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The time for the den of ten thousands snakes has once again come. Despite Xie Zhi An secretly giving little Fu Yuan ruby sulphur and other drugs that repelled snakes, his body still had a few light wounds.

“Little quack, are you still there.”

Having heard little Fu Yuan’s sound, the drowsy Xie Zhi An immediately gathered up his energy, “I’m here, I’m here. Fu Yuan, what happened?”

A child’s sobbing tone resounded- he could hear the other person forcefully hold back his sniffles of pain, “Chat with me. It hurts.”

Xie Zhi An had very much wanted to pull Fu Yuan up with a rope, but last time when he was seen by his father, all the ropes within the valley was put away. He could only lean on the side, and lift his head up to look at the stars.

“Fu Yuan, lift up your head and look, I’m looking at the same starry sky as you.”

“Trust me, I’ll find a way to save you.”

A night passed by full of unrest. When Fu Yuan was lifted up, the person was full of wounds and scars, but that pair of eyes were sparkling, like the stars he saw yesterday, “Little quack, I’ll trust you.”

Fu Yuan did not know that his one sentence, made Xie Zhi An more resolute in his decision to continue the lineage of the Doctors’ Valley.

The first time he saw Chang Ge, the other person was with the demonic cult’s leader- Fu Yuan’s father. The first words from Fu Yuan’s father was to ask his father, “Is the medicine human ready?”

“It’s done. However, this night, you must have An’er’s name engraved on Fu Yuan, and make him loyal to him for a lifetime.”

“Alright.”

Xie Zhi An did not know this world turned out to have a father that would treat a child as a tool. He did not know what bone engraving was, but he knew it was not a good thing. He took advantage while people did not notice him, and quietly sneaked into Fu Yuan’s room.

“Even if you go in, it’s no use.”

When he turned his head, he saw the man who stood next to the demonic cult’s leader. His features were frosty[1], and his eyes did not contain any warmth, but the corners of his mouth lightly raise up, not knowing what he was smiling about, “It’s no use, since they want to turn Fu Yuan into a tool, you cannot stop it. But don’t you want to save him?”

He wanted to- of course he wanted to. Xie Zhi An raised his head to look at this man that was giving him a strong feeling of pressure, “I will save him. Wait until I finished studying, then I will definitely use all the energy of my lifetime to save him.”

“However, can you not engrave his bones. If you must do it, just engrave my bones!”

He saw Chang Ge lightly laugh, and his pair of beautiful eyes round out. It was really good looking, but the words that were said would make people feel cold, “Truly, a little lord that’s been protected wonderfully. Do you still not understand why Fu Yuan’s bones are to be engraved?”

He knew, so how could Xie Zhi An not know. If his father did not want to have a soldier created for him, naturally, Fu Yuan would not experience any of this.

When all was said and done, he was the one to blame.

Xie Zhi An was dragged out by his father, but he sat in the courtyard anyway to be with Fu Yuan.

That was because he could chat with him when the other person was in pain- if he was with the other person, the other person would not be in as much pain.

But when Xie Zhi An heard the sound of Fu Yuan’s cries that tore hearts and split lungs, he opened his mouth, only to find out that he could not even bring himself to even let out a sound, as though the tens of thousands of words were blocked in his throat.

He had wanted to tell Fu Yuan he was there, that he was outside with him.

He had also wanted to tell Fu Yuan the stars tonight were beautiful, but what a pity- he could not see them from the inside.

However, with dark clouds spanning for tens of thousands of miles, how could one still see the starry sky?

The Xie Zhi An that always dozed off, at that moment, stared with his eyes wide, as though staring like so would be enough to have Fu Yuan out. But alas, it did not. He could hear the other person crying, calling out his name. In the end, as though aware he would not come, he only bit his teeth and lowly whimpered, only to make no sound in the very end.

In the end, the bone engraving had been finished.

Before Xie Zhi An could look at Fu Yuan, the other person was taken away by the demonic cult leader in the same night. At that time, his father broke into a furious rage[2], but the head of the Doctors’ Valley was not afraid. Regarding the so-called completed medicine human, the formidable master of the Doctor’s Valley had lied to the other party. Although the Fu Yuan that had become half a medicine human could withstand hundreds of poisons, there was still something within the world that could still take his life- that happened to also be a foreign weed that commonfolk would often find in their homes.

Xie Zhi An started to get absorbed in reading medical books he’d disregard meals and go without sleep, and studied the medical skills he previously disliked the most. Every time he was tired, he would always open the window to look at the stars in the sky. He would think- perhaps Fu Yuan could also see the same sky in the night.

Thus, time passed bit by bit just like this. He slightly forgot about how the other person looked, but every night, thoughts of him came in waves, never decreasing.

Since when did it start- that he became someone everyone would call and praise a miracle doctor, and the other person instead became a demon head everyone wanted to kill. He heard that the demon head practised demonic energy until he got possessed by it, and even had the previous leader, his father, killed.

He thought they should have been killed. If he was his biological father, how could he bear to have his own child become a medicine human that could no longer be considered a person?

The person who got possessed was the previous leader, and not his Fu Yuan.

When Xie Zhi An knew the people of the demonic cult were outside sneaking around, he hid from his father, and purposely went out the Valley. Only that he did not know- he would see Fu Yuan again in that manner.

Fu Yuan had also grown bigger- the little child that was shorter than himself at first was now much taller than him. His body would have a coldness to it that did not let strangers get near. His eyes that carried suspicion towards himself made his temper rise up in the next moment.

He thought he could pretend not to recognize him, but in the very very end, he had become softhearted.

Other than that time he pulled his father to save him, this time, he could finally rely on his own ability to save him. However, how could he alone suffer from the pain of yearning for him, yet other person completely did not remember himself? Xie Zhi An thought this was a bit unfair.

However, he also knew- all that Fu Yuan suffered through, was never once fair.

He had originally thought- the people of the demonic cult should be as cold and indifferent as Fu Yuan’s father. Otherwise, they would not have let Fu Yuan turn into his current state today. But after he settled down here, he discovered the people here all had warmth. Bustling about, they cared for Fu Yuan; Fu Yuan also cared for them, yet would also make a fuss.

It was unlike the Doctors’ Valley that only had his father and his senior sister. His father was usually afraid that he would get hurt, thus, did not let many people in other than those that were sick.

He really liked it here…… And also like Fu Yuan.

Over time, those thoughts had accumulated bit by bit. He would even suspect the person that had his bones engraved was not Fu Yuan, but was himself. If not, how could he yearn for him so much it’d seep into his bones, and gradually accumulate into love?

He wanted to stay here, and wanted to follow him to see all sorts of different places and scenery.

He recalled what Chang Ge had said, saw Fu Yuan’s reddening ears, and went to see the other person that night.

“If one were to go by that kind of method, will Fu Yuan be healthy again for life?”

“It’s your own body, what do you think?”

Xie Zhi An gripped his own hand tightly, and took a deep breath, “Alright, I agree to it.”

If he could save Fu Yuan, he could do it.

As his train of thought had been called back by Fu Yuan, Xie Zhi An smiled at him, “Demon Head, I found a way to save you. These few days, I’ll look after your body for you. Wait until the end of the month, then you can be healthy.”

“At that time, we’ll go travel the skies and the earth together, and see the tens of thousands of miles of mountains and rivers.”

“Okay.”

[1] Also means, pure and chaste, or have high moral integrity or is very strict.

[2] Literally, hurling thunderbolts

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