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" Ke Yan'er, come over and massage my legs!" Lan Xibai floated at the head of the bed, lazily beckoning with her finger, her tone laced with a hint of playful coaxing.
Yue Keyan turned her head away haughtily, a stubborn look on her face. "No."
"Be good, listen to me, or I will—eat you!"
Suddenly, Lan Xibai transformed into a hungry wolf, baring her teeth and clawing as she lunged forward...
"Help!" Yue Keyan jolted upright in bed, and as she took in her surroundings, she realized she had been dreaming.
Still shaken, she pinched her own cheek and muttered softly, "Lan Xibai, you're really terrible at scaring people. Every time I dream of you, it's a nightmare!"
Yue Keyan pulled the blanket over herself, ready to go back to sleep, but faintly heard a low sobbing sound from outside.
Instantly alert, she tiptoed out of bed and gently pushed open the door.
The moonlight was dim and eerie; the vast courtyard was filled with cold winds that made her shiver involuntarily.
"Woo... woo..."
It was that low sobbing again, trembling and barely audible, almost breaking in the night breeze.
Following the sound of crying, she walked step by step toward a corner where a storage room stood—usually locked up tight.
As she approached, a sudden pain shot through her neck, and darkness enveloped her. She fainted.
When she regained consciousness, she found herself in a dimly lit cave, surrounded by several young women lying scattered about.
Had she encountered kidnappers? But how could kidnappers get into the circus troupe? Unless...
Yue Keyan shivered violently, a wave of dread washing over her. Could it be that the kidnappers were within the circus?
Anxiously, she waited for what felt like an eternity until someone finally entered the cave. Yue Keyan looked up nervously, but as soon as she recognized the man’s face, her heart sank. Who else could it be but Zhang Kui'an?
“ Ms. Lan,” Zhang Kui'an said with a hint of regret, a complex expression crossing his face. “Honestly, I quite like you, little girl. I wanted to keep you in the circus for a while longer, but alas... Sigh. What were you thinking, running around the yard in the middle of the night?”
“I... I didn’t see anything.”
The moment the words left her mouth, Yue Keyan regretted it. Wasn’t that just confessing? She silently cursed herself.
“Whether you saw anything or not makes no difference.” Zhang Kui'an pointed at the other unconscious girls on the ground. “Now that you’re here, there’s no way out for you. Don’t worry; since we’ve met, I won’t sell you to a brothel.”
“But I can’t leave Hua Nan Town!” Yue Keyan scrambled to Zhang Kui'an's feet, clutching his pant leg and crying desperately. “Please, let me go! I swear I won’t tell anyone about this secret.”
She couldn’t leave Hua Nan Town; her grandmother’s life hung by a thread. The loneliness of Lan Xibai and Three Hundred Years—it all depended on whether she could find Lan Xibai in this time and space, and Hua Nan Town was where Lan Xibai was sealed.
“Hmph, you really have no backbone, begging for mercy from scum like Zhang Kui'an!”
"I admit it, I lack courage. I'm afraid of dying, afraid of not finding Lan Xibai, afraid I won't be able to save my grandmother, I..."
Suddenly, Yue Keyan froze, then trembled as she lifted her head. Yet all she could see was Zhang Kui'an's bearded face. However, above him, hanging from a withered vine, was the Wild Monkey that seemed to oppose her at every turn.
There was no one else awake here. Could that last sentence have been... Yue Keyan stared at the Wild Monkey swinging leisurely by its tail and suddenly realized that ever since she met Lan Xibai, her strange thoughts had multiplied. At this moment, she even found herself thinking that the Wild Monkey had said those words.
"I said, dead woman, what are you dazing out for? He’s just a mortal; I can’t casually use magic on him. So my immobilization spell can only hold him for the time it takes to burn an incense stick."
The Wild Monkey jumped down from the cave's ceiling and landed in Yue Keyan's arms, grabbing her soft face with its little monkey paws. "Dead woman, hurry up and leave this place with me!"
Yue Keyan finally snapped back to reality. She stared blankly at the talking Wild Monkey in her arms and then at Zhang Kui'an, who was frozen by the spell. She swallowed hard and resignedly picked up the Wild Monkey, running towards the cave's exit. She had no other choice, did she?
Either escape with a monkey demon or wait to be sold!
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