Helian Wei Wei had always felt that Third Prince's physique was extremely attractive, but she didn't expect that it'd be this hot and immediately felt that if he should find an opportunity to go roam around a gay park, he'd definitely fetch a very good price!
"Saliva." The man's completely emotionless voice sounded by the side of her ear. That kind of presence. His confident sitting posture. If presented to the world, those crowds of aristocratic ladies certainly would become giddy and faint.
However, Third Prince had always liked to speak to her with a poisonous tongue. This point wasn't too desirable.
Then let him keep his poisonous tongue. In a moment, she'd charge him a bit more for the 'surgical fee'.
Thinking up to this point, the corners of Wei Wei's mouth curved into an arc as she extended her hand to fetch a needle and thread, then sterilized the needle over the oil lamp. Her movements were very professional, so agile that it dazzled people.
Then the needle was done being sterilized, Wei Wei again checked that man's temperature. Surprisingly, it was even higher than it was a moment ago!
He was already so feverish, yet could still remain clear-headed. She also didn't know if this was a good thing or not.
If he'd lost consciousness, then she could move her knife by his side without restraint.
But as it happened, he was awake, so she must be careful when she worked. She also couldn't seize the opportunity to see his what he looked like under that mask.
Wei Wei felt that this wasn't too pleasing and secretly decided that she'd double her 'surgical fee' again.
"Drink the Blush Wine. It can numb the pain." Wei Wei gathered the hair that was scattered in a carefree manner and bundled it well again. In addition, she carefully fastened the fine hairs by his ear. Her entire body radiated cautiousness and devilishness. "Lie down."
"Lie down?" Baili Jie Jue's handsome eyebrows jumped. His long and narrow eyes stopped on the knife in Wei Wei's hand.
Wei Wei followed his line of sight as her thin lips rose. "You can also sit. However, when the knife moves, it'll hurt relatively more."
Baili Jia Jue faintly 'mm hm'd, yet didn't move whatsoever.
Wei Wei understood his intent and also didn't continue to delay as she immediately brought the wine over, drank a mouthful, but didn't swallow. Instead, she spewed the entire mouthful on top of Baili Jia Jue's wound.
Subsequently, she proceeded to hold the silver knife firmly, followed along the lines of his muscle, and resolutely cut down...
Baili Jia Jue pursed his thin lips as his gaze moved upwards. Within the romantic distinctly black and white eyes was the reflection of a delicate and pretty little face.
Being looked at like that by the man, Wei Wei also wasn't the least bit flustered. After she dug the arrowhead out, she started to use the cold wine to clean the wound. After it had been washed clean, she picked up the threaded needle and stitched Baili Jia Jue's wound closed.
As Baili Jia Jue watched this scene, his ice-cold eyes lowered and wandered as a light faintly spread within them.
He had seen countless famous doctors, but had never seen this kind of medical technique.
Within the Divine Continent, was there a medical technique such as this?
The light in Baili Jia Jue's eyes submerged deeper as he casually spoke. "What do you think about spirit possession?"
Wei Wei's heart suddenly skipped a beat, but the expression on her face didn't change as her hand continued its work. "I haven't studied it."
Could this man have discovered something?
Wei Wei's pair of eyes tensed. Within the Divine Continent, what was most forbidden was spirit possession.
The so-called spirit possession had to do with the original body changing souls.
This was basically identical to her current condition.
In order to possess this body, she burned for three days and three nights.
She really didn't want to have people consider her as some kind of demon and exorcise or kill her.
That's why she concealed everything. So much so that she didn't make public her identity as Profound Heaven's owner. Even though proclaiming herself would make a lot of things more convenient, however, at the same time, people would focus their attention on her.
Helian Guang Yao wasn't stupid, even Helian Jiao Er had some brains.
A person couldn't go through such a big transformation within only one night.
She needed to take her time and have them feel that apart from her personality changing, everything else she obtained depended on her luck.
Only in this way could she avert unnecessary troubles.
However, she was unable to make sense of Third Prince asking this kind of question. What in the world was he thinking to ask her that?
Did he discover something in her?
Or was he just casually chatting?
Because after Third Prince had finished asking this, he didn't continue the topic.
Also fortunately, her reaction was quick and didn't abnormally react in any way in front of this man, in case the man was only testing her out.
After all, what this man loved to do the most was this kind of thing.
Wei Wei decided not to think about anything more and just treated it as if she hadn't heard anything, using silence as a thousand answers.
She continued to keep her head down and concentrated on wrapping the bandages for him.
Baili Jia Jue slowly withdrew his gaze from Wei Wei's face. Within the long and narrow eyes, hidden thoughts were filling up.
Wei Wei thought about it a bit and felt that something's not right as her movements paused. She raised her head. "Your eyes can see already."
