Guan Yu sneered and said, "The Thief Li’s martial arts have improved quite a bit. If left unchecked, I’m afraid I won’t be his match anymore! Quickly pursue him, don’t mind !"
"Don’t worry, Yun Chang, I will definitely bring back Thief Li’s head for you!"
Watching Chen Dao lead a group of cavalry out of Jingzhou City, Guan Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief. Guan Yu was quite reassured by Chen Dao. In his view, although you avoided critical areas, your right leg was severely injured, limiting your mobility. With Chen Dao leading two thousand cavalry in pursuit, there’s no way you can escape!
Just as two soldiers were supporting Guan Yu to sit on a nearby battlent, a chaotic noise suddenly ca from inside Jingzhou City. Before long, the sounds of battle followed. Guan Yu abruptly stood up, looked towards the governor’s mansion, and was shocked and sowhat bewildered, murmuring to himself, "Could there be another threat lurking behind?"
The matters behind you are no longer of any concern. Now, you are like a stray dog being pursued step by step by Chen Dao. Chen Dao is also a ruthless individual, always right behind you, frequently shooting arrows to strike at your back.
It can be said this is the most humiliating situation you have faced since arriving in this world.
But this did not make you feel the slightest bit of humiliation because, to him now, it seems more like a form of training.
For you, unnecessary pride ans nothing. If you lose, you lose; there’s nothing too serious about it. The most important thing is to save your own life and avenge yourself one day!
In the battle with Guan Yu, your right leg was slashed to the bone, and your internal organs were also injured to various degrees. If it weren’t for you using Qi Force along the way to protect your ridians and wounds, others would have already beco lost souls under Chen Dao’s blade!
You continued to run eastward, even as your speed gradually slowed, driven only by sheer will. You know very well, once caught by Chen Dao, it would truly be over.
As the sky turns a pale white, the sound of hoofbeats follows closely behind, never ceasing. You begin to feel your strength failing and even feel bouts of dizziness. Soon, a wide river appears before you. Without hesitation, you summon all your strength, leaping high above the riverbank over the surface of the water.
Just as your body is about to plunge into the icy cold river, a sharp sword is shot from behind, plunging into your right shoulder. With a splash, you fall into the surging river.
"Thief Li is already injured, search in groups!" Chen Dao, who has driven you to this desperate point, shows no intention of giving up. Instead, he continues to increase troops on both banks of the river, insisting on the principle of retrieving you alive or dead.
The icy water of December numbs to the bone. However, as you fall into the water, you don’t lose consciousness; the extrely cold water rejuvenates your senses. Suddenly opening your eyes, you swim quickly beneath the surface, taking advantage of the dark night to move downstream with all your might.
You keep following the river; when the sun is high in the sky, you turn into a tributary and slowly co ashore. After coming ashore, you discover many farms, with farrs already working in the fields. To avoid unnecessary trouble, you silently slip into the forest.
However, you are not a machine. The sharp arrow from Chen Dao is still lodged in your right shoulder. Although the bleeding had been stopped by Qi Force, you are utterly exhausted, ultimately collapsing into a bush.
In a haze, you seem to hear soone calling your na. But it doesn’t sound like "Li Muyun"; instead, it’s "Mu Yang."
You sleep with the oblivion of heaven and earth.
When you slowly open your eyes, it feels as if a century has passed, and you find yourself in a wooden cabin. The cabin feels peculiar, as though suspended in mid-air. Struggling to sit up, through the only window, you see dense tree branches and green leaves outside. Occasionally, the chirping of forest birds reaches your ears.
At this mont, the door of the cabin opens, and you turn to see that the visitor is Huang Shuo.
"You’re awake?" Huang Shuo, dressed in a more masculine style in plain clothes rather than a woman’s Luo Skirt, reveals genuine joy seeing you awake.
"Thank you for saving , I can’t thank you enough!" you bow to Huang Shuo in gratitude.
Huang Shuo places herbal dicine nearby, helps you sit against the backrest, and then offers you the dicine with a smile, saying, "Aren’t we friends? No need for such formalities."
You nod, drinking all the dicine from the bowl without any concern over its contents.
"Where is this place?"
"Mianyang. This wooden cabin was built by ; only I know about it. Don’t worry, those people won’t find their way here."
You nod, realizing then that you’re bare, and the arrow from your shoulder has also been removed. Huang Shuo seems to have noticed this as well, lowering her head slightly, her face flushing, saying, "Well... when you were unconscious, you were drenched... I..."
For soone seasoned in romantic affairs like you, Huang Shuo’s actions have said it all. Without giving Huang Shuo a chance to explain, you embrace her.
"Ah!"
Huang Shuo is first startled, then her eyes redden slightly, and bashfully she falls into your arms. At this mont, a sense of unparalleled reassurance envelops Huang Shuo, grounding her heart, which had been drifting in mid-air.
"Could you tell your maiden na?" you ask, holding Huang Shuo while gently kissing her cheek.
Such unaccustod warmth softens Huang Shuo’s entire being as she gently utters, "Yue Ying."
"Huang... Yue Ying, is it?" Pausing briefly, you then smile gently, "It’s a good na."
On the treehouse, you spend two incredibly warm days with Huang Yueying. After two days of recuperation, you are nearly recovered.
"Yun Lang, are you leaving?" Huang Yueying sits beside you on a tree branch, as you hug her.
"Yes, it’s ti to go." You gaze continually towards the east, towards Jiangxia County. Hearing this, Huang Yueying lowers her head bleakly, but then you add, "Of course, you’ll be coming with ."
"?" Huang Yueying is taken aback.
You gently caress her exotically featured face, smiling, "Of course, you are my woman, naturally you are coming with back to Xuzhou."
However, instead of being happy, Huang Yueying lowers her head and murmurs, "But, my father would not agree."
Smiling slightly, you pick her up and leap into the air, heading eastward. You are domineering and would not care for Huang Chengyan. Even if she were engaged or married to Zhu Geliang, you would still take her!
"From today on, you are my woman, Lu Muyun’s woman. No one can control your thoughts! Ying’er, follow back to Xuzhou!"
Back to Xuzhou!
Actions across the Nine Provinces left onlookers baffled. Zhao Yu and Ren Hongchang, having deployed asures across Changsha, swept up all resources from the scholar gentry as robbers would, retreating swiftly back to Xuzhou. While Zhao Yun, preparing for a life or death battle with Huang Zu, vanished overnight along with more than eighty thousand n, leaving the Jingzhou soldiers committed to defending Jiangxia City stupefied, feeling as if they had swung with full force into empty air.
anwhile, during the retreat, you t up with Zheng Zhi. From Zheng Zhi, you learned about how both you and Liu Bei had been betrayed by the siblings Cai Xiao and Cai Mao, and now the entire Jingzhou had fallen into their hands.
Hearing this information, you touched your nose, choosing to remain silent.
At the sa ti, as you rge forces with Zheng Zhi, Huang Yueying, Zhao Yu, and Ren Hongchang at Yangzhou City, Li Chong hands you an urgent military report at the city gate.
Upon reading the report, your anger erupts—"Boom!"
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