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Everyone up and down the cult knew that the Doctor Xie they bound up here was together with their leader. The entire cult was bursting with happiness, anxious to have their ceremony immediately arranged for, and let this demonic cult that hadn’t have any happy occasions[1] for a long time have a lively time for once.

Fu Yuan would also always stick to Xie Zhi An,- every time he didn’t see him for a moment, he would always ask. Then once Xie Zhi An came back, he would pretend that nothing happened, making the people of the cult can’t wait for iron turn to steel at once[2], afraid that this kind of leader would be rejected by Doctor Xie.

How hard it was for an iron tree to bloom- if Doctor Xie were to throw away their leader, where could they find someone with such a high medical skill, someone who cared for the leader and a person that looked this good!

When Xie Zhi An performed acupuncture for Fu Yuan, he couldn’t help but laugh, and immediately joked around, “I see you are quite unpopular as the leader here. I can see they can’t wait to have you gift-wrapped and sent to my bed, and live in[3] as the Doctor’s Valley’s son-in-law.”

At this moment, Fu Yuan’s face immediately went black.

In truth, Xie Zhi An did not know- the reason why the people of the cult were so anxious, was to only avoid long nights bringing with it many dreams[4]; more importantly, those people from the ‘right sect’ were again discussing how to attack the people of the demonic cult- hence it was best to take care of this trouble on the heart.

In these days he had left the Doctor’s Valley, his father could not be not worried, and furthermore could not have not contacted other clans to join together to attack the demonic cult.

Although it has been many years, the demonic cult still stood tall, undefeated. But during the days he was here, the people here were not only young people with high martial arts, but there were also the old and weak and women and children- if there really was going to be a battle between the two sides, there would definitely be casualties.

Most importantly, Fu Yuan had not fully recovered.

While pushing down these thoughts aside, Xie Zhi An acted as though nothing was wrong and placed the boiled medicine in Fu Yuan’s hands, and asked, “Fu Yuan, if you can get better, what do you want to do?”

He did not know what he had thought of, but the other person’s brows softened, and his ears went a bit red, “If I can get better, I want to be rid of this demonic cult’s position of leader, then take you to see the mountains and rivers, and let you see the nights of many different places.”

When he was constantly chattering before, Xie Zhi An would always say he was tired of seeing the scenery from the Doctors’ Valley, that the skies he normally saw never changed one bit.

He heard Fu Yuan ask him, “Zhi An, can I really get better?”

Xie Zhi An held back the hot tears in his eyes, the rims of his eyes turned a bit red, but he restrained himself with great effort, “If you can get better, no matter what, I will save you.”

“Can I really be saved?”

“Of course you can.” Xie Zhi An held Fu Yuan’s hand, and looked in his eyes with a sure answer, “There is. With the lineage of a hundred years of the Doctors’ Valley, there will surely be a way to cure you. Wait until you get better, then we’ll go see mountains, see snow, and see the many different faces of the people coming and going, and see the many different ways the world changes.”

“At any rate, I am from a family of miracle doctors, how could I not even have a way to save you?”

Xie Zhi An took out the needles for the other person, then lightly left a kiss on the Demon Head’s lips like a dragonfly skimming the surface of the water, “Demon Head, trust me this time- I will cure you.”

“En, I trust you.”

He had never told Fu Yuan- that in truth, the first time they met was not the time he was tied up and brought to the demonic cult, but was at the Doctors’ Valley.

That year, Xie Zhi An was still a child, timidly hiding behind his father, and his hands could not help but grip onto father’s clothes. He looked at the child in front that had been hit at the fainting vital point, and lifted his head and asked with the innocence of a child, “Father, who is he?”

The big, warm hands touched the top of his head. He heard his father say, “This is the soldier Father will create for you.”

“An’er, you no longer need to continue the lineage of the Doctors’ Valley. Father only wishes for you to live a lifetime peacefully.”

The young him did not understand what a soldier was, and furthermore did not know his father could be so cruel to even a child. Day and night, he would see that child thrown in a den of poison, then saved, suffering through all kinds of torment. One night, he couldn’t bear it and snuck out to look at the child who was staying in the poisonous den of ten thousand snakes.

The bunch of snakes that came out from somewhere intertwined though his body, only revealing a pair of despairing eyes. A tender and hoarse voice lowly called out,

“I beg of you…… Save me……”

Perhaps that voice had made one too anxious, the Xie Zhi An that was normally afraid of snakes decided to first get some ruby sulphur, then come back.

“Please…… Don’t go……”

“I’m going to get some ruby sulphur to drive out the snakes first, then pull you back up. I won’t leave you behind.”

Xie Zhi An really wanted to go to get it, but that pair of eyes with suspect and brimming despair had given rise to some courage in him, “Then, I won’t leave. I’ll go find some vines to pull you up.”

How much power could one child have- two children was not all that different. Furthermore, that medicinal vine could not take much tossing about either. Very quickly, the weak vine tore apart in the next moment, and the child in the snakes’ den fell down, letting out a dull sound of tumbling.

Looking in with some unease, the little Zhi An was afraid once again. He stuck his head out and closed his eyes, and asked, “Are you okay?”

That child bit apart the snake that wanted to dig into his mouth, and the corners of his mouth started dripping with black coloured blood. Xie Zhi An was stunned for a moment, and immediately ran to his father’s residence and knocked on the door, and forced his father to pull up the other person to save them.

That was the first person he met that was the same age as himself- he did not want this person to become a medicine human like this.

He wanted to find himself a playmate, and wanted to leave this Doctors’ Valley, and wanted to cross mountains and rivers…… He had this many aspirations, surely, this person also had many things he wanted to do- he should not be trapped here.

But once his father has really made a decision regarding something, there was no one that would be able to change his mind.

Xie Zhi An could only secretly look at him each day, then bring some things that he liked to eat, and would always prop his chin and smile at him. After a difficult time, he managed to get the other person to tell him his name was Fu Yuan, but once he turned around, the other person turned indifferent once again.

One day, when Fu Yuan was holding up the dishes he brought over, with both his hands full of wounds strung together like beads, unable to see what poisonous thing bit him, “Xie Zhi An, can you chat with me?”

Of course he can!

After suppressing himself for so long, Xie Zhi An had chattered on about everything, and spilled everything out from his brain. After, Fu Yuan asked him again, “What do you want to do in the future?”

After a moment of silence, Xie Zhi An held his hand, not even a bit afraid whether or not his body had any poison, nor disgusted by the ugly scars on his body, “I want to receive the lineage of the Doctors’ Valley, and be able to cure you in the future.”

Once a medicine human had been complete, they could no longer be called a living being. How could one cure a non-living human?

Seeing how Fu Yuan did not trust himself, he was a bit anxious, “What I said is true, I will definitely be able to cure you in the future!”

There wasn’t any change to Fu Yuan’s face- his attitude remained cold and indifferent, as though nonchalantly dismissing him, “I know.”

The Xie Zhi An at that time had secretly made a vow- in the future, he would definitely be a miracle doctor that would surpass his father, then cure Fu Yuan’s sickness.

[1] 喜事- the literal translation would be a happy thing, but more often than not means marriage.

[2] Expression for being unsatisfied at the fact how the person they’ve put their expectations on has failed them. In other words, get the deed done.

[3] The phrase means to marry into and live with the bride’s family (whereas tradition dictates the girl/wife marrying into the husband’s family, a man marrying into the woman’s family is more uncommon, and is usually due to having no males in the woman’s family to continue the household)

[4] The expression means, undue delay may bring trouble.

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