"Mm hm." Baili Jia Jue's voice indifferently replied.
Wei Wei knit her brows. "When did you start to see again?"
Baili Jia Jue's eyes profoundly glanced to the side at her, the tone of his voice was neither urgent nor slow. "Just now, during the time you were peeping at my body."
Wei Wei:...
When did she ever peep at his body!
Speaking like she was so wicked!
She was only naturally and honorably admiring him, all right? !
Someone who could speak of these things in such an apathetic manner as if it was only the wind blowing by could only be this man!
They simply couldn't just have a pleasant chat!
Wei Wei drew back the corners of her lips, which exposed two small dimples. With a sweet smiling expression, which was absolutely couldn't be said to be harmless, she said. "Oh, that's right, I forgot to tell Your Highness that it'll hurt more in a moment."
It wasn't because Wei Wei deliberately did anything. Rather, once the wine's anesthetic effect wore off, the wound that had been cut would start to hurt.
In addition to the fact that Baili Jia Jue was still feverish, it was very possible that because of the wound, the fever could rise leading to a loss of consciousness. Having a little pain was a good thing. She was only afraid that if he became delirious, he couldn't even feel any pain that existed.
Thinking of this, Wei Wei soaked the handkerchief in the wine and also could no longer care about something like the distance between males and females. Seeing that his mental state was declining a bit, she used the alcohol to wipe his body clean. This was the best way to reduce a fever.
Hence, for the entire night, Wei Wei then repeated the same motions of saturating the handkerchief and wiped down Baili Jia Jue. At times, she also examined his wound.
Gradually, Wei Wei was no longer able to hold off her sleepiness and just sat like that by the bedside to sleep. Her hand was still holding that white handkerchief.
After Baili Jia Jue's fever went down, what he saw was this kind of scene.
That little head of Wei Wei's little by little, looked as if it'd fall down.
The man's long and narrow eyes hidden in the depths submerged deeper. Just as that little head was on the verge of knocking against the wooden bed frame, Baili Jia Jue's distinctly jointed right hand lightly covered her head and successfully had her pressed against his chest.
As if she was finally comfortable, Wei Wei rubbed and rubbed her own little face and found a comfortable position. Just like a kitten, she pointed her thin lips.
Watching this scene, the corners of Baili Jia Jue's mouth couldn't help but curve into a faintly smiling expression...
Early morning of the next day, a warm breeze blew. The blue birds' cries encircled them.
When Wei Wei opened her eyes, she spied the golden sunshine coming down. Her eyes narrowed slightly from the light.
She was just about to get up and move around a little when she discovered that she seemed to be pressing down on something that felt kind of hard. She lifted her eyes slightly to look in that direction when she discovered that the thing that was being pressed down on under her body was Third Prince...
Wearing the silver mask, Baili Jia Jue's complexion under the sunshine was suffused with a silvery sheen, so handsome that it somewhat nearly made a person feel bedazzled, except his personality was too calm. His apathetic, reserved, and cold manner made people feel as if approaching him a little would be like defiling him.
Helian Wei Wei gazed attentively at this man before her eyes, because the contrasting perspectives was somewhat puzzling. Her body also stiffened and subsequently froze in place.
However, right at this moment when she was lost in her own thoughts, Baili Jia Jue's extremely cold voice suddenly sounded out. It pulled her back to reality in an instant. "If you want to feast your eyes on me, then sit properly. Your pressing on me like this is uncomfortable for me." Every word was carefully chosen and there was even a little bit of grogginess. "Or should I say that you just want to throw yourself in my arms."
Wei Wei's eyebrows jumped as her pair of eyes shifted down, revealing a smile. "Looking at the position with which Your Highness is reclining (even shirt off), you don't have the qualifications to criticize me, right?"
"Eh?" Baili Jia Jue maintained his position of having both hands behind his head. The indolent appearance that he radiated seemed to indicate that the person who was physically excited basically wasn't him, but was simply the most evil of evildoers.
From start to finish, Wei Wei just couldn't compare to him in terms of how thick his skin was (she couldn't be as shameless as him). She pulled her hand back and planned to get up.
Baili Jia Jue's pair of eyes half narrowed as he watched the female before his eyes. His expression was as if he'd lost a 'body pillow'. "This Highness still hasn't slept enough."
The corners of Wei Wei's mouth twitched. What did he mean by he didn't sleep enough. What did his not sleeping enough have to do with her? In addition, his posture clearly wasn't one of embracing a person but rather was one of embracing a house pet!
How was she like a house pet!
Wei Wei was just thinking of using force to subdue Third Prince when she heard the somewhat hoarse deep and low voice by her ear, filled with that distinctive aloofness. "When you sleep in the future, don't snore."
