After Lu Chen had steadied her, Bai Qingqing wanted to quickly circulate her skill to check whether there was something wrong with her body,
but at this moment, Bai Qingqing suddenly discovered that the inner strength within her body had vanished completely.
She was now just like any ordinary person.
Although she didn't know what had happened, Bai Qingqing knew it had to do with Lu Chen.
Perhaps it was because there was something wrong with the tea she had just drunk.
However, she couldn't figure out why she still fell into the trap when she had checked the tea earlier and found no trace of any drugs in it.
Why had she still been affected?
Gradually, Bai Qingqing's vision became more and more blurred, and she seemed to enter a strange world.
In Sufeng City of Great Sum, there was a Bai Mansion.
The male master of Bai Mansion had married a wife beautiful as a flower, and their relationship had always been harmonious.
Until one day, the mistress of Bai Mansion suddenly found out that the master of the house had an affair with a concubine maid, who was even pregnant.
From that day on, a rift formed between the master and mistress of Bai Mansion, and although life went on as usual, the mistress of Bai Mansion wanted to kill the concubine maid multiple times, to prevent her child from being born.
But under the protection of the male master, the concubine maid still gave birth to the child.
However, from the day the child was born, she received various forms of unfair treatment.
The child's mother, the concubine maid, had hoped that her status would be elevated by her son, only to be angered when she gave birth to a daughter.
She was so furious that she tried to kill the child with her own hands several times, but never succeeded due to the male master's intervention.
As the girl grew up, the children of the mistress despised her, even calling her a bastard, often beating her, wishing she would die. She had been covered in bruises for as long as she could remember.
The male master of Bai Mansion also argued with the mistress over the girl, leading to various problems within Bai Mansion, and the male master, once her protector, grew increasingly resentful toward her, often yelling at her furiously.
Thus, the girl was despised by everyone in Bai Mansion, and even her own mother ceased to care for her completely when she was five years old.
One day, a mysterious person came to Bai Mansion.
This mysterious person handed a packet of medicine to the little girl, telling her that by pouring it into the well, she would be completely free.
The little girl, bewitched or controlled by something, did not hesitate, and that very night, she poured the medicine given to her by the mysterious person into the well. The next day, she awoke to find hundreds of people in Bai Mansion dead.
Later, the little girl was taken by the mysterious person to a mysterious place, where she learned all about killing, day and night. Gradually she became colder and more detached, her past memories fading away, and soon she completely forgot all the hardships she had suffered.
One day, the mysterious person who had taken her from Bai Mansion reappeared and handed her a mission, instructing her to pretend to be a little beggar on the essential path of a certain nobleman.
By then, the little girl had become nothing but a tool for killing, and without any hesitation, she obeyed the mysterious person's command.
Later, she was taken by the nobleman to the Imperial Palace and was even considered to become a concubine maid for a Prince.
The people in the Imperial Palace treated her very well, especially the Prince, who, despite enjoying teasing her, never oppressed her with his royal status.
She once wondered if she would live in this warm environment forever, until one day, the mysterious person commanded her to find a special item in the nobleman's residence, and that was when she realized she was just a tool.
The girl soon transformed back into a cold instrument until her mission was complete. Consequently, she left the Imperial Palace and went on to carry out various assassination tasks.
Later on, she became the Deputy Commander of the Shadow Guard of Great Sum.
That person was Bai Qingqing.
At this time, Bai Qingqing's mind was continuously replaying scenes of her life with Lu Chen in the Imperial Palace.
Especially each night when Lu Chen held her in his arms to sleep, telling her all kinds of stories, she felt as if it were happening right at that moment.
As those scenes flickered by ceaselessly, Bai Qingqing suddenly felt as if she could hear her own heartbeat.
Growing clearer and clearer...
Her normally ice-cold cheeks now sported a tint of red.
It was then that Chu Yuqin's voice reached her ears.
"Bai... Bai... What's happening to you?"
"Could it be that there's some problem with your training?"
"Hold on, I'll help you adjust right away."
At that moment, Bai Qingqing felt a warm current enter her body, and the chaotic influx of memories in her mind gradually came to a halt.
Bai Qingqing understood now that those memories were not someone else's, but her own.
It's just that she had been unwilling to recall those memories, leading them to be gradually sealed and forgotten in her mind.
This had nothing to do with the tea she had just drunk.
Of course, that's what she believed.
Seeing that Bai Qingqing had stabilized herself, Lu Chen promptly let go of her.
Soon, Bai Qingqing felt her skill returning to her.
With Chu Yuqin's help in adjusting her Inner Strength, Bai Qingqing quickly returned to normal.
She opened her eyes and said to Chu Yuqin, "Madam Chu, I'm fine now, thank you."
Hearing Bai Qingqing say this, Chu Yuqin stopped transferring her Inner Strength and asked with a serious tone, "Bai, what's wrong with your body, why did I just feel your Inner Strength suddenly dissipate?"
Bai Qingqing didn't know why this had happened either, so she made up an excuse, "I had a mishap during my recent training, a night's rest will do."
Chu Yuqin immediately said, "Then go rest now, your health is most important."
As Chu Yuqin's words fell, Lu Chen spoke up, "Bai, I'll have someone arrange a room for you right away."
Afterwards, Lu Chen turned around and ordered the maids in the courtyard to immediately prepare a room.
Watching Lu Chen's retreating figure, for some reason, Bai Qingqing suddenly felt her mind becoming hazy again.
He was like the starlight in the darkness, offering her a glimmer of light in the boundless dark.
As Lu Chen was having the maids arrange a room for Bai Qingqing, a system prompt suddenly rang in his ear, and a text interface appeared in front of him.
[Bai Qingqing's emotions have revived, Favorability 100.]
Seeing this notification, Lu Chen was momentarily stunned.
Had Bai Qingqing's emotions just revived, and her favorability towards him soared to one hundred in an instant?
Lu Chen quickly collected himself, turning his head to look at Bai Qingqing, only to find that she was watching him.
There seemed to be something more in her eyes.
As for what it was, Lu Chen couldn't say.
Even though she still appeared cold, her eyes seemed to emanate a soft glow.