"How exactly did you offend them? Why are so many people searching everywhere for you?" Xue Fuyao asked curiously.
Hearing this, Pei Yu shook her head and said, "I don't know either. I originally came from nearby Lin Household Village. My parents were barefoot doctors in the village.
"A while ago, my father was injured by a wild beast while gathering herbs. Within a few days, he breathed his last. My mother had always been frail, and after my father passed away, she fell ill and never got up again. Less than half a month later, she followed him, leaving me all alone at home.
"Seeing that I was an orphan girl, the village chief wanted me to become his son's child bride. I refused and fled overnight.
"I ran into those people as soon as I entered the city."
"The man who led the group that cornered me earlier is surnamed Sun. His household is the only Cultivation Lineage in Wuling City. When we first met, he treated me very well, and I thought I'd met a good person. But within a few days, he revealed his true colors and tried to forcibly take that bottle from me. When I refused, they tried to seize it by force."
"Then how did you escape? How could an orphan girl without any cultivation escape from the Sun Household?" Gu Nian looked at Pei Yu, her gaze as sharp as a blade.
Hearing this, Pei Yu hesitated before saying, "Actually, my father was a cultivator too. But his talent was poor, and he was only at the Qi Refining First Layer when he died. Before his death, though, he was worried about my mother and me, so he left two talismans behind. I only barely managed to escape thanks to those two