Gu Yunxi bent over and hid behind the steep rockery. The masked man sat cross-legged on the grass beside her, eyes closed, arms relaxed and sagging, fingers interlocked.

Under the streaming moonlight, the dark shadows cast by the rockeries protected them tightly.

Gu Yunxi vigilantly poked her head halfway out of the rocks to check.

Soon she found two figures came into the group of rockeries and disappeared a few meters away from the rockery they hid behind.

Then she heard a conversation between a young man and woman.

"Hurry up! I'm dying for it..."

"...I am still afraid..."

"Don't be afraid. I'm here. It's only today that we have a chance. Come on! Hurry up!"

Hurry up? Were they...going to—

Gu Yunxi withdrew her head in a panic. She couldn't help but feel her heart beating and her ears reddening.

It was not new for a guard to have an affair with a maid in the Palace, but right now, this pair of lovers chose to come here.

It would be bad if someone really regarded them as dirtying the Palace and caught them, and by the way discovered the existence of the other two—

Gu Yunxi turned to the masked man, but found that he had removed the crossbow bolt from his right rib on his own, and immediately there was an even thicker smell of blood spreading out. He was now calmly dropping his eyelashes and closing his eyes to regulate his breathing, using his power to seal his acupuncture points on his own to stop the bleeding.

His facial expression wasn't clear under the mask. What was exposed to the starlit night were only his well-defined lips, which were tightly pursed and trembling slightly in rhythm with the movement of his internal strength to adjust the veins around his body.

Gu Yunxi opened her mouth. She wanted to ask a few questions, but was afraid of disturbing the two people behind the other side of the rockeries. So she had to keep quiet and listen for the masked man as he healed his wounds.

He did not seem to be able to move for the time being, and could not go anywhere else to hide.

At this moment, Gu Yunxi felt extremely nervous. She knew the ability of the guards from the Eastern Depot to inspect. They would soon follow the trail of blood to the Palace.

Imperial Garden was unlocked. As even she knew that, the guards from the Eastern Depot naturally knew that, too.

Gu Yunxi rolled her eyes at the masked man, exclaiming at how strange he was in her heart. He could heal the wounds by himself. Why did he come to the Palace!

Ah, if it had not been for Hanfu Cream, she would not have been controlled by him. Now he was injured, and self-healing with the internal strength needed to be free from disturbance, otherwise he was bound to be delirious.

Gu Yunxi fixed her eyes on the masked man. She narrowed her eyes at him sharply, showing fierce atrocity under the moonlight.

This was a hard-win chance. She could seize it to give him a jab...

The continuous croons and grunts emerging from the other side of the rockeries interrupted Gu Yunxi's vicious ideas.

She was only a girl after all, and immediately she felt hot all over her body, her cheeks burning, and her brain was so dazed and confused that she wished she could dig a hole and hide at once.

Needless to look closely, just listening to the muffled grunts of the man and woman could make her know how intense the scene across the street must be.

A flash came across her brain like a flint.

She lowered her head and raised her eyes a little, casting her astonished and bashful eyes quietly at the masked man. At this moment she even expected that he would be disturbed by this provocative activity, causing the retrogression of the true spirit in his body and the loss of power.

As long as his Kungfu was crippled, she didn't have to be afraid of him anymore. Not only did she no longer have to work for him, but also she could control him and then force him to tell her the way to get rid of the addiction to Hanfu pills.

She could not help but feel excited and almost laugh out loud, her eyes curving as she drew in her mind the pictures of the savage masker being trampled under her will.

One large hand reached out just in time to cover her mouth, and the other pressed it close to her waist and carried her into his arms.

Surprised, she didn't dare to move in the masked man's arms. She could only open her beautiful eyes wide, which kept flickering in a panic.

On the other side, the unbearable sounds constantly impinged on the eardrum of two people. Gu Yunxi could feel the heartbeat of the masked man obviously accelerated through the clothes.

His body was hot and shaking, and he was panting a little. The cold breath from his nose and mouth was spurting over her head, making her scalp tingle.

Perhaps she had been held too tightly by him, and her temperature was rising rapidly as his hot body heated her, and the perspiration boiled over her body like water.

After a dull growl, it was silent again.

Then there came whirling sounds of their clothes. The two figures slipped out of the rockeries, and went away respectively.

No sooner had Gu Yunxi, who was originally rather nervous, calmed down then her head was knocked by a finger phalanx.