Wei Wei glared at him. When did she snore when she slept? This Third Prince, besides throwing personal attacks at her, was he capable of anything else?
Wasn't he tired of living in the clouds all day long! Why would he care about so many little details!
Wei Wei looked at the man who was close at hand and secretly cursed. Even his sleeping posture was freakishly perfect and also unaffected by weariness.
Actually, she was already sleepy. In any case, there wasn't any other bed around here. After fighting a certain highness' fever for a night, her eyes were also a bit tired.
Wei Wei adjusted her position and turned towards the wall to go to sleep.
Only...why was Third Prince also lying down by her side.
Wei Wei thought that someone like him, with such extreme mysophobia, when he woke, he would immediately get up, like last time within Spirit Forest.
Looking at the situation now, he didn't plan to go find another room.
The man was just going to lie down like that by her side without the slightest scruple. There was even the obvious scent of imperial sandalwood floating around them, a distinctively pure and cool scent.
Wei Wei's gaze couldn't help but rest by the side of his face, partly exposed by the silver mask. The high bridge of his nose, the thin corners of his lips, the stern contours of his face, all made a person have the illusion that their heart had stopped beating.
Thinking of this, Wei Wei felt her eyelids growing heavy. She straightforwardly yawned as she continued to go back to sleep.
Yet Baili Jia Jue still continued to maintain his original position of flatly lying by her side as he watched Wei Wei sleeping soundly. The dark black pupils of his eyes gradually sunk deeper in thought.
The sleeping Wei Wei looked to be very peaceful. What hadn't changed was still that temper, which made him wonder from where she had learned that from. Those fine, long, and thick eyelashes covering the top of her eyelids were like butterfly wings as they trembled lightly. Her small and exquisite nose was quite elegant. The dark juice on her face was separated a bit by filth and appeared just like a silly fox that had fallen into a pot of black ink.
However, Baili Jia Jue knew that only when this fox was sleeping would it stay in its place for a bit.
Normally...
Baili Jia Jue moved his gaze to fall on Wei Wei's left hand resting on his waist and extended his hand to pinch the hollow of her palm.
Just like Wei Wei was saying, the pinch wasn't like he was pinching a person. Instead, it was more like he was pinching a house pet.
That's why even now, Third Prince was debating whether he should directly destroy this pair of claws which had been used to scratch a person!
These claws which hadn't been obedient!
Baili Jia Jue's eyes again submerged in thought as he watched the side of her somewhat purely cold face pull all of the blanket over. Even his blanket was grabbed by Wei Wei and monopolized into her bosom. Still, he planned to close his eyes for a moment more.
"Your Highness." Shadow experimentally spoke out loud as he faced the inside of the room. Actually, he had already stood outside of the room for quite a long time. However, he was afraid of disturbing his master's rest.
What amazed him was that His Highness surprisingly could put up with someone else sleeping with him on the same bed.
One ought to know that His Highness' mysophobia actually had already reached a certain level.
Apart from that year when he was taming the fire qilin's beastly character, when His Highness had raised it by his side and lived with it for half a year.
After that, no one could spend the night by His Highness' side.
Could it be that His Highness really planned to take the Helian family's eldest daughter and raise her as a house pet?
Or should he say that it's because of another reason....
As Shadow was thinking about this on his end, Baili Jia Jue had already stood up. He was still wearing that ancient styled robe from since yesterday. His collar was half open. With a swishing sound, he pulled open the wood door which exposed his abs underneath the robe that could cause people to be envious. The robe on top of the wood table seemed as if it was blown by the wind as it steadily dropped on top of the man's shoulders. The black colored robe hung straight down, placing its mark on the perfect and fair skin. The intense visual impact shocked the eyes as a familiar sense of suppressed desire pervaded.
The wound on his arm not only didn't make him appear pitiful, on the contrary, it added a different kind of wicked quality than what he usually possessed.
Looking at this appearance of his, Shadow's entire person became distracted. When combined with the dialog from a moment ago and what the Helian family's eldest daughter did to His Highness previously...His Highness shouldn't have been...He shouldn't have been forced by Helian family's eldest daughter, right? ? ?
No, that's absolutely impossible!
He must be imagining too much!
Shadow shook his head.
Wearing the sable fur black gown, Baili Jia Jue's expression was indolent as he reclined on the wooden chair at the side. His fingers plucked off the silver mask. As the light clearly shined on his face, one could vaguely see the side of the man's incomparably handsome face. It seemed to be the most perfect jade sculpture in the whole world, making a person who'd had a glimpse be unable to look away anymore.
"How was it?" Baili Jia Jue extended his hand and picked up the celadon cup on the table top. The joints were clearly distinguished on his hands, in contrast to the small china cup. His fingertips were even suffused with a pure and cold light appearing as white as jade.
