Chapter 26: The Fortune-Teller Yang Lin

Qi Si'an covered Pan Yueqing's mouth. Pan Yueqing leaned against Qi Si'an's chest and heard his forceful and rapid heartbeat. She involuntarily held her breath. She could hear the footsteps at the entrance of the cave getting closer, and then there was an echo in the cave. It was a young male voice, seemingly muttering to himself, "There should be someone here..."

The footsteps were getting closer and closer. Qi Si'an released Pan Yueqing and revealed his long sword. The sound of the metal rubbing against the scabbard seemed to be amplified in the silent cave. There was a flash of white light, and the sword light stabbed towards the direction of the footsteps. But there was a sound of two hard objects colliding. Qi Si'an held the long sword and slowly took two steps back.

His gaze was cold and hostile. "Who are you?"

"Just a passerby," The man looked like a scholar, around thirty years old. He wore a scholar's hat, a gray cotton gown, and carried a large medicine basket on his back. Seeing Qi Si'an's appearance as if he was about to raise the sword and stab again, he shook a finger at him. "Young friend, don't move! That little treasure on your foot is very timid. If you scare it, I won't be able to bring it back to life either."

Following his words and looking down, there was a small, green-pointed snake spitting out its tongue, slowly coiling up along Qi Si'an's leg. Qi Si'an froze in place. He closed his eyes and almost gritted his teeth. "Who sent you?!" "It seems that you've offended a lot of people," The man stroked the two wisps of goatee under his nose and squinted his eyes. "But don't worry. No one in this world can order me around. I'm just a doctor, not someone sent to take your life. I just smelled the smell of blood in this cave, as well as the smell of medicinal herbs like garden burnet and mountain sweet herb. And I saw the burned-out fire pile at the entrance, so I thought there might be someone seriously injured inside."

"Is that so?" Pan Yueqing slightly raised her eyes and met the other person's gaze. She suddenly let out a sneer. "Your medicine basket is full of poisonous herbs. Since when has there been a doctor in the world who only picks poisonous herbs and not medicinal ones?"

Before the other person could speak, in a flash, Pan Yueqing took out the Heartbreak Grass that she had put away at her waist. Taking advantage of the moment when the other person was错愕 because she had exposed the something wrong in the medicine basket, she grabbed the other person's neck with her elbow from the side and then stuffed the Heartbreak Grass into his mouth.

She was now extremely cautious. As long as someone wasn't from Qi Si'an's side and was suspicious... she would definitely eliminate them all. In order to survive, to survive!

She wanted to live! She wanted to return all the fear of being on the verge of death and the feeling of being unable to defend herself to those who had betrayed her when she had treated them sincerely! She wouldn't die here!

The man supported himself against the stone wall with one hand and pressed a point on his chest with the other hand to prevent the venom from flowing into his heart meridian. He unhurriedly took out a dark bottle, poured out a pill, and took it. After catching his breath, he gave Pan Yueqing a helpless smile. "No... Why are you such a ruthless girl? You wanted to kill me as soon as you met me?"

Pan Yueqing grabbed the long sword in Qi Si'an's hand and was about to slash at the man. But before she could chop down, the man who claimed to be a doctor reached out and grabbed her slender wrist. He whispered two words into Pan Yueqing's ear. These two words drained all the strength from Pan Yueqing. Besides surprise, there was also hatred in her heart. The hatred that made her want to tear the person in front of her apart.

He said: "Female Calamity."

Female Calamity... Pan Yueqing's fingers trembled slightly. How could she forget? Qi Sicheng issued an edict to kill her because she was the female calamity of the Northern Qi Dynasty. What a high-sounding reason. What a Qi Sicheng who shed tears and gave up his love for the country and the people! No one knew how bitter the poisoned wine was, how painful it was to have blood flowing from all seven orifices and the five internal organs burning!

Even... even in order to prevent her from complaining in front of the King of Hell after her death, they stuffed her mouth full of chaff! All because of the prophecy of a "female calamity". If she was a calamity, she wouldn't have spent her whole life's efforts helping Qi Sicheng ascend to the throne. Since they had determined that she was a calamity, in this life, she was going to stir up the situation in the world!

"Who the hell are you?!" Pan Yueqing raised her eyes with overwhelming hatred. This hatred even startled Qi Si'an beside her.

"Yang Lin from Longshan, the former Supervisor of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau," Yang Lin caught his breath and looked at Pan Yueqing with a smile in his eyes. "I won't tell anyone. I will also protect you." But when he turned his gaze to Qi Si'an, he was suddenly shocked. He reached out and summoned the poisonous snake back, and then gently stroked Qi Si'an's face with a slight tremor, as if feeling his bones. After a while, he looked at Qi Si'an with an extremely complicated expression and murmured to himself, "It's impossible... The Ziwei Star is about to go out, and you should be dying soon..."

Then Yang Lin grabbed Qi Si'an's hands and asked excitedly, "The night before last! You shouldn't have had a noble person the night before last! Who! Who is your noble person?!"

Qi Si'an's eyes narrowed slightly. The shock in his heart was no less than that of others. When he was young, someone had calculated his star fate for him. He knew that he was "the Ziwei Star is about to perish, an immortal descends to the mortal world, facing life and death tribulations, and it's hard to stay in the mortal world", but he had never believed it. However, the previous assassinations had truly made him feel the thin line between life and death. He instinctively raised his eyes and looked at Pan Yueqing.

Yang Lin followed Qi Si'an's gaze and looked at Pan Yueqing. His gaze was complicated. He calculated with his fingers and let out a long sigh. He looked at Pan Yueqing. "Silly girl, you've caused trouble!"

Pan Yueqing was shocked. She was someone who had lived a second life. She had saved Qi Si'an just to seek protection for herself. But if saving Qi Si'an would make her own fortune fall into an even more difficult situation, she would definitely not be willing to save this "venomous snake" Qi.

Seeing Pan Yueqing's expression, Yang Lin understood. He pointed at Pan Yueqing and said with a bit of disappointment, "Silly girl, where does an ordinary person get such great fortune to change that guy's star fate? Aren't you afraid of losing your own life?"

The Ziwei Star was about to go out, and the Killing Star was offending the Emperor Star. It was the perfect time for a dynasty to change. The fortune of the Northern Qi Dynasty was almost over, and this was the reason why Yang Lin had insisted on leaving the Imperial Astronomical Bureau in the first place. He didn't want to scheme for a country on the decline. But he never expected that this Killing Star was actually a woman, and this woman actually...

Pan Yueqing's intuition told her that Yang Lin was a powerful person. Just from the fact that he had been the Supervisor of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau at such a young age, he must have studied under a great master. She looked at Yang Lin and then at Qi Si'an, who had admiration in his eyes. She hesitated and said, "Then... Is it still too late for me to kill him now?"

"It's more realistic for you to pray for his long life now. When you saved him, you used your own fortune to make up for his. " Yang Lin shook his head helplessly and glanced at Qi Si'an. "Now you two share one fortune. If you die, the girl can still manage to live for a few more years. But if the girl dies, you, young man, will go down with her!" After saying that, he muttered and cursed to himself, "What a mess!"