"You brought me here? I'm really causing you trouble!"
Ji Xingmi shook her head and said, "Didn't you save me too? We're even!"
"That was the plan, but it seems I'm the one dragging you down now! What's the situation? Where's Zhao Rui?" As he spoke, he tried to stand up to check the situation outside, but it seemed he had pulled a wound on his leg and slumped back to the ground.
"You'd better not move around! The conditions here are limited. It should be dark outside now, and Zhao Rui shouldn't have chased after us," Ji Xingmi explained what she knew. She had made quite a few wishes just now, and she believed Zhao Rui wouldn't find this place for a while.
What Ji Xingmi didn't know was that Zhao Rui had indeed stopped looking. By the time Gu Jingyi and his men found him, he was already gone, and he had left with a smile. Apart from a gunshot wound to his abdomen, he also had a snakebite on his arm. Next to him lay a mature wild boar, which had been dead for a long time.
When Gu Jingyi arrived, he could already hear wolf howls. It was estimated that the smell of blood here would continue to attract all sorts of large animals, so they didn't dare to stay in the mountains at night. After confirming that Ji Xingmi was nowhere to be seen, they led their men out. They took Zhao Rui's body with them, along with the wild boar.
Gu Jingyi and his men retreated to the cave where Zhao Rui and his group had been staying. Gu Jingyi found a pill there, clearly left by Ji Xingmi. He wondered how she was now. Gu Jingyi stood at the cave entrance, looking into the distance.
"Still thinking about Little Xing'er? No news is the best news! I just took a look too. She should have rolled down that slope. It looks like there was more than one person. If Little Ji is with her, there's even less to worry about."
"It's not Little Ji!"
"Hmm? Then who?" Gu Jingyi didn't speak. He had an idea in his mind, but he hoped he was wrong this time! Yet, he also felt that with him around, she should be well taken care of. Gu Jingyi waited anxiously for dawn, and Ji Xingmi was also waiting for dawn. She looked out of the cave entrance, only seeing dark tree shadows, with almost no moon in sight.
"Xing'er, you..." Feng Changze wanted to share some of the dried meat she had given him earlier.
Ji Xingmi looked outside and asked him a question, interrupting what he was about to say. "Feng Changze, why are you here to save me so resolutely?"
"Ah?... I like you! Haven't I told you this before? Besides, I've already found out about this, so it wouldn't be right not to come! I just didn't expect..." Feng Changze didn't want to give this reason, but for some reason, at this moment, he also had the urge to confide.
"At my doorstep, and the other group was your people, right?" Ji Xingmi didn't let him continue and said.
"Yes~ Yes."
"So why? Your concern for me seems very special, but I have no memory of knowing you." Ji Xingmi had genuinely thought about it, but she couldn't remember at all. She sometimes wondered if Cheng Xingmi had something to do with him, and if she had simply not received that memory.
Feng Changze was suddenly asked this question and didn't know how to answer. The atmosphere suddenly became strange. Both fell into silence. After a while, Feng Changze mustered up the courage and said, "If I told you I had lived my life again, would you believe me?"
Hearing this, Ji Xingmi's heart skipped a beat. He, he had been reborn? So~ so...
"You don't believe me either, do you? Actually, after I woke up that time, I struggled with it for a long time. I also thought I had just had a very long dream. But later, many things began to confirm that I was someone who had lived again. For example, that person from the Feng family still poisoned me, and Feng Xiang still harbored her. Most importantly, this time I made preparations in advance and didn't drink that bowl of medicine that harmed my body. From then on, I knew I had truly returned. And then I started looking for you!"
"Looking for me?"
"Yes, looking for you! In my past life, I actually met you in college. You also realized I was poisoned, but because we met too late, you couldn't cure me, only help alleviate the pain when the poison acted up. Although I didn't live for a long time, the time I spent with you was the most relaxed and happy time."
Ji Xingmi listened in a daze. Feng Changze saw her expression and smiled, continuing.
"After I returned, I looked for news about you, but I couldn't find any trace of you after searching all over the capital. Just when I thought I would have to wait until college reopened to meet you again, many things changed. College wasn't supposed to start at this time, and those people returned early. Even more surprisingly, you also arrived in the capital ahead of time and got engaged to the Gu family. None of this happened in my previous life. In my previous life, Gu Jingyi didn't even know you, and you were supposed to be the adopted sister of Gu Jingnian. The Ji family should have ceased to exist, and Old Master Bi should have perished under the schemes of the Feng family. This was all a butterfly effect brought about by me. It was me, because of me, that everything changed. It was all because of me!"