His hands were slender and thin just like those of a scholar's, yet caused one to feel as if they could grasp the entire heaven and earth within their palms.
"Responding to His Highness. We only left one prisoner alive and already released the news. We claimed that they provoked Young Master Han." Shadow kneeled on the ground and respectfully replied.
"Mm." Baili Jia Jue sipped a mouthful of tea as his dark black eyes faintly lowered. It's unknown where he was looking while he only levelly commanded. "Continue to watch attentively."
"Yes." Shadow replied. "Then should your identity at White Academy be disclosed to Miss Helian?"
The finger Baili Jia Jue was using to twirl the silver mask paused. He expressionlessly responded. "No need. Keep everything as it was."
"Yes." Shadow's head dropped as he retreated.
Baili Jia Jue placed the mask on his face once more then entered the room reaching the bedside. His fingers knead Wei Wei's cheek while the corners of his mouth rose upwards demonically...
When Helian Wei Wei woke up again, it was already noon. Third Prince was just sitting by the window drinking tea. His appearance was neither urgent nor slow and seemed as if he was waiting for her to wake up so they could continue on their journey.
He was feverish for several days. How could he have recovered in only one day, unless he had previously been a member of the special forces.
Wei Wei had never seen anyone have such a tough recuperative ability.
However, she also didn't mind this at all. She stretched her body while still lying down and looked at Baili Jia Jue, then unhurriedly laughed cleverly. "Since Your Highness is better, then let's discuss the matter of the medical fee."
Baili Jia Jue didn't speak and only raised his eyebrows while he looked at her. He languidly leaned against the wood chair as his pair of legs contentedly propped up slightly. His manner was imposing and purely noble, not one bit like the appearance of someone who had been wounded.
Wei Wei's empty hand took out a small abacus from the Celestial Boundary Space as she 'tap tap tap' moved the beads. "Ten taels for each mouthful of poisonous blood. I sucked about seven mouthfuls. One small scale operation no matter what should be worth eighty taels. In addition, an entire night of wiping the body to reduce the fever, I'll charge you only one hundred taels. The other miscellaneous expenses also adds up to ten taels. Altogether, that adds up to 180 taels." Calculating everything up to here, she knitted her long, shapely eyebrows. "One hundred eighty taels? How come I feel like something's not right. Oh, that's right, I even fed Your Highness a medicinal pill. I'll charge you twenty taels for that pill, to make it even." While she dropped these words, without waiting for the man to respond, her pair of spotlessly white slender hands extended towards him. "The total is two hundred taels of silver. Please settle the account, Your Highness."
Baili Jia Jue looked at the delicate fingers before his eyes. The surpassingly dark pupils hidden in depth looked up. The sun's brilliant rays seemed to all fall inside his pair of slender bedroom eyes, resplendent and moving.
Two hundred taels? This woman really dared to open her mouth wide like a lion's.
He lifted his eyelid and scanned over the simple silver abacus in Wei Wei's hand as he spoke levelly. "Are you short on money?"
Once she heard these words, Wei Wei then felt that there was hope in getting the silver as she nodded her head with an excited smile.
Baili Jia Jue calmly put down the tea cup in his hand. "How about the silver that This Highness won from you. That seemed to be more than two hundred taels."
"Is Your Highness planning to settle those accounts?" Wei Wei's limpid eyes looked at him. "That's a different matter."
Baili Jia Jue studied her. After a while, his cold thin lips slightly curved. "Did you really not know, or are you pretending not to know."
"What?" Wei Wei had always felt that Third Prince, this person, only existed to make fun of her IQ.
Baili Jia Jue's pair of eyes were chilly and clear. "Within War Dragon Empire, after marriage, all properties are managed according to the wife and children."
The hand that Wei Wei extended paused. Third Prince meant to say that in the future, his money would be managed by her?
She had no choice but to say that sometimes, there's just something cute about a Third Prince who didn't care about fame and fortune!
Wei Wei again retrieved the abacus and paused before she raised her head to ask. "Reportedly, there are a lot of treasures within Ghost Palace, is that true?"
"Mm." Baili Jia Jue replied faintly. There wasn't any change at all in the expression on his face.
Wei Wei struck the abacus once. "Also, I heard that when you were younger, Retired Emperor gave you lots of precious metals, so that you can play with them?"
Baili Jia Jue nodded his head. It was but a simple gesture in conjunction with drinking his tea, but one could see from it how well bred he was.
Wei Wei was irritated. Such a disparity, oh man!
They were both disabled, yet Third Prince had always treated armament components as toys.
As for her, she didn't even know what armaments were! And even foolishly chased after Murong Chang Feng begging him to play with her.
Thinking about it carefully.
Did this count as her marrying a 'Mr. Perfect'. Did this mean that she'd reached the pinnacle of life?
