The man had never been serious; he was too frivolous, and she couldn't discern how true or false his feelings for her were. It wasn't until she met Zhi Chen on this mountain, and learned from him about the incidents that had occurred after she left, that she suddenly realized it was she who had made things too complicated.
Seeing her mind was made up, Zhi Chen was silent for a long while before he finally sighed, fastened the iron rings around her limbs, and then followed Dong Huiying's instructions to feed her all the Gu Pills. He then pulled Yue Ning away, shut the iron cage, and locked it from the outside.
What followed was a long ordeal and the hopeful wait...
...
A few days later.
...
At the foot of Qingfeng Mountain, a travel-worn man wiped the sweat from his forehead.
The weather was really too hot, so hot that one would sweat profusely; his thin shirt had long been soaked through with sweat.
This man was Liang Shujun.
