"What's wrong?" Lin Yan asked, puzzled.
Mu Anxiao lowered her eyes and calculated the time, then shook her head again. "Perhaps I was mistaken." She stepped back and listened to the sounds from within.
Seeing that Mu Anxiao didn't react, the wolf demon said nothing more.
Immediately, a young Mu Anxiao's voice came from inside, "What are you doing?"
Hearing that voice, Lin Yan's nerves tightened. "Is it about to begin?"
Feng Qishi asked, looking at Mu Anxiao, "Mu the fool, do you think... a celestial being might have saved you?"
Mu Anxiao's eyes sank. "I have no memory of it." As she spoke, she suddenly realized her head didn't hurt at all.
"Your head doesn't hurt?" Feng Qishi asked.
Mu Anxiao touched her head. "Surprisingly, it doesn't hurt at all."
"It's..." Before Feng Qishi could finish, his head suddenly throbbed with immense pain, and he clutched it with his hand.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao quickly stepped forward and asked, "Are you alright?"
"...." Feng Qishi completely ignored Mu Anxiao, holding his head tightly. After swaying for a moment, he collapsed.
Startled, Mu Anxiao exclaimed, "Shen the madman, what's wrong with you?" She immediately crouched beside Feng Qishi.
Feng Qishi lay on the ground, and a blue light gradually emanated from around his body. Mu Anxiao looked at his body, a strange sense of unease suddenly filling her heart.
"What's wrong with him?" the wolf demon asked.
Mu Anxiao shook her head. "I don't know." She tried to cast a spell to save him, but it was completely useless.
The wolf demon said, "He's transparent, and you're solid. You definitely won't be able to affect him."
"Then what should we do?" Mu Anxiao looked down at Feng Qishi's curled-up body, growing anxious. "It doesn't make sense." As she spoke, the blue light suddenly enveloped her hands.
The next second, her hands, completely beyond her control, pressed onto Feng Qishi's arms.
Seeing this, the wolf demon exclaimed, "You can affect him now."
"It's not me, it's the light," Mu Anxiao said, confused. "What's going on?"
Lin Yan looked at Mu Anxiao and Feng Qishi and said after some thought, "Could it be related to the blue light above?" He pointed upwards.
Mu Anxiao immediately looked up at the sky and found that... the blue light had disappeared.
"What's going on?" she asked, turning her gaze to the wolf demon's face.
The wolf demon shrugged. "I don't know." He then pointed to the door. "It's starting to talk again."
Mu Anxiao listened, glanced at the unconscious Feng Qishi, and wondered if it was really... Shen Yan?
Inside.
Little Mu Anxiao was cornered by the maid, but she still said, "My brother couldn't possibly harm me."
"That's not what you said back then," the maid replied. Thinking of how much little Mu Anxiao had trusted her at the time, her heart sank. She immediately removed the black cloth from her face.
At this moment, the wood shed was brightly lit by lanterns. Little Mu Anxiao clearly saw the maid's face before her and her eyes widened. "It's you."
"It's me," the maid declared her identity. Then, glancing at the black bottle in her hand, she said, "That's not what you told me back then. You said you trusted me. You said you saw through your brother. And now... you say this again... Mu Anxiao, why did you lie to me?"
For a long time, the maid had been constantly deceived by Mu Xi. Because of Mu Xi, she had dismissed everyone in the Mu family, but she had believed little Mu Anxiao.
She thought little Mu Anxiao had seen through Mu Xi. Who knew... she was wrong. Indeed, blood relations were different!
"I..." Little Mu Anxiao hadn't expected the person before her to be the maid. At this moment, she didn't know what to do.
The maid said, "You're so young, and you already know how to lie."
"I truly pity you," little Mu Anxiao said sincerely.
"Pity me?" The maid sneered. "So, those words weren't sincere at all, just meant to comfort me. You only feel pity for me."
"I didn't... I think there's a misunderstanding between you and brother."
Little Mu Anxiao was still young and didn't understand many things. After listening to the maid's words, she only thought that the maid had a misunderstanding with her brother. She had intended to comfort the maid first.
When Mu Xi arrived tomorrow, she would talk to Mu Xi properly and have him explain things to the maid, and then the matter would be resolved.
Who knew, things weren't as simple as she thought.
"Misunderstanding? There's no misunderstanding between us. He wants to harm you, do you know that?"
"Impossible."
"Still impossible? He's a beast in human clothing. He acts like he cares about you immensely on the surface, but deep down, he's not human at all, he's a beast. That's how he treated me back then. I always believed him, always believed him, and in the end... he tried to sell me to a brothel. Do you know what a brothel is?" The maid lost control.
"...." Little Mu Anxiao didn't know if she should speak.
The maid continued speaking to herself, "A brothel is a place that ruins people. Once a woman enters, her life is ruined forever." She said, "I gave him so much, and in the end... he treated me like this. Today, he still pretends to be nice to me. Do you think I would believe him?"
"I don't understand what you're saying." Little Mu Anxiao's mind was in chaos.
"Your brother is a scoundrel. He ruined my life. Since that's the case, I'll tell you the truth. Originally," the maid said, "the female housekeeper was supposed to kill you, but... I didn't want you to die, so I took on this task from your brother. Do you know, I had already planned to help you escape, but..." She chuckled bitterly.
Little Mu Anxiao: "...." A bad premonition began to dawn on her.
The maid continued to chuckle bitterly. "I just explained everything to you, and you still don't believe me. Even now, you stubbornly believe your brother. Fine, if you don't believe me, then I don't need to show you any mercy."
"What are you going to do?" Little Mu Anxiao's heart leaped into her throat.
"Kill you. I have to complete the task your brother gave me. Anyway..." the maid sneered, "I'll be finished tomorrow."
"You..."
"I believed you, I believed your brother, but in the end, you both lied to me, toyed with me," the maid said, weighing the black bottle in her hand. "I wanted to save you, I gave you my sincere heart, and in the end, all I got was your pity. How ridiculous, how utterly ridiculous."
Little Mu Anxiao cried, "Don't kill me."
"Now you're begging me... What were you doing before?" the maid said, casually pulling out the wooden stopper sealing the bottle. "Little girl, this is the consequence of your lies."
Seeing this, little Mu Anxiao's eyes widened. "Sister, I didn't lie to you. I believe you, but... I truly feel there's a misunderstanding between you and my brother. I..."
"Shut up!"