further.
Using him as a guinea pig had confirmed one of her theories.
Qi Lingwu had reached the same conclusion. "Rewinding someone who's died takes an enormous toll on you."
She hadn't described exactly how much pain she had been in.
But someone as strong and resilient as Sheng An had been unable even to walk. Qi Lingwu could imagine how painful it must have been.
Sheng An nodded.
She hadn't rewound Old Chu's time very far, yet she had felt as though she were being torn apart, as though every part of her body were being pulled in different directions. She had a premonition that if the pain exceeded what her body could withstand...
She would be torn apart and die.
Unlike the time reversal in the Southwest, when she had forced time to rewind in her previous life, she had probably been torn apart and died on the spot, hadn't she?
No wonder exhausting her power had hurt so much before, and she had failed to awaken every time she developed a fever.
Qi Lingwu raised a hand to smooth her hair, his voice soft. "I won't tell you to use your power less, but always remember that you