There was ice all around. The place was a glittering and translucent ice world. Where was it? It wasn’t like anywhere that should be on the earth and it was more mystical than the most fantastic view she had ever seen in the Fantasy Dream. Ice could be seen everywhere in winter, and in the southern areas, people could also build icehouses. However, why was this place not cold even though it was surrounded by ice? Why was there even glistening light of waves above?

He Danggui became in a daze when looking at the top of the icehouse. Was that flowing water? Was this icehouse underwater? Where on earth was this place? Although she had rich experience, she knew nothing about it. And who put her here? What happened to her so that she had been in a coma for long and kept fighting with the shadows in her dream? She needed to think about it…

That night, when she left Gao’s Mansion, she didn’t rent a sedan as Meng Ying said. At such late night, she couldn’t buy anything easily. Even if she wanted to rent one sedan, she wouldn’t know where to find it. Thinking of Meng Ying’s facial expressions when he said those words, He Danggui felt he seemed to be slightly hesitant. Was he hiding anything from her? Gosh. She decided to forget it. He was just a weird old man.

Then, she picked a strong horse with a long mane in the stable of Yi Hong Brothel and took away the medicine kit in Qing’er’s room. She mounted the horse and ran out of the city quickly, but when she got to the city gate, she shook her head and sighed. She was too stupid. How could she forget that the gate had been closed sometime between nine and eleven o’clock in the evening? In fact, it wasn’t that she forgot it but that she still had the habit in her previous life. She could get in and out of the city gate of Daning Prefecture as she wanted back then. Thus, sometimes she still thought she belonged to the privileged class and took things for granted.

Staying in a daze for a while at the city gate, He Danggui decided to abandon the horse and got out of the city alone. With her arts of lightness, she thought she could climb over the lower part of the city gate tower that was dozens of zhang high and kept walking dozens of li at night with ease. However, could she really do that? Standing behind the tall and long city wall, she was nervous and felt she was like a weak leaf. Should she turn around? Should she go back to Luo’s Mansion with the poison in her body? Of course, she wasn’t reconciled to doing so.

After jumping several times, she climbed the city wall as cold as blades with bare hands and grabbed the tiny cracks between the bricks in it. With the subtle side force which could barely hold a bird, the wall supported a woman grasping arts of lightness like her. She became like a master unconsciously.

In an instant, she reached the top of the city wall. Then, she held her breath and jumped off it, but in mid-air, she suddenly felt wrong. She had some tightness in the chest and felt dizzy and empty in her body. Her internal energy suddenly disappeared and she became completely strengthless. Why would it happen? Instantly, her body fell fast. She didn’t even have time to feel panicked. Then, “Bang!”

She fell harder than every time she did before and felt pain all over her body. She guessed she must’ve been injured in bones but she couldn’t get up to check it. Darkness and cold rain surrounded her. She learned a cruel lesson that “a layman in martial arts shouldn’t use arts of lightness”. Later, she found a black line in her right palm running from the pinky where the poison was blocked to the middle finger. It went across her wrist, her arm, and the pericardium channel. Now she realized why she fell to the ground. The poison named He He Qi Ri Qing in her body was activated…

She put on a bitter smile. This time, she cut her own throat. There was no more revenge she had to take before she rested in peace. Thus, she could have normal reincarnation and a new life now… “Xiaoyi! Xiaoyi! Wait for me. I’ll be with you!” Meng Xuan’s grieved voice vaguely sounded in her ears, no, from afar…

“Don’t come to me. Stay alive.” Her lips moved and she said several words vaguely. It consumed her last strength and then, she fell into a coma gradually…

It was all she remembered. In short, the poison in her body was activated when she jumped off the city wall. It reached her heart arteries, and she fell so badly. She seemed to be playing with her life. Why was she still alive? It must be someone having saved her and let her rest here. Someone had… She closed her eyes and thought of the light fragrance of pear flowers that made her worried and terrified. Who would save her…

She didn’t keep awake for long but fell asleep soon. This time she slept slightly well, but when she moved her body while she was half-awake, she found she was naked under the quilt. She hadn’t worn anything!

She got anxious as if her body was being burned in the fire. She tried hard to touch her legs and found her body was numb. It turned out that the icehouse wasn’t warm at all but her body couldn’t feel any coldness! How would it be? Was it because of the poison? Did anyone do anything to her? Was she still alive? Did she lose anything important?

Then, she fainted and lost her consciousness again. After managed to wake up in a hurry, she stood up and wanted to rush out of the thick mist, but someone grabbed her arm behind her. She turned around and found it was a man with an ice mask whose eyes were full of gentleness that felt like the thin satin quilt covering her. She sighed for relief slightly because the mild fragrance of the man’s clothes smelt similar to agilawood and sandalwood. She knew this man with an ice mask wasn’t that one in her dream before and she immediately felt much relieved.

