Xiyan Palace was so quiet at night. It seemed that this place had nothing to do with the assassination. Yun Xi was back in her room. Soon after she closed the door, she smelled blood in the room. She wanted to scream, but a man in a soldier uniform gagged her.

"Yinzhu, it’s me."

"Yue."

The girl turned around immediately. The man in front of her was the bearded man. Yun Xi stared at his mature and sharp eyes which were so familiar to her. Yue didn’t need to explain it, but she had understood everything.

The bearded man tore down his false beard, and Yue’s delicate and handsome face was revealed. There were bloodstains all over his body. When Yue saw his beloved girl, he relaxed a bit and soon felt dizzy. With his eyes closed, Yue fell down instantly.

Yun Xi hugged Yue in her arms immediately. In this way, he could lean on her and would not fall to the ground. The girl felt so complicated about Yue being so weak. Now she was very concerned about Yue. No matter what his identity was, he was her Yue.

At this moment, she heard the sound of officers and soldiers searching the room outside. Yun Xi was anxious and hid Yue in her quilt. She took off her coat, lying beside him. Nervously, one of her hands squeezed the quilt covering her body, while the other hand was on Yue in the quilt. Anyone entering her room could hear her loud and fast heartbeat.

A voice rang outside the door. It was Yun Zhi, "Xier, we want to come in to search the assassin."

The girl had never talked to Yun Zhi, but this time she spoke for Yue, "Xier has been in bed. And I am still an unmarried lady. General Yun, you should avoid doing anything inappropriate."

Hearing the girl speak, Yun Zhi felt more suspicious. He pushed the door open, but he went in alone. Yun Zhi locked the door as soon as he stepped into the room. He went straight to the girl’s bed.

Yun Xi cuddled up in the quilt, and her shoulders were bare. Obviously, she did not wear a coat. However, it’s obvious that there was another person in the bed. The young girl looked at Yun Zhi. She was about to cry. Yun Xi was begging him by shaking her head desperately.

Yun Zhi lifted the quilt while throwing the girl’s clothes to her. He saw Yue who also curled up on the bed and was seriously injured. Yue couldn’t even sit straight, but he still looked at Yun Zhi unyieldingly.

This was not the thing that made Yun Zhi most angry. The girl might not realize it. However, Yun Zhi was also a man so that he could tell Yue was also a man immediately. He grabbed Yue’s collar and almost wanted to kill him. Yun Zhi had been calm, but now his eyes were filled with anger. He grabbed him more and more tightly.

Yun Xi now was not concerned about her image and knelt next to Yue. She held Yun Zhi’s the other hand. Yun Xi didn’t want people outside to hear it, so she begged him quietly but desperately.

The girl he loved now only wore a stomacher and a panty girdle. She wore few clothes and neglected the fact that it might damage her reputation. Yun Xi was begging him for the other man. Yun Zhi’s heart was cut into a thousand pieces. He tried hard to suppress his anger and whispered to Yue, "You’d better give me a reasonable explanation."

Closing his eyes, Yun Zhi still didn’t want to hurt the girl. He let go of Yue resentfully and turned around to leave the room immediately. He told people outside that he did not find the assassin and led them away.

No one could understand Yun Zhi’s mood when he left. The woman he chose to protect his beloved girl was actually a dangerous wolf. Thinking of all the previous stories, he almost wanted to commit suicide. Last time in the hot spring, he even sent Yue to bathe with Yun Xi himself.

After Yun Zhi left, Yun Xi went to hug Yue in her arms. He had passed out and fallen beside the bed because he knew he was safe now. Yue was covered by wounds and his chest was bleeding. Yun Xi saw it and shed tears. This was her Yue, the person who treated her best and she cared about most.

The girl wiped her tears. She gently loosened his clothes to check his wounds with trembling hands. Obviously, Yue did not have bosoms, and he had a man’s broad chest. Yun Xi’s hand on Yue’s chest could not help trembling. At this moment, she finally knew that Yue was a man. Recalling their history and everything that had happened, the girl blushed with shame—she had changed her clothes in front of him many times. In the hot spring, they even hugged each other naked... Yue had seen her naked!

But she was no longer shy when she saw Yue’s wounds of knives and swords all over his body. Yun Xi covered his bleeding chest with her hands. However, it couldn’t stop the bleeding. Now Yue was having a high fever. Yun Xi was anxious, but she did not know what to do. She didn’t have any medicine to heal him and could only hug him helplessly. After all, she was a girl born in the royal family. Crying was the only thing she knew at such a moment.

Time passed by slowly, but Princess Xi who hadn’t known what to do still didn’t come up with a solution. For the first time, she hated how incompetent she was and how useless tears were.

After a long time, the window of Yun Xi’s room was pushed open. Yun Zhi was back. Yun Zhi was the girl’s savior at this moment. He had decided to spare Yue earlier, and now he went to her room through the window. Yun Xi had known that he wouldn’t hurt them. The girl stared at Yun Zhi. Her clear and flawless eyes were begging him with a pitiful look.

