Bai Lang fell into the lake head first. Sinking quickly underneath the water. Her heavy clothes were what was pulling her down. Bai Lang bobs above the water but after only a couple seconds she is sinking again. Her legs tired and struggling to bring her back towards the sun-speckled surface, she tried to take a breath but with the heaviness of her clothing, she couldn't. With superhuman effort Bai Lang breaks the surface again, gulping at the summer air and then with a shout.

"Ge ge.

Bai Lang didn't see anyone  by the lakeside but just before she was pushed she felt the presence  of someone behind her. Bai lang Strength began to fail and she started to sink underwater panic set in, as her heart was hammering against her ribs. Before Bai Lang could pass out, she heard a loud splash and someone pulling her out of the water. Bai wen was immersed in his book while basking in the sunlight, when he hears a faint cry and relizise that,

 Bai lang had yet to return from her walk, Bai Wen  then threw his book to aside,  and leep towards the lake, he was running at a fast pace when he hears  it again Bai Lang's cry. By the time he reached the lake, Bai Lang head of hair was all he could see she was barely above the water surface

Without thinking, wen jump into the lake  it was dark and murky beneath the waters and his own heavy robes weighed him down, his eyes caught  a flash of red and he held onto it pulling them both to the surface.

Looking at bai lang bai wen saw that her face  was pale but the rhythmic movement of her  chest tells him she’s still alive.

Bai Wen took off his wet robe, threw it aside and looked over at bai lang  . Her little figure was sopping wet, looking like a drowned rat. Her hair, instead of its shining, full glory looked like black seaweed curling against her face.

"Young Master?" Bai Wen stared at her. It was Lou Meng this servant girl was supposed to be by the carriages he remembered bail lang telling her to stay back.

"What are you doing here?" 

Lou Meng looked shocked and strangely enough didn't ask about Bai Lang who was still in his arms. Bai Lang lets out a groan that alerts Bai Wen to the situation at hand.

"Wait here for Sheng-ge. Tell him what happened. I am going to bring Xiao Lang back to the fu."

"Yes, Young Master."

Lu Meng watches the second lord back,  as he walks further away, with a clenched fist, her eyes stayed on the two figures. One walked unsteadily while the other was carried snugly in his arms, her eyes never leaving them until they were out of sight. There was a glint that passed through her eyes as she turned and walked away.

When bai lang open her eyes the first thing she saw was a sea of blue, through her hazy eyesight. A faint hint of smoke mixed with incense made her head foggy,  the last thing Bai long remembered before waking, was that she was being carried. Bai Lang is currently extremely disoriented due to her high fever. She only heard voices and shouting before she became unconscious again. 

Qu Rou Li moved quickly to the little girl's side and immediately began to dry her off.

"Quickly, call the doctor!" Qu Rou Li said to a servant.

Some other servants began to lead Bai Kang and Bai Wen out of the room so that Bai Lang's clothing could be changed. Bai Kang waited patiently outside the room, watching as the doctor came and the servants went.

Bai Wen, just what happened? How did Xiao Lang become like this?"

Bai Wen narrates everything that had happened at the lake. 

Anger flickered across Bai Kang's face. His cold, unmoving expression scared the young Bai Wen.

"Who else was with you?"

"No one else. The guards remained in the carriage. Sheng-ge and sisters took their servants with them."

The sound of Bai Kang slamming his fist into the door jolted Bai Wen.

Bai Shen, Liu and Nuo burst into the room, all asking questions."

"Father, is Xiao Lang alright?"

"How is Xiao Lang?"

"Has Xiao Lang woken up?"

 Everyone looks at Qu Rou Li  as she opens the door. "The doctor says Xiao Lang has a minor fever. The water in her chest has been coughed out. Xiao Lang is on bed rest, and we will have someone stay and watch her through the night.”

Bail lang was in a hazy state her throat feels porch and her limbs feels weak her body feels like it is under mountains of quilts from the way she is sweating, somehow she sense danger, just as a shadow hover over her, bai long open her hazy eyes, she looked sharply at the servant standing above her, before direction her stare to the folded quilt in her hands.

Bai lang misty eyes caused Lou meng  to feel noverous, after she thought about it this young miss was surely not the same person, a dirty thing had taken over the young miss's body and Lou meng was afraid, she felt that the new young miss  temperament has changed to be cold and evil  she had this penetrating stare that send chill down lou mengs spine  and  she wanted to be rid of the third miss.

After returning back to the main hall Qu Rou Li  cleared the servants out of the room, then turned to her husband. "Do you think Su Rou Xue is behind this?"

Bai Kang shook his head. He thought about it but didn't think she's behind it. "Impossible, Rou Xue is still a mother. She wouldn't do this, maybe Xiao Lang just slipped and fell. After all, she was at the lake's edge.

qu rou li said nothing to her husband. a lion can push its cub off a cliff but it's still a mother. "let's wait until xiao lang wakes up." qu rou li followed her husband out of the room but couldn't help but feel sorry for the little child. su rou xue has used the child time and time again. She was quick to jump and cry wolf when bai lang was suspected of being poisoned. Now that the child has fallen into the lake and nearly drowned, she's nowhere to be found. by now the entire household must know of bai lang's accident, yet where is su rou xue? qu rou li clenched her fist tightly she still remembered that summer when Su rou li crossed the Bai fu’s threshold, and what happened that summer,  if Su rou xue continued to cause trouble in the fu she  Qu rou Li will  not let her be.