Seeing this, Ruan Fu tentatively reached out with her toe and gave Jiuyuan's body two gentle nudges. Only when his frame remained as lifeless as a puppet with severed strings did her racing heart finally begin to settle.
Her tense, rabbit-like features quickly retracted as she shifted back into her human form, though the tips of her ears couldn't stop their slight trembling.
"This item from An Bei really works. Otherwise, even if I didn't die tonight, I would've been skinned alive."
Ruan Fu crouched down and brushed aside the long hair obscuring Jiuyuan's face to get a closer look. Veins bulged across his skin like a spiderweb. His eyes were wide open, yet clouded by a dark mist. She reached out and lightly poked his cheek with a slender fingertip, muttering under her breath, "He can't just be dead like this, right? But even if he is, it has nothing to do with me. It's his fault... he attacked me first!"
