After faking my death, the male lead’s cousin went crazy - Chapter 11

Ever since Shang Rongyue had met Gu Wan, the harshest words the other woman had ever said to her were all beside the cliff at the back mountain of the camp.

The first time was when Shang Rongyue stopped Gu Wan from looping the rope around the huge rock. Gu Wan had gritted her teeth and snapped at her, “Let go!”

The second time was when she was hanging above the cliff.

Her whole body had lost its strength, and she was relying entirely on the other woman’s grip to hold her. At this moment, her life was completely in Gu Wan’s hands. As long as Gu Wan let go, Shang Rongyue would definitely fall into the abyss.

When the dagger had fallen earlier, they had not even heard the sound of it hitting the ground. If she fell, she would surely be smashed to pieces.

Shang Rongyue had asked whether she would die.

And Gu Wan answered, “Shut up!”

Seeing the veins bulging at Gu Wan’s temples, and seeing how her fair face gradually flushed because she was exerting force downward, while the strength in her hands only grew heavier and heavier…

Gu Wan wrapped the rope twice around her other hand, then instructed, “Listen to me. I’ll count to three. When I do, use your foot to push off, and I’ll be able to pull you up.”

After Gu Wan finished speaking, she watched Shang Rongyue silently lower her head, as if she were looking at what would happen if she fell.

“Li Yueyue!”

Gu Wan suddenly called her loudly. Shang Rongyue was startled and looked up in a daze, staring at the other woman blankly.

“I don’t care how much strength you have left right now, but for this final moment, you have to hold on!”

“Right now, both our bodies are tied to the same rope. If you fall, I definitely won’t live either. So…”

Gu Wan looked into her dark eyes, her gaze burning bright.

“So as long as I am alive, you will definitely return in one piece.”

The clouds and mist on the mountain gradually dispersed, and the afternoon sunlight shone through from behind the clouds, just in time to fall over Gu Wan. The dark brocade robe with hidden patterns gleamed with silver light beneath the sun.

Shang Rongyue let out a breath. When she lifted her lashes again, her fear had been temporarily hidden away. In her dark pupils, only Gu Wan’s reflection remained.

She nodded and gathered herself again. “All right. We’ll definitely go back together.”

As Gu Wan counted down, Shang Rongyue braced herself. At the moment the countdown reached zero, she lightly pushed off with the toes of her uninjured left foot and borrowed Gu Wan’s strength to move upward.

The hemp rope was rough. As Gu Wan exerted herself, it rubbed against her palm and scraped out several bloody marks. But Gu Wan paid no attention to them. She gritted her teeth and, as the other woman sprang upward, pulled her up.

Gu Wan reacted very quickly. The hand gripping the hemp rope immediately wrapped around the other woman’s waist, finally hooking her back up.

At this moment, both of them were covered in dust, lying on the ground and gasping heavily. Clearly, what had just happened had been no small challenge for either of them.

Especially Shang Rongyue. That endless abyss—she did not dare think back on how she had taken those steps just now, or how she had suddenly fallen.

She turned her head and looked at Gu Wan lying beside her. For some reason, she reached out with her fingertip and touched the other woman’s cheek.

Soft.

Scorching hot.

Real.

She had truly survived.

The ticklish sensation on her cheek made Gu Wan turn her gaze over.

She remembered very clearly that the first impression this Li Yueyue had given her was: white.

This whiteness was not only on her face. When Gu Wan had helped treat the hidden-weapon wound, the girl’s rounded shoulder had been as perfect as a flawless piece of jade.

Unlike other girls whose beauty was enhanced by powder and rouge, her skin was delicate and clear, giving off a very clean feeling.

But right now, the young girl’s nose and cheeks were streaked with mud. Her originally neat hairstyle had also become messy. Fortunately, the butterfly hairpin still stood among her cloud-like hair, preventing her long black hair from spilling loose.

And on the fingertip she had stretched toward Gu Wan, blood seeped from the skin.

