"Brother, you have to come quickly."
She murmured and moved the matchstick closer to the fuse with trembling hands.
"Sister Huan!"
In the Bulwark Duke's residence, Madam Li woke up from a nightmare.
A girl hurriedly walked in from the outer room and asked with concern, "Auntie, did you have a nightmare again?"
"Yuwan." Madam Li seemed to have grabbed a straw to clutch at. She grabbed Yuan Yuwan's hand tightly and said with a trembling voice, "I dreamed that the Nanling Pass had been broken… Sister Huan didn't come out. She's still so young…"
Towards the end, she choked up.
Yuan Yuwan took a soft pillow and placed it behind her to let her lean against it. She comforted her softly, "Auntie, don't worry. Isn't there a saying that dreams are reversed? Besides, if Nanling Pass had really been broken through, the palace would have received the news long ago. It's impossible for the Empress Dowager and Your Majesty to hide it from you."
