Cui Yun’s breathing was rapid, and for how long it had been, he still hadn’t settled his emotions. His head turned to one side, slowly directing his gaze toward the source of the sound.
His eyes seed blood-filled, his consciousness still lingering amidst the smoke of war and slaughter, yet he heard Shen Hua’s voice. Like a warm current, it dragged him back from illusion to reality.
With much struggle, Shen Hua haughtily extended her arm over.
"Aren’t you skilled in dicine? Look at —"
Before she finished, her voice turned into a low cry.
Her wrist was grasped, and Shen Hua, caught off guard, fell straight toward him. Quickly, the next mont, she was tightly wrapped around the waist.
In the darkness, Cui Yun’s nose was pressed against the girl’s jade-like neck, rubbing lightly, his breath damp. He uttered hoarsely: "You do sll nice."
Shen Hua’s eyes widened, pushing against him with her small hands in resistance.
"Of course I sll nice! The ointnt I use costs one hundred taels per box! Unlike you, covered in sweat."
Yet the girl’s strength couldn’t possibly compare with Cui Yun’s. Shen Hua tried with all her might and still couldn’t push him away; in frustration, she violently grabbed onto the man’s loose hair with one hand.
"Are you going to let go or not?"
"Believe it or not, I’ll pull you bald!"
But Cui Yun was unfazed by the threat, responding softly through his nose, his breath spraying over her, tickling her with countless pricks, and Shen Hua involuntarily shrank her neck. Nevertheless, he steadied her back, attempting to soothe her.
"Xue Tuan would sleep on top of at night; did you hear complain?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Hua thought—
That actually... makes sense.
Initially, Xue Tuan had a luxurious den, but later, it discovered the freshly laid Shu Brocade on Cui Yun’s bed and the rare quilt embroidered with exquisite patterns covering it.
Priceless treasures.
Now even Yangyang, having beco a cat, insisted on only eating the best, using the best. It instantly pointed at Cui Yun’s bed, then at its own den.
It wanted it too!
Cui Yun ignored it.
Xue Tuan walked forward, patting Cui Yun with its paw pad.
Cui Yun still didn’t react.
How could it tolerate this? At once, it bit into the quilt and tried to pull it off with all its might, but it lacked the strength to do so.
Cui Yun seed amused, lazily pushing it away, and at night, he beckoned to Xue Tuan who lay in its den, looking quite disgruntled while biting a handkerchief and whining.
"Coming up?"
Without a word, Xue Tuan charged up.
Once bitten, twice shy, now that Shen Hua had been lying there for a while, a familiar feeling surged over her, and the force with which she tugged at Cui Yun’s hair halved.
Wait a mont.
"But I’m a human right now!"
"The interaction between a man and a woman—"
Shen Hua paused; the words ’impropriety’ just couldn’t leave her mouth.
The girl puffed her cheeks, her face turning sadly away.
Cui Yun eventually let go of her with great restraint, propping himself up, his fingertip gently hooked and slipped off the girl’s embroidered shoes, then he pinched the quilt to cover her up.
He stepped down from the bed, followed by unhurried footsteps, and then a rustling sound. Soon, with a ’click’, the Fire Stick lit the candle.
The room was quickly illuminated.
Under the dim yellow candlelight, the man’s attire was snow-white like shimring silk, and his ink-black hair cascaded down, outlining his cool, handso features.
He took steps to don an overcoat, and only then did he approach with the candle in hand.
Under the light, the girl had red-rimd eyes, clearly having cried.
Cui Yun narrowed his eyes.
"What happened?"
Shen Hua’s thoughts began to drift. With a resolve akin to facing death, she half-sat up and once again stretched out her arm toward Cui Yun. The sleeve slid down, revealing a snowy white patch of her wrist.
"Take my pulse."
Cui Yun seriously asked, "But where do you feel discomfort?"
As he spoke, his fingers with distinct knuckles touched the Guan pulse, with his three fingers coming together, correlating with the Cun and Chi pulses.
