Yue Shuwen glanced meaningfully in Huo Sining’s direction and didn’t forget to wink at her before leaving.

Huo Sining understood, knowing Yue Shuwen was covering for her, so she smiled and accepted the favor.

After closing the door, Huo Sining tossed the contract that Su Qingqing and Li Jun had been nervously cherishing directly into the storage ring. She stretched and yawned, saying to Gu Xu:

"Alright, it’s late, let’s sleep."

Gu Xu couldn’t help but touch his nose, realizing that having a Spatial Cheating Device is indeed safer than relying on him as a special forces guard. With that document in his wife’s ring, even a mercenary corps couldn’t steal it.

After tidying up, Huo Sining gradually calmed the excitement within her. As she lay in bed, her mind flashed back to Fujiwara Seiho and his team she encountered during the day, recalling how Fujiwara Seiho discovered the golden Phoebe nanmu box he auctioned had been taken as they left the building, Huo Sining couldn’t help but secretly laugh like a sly fox whose cunning plan succeeded.

Although she didn’t see Fujiwara Seiho’s team in their frustrated state, Huo Sining could imagine how colorful their expressions must have been.

Despite Semiya’s difficulties for her, she wasn’t entirely unhelpful, especially with that priority purchase agreement she signed that greatly helped her.

Thinking about the Phoebe zhennan wood box she brought back from the black market auction, Huo Sining suddenly got up, took her backpack, and pulled the box out from it.

Inside the box, the Classic of Mountains and Seas was a thread-bound book with a blue cover, its pages slightly yellowed, but the script was as familiar to Huo Sining as ever.

However, upon flipping open the pages, Huo Sining made a shocking discovery.

Beside those strange, twisted characters, someone had written traditional Chinese characters with a ballpoint pen next to each one.

These characters were interspersed in the vertical blank columns, and you could tell their meaning at a glance!

Someone was attempting to translate the contents of the Classic of Mountains and Seas using Chinese characters!

Huo Sining froze, staring in disbelief at the handwriting on the page.

It was clear these were manually written, with an ordinary blue ballpoint pen, indicating they were written not long ago.

But the person who wrote them was likely guessing at translating these characters, as every sentence had some words that couldn’t be translated. Thus, the characters in the empty columns were fragmented and couldn’t form complete sentences.

Huo Sining tried reading a few lines, only to find the translation made no sense. She couldn’t tell if the translator did a poor job or if essential words were missing, causing confusion.

Huo Sining attempted to study them further but killed countless brain cells without making progress. Ultimately, she gave up, closing the Classic of Mountains and Seas to put it in the storage ring.

However, the moment she closed the pages, her hand paused, sensing something wrong.

She flipped through the Classic of Mountains and Seas again, then took out the Classic of Mountains and Seas from the storage ring to compare them. This comparison revealed an unexpected issue.

The fonts in the Classic of Mountains and Seas were indeed the same as the one in her hand, but comparing the two revealed totally different text on each page, indicating the contents recorded within were not consistent!

This left Huo Sining quite stunned. She vaguely felt she had stumbled onto something crucial but couldn’t grasp it when she tried.

Feeling somewhat deflated, Huo Sining couldn’t help but sigh deeply, frustratedly tossing both Classics of Mountains and Seas into the ring.

Gu Xu came out from the shower, hearing his wife’s long sigh. Seeing Huo Sining’s terribly distressed expression, he couldn’t help but curiously ask, "What’s wrong with you?"

Huo Sining glanced at Gu Xu, shaking her head.

Gu Xu casually picked up the nearby hair dryer and began drying Huo Sining’s hair, running his fingers through her damp locks while smiling:

"If there’s nothing wrong, then don’t overthink it. Everything will solve itself when it comes to its resolution; why worry about things that haven’t happened yet?"

Huo Sining looked at Gu Xu and with a teasing smile said: "That’s quite philosophical, when did you start sounding like a sage with such worldly insights?"

Gu Xu immediately laughed: "A sage? I can’t be a madman like Bai Buzhi, obsessing over elixirs and immortality all day. People say immortality is great, but is it really? I doubt it."

Huo Sining was taken aback; her connections with Bai Buzhi had indeed increased over the past half-year while assisting in healing Qin Lianshan, and Gu Xu had also frequently encountered him, leading him to investigate Bai Buzhi’s situation.

Yet Huo Sining had never heard Gu Xu comment on Bai Buzhi’s pursuit of immortality. Now, hearing Gu Xu’s words, she couldn’t help but feel stunned.

"Do you really not want immortality?"

Huo Sining asked instinctively, recalling her unique bloodline, as Jiaoren have a lifespan far surpassing humans, though she never shared this secret with Gu Xu, fearing someday they might be destined for different paths. This thought arose repeatedly only to be deliberately suppressed each time.

But now, hearing Gu Xu unexpectedly say he wasn’t interested in immortality, Huo Sining couldn’t resist probing his inner thoughts.

She looked intently at Gu Xu, as though attempting to discern something unusual in his expression.

Gu Xu shook his head and said: "Isn’t living in the moment beautiful enough, why compulsively pursue illusions? Birth, old age, sickness, and death are normal human experiences. If someone lives forever, watching loved ones and friends age and die while they remain, experiencing all earthly sorrows and joys repeatedly without end, who could bear such interminable loneliness?"

Gu Xu’s obvious reasoning left Huo Sining speechless, her eyes revealing a mix of complexity and concern.