Lu Tong stuffed the towel into her hand, "I don't need this." Then he grabbed the handle of the wooden cart and turned to step into the sea of scarlet flowers.
He Xiu was startled and hurriedly said, "No! Hong Fang Xu is poisonous, you'll lose your life!"
But the one she called did not answer, merely pushing the somewhat heavy wooden cart, moving calmly toward the deeper parts of the misty flowers.
Without a single hesitation.
...
At the other end, in the depths of the Southern Pharmacy's lodging, within a warm chamber, the air was filled with curling incense.
Sounds of "creak, creak" were heard from the shaking bed curtains, mingled faintly with the panting and sighing of a man and a woman.
After an unknown amount of time, the shaking canopy came to a stop. Someone lifted the curtain, revealing a slender, fair leg.
The woman, draping clothes over herself, sat up on the bed, her neck adorned with spots of red marks.
