It should be said that Xie Wan Ning never thought about Lu Ziyan's death.

In her eyes, Lu Ziyan is the god of death in the world. Even if everyone else dies, he will just live well.

It has been like this in both past and present lives.

As for committing suicide for love, she didn't think that Lu Ziyan committed suicide for her.

Didn’t he also live for five years after she died in his previous life?

In the end, he died on the battlefield.

That was an accident.

If it weren't for the accident, he would have lived a long time.

Even though he would be disheartened as he said, living like a walking corpse is still living.

Xie Wan Ning was so sure.

Apart from the initial panic, she quickly calmed herself down and began to implement her original plan.

Buy a small courtyard, it doesn’t need to be too big, but not too small either, and then buy a few servants to guard the house and take care of daily affairs.

It would be best if there was a pond in the yard so that she could enjoy the plum blossoms in winter, the lotus in summer, and the withered leaves in autumn. Year after year, she would guard her yard, watching the clouds roll and the flowers bloom and fall.

That day on the boat, she only took out those jewellery that could reveal her identity, and kept the silver bills that could actually be taken out and used safely close to her body.

These are also the capital that determines her future quality of life.

Living like a hermit, away from the hustle and bustle of the capital, away from plunder, coercion, brutality, and an involuntary life, is what Xie Wan Ning wants most.

Her biggest wish in her previous life was to marry Lu Ziyan. Later, she got her wish, but she regretted it.

After being reborn, she initially only wanted to reverse the mistakes of her previous life, and almost panicked and hastily chose someone to marry. However, it turned out that not only were those mistakes not reversed, but the situation was like a wild horse that had broken free from its reins, running madly in a direction she could not control.

Now that Xie Wan Ning had escaped successfully, she just wanted to live a life where she was in charge of everything. She didn't want to live the days of being manipulated by others, being schemed by her husband, and being used by her own aunt.

With such aspirations in mind, she began to get busy in Bianzhou.

This is the place where Lu Ziyan was ordered to suppress bandits but brought back Liu Manrou.

Xie Wan Ning had never thought in her entire life that one day she would come here and plan to stay here.

At the same time, in Lu City, thousands of miles away, Lu Ziyan's situation was not very good.

Dayang Lake has been salvaged day and night for nearly a month, and bodies have been pulled out from the bottom of the lake one after another.

There were old and young, male and female, new and old corpses, but none of them was Xie Wan Ning.

Dayang Lake has a long history, and countless people have died there over the years.

Trying to rescue someone from there is no easier than looking for a needle in a haystack.

Some warriors who were good at swimming dived into the freezing cold water, but when they came up they found that the mud at the bottom was extremely deep. Not to mention a corpse, even a half-sized boat could be easily swallowed up.

It is normal that no one was rescued, but since the superiors did not call for a stop, the salvage operation in Dayang Lake continued.

As time goes by, the eight words "no one sees the person alive, no one sees the body dead" have almost become a conclusion.

Lu Ziyan simply couldn't accept this reality.

He led people to fish in Dayang Lake for more than half a month. At first, when he heard that a body had been fished out, he felt black before his eyes and his hands and feet became weak, but he still forced himself to identify the body.

Every time I break out in a cold sweat, I feel as if I have escaped death and feel lucky.

There is no bad news, that's good news.

But such a relief was gone after all the ships passing by that day were intercepted and turned back. (End of this chapter)