Chapter 16 (1/2)
Chapter 16: Confronting Yifu
Han Zichuan really was a good ht with a woman
No matter how I made fun of him, he still kept his eyes downcast When I moved closer to take a look, he actually turned his face away to speak “You…keep your distance from me”
“Che, it’s not like I’llover to pull up a patch of grass “Teasing you is a lot less fun than yifu”
He seeathered upit in place with my red wood hairpin
“Fang Hua really didn’t raise you as a girl these past ten years?” Han Zichuan suddenly blurted out
The sunlight just happened to get in my eyes then, and I squinted when I turned to look at hi time, he finally tore his eyes from my face to rest above my head
“Your yifu is a Fang Hua Beast…right?”
Not wanting to reply,away
He followed behind me without a word The two of us walked softly, one in front of the other, the silence occasionally broken by the sound of falling leaves When his voice rose again, it was as bright and clear as jade “Fang Hua withdrew fro quietly by himself, yet he took you in as his adopted son”
The wind blew gently, carrying along the sweet, indistinct fragrance of flowers and a unique scent that smelled like medicine to settle in my very bones
“He treats you extreifted you with a Fang Hua Wood”
This particular sentence piquedat him out of the corner ofstill beneath thetrees as if turned to stone There was still a soft, mild smile on his face, and an excited, if hesitant, expression in his eyes
His current face and bearing felt a little odd toI hesitated, then touched the hairpin, only to see his eyes light up My heart started to pound, and I withdrewHua Wood? Is it very important to my yifu?”
He replied, “You can ask him”
“You’ve seen Fang Hua Wood before, right?” I narrowed uess from his expression “I wear this hairpin everyday, so why tell me this now?”
His face looked as if it wanted to s Hua Wood is an exceedingly precious thing that can nullify hundreds of poisons There are always people searching for it, and I’ve had the luck to seen one in the past as well The one you have now is a little different I’es in your body today are probably related to this wood That’s what finally convinced me”
My heart stopped
He just clasped his hands[1] “I’o on ahead” He see
Che, this person…what’s his problem?
His es of a book Before long, he’d already disappeared without a trace I stood there looking around for a bit before leisurely walking back to the house I closed the door, pulled out my hairpin, and examined it closely in my hand
My head bent down as I got even closer to take a sniff, but it wasn’t the sarance I’d smelled before
Was this really Fang Hua Wood? It didn’t look rasped it in my hands…
From the expression on Han Zichuan’s face just now, it was easy to tell that he had been hiding so Aish…what could it be? I sucked in another breath and placed the hairpin on a low table Absentht of my bronze mirror and my heart stopped I paused for a second and sloalked over, a feeling of impatience in my heart
To tell you the truth, it’d been a while Besides knowing my skin was now a little whiter, I had no idea what I looked like The reflection given off by the bronze mirror was blurry and pale yellow, but as I carew clearer
There stood a figure dressed incouldn’t hide the lithe and graceful curves of a woave off was a mixture of a manly, unrestrained spirit and a delicate, feminine air It was an irresistibly dreamlike vision that made it hard for one to look away
My forehead wrinkled
Compared to before, I couldn’t evenI was now…
Suddenly, a fine voice carried over from behind me
“Did you get rid of the poison?” An extra voice rose out of the air, startling me
Another figure appeared in the mirror to stand behind me A cinnabar mark below the eye[2] fras of tenderness
“When did yifu open the door and come in? I didn’t even realize”
“Not so long ago I kept thinking of you, so I caraspedas I faced him
His eyes were full of warmth
We were so close that his breath tickled my cheeks, and the sensationwildly, and I unconsciously took a few steps back, hand pressing against a low table until it brushed against soround with a noise
“Yikes…” I lowered my head
What fell down?
But he used his hands to raisemy forehead as he peered at ain, it was in a tone that had never sounded so genial before, war breeze “You look just like your father…”
Ah…