Even if this was only a marriage by contract.
Even if everything was fake.
Looking at it now, this actually wasn't bad.
However, Wei Wei certainly wasn't used to being idle while only leeching off of others.
She let go of the abacus and with a light smile, said. "Your Highness, how about you give me all of the armaments components that you have. I'll use them and when they've made a profit, we'll split it fifty-fifty?"
Baili Jia Jue could be said to have glanced at her as the corners of his mouth curved into a profound smiling expression. "That's fine."
"Then how about the two of us quickly sign an agreement." As Wei Wei was speaking, she also walked to the desk to take a writing brush and started writing.
Actually, Wei Wei felt that her own calligraphy was nice. At least, considering that she was a secret agent from modern times, her ink brush writing was passable. Since the ink didn't smudge or splash, that was already pretty good.
However, that aloof and cold Mr. Perfect, Third Prince, scowled. "You used this kind of handwriting to pass the exam for entering White Academy?"
"Mm hm." When Wei Wei lifted her head, her face was even smudged with ink. "Don't you think that my writing is very artistic?"
Baili Jia Jue coldly laughed. "It's indeed so ugly that other people have no way of comprehending it."
Wei Wei:...
She now finally understood why Third Prince chose her as consort. Besides her skin tone being so dark that it was eye-catching at the time, there was another reason, and that was because from time to time, he wanted to be able to kick her down, so that it could boost his own ego!
Roughly due to a lack of a better option, Baili Jia Jue inclined towards her and wrapped his hand around hers to hold the brush, as he lightly pulled to form the brushstrokes. Each stroke was distinct and clear. Each stroke could directly be used as a template for a modern calligraphy practice book. They were natural and flowing, like moving clouds and flowing water, yet carried a faintly aggressive quality.
The posture he used to hold the brush was resolute, a kind of innate imposing manner which took control of the overall situation, producing writing which was also unusually powerful.
Only, positioning himself this way seemed as if he was hugging her entire body into his embrace from behind. Wei Wei's eyebrows creased and thought of freeing herself from this position.
"Don't move." Baili Jia Jue's chest was almost close enough to touch her back as his long eyebrows knitted in concentration. His long fingertips dropped as his clear and cold emotionless voice sounded. "All done."
After that, he stood up straight towering above and looked down at her, as if he was looking at a stranger.
As expected, she was overthinking things. Wei Wei curved her mouth and smiled as she began to slowly inspect each sentence of that contract. Some were written by her, some were added by Third Prince, nevertheless the main idea wasn't changed and that was that they were to be a couple in front of others, but strangers behind them.
However, there was one problem, and that was that the scale of the wedding was too grand. They even needed to make a proclamation throughout the world?
Wei Wei focused on this last clause and bit on the handle of the brush as she raised her brows. "Don't need to be so troublesome, right? How about arranging a bit more of an ordinary wedding."
The man looked up and indifferently glanced at her. "My, Baili Jia Jue's, big day, how can it be ordinary."
Wei Wei:.....
"Then how about leaving it like this first, but afterwards, we can add to it if we think of anything else." Wei Wei specifically looked at the section concerning the married couple's obligations. The only the words there were: 'not a thing'. She felt relieved as she used red ink to imprint her fingerprint. After that, she shallowly smiled and grabbed the writing paper while pushing herself away from Baili Jia Jue.
The man's eyebrows half raised as he looked at the patch of skin exposed at the back of her neck when she lowered her head. It was very white, also soft and easy to take a bite out of.
Thinking of this, Baili Jie Jue was somewhat unable to look away from this spot that his eyes repeatedly lingered on last night...
"What?" Helian Wei Wei didn't understand why Third Prince would suddenly use this kind of gaze to look at her.
However, she intuitively still sensed danger as she subconsciously was going to withdraw her hand.
Yet Baili Jia Jue was a step faster than she was as he pressed down on that piece of fine writing paper using his finger smeared with red ink. His fingerprint was clearly visible.
As she saw that everything had been settled, Wei Wei also immediately relaxed and got up to move about and loosen her neck muscles as she said, "I'm going to go pack up."
It could be seen that Wei Wei was in a good mood.
Basically, her biggest problems could be considered to have been resolved.
The reason why Wei Wei thought of the marriage contract was because firstly, Third Prince was difficult to handle. If he became an ally, then matters would become much simpler. Secondly, it was because she hadn't forgotten that this was ancient times. If by chance, Retired Emperor was displeased with her for Third Prince's sake, and just had her married off to someone else as he pleased, she wouldn't be able to voice a single word of protest, as that would be considered the same as disobeying an imperial edict. That's why she had to think of a move ahead of time as a countermeasure.
Now that she's got the contract, in the future, everything would be done according to their agreement.
