Li Yue Shu was lost in thought, unaware of the gaze on her.
It wasn't until they arrived at the government office that Gu He Xuan's voice suddenly sounded in her ear, "May I know how the young lady wishes to be addressed?"
Li Yue Shu snapped back to reality, lowered the scarf covering her face, revealing a fair and stunning countenance.
Upon seeing her appearance, everyone was taken aback, clearly not expecting the girl who dared to travel to Guanzhou alone to be so breathtakingly beautiful.
Li Yue Shu replied with a calm expression, "My name is Luo Yu Shi."
Gu He Xuan, who had just recovered from his shock at her beauty, faltered.
Luo Yu Shi?
Could she be Ru'er's sister from Tongmu County?
And she looked so stunning?
Gu He Xuan eyed the person before him with a probing gaze, only to find that she didn't seem to recognize him.
Without mentioning it, Gu He Xuan turned and instructed someone to prepare a guest room for Luo Yu Shi.
...
For the next few days, Li Yue Shu accompanied Gu He Xuan to search the Great Plow Mountain, but each time they found nothing.
Although Gu He Xuan was disappointed with the outcome, he had already expected it.
"Guanzhou is constantly covered in snow, but a snow disaster is a once-in-a-century event. Now, with a sudden avalanche, I wonder if Guanzhou will still be suitable for people to live in."
Li Yue Shu was startled. "Has Guanzhou never experienced an avalanche before?"
"Never," Gu He Xuan said with conviction. "Although Guanzhou's terrain is covered in snow year-round, the extent of it would not normally trigger an avalanche. It's just that this year's snow was exceptionally heavy, leading to this disaster."
Li Yue Shu looked at the continuous snow-capped mountains, and a fleeting thought from earlier suddenly became clear.
Perhaps, she could try!
...
That evening, Li Yue Shu had a large amount of Xuan paper prepared and stored in her spatial dimension.
Mother Mo looked at her curiously, "Young lady, what do you need so much Xuan paper for?"
Li Yue Shu smiled mysteriously. "These things will be of great use tomorrow."
She offered no further explanation.
The next morning, after arriving at Great Plow Mountain with everyone, Li Yue Shu intended to go further up.
"Miss Li!" Gu He Xuan called out to her, "Where are you going? I'll go with you."
Great Plow Mountain was covered in snow, making it difficult to discern directions. If Miss Li was indeed Ru'er's sister, he wouldn't be able to account for it if anything happened to her.
However, Li Yue Shu had her own agenda and naturally did not want him to accompany her.
"Young Master Gu, don't worry. I'll just take a look behind that slope. I'll call you if anything happens."
Gu He Xuan frowned, clearly not entirely in agreement.
But after spending these few days together, he had come to understand Li Yue Shu's temperament.
After some thought, he didn't insist, "Miss Li, please be extremely careful."
Li Yue Shu nodded and turned in the direction she had indicated.
However, she didn't stop behind the slope as planned but continued forward.
After walking for an unknown duration, Li Yue Shu finally stopped.
The surroundings were a vast expanse of white, with no other color apparent except for her light blue dress.
Li Yue Shu looked up at the sky, as white and vast as the earth, and suddenly spoke, "I know you are watching me."
The biting wind blew, but no one responded to her voice.
Li Yue Shu continued to gaze at the sky, her face unreadable. "Should I call you the plot? Or the Heavenly Dao?"
The surroundings remained silent, with only the fine whisper of the cold wind.
Seeing this, Li Yue Shu calmly took out paper and a brush from her spatial dimension and boldly wrote nine large characters on the paper: "Spare no effort to eliminate Li Xiang Ru!"
She held up the paper to the sky and said with a tone full of threat, "Within three days, if Qin Mo Yuan is not found, I will use the Panlong Jade Pendant to command Gu He Xuan to protect me with his life and deliver this letter at top speed to the Prince Regent's mansion."
"Gu He Xuan is an important figure in this world. Do you want his life to destroy this letter, or do you want Li Xiang Ru to face endless pursuit from the Prince Regent's mansion?"
Li Yue Shu's expression was icy, but there was still no response from her surroundings.
She felt like a fool, talking to herself in the boundless snowfield.
Li Yue Shu remained unhurried, sneering, "The Emperor cares so much about Qin Mo Yuan. If he learns that his own brother's misfortune is due to Li Xiang Ru, do you think he will let the Zhenbei General's Mansion experience the predetermined fate of their entire household being exterminated ahead of time? Will he let his son marry Li Xiang Ru?"
"Whoosh—"
A gust of strong wind blew, and the paper in Li Yue Shu's hand was suddenly snatched away.
Seeing this, she pulled at her furry collar, a mysterious smile curving her lips, hidden by the scarf.
She had gambled correctly!
When Li Xiang Ru had traveled all the way from Chongzhou to Tongmu County to save Mother Mo's life, she had found it strange.
She had always believed that plot correction was like a pre-programmed sequence of code, mechanically and stiffly pulling back any deviations.
But the incident where her father, Li, was injured previously had given Li Xiang Ru an excuse to deliberately leave Chongzhou, not only making Mo Lian indebted to her but also allowing her to scheme against the Second Prince. She had then turned his "hero saving the damsel" scenario to her advantage, making the Crown Prince her savior, thus allowing the male and female leads to be betrothed smoothly.
If the plot could use such a contrived reason to make Li Xiang Ru travel all the way back to Tongmu County, then why was the person who was supposed to come to Guanzhou to support Gu He Xuan in the original story, Qin Ye Xiu, now replaced by Qin Mo Yuan?
If the plot was a set of predefined code, why would it alter the original settings and humanely set a trap for Qin Mo Yuan?
Even the fact that two avalanches occurred consecutively in the same location, defying Guanzhou's environmental conditions, and that only Qin Mo Yuan in the entire team was affected.
From an external perspective of this world, such "coincidences" were riddled with logical flaws.
Therefore, Li Yue Shu had come today to verify her suspicions.
The facts proved that her guess was correct!
Li Yue Shu watched the paper disappear into the horizon and said nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter. I have plenty of paper and brushes in my spatial dimension. If you want to blow, I can let you blow to your heart's content."
As she spoke, she directly took out a stack of paper from her spatial dimension, waved it in her hand, her posture incredibly arrogant.
"Whoosh—"
A strong wind blew, but this time it didn't snatch the paper from Li Yue Shu's hand, but her person.
Feeling her body lose its balance, Li Yue Shu immediately adjusted herself, braced herself with one hand, and landed in an extremely cool pose.
But...
The pose was cool, but her ankle twisted.
Li Yue Shu: "..."
To avoid losing face, Li Yue Shu calmly stood up and took out another stack of paper from her spatial dimension. "Do you want to blow more? I have plenty."
"Whoosh—"
This time, the wind was even stronger.
But Li Yue Shu had learned her lesson. She directly tossed the paper in her hand and flipped into her spatial dimension.
Mother Mo, who was washing clothes, was startled to see her. "Young lady, why have you come in at this time?"
Li Yue Shu hopped on one foot, "I twisted my ankle. I came in to put some medicine on it."
She could lose to others, but not in spirit. Her spatial dimension was a blind spot in this world.
After she treated her foot, she would go out and argue with that thing, whether it was the Heavenly Dao or the plot!