"Gu Qingheng..." Yang Ruxin, not caring about her fear, began to perform CPR on him, but after several attempts, there was no response, and tears unconsciously fell from her eyes, yet she continued to desperately compress his chest, then pinching his mouth to give him breath, "Gu Qingheng, wake up..." However, after breathing into him again, she tried to get up only to realize she couldn’t move, feeling as if someone had restrained her. She was startled at first, then overjoyed, and she wiped her tears with her hand, "Gu Qingheng, you’ve finally woken up..."
"Xinxin..." Gu Qingheng’s face was still somewhat pale, and his voice was quite weak, but he still managed a smile at the corner of his mouth, "How could I miss out on such an eager embrace... cough cough..."
"As long as you are well, I’ll embrace you every day from now on." Yang Ruxin smiled, "Come on, get up. It’s so cold, you’ll get sick..."
"I’m still short on a couple of breaths..." Gu Qingheng suddenly exerted himself, pulling Yang Ruxin onto his body, and then their lips met.
Fortunately, it was truly cold, and being soaked through was very uncomfortable, so Gu Qingheng only kissed her briefly before letting go.
"Lin Xiwang is over there." After getting up, Yang Ruxin quickly released Lin Xiwang as well, of course, she also placed him in the water, so that when his clothes appeared to be dry later, it would be hard to explain.
Lin Xiwang only felt icy cold all over and coughed twice as he came to, only to discover that he was soaking wet and leaning against a rock.
"It’s good that you’re awake." By then, Yang Ruxin was holding a few logs and started to make fire, "Strip down later and dry your clothes..." The cave was pretty warm, and only upon coming out did she realize it was the twelfth lunar month. The temperature difference was unbearable, and what was more depressing was Xiaolun had previously run off with that pearl, and now she had no idea where it had gone.
Soon, Gu Qingheng brought some logs as well, "Looks like we can only camp out here tonight." There was no helping it since they didn’t even know where they were, let alone which direction to head. But at least they had finally escaped underground.
In the mountains, there was no shortage of firewood, so they made a large fire.
"Turn around and back up to the fire." Gu Qingheng looked at Lin Xiwang, "Don’t turn back unless I say you can."
Lin Xiwang looked at Yang Ruxin with a pitiful glance, then turned around.
"Take it off." Gu Qingheng authoritatively pulled Yang Ruxin over and removed her cotton coat, "Get closer to the fire."
Yang Ruxin happily enjoyed Gu Qingheng’s care, but after thinking for a bit, she took out an oil paper package from her backpack, "Let’s eat something first." Inside was a piping hot roast chicken.
Gu Qingheng, smelling the delicious scent, looked at Yang Ruxin in surprise. The roast chicken looked as if it had just come out of the oven, and he couldn’t help but glance at her backpack which somehow was not wet...
Yang Ruxin didn’t explain and just pulled off a chicken leg and stuffed it into Gu Qingheng’s mouth, tore off another leg for him to pass to Lin Xiwang, and then started gnawing on a chicken wing herself.
"Sister Xin, it’s really tasty..." Lin Xiwang excitedly gnawed on the chicken leg.
"Don’t move." Gu Qingheng quickly shouted, "If you move, I won’t let you eat."
Lin Xiwang adjusted his body hastily, "I won’t move."
The cotton coat dried quickly, and Gu Qingheng then helped to dry the cotton pants and shoes until all of Yang Ruxin’s clothes were almost dry, and he dressed her, only then he began to dry his own cotton jacket.