My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

Chapter 275

Nelson felt a surge of vitality and was about to embrace Xanthea in his excitement, but then he saw Mr. Lockwood approaching.

Better safe than sorry.

After finally filtering the water, Xanthea was extremely thirsty. She grabbed a fresh lotus leaf, scooped up some water, and was about to drink when someone held down the stem of the leaf.

“Mr. Lockwood?”

She looked up at Orion with confusion. In the next moment, brion poured the water from the leaf into an empty water bottle.

“I want to try your filtered water too.”

What?

Before Xanthea could react, Orion tilted his head back, his Adam’s apple bobbing as he swallowed. It wasn’t a joke; he was actually drinking it.

He was really drinking river water?

Although she had done some basic treatment and filtering, the facilities were rudimentary, and the water surely still contained some impurities and bacteria.

why on earth would he drink the river water

on Xanthea’s surprised face as Orion took a sip and then handed the water back to

saw how he had performed a sleight of hand under the camera, her eyes widening in astonishment.

not the bottle filled with river water, but a bottle of real bottled water. The two bottles looked identical, with nearly the same amount of water and no distinguishing marks on the caps it

–

river water into the bottled water container and drank from it just to switch it with real bottled water for

her!

so

Despite his germophobia…

her eyes glistening

remarked, “Not bad

“Really?”

so good to me? So

the

what I

crayfish, and a few spiny eels, plenty

came ashore with his shirt full of fish and shellfish. The trainees gathered around him, sorting

how