396 How Did You Eat It? (1/2)
In the Southern Heaven City…
The very exhausted Guan Qing Han had closed her eyes, and lain down on her bed after Jun Mo Xie had left her tent. Her spirit had been stretched extremely thin ever since she had been besides the Young Master. Her heart wasn't worried. And, the others didn't matter. However, Guan Qing Han's mind was fuzzy, and she was extremely exhausted. Pain was invading her body. In fact, there wasn't a point on her body where it didn't hurt. Moreover, she felt ashamed that the lower part of the body hurt a lot in particular. In fact, she felt as if it was being torn apart. Even the tiniest of movements would give rise to excruciating pain there…
[It's entirely that idiot's fault for meddling with things! Damn… it hurts so much!]
Guan Qing Han felt powerless and weak. She couldn't move a single part of her body… not even her little toe. Two tears flowed down her cheeks. She didn't regret helping the Young Master. Nor did she resent Jun Mo Xie. But… it was too painful. And, these tears were her only means of relief from this pain…
The Young Lady had been passive throughout that stormy event. In fact, she had even mentally prepared herself for it. But, she had still lost every ounce of her physical strength. In fact, every bit of her Xuan strength had forsaken her as well…
She felt that she didn't have any bones or muscles in her body. She wasn't able summon any strength from any part of her body. But, she was still unexpectedly able to turn her eyes. Guan Qing Han felt somewhat surprised at this. And, those tears had left her eyes even before she could react.
She expended the last bit of her strength to save her pride and dignity when she had stood-up inside Jun Mo Xie's tent, and had put-on her clothes…
The Young Lady didn't wish to show her weak-side in Jun Mo Xie's presence. She had told herself that she had committed that mistake to save Jun Mo Xie… to save the last surviving member of the Jun Family's Third Generation. She had thought that there would be no traces of that event, and that she wouldn't get involved with him after that. In fact, she had convinced herself that there wouldn't be a need for them to get involved with each other after the incident had passed.
She tried to think along these lines, but she couldn't convince herself.
”You're my woman! This is a fact!”
Jun Mo Xie had spoken those words in a domineering manner. And, his tone had been unquestionable in its authority. That scene had been repeating in her mind, and those words had been playing in her ears…
”I will marry you when these problems subside!” that man had said.
[Was that a promise? Was that his desire?]
[That was a mistake, right? Isn't it?]
[And, why am I so scared?]
[But, why is there a trace of bashfulness in my heart?]
[I did it to save the sole surviving member of the Jun Family's Third generation. But, why haven't I committed suicide already? Why haven't I traded my life to defend the names of these two families? Why hasn't this idea even cross my mind? Why…?]
[Am I a woman with no sense of shame and honor…?]
[Why?]
She was quietly lying in bed when this train of thought overwhelmed her, and flooded her mind with a plethora of questions. And, Guan Qing Han had forgotten about the pain her body was suffering as a result. Her face became red at first. It would then turn deathly pale… before turning deep red again… and would eventually paint her neck the same color. And, this continued to happen in endless circles…
Two tear drops flowed down her cheeks, and soaked her long, black, and satin-like hair.
However, they weren't because of the pain this time.
[This night… I… am doomed to get no sleep…]
She was unaware of how much time had passed when she heard someone speak something outside her tent. She didn't care much about that at this time. Everything seemed very trivial to her in her current frame of mind…
But, there's always something that comes to provoke a person regardless of how hard they try to avoid it. Someone lifted the entry flap of the tent, and stuck their small head inside. This person then sneakily looked around the place, and walked-in on tip-toes…
”Elder Sister Guan… are you alright…?” Dugu Xiao Yi's face was brimming with a sense of loss and shame. Her eyes gleamed with tears as she looked at Guan Qing Han. She then cautiously and solemnly sat at the bedside. It seemed as if the little girl's figure had wasted away in the middle of the night…
The little girl had been born into the second most powerful family of the Capital City of the Tian Xiang Empire. And, she was the only girl in her generation in that huge family; the rest of the off-springs were boys. Therefore, Dugu Xiao Yi had blossomed in that family while being doted on. In fact, the care she had received was hard to imagine…
It was very hard to have male-female relationships in that era. And, this case was the same for even the most common of girls of the most common of households. The morality of such a relation was scrutinized very strictly before marriage. And, it was for the fear of someone learning about something unsavory. And, wasn't she from a big family like the Dugu Family…?
Even the people of the neighborly households had to be very vigilant. They may dare to talk about those tabooed things, but the Young Lady's ears shouldn't come to hear of them. Otherwise, it would be a huge and unforgivable crime…