C5

Housekeeper Liu personally sent Xiao Lan to the original residence of the body's owner.

It was an extremely remote and small courtyard. If one did not pay attention to it, one would not know where it was, as it was just a place for servants to live.

Housekeeper Liu helped Xiao Lan into the inner room. When they were close to the bed, Xiao Lan pushed aside Housekeeper Liu's continued obedience and sat on the bed with great effort alone.

Housekeeper Liu was deeply shocked when he saw Xiao Lan push down his arm, and he looked at Xiao Lan with a complicated gaze.

"Lanyi, you …"

During the entire journey, he had some doubts. If it was in the past, after Lanyi received such a severe punishment, she would definitely cry and complain about it after he saved her. However, this time, during their journey, Langyi did not even utter a single sound of pain.

What surprised him even more was that she actually pushed him, who was concerned about her, away.

Xiao Lan raised his head to look at Housekeeper Liu, but Housekeeper Liu still had an expression of surprise on his face.

Xiao Lan remained expressionless as he calmly gave the order to leave. "I want to be alone for a while. Can you leave first?"

This time, Housekeeper Liu was even more shocked from head to toe. Wan-yi actually didn't look for him to complain and instead chased him away!

"Lanyi, you …" Was it some sort of provocation?

Housekeeper Liu, who didn't leave immediately, originally wanted to continue to pay attention to the situation, but the words he wanted to say were suddenly stuck in his throat by the frightening coldness that was emitting from Xiao Lan's body.

He, Liu Zhizhong, had also been in the battleground before. He had seen all sorts of people, but he felt cold inside as if this was the first time he had seen someone soaked in a thousand year old Xuan Bing.

It was no longer as simple as being afraid to go near her. It was as if she had been tempered by something cold.

Housekeeper Liu's feet seemed to have grown roots on the ground. It was not that he did not want to leave, but he had forgotten what to do next.

Xiao Lan's cold gaze swept across Housekeeper Liu again.

This time, Housekeeper Liu finally found his senses, and he stepped out of the door.

Even when Housekeeper Liu was standing outside the door, he was still in a trance. Was everything that had happened in the room real? Was it just a blur, or was it just an illusion?

Housekeeper Liu staggered forward, pondering over the matter. Could it be that it was really Wei Lanyi who was provoked by the incident this time to such an extent?

However, the chill on her body wasn't something that could be released just from a sudden provocation, but instead something that only demons who had been bathed in blood and were reborn from hell would possess.

Housekeeper Liu stopped walking; the more he thought about it, the more confused he became. Half an hour later, Housekeeper Liu, who could not think of anything else, heaved a sigh of relief.

He had promised Mei-Tong that he would take good care of her. No matter what happened, he wouldn't let her risk her life.

Putting everything aside, the questions were simple. People would not be conflicted. Just like how Housekeeper Liu, who walked towards the Hou Mansion's dining room with determined steps, he had already decided that she was Mei Yuan's daughter.

After being starved for three whole days and nights, what he needed most right now was probably a bowl of porridge.

Xiao Lan, who was currently sitting in the inner room, was naturally hungry. However, compared to hunger, her current situation was the one that worried her the most.

Xiao Lan took a deep breath, then raised his left hand to look at the Plum Blossom Birthmark on it.

"Wan-Yi, the third lady of the Hou clan, a lowly girl born of the marquis' drunkenness and a servant girl …"

Xiao Lan's voice was icy cold and calm, without the slightest fluctuation of emotion. If someone were to hear the expression and voice of Xiao Lan at this moment, their hairs would surely stand on end and they would be extremely terrified.

After being starved to death for three days and three nights, to be exact, she was now completely covered in skin and bones, and had spent three days in a place with a moldy smell coming from the woodshed. At this moment, her appearance was no different from a wild ghost who had crawled out of a wilderness.

Xiao Lan lowered his arms as he looked around. This simple and shabby place was extremely poor. It simply didn't seem like a place Hou Mansion should be when compared to the luxurious and dazzling place outside the courtyard.

Another dead mother, a child whose father did not feel any pain, and who even grew up in an evil old society.

She had experienced great storms and great waves before. Now, it seemed that she had encountered a transmigration of her soul. Although this transmigration had already thrown her into chaos, she still had to rationally sort out the events that had occurred.

Where to start?

After that, countless people died. Only Anya and she arrived at the main tomb, and Anya was also unluckily severely injured at the main tomb entrance. Then, she went into the main tomb alone, and immediately afterwards, she broke open a coffin and saw a beautiful man who had been well-preserved thousands of years ago. After that, she found the Profound Spirit Pearl in the upper right corner of his coffin, and finally …

When the Spiritual Bead suddenly had a scorching heat, she inexplicably fell down. When she woke up again, she came here.

Xiao Lan's finger habitually lightly tapped on the bed. It seemed that the crux of the problem lay with that Profound Spirit Pearl.

Perhaps that bead was the modern medium that was connected to this place. As long as she found that bead, she might be able to go back.

After considering the question, Xiao Lan's uneasy heart calmed down a lot.

Dong, dong, dong.

There was a knock at the door.

Xiao Lan quickly looked towards the door. "Who?"

"It's me, Lanyi."

Housekeeper Liu... Xiao Lan paused for a few seconds before replying in a steady voice, "Enter."

Housekeeper Liu walked in with some porridge and a few light dishes. "Lanyi, you must be starving. Eat something first."

Xiao Lan's gaze calmly swept across Housekeeper Liu's body before landing on the food that Housekeeper Liu had placed on the table.

People were made of iron, while food was made of steel. It was impossible not to eat.

If she, Xiao Lan, wanted to return, the first thing she had to do was ensure that this broken body of hers was still alive.

Xiao Lan stood up from the bed and walked to the table. Her movements were slow but not lacking in etiquette as she began to eat.

Seeing that Xiao Lan was starting to eat, the corners of Housekeeper Liu's mouth raised in happiness, but after a while, his frown deepened.

At this moment, how come she looked like a lady when she was eating? He had taught her countless times, but he still couldn't make her change her petty look. How come after being starved for three days in the woodshed, everything had changed?

This... It was too strange.

Xiao Lan ate quietly and did not look at Housekeeper Liu. Naturally, she did not notice that Housekeeper Liu's eyebrows were about to scrunch together.

But in reality, Xiao Lan and Housekeeper Liu were both paying attention to each other. Housekeeper Liu was looking at appearances, while Xiao Lan was flipping through memories.