Jiang Wuming carried Li Liany i back to the hotel. Li Liany i had not yet woken up, so he had to carry her from the car and into the hotel room.
It was noon, and the members of the Dragon Country delegation, after having lunch, were gradually walking out of the first-floor restaurant. They happened to witness this scene.
"Amitabha, what do I see? Jiang Wuming is holding Li Liany i? Didn't they break off their engagement? Why are they holding each other?"
Yuan He's eyes widened as if he had seen something incredible. He couldn't help but say to Ye Kunlun beside him.
"Idiotic."
Ye Kunlun left two words and quickened his pace. It felt as if walking with Yuan He was a very embarrassing thing.
"So, human relationships are that complicated. No wonder Buddha told us to abstain from sex."
Yuan He wasn't angry. Instead, he was deep in thought.
The others around him couldn't help but want to laugh. This successor of the Buddhist sect was too strange.
Ye Feng, who was walking at the very back of the crowd, had a complicated expression on his face.
He had always admired Li Liany i, and had even thought about asking his grandfather, Ye Zheng, to propose to the Li family.
Although he had personally witnessed Jiang Wuming and Li Liany i break off their engagement at Li Zhuang that day, he could see that their relationship had not worsened because of that incident.
At this moment, seeing Jiang Wuming holding Li Liany i confirmed his judgment, and he also understood that he was destined to have no fate with Li Liany i in this life. Their destinies would be like two parallel lines that could never intersect again.
Jiang Wuming ignored the gazes of the crowd. Instead, he carried Li Liany i and quickly took her back to the room.
After Jiang Wuming put Li Liany i on the bed, he did not leave immediately. Instead, he sat by the bed and observed Li Liany i's condition.
Li Liany i showed no signs of waking up. Her beautiful face was covered in sweat, filled with exhaustion.
It was the exhaustion caused by excessive consumption and even depletion of her mental power.
Looking at Li Liany i's beautiful and tired face, Jiang Wuming was momentarily lost in thought. Memories of his time with Li Liany i flooded his mind.
He recalled the first time he met Li Liany i at the Su family courtyard.
He also remembered Li Liany i watching him from the audience when he fought the ancestor of the Liu family to the death under the name of the War God Hall Master. He couldn't help but ask himself in his heart, "Did she guess my identity back then?"
Yes.
Jiang Wuming found the answer in his heart.
Then, Jiang Wuming thought about when he broke off the engagement at Li Zhuang. Li Liany i had not only not been angry but had looked very calm, as if she had expected it all along. She had only reminded him at the end not to forget their past promise.
Finally, the scene froze on the girl standing at the door of the operating room, her eyes red, looking at Jiang Wuming with a face full of self-reproach.
"Wise beyond measure."
This was Jiang Wuming's impression of Li Liany i in the past. She was like a fairy who did not eat worldly food.
But today, he saw Li Liany i's fragile side.
The girl's fragility was due to both her failure to preserve Ren Xiaoyao's martial cultivation and due to himself.
"When she wakes up, I can try to teach her the Nine-Nine Body Forging to improve her mental power, so she can save people better in the future."
The scene disappeared. Jiang Wuming looked at the girl's beautiful and tired face and whispered to himself.
"You are only teaching me the Nine-Nine Body Forging so that I can save people better?"
As Jiang Wuming's words fell, Li Liany i suddenly opened her eyes and stared straight at Jiang Wuming.
"You... you're awake?!"
Jiang Wuming was surprised and embarrassed.
"Actually, I woke up when you carried me off the car," Li Liany i said, a sly smile forming on her lips.
"Then why didn't you tell me and kept your eyes closed?" Jiang Wuming asked subconsciously.
"You carried me, so it saved trouble,"
Li Liany i said reasonably, blinking her big eyes.
"—"
Jiang Wuming.
"What were you thinking when you were looking at me just now?" Li Liany i asked again.
"N-nothing. Do you want some water? I'll go get you some. Are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat from the restaurant?"
Jiang Wuming shook his head, then stood up and asked quickly, his eyes betraying his undisguised panic.
"Pfft—"
Seeing this, Li Liany i couldn't help but laugh. "I really didn't expect Master Wuming, the leader of the War Dragon Hall, who is the most outstanding among the younger generation in the global martial arts world, to also be nervous."
"—"
Jiang Wuming was speechless again.
"Are you going back on your word?" Li Liany i put away her smile and pretended to be serious.
"What?"
"Teaching me the Nine-Nine Body Forging?"
"Of course, it counts."
"Then, you have to teach me yourself until I learn it."
"Okay."
"I'm a bit hungry now, but I can't move. Can you get me some food and feed me, how about that?"
"Okay."
Jiang Wuming nodded his head like a pecking chick and immediately turned to leave the room. It felt as if Li Liany i was more terrifying than Saint Laren @ Roman.
Ten minutes later, when Jiang Wuming returned to the room with the food, he found that Li Liany i was taking a shower in the bathroom.
"You... you couldn't move just now, could you?"
Jiang Wuming looked at the hazy figure in the bathroom through the glass, looking a bit stunned.
"I recovered some strength just now, but after showering, I might not be able to move again," Li Liany i's voice came from the bathroom.
"???"
Jiang Wuming.
"Alright, I'm done teasing you. Put the food down, I'll eat myself. But don't forget to come back to teach me the Nine-Nine Body Forging."
In the bathroom, Li Liany i seemed to imagine Jiang Wuming's expression and couldn't help but laugh again.
"Okay."
Jiang Wuming put down the food box and fled the room as if escaping.
Twenty minutes later, Li Liany i emerged from the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel. Seeing the food box on the table, she imagined Jiang Wuming feeding her, and her pretty face instantly turned red, feeling hot.
Like Jiang Wuming, she had no dating experience. She was exploring uncharted territory. Being able to take the initiative and be a master of words was already remarkable enough to shock the Li family, let alone actually trying it.
"Ding—"
Immediately, just as Li Liany i was about to eat, her phone in her backpack rang.
When she went to the martial arts arena in the morning, she had brought her backpack along with her medical kit.
When Jiang Wuming carried Li Liany i back from the operating room, he also brought her backpack.
Li Liany i opened her backpack, took out her phone, and saw that it was a call from her grandfather, Li Guyi. She answered it directly, "Grandpa."
"Liany i, are you alright?"
Li Guyi asked with concern. He had already learned from Li Xiaoman that Li Liany i had tried to save Ren Xiaoyao and had fainted.
"Grandpa, I'm fine. I just finished showering and am about to eat," Li Liany i replied.
"Liany i, Xiaoman told me that you took a risk and used the Heavenly Yi Divine Needle, knowing that you couldn't preserve Ren Xiaoyao's martial cultivation?"
Li Guyi asked again, his tone quite serious.
This was because the Heavenly Yi Divine Needle he mentioned was the divine skill of an ancient Chinese medical saint. It was extremely difficult to comprehend, and most who comprehended it became vegetative due to forcibly using it and depleting their mental power.
"Grandpa, I just wanted to see if a miracle would happen." Li Liany i was uncharacteristically a little guilty.
"Alas... you don't need to lie to me. I know you did it because Jiang Wuming and Ren Xiaoyao had a good relationship. You really don't care about your own life for him!" Li Guyi sighed.
Li Liany i's lie was exposed, and she didn't know how to answer.
Li Guyi asked again, "Does he know?"
"He doesn't," Li Liany i replied softly.
"Why didn't you tell him?" Li Guyi asked.
"Why should I tell him?"
Li Liany i retorted and then sighed softly, "Besides, I didn't succeed."
Li Guyi was speechless and felt a pang of heartache.
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