Bai Yunxi saw him leaving with a fake smile. She is feeling sad for inexplicable reasons.
Su Kang is sure that Bai Yunxi did not love Li Xiao. Even if she still loves him, Su Kang will make sure that she will be with him in the future. In her heart, Li Xiao has to be dead.
The Li family has a rule that a disappeared person will not be considered dead until he has been gone for 18 years.
Li Fang told Su Kang that his father was dead; it was way before the Li family officially declared Li Xiao as dead and prepared his funeral ceremony.
Li Fang would not do something like this if not for her mother. Bai Yunxi must have raised him with such thoughts.
"I have been trying to win her heart for just one month. It's fine. I don't have to rush."
"Generally such characters are stubborn and tenacious. I will eventually make her mine."
Now, he just has to give her enough time to figure out her thoughts. She has to find her own path.
...
In the next two days the flight continued; he occasionally stopped in the way for Bai Yunxi's needs.
Su Kang did not hold any deep conversation with Bai Yunxi after that day. She thought she would be relaxed if Su Kang did not talk to her. But her heart is still troubled.
She did not want to see him like this either. She does not understand her own feelings for him. She knows that she likes him to some extent, and he has done a lot for her, but she is used to suppressing her emotions.
...
The Great Rift Valley is a beautiful and natural place. Surrounding mountains and hills are yellow and green colored; a big and wide river is flowing in the gap between the rift.
The water of this river is clean here in the valley; we can see slightly under the water from its surface. There is a small city in the area.
This Rift Valley city has around twenty-five thousand people living in it. This valley has a second-level spiritual vein, so this city is filled with cultivators.
One spiritual boat landed in a nearby village. Su Kang used his spiritual qi to lift Bai Yunxi out of the boat. She noticed this move and its implications as well.
Su Kang left her behind and went to inquire about something. He asked some mortals and qi cultivators some questions and then left in a certain direction.
Bai Yunxi did not know anything. She is confused about this whole situation, but she followed behind him.
After walking for more than fifteen minutes, she arrived at a small bamboo hut. Su Kang went forward and knocked on the door.
Then after some time, an old man with white hair, a muscular-looking body, and an average face opened the door. His face has few wrinkles on it.
"Who are you?" He asked in a heavy voice.
"I'm looking for a woman; some people said that maybe this is her house. Can I take a look at her before confirming? Su Kang told him.
The old man looked at him and understood that this person has a background. Someone like him will not lie to him.
"Okay, come inside and take a look at her." The old man said while inviting him.
Su Kang went in and hinted to her to follow him. After going inside, she found a wooden bed. An old woman in a gray robe lay up in the bed; her face has some wrinkles on it, but it still looks beautiful. Her hair is mostly black with some white hairs in it.
She looked at Su Kang, then turned to the old man with a confused expression. Bai Yunxi came and looked at this woman, and then the old woman also noticed her presence.
The old woman's expression finally changed to a shocked one. Bai Yunxi also thought of something, and she suddenly ran to the bedside. Her eyes started to turn wet.
The old woman also started crying at this time. She raised her hands to hold Bai Yunxi's face. Then Bai Yunxi noticed that woman did not have a right hand. Her right hand from the elbow was missing.
Bai Yunxi can't hold it anymore and started crying. Her mother was crying as well.
"My daughter... my daughter... (sob)"
"Mother... aah... you... alive... mother."
Both mother and daughter are crying while embracing each other. Su Kang and the old man did not disturb them. The old man is relieved while looking at them.
Su Kang then left without letting them know. He left the village and disappeared in a certain direction.
Bai Yunxi and her mother both calmed down after crying their grievances. Then they started asking about each other's past. The old man brewed tea for them and served them.
Her mother told her that some people used beasts to attack them. Her father sacrificed himself to save her.
He fooled them and let her escape through a water boat. But even then she was attacked by wild water beasts. She lost half of her right hand and her right leg from the knee.
She was saved by the hunters. She was unconscious for two months.
After waking up, she couldn't remember anything. She lost her memory, and she did not have any spiritual qi around her to help her.
In the beginning she settled in the hunter village; later she moved.
With her somewhat strong body, she decided to live as a hunter. She kept moving from place to place.
She settled in this city ten years ago and lived here. A few years ago she slowly started to remember about her previous life.
She had lost her strength too much because she stopped cultivating, and she was too far away from Qin City, so she again decided to earn money for her travel.
The old man is her partner in hunting.
He is from this village and a low-level cultivator. They both hunt together.
She needs to save for another few years to earn enough money to take a spiritual boat.
If she decided to travel alone, she might be killed by casual cultivators.
She didn't want to die before seeing her daughter and family again. She is already close to a mortal in strength, and it's not safe to travel without proper safety measures.
Bai Yunxi and her mother talked about their experiences for a long time. Bai Yunxi also told her everything.
It was already evening, and some children were poking their heads from the door to look at them. The old man
gestured them to come later and left with them.
He came back again with food. The children also came with him.
"Old granny, this is some food that our mother prepared for you and beautiful elder sister." A fourteen-year-old girl said.
"Thank you, Wu'er, come and sit down too." The old woman said.
Bai Yunxi noticed that Su Kang is not here anymore. The old man's surname was He. She ate dinner with them.
Some of these children were grandchildren of the old man; he and others were from the locality. Her mother is close with these children.
Old man He took the children out and left saying goodbye. Both mother and daughter slept together and talked until midnight before sleeping.
The next morning, after eating breakfast, Su Kang did not appear yet. Bai Yunxi is feeling off about Su Kang's disappearance. She is worried about him.
Her mother noticed this and asked.
"Where is the young man who brought you here?"
Maybe it's because she cried her grievances that she was holding in her heart, or maybe it's because she has found her mother.
Her burden has completely vanished. Since Su Kang can guarantee her son's safety and her mother is alive, she has been freed from heart shackles.
She told her mother everything about Su Kang and her.
Her mother looked at her angrily and asked,
"Why did you not tell him the truth?
Others might not know about her, but she knows. Li Xiao pursued Bai Yunxi for four months, yet he failed to win her heart. She agreed to marry him because the Bai family needs that connection, and she didn't dislike Li Xiao.
Li Xiao was a disciple of the Qingyun sect, and they thought in the future he might help Bai Yunxi too in cultivation. Her daughter did all this for them.
Bai Yunxi is looking down and silent. She didn't want to anger her mother so soon after meeting her.
"Mother, our backgrounds is so different. He is..."
"Do you like him or not?" Her mother asked, cutting her off in mid-sentence.
Bai thought about it. She felt all kinds of emotions with him. She has felt happiness, embarrassment, shyness, angry, calm, sadness, and safety with him.
Observing her daughter's face, she understood her heart.
"Xi'er, you should at least give it a try. You might find your happiness."
"I have already thought about this.
Mother, you don't have to worry about this." She said with a reassuring smile to her mother.