He Su had been tailing Liang Shujun all the way from Taihang Town, but because Liang Shujun was so eager to see Dong Huiying, she hadn’t noticed her. Additionally, when Liang Shujun had originally rushed to Qingfeng Mountain, she traveled day and night, relentlessly, and killed two horses along the way. He Su, riding in a carriage, couldn’t match the pace of the swift horses, and thus fell behind.
He Su lifted the carriage curtain, gazing dreamily up the mountain.
Aunt Zhao, filled with compassion, still felt some things had to be said.
"Owner, why put yourself through such suffering? Qingfeng Mountain is famously known as Poisonous Mountain far and wide. It’s said that many hunters who have gone into the mountains to hunt have been bitten to death by the poisonous snakes and insects inside. It’s a place that can devour people. I fear that, entering Qingfeng Mountain, the odds for the Blood Phoenix Young Master are most likely grim."
He Su couldn’t bear to hear such words, her face hardened, "Aunt Zhao, though you are a servant of the He Mansion, loyal and devoted, there are things that can be said, and things that cannot. And it’s not your place to meddle in the matters of your masters!"
Aunt Zhao hurriedly apologized, "Owner, don’t be angry, I’ve spoken out of turn, but that Young Master Feng..." She hadn’t finished her sentence when she saw He Su giving her a cold look, and she was forced to swallow back the words she had wanted to say.
Why must the owner be so stubbornly deluded?
Aunt Zhao’s brow was furrowed with worry.
She just couldn’t understand what had possessed the owner. Was the Young Master Feng from the Sky Blue Building really so captivating? To bewitch the owner to this extent, even more intensely than Pei Yu from those days!
Two carriages were coming down from the mountain, with the man in the front holding the reins and the whip, the very man He Su had been yearning for. Her heart tightened, she didn’t wait for Aunt Zhao to support her and stumbled out of her carriage.
"Blood Phoenix..." she staggered forward in haste. However, the handsome man driving the carriage snapped his whip. "Gee up—!"
The carriage drove past He Su.
He Su stood there dazed for a moment, followed by the second carriage. The man driving this second carriage had short hair. With a cold demeanor, but eyes hiding a touch of recklessness, it was Liang Yuening.
Liang Yuening glanced at He Su, frowned, and then flicked his whip, following the first carriage ahead. However, he thought to himself, this woman calling ’Third Brother’ Blood Phoenix, that’s the stage name Third Brother used when performing operas in the Sky Blue Building. Could it be that Third Brother has entangled himself in romantic debts?
He has Baobao already, and now he’s still eyeing another while eating his fill, hmph!
Liang Yuening pursed his lips, his expression growing even more displeased.
He Su blankly watched the two carriages disappear into the distance, standing there in a daze for a long time. Aunt Zhao said indignantly, "That Blood Phoenix is too ungrateful! Owner, if he is not a good man, why are you so devoted to him?"
He Su didn’t take it in; coming back to her senses, she called Aunt Zhao to quickly get back in the carriage, and then they followed.
These past days, with Blood Phoenix entering Qingfeng Mountain, she had been deeply anxious for him, fearing that he might come to harm in the mountains. But even though she was a woman, and physically weaker, not skilled in martial arts, and unfamiliar with the terrain, even if she gave chase into the mountain, it likely wouldn’t be of much use.
Aunt Zhao said, this part of Qingfeng Mountain, not adjacent to death’s realm, even the villagers at the foot of the mountain would hardly dare to venture in, let alone people from outside. If one were to recklessly charge through the mountain, one might very well forfeit their own life.