Both she and Third Prince happily agreed to this contract.
Therefore, now that they had this written agreement, in the future, no matter what happened, she could still escape from the palace unscathed.
However, was it truly this way?
Wei Wei didn't know at all that just when she entered her bedroom to pack up her things.
The man sitting on the wood chair extended his hand and brought the fine writing paper over. Within his profound eyes brewed an acute chill that seemed like it could freeze everything over and also seemed as if it could stab and skewer a person's chest.
There wasn't a single word among all of the words on this piece of paper that didn't clearly say that she wanted to maintain her distance from him.
Heh.
Baili Jia Jue curved his thin lips down as his slender fingers grasped the writing brush firmly and added the two words 'can end' under the section regarding the married couple's obligations. After adding 'can end' after the words 'not a thing', the phrase became 'not a thing can end', which meant that their husband and wife relationship could never end.
Baili Jia Jue put down the writing brush and leisurely folded that piece of fine writing paper. His posture completely seemed like none of this had ever happened...
The mist outside the window already cleared up. The only thing that remained was a muddled yellow color, and that was an omen that the sun was setting.
Within the main hall at the imperial palace.
Prince Murong stood beside the window as he grabbed the black scarf covering his face and pulled down on it. His expression was gloomy as he threw it to the side. "We failed. He didn't die. Not only that, not a single one of the secret guards that we sent out was able to return."
"Then what should we do?" The other woman standing within the main hall suddenly looked up. The dangling pearl hair pin on her head also quivered as her head moved. "Father, we're already running out of time. The king's health is getting worse and worse. He'd had too much fun. Sooner or later, there'll be a day when he'll die on some woman's body. Yan Er is still too young and simply doesn't know anything. If the king passes away, based on how Retired Emperor, that old fart who refuses to die, pampers that vile spawn, this throne will be given to Baili Jia Jue for sure! I really can't wait for that to happen!"
It turned out that this woman was none other than the current leader of the imperial harem 'Empress Murong'. She gripped the handkerchief in her hand tightly. The crimson red tips of her fingers emitted unprecedented malicious thoughts. "He must die!"
"Please be assured, Empress." Prince Murong lowered his voice as his eyes revealed an ominous glint. "We failed to kill him in Armament City, but that doesn't mean that we can't kill him after he returns to the capitol."
Empress Murong tightened her grip on her handkerchief as her long shapely eyebrows creased. "Didn't they say that the vile spawn didn't bring a single person with him? How is it that not a single secret guard was able to return?"
"Our people encountered Young Master Han." Prince Murong clenched his left hand. "He won't have such good luck next time!"
The light in Empress Murong's eyes submerged deeper. "Actually, what good plan does Father have?"
"Do you still remember the servant girl who poisoned him that year?" Prince Murong slowly curved his thin lips up. "Third Prince treated her very differently than how he treats other people."
Empress Murong's long, shapely eyebrows jumped. "Didn't Retired Emperor dispose of her on the spot that year? How is she still alive?"
"Of course it's because father saved her." The corners of Prince Murong's mouth slowly raised upwards, the shadow of a smile contained within. "Such a good chess piece of course needs to be used to the greatest extent."
Empress Murong also smiled along. "Since it's like that, then I am relieved. I heard that servant girl has been a beauty since birth. Beauties are like poison, this saying is not the least bit wrong. That vile spawn has not chosen a consort for so many years most likely because of her, the seed of infatuation that had been planted, heh."
"I wonder when the two of them meet each other, what kind of expression they will show." Prince Murong's fingers slowly ran over the wood table and crushed it. "Having her kill him again would be impossible. Afterall, even if Third Prince becomes momentarily dazzled after seeing her, he's still not that stupid."
The light in Empress Murong's eyes was like poison seeping. "Then let's have him fall out of Retired Emperor's favor for the sake of this person who claimed his heart, just like what happened to the current emperor because of me."
"Even though it's a bit of a problem, however, based on how much she understood Third Prince, it shouldn't be too difficult." Prince Murong set aside the china cup in his hand.
He believed that in everyone's heart, there's a person who'd left an indelible mark on it, and it's evident that for Third's Prince, this servant girl who had accompanied him countless nights and years in the palace, was such a person.
He hadn't forgotten how in those days, no one was able to approach Third Prince no matter who they were.
Yet this servant girl had always received special treatment.
Prince Murong curved his thin lips. What's more, it's this special treatment that after they grew up, would become even more destructive. In any case, Baili Jia Jue no longer possessed any martial qi. No matter how intelligent he was, he was but a naive teenager. Only Retired Emperor was a little difficult to contend with, that's all...
At a not too distant place, west of the imperial palace. "How's everything?" Retired Emperor could no longer hold back his distress as he stood up and hurriedly asked the shadow guard rushing back. "Nothing's happened to little Jue, right?"
