Reborn and Pampered

Chapter 250 Will Be Back Soon

As Bai Qingqing swiftly changed his bandages, she muttered under her breath, “Wen Jiang told me everything. You never take proper care of yourself. If he hadn’t caught you bleeding a few times, you wouldn’t have said a word! How can you be like this?”

Ning Yan looked down at her, his gaze briefly sweeping over the bruises on her arm. “And you think you’re in any position to scold me, looking like that?”

“How’s that the same?” Bai Qingqing shot back. “Don’t you try to change the subject. You planned everything so precisely—probably started laying it all out before we even left the city. You even had Prince Ping, that old fox, dancing to your tune. So why didn’t you come up with a safer way to get out? If I hadn’t come with you, were you really planning to hole up here and let fate decide whether you lived or died?”

Now that she was done with the bandages, she launched into a full-on accounting of his crimes. “Do you have any idea how dangerous this was? What if—what if the poison was worse than you thought, and you didn’t make it to the cave? Even if you did, what if something went wrong once you got here?”

She’d seen with her own eyes how he’d suffered—alone, burning with fever, hanging on by a thread. Just the memory of it made her furious all over again.

Ning Yan reached out and pinched her cheek, frowning a little. She felt thinner.

“I knew what I was doing. Besides, I’m not that easy to kill. Don’t people out there call me the Deathless Ghost? Say I’ve got nine lives?”

“That’s just superstition! People don’t have nine lives! You’ve only got one breath in your body—once it’s gone, that’s it! You think you're made of iron? You’re still flesh and blood like the rest of us!”

Bai Qingqing was so furious she wanted to knock some sense into his skull. She had died once—she knew just how easily life could slip away. A cup of poison, the tip of a blade—either could end a life in the blink of an eye. And here he was, still talking nonsense!

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“Fine, call it nonsense if you want. This place isn’t safe. Since I’m more or less recovered, we should leave as soon as possible.”

Ning Yan handed her a clean set of clothes. “I’ll go scout the area. You change here and wait for me.”

Bai Qingqing didn’t take the clothes right away, frowning at them in confusion. “Why are these women’s garments? I’m supposed to be your attendant, aren’t I?”

“Prince Ping has likely caught wind of the delicate, pretty ‘attendant’ at my side. You in those clothes only draw more attention. Better to dress you as a woman again—if I’m traveling with a lady, no one will look twice at my identity.”

He set the clothes down and stepped out of the cave. It wasn’t until Bai Qingqing was halfway through changing that a thought struck her—she had already taken inventory of everything in the cave before, and there were no women’s garments. Where had he gotten them?

The outfit Ning Yan gave her was a simple girl’s dress from a common household—dainty and comfortable. Bai Qingqing brushed out her hair and tied it back neatly. When she reappeared before Ning Yan, she looked for all the world like the charming girl next door.

“Give me your old clothes. I’m heading out. Stay here and rest.”

Bai Qingqing wanted to ask where he was going, but in the end, she held back and simply nodded. “Then… come back soon.”

She was a little scared to be alone.

Ning Yan paused, then turned back to explain, somewhat awkwardly, what he was planning. While she had been unconscious, his men had brought two corpses. He intended to dress them in their old clothes and make it look like…

“I just didn’t want to frighten you. I’ll be quick.”

“Okay.”

Once Ning Yan left the cave, silence fell so thick around Bai Qingqing that her ears buzzed. She looked around and, for the first time, noticed how cold and narrow this stone cave really was. Funny—when Ning Yan was here, she hadn’t felt it at all.