When Peng Jiahai arrived after receiving the call, Qi Yue was already being helped to sit down, but she was still trembling uncontrollably, tightly hugging her arms.

“Qi Yue, Qi Yue?” Peng Jiahai called out, pulling up her arm to rub it.

The doctors here brought saline solution for her to drink.

“How did this happen when everything was fine?” Peng Jiahai asked.

“Don’t know, she was just getting her bag to leave when she collapsed at the TV.”

“Low blood sugar?”

“We checked, no problems.”

Everyone spoke in confusion.

Peng Jiahai massaged Qi Yue’s shoulders.

Qi Yue actually couldn’t hear or see the chaotic talking here. She just stared at the TV, which had already been turned off.

What had she seen?

What had she seen?!

She closed her eyes.

“I…” she began with a trembling voice, “I’m fine…”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief that she could speak.

“Where do you feel uncomfortable?” Peng Jiahai asked, half-kneeling in front of the chair with a frown.

Qi Yue took several deep breaths.

“I just haven’t been eating well lately, a bit of low blood sugar. I’ll be fine after going home to rest,” she said.

“Really?” Peng Jiahai asked.

“Really, I wouldn’t joke about my own health,” Qi Yue said, forcing out a weak smile.

Peng Jiahai nodded.

“Stay in the hospital for observation overnight,” he said.

Qi Yue shook her head.

“No, I’d rather go home,” she said.

Seeing her insistence, everyone stopped insisting.

Soon a wheelchair was brought over, and Peng Jiahai pushed her out.

“I’m fine now, I can walk back,” Qi Yue said, seeing Peng Jiahai opening the car door.

“That won’t do,” Peng Jiahai said, opening the car door and reaching out to help her.

Qi Yue hesitated for a moment before holding his arm and getting into the car.

The lights in the house came on. Sitting on the sofa, Qi Yue watched Peng Jiahai skillfully go to the kitchen, take out a cup, pour hot water, and bring it over. Qi Yue took it and smiled at him.

“Don’t worry about me, I’ll be fine after sleeping. You should go back quickly,” she said. “Sorry for making you waste the restaurant reservation.”

Peng Jiahai smiled and shook his head, sitting down beside Qi Yue.

“I already called and had them deliver it,” he said.

“That’s really not necessary…” Qi Yue quickly said.

“Don’t you have low blood sugar? You need to eat even more,” Peng Jiahai said.

The doorbell rang outside.

“Coming,” he said, patting Qi Yue’s shoulder and standing up.

Watching the man arranging food in the kitchen, Qi Yue sighed.

“Dr. Peng, I’m tired now. Just leave it there, I’ll eat when I feel like it,” she said.

Peng Jiahai’s hand paused slightly.

“Alright,” he turned around and said with a smile. “But you must eat.”

Qi Yue thanked him.

“Call if you need anything,” Peng Jiahai said, picking up his coat.

“Thank you,” Qi Yue thanked him again. “Sorry for the trouble.”

Peng Jiahai smiled and nodded, closing the door as he left.

The next day when Peng Jiahai was making rounds, Huang Ying stopped him.

“How is Yueniang?” she asked. “I just heard.”

Peng Jiahai shook his head, thinking about the phone that hadn’t rung once since last night.

“How don’t you know? Didn’t you take her home last night?” Huang Ying asked.

“She didn’t ask me to stay,” Peng Jiahai said.

“So you just left?” Huang Ying asked with wide eyes.

Peng Jiahai looked at her, equally puzzled.

“What else?” he smiled and asked back.

Huang Ying deflated and made a sound of understanding.

“I’ll call her in a bit,” Peng Jiahai said. A patient called for the doctor over there, so he walked away.

Huang Ying shook her head.

“That’s the only bad thing about good men – they don’t know how to and don’t need to coax women,” she said.

“Be content. Nowadays, if men don’t need women to coax them, we should thank heaven,” a passing nurse said after hearing.

Huang Ying laughed.

“That’s also true,” she smiled, shaking her head while taking out her phone to call Qi Yue.

But she was met with a message that the phone was turned off.

“In surgery?” Huang Ying wondered, then went directly to the emergency room, only to be told that Qi Yue hadn’t come to work.

“She took leave, annual leave,” a colleague said after checking.

Huang Ying was very surprised.

This person never takes leave…

She hurried to Qi Yue’s home, knocked for a long time with no answer, then had to call Qi Yue’s parents.

“Yes, she called this morning, very early,” Mother Qi told Huang Ying on the phone. “Said she was going to visit a classmate in another city and travel around… Where? Nanyun Province… Didn’t say specifically where… Phone’s off, early morning flight, probably on the plane now…”

Huang Ying hung up the phone and looked at Qi Yue’s door.

“Nanyun Province? What classmate?” she muttered. “Wasn’t she sick? How is she traveling again? Where did this urgent classmate she’s desperate to see come from? What’s going on!”

At this moment, Qi Yue was walking out of the airport.

A three-hour flight, landing at exactly 9:30.

She stood outside the terminal, looked again at the address written in her notebook, took out sunglasses from her backpack to put on, covering her eyes that were red from staying up all night, and raised her hand to hail a taxi.

“Miss, where are you going?” the taxi driver asked, looking at this woman with only a backpack.

She was tall with a good figure, large sunglasses covering half her face but couldn’t hide her beautiful features. Her shoulder-length curls were now tied up, looking simple and stylish.

However, while beautiful women were pleasing to look at, for a driver trying to make a living, how much this trip would earn was more worthy of attention.

This woman only had a backpack, didn’t look like a tourist, so probably wouldn’t go far. The driver was somewhat dejected.

