Questioning Heaven, Desiring the Way

geous as the stars and moon in the sky.

“Young Master, we will arrive at the prefecture seat of Qingyang Commandery in three days,” said Taohua quietly as she massaged the shoulders of the young man in front of her with just enough strength.

“Noted.
It’s getting dark, so find a village and we’ll rest there for the night,” said Gu Suihan distractedly as he continued reading the book in his hands.

Taohua’s lips twitched a little and felt like rolling her eyes as she responded obediently.
She pulled the thick curtains of the carriage aside and passed on the instructions to Lihua.

Gu Suihan was reading some famous person’s travel logs, and it was the sort that had colored drawings included.

Taohua had asked Gu Suihan why he loved reading such a random assortment of literature.
It was random alright – some were famous classics, while some were accounts from wandering martial artists.
Some were even tabloids.
But Gu Suihan never despised any genre and was able to read each one seriously.

And when Taohua asked him about it, he merely smiled back and did not explain himself.

“Young Master…” Lihua’s slightly panicky voice rang in his ears before he felt a fragrant wind on his face, and everything went dark for a moment.
Lihua’s small and supple body had landed in his arms.

“What’s happened?” Gu Suihan’s expression did not flinch as he looked at the frantic expression on the maid clutching his sleeve desperately.
He used his finger to transfer a qi that exuded a gentle and warm aura to Lihua’s body, which calmed her down after it had circulated inside her.

“Outside…there’s a dead body outside…someone’s…someone’s died…” stuttered Lihua in a trembling and frightened voice.

“Oh! Well, if they’re dead, they’re dead,” Gu Suihan responded flatly.

Immediately after he said that, the curtain floated aside as though someone was physically drawing it back.
The wildebeest pulling the carriage was whinnying a little fearfully as it kept raising its thick hooves and landing them back in the same spot again.
It hesitated and refused to budge, no matter how Taohua tried to get it to move.

More than ten bodies were strewn all over the road in front.
A horse carriage was in shambles and there were broken pieces everywhere.
It was clear that a fierce fight had just occurred here.

“Interesting.” Gu Suihan narrowed his long, slanted eyes slightly as he called out in a frosty voice, “You have three seconds.
Show yourselves now.”

Woooo! A cold wind blew.
The dense trees planted by the side of the main road looked especially scary in the slowly darkening sky.

“Sir, please, save me…” A desperate wail cried out from the trees on one side, followed by some muffled sounds, as though someone were squeezing that person’s throat.

“Sir, so sorry about this!” A gruff voice rang out next, and a muscular man with messy hair, bloodstains all over himself came running out from the trees with a large blade in hand.
He bowed respectfully to Gu Suihan.

“A robbery case, huh? How pitiful.” Gu Suihan’s spiritual sense instantly covered dozens of miles, so he knew even the slightest movement of the grass in the wind.

It only took him an instant to figure out what happened.
He flicked a finger out and his qi was like a whip made out of water as it drove away the coldness around his carriage.
It also pushed aside all the debris that was blocking the road.

“Carry on with whatever you were doing.” Gu Suihan glanced at the muscular man, then got back into his carriage and drew the curtains.

Nobody was driving the carriage, but the wildebeest seemed sentient as it neighed and continued pulling the carriage forward.

Standing up for the unjustly treated?

Saving the damsel in distress?

Gu Suihan had interest in none of these things.
There were way too many injustices in the world to care about and way too many people died every day.
He didn’t care what happened to strangers.

“Boss, those two young ladies look so sweet.
And looking at that young man…” Another man stood next to the muscular man and watched the carriage leave with great reluctance.
He started wondering if they ought to attack that carriage too.

But unfortunately for him, he hadn’t even finished his sentence when his head suddenly exploded like a watermelon.
The insides of his head spurted out and blood spewed everywhere.
The muscular man and his other subordinates immediately shuddered in fear.

The muscular man gulped and said in a trembling voice, “Cl-clear the place up, we…we’d better go…”

It was at this point when the cringiest thing in the world happened.

Like a scene taken from one of those dumbass romance dramas on Earth.

One of the subordinates was shaking so hard that he loosened his grip, allowing the woman who yelled for help earlier to get away.
And get away…she did.

Gu Suihan’s carriage was still no more than 50 meters away, so…it didn’t take a genius to figure out what was going to happen next.

The woman seemed to suddenly have superpowers, as though she had been possessed by Liu Xiang or as though she were Usain Bolt with additional speed points.
She suddenly moved at an unbelievable speed, breaking free of the hooligans around her, and sprinted toward Gu Suihan’s carriage.

As she ran, she kept yelling, “Sir! Please, help me! I can offer great rewards from the family!”