Holding the script, I want to give up.

"No, there was no such person as you in the Nanning royal family of the previous life!"

"You're a variable, you'll find out later! She's doing this all for your own good!"

"It's getting late, you should get some rest, I'm going to go see her."

Seeing her dejected state, Mu Rongyi knew it was pointless to say anything more, since she wouldn't listen anyway. After he finished speaking, he didn't try to persuade her any further and left to find Liu Yunwan.

"Ha! In the future?"

How many more "futures" do I have left?

"Yue Ai, help me up."

Shangguan Zitong resigned herself to her fate.

In the evening, Shangguan Zitong lay expressionlessly on a rocking chair under a tree outside Huayu Pavilion, basking in the sunlight. Yue Ai read strange tales to her beside her, while two maids fanned her with hand fans.

"I'm not hot, you can all leave!"

"I know it's very hot, and you all have it tough. Go back now."

After dismissing them, Shangguan Zitong covered herself with a soft blanket and began to take a nap.

"Zitong, let's talk!"

Liu Yunwan brought a food box to visit Shangguan Zitong. She opened the food box, took out the specially made iced drink and medicine bowl, and placed them on the stone table next to the rocking chair. She sat quietly on the stone bench, waiting for Shangguan Zitong's response.

"What is there to talk about?"

"You don't need to say anything more. I'm going to take a nap. Don't disturb me."

Shangguan Zitong really didn't want to argue with her anymore.

"Then drink this bowl of medicine before you go to sleep, okay?"

"It might be able to keep you alive!"

Liu Yunwan tried to help her up, but Shangguan Zitong pushed her away as soon as she touched her back.

"Give it to me, I can drink it myself."

Shangguan Zitong sat up and looked in the general direction of Liu Yunwan. She reached out her hand, and Liu Yunwan handed her the medicine without touching her.

"You've finished drinking, now you can go back."

Shangguan Zitong drank the medicine in one gulp, turned the bowl upside down on the stone table, and gave Liu Yunwan a contemptuous smile.

"I heard you used to make iced drinks in Nanning, so I specially learned how to make them. Can you try them and see if they're good for me?"

Liu Yunwan then took the iced drink out of the food box and placed it on the stone table.

"Can I still trust you?"

Shangguan Zitong felt that all of this was a huge conspiracy, and she dared not trust anyone anymore.

"Trust me, I would never harm you."

Liu Yunwan said guiltily, but she didn't notice the tremor in her voice.

"Row."

Shangguan Zitong found it troublesome and just wanted to finish drinking quickly and go to sleep. She quickly finished drinking and lay down, ignoring Liu Yunwan's reaction.

"Go away. Although I can't see you, I don't want to see you."

Shangguan Zitong had been holding back, politely turning around and pretending to be asleep, speaking to her with her back to her.

"Sleep well, the suffering will eventually pass."

"everything will get better."

Seeing that she turned away, Liu Yunwan got up and took a few steps, pretending to leave, and silently waited outside the pavilion for the medicine to take effect.

"Damn, it's impossible to defend against!"

Shangguan Zitong felt dizzy and tried to get up, but her limbs were too weak, and she fainted after struggling for a while.

"Zitong, I promise, this is the last time I'll lie to you."

Liu Yunwan walked up to her, picked her up, and carried her to her own palace.

"Is this really true?"

Mu Rongyi Ke held the gold chain in her hand and fell into deep thought.

"Life and death hang in the balance, why not take a gamble?"

Liu Yunwan wanted to seize that sliver of hope.

"..."

Mu Rongyi fell silent. At this moment, he felt that Liu Yunwan had also changed, and was not substantially different from her previous life when she was cunning and scheming.

"Give it to me, you get out, I'll do it!"

Liu Yunwan took the chains from Mu Rongyike's hand. After he left, she changed Shangguan Zitong into a red and white blouse and then put the chains around her neck, hands, and feet.

"Alright, prepare the carriage. We need to get to Beiji within half a month."

"Call more men and ride at full speed; that's how we'll have any hope."

After Liu Yunwan finished getting ready, she went out and said to Mu Rongyi Ke, who was waiting outside the door.

"okay, I get it."

Mu Rongyi went to the Shadow Guard Camp to retrieve the people, leaving Xu Bin in the palace to handle state affairs. She and Liu Yunwan then embarked on their journey to Beiji.

In the middle of the night, the carriage had already left the city... Shangguan Zitong woke up after the effects of the medicine wore off.

"Hi~"

Shangguan Zitong painfully propped her head up with one hand, the sound of the chains rattling amplified endlessly in her mind, deeply piercing her heart. She huddled in a corner of the car, hugging her knees and burying her head in her hands.

"Zitong, it's me, don't be afraid."