The guard respectfully kneeled on the ground, and reported without leaving out a single word. "Please don't worry, Retired Emperor, His Highness has already set out to return to the capital. There'll be people accompanying him throughout the entire journey. That kind of thing won't happen again."
"That's good then. That's good then." Retired Emperor seemed as if he'd aged a dozen or more years all at once. He sat firmly on his seat and extended his hand to brush his forehead. "Have you made inquiries about the person who'd extended their hand to help little Jue?"
The shadow guard looked up. "Reporting to Retired Emperor, reportedly, at that time, Young Master Han was also there."
"It's really youngster Han?" Retired Emperor skeptically narrowed his eyes. Such a swift and fierce style doesn't resemble that child's methods, and instead seemed...
Retired Emperor's eyebrows jumped once. "You go make a trip to White Academy and look into everything that little Jue had recently participated in. After that, report to the results to me."
"Yes!" The shadow guard dropped his eyes.
"Wait a moment." The light within Retired Emperor's eyes submerged. "That girl from the Helian family, what's going on with her?"
The shadow guard stared blankly. Retired Emperor asked this of him, but he also didn't know what's going on. He hadn't waited upon Third Prince, and even if he was one of those brothers who did wait upon Third Prince, he's afraid he'd still be unable to guess Third Prince's thoughts...
Retired Emperor apparently also became aware that he'd asked the wrong person as he waved his sleeve. "It's fine. You can go." Maybe he'd thought too much.
Little Jue should only have been too bored recently, so he found himself a plaything...
Early morning. Inside the snug horse carriage.
The wood in the tea space heater seemed to be all burned out as it released a depressed sound.
An elegant mellow and rich fragrance slowly wafted through the air from the pure gold decoratively carved incense burner, enduring without scattering.
This was Dragon Boost Fragrance, able to help repair the internal organs and the gastrointestinal system, expel poisons, and destroy tumors. Breathing in this fragrance within a small room was best for the health.
If Wei Wei's memory wasn't wrong, then this Dragon Boost Fragrance was the incense that her mother was most fond of in those days...
But after Lady Su married into the family, she even seized Mother's incense saying that she couldn't stand this incense, because it's making her nauseated. Thereupon, everyone within the Defense Division residence was forbidden from burning this incense.
All of the attendants knew that this was the newly married Second Madam's way of displaying her strength in front of the First Madam.
Yet what did that 'good husband' of hers do? He protected Lady Su in all respects and even said something about Lady Su's health being weak, and couldn't compare to Mother.
Lady's Su health was weak, but was her Mother's health not weak?
At that time, Mother had already neared her end. Her stomach vomited gas. Her entire life was spent rushing headlong into the battlefield as a female general. She was righteously and truly the head of the Helian family, yet wasn't even left with the right to light a stick of incense...
No one knew how grievous that kind of situation was.
Little Wei Wei pinched at a corner of her dress and stared blankly as she watched her own mother's life fading in this inferior and pitiful way, yet couldn't do anything about it.
The memory deep in her heart made Wei Wei close her eyes tightly. When she reopened them, the inside of her pupils had already become clear and bright. No matter how it was previously, she who's been reborn will surely reclaim control of all the things that originally belonged to her!
Just as she was thinking of this, she suddenly felt that someone was watching her.
Wei Wei immediately restrained all of the killing aura within her body and faced forward as she raised her eyes.
His entire body was covered in a white sable fur robe. Baili Jia Jue's indolent expression as he sat and leaned on the chair. The classically styled sleeve of his robe opened just like a flower which bloomed, contrasting with the jade-like wrist. He turned the ancient scroll in his hand, graceful, elevated, and aloof from head to toe.
Wei Wei increasingly felt that each of Third Prince's casual movement was qualified to be captured on a magazine's cover. It's a pity that this kind of person couldn't become a modern day star.
Probably sensing Wei Wei's gaze, Baili Jia Jue's eyes glanced towards her. After that, he pulled opened a small wooden box within the horse carriage. His slender fingers rummaged inside the box then casually threw Wei Wei a few pieces of tungsten armament components. His intent was to have her play with them.
Wei Wei's eyebrows jumped as she fiddled with the tungsten metal in her hand. The rumors really weren't fake. Each and everything belonging to Third Prince couldn't merely be measured with money. Things he normally used or even ate were all of the best quality within War Dragon Empire.
Just looking at this horse carriage, one could already gleaned a thing or two. Jade table, candied fruit, tea pastries, chessboard, scrolls...and so on, every necessity was prepared without exception. All kinds of items of the highest quality, whose value was considerable, and wasn't merely sumptuous to a small extent.
