Chapter 49 Chapter 49 Even now, knowing that men and women shouldn't touch each other,...

The girl's expression was cautious and slightly dissatisfied, angry but afraid to speak.

Fu Huaiqing caught this moment, his thin lips curled slightly, and he slowly raised his eyes to look at her. He had never seen her like this before, and it was quite a pleasure.

In the dim light, the man's eyes were blazing, looking down at her from above. The moment their eyes met, Biezhi abruptly looked away. Her thoughts were in a tangle, a tangled mess, and she couldn't make sense of them for a long time.

No wonder, no wonder he rejected her.

What normal man would be attracted to a woman who had despised him nine out of ten times they met?

Biezhi didn't know about the others, but the man before her was indeed like that. He even used his status as Prince Su to "open up" to her, just to scare her. Thinking about it now, the smile in his eyes was clearly the pleasure of revenge.

Thinking about it now, it's hard to put into words.

He truly had the leisure and grace to do so. Even amidst his busy schedule, he still found time to pretend to be Ji Ran and interact with her. Even if he told others about it, they would only think he was insane, daring to fabricate rumors about the Regent.

Noticing her hesitation, Fu Huaiqing paused for a moment and asked, "Anything you want to know, you can ask."

Biezhi surreptitiously glanced at his face. "You won't kill me for anything I ask?"

Fu Huaiqing raised an eyebrow. "No."

"You won't put me in jail either?" Biezhi asked again.

Fu Huaiqing, having considered this, was silent for a moment, then hummed.

Biezhi, completely focused, keenly noticed the pause; it seemed he had considered it. She stealthily moved aside, away from him.

As she studied his expression, she cautiously asked the question that puzzled her most, and most concerned her: "Does Ji Ran really exist in this world?"

Or was this so-called Ji Ran just a part of him?

Fu Huaiqing stared at her for a moment, then nodded, "Yes."

Biezhi felt a sense of relief at this, as if she knew she was in the middle of a scam and desperately wanted to find some clue to the truth. She couldn't help but ask, "Where is he now? Is he safe?"

Fu Huaiqing said, "He's in Wuweipu. He's safe."

If Prince Su said it was safe, it must be the safest place. Biezhi felt relieved and had no more questions.

The carriage fell into silence for a long time.

Fu Huaiqing's expression froze for a moment, vaguely sensing something was amiss. He stared at the girl's bright face and said thoughtfully, "The Ji Ran you first met was also my disguise."

Needless to say, Biezhi guessed it.

If she had changed her identity midway, she would most likely recognize her.

Fu Huaiqing frowned. "Nothing else you want to ask?"

"No," Biezhi shook her head.

Fu Huaiqing: "Don't care?"

Besides Ji Ran's affairs, there was nothing else she wanted to ask him?

Biezhi looked at him with a complex mind.

She always felt that he was digging a hole for her, waiting for her to jump in.

In fact, it was not that she did not care, but she did not dare to ask too much, to avoid recalling those moments that could have cost her life. If she accidentally brought back his bad memories...

When Biezhi thought of what she had done in the past, she just wanted to dig a hole in the ground and crawl into it, so that no one could see her.

She didn't want to make herself suffer. Wouldn't it be better to live a good life?

Thinking about it, Biezhi caught a glimpse of the man's gradually darkening face under the light. She swallowed her saliva and silently moved away, farther and farther away from him.

He had not taken off his disguise yet, and he still looked silent. She just felt that something was wrong, everything was different.

After stealthily moving for a while, she suddenly felt a force pulling her back. Biezhi's eyes widened in shock. She turned around subconsciously and saw that the sleeve she had just stuffed into the man's palm was firmly grasped in his palm.

Fu Huaiqing pulled her sleeve slowly.

It didn't move.

The girl did not fall over as expected.

Fu Huaiqing frowned and lowered his eyes, and saw that she had also grabbed the other end of her sleeve.

Biezhi smiled awkwardly with the corners of her mouth, and muttered softly: "Men and women should not touch each other."

Fu Huaiqing: "..."

The depression in his heart dissipated a little, "Now you know that men and women should not touch each other, and I don't know who was hugging me before-"

A pair of clear almond eyes gradually widened as the man's clear voice like pine trees overflowed. When Biezhi was on a mission, she encountered two groundhogs quarreling. After a back and forth, one of the groundhogs was so angry that he jumped up and screamed. She felt that she was no different from the groundhog now!

Biezhi, who was brought up by the past, didn't care about any etiquette and interrupted him decisively: "Your Highness can kill me or cut me into pieces. Everything in the past was because I was blinded by beauty."

Fu Huaiqing frowned.

Before she could open her mouth, she heard her say, "I will never do that again!"

Biezhi saw that his face was getting darker and darker, and she was a little confused about what he was thinking, so she added cautiously, "I will forget what happened before, and I will never mention it again."

Fu Huaiqing's face turned completely dark, and he laughed angrily.

In an instant, Biezhi felt that her life was in danger.

For a moment, she really wanted to stay in jail. Even in a gloomy prison, it would be a hundred times better than facing him in this brightly lit carriage. Fortunately

, at this time, the galloping carriage slowly stopped, and the familiar walls could be seen through the windows.

Prince Su's Mansion.

Biezhi was stunned.

Why did he bring her here?

While she was stunned and speechless, Fu Huaiqing stepped out of the carriage in three steps, lifted the curtain, looked at her, and motioned her to get off the carriage.

Biezhi looked up at the condescending man with an unspeakable look in her eyes, as if he would drag her down if she didn't like it. She was silent for a while, and followed the man in

step by step. After walking for an unknown amount of time, the man stopped.

