"He's not dead yet?" A burly man emerged from behind the wooden door.

"Watch your word!" Senja snarled at the man with her rough voice. She had forgotten when the last time she was drinking and eating properly.

The burly man tossed a medium size brown pocket near her feet, "Make him eat that for every three hours." and opened his palm widely. "Money."

Glaring, Senja threw a pocket of money to him. "Go and get me some food and warm water."

With grumbled that man grabbed away the money and kicked opened the door as he walked out of the room. He was mumbling something about being a slave for a strange woman and a paralyzed man.

Senja sighed deeply. She was too tired to pay attention to what he was complaining about, as long as he abode with their agreement, she was fine with his foul mouth. She would never have thought that she would ask a helping hand from someone like him.

Ju Long.

Senja met him in that horrifying night.

At that point of time, she was mortified by Xiao Tianyao's condition and tried her best to find some help when she ran onto a man who was trying to escape from the guards who guarded him.

He fought those four guards and killed them all, but couldn't break the fetters of iron that restraint his ankle.

Meanwhile, Senja was looking for villages, human and even a ghost to help her, but with no avail. She had been wandering around the forest for an hour when she saw him killed the guard and tried to break the fetters.

With her frozen mind, she didn't even think twice when she sought for his help. In returned Senja would free him and gave him some money. She didn't have much time to discern the fact That Ju Long had just killed people, because Xiao Tianyao's condition was getting worse by every time that passing by.

She didn't even care if that man was a fugitive, she was a fugitive as well, in another words they shared the same enemies. Senja was in the point that she was willing to do anything to save Xiao Tianyao.

These past two days his fever didn't go down and he was still unconscious. The first night Xiao Tianyao was having seizure, Ju Long brought a physician over, it was confirmed that he had been poisoned, something that Senja had predicted.

The physician gave her a prescription and an advice before he left. But, she could sense the uneasiness from him upon seeing their situation and for their safety she told Ju Long to find another place for them to settle.

And here they were, at the abandon hut in the middle of nowhere. Senja was not possible to leave Xiao Tianyao, so she made Ju Long to run an errand for her.

She knew that Ju Long was after her money, hence she was very careful with it. For now, she had spent almost half of the money that Xiao Tianyao had brought for the compensation of his aid.

Senja also very careful with everything that Ju Long brought over. He could put something inside her food and manipulated Xiao Tianyao's medicine or swindled the item that he brought. Thus, she needed to sharpen her sense to feel his intention, just in case Ju Long has a malicious idea to finish them off.

However, aside from his unpleasant attitude, Ju Long hadn't intention to harm them.

Senja moved closer as he put the cold towel on top of Xiao Tianyao's forehead. Her throat tightened when she watched how pale he was. There were no more tears from her stung eyes as she dabbed his creaked lips with another damp towel.

She kept repeating the same word inside her mind over and over that; Xiao Tianyao will be fine. He is still breathing that's why he will be fine.

She reached out the medicine pocket that Ju Long had brought and opened it. Inside the pocket, there were three bottles of antitoxin.

Not long after that, Ju Long came inside the room with a bowl of warm water and went immediately to find something they could eat. Afterward, Senja mixed all the antitoxin according to the instructions on the prescription.

After everything was mixed well and the water on the bowl had turned into a thick black liquid with unpleasant aroma, Senja drank it up and held it in her mouth.

She inched closer toward Xiao Tianyao. In another occasion, she would think this was a romantic gesture to feed her lover from lips to lips, but not now. Not at times like this, when his life was hanging by a thread. Nothing was romantic about this.

Senja didn't even furrow her brows with the bitter taste of the medicine that linger in her mouth as she fed Xiao Tianyao slowly. She kept repeating the process until the medicine in the bowl empty.

On the last mouthful of medicine, she leaned her body forward as she whispered into his ears. "Please wake up, I miss you…"

As she was saying that, the tears that she thought had been drained, started flowing down her cheek again. She hugged Xiao Tianyao's body as she fell asleep.