Yun Xi now was still wearing a stomacher and a panty girdle, holding Yue in her arms and crying. Yun Zhi saw how she looked. He couldn’t be angry anymore, and he sighed, "Xier, you can put on some clothes. I will bandage him."

"Thank you."

Yun Xi let go of Yue. She put on her clothes on the ground quickly. Yun Xi finally relaxed when she saw Yun Zhi bandaging Yue.

"Xier, please turn around. I am going to help Yue take off his clothes and then apply medicine to his wound..."

"Ok." Yun Xi was still an unmarried lady, and she was embarrassed to see Yue naked. The girl turned around obediently and sat on a chair.

"Xier, don’t you think you owe me an explanation?" Yun Zhi said as he applied the medicine to Yue.

"General Yun, I don’t know what to explain."

"Call me Zhi."

"Yun..."

"Call me Zhi."

"Zhi."

"Well, when did you start talking?"

"Last year. I couldn’t remember the certain date."

"Then why don’t you tell me?"

"I don’t want to have too much communication with irrelevant people."

The girl regarded Yun Zhi as someone irrelevant. He heard it and was overwhelmed by an unspeakably helpless feeling.

"How about Ayue?"

"I don’t know."

"Is he important to you?" He had known the answer, but he still wanted to ask this question.

"Yes."

"Do you know he is a man?"

"I just knew it." Yun Xi said and she blushed. Yue and she always had a subtle relationship. She did not blame Yue. Perhaps she had fallen in love with Yue though she hadn’t realized it.

Yun Zhi finally felt a little better after hearing the girl’s words. He then bandaged Yue swiftly without a word. Yun Zhi almost turned Yue into a mummy, who was still in a coma. He had wrapped all his body with bandages except for his head. Yun Zhi did it on purpose. After all, Yue was in Yun Xi’s place. He did not want the girl to see men’s bodies, especially this hateful Yue.

In fact, Yun Zhi had been really nice. If it were a different situation where Yue bandaged Yun Zhi, he would cover his whole face, only revealing his eyes—of course, he would leave some room for his nose and mouth to breathe. Yue was possessive of the girl. He would not allow her to see other men, even other men’s faces. Besides, Yue would take Yun Zhi away from her palace. He would not allow the girl to get along with a man in private.

Yun Zhi put Yue on the bed and covered him with the quilt. Anyway, Yue was in a deep coma. He finally had a chance to be with the girl alone. Therefore, he walked to a stool to sit down, facing Yun Xi. He stayed here in an excuse of worrying about Yue’s wounds.

"Xier, I just finished bandaging Ayue. I am worried about him, so I going to stay here to take care of him."

"Thank you so much, Zhi."

"Xier, do not say ‘thank you’ to me in the future. I am always willing to do anything for you."

Yun Xi calmed down a few seconds ago, but now she blushed again. This was her first time talking with people except for Yue and Yuer in so many years. She did not hate Yun Zhi, and she was moved by everything he had done for her. However, she did not know what to say at this moment.

Yun Zhi looked at Yun Zhi’s red face. She was so cute that he didn’t want her to be awkward. Yun Zhi changed the topic. He decided to confess everything to the girl. Yun Zhi was afraid that if he did not confess, the girl would be farther and farther away from him.

"Xier, I am not the adopted son of King Yun. Actually, he is also my enemy."

"Huh?"

"Xier, my original family name was Xuan. I was the prince of the Kingdom of Xuan. The same as you, I was brought here by King Yun because of a prophecy."

"But you fought for the King."

"I did not know the truth until my recent return. I had been fooled by the old devil King Yun for more than ten years. Do you remember the first time we met last year?"

"Yes."

"It was the day when I knew the truth. I was venting my anger in the bamboo forest."

"No wonder you were chopping things that day."

"There’s something else you may not know, Xier."

"What is it?

"Last year wasn’t the first time we met."

"When did we meet before?"

"When you were nine years old, I was the boy who accompanied you. I’m sorry. I didn’t have the power to save you at that time." Yun Zhi sincerely looked at Yun Xi. His words were sincere, and he hoped the girl could feel it.

"It’s over." Yun Xi had a memory of that boy. However, now she did not want to recall her painful memories.

"But don’t worry, Xier. I will never let you sacrifice. You must believe in me."

"Ok." Perhaps because of their similar fates, the girl now liked Yun Zhi more.

"Xier, Ayue was the confidential guard my father left me. I was worried that you were alone in the palace with no one protecting you. Therefore, I arranged him here. However, Ayue was a woman, I had no idea why she became a man... Besides, I didn’t order the assassination. I assume the identity of Ayue must be complicated."

"You sent Yue to me. Thank you, Zhi, for sending Yue to me."

The girl was grateful to Yun Zhi. However, when Yun Zhi heard her words, he felt like he had eaten ten thousand flies. Well... Yun Zhi had a relationship with flies again, and maybe he would become a fly next life.

Two people chatted casually until it was dawn. Yun Zhi had to leave to attend the imperial court session in the early morning. This night was the first time when he and Yun Xi got along with each other without estrangement.