Wei Wei also wasn't going to be timid. With a graceful bearing, she pinched a piece of osmanthus pastry and placed it into her mouth. As the pastry entered her mouth, it transformed at once into a concentrated mung bean fragrance joined by lots of bits of dried pear flesh. The unique taste melted into her mouth, making her close her eyes just like she was savoring it.
Due to their being in a carriage, in addition to the business the night before, today, Wei Wei didn't paint the black juice on her face that caused people to easily misunderstand her.
This made her look very beautiful, especially when she smiled. She was enduringly charming, like autumn light diffusing through water.
Ordinary girls depended on a gentle beauty to score a win, yet she was different, every part of her was embellished with charm and character. Whenever her black phoenix shaped eyes looked at someone, they always carried a hint of obstinateness.
So it turned out that a woman's body could also leave a deep impression on people in this way.
Most of all, those thin lips touched by water which appeared somewhat moist was thoroughly enticing.
Baili Jia Jue's pair of eyes submerged, slightly hidden in the depths...
Just as Wei Wei was eating the sweet desert, she saw the person sitting opposite her, the Third Prince who was reading, directly looking at her.
"Is it very delicious?" It was again that kind of pure and noble commanding voice which penetrated a person's bones.
Wei Wei assumed that Third Prince's question must be a bedcover (preparation for something else). After this, he'd certainly say that she was like a pig who felt that everything she ate tasted good. She's not going to get into his bed sheet (fall for his bait)!
That's why Wei Wei cleverly didn't reply!
Only, what she didn't anticipate was what Third Prince did next. To her surprise, with one hand, he was holding the scroll, while he extended his other hand over and gripped her wrist, so that he delivered the remaining half of the osmanthus pastry remaining in her hand into his apathetic thin lips and ate it!
Watching this scene, Wei Wei's body somewhat froze. Why did she feel that this action from Third Prince was more or less a bit intimate.
Moreover, the thing that she was eating, he then ate...felt a bit weird.
But clearly, Third Prince still had the appearance of an elevated and cold male god who wouldn't eat the food of mortals. This also made Wei Wei unable to to pull back her hand for a moment.
In the past, when she been on assignments, it wasn't as if she and her teammates hadn't sometimes shared a bite out of the same compressed biscuit.
Maybe she was just overthinking it.
As Wei Wei straightened out the matter in her heart, the carriage wheels seemed as if they rolled across some heavy object, as they abruptly rose and shook.
With one hand, she was holding a teacup, while the other hand was gripped by the man. During this short period of time, she lost her balance, yet couldn't extend her hand to the left side to steady herself, because Third Prince was sitting there.
She involuntarily thought of evading the man, but didn't foresee that he unexpectedly was quicker than she was by a step, as he pulled her entire body and pressed her against his chest.
A refined man's faint fragrance immediately filled her nostrils, like a snowy lotus, occasionally releasing its breath inside the horse carriage, possesing a chilliness within its isolation.
"What happened?" His voice was very indifferent, one couldn't hear any emotion within.
The person outside the window extremely reverently answered. "Reporting to Your Highness, we don't know who placed a big rock on this mountain road, but it's not a big deal."
"Mm." Baili Jia Jue lowered his eyes and dropped his head to look at her. His romantic pretty eyes slid from her eyes and fell on her disheveled neck collar, as his deeply hidden pupils profoundly sank lower...
His hand then covered her waist, where she couldn't help but feel his warmth penetrate her clothes, raising her body temperature by a notch.
She also couldn't tell if it was unintentional or intentional that a finger of his actually rubbed against her most sensitive spot.
Wei Wei felt her entire body tremble as the limp and numb feeling seemed as if it resided at her tailbone and pervaded to her four limbs.
Baili Jia Jue naturally felt her reaction, as reflections of light moved in his eyes. He suddenly exposed a faint, arrogant demonic smile. His magnetically deep voice carried a metal like texture, just like the tone of a highest quality cello. "So sensitive, hm?"
Wei Wei lifted her eyes, only seeing the sunshine faintly spilling onto that body, sometimes deeply, sometimes shallowly outlining his perfect body, both righteous and demonic, shaped like a blade.
When he leaned over by the side of her ear to speak, the faint smell of sandalwood carried a kind of seemingly shocking ice-coldness.
This guy was born for the sole purpose of challenging a woman's self control!
Wei Wei had already heard about it. Reportedly, that person living within Ghost Palace, as long as he wanted it, he could cause any young lady to become frozen and melt...
It's a pity that she wasn't the same as 'any young lady'.
Wei Wei's figure turned. Her movement beautifully straightened her body into a sitting position as she spoke in an indifferent tone. "Your Highness thought too much into it. My waist was merely a bit itchy and this short section of road was actually too bumpy. Your Highness should just separate a bit farther from me, otherwise in a moment, you finger might develop some condition."