The brilliant rays of the sun permeated through the gaps between the canopy.
Ye Xiao stopped in his tracks. He stared at the hilly dirt path in front of him for a moment, then he turned back and looked at the girl who was gasping for air behind him.
"Miss Su, can you move a bit faster?"
"W-wait a minute... let me... catch my breath..."
Su Xue Er's present state was a mess. With mud, twigs, and leaves sticking onto her robe as well as with a face full of sweat, she had lost all of her previously elegant features. If someone saw her pitiful state right now, they'd have thought that she had just come back from a war. But in fact, she was only climbing a hill.
"I... never thought... that it was... going to be this tiring..."
Ye Xiao left the Su Family the same day he agreed to help Su Xue Er search for the treasure or left behind by the owner of the black box in the Dragon Mountain.