The man with an ice mask walked to her and said gently, “Miss He, you must’ve known how badly you’ve been injured. If you want to survive, you have to pay for it. The price may be relatively unacceptable to females, but you’re not an ordinary woman so you won’t be as pedantic as others… Anyway, after this, you can choose one from us to take responsibility for it. We will treat you well.”

He Danggui couldn’t hear him clearly, but her instincts told her what he said wouldn’t be anything good. She wanted to reject it but she couldn’t say a word in the dream. As soon as she spoke, she was just babbling like a baby. Glaring at the man’s hand that was reaching out to her chest, she shook her head hard to show her rejection. What price? What would he do?

“So, please forgive me.” The man said politely but he didn’t use his hands as a gentleman should do. He continued while taking off her clothes, “Stay still, Miss He. Two bones in your body have been broken and the reason why they can be healed so fast is that the surfaces of the fractures are flat. Only if you rest well can they be cured completely, or you will suffer a lot in the future once it is windy and rainy.”

He Danggui was so anxious that she even wanted to bite him as a wolf, but she became like a puppet and couldn’t move at all as soon as the man’s hands touched her body. He took off her clothes slowly. What a shameless satyr! While he was undoing the tie around her waist, he comforted her very gently, “You should relax, or I won’t be able to do it well and your profit will get low. Why did you climb over the city wall? How dare you jump off there after just having learned kung fu for a few years? You’re so naughty.” His words were very kind, but after the tie was undone, his hands slipped into her robe!

He Danggui could just shed tears silently. What “profit”? She didn’t want it! She had already been saved, hadn’t she? Why was he still doing this to her? Her bones were fractured and they were still not cured, right? What would this man do to her? She shouted in her heart, “Meng Xuan, help me!”

The man with an ice mask brought her wide awake. Then, he put her who was like a puppet on the stone table and let her lean in his arms. Later, one hand slid down her chest and stuck to it. Some amazing warmth was passed to her body through the cloth. At last, the hand stopped on her lower abdomen while at the same time, another hand slid into her robe. With a tearing sound, a small hole appeared on her white silk pants behind her knees. Then, three cool fingers touched her skin directly.

She was very desperate and kept calling Meng Xuan’s name in her heart, but the man said, “The heavy rain helped a lot in getting us out of the trouble, and the greatest credit goes to you, Miss He. Thank you so much. Because of the mistake made by Gao Jue and Lynx, you’ve been poisoned with ‘He He Qi Ri Qing’ while you returned good for evil. You helped us hide in the dungeon and guarded the entrance of it with a magical tactical matrix. Then, you led away the enemies alone and went back to the city to get the antidote for Mr. Duan with the poison in your body. In the end, you passed out at the foot of the city wall. As soon as I think about what you’ve done, I feel grateful, guilty, and respectful for you… Miss He, you’re such an extraordinary woman having a pure heart. You won’t mind it, will you?”

He Danggui suddenly understood one thing: this man with an ice mask was Lu Jiangbei.

However, she was suddenly confused about another thing. Since Lu Jiangbei said she was an extraordinary woman and gave her such high praise and even the credit of something good that wasn’t done by her to her, why did he still do this to her? But… What on earth was he doing now?

He kneaded her knee joint lightly with one hand and put the other hand on her lower abdomen. The two palms seemed to have some magical power and they brought a complex feeling of soreness and numbness. Such a feeling was so deep and it was like the fragrance of flowers that she couldn’t get rid of anymore once she touched it. It lingered in her knee and lower abdomen. She didn’t want to admit it but she couldn’t cheat herself… The feeling made her very comfortable and she had never felt so pleased and light-hearted like this all her life… It was like the way how people would feel when they had sex… Gosh. What on earth was Lu Jiangbei doing to her?

She tried to ask him but she could only babble like a baby. How would it be? Couldn’t she speak now? She became a mute now!

She suddenly realized that she couldn’t speak not because she was having a dream but there was indeed something wrong with her throat. She couldn’t speak anymore! It was because of the poison! She was poisoned to be mute!

After realizing it, she gathered great strength and opened her eyes suddenly. She glared at the man with an ice mask who was so close to her. It was him! He was not only the satyr in her dream but also a man who was caught red-handed while touching her body! Did he poison her so that she became mute? Glaring at the man, she saw a glittering and snow-white ice mask that could cover the upper half of his face and a bright green official uniform. Together with his looks, his Adam’s apple, and the way he smelled, He Danggui was certain that this man was Lu Jiangbei. At this moment, his posture was exactly the same as that in her dream. One of his hands was put on her lower abdomen and the other was kneading her knee gently. It brought her waves of unmentionable pleasure.

Although she was glaring at him fiercely, the man’s eyes still looked calm and gentle. They were pure and no sexual passion or lust could be found in them. The moonlight shone in his watery eyes. When he looked at her, his gaze was extremely like the calm look that a unicorn, a mythical creature, would have. It was distant, pure, and considerate. He also said with concern, “Are you awake? Is there any other place of your body hurting other than your ankle and left arm? Do you feel thirsty? I got ewe’s milk here. Would you like to have some?”