Chapter 295: It’s enough if your lordship has you (1/2)

Chapter 295: It’s enough if your lordship has you

Someone she’d secretly liked for a long time had suddenly given her an explanation for his actions. It was such a pleasant surprise!

Han Yunxi was a girl who dared to love and dared to hate. She didn’t hide any of her excitement or joy, so she had no idea how foolishly happy she looked at this moment. How much did she like this man to feel that an entire world had opened up just from his explanation?

Long Feiye had shifted his gaze away, but couldn’t resist glancing back at her again. Han Yunxi seized the moment and purposely teased, “Are you or aren’t you?”

Even after asking him twice, Long Feiye still didn’t answer. He simply buried her head in his chest again so she couldn’t stare at him. Once he escaped her eyes, his lips drew up into a silent smile, as if he’d finally found joy after casting off his cares. Han Yunxi couldn’t struggle when she was held so tightly in his arms. In the end, she gave up. It wasn’t easy to tease such an icy king of Hell. She was surprised that he’d even managed to explain himself to her. If she didn’t stop and went too far, Heaven knows how he’d react.

In the end, all she wanted was his explanation.

There were many other questions that were still unanswered. For example, how did he find her? Why did he suddenly chose to explain himself now, instead of in the past? Was it because she left? And also, did he kidnap Mu Linger as revenge for her sake?

Han Yunxi may have dared to love and dared to hate, but she was still a silly girl at heart. All of the answers to these questions had suddenly turned unimportant. Nestled in the scent of his embrace, she much preferred to lean there quietly without thinking about anything beyond counting his heartbeats. Long Feiye held Han Yunxi as he strolled through the quiet night, though his eyes resumed their icy glint as soon as they left her form.

He started out walking slowly enough, but soon sped around a few corners with breakneck speed so as to lose Gu Qishao, who’d been stalking them the entire time. Ever since they left the Mu estate, Gu Qishao had been tailing them. Han Yunxi didn’t know, so Long Feiye didn’t tell her. Very soon, he brought Han Yunxi back to the inn. Of course, this wasn’t the inn that she had stayed in with Gu Qishao, but a completely different one. Long Feiye had no idea where Lil Thing had ran off to, but he’d never let Han Yunxi know how he’d chased after a squirrel to find her.

He placed Han Yunxi on the bed and asked, “Tired?”

Han Yunxi finally discovered that while Long Feiye’s voice wasn’t warm or gentle, it wasn’t as cold as before. She shook her head, half expecting Long Feiye to ask her all sorts of questions. For example, where she got the guts to run off? Or which path did Gu Qishao take to avoid him? Or where she was planning to go, and whether she was going to avoid him for the rest of his life? But Han Yunxi soon realized she was overthinking things, because this fellow actually asked her a question unrelated to any of the above.

He asked her, “What’s the matter with that Mute Granny?”

Han Yunxi hesitated for a long time before deciding to reply honestly. Of course, she didn’t tell him how Gu Qishao had been investigating the relationship between Mu Xin and the remaining survivors of the Poison Sect.

“Gu Qishao brought you over there?” Long Feiye was sharp enough to pick up on the key points.

“I’d been searching for my mother’s origins to begin with and found a clue in her belongings, so I had him take me there,” Han Yunxi made up a lie. She could choose to say nothing to Long Feiye, but she couldn’t sell out her friend’s secrets.

Long Feiye stared at her. Afraid that he wouldn’t believe her, Han Yunxi quickly showed him the Xin (心) embroidered on her medical pouch. Only then did Long Feiye murmured, “My investigations led me to Medicine City too, but I didn’t think it was the Mu Clan, much less…” Long Feiye trailed off for a long time before he added, “Much less that you really were a descendent of the Poison Sect.”

Gu Qishao didn’t know that Han Yunxi wasn’t Han Congan’s biological daughter, so he hadn’t been sure that she was related to the Poison Sect. But Long Feiye knew everything. Mu Xin was Lady Tianxin, the same Mu Xin who had an affair with someone from the Poison Sect. When she was a month pregnant, she married Han Congan, so the baby in her womb had to be descended from the Poison Sect.

It wasn’t that Gu Qishao hadn’t bothered to find Han Congan and ask himself, but that Long Feiye had long locked up Han Congan into a secret prison cell, making it impossible for anyone to find him. Han Yunxi didn’t realize it either until Gu Qishao told her that Mu Xin was Lady Tianxin. Then she knew her biological father had to be someone from the Poison Sect. There were still a lot of questions left. For example, why did Lady Tianxin change her name and marry Han Congan? How did she die from a difficult labor? What was her biological father’s position in the Poison Sect, and was he still alive? Did he know about all this?

These were invariably questions for Mute Granny. At the very least, she’d know about Mu Xin better than anyone else. But Han Yunxi still had one other question she had to ask now. “Long Feiye, why have you been investigating me and my poison skills?”

Actually, it wasn’t just Long Feiye, but Gu Qishao and Jun Yixie who were interested in her poison skills. Even Gu Beiyue had asked her once out of curiosity. Gu Qishao obviously had more than just curiosity as his motivation, the same as Long Feiye. That’s why both of them did their own investigations that led to Medicine City.