I apologise for this chapter in advance it will be uncomfortably awful if you don't want to be depressed please ignore. Remember to send more powerstones if you want to save your favs ;)

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  Yu Dong dropped the tea cup that she was holding on to, Chen Mi's head wasn't in the right state and he kept looking out of the door every once and now. He was so out of it that he didn't even know that he didn't just brew the tea, he boiled it past the temperature that was humanly possible to swallow, in fact, he wasn't the only one who was out of his mind, even Yu Dong was losing her mind. Or why else would she pick up the cup of the hot tea, despite knowing how long her husband has been brewing it for?

  Fang Chi too was affected by the solemn mood of the house, earlier Doctor Xin came and diagnosed Fang Chi. Apparently, there was nothing wrong with him but he still needed to mind his mood a little, that was why she sent Fang Chi, Yu Mai and little bun to Grandma Fang's house together with Zhu Qian.

  Of course, Fang Chi refused but Yu Dong stubbornly refused to listen to him and told him that she was already having a hard time worrying about Shen Li and Ye Liu, she didn't want to worry about him and her unborn child too. She knew that she was being harsh to him but that was better than letting him win over the argument and stay here pacing around the house like her.

  She crouched down to pick up the broken pieces of the cup when Chen Mi stopped her as he rushed with a duster and pan to pick up the mess. " I will do it, wife, you should apply some cold salve on your hand, it's burnt."

  Only then did Yu Dong realise that her hand was stinging badly as she seemed to have splashed some hot tea on her skin. She nodded as she straightened up and went to apply some ointment for burns but despite feeling the sting in her hand she was worried, earlier she had gone around the village and asked the villagers if they had seen Shen Li and Ye Liu surprisingly no one did, it was as if they deliberately went out of the house so that no one would be able to find them.

  She wanted to go to the town but Chen Mi told her that he has already sent Lang to look for the two of them in the town but it has been more than five hours since neither Lang nor Shen Li and Ye Liu returned home. Even though she didn't want to worry, she couldn't stop herself from getting antsy even though her gut feeling was telling her something was wrong, which further intensified her urge to go and look for them.

  " I am going out and look for the two of them on my own," said Yu Dong after another hour of waiting, she wanted to sit still and listen to Chen Mi's reasoning that it was still early in the morning and they might return to the village by noon but she could no longer sit still. To hell with waiting for them, she would go and look for them on her own, even if it was a false alarm, she would be alright after watching the two with her own eyes.

  Chen Mi also nodded looking a bit anxious as well. " I will come with you, if I stay at the house alone, I will really go crazy waiting for someone to return and tell me what happened."

  Yu Dong wanted to say that he could always go to Grandma Fang's house but maybe her husband understood what she was going to say as he picked up a veil and tied it around his face. " I am coming with you."

  There was a new trend invented by the consort of the Empress, he would often go around wearing a veil on his face. Though it was something that had to do with the country he came from, the Empress believed that it was a good thing for the mers whether married or not to cover their faces.

  Though Yu Dong didn't know who this Empress was she wished she was old and die soon because it was the Empress's fault that she wasn't able to find her husband in the sea of veils that were roaming around the streets of the town. " Damn that f*cking bitch." cursed Yu Dong as she kept holding Chen Mi's hand as she looked around for a familiar silhouette. How was she going to look for her husbands now?

  Did she have to ask every mer to show her his face? She will be beaten to death if she did that.

  " Wife maybe you should look for the clinics that diagnose mers, maybe brothers came to see a doctor," suggested Chen Mi and Yu Dong nodded as she started to look around the town for clinics after clinics as she questioned them about her husbands but every clinic told her that no mer with the appearance she was describing came to look for them. Just as she was thinking that maybe she was looking in the wrong direction, she came to the old lady doctor who nodded after listening to Yu Dong's description. " Two young mers did come to look for a diagnosis."

  Yu Dong's expression brightened when she heard the old lady doctor's words. " Is that so? Then where are they now? How long has it been since they left?"

  She didn't even ask for the diagnosis results, right now she only cared about her Shen Li and Ye Liu.

  " They left an hour ago, I think they went in that direction——" the doctor pointed to the road that Shen Li and Ye Liu took and Yu Dong thanked her in a hurry before running in the direction where the doctor pointed, surprisingly it was the path that leads to the village but it was desolate and even more rough so no one used it.

  As Yu Dong was looking for Shen Li and Ye Liu's figure walking on the road, Chen Mi tugged on her sleeves harshly. Surprised, she looked at him but he wasn't looking at her instead he was trembling with tears in his eyes as he pointed to the old banyan tree. "Wif……Wife on the first…first br……Branch."

  Yu Dong followed his direction and looked at where he was pointing —— and suddenly she felt like someone has thrust their hands and hollowed out her heart because on the thick and gnarled branch hung two figures devoid of life and looked a little too familiar.

  No.

  No.

  Nooo.