Chapter 91: A Mask (1/2)

Translator: Soldier

This imperial physician was the best in the Imperial Palace.

He had never made any mistakes in his diagnosis. If he said that this condition was caused by severe injury, then it definitely was.

The vigilance in Xue Liu's eyes seemed to be quietly dissolving after she heard the royal physician's words.

”Since the Ninth Lady's illness is really so serious, prescribe her some tonics. If there are not enough precious medicinal materials in Yun Mansion, get some from the Imperial Palace. Make sure the Ninth Lady has everything she needs for rehabilitation.”

”Yes! My Queen!” the old royal physician nodded.

After taking a glimpse at Yun Wu, who was sitting in a chair with face as pale as white paper, Xue Liu stood up from the host seat and slowly walked towards her.

”Take good care of yourself. After you recover, come to my palace and walk around. I like you,” saying this, she stretched out her hand and patted on Yun Wu's shoulder.

But Yun Wu shivered when the Queen patted her, and her face appeared even paler.

After that, Xue Liu slightly curved her lips, turned around and glanced at Yun Qi, ”Venerable Master Yun, General Li will stay in Yun Mansion for the next few days in case the demonic dragon makes trouble. I'll leave you to it.”

After saying this, she turned around in a noble, graceful manner and slowly walked out of the living room, followed by those handmaids and eunuchs.

”Have a safe trip home, My Queen!”

Those members of Yun Mansion, who had been kneeling on the ground all along, respectfully saw the Queen off with words.

”Cough... ”

However, the moment Xue Liu stepped out of the living room, Yun Wu started coughing miserably and uncontrollably.

The smile on Xue Liu's face went bigger when she heard the cough after walking through the door.

...

In the Ning Courtyard.

Nobody was allowed to enter this courtyard. Even those soldiers dispatched to Yun Mansion were kept out of it.

At this moment, in a room!

Yun Qi watched ”Yun Wu”, who was sitting on a chair with a ”pale face” but was sipping at her tea languidly.

”Who are you?”

By no means was this ”Yun Wu” the one he arranged before. However, if this person was not the ”Yun Wu” he arranged before, who was her?

”Yun Wu” ignored him. After taking a couple of sips of tea, she slowly raised her eyes and looked at Yun Qi, ”It seems that it doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that the flaw in your arrangements nearly got her into trouble.”

Naturally, that ”her” she mentioned was Yun Wu.

On hearing this, Yun Qi furrowed his forehead, ”Who are you exactly?”

Surprisingly, she knew the issue about Yun Wu.

”Her future husband,” this remark was made not in Yun Wu's female voice but in a deep, magnetic male voice.

This answer surprised Yun Qi.

A man?

How was this possible?

Yun Wu was a teenage girl. How could a man disguise himself as her?

But right at this moment, that person casually threw back the cape, revealing the physique of an adult man.

Unexpectedly, he managed to camouflage himself perfectly with only a cape and cheated everybody's eyes.

Who was he exactly?

No. He just said that ”her future husband”.

Her? Was he referring to Yun Wu?

”You just said that 'her future husband'. What did that mean?” with a frown, Yun Qi looked at that man with the face of ”Yun Wu”.

”It meant what you're thinking about right now. Venerable Master Yun, you're very smart, so there's no need for me to explain it to you,” that man answered in an unconcerned, cold voice.

Long Qingxie stretched out his hand and slowly removed the skin mask along with the hair from his head.

Yun Qi was somewhat stunned when he saw that man's handsome features and silver hair.

He was a very charming young man, lips seductively curved up. That was not a smile but merely a habitual movement of his, which imparted him with an air of languor and wicked attraction.

This man was even more beautiful than women.

But Yun Qi instinctively felt that this man was dangerous.

Very few people could give him this kind of this feeling.

However, this man did give him this feeling. Yun Qi was unable to tell how powerful this man was. Was this man's level by any chance higher than his?

But he was barely in his early twenties. How was it possible?

”Where is she?” Yun Qi asked, watching Long Qingxie.

It had been a month, but there was no news at all, which greatly concerned him.

”She's fine for the moment, but I'm not,” Long Qingxie raised his eyes, staring at Yun Qi. ”Did you block the entrance to the forbidden area on the hill behind your mansion?”

When Long Qingxie came back from the border of the Longxu Kingdom, he had originally planned to look for Yun Wu.

But at that time, rumor said that the Lord of Luo City adopted her and that he also found his natural mother.

When he heard this, he believed that there must be something she had to deal with, because otherwise she would never have agreed to be adopted, given her personality.

Afterwards, messages from the scouts he sent out confirmed his speculation.

She was saved by an old woman living in a remote village, who also happened to be Lord Murong's natural mother.

So she must have gone to Murong Mansion to repay the favor.