The girl was nervous.
She still didn’t forget to probe indirectly, "Can you discern the pulse patterns that ordinary doctors and dical staff can identify?"
"I don’t an to belittle you, but after all, this is not your expertise. Otherwise, shall we find another discreet doctor to co over?"
Cui Yun gave her a deep look.
The girl’s pulse is stable.
But her coming here without sleeping in the middle of the night, sothing unusual must have prompted this.
Shen Hua saw that he remained silent, urgency and fear mixing together: "How is it?"
"Give an answer already."
Cui Yun slowly retracted his hand. Under Shen Hua’s gaze, he furrowed his brow slightly.
His reaction thoroughly chilled Shen Hua’s heart.
She suddenly stood up, her finger jabbing at Cui Yun with a fierce attitude: "You’re scheming against !"
"Looking at the wonderful things you’ve done, I won’t let you off!!!"
The beautiful face seed to penetrate through life and death, the girl’s grievances overwhelming. She bit her lower lip as tears rolled down: "Wu wu wu, will Yangyang be thrown into the pond for the disgraceful thing she did!"
Even Cui Yun was montarily lost for words.
"I—"
"Shut up!"
Cui Yun frowned deeply and turned to head outside.
Shen Hua beca even angrier seeing him leave.
Cui Yun exited the room, his gaze indifferent as he looked towards Yingwu before heading down the deserted corridor.
"What happened today?"
Yingwu naturally did not dare conceal anything, she detailed ticulously about Shen Hua’s night wandering, counting stars, and the incident of startling the wild mandarin ducks.
This was not what he wanted to hear.
Cui Yun with knit brows: "Before this? Besides that, who else has she t?"
"Miss Wei and the Seventh Princess Consort paid a visit."
Yingwu paused and then respectfully said: "The lady grasped Seventh Princess Consort and asked a question, and it seed that after that, things beca a bit off."
"The lady asked if kissing on the bed could lead to pregnancy."
As she spoke, she patted her chest with lingering fear.
Fortunately, she had never kissed Ying Yi on the bed for a chicken leg.
Otherwise, it would be the end!!!
Cui Yun’s pupils suddenly contracted.
He maintained this posture for a long ti, then his throat moved twice, his eyes lowered, and his furrowed brows relaxed, he couldn’t help but let out a muffled laugh.
Such an incident befalling the girl... it seems... not unexpected.
By the ti he returned, the girl had already left the bed. Her lips were tightly pursed, her body bristling with defensiveness, exuding an aura of ’do not provoke’ from head to toe.
Cui Yun approached: "It’s my fault."
"Of course it’s your fault!"
Shen Hua angrily said: "You’re sneaky and tricky. You just wanted to use this to force to agree!"
He reached out to wipe the tears on the girl’s face: "Think about it carefully, excluding your brother, who else has ever been completely trustworthy and open with you without any reservations?"
"Moreover, the people in this world are ugly and deceitful. Naturally, I do not feel at ease handing you over to soone else."
Cui Yun saw that she did not speak.
"Do you like boys or girls?"
Shen Hua reluctantly glanced at him: "Girls."
"Good, we will have a girl."
Shen Hua dared not look into Cui Yun’s eyes.
Beyond her anger and helplessness, she even wanted to flip the entire post station upside down.
In fact, Cui Yun—just barely— was a match for her.
However, Mama had once said that one should not hastily make decisions when not in a clear state of mind.
The girl’s mind was in chaos, dazedly running over to the window. Her hands rested on the windowsill.
She rubbed her bewildered face again.
"Now it’s your turn to count, how many stars are there in the sky?"
Cui Yun gazed at her intently.
Outside the window, stars twinkled faintly, the brightest jewel right before his eyes.
The girl could not rest for a mont and touched her lower abdon, then suddenly turned her head and asked very seriously.
"Then... does this count as impropriety without a matchmaker?"
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