Chapter 231: Sweet nothings, so not domineering (1/2)

Chapter 231: Sweet nothings, so not domineering

Long Feiye and Han Yunxi had come to a tacit understanding about what they did just then, so both of them were feeling awkward. When Tang Li asked his question, the atmosphere turned even stranger. Of course, the reticent Long Feiye wouldn’t answer such a question. Meanwhile, Han Yunxi kept her head bowed as she expressionlessly treated his poison, pretending that she hadn’t heard a thing.

Tang Li stroked his jaw as he glanced at them before he seemed to get a clue. He chuckled softly and didn’t say a thing. Though he’d shut his mouth now, his words had already caused a wave that couldn’t be stopped. Long Feiye’s state of mind was unclear, but Han Yunxi’s heart was long doing flip-flops in chaos.

Why did he fool around with her? Because he had nothing else to do? Because of boredom? Or was he just in a good mood today?

Even if that was the case, there was no need to act this way! In Han Yunxi’s memories–in fact, in everyone’s memory–Tianning’s Duke of Qin was nothing if not cold. Forget about jokes or fooling around, he didn’t even know how to smile. Or perhaps this was an aspect of Long Feiye rarely known to anyone, and she’d just never realized it? In any case, Han Yunxi couldn’t find a reason. As she lost herself in thought, her attention slipped while treating him with the needles. Suddenly, Long Feiye’s hand shook as fresh blood poured from his wound.

“Ah…!” It wasn’t Long Feiye, but Han Yunxi who cried out in alarm. She’d stuck the needle in the wrong acupoint!

“Sorry about that, I know it hurts a lot…”

A misstep in acupoints was more painful than a knife cutting away at the heart. The agony was nearly unbearable. As a doctor herself, Han Yunxi knew this very well.

“I didn’t mean to. I know it hurts a lot, but…but it’ll be better soon. Just endure it for a while.”

She’d always been self-confident in her skills at expelling poisons via needles. This had to be her most flustered performance in both lives, right? It was nothing like a doctor at all. Bracing herself, she looked over and happened to meet Long Feiye looking right back. He didn’t say it hurt, much less blame her. All he did was look at her coldly before turning his head aside. From this angle, one could tell he was creasing his eyebrows on that handsome face. The pain had to be substantial for him to make such an expression. Truly, Han Yunxi was plagued with a guilty conscience. She didn’t know what to say to his coldness, but only continued to treat him. Soon enough, though, her attention wandered again.

Should she interrogate him?

‘Long Feiye, was it fun to fool around with me?’

‘Long Feiye, serves you right for getting bitten!’

‘Long Feiye, you’re already this old. Aren’t you tired of things like this?’

‘Long Feiye, you have to apologize or else I won’t treat your poison!’

……

All sorts of bold questions swirled around in her head. If this was any other time, she’d still have the guts to question him, but this time was too awkward. As soon as she recalled Long Feiye ‘fooling around’ with her just then, she didn’t dare to ask. In fact, she didn’t even want to meet his eyes.

She really was stuck!

In the midst of her conflicted thoughts, Han Yunxi missed an acupoint again. This time, it wasn’t red blood that poured out, but the black blood that stopped flowing. She actually didn’t notice until Tang Li spoke up. “Did you get rid of all the poisoned blood so soon?”

“Ah?” Han Yunxi looked over, but didn’t wait for Tang Li to reply before looking back at Long Feiye’s injury. Only then did she realize her big mistake!

Dammnit!

She cursed herself in her heart. Afraid to waste any more words, she ducked her head down and busied herself with changing the needles. Long Feiye didn’t react, but his chilly face had turned a few shades paler. Soon enough, Han Yunxi finally succeeded in ridding Long Feiye’s hand of all the poison. She sealed the injury with medicine and carefully wrapped it up. By now, Tang Li had walked over to peek at Long Feiye’s injury while stroking his chin. Leisurely he said, “Long Feiye, this must be your first time getting bitten by a woman…”

When neither of them reacted to his words, Tang Li added carelessly, “You let her bite you on purpose, right?”

At this, Han Yunxi’s hands binding the bandage suddenly tightened the knot abruptly over the injury!

“Hn!” Long Feiye gave an involuntary groan as he finally looked over. But it seemed he wanted to pretend nothing had happened, because he avoided meeting Han Yunxi’s eyes. Instead, he narrowed them at Tang Li and asked coldly, “Where’s Long Tianmo?”

As soon as Han Yunxi had left the justice courts, he’d tailed them the whole way to protect her in secret. When the black-robed assassins kidnapped Long Tianmo and Qinwang Rong gave chase, Tang Li had covertly followed them. After Luo Zuishan was taken away, he’d wanted to send someone after him too, but Gu Qishao had revealed himself instead. Long Tianmo and Luo Zuishan were both important parts of the doctors’ consultation this time, but as long as Han Yunxi was still there, he wouldn’t allow any of his men to reveal themselves. How could Jun Yixie’s scheme to lure the enemy away from his base escape his eyes?

Long Feiye’s question reminded Tang Li that he’d rushed over with urgent news. “Jun Yixie took him away. Mother, his poison arts are too tough, I couldn’t best him!” he replied in a rush.

“He’s after Long Tianmo?” Long Feiye found this unexpected.

Since Jun Yixie had schemed to lure him away, Long Feiye had met him with a counter-scheme. As long as Jun Yixie didn’t show up personally, then Tang Li would be enough to face off against the black-robed assassins and easily rescue Long Tianmo. Instead, Jun Yixie hadn’t chased after Long Feiye, but turned back to protect Long Tianmo instead. It had to be said that Long Tianmo falling into his hands would cause a lot of trouble.

“Your lordship has rather underestimated him,” Long Feiye said, unhappy at a missed move in this chess game.

“This guy’s got mysterious connections. I haven’t investigated to the source even after all that time in Northern Li,” Tang Li said seriously.