Liu Yunwan didn't want to lock her up, but she was afraid that she would run away if she didn't obey, so she hesitated for a long time before resorting to this drastic measure. This was not her original intention.

"It's precisely because it's you that I'm afraid!"

Shangguan Zitong wanted to seal her heart with cement, but she couldn't help believing that others would get better.

"...Go to sleep, and you won't think about anything when you're asleep."

Liu Yunwan had A Long hypnotize her, putting her into a dream.

......

"Wanwan, why don't we let them rest here for a while?"

“We have been walking for three days without sleep, and they are tired too.”

Mu Rongyi lifted the side curtain of the carriage where Liu Yunwan was, and said to her with dark circles under her eyes.

"No, you should have them take turns resting, that way they won't be so tired."

"We finally made it out of Dongchuan, so we can't let our guard down."

Liu Yunwan was still worried and wanted to get to Dongchuan as soon as possible. She was also unsure whether Shangguan Zitong could hold out for that long.

Since being put into a state of hibernation that day, she has had no will to live and has remained unconscious. Liu Yunwan had no choice but to have A Long maintain her life and health using special methods. When she wakes up, she will be facing Huangfu Hongxi; it remains to be seen what she will think.

"Okay, I understand. I'll go adjust it right away."

Mu Rongyi lowered the side curtain and walked towards his subordinates. After quickly adjusting their formation, they continued on their way.

Within Shangguan Zitong's dream.

"Ah Li? Is that you?"

Shangguan Zitong looked at the white-haired boy on the jacaranda tree in the distance, called out to him, and seeing that he just looked at her quietly without replying, she slowly walked closer to him. She didn't even notice that she was walking on a vast expanse of sea with only a few jacaranda trees and their reflections.

"Who are you?"

The boy jumped down from the treetop, revealing his animal ears and nine tails swaying gently as he slowly walked towards her.

"I... am Shangguan Zitong."

Can I see now?

"Didn't you die?"

As Shangguan Zitong watched him walk towards her, she rubbed her eyes in disbelief, trying to see clearly.

"No, you're an trespasser, I don't know you!"

The boy conjured a sword and stabbed at her!

"Damn it, even if you don't know each other, you can't start shouting at each other to kill each other the moment you meet!"

Before Shangguan Zitong could finish speaking, she turned into the wind and was blown away into the dream.

"Where...is this?"

She was waiting for the green light at a busy intersection, about to take her first step with the flow of people, when space suddenly distorted! People passed right through her, and she became invisible! She covered her head and crouched down, trying to shake off the discomfort.

"Family members, the patient seems to be conscious!"

"Do we need to remove the implanted chip and administer an injection?"

The doctor, standing in the main seat, looked at the brainwave activity on the screen, then at the sleeping girl inside the space capsule, and asked the sugar daddy a question.

"No need, take it slow. I believe she will wake up sooner or later."

The sugar daddy looked at her and then gazed out the window at the scenery.

"This...I'm the person lying in the cabin with tubes all over my body?"

Shangguan Zitong wanted to get closer to see what was happening, but she seemed not to understand what they were discussing. Or perhaps she couldn't hear them at all.

Just as I was about to touch my weakened self inside the cabin, the scene changed again.

Within the primeval forest, all sorts of animals raced about, a truly magnificent sight. Those that flew in the sky, ran on the ground, and swam in the river all headed towards the orange glow emanating from the heart of the forest. It was as if a phoenix was rising from the ashes, being reborn!

She followed the beasts toward the center of the forest, witnessing the breathtaking birth of the phoenix.

"Is that a mermaid? She's so beautiful!"

Shangguan Zitong watched the mermaids swimming in the river, occasionally surfacing, and sighed. Their tails shimmered and shone brightly in the light, making them dazzling.

The phoenix descended, auspicious signs appeared in the sky, and hundreds of birds sang and flew to watch this grand feast!

"That's... a blue phoenix?"

Shangguan Zitong looked at the blue phoenix bowing to the phoenix, somewhat puzzled; she seemed to have seen it somewhere before. Before she could think further, the phoenix was snatched away by a nine-tailed fox!

"??? What just flashed past me? Where did my huge phoenix go?"

"How could they just disappear in an instant?"

Shangguan Zitong looked in the direction where the phoenix had disappeared, and saw that the blue luan bird had also vanished, and all the birds and beasts had left the scene.

"He only appeared for three seconds before he was gone?"

"Didn't you see any of these animals?"

Shangguan Zitong fell into deep thought as she looked at this amazing phenomenon.

"You've come to the wrong place, you should go back!"

Forget everything and everyone you've seen.

A deep, ancient voice pierced the air, and golden light emanated around her, forming a halo that brought her back to the real world.