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It turned out that Nanzhu was busy until very late every day and returned to the cave. When he saw the half-empty bed, he thought it was the seat Zhu Baishao had reserved for him. He praised the maid in his heart and went to sleep on it. The next day he got up very early to work. For more than ten days, Zhu Baishao had never noticed that they were sleeping in the same bed.

They slept together for several days?

Zhu Baishao got up in a hurry, but their hair got tangled together. Her action immediately woke Nanzhu up.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Nanzhu's voice sounded a little haggard. For the past ten days, he had been busy watching over the mating of venomous snakes, which had consumed a lot of his energy.

Zhu Baishao's body stiffened slightly, and she cleared her throat and said, "I'll help you comb your hair, you go back to sleep."

Over the past ten days, Nanzhu had long since returned to his savage image as when they first met, with tattered clothes and disheveled hair.

Fortunately, Zhu Baishao had already planned to roam the world with a sword, so she learned how to comb her hair, so as not to end up like Nanzhu.

Zhu Baishao separated their hair, then tied up the upper part of Nanzhu's black hair and fixed it with a branch.

When she moved, the sandalwood and gold bell bracelet on her wrist made a crisp sound.

Nanzhu lay on the stone bed with her eyes closed. Her cheeks were as white as jade, her appearance was beautiful, and the cinnabar mole between her eyebrows was particularly eye-catching. She looked very much like the statues of gods with their eyes closed in the temple.

Zhu Baishao looked at his tattered clothes, then looked down at her own maroon dress which had been washed and worn many times and was no longer as attractive as before. She felt extremely dissatisfied.

She was the daughter of a prime minister and had been wearing silk and satin since she was a child. How could she have ever lived in such a shabby way?

The sun, the moon and the stars moved, and a few more days passed like this.

One day at noon, Nanzhu returned to the cave, but found no signs of fire at the entrance and the cave was empty.

Zhu Baishao is missing.

He stood there in silence for a long time, with no expression on his face. Then he casually pulled out the branch that was used to fix his hair, letting his long hair hang loose. Then he walked to the wooden rack without saying a word and prepared the poison as he did every day in previous years.

He couldn't say that he was in a very good mood. Normally, making poison could always calm him down, but today, a feeling of depression in his heart was spreading and growing like tiny cracks, making his already expressionless face even colder.

In the evening, as the sun set, the entrance of Snake Valley became unusually lively.

The deliveryman put the goods away and turned around and ran away in a hurry without Zhu Baishao urging him. It looked as if there was a monster chasing them.

Zhu Baishao turned her head and saw that Nanzhu had been standing behind a big tree in the Jiujue Formation at the entrance of the valley without her noticing. He had disheveled hair and was silent, looking like a ghost seeking revenge.

"Nanzhu, come and help!" Zhu Baishao's whole body looked refreshed at this time.

She was wearing a scarlet long dress embroidered with peach blossoms, and her hair was tied up high in a bun, revealing her smooth and jade-like forehead, looking beautiful and bright.

Seeing Zhu Baishao standing in front of a pile of things and waving at him, Nanzhu's handsome face hidden by his long hair showed a rare look of thought.

Didn't she leave? Why did she come back?

But it is undeniable that he is somewhat happy.

He hadn't felt this happy for a long time.

Zhu Baishao had no idea what he was thinking, so she ran up to him and reached out to pull his arm.

Because this time she intentionally avoided her left wrist where the little green snake was, Nanzhu did not dodge like when they first met.

Moreover, because they had been together day and night and slept in the same bed these days, he had become accustomed to her being close to him. Nanzhu lowered his eyes and raised his left arm imperceptibly, allowing her to hold his hand directly.

Zhu Baishao didn't care and directly pulled him out of the Nine Absolute Formation.

Nanzhu tilted his head slightly and watched himself walking out of the Snake Valley boundary step by step. It felt like some shackles in his heart were removed.

Before his death, the Poison Demon made a promise with him that unless someone took him out of the valley or destroyed the Snake Valley, he would never leave the valley in his lifetime.

Now, Zhu Baishao, who was completely unaware of the situation, accidentally led him to break the agreement.

It took the two of them several trips to finish moving all the things. In fact, it was Nanzhu who was doing the moving, while Zhu Baishao stood beside him, feeding him a piece of cake from time to time, looking very leisurely and comfortable.

For a moment, I didn't know who was the master and who was the maid.

And even with this kind of feeding, the two of them were actually full.

Zhu Baishao made the newly bought mattress and took out a package, which contained two sets of men's clothes.

"Go change into them."

After saying that, he ran out of the cave like a gust of wind.

Nanzhu's eyes flashed, her long eyelashes drooped, she touched the brand new clothes in her arms, took them off and put them on.

Then he seemed to have thought of something and began to search on the ground by candlelight.

The branch he threw on the ground had long been stepped on and broken into two pieces. Nanzhu pursed his lips, picked up the longer part, and recalled how Zhu Baishao had tied his hair before. He tied his own hair and inserted the half branch.

"Are you ready? It's so cold outside!" Zhu Baishao shouted outside.

"All right."

Hearing the sound, Zhu Baishao ran into the cave.

He was wearing a green shirt and a sand-green belt that showed off his narrow waist, making him look tall and straight.

Her skin was as white as jade, even more transparent and lustrous than the finest mutton-fat white jade Zhu Baishao had ever seen. Under the flickering candlelight, it seemed as if covered with a veil, hazy and dreamy.

Zhu Baishao took one look and immediately smiled, "I really have good taste. It fits very well."

Nanzhu saw her staring at his hair with shining eyes. He remembered the branch that he had stepped on and broke. He couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed and brushed his sleeves lightly.

Zhu Baishao pursed her bright red lips slightly under her beautiful nose, snorted softly, walked up to him and said, "Sit down, I bought you a new wooden hairpin to tie your hair, so you don't need this broken branch anymore."

Seeing her throw the branch out of the cave, Nanzhu felt a little reluctant, but the uneasiness in his heart gradually dissipated.

Feeling the woman's fingers running through his hair, Nanzhu's usually dull eyes became gentle, and a strange emotion grew deep in his heart.

He suddenly realized something was wrong, turned his head to look at Zhu Baishao behind him, and asked, "Where is your bell?"

He suddenly turned his head and met Zhu Baishao's eyes as she bent over. Their noses were almost touching, and both of their pupils changed for a moment.

The dot of cinnabar between Nanzhu's eyebrows actually made him appear to have two bright colors.

Zhu Baishao swallowed unconsciously, tried hard to control her breathing, took a step back, and turned her pretty face to the side, just facing the candlelight, while her cheeks were already burning hot.

Thinking of Nanzhu's question, she pursed her dry lips and said in a trembling voice: "Bell?...Oh, I didn't bring any money or luggage, so I pawned my bracelet."

Nanzhu's light-colored lips moved, but in the end she just drooped her eyelashes and hummed softly.

This night was the first time they slept in the same bed while both were sober.

Listening to Zhu Baishao tossing and turning in the dark, Nanzhu was silent for a moment and whispered, "You go to sleep. I'll go check on the snakes in the snake cave."

Hearing the rustling noise of him getting up, Zhu Baishao also sat up and said, "I'll go with you. I haven't seen what a snake cave looks like yet."

Nanzhu lowered his eyebrows, looked at her quietly for a moment in the faint moonlight from the cave entrance, and nodded gently.