The thought had just arisen when she was startled awake by Jiang Man, who crawled out of the car.
Zhang Xiaoshan was taken aback.
Before Zhang Xiaoshan could speak, Jiang Man continued,
"If you ever act so shamelessly again, I’ll never talk to you." Jiang Man chided Zhang Xiaoshan while straightening her clothes, her face devoid of any anger, flushed instead with a rosy glow.
Zhang Xiaoshan quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
What Jiang Man referred to as despicable was what he had done just now, not what he had thought about Xu Xiaomeng’s body.
"It’s not that I’m shameless, but that I was preemptively exercising my rights as your future boyfriend."
"Big talker, let’s see when you can sit on par with my dad."
By now, Jiang Man had finished adjusting her clothes.
Zhang Xiaoshan gave a faint smile.
"Alright, then let’s wait and see."
At that moment, the last bus back to Qingshan Town passed by, and Zhang Xiaoshan boarded the bus.
"This little scoundrel, how come I’m so utterly at his mercy?"
"One year’s time? Is it possible?"
Jiang Man watched as the bus slowly disappeared from sight, the look in her eyes showing more hope than doubt.
When Zhang Xiaoshan walked back into the mountains and reached the ferry port at the entrance of White Dragon Village, the only ferry had already ceased operation.
"I’ve returned too late."
"If I don’t go home tonight, my sister-in-law will definitely worry, and her eyes just recovered. Emotional fluctuations could possibly bring back her old illness. I need to hurry back."
Looking at the wide river, Zhang Xiaoshan entertained a bold idea—to swim across.
Born in White Dragon Village, where the men all had some swimming skills, Zhang Xiaoshan had been fishing and shrimping in the river with his brother Brother Zhang since he was young, making his swimming skills quite commendable.
However, the White Dragon River was hundreds of meters wide, and more importantly, the water was swift and treacherously turbulent, having drowned many excellent swimmers; thus, everyone dared only to stay in the shallows, and crossing the river seemed too difficult.
"Now that I am immensely strong and have Qi protecting my body, it should not be too difficult for me, right?"
As Zhang Xiaoshan hesitated and pondered, on the opposite bank, a dark figure plunged into the river.
Zhang Xiaoshan, possessing the Heavenly Eye Divine Power, could see far into the distance and at night.
Thus he could clearly see the figure in the water from hundreds or even thousands of meters away.
Upon recognizing the figure, Zhang Xiaoshan was greatly surprised.
"Isn’t that the noblewoman bought by Wei Bao?"
The noblewoman enjoyed swimming as a hobby to shape her figure and considered herself a good swimmer, but that was in the calm waters of a swimming pool, which could hardly compare to the turbulent White Dragon River, especially with the significant temperature drop between day and night. The water in the White Dragon River was freezing cold at this time.
She had swum only two or three hundred meters when the cold made her limbs tremble and her arms too weak to even move, resembling a leaf that could be submerged at any moment.
In the water, a piece of driftwood struck the noblewoman on the shoulder. For origınal chapters go to 𝗇𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗅•𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾•𝗇𝖾𝗍
This blow completely robbed the noblewoman of the strength to swim.
Seeing the opposite shore still so far away, her mentality broke down completely.
"Then let it end, cleanly..."
At this moment, she resigned herself to fate, letting the river current sweep her away.
"Don’t just wait to die, grab the driftwood in front of you."
Suddenly, a man’s voice calling out awakened her from the abyss of death.
Opening her eyes, she could vaguely see a figure from the opposite shore braving the waves and swiftly swimming towards her.