Gu Youyou was still unsettled as she finally took several deep breaths.
The incident just now had indeed left her feeling scared. If Jin Zijin hadn’t happened to arrive, she didn’t know what the wild man would have done to her.
He had become something inhuman, she thought. Perhaps he really might eat people.
Gu Youyou took a deep breath, patted her chest, and said in a low voice, "I’m sorry, I came out to gather herbs, but I didn’t expect..."
"Hmm? Didn’t expect what?"
Gu Youyou’s face was somewhat pale. Seeing this, Jin Zijin knew she had encountered something.
Jin Zijin was unaware of the wild man’s existence. He had just realized Gu Youyou was missing after returning, so he anxiously searched everywhere for her.
Gu Youyou looked in the direction where the wild man had left and said, "I just encountered a... wild man. He ran so fast, like a monkey, and also..."
Before Gu Youyou could finish, Jin Zijin had already stepped quickly to her side, grabbing her hand forcefully.
Gu Youyou yelped in pain, but Jin Zijin didn’t loosen his grip at all.
Disregarding the pain in Gu Youyou’s wrist, he continued to insist, "Where, where is that person?"
Due to his agitation, his face looked somewhat ferocious. Yes, ferocious. Gu Youyou was seeing this expression on Jin Zijin’s face for the first time, and it threw her into a panic.
"Who... is he? Why are you so anxious?"
Gu Youyou didn’t understand why she felt this way, but seeing Jin Zijin treat her over a wild man she had never even seen, her heart hurt!
Jin Zijin seemed to notice something and tried to suppress the intense agitation in his heart, and his grip finally loosened a bit.
He softened his voice and said, "Youyou, where is that person?"
Still the same question, yet he didn’t answer Gu Youyou’s.
Gu Youyou replied with a bitter smile, "He’s already gone! He might have sensed you approaching, so he ran. He ran very fast, a speed that surpassed human limits. You wouldn’t catch up."
Having said that, she pointed in a direction.
Jin Zijin looked in the direction Gu Youyou was pointing. In the distance within a mountain hollow, birds took flight in alarm.
Jin Zijin’s expression darkened sharply and he let go of Gu Youyou’s wrist to chase after the sight.
Gu Youyou’s eyes widened. She felt that the so-called human limit was being reset once again in her mind.
What exactly are human limits, and why could Jin Zijin run so fast through the woods?
It was as if he was not even touching the ground. Such movements, she had only seen in martial arts television shows!
Dumbfounded for quite some time, Gu Youyou finally came to her senses from the shock.
She figured out that maybe the life into which she had transmigrated was not one of simple farmers, but of a martial arts world.
Gu Youyou returned near the cave and spread the collected herbs out to dry on a large rock next to it. By the time she was done, she was so hungry she could eat a horse.
She hadn’t had anything to eat that morning and hadn’t even had a drink of water. It was already past noon, and by the time the sun leaned west, it would be dinner time.
The farm families didn’t have lunch, so they always ate dinner early.
And Jin Zijin? He had gone to pursue the wild man and still hadn’t come back.
She sat on the rock with a bitter smile, recalling how she once wondered if Jin Zijin might have come for her. Although unlikely, she had held on to a sliver of hope.
Now, things had become clear. It turned out he had come for the wild man in the mountains, perhaps having noticed something, and then coincidentally rescued her from the haunted house.
Then what? What did it mean to be husband and wife?