Chapter 20: Why Is the Male Lead Being So Obedient?
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
When Su Ye saw him looking like a candle in the wind, she reached into her pouch and took out a pill bottle. Taking out a pill, she held it beside his lips and said, “Open your mouth.”
Su Qing paused for an instant before opening his mouth and taking the pill.
Su Ye watched his every move, frowning in suspicion. Was this really the black-hearted wretch she had created? Why was he being so obedient? She told him to take the pill, and he had done so without a word of complaint… Was he not afraid that she would poison him?
Come to think of it, he had been the same compliant and sickly person during both of their meetings, and she had not seen him do anything insane. Perhaps the male lead she wrote from an omniscient perspective deviated from the male lead in reality. Could he be the type of person with a heart of gold, despite his long list of troublesome experiences that started from his childhood?
Did this wretch even know what it meant to be good?
Nonetheless, Su Ye shook her head and gave up on dwelling about it. Either way, this was the extent of her kindness. Since he had been missing for so long, his reliable lackeys would surely come looking for him. Having made up her mind, she moved away on tip-toe, intent on sneaking away without him knowing.
However, the instant she shifted, a skinny hand caught her by the sleeve. Su Qing’s voice sounded weak as he murmured, “Where are you going?”
“I’m heading out for a look,” Su Ye replied quickly.
Even so, Su Qing did not let go. It was a long while before he said slowly, “You’ve saved me three times now, savior, and yet I don’t know your name.”
Su Ye lowered her gaze and gently pulled her sleeve out of his grasp. “It’s not important,” she replied hesitantly.
Su Qing swallowed, and his red lips parted as he rasped, “I wish to repay you.”
Su Ye paused.
Repay? If this wretch knew that the spirit stone in her body would repress his curse, there would be no ‘repaying’. Hell, he would probably gouge out her cinnabar field even if she saved his life a hundred times over!
That was precisely why she couldn’t get too close to him.
Su Ye sighed and said softly, “If you really want to repay me, do not take off your blindfold. Consider that my repayment.” She had this feeling that he would know her every thought if they locked gazes, and felt relieved that she had blindfolded him.
Su Qing’s crimson lips curled into an amused smile, and he nodded. “Of course.”
Upon receiving his answer, Su Ye quickly turned around and headed for the door. She opened it and hurried out, leaving Su Qing by himself.
As Su Qing listened to the door being opened, his smile slowly faded. He was still sitting on the bed with the blindfold on, waiting there silently.
The red silk curtains over the bed were embroidered with mandarin ducks playing in the water, and they would flutter in the air whenever a breeze blew by. Through it all, Su Qing sat in the center of the bed in his red robes embroidered with gold thread, never moving a muscle.
It felt like time had stopped. The room was extremely silent and devoid of any sound. Even so, the handsome man kept his promise, and never took off the blindfold covering his eyes.
The silence ended after half an hour, when three black-clad men entered the room. The pungent smell of blood streamed into the room from far down the corridor. When the black-clad men saw the man seated on the bed, their murderous aura instantly faded, and all of them knelt at the edge of the bed.
“Chieftain.” The greeting was brief and reverent.
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