“Maochun County, Hedu Ridge,” Qi Yue said, getting into the car.

The driver was startled and turned to look at the woman.

“Maochun County,” Qi Yue said again, seeing he wasn’t starting the car.

“Miss…” the driver stammered, “That’s nearly two hundred kilometers from here.”

Qi Yue was taking out her notebook from her backpack. Hearing this, she nodded.

“Yes, so what?” she asked. “Won’t you go?”

She was about to put the notebook away, preparing to get out and find another taxi.

“Don’t, don’t,” the driver was even more startled. What a joke – when a big windfall falls from the sky, only a fool wouldn’t catch it!

He didn’t even look ahead and stepped on the gas to rush out.

“Miss, going on vacation?” the driver asked.

Since getting in the car, the woman in the back seat had been very quiet, hadn’t taken off her sunglasses, looking out the window and occasionally glancing at the notebook in her hands.

This would be a three-hour drive – wouldn’t it be suffocating not to talk?

Qi Yue hummed in response, which counted as an answer.

“Actually, there’s nothing much to see at Hedu Ridge in Maochun County. It’s not really developed yet. There is an ancient tomb though, but there’s nothing there…” the driver immediately opened his chatterbox and began a long discourse.

Qi Yue leaned back against the seat, watching the scenery flying backward outside the window, but before her eyes were scene after scene.

“…The mystery of the ancient corpse holding a knife…”

“…According to identification, our country had surgical knives a thousand years ago…”

“…This might be a tomb robber who fell into the burial chamber…”

“…The specifications of a prince or marquis…”

“…No records in historical books…”

Qi Yue looked down at her notebook. On the open page, one image was particularly striking.

White bones lying horizontally.

Qi Yue closed her eyes and snapped the notebook shut.

This sound interrupted the driver’s chatter. He saw in the rearview mirror that the woman in the back seat had turned to look out the window, expressionless.

Looks like someone with a story…

Going to some remote, undeveloped ancient town or mountain area to heal emotional wounds…

The driver stuck out his tongue and stopped talking.

Three hours later, Qi Yue arrived at Maochun County town. Since the driver wasn’t familiar with the area, Qi Yue paid the fare, got out, and found a local taxi.

“You want to go to this place?”

Qi Yue showed them her notebook.

“The bone tomb at Hedu Ridge.”

“Miss, there’s nothing much to see there. They say they built a museum, but there’s really nothing to see.”

The taxi drivers waiting for fares recognized it immediately and all chimed in.

So it really existed. Qi Yue took a deep breath.

“I just want to go there,” she said, closing her notebook.

Where there’s money to be made, they’ll make it. The drivers stopped trying to dissuade her. Following the queue, a thin, small man picked up Qi Yue and headed toward the mountains. An hour later, Qi Yue stood outside this mountain village.

“Miss, see that mountain?” the driver pointed enthusiastically. “That’s Hedu Ridge. The bone tomb was discovered at the foot of the mountain. Now it’s been turned into a scenic area.”

Qi Yue nodded.

“I’ll go buy tickets. Miss, if I buy tickets it’s cheaper than if you buy them yourself…” the driver said.

Qi Yue gave him money, and the driver happily ran off.

Actually, this little backwater place had few visitors all year round, and those who came were mostly connections who didn’t buy tickets. The driver took the money and ran off, made a few phone calls, got a free pass, and the fifty yuan went into his pocket.

“Miss, all set, come with me,” the driver said, running back to personally guide her.

Qi Yue nodded. She raised her hand to look at her wrist – the watch hands showed 3 PM.

From Beijing to Nanyun, across half of China, she had traveled for nearly nine hours.

She raised her head, looking at the tomb complex getting closer in front of her.

From Great Xia to Huaxia, how much time would that take?

Qi Yue took a deep breath and stepped into the tomb passage.

“…Miss, this place really has no meaning. The authorities were excited at first, thinking it was a large tomb, but it turned out to be an empty tomb, completely empty. Besides a coffin, there wasn’t even paper money. The county lost a lot of money…” the driver chattered behind her.

Having taken her money, he decided to have some conscience and serve as a free tour guide, while also planning to recommend a hotel and tomorrow’s sightseeing spots to this woman. Then he’d have earned enough for the month…

Qi Yue stopped walking.

“I’d like to look around by myself,” she said.

The driver was startled, then quickly understood.

“Good, good, I’ll wait outside for you,” he said hurriedly, watching the woman walk alone into the long tomb passage. He shook his head, looking at the sun already setting in the west. “All alone, and not even scared…”

Qi Yue’s footsteps echoed in the tomb chamber. The lights on both walls were dim, and compared to the temperature outside, it was much colder here, carrying a chilling coldness. But Qi Yue noticed none of this.

After passing through a corridor, Qi Yue stood at the entrance to the main chamber. She took another deep breath and stepped inside.

In the empty tomb chamber, under a glass case, on a red carpet, white bones lay quietly. The surgical knife in front of the body was particularly conspicuous against the red carpet.

A sign beside the glass case had a color painting hanging on it.

Reconstruction of the tomb owner.

An ancient man stood quietly.

Those features, those eyes, that build…

“You stinking woman, do you really think whatever you say goes?” the man said, leaning against the arhat bed with an arrogant yet pleased smile.

Qi Yue felt her brain explode with a thunderous sound. She lunged forward, tears streaming like a fountain, letting out a wail from her throat, covering her chest with her hands and curling up.

Chang Yuncheng!

Chang Yuncheng!

Qi Yue stumbled over the barrier and threw herself onto the glass case, pounding on it and crying loudly.

I am Qi Yueniang! I am Qi Yueniang! Yueniang has come to see you!