Gu Wan suddenly remembered that while they were on the cliff just now, the other woman seemed to have been injured.

Shang Rongyue had only just touched the other woman’s cheek when Gu Wan suddenly sat up. Only then did Shang Rongyue remember that the other party was a bandit.

And she had not only been saved by a bandit, she had also touched the bandit’s face.

She turned her hand over and looked at her mud-stained fingertip. Shang Rongyue curled her fingers, hiding the part that had just touched the other woman’s skin in her palm, as if nothing had happened.

Just then, the person who had suddenly sat up came to her right side, lifted her calf, and examined the injury on her ankle.

As her shoe and sock were removed, Shang Rongyue suddenly hissed.

The sock had stuck to the wound because of the blood. Once it was removed, a bloody, mangled patch of flesh was revealed.

After clearly checking the injury, even Gu Wan, who had lived in the military camp for many years, could not help frowning.

So it was this badly injured. No wonder she had said those words below the cliff just now.

After briefly treating the wound, Gu Wan saw that her outer robe was covered in dirt, so she pulled out the sleeve of her inner garment. With a ripping sound, she tore off a strip of fabric. Then she covered the other woman’s wound with the cloth, swiftly bandaged it, and tied a knot.

This was the simplest way to stop the bleeding. If they left it exposed all the way back, she might catch a chill, and then things would become troublesome.

As a bandit, Gu Wan holding her foot and staring at it made Shang Rongyue feel somewhat embarrassed. So after the other woman finished treating the wound, she handed over the begonia and said, “Don’t worry about me. Take this back first and save Doctor Su and Miss Ziying.”

As she spoke, Shang Rongyue tried to awkwardly draw her leg back, but Gu Wan stopped her in time. Her eyes indicated the wound.

“You want me to leave you here alone like this?”

Shang Rongyue pursed her lips and muttered softly, “I… I can rest for a while and then walk by myself…”

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Gu Wan crouch in front of her with her back facing her.

“Get on.”

“We came here together, so naturally we’ll leave together.”

Shang Rongyue really wanted to refute her. They had not come here together; she had chased after her from behind. But Shang Rongyue did not dare.

Besides, if she was left alone here in the wilderness, she really would be a little afraid.

She slowly got up and moved closer to the other woman, wrapping her arms around Gu Wan’s neck from behind and letting Gu Wan carry her on her back.

“Sorry to trouble you, Sister.”

That was the first thing Gu Wan heard after carrying her. She did not answer. Instead, after adjusting her posture, she tried to keep the other woman in a comfortable position without touching her injured area, then stepped down the mountain.

On the way down, Gu Wan’s steps were very steady, and she watched every step carefully.

Shang Rongyue lay on her back, feeling Gu Wan’s shoulder blades rise and fall beneath her, pressed against the softest part of herself.

Although this bandit leader was a woman just like her, her body was very different.

She did not look as slender as Shang Rongyue, but the lines of her muscles were firm. Through the fabric, Shang Rongyue could faintly feel the texture of the muscles on her back.

Her body was very hot.

Shang Rongyue’s hands and feet were cold all year round, especially during winter, which was even harder to endure. But right now, her body was pressed against the other woman’s back, and wherever their skin touched felt as though it were being warmed by a stove.

In the spring afternoon, the sunlight was still bright. This kind of warmth soon made a thin layer of sweat rise over Shang Rongyue’s body. Her cheeks flushed red, and the faint moisture on her skin sparkled with tiny fragments of light beneath the sun.

By the time Gu Wan carried her back down the mountain, Lanxi was pacing anxiously in circles outside the study.

Seeing them arrive, she quickly went forward to meet them. She saw that this Li Yueyue had a piece of white cloth wrapped around her ankle. It looked like the brocade silk used for the Young General’s inner garment, and faint traces of blood could be seen seeping through it. She had probably been injured.

But that was not the important point.

The important point was that this woman, who was suspected of poisoning Su Zhaoyun and Ziying, was currently clinging to her Young General’s back.