Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s Chapter 2429 - 2365: Unfathomable Mysteries

Previously on Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s...

Chiang Xiao lingered in their room, avoiding the living room after an awkward encounter, while Meng Xinian handled the guests. Upon his return from bathing, she discovered a fresh, deep gash on his chest from a knife wound sustained while pursuing and capturing an intruder near the Enclosed Camp. The assailant had exploited a false rumor of gemstones in the nearby river to draw crowds and slip past sentries undetected, and Meng Xinian rushed back after handing the suspect over for interrogation, driven by fears that the plot linked to Second Master and threatened Chiang Xiao's safety.

The moment he got hurt, his mind immediately turned to Chiang Xiao.

That individual is already imprisoned and unable to flee. If Dai Gang and his group fail to extract any information from him, he'll head back afterward.

Yet, he needed to return first to confirm Chiang Xiao's well-being.

"I didn't discover anything unusual here." Seeing his real concern for her safety, Chiang Xiao hurriedly added, "Look, I'm totally unharmed, right?"

"While heading back, I took a detour outside, and sure enough, no shady figures turned up for the time being."

Meng Xinian's heavy brows stayed knitted together, "Still, Little, the foes we're up against could be far tougher than we ever thought."

Chiang Xiao gazed at him and gave a nod.

"I won't back down in fear."

She was well aware that the adversaries they might face held greater power than he suspected. After all, the research institute focused on people with unique talents, so they probably possessed advanced tools or substances that could subdue those with special powers.

Without doubt, they had also trained elite combatants inside the facility.

In her former life, since her oddity showed only in her artwork and she was physically weak, they sent regular testers instead of elite hunters to grab her. But she remembered that as they neared her, one carried a syringe.

The pale blue liquid in that syringe—who could tell what it did.

"I'm not scared, but we have to stay super vigilant. You mustn't suffer any harm."

Meng Xinian pulled her into a firm hug, running his fingers through her hair, his voice turning rough, "If anything happened to you, I couldn't go on living."

Earlier, he'd seen her having the Magic Brush and Space as something that went against the natural order. Yet now, he fretted endlessly that someone might uncover her secret of owning Exotic Treasures.

Should that happen, she'd face tremendous peril.

Thus, if he could help it, he truly wished she'd stop using the Space and Magic Brush in public from here on.

"I'll stay extra careful."

Chiang Xiao caught the worry in his tone, softly encircling his waist with her arms while steering clear of his injury, and assured him, "I won't let anything befall me."

"Right, with the Magic Brush and Space, only resort to them in dire need. Plus, your instincts are sharp. If you run into someone like the Second Master, hold off on revealing the Space unless your life hangs in the balance."

"What's on your mind?"

Chiang Xiao paused in surprise for a second.

Before, Meng Xinian had viewed the Space as her safe haven, urging her to slip inside if danger loomed. But now he's advising against showing the Space except in a true emergency?

"If these folks are truly in cahoots, they're no average sorts at all."

Meng Xinian cupped her face and explained, "I got these heightened senses, power, and quickness—way beyond normal human levels—from drinking the potion and spring water in your Space. Even so, the enemy managed to land a hit on me. If they were just regular people, that wouldn't have been feasible."

Chiang Xiao went quiet.

In the last life, Meng Xinian had reached the scene but arrived too late to rescue her.

At that point, he must have realized they hailed from such a secretive research setup.

However, in this reborn life, Meng Xinian remained unaware of that lab's existence.

Chiang Xiao believed she ought to warn him, though she struggled to find the right words just then.

Luckily, Meng Xinian had already picked up on the oddity himself.

That he could even consider this showed his sharp insight.

"I get it. I'll be incredibly watchful. But, Brother Xinian, if they're truly not everyday folks, then what about you?"

"Worried for me?"

"You fret over me, so naturally, I'd fret over you as well."

Meng Xinian replied, "In the past, I never imagined such people lurked in the world, so I let my guard down. I'll watch myself closely from now on."