Chapter 453: Are you closing the distance to me? (1/2)

Chapter 453: Are you closing the distance to me?

Creaaaak…

The door slowly shut, leaving Baili Mingxiang excluded from their world and back in her own. She felt a faint trace of loneliness in her heart, as if she was the only one left on this Earth. His Highness Duke of Qin’s words were still echoing in her ears.

It’s going to hurt, so don’t hold back. If it’s painful, just cry out.

There were men who comforted you in times of helplessness, pain, and trouble with the words, ‘Don’t cry, I’m here.’

That wasn’t any measure of comfort at all.

Then there were men who told you, ‘Go ahead and cry, I’m here.’

That was true support.

A worthy man was patient and gentle enough to protect you, to let you rant and cry to your heart’s content. Men without those qualities would only find your crying annoying. But…but I’m someone who won’t ever see his irritated side. All through her poisoned days and her crushing defeat at the Illusory Sea Lake, she’d never dared to cry, but only smiled through it all.

Is this my fate?

Standing there with her back to the door, she could still hear the indistinct sounds of movement inside. Baili Mingxiang wanted to linger a little bit longer, but soon she ruthlessly crushed that thought to walk away. She’d already told herself to change her heart. No looking, no listening. Maybe that’ll teach me to give up my feelings for good?

Baili Mingxiang was so tense and disappointed with herself that she forgot all about the winged phoenix birthmark at the base of esteemed wangfei’s spine. Despite the whirlwind of feelings she felt, the two people inside the room remained ignorant to it all. Perhaps this was the case with most unrequited love stories.

Inside the room, Long Feiye stared at Han Yunxi’s broken skin with knitted brows. He’d yet to make a move. Han Yunxi waited and waited but didn’t feel any pain. Finally she asked with some doubt lacing her voice, “Your Highness, what’s wrong?”

“Lie still!” Long Feiye barked in return.

Han Yunxi really had no idea what was the matter. He’s not usually the type to waste time, so what’s he dawdling for now? Actually, the medicine was already on Long Feiye’s finger, which was hovering over the wound. Han Yunxi just couldn’t see it from her angle. She wasn’t even afraid of the pain, but he was worried in her place. He was currently trying to figure out a way to minimize the agony she’d likely experience.

Eventually, Han Yunxi couldn’t take it anymore and stole a peek back, only to see Long Feiye’s extremely serious, silent face. Everyone said that women looked the best when they were concentrating, but it was really men who looked particularly handsome. Han Yunxi lost herself in Long Feiye’s face before she unconsciously muttered, “Your Highness…”

The moon hung high in the late night sky over her soft canopy bed. Han Yunxi’s ebony tresses trailed down her back and around her jade-like shoulders, her dudou only adding to the seductive sight she unwittingly presented to his eyes. Han Yunxi didn’t realize that her bashful appearance and soft voice only added to her sexiness. Meanwhile, Long Feiye’s whole focus was on her injury. He didn’t respond or even lift his eyes, but had fixated his eyes at the spot on her back as he murmured again, “It’s going to hurt a lot.”

Han Yunxi was too lovestruck to notice what he was saying. This man might not be the talkative type, but she was perfectly satisfied just from staring at his face. Long Feiye hadn’t noticed her staring and prepared himself to accomplish some colossal feat. He carefully lowered his finger to apply the medicine to the wound. Immediately, Han Yunxi sucked in a cold breath and bit her lip as she instinctively curled up.

She couldn’t see her back, so she had no idea just how much of the scab Baili Mingxiang had scraped away by accident. She thought it would only sting at most, but it was actually a sharp, stabbing pain. The cooling medicine not only failed to soothe the injury, it made it feel like her skin had caught fire instead! Long Feiye knitted his brows as his hands caught Han Yunxi by her waist.

“Don’t move, I’ll blow on it for you.”

Now, Han Yunxi really stopped moving as her body stiffened in response to his unexpected words. Long Feiye’s warm, gentle palms were pressly tightly against her slim and supple waist. Nothing separated the coarse skin of his palms from the fine marble of her skin, and the mixture of rough and soft, hot and cold were like thunder meeting fire. An inexplicable numbness stole over Han Yunxi’s body as she involuntarily trembled in place. Only now did she realize that her upper body was all but exposed to this man besides the dudou.

Heavens, how did things end up like this?!

Seeing the goosebumps rise on Han Yunxi’s skin, Long Feiye assumed she was having trouble bearing the pain. He leaned down until he was almost lying on top of her and lightly blew puffs of air at her injury. “It’s fine now, it’ll stop hurting after a bit.”

The scene was enough to send heartbeats racing and faces blushing! Fortunately, Lil Thing had ran off to the Gu Estate again, or else it’d probably fall off the rafters in shock at the sight. Such an intimate sight wasn’t fit for outsiders to see!

Long Feiye’s scorching hot breaths fluttered against her back like invisible fingers dancing on her skin. The hazy candlelight flickered and seem to cast her fair white skin in rosy hues as red as a sunset glow. Han Yunxi forgot all about the pain as her mind grew blank under the constant sensory stimulation. His constant puffs of breath were starting to become unbearable.

“Your Highness, don’t…” Han Yunxi wanted to cry out. But Long Feiye was too focused on her injuries to notice her discomfort. If Han Yunxi could see him now, she’d definitely ache at the acute distress in his eyes.

After blowing on her for a bit, Long Feiye asked in a serious and earnest voice, “Is it better now?”

“Mhmm,” Han Yunxi mumbled from the depths of her pillow.

She couldn’t see anything, but she felt him withdraw from her back and she silently exhaled. Soon afterwards, she felt him release her waist and was finally able to relax. But suddenly, Long Feiye began to stroke her shoulders, his fingers tracing the skin around her burns in a mixture of tenderness and teasing that toyed with her senses. In truth, he wasn’t caressing or tempting her at all, but showing his care.

His eyebrows were knitted in worry as he murmured, “The medicine’s all done, shall I bandage you next?”