"Ah!"

Gu Yunxi struggled away from the masked man's embrace, shrank to the side of the rockery, and rubbed the top of her head with her hand, glaring at him with angry and aggravated eyes.

"You... You're avenging yourself! I just saved you and you knocked me...... It hurts!"

Gu Yunxi became increasingly angry and almost cried painfully with a trembling tone.

"You saved me? Didn't you expect me to die just now?"

The masked man was clearly healed. His eyes were becoming brighter, no longer dark and powerless, and he spoke with confidence.

Gu Yunxi instantly blushed, with heartbeat quickening.

He saw through her idea...

Turning her head slowly, she deliberately avoided eye contact with him, blushing and muttering.

"Your Highness, if, if you are feeling better from your injuries, please leave quickly, and I should return to Chuxiu Palace."

The masked man remained silent. His stern eyes narrowed, and the sharp gaze grasped Gu Yunxi's small, red and hot face. The protruding Adam's apple on his neck rolled twice.

There was a red light flickering and tearing through his eyes. The masked man's claw-like fingers quickly probed over, grabbed Gu Yunxi's shoulder, and flipped her to the ground.

"You..."

It was too sudden.

When her mind was still blank, she had been lying on all fours, and the masked man was on top of her.

Gu Yunxi was astounded, her eyes looking right at the masked man's evil and blazing red pupils. She had already known his next move.

"Your Highness!"

Gu Yunxi suppressed her scream, her open eyes quenching with flame, exerting merciless pressure on him.

"Shut up—"

The masked man barked a command. His fingers pinched both sides of her cheeks, and the approaching icy mask almost burst her vision.

"Don't you want to do that? Why was your body so wet and hot just now?"

He smiled wickedly, with an arrogant expression like the ghosts of the dead world, terrifying and seductive.

"I, I wasn't!"

Gu Yunxi was so outraged that she was about to vomit blood. It was obviously because he was holding her too tightly that she sweated and reacted like that.

It was only then that he was stirred up by the movement, his breath uneven and his heart racing. How did he have the nerve to force his uncontrollable physical reaction on her?

Shameless—

With a cold smile, he gazed at Gu Yunxi's shy, red and beautiful face. One of his fingers stretched out to open the embroidery button on her lapel. As he was about to probe into, a gust of cold wind split to his ear.

Without looking away, the masked man lightly raised his hand to bear the attack of Gu Yunxi's hand. With a counter-clasp, the large hand grabbed the slender wrist and cuffed it to the ground. Then he acted again to do whatever he wanted.

"What time is it that you're thinking about this? Aren't you afraid that the Eastern Depot will arrest you?"

Gu Yunxi shouted to remind him.

Was he a beast?

The masked man smiled, seemingly not afraid.

"I need you to worry? It's so easy for me to handle you. I'm afraid that I'll have gotten my hands on you before the guards of the Eastern Depot arrive!"

Gu Yunxi stared blankly at him, her eyelashes trembling.

Heh, this guy was crazy! Was he saying that the Eastern Depot searched slowly, or expressing that he was impotent?

She changed her facial expression, without struggling any more, just smiling.

"Your Highness, so you can only last for a short period?"

They looked at each other without saying anything.

She intended to anger him, but his eyes were calm as usual without any love, hate or warmth, dappling with sparkling fire under the stars.

"Huh? You'll find out how good my work is in a minute..."

All of a sudden, he pressed against her mouth with an icy thumb, and his hoarse voice was tinged with a hint of fascination.

"The day I take off my mask, I'll seal your sharp mouth myself."

"Let me go—"

Gu Yunxi began to shout as she felt the suffocating coldness on her chest.

He only used one hand to hold her two little hands fast above her head, and the other hand could naturally run free over her.

She could neither get rid of him nor fight against him. So she had to shout.

"Since you were not afraid of being caught, I would also shoot the works—"

A face appeared in front of them amid the sound of rolling stones.

This person was about 18 or 19 years old. With a face of foolery, he looked at the two twisting people on the ground curiously, giggling with his crooked mouth.

"Hey, little sister, ride, ride a big horse..."

"Prince Chen?"

Shocked, Gu Yunxi's face turned even redder. She immediately recognized this idiot dressed in a brocade robe with apricot blossom patterns and wearing a pair of Palace boots. Who else could he be if not Huanan Xin, the idiot prince she encountered before in Hanfang Pavilion?