Ran Yan's entire body relaxed, and only then did she realize her back was soaked through. She knew she had been a mere step away from death, and although she had died once before, sometimes the most terrifying thing was not death itself, but the agony before death.
After she had returned to the villa and settled everything, it was already midnight. Lying in her bed, Ran Yan skipped her usual habit of pondering before sleep and fell directly into slumber.
A restful night later, when it was still barely dawn, a distant clamor reached Ran Yan's ears.
She lay still for a while, and as the noise seemed neither to increase nor decrease, Ran Yan finally asked, "Madam Xing, what has happened?"
Liu hurried in, "My wife, this morning suddenly a lot of sick people arrived, saying they had heard that the mistress could bring the dead back to life, and they came especially to ask the mistress to save them."
