After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

The sound of Feng Qingtan's cane came from behind. Yuan Ge turned around and saw the old man walking over step by step, tapping on the cobblestones, all alone.

Yuan Ge glanced in the direction the two were talking. Yu Wanyu stood motionless, her back to him, her shoulders slightly hunched. Yuan Ge stepped forward to help the old man up, chuckling, "Finished catching up...?" His voice, though laced with laughter, held a hidden meaning.

Feng Qingtan could imagine the girl's smug look with his eyes closed. He slapped the back of her hand and scolded, "You brat, you don't learn anything good. You've picked up all the hooligan traits from your old man... I was worried you wouldn't be able to get married. Luckily, you've met someone with bad eyesight."

He even joked that the others had bad eyesight? Yuan Ge retorted quipped, "Even worse than yours!"

Feng Qingtan was taken aback by her words, and after a pause, she slapped the person next to her on the head. Yuan Ge didn't dodge, and even tilted his head closer to her, grumbling, "You're almost the same as me! Besides, I can get better, but he's probably going to be blind for the rest of his life!"

“Haha, that’s true… turn left up ahead.” Yuan Ge reminded him, then added, “If his eyesight improves someday, I’ll ask you for some poison and blind him again, okay?”

"I think it's fine... but you'll have to prepare the poison yourself, so as not to ruin my good deeds..."

An old man and a young girl, supporting each other and joking, walked away into the distance. The conversation behind them was quite loud, and Yu Wanyu could hear it clearly. It was Feng Qingtan, a complete stranger to her, who had lost his ever-present gentleness and gained a more lively and unconventional air... He said he lived better on Zhixuan Mountain than in An City, and it turned out to be true. And there was Wen Qian, so affectionately holding his arm and smiling sweetly, giving off a feeling of being pampered by her child.

They didn't seem like they had only known each other for a short time, as the rumors suggested.

Yu Wanyu watched the two leave, still savoring their conversation. She felt that the strange feeling that had flashed through her mind earlier was coming back to her, as if she had overlooked something... something very important.

The two walked quite a distance, chatting and laughing, before Yuan Ge finally brought up the topic of Yu Wanyu. She asked Feng Qingtan if he knew what was wrong with Murong Zhen. Feng Qingtan shook his head and said he didn't know. He said that he had never thought of going to Anshi to save people, so what did it matter to him what illness he had, what poison he was poisoned with, or how long he could live?

He had told Yuan Ge about what happened back then, but he only told him half of it.

That year, Yu Wanyu stole two bottles of poison from him and returned to the mansion, where she was discovered. Fearing Murong Zhen, Yu Wanyu lied and said that he had given her the two bottles of poison. She said that he had loved her for many years, so he gave her two bottles of poison to kill Murong Zhen and then elope with him. He was then taken to the furious Murong Zhen and beaten with thirty strokes of the cane... He was beaten until his skin was torn and bleeding, and was ordered to get out of Anshi and never appear in the Murong mansion again.

As he himself said, he was never a doctor with a compassionate heart. He could save people, but he could also kill them. The reason he spared Murong Zhen back then was because of the last bit of affection he had for Yu Wanyu... As for his later visit to Zhixuan Mountain, it wasn't out of respect for anyone. He just thought that the poison came from him, and he wanted to save the innocent children and accumulate some good karma for himself. Who would have thought he would have such an encounter...

He spared Murong Zhen all these years because of the faint, almost non-existent bond between the child and Murong Zhen—he didn't want to bear the guilt of murdering her maternal grandfather without his little Ge'er's knowledge.

But that's all... The pain of those thirty blows never disappeared, and even without anyone stopping him, he couldn't go down the mountain to save people.

"His life or death...what does it have to do with me?" He chuckled softly, his smile gentle and warm. He patted Yuan Ge's hand. "There are plenty of miracle doctors in this world. The Murong family is wealthy and powerful. If they don't have me, they'll naturally find someone else...let them go and make their way! It'll be a way to vent my anger for my little Ge'er...how about it?"

“Okay, sure,” Yuan Ge replied obediently.

……

In the following days, Murong Weiming calmed down considerably. According to Yan Huo, this young master who almost caused the Murong family to lose face was being kept under close watch by Murong Zhixian, who took turns looking after him almost day after day, and even had servants accompany him when he went to the toilet.

Murong Weiming naturally wouldn't stop causing trouble, but Murong Zhixian let him do as he pleased. As long as he was in the courtyard, even if he tore the roof off, it wouldn't matter. After all, the Murong family had plenty of money; it was just a courtyard, they could afford to pay for it.

The two brothers had quieted down, but Yu Wanyu came every day. She didn't seek out Feng Qingtan, only Yuan Ge, inviting her to admire the flowers, to drink tea, and to taste the local delicacies she made in Anshi. In short, she found a way to meet and talk to Yuan Ge every day. Most of the conversations were the same old stories, but occasionally, when the atmosphere was nice, she would tell Yuan Ge about Anshi, that coastal city with its salty sea breeze, beautiful beaches, ships laden with goods, and seagulls that couldn't be seen anywhere else.

Most of the time, she was the one talking and Yuan Ge was listening. She talked a lot, rambling on and on. Sometimes when she got tired of talking, she would lean back in her chair to rest, and neither of them would say anything, but it didn't feel awkward at all.

She talked about so many things, even about how she was still unmarried when she was around ten years old, but she rarely mentioned the Murong family. Sometimes Yuan Ge would bring up the Murong family in her conversation, but Yu Wanyu would always brush it off in a few words. It was clear that she really disliked life in the Murong family. Her expression would become more serious when she talked about the Murong family.

At first, Yuan Ge was unsure whether her grandmother told her all this because she was truly lonely and had no one to confide in for many years, or for some other reason. It wasn't until several days later that she suddenly understood... Yu Wanyu told her all this about the prosperity, novelty, and liveliness of Anshi, hoping that she would yearn for it. In this way, Yu Wanyu could take the opportunity of inviting Yuan Ge to Anshi to "incidentally" invite Feng Qingtan.

Having figured all this out, Yuan Ge lost even more interest in the conversation. In addition, although her attempts to subtly probe over the past few days had not been effective, she had become certain of one fact—her maternal grandmother indeed knew very little about Murong Zhen's condition. She only knew that Murong Zhen was ill, all the doctors were helpless, and she could only place her last hope on Feng Qingtan.

Back then, she didn't hesitate to steal poison to kill him, so why is she now racking her brains to bring her teacher back to save his life... Although Yuan Ge couldn't understand why this person was so contradictory, she made excuses to refuse all of his subsequent invitations.