Chapter 644: Duanmu Yao is crippled (1/2)

Chapter 644: Duanmu Yao is crippled

Aunt Ru’s in big trouble?

Han Yunxi dropped her hand, but Long Feiye was still sitting there with eyes shut as if he was still asleep. She laughed silently, knowing that it meant he didn’t even care–and that he’d only been pretending to be sleeping before.

She let Chu Xifeng ramble on as he pleased while she leaned against Long Feiye and looked up at him. His clear-shaven chin had grown wisps of stubble overnight, a very manly sight. From this angle, the image oozed sex appeal. The minute whiskers were spiky to the touch, but not painful. She rubbed them softly with her fingers in amusement until his Adam’s apple started moving visibly in an attempt to control himself.

“Ticklish, isn’t it?” she laughed.

What could Long Feiye say? This woman was getting bolder by the day, a sharp contrast to the shy, embarrassed girl of before. But despite everything, she was still so delicate and tender! She had no idea that she was simply playing with fire!

He didn’t know when it had happened, but he’d grown extremely sensitive to her touch. Seriously, this was going to kill him, but he couldn’t even find a way out…

Chu Xifeng was still shouting outside the door. “Your Highness, esteemed wangfei, are you inside? Aunt Ru’s in trouble! Big trouble!”

“Your Highness, if you’re inside, please reply to this subordinate!”

Chu Xifeng had clearly saw His Highness enter the room and while standing on hallway duty the whole time without budging an inch. He and esteemed wangfei had to be indoors, so why weren’t his shouts getting any attention? In the past, a single cry would be enough to get him an answer.

Naturally, he had no idea how many intimate moments he and Zhao mama had ruined for their masters in the past, nor how much the pair had changed to being utterly indifferent to their interruptions now.

Could something have happened? Finding the whole situation fishy, Chu Xifeng narrowly avoided charging into the room outright. Fortunately, he recalled how Long Feiye had all but kicked him clear into the trees back at Plum Blossom Sea. He stepped back from the door and told himself that nothing terrible would’ve happened if His Highness Duke of Qin was present. Then he started guessing at what his masters could be doing in broad daylight in that room. What was so important that neither of them could stop?

A very ambiguous smile grew on his smile as he considered the possibilities. But the thought was quickly dashed. Aunt Ru was in trouble, but he still hadn’t given his report!

“Aunt Ru beat Duanmu Yao until she was crippled! Your Highness, esteemed wangfei, can you hear me?”

“Masters, Aunt Ru crippled Duanmu Yao! Utterly crippled her!”

Long Feiye’s eyes flew open from his cozy perch inside the room, while Han Yunxi grew alarmed. “How could this be?”

She should be rejoicing over the fact that Duanmu Yao had been disabled, but she had enough sense to realize the consequences of this outcome. “This is bad!”

Tang Li had gone to apologize, so why did Aunt Ru cause even more trouble? She even crippled the girl? Now Tang Zijin’s proclamation had been all for naught.

“What happened?” Long Feiye demanded coldly.

“This subordinate isn’t clear, either. Just then, a flying messenger pigeon gave me the message. Tang Li and the rest are on their way back,” Chu Xifeng reported honestly.

Both Han Yunxi and Long Feiye quickly washed up and cleaned before emerging from the door. She was the first to ask, “What do you mean by ‘crippled?’”

Chu Xifeng shook his head. “The letter only said she’d beat her crippled, nothing more.”

“Hurry up and find out!” Long Feiye said unhappily.

Chu Xifeng immediately left. At the sight of Long Feiye’s stern expression, Han Yunxi purposely put on a sour face. “You’re that anxious to find out?”

Long Feiye immediately turned serious. “Tang Li will be in a lot of trouble!”

“What else?” Han Yunxi asked, still acting jealous. This man loved to eat vinegar, but didn’t seem to like others do the same thing. She wasn’t really miffed over this, but she tended to turn childish whenever Duanmu Yao was involved. On some level, she liked acting willful just to see that icy, taciturn man turn anxious and try to explain.

Aye, Long Feiye, ah, Long Feiye. Why didn’t I get to meet you before Duanmu Yao did? If I’d known you earlier, I definitely wouldn’t let you have a junior sister like her!

“I’m afraid that Duanmu Yao might have come prepared,” Long Feiye was still dead serious.

Hearing this, Han Yunxi sensed the severity of the situation. “Are you saying…she purposely got injured?”

Long Feiye nodded. Cang Qiuzi had probably pushed Duanmu Yao for the express purpose of penalizing Tang Li. But the girl was no fool, so instead of thrashing Tang Li and offending Cloud Realm Trade Consortium, she’d resorted to putting on an act to get injured by the Tang Clan instead. This way, the Tang Clan would become a matter of gossip once again, while Cang Qiuzi would have ever more pretext to pressure them. Duanmu Yao herself would have a chance to stay out of the mess without assuming responsibility for anything that happened afterwards.

“How sinister,” Han Yunxi remarked. “Did Aunt Ru used hidden weapons? I wonder if she aimed for the hands or the feet?”

What kind of assassination weapons were capable of crippling a person? Usually, they either poisoned or killed their targets instead.