Biezhi, who was following with her head down, almost bumped into him. She raised her palm to find a support point, dropped it forward half an inch, and then turned it to the side, holding the pillar to stop herself from falling forward.

But she forgot that the wound on her hand was not fully healed.

The moment her palm touched the pillar, heart-wrenching pain swept through her body. An unbearable hiss escaped from the corner of her mouth. She suddenly let go of her hand, and the pungent smell of blood filled the air.

Fu Huaiqing turned around when he heard the sound. The girl's clothes at the wound were already soaked with blood. The blood beads slid down her arm in a line, wetting the dry ground.

His heart trembled, and his voice trembled a little: "Call the imperial physician."

"I'm fine." Biezhi gritted her teeth. The pain made it difficult for her to hear the trembling in the man's words. She only heard that the imperial physician was to be sent for. She didn't want to make a big fuss to find someone in the middle of the night, so she endured the piercing pain: "The wound is just torn. I can just reapply the medicine and change the gauze."

Afraid that Fu Huaiqing wouldn't believe her, she added, "Getting injured while on a mission is commonplace. If you couldn't even handle this, you wouldn't be standing before the master now."

Waves of annoyance washed over Fu Huaiqing. He looked at Biezhi, whose forehead was already covered in sweat, and turned his face away to breathe. As the master of Xianyun Tower, he naturally knew that the missions they undertook each had their own dangers, and getting injured when encountering a demanding opponent was nothing new.

However, now that he heard her say it so casually, his annoyance grew.

Xiao Ming, the Imperial Physician, arrived soon.

Seeing the torn wound on the girl's arm, his brows furrowed tightly. While applying medicine to her, he asked, "Did you use your hands much today? The bruises around the wound seem to be more severe than the past two days."

Biezhi was stunned when he heard this.

She had left the villa after waking up, and had not yet seen the doctor who had treated her. Biezhi belatedly realized that the imperial physician in front of him was the doctor who had treated her.

Xiao Ming didn't hear a reply. His eyes, fixed on the wound, tilted slightly, and he saw her nod in a daze. With a sigh, he said, "Young lady, avoid using this hand for thirty days."

Bie Zhi frowned, thinking, but it didn't seem right. "Does it have to be thirty days?"

Just as he finished speaking, a figure appeared in his sight.

He shed his disguise, revealing his true face. After

staring at him in silence for a moment, Bie Zhi finally accepted that the Ji Ran she knew was indeed Prince Su in disguise. The real Ji Ran existed, but not beside her.

He seemed to have heard her words, and a hint of dissatisfaction crossed his handsome face.

"Young lady's wound may not appear deep, but in reality, if the arrow had been a little deeper, it would have pierced your arm." Xiao Ming, a doctor with years of experience and accustomed to all kinds of sword and knife wounds, couldn't help but shake his head. "If you don't pay attention, this hand will be crippled in the future."

Fu Huaiqing walked in and replied for Xiao Ming, "The prince will keep an eye on her."

Xiao Ming heard the voice and hurriedly stood up to greet him.

Fu Huaiqing was restrained halfway through the question. He said, "Just pretend that the king is not here."

A clear voice like silk and bamboo echoed in her ears. Biezhi looked at the man in front of her with a complicated expression. Her previous assumption suddenly became a reality. She was right. The appearance of Prince Su matched with the master's voice. It was indeed a perfect match. It was just...

more horrifying.

Even more horrifying than the unpleasant sound of a buffalo.

She would rather see Prince Su with this face and a voice like a buffalo again. Biezhi felt a pang of regret. She did not know how to cherish the good times in the past, and now she really could not go back.

The imperial physician came and left in a hurry. He hurried downstairs to check on the medicine. As

soon as he left, the huge bedroom suddenly became quiet.

After looking at each other for a moment, Biezhi really couldn't bear it and secretly turned her eyes away.

Fu Huaiqing stood in front of her, glanced at the wound covered by her clothes, and then fell on her face. He looked at Biezhi quietly without saying a word. She seemed to have calmed down and stayed there quietly.

Fu Huaiqing was not used to Biezhi being like this.

The secrets she had hidden behind her disguise were exposed, and the distance between them suddenly widened. It wasn't just a thin mist that separated them, but a mountain range.

She didn't have the slightest desire to spy on him.

Fu Huaiqing was silent for a while, then asked persistently, "You really don't have anything else you want to ask?"

Biezhi blinked. "No—" Before she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered something else and quickly stopped the words that were about to spill out. She said, "There is indeed something I want to know."

Hearing this, Fu Huaiqing frowned slightly, and her tense voice relaxed: "Ask."

Thinking of what she was going to ask, Biezhi took a deep breath and prepared herself. She had already decided how to avoid his capture if he suddenly became angry.

Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, Fu Huaiqing raised an eyebrow calmly.

"Wang..." Biezhi paused, not knowing how to address him for a moment. After thinking for a while, she changed her name: "Master, do you know who is chasing me tonight?"

Fu Huaiqing: "..."

It was really a big question, but it was not what he wanted to hear.

He hummed lightly: "Jing Qing."

In an instant, Biezhi's eyes changed. He really knew.

But she felt something was wrong. If he ordered Jing Qing to hunt her down, why would he appear in front of her? Moreover, Qingshan looked serious when he arrived, and there was a lingering smell of blood on his body. It was obvious that he had been fighting for a long time and was soaked in blood.

He couldn't order her to be hunted down and protected at the same time, right?

After thinking for a while, Biezhi met his gaze, and saw that the darkness in his eyes had faded a little, and she stared straight at his Adam's apple.

She took a deep breath and asked: "Did the master order my brother to hunt me down?"