Chapter 3293: Like Seeing My Former Self

Ning Shu, unwilling to accept it, asked, “How am I pitiful?”

So, only if she broke down sobbing like Mei Ziqing, she wouldn’t be pitiful?

If there was no pain, then she must not have experienced love?

Mei Ziqing sipped the warm water Ning Shu had handed her and said lightly, “Why are you so worked up? I just meant that seeing you is like seeing my former self, stumbling around, and it made me feel some heartache.”

Ning Shu: …

“Who hasn’t gone through that?” To succeed, you have to work hard. It was an equivalent exchange.

No, it wasn’t equivalent exchange. Hard work didn’t guarantee success, but without hard work, success was impossible.

Nothing in this world comes for free. Even women who relied on men for resources had to pay a price—flattering the man, giving their bodies, sacrificing their dignity.

Everything had a price. It all depended on one’s choice.

Mei Ziqing took small sips of the warm water. “My current state is strange. I feel relieved, yet also hollow and drifting.”

Ning Shu said, “That means I can rest assured. It’s like a stone pressing on you. Suddenly, the stone is gone, and you just feel unaccustomed.”

Mei Ziqing didn’t reply. She lifted her head to look at the sky, then vomited a mouthful of blood.

Ning Shu: …

“Damn it, you need to stay alive! If you die, won’t your father put a bounty on me and have people hunt me across the whole world? My task will be ruined,” Ning Shu said quickly.

After one trip, his daughter died, and only the other one returned alive. Of course he’d suspect her of killing for profit.

Mei Ziqing wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and waved her hand. “It’s fine, just a couple mouthfuls of blood.”

“As long as you don’t die. Even if you’re just hanging on by a thread, make sure to wait until you get home before dying.”

Ning Shu said to Lar, “We need to head back now. You also need to hunt. There are no moon beasts around here anymore. Let’s hurry.”

Damn it, the carriage was gone. The horses had already been sucked dry by the heavens-altering formation.

So they had to rely on their two legs.

But judging by Mei Ziqing’s condition, she couldn’t walk far. She coughed blood every few steps— she might die before even reaching home.

Lar said, “I’ll carry her. Your back is injured.”

Ning Shu nodded immediately. “Okay, thank you.”

Mei Ziqing lay on Lar’s back, her face deathly pale.

Ning Shu looked around. “Where’s the rope?”

“It was probably taken back. It was produced there, so it shouldn’t remain here.”

Mei Ziqing spoke vaguely.

Ning Shu clicked her tongue. “Didn’t expect he really had the heart to do that to you.”

Mei Ziqing looked at Ning Shu. “Why do I feel like you’re enjoying a lot of schadenfreude? Why wouldn’t he do it? Whoever stood in his way was an enemy.”

“I counted as his enemy too.

“Thinking about it that way, he was actually merciful to you. After all, he didn’t kill you, his enemy,” Ning Shu said, spreading her hands.

Mei Ziqing: “Scram…”

The mountain paths were hard to travel. Ning Shu and the others walked for a long time before reaching a deserted small town.

Not just the town—even in the mountains, not a single cricket’s chirp could be heard. The silence was eerie and chilling.

All the trees had withered, the grass was dead, and the land was beginning to desertify.

In a few years, would this place turn into a desert?

Without plants to stabilize the land, it would dry out and slowly become a desert.

Mei Ziqing looked at the lifeless mountains and forests, then used the water ordinance. Sparse raindrops fell from the sky.

Ning Shu raised her eyebrows. “You’re amazing.”

Mei Ziqing shook her head. “What’s amazing about this? It’s only within a range of about ten meters.”

Translator: Kaho

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