Highness,” Shui Ruo Han stood up quietly, gazing at us for a moment, his eyes dim and lifeless. Pragmatically, he retreated, “There are still a few medicinal catalysts missing for the medicine to suppress the scattered blood qi for Your Highness. This subordinate will go search for them immediately.”
“Mm, you may go,” Liu Yu responded casually, his clear-as-water eyes continuously watching me eat. Only after seeing Shui Ruo Han’s pale purple back gradually disappear did I ask, “What scattered blood qi?”
“Nothing, just an old trick from the palace. Someone poisoned me before, causing the blood in my body to become a strange poison, harming health and shortening life,” Liu Yu dismissed it with a few light words, turning to look deeply at the slight smile at the corner of my mouth. His finger brushed away cake crumbs from my face, leaning close, so close I could almost smell the musk on his body…
This proximity made my head buzz again, and I blurted out, “Don’t stay so close to me.”
“Why?” He lowered his eyes, anger quickly spreading in his clear gaze, “You can stay so close to Shui Ruo Han?”
“That’s different…” I said softly, realizing he had been jealous of his subordinate.
“How so?”
“Being too close to you, there’s always a voice telling me to escape quickly…” I said honestly. A frightening cold light flashed in his eyes, freezing me, then was submerged in his eyes, clearer than a water pond.
Startled, I stuffed candied fruit into my mouth. He gently stroked my back and pushed my hair behind my ear, saying amusedly, “Eat slowly, no one’s going to take it from you.”
Is it beautiful?
I nodded stiffly, this was the first time I feared Liu Yu, the first time I felt he was as dangerous as a curse doll.
Shui Ruo Han never came to find me again. Only maids brought “Fan Yan”. Since that day I sensed Liu Yu’s danger, he seemed to tacitly avoid appearing before me.
id I want to escape him? Was it his innate noble aura giving me an unpredictable sense of danger? Had my recent words hurt him? I should find an opportunity to reconcile.
