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"Doctor Yu, let's rest for a bit," Xiao Ruo suggested, on her first journey of such distance in her two lifetimes. She felt as if her legs were no longer her own.
Xiao Ruo knew her appearance as a man was particularly conspicuous. On one hand, it was due to her delicate features; on the other hand, her stature was excessively petite. Therefore, she had tampered with her face for this trip and deliberately sewed a thick cushion in her shoe soles to increase her height, which is why her feet were sore but not blistered.
Doctor Yu wasn't so lucky. Blisters had formed on the soles of his feet, oozing with blood. He took off his shoes and socks, pricked the blisters open with a Silver Needle, then applied some medicine powder he had brought before he sighed and said, "The mountain paths I used to hike for gathering herbs were much easier than this road."
