Chapter 182: Oddity, safely in storage (2/2)

Unexpectedly, Long Feiye set down the cup and hastily had Han Yunxi lower her head while he clapped her on the back. He was unhappy as he spoke. “Use your strength to cough. What are you doing holding it back? Are you trying to kill yourself?”

Didn’t he mind at all?

Han Yunxi couldn’t hold herself back and broke into a heavy coughing fit. It was a long time before she coughed out the water stuck in her throat. Once her air passageways were clear, she’d basically lost all her strength and was left paralyzed in Long Feiye’s arms. She was extremely weak, looking timidly at Long Feiye like a child who’d done something wrong. She was about to apologize when Long Feiye had her rest against the headboard and went to wash his hands.

The words of apology rose to her lips before Han Yunxi swallowed them back down.

She couldn’t see Long Feiye’s expression head-on, but caught the coldness in his side profile, and how he’d slightly creased his brows as if in loathing. He washed his hands for a very long time, focused and earnest. Actually, it was good enough that he hadn’t pushed her away right then and there. But still, Han Yunxi had an inexplicable sense of disappointment as she watched Long Feiye absorbed in washing his hands.

After wiping his clean hands dry, Long Feiye peered at them for inspection, his gaze complicated. Again, he poured a fresh cup of water and faced Han Yunxi. “Drink some more?”

Han Yunxi shook her head, not wanting to drink at the moment.

“Drink a little more,” Long Feiye said, preparing to feed her at the same time Han Yunxi reached out to take the cup. The two of them paused before Long Feiye quickly gave the cup to Han Yunxi with a mild tone. “No one’s going to steal it from you, so drink slowly.”

“Oh,” Han Yunxi answered as she lowered her head to sip.

Both of them remained silent before Han Yunxi still spoke up. “Just then…I got you dirty, sorry about that.”

Long Feiye ‘hn’d’ without saying anything else.

But Han Yunxi seemed to feel annoyed for no reason. Even she felt this was strange. She was always clear-cut and straightforward, natural and unrestrained, but why did she always feel so constrained before this man? Perhaps she held hopes and expectations she shouldn’t have?

It was then that Long Feiye questioned her in his cold voice. “You were unconscious for three days and three nights, what happened? Were you frightened into a faint?”

The change of topic eased Han Yunxi’s nerves as she lifted her eyes to feign astonishment. “Three days three nights?”

“What happened? Why did you just faint?” Long Feiye asked again.

“I don’t know either. I was even afraid to lift my head with all those arrows about. Somehow, I started feeling unwell, and then I forgot what happened afterwards,” Han Yunxi replied.

Was she implying that he’d held her too tightly and suffocated her into fainting? Long Feiye stared fixedly at Han Yunxi. “That’s it?”

Honestly, it wasn’t easy to pass a lie before this guy. Han Yunxi hemmed and hawed. “Actually…actually, chenqie pushed against Your Highness many times while I was being suffocated, but Your Highness was too busy dodging the arrows to notice. Your Highness’s arm strength was too great for chenqie to push aside.”

There were no hints, this was directly accusing him of holding her too tightly. Hearing this, Long Feiye’s gaze turned less wanton than before. Han Yunxi secretly chortled. Did this count as taking liberties with the Duke of Qin? Even if she was beaten to death, she wouldn’t admit it. She didn’t have the guts!

Striking while the iron was hot, she added, “Your Highness, was chenqie really unconscious for three days and three nights? Chenqie couldn’t have caught some strange illness, right? What did the doctors say?”

“Rest first, we’ll have the doctors come take a look later,” Long Feiye finally withdrew his scrutinizing gaze.

“Your Highness, the restricted area’s poison pond…how should we deal with that?” Han Yunxi sounded him out.

Long Feiye explained the strange things that had happened, along with the arrangements by the three great families.

“Something that strange! How could this be?” Han Yunxi said inconceivably. She was visibly moved, but a crafty look flitted past her eyes. In this world, she was the only one who knew what had happened!

“That pond was abnormal to begin with. Even the three great families don’t know where it came from. However, it’s a good thing that it’s gone,” Long Feiye said simply.

If the pond and its plants hadn’t disappeared, he wouldn’t know how to deal with them either. Since it was a treasure of Medicine City, destroying it would’ve been no easy task. Han Yunxi nodded her head like a stalk of onion. Neither gods nor ghosts had known what she’d did, so even if the three great families had Heavenly skills, they wouldn’t be able to track down the poison pond. Moreover, there was no way that piece of land could ever make water again!

If that Duke of Kang knew that his painstakingly cultivated plants had been stolen by her from the roots and stored away, how would he react?

She closed her eyes and pretended to rest while secretly taking a mental trip to the detox system dimension. There laid the poison pond and its collection of plants, secretly hidden inside. Only then did she set her mind to rest. Coming to Medicine City this time really was worthwhile. Right now, she didn’t have the energy to start up the detox system’s programs to analyze the pond and plants. However, it’d been safely stored away so she didn’t have to rush.

Han Yunxi wasn’t aware of the many great surprises awaiting her from this poison pond and plants. Of course, these were words for the future.

After resting for a day, Long Feiye and Han Yunxi finally returned to the inn, where Gu Qishao had nearly given up on finding them both.