Chapter 299 - 291: Heaven’s Net is Wide

Chapter 299: Chapter 291: Heaven’s Net is Wide

Yu Manman considered her a rival in love. No matter how Bai Zhi explained that she and Lin Yang were just friends, Yu Manman refused to listen. Over time, Bai Zhi had grown accustomed to her provocations, which had never amounted to anything serious. So what on earth did Lin Yang mean by what he’d just said?

Yu Manman said, "What do you mean by that? Don’t tell me you believe those rumors, too? That’s right, I’m jealous of Bai Zhi. I’m jealous that she’s always clinging to you, and I’m jealous that you only have eyes for her. But even though I’m jealous, I haven’t done anything to hurt her."

Lin Yang sneered, "You know perfectly well whether you did something or not. I’ll find proof, sooner or later. Yu Manman, the net of justice is vast; it lets nothing slip through. People who do evil will eventually be punished by the law."

Yu Manman’s beautiful eyes welled up with tears. She gazed at the man before her through a watery haze. She had loved him for so many years, yet he refused to even truly look at her. "Lin Yang, you’re so kind to everyone else. Why do you have to be so cruel to me? In your eyes, am I really such a vicious, heartless person?"

Lin Yang had no desire to waste another word on her; he couldn’t even stand the sight of her. He simply pushed her out of the room, shut the door, and locked it. "Leave. Don’t let me see you again."

It wasn’t just women who had intuition; men had it too. Although he didn’t have any proof yet, his gut told him that Yu Manman was definitely connected to what had happened to Bai Zhi.

No matter who it was, he was determined to find the culprit and get justice for Bai Zhi.

He returned to the bedside. The heart rate on the monitor was back to fifty, and all the other readings had returned to how they were before, as if they had never fluctuated at all.

"Hey, wake up! You have to wake up!" Hu Feng desperately shook Bai Zhi’s body. He didn’t know what was wrong with her. She had been sleeping in his arms, but her body was growing colder and her breathing fainter.

Bai Zhi slowly opened her eyes. She saw Hu Feng’s familiar, handsome face. In the firelight, his eyes looked like black gems infused with Magic Power.

His face was etched with panic, but upon seeing her awake, he let out a visible sigh of relief.

She looked at him, confused. "What happened to me?"

Hu Feng shook his head. "I don’t know. After you fell asleep, your body kept getting colder, and your breathing grew fainter. It was as if you’d been stabbed and your life was slowly ebbing away."

’I don’t understand. Why is this happening? The full moon of the fifteenth... that’s the day I’m supposed to be asleep in my pod at the Soul Travel Agency. It’s the anniversary of the day I came to this world.’

’On the day of the full moon, as long as I fall asleep here, I return to my original world. The ’me’ in that world isn’t dead yet... No, more accurately, she isn’t *completely* dead.’

’And as soon as the Bai Zhi here wakes up, I come back.’

’Why exactly does it happen like this?’

She shifted her head and only then realized she was lying on Hu Feng’s lap, with one of his arms still around her waist.

’This position... Uh... it’s a little strange...’

She scrambled to sit up and gave a couple of dry coughs to cover her embarrassment. "I wonder how my mother and Uncle Hu are doing. They must be worried sick that we haven’t come back."

Hu Feng remained silent, though he was worried as well. He knew his father’s temperament; if he was late, his dad would undoubtedly wait for him at the entrance to the village, no matter how long it took.

"We’ll head back at first light," Hu Feng said in a low voice. "There has to be a way out of here."

Bai Zhi nodded. "There has to be. I saw cow dung and human footprints under a tree. There might even be a village nearby."