Chapter 123: Feeding medicine, on the edge of losing control (1/2)

Chapter 123: Feeding medicine, on the edge of losing control

This woman stood up so fiercely for Gu Qishao, whom she’d never met before?

Long Feiye’s face was full of displeasure, but he still propped up Han Yunxi with one hand. His other hand spread his cloak on the ground before laying her on it. As soon as Han Yunxi hit the ground, it was like lying on her bed. She closed her eyes and fell into a stupor!

“Hey!”

“Han Yunxi!”

Long Feiye pushed her several times without reaction. His handsome brows unconsciously knitted together, but he went ahead to stop her bleeding first. Though his expression was ugly, his movements were still very careful and gentle. Nobody knew that the callous, cold, and unfeeling Duke of Qin could be so tender when he treated your wounds. If Han Yunxi was still awake, she’d be acting the same way she did when he kneaded her foot, too nervous to even breathe. Unfortunately, she was already dead to the world.

The wound on her arm wasn’t shallow. Even her clothing had stuck to the cut and mixed itself up with the flesh. It was a ghastly sight, but nothing extraordinary to Long Feiye’s eyes. He carefully separated the clothing from the injury, darting occasional glances towards Han Yunxi as if worried she’d be in pain. Only when he saw her quiet face did he continue.

After applying medicine to stop the bleeding, he bound up the wound and finished everything before it grew dark. It was already winter, and the deep forests made everything colder. Long Feiye started a fire and hesitated for a while before eventually pulling Han Yunxi into his arms so she could sleep there. Though his cloak was spread on the earth, it’d still be cold lying on the ground. Han Yunxi, who had been huddled up before, gradually opened her eyes in his warm embrace. Long Feiye looked down at her from above, not a trace of warmth in his words.

“Awake?”

Han Yunxi gazed at him, then at their surroundings, feeling that her head was very heavy. A part of her skull throbbed with pain as she struggled to figure out what was going on. When she finally understood, she tried to struggle her way up, but Long Feiye pressed her back down.

“You’re already this weak, are you looking to die?”

Han Yunxi glanced at her arm before giving a light laugh. “Don’t want to.”

“If you don’t want to, then be good and lie back down,” Long Feiye wasn’t smiling as he looked aside into the darkness. But Han Yunxi suddenly spat up a mouthful of black blood before falling into a coughing fit.

“You’re poisoned!” Long Feiye was shocked. He’d never expected a poisons expert like Han Yunxi to get poisoned as well. But after he’d spat up black blood himself from poison, he knew this had to be her case.

Han Yunxi’s pale face turned even more ashen, her entire body as weak as a flimsy sheet of paper. If not for Long Feiye holding her in place, she might’ve been blown away by the next gust of wind. She was a poisons expert who could treat herself as soon as she was poisoned. But she left the “first priority” to him and forgot about herself.

“Medicine…bring me my medical pouch,” Han Yunxi said weakly.

Long Feiye immediately grabbed the medical pouch and dumped out all its contents. “Which one?”

Which one?

Looking at the bottles and jars scattered on the ground, Han Yunxi suddenly wanted to cry. There was no antidote in the medical pouch at all. She just wanted to take the chance to use it as a shield while she retrieved the actual antidote from her detoxification system. How was she supposed to do that now that he’d dumped everything out?

Bastard!

I really wished I hadn’t met you!

Han Yunxi was currently crying without tears, but Long Feiye yelled at her fiercely. “Which one is it?! Hurry up and say!”

There was a thread of anxiety hidden in his anger. Han Yunxi lay in his arms, dizzily looking at his staunch, cold face, and abruptly asked, “Long Feiye, you used me to bait the enemy. What if they stole me away?”

If he came to save her, she’d jump for joy.

If he came just to look for the big fish she lured in, she’d rather he never came at all. By that time she’d given up on him coming, anyways. The worst thing in the world was to give someone hope before taking it away!

Long Feiye didn’t think Han Yunxi would ask him this. He looked at her with a start, but was quick to recover with a mild tone. “That’s unlikely.”

“What’s unlikely?” Han Yunxi asked again, her half-opened eyes misting over pathetically.

Long Feiye looked and looked at her without showing any pity or tenderness. He couldn’t help but coldly demand, “Where’s the antidote?”

Suddenly frightened, Han Yunxi immediately grew alert, the haziness in her eyes all but disappearing. Dammit! What did she ask him just then?

“Where’s the antidote?” Long Feiye asked again in a deep voice, on the verge of losing his temper.

“Let me think it over…” Han Yunxi replied timidly, as if he was the one who was poisoned and needed antidote, instead of her. Her so-called thinking it over was just starting up the detox system in her mind. Han Yunxi thought and thought, concentrating all her energy. If this was any other day, it wouldn’t take much effort, but this was exhausting for her already worn-out body.

She couldn’t help but close her eyes, prompting Long Feiye to grow impatient again. “What is it?”