"Yunxi, I was afraid you would slip down just now. I'm sorry to hurt you again."

It was so quiet that Huanan He felt slightly embarrassed. He titled his dizzy head and ambiguously explained. He paused and pondered, not knowing what to do.

The voice of the woman on his back was as clear as a pearl falling on a jade plate.

"It's okay. Let's keep going. Hold on, darling. There are a few hairyvein agrimonies here. I want to pick some to stop the bleeding and heal the wounds."

"Where?"

Huanan He was curious. Guided by Gu Yunxi's fingers, he stopped in front of the two tall, large-leaved plants.

"Bend down a little. Bend down a little bit."

Gu Yunxi's almond-shaped eyes were full of joy. She tapped Huanan He's shoulders with her soft little hands.

He bent his legs and let her pluck the plant with the small yellow flowers on the stem. He was surprised but more appreciative in his heart,

"It seems that not only do you know how to cook, but also understand Chinese herbal medical science."

Gu Yunxi smiled gently,

"This is not some kind of Chinese herbal medical science. In the past, I fell off a cliff. Darling, it was you who led the guards of the Eastern Depot to arrive and save my life from the wild wolves..."

"What?"

Huanan He stopped again and turned his head eagerly. His cheek was close to Gu Yunxi's lips, and he asked in surprise,

"Is that true?"

Gu Yunxi smiled,

"I will find a way to help you remember these things in the future. Darling, at that time, you had a powerful assistant, Imperial Doctor Jiang, in the Eastern Depot, who healed my wounds and taught me to identify the herb 'hairyvein agrimony' that could stop bleeding."

Huanan He was dazed. He tried to think about it so hard that blue veins stood out between his foreheads. He trembled, but finally he had to surrender to his confused memory space.

He sighed,

"No, Yunxi, I still can't think of him. When we find a place to stay, you can tell me in detail about the past."

"I know."

Gu Yunxi smiled, and her delicate pointed chin leaned against the man's shoulder.

"Hmm..."

Suddenly, there was a certain strange feeling in Huanan He's heart as if he had been struck by lightning, which brought up a trembling spark. It instantly turned into a rapid flood and spread throughout his limbs and skeletons, causing his body temperature to gradually rise.

He hurriedly cleared his burning hoarse throat and continued to walk on the grass quietly.

The moon was faint and the valley was foggy.

Grass and wildflowers were blown by the night breeze, secreting an enchanting fragrance.

On such a beautiful night, Huanan He silently walked with the injured and delicate woman on his back.

His two large hands were clearly feeling the delicate and elastic skin under the torn dress.

For a moment, his breathing became urgent. He fell into a flutter and there was a certain kind of extreme desire in his deep heart.

His body temperature continued to rise, and the satin material pressed by the woman on his back was wet with sweat.

Sensing the abnormality, Gu Yunxi rolled her eyes slightly and asked,

"Darling, you must be tired. Or shall we stop here and rest?"

The woman's soft and rhythmic breath, carrying the unique fragrance between her lips and teeth, constantly came to his ears and tugged at his uneasy heartstrings. He felt restless and his heart beat even more wildly.

A thought that seemed to be an irrepressible force was raging in his mind.

"I'm fine. Let's go ahead."

He frowned slightly and looked serious. Huanan He deliberately suppressed an outbreak of impulsive emotions, and a dull voice rolled out of his dry throat.

Gu Yunxi was stunned and winked. She quickly thought of something, so she simply kept silent. Her smile was slight and secret.

They walked in silence for a while and found a cave.

Huanan He, with full vigilance, walked to the outside of the cave entrance. He listened, let Gu Yunxi raise the fire torch, and looked into the cave.

The entrance to the cave was very large. It was not difficult for a person to enter and exit upright, but the hole was not too deep.

The cave had rough stone walls, with moss and weeds in the folded stone crevices.

Huanan He slowly squatted down and let Gu Yunxi sit on the mud. His movement was extremely careful and gentle as if taking care of a delicate and fragile glass product and incomparably cherishing it.

He sat down beside her and said in a gentle tone,

"Tonight we will rest here. There will be four hours before dawn. Have a good night's sleep, and I will accompany you."

Seeing her smile delicately, he gently held her hand and whispered,

"I will help you with the medicine."

He grabbed a hairyvein agrimony and folded it into several pieces. When he put it to his mouth to chew, he untied the bandage on Gu Yunxi's right arm. Then he applied the fragments of herbs to the wound.

This herb was precious and magical.

Not long after it had been applied to the wound, the bleeding stopped. The pain was much lessened, and there was a distinct coolness that quickly seeped into the arm from the wound and spread throughout the body.

Tearing off the satin of his robe again to bandage her, he caressed the back of her head with his large hand and let her rest on his chest.

Gu Yunxi was still a little uneasy and looked around worriedly. Then she said slightly,

"Darling, what kind of cave is this? Could a beast live here?"

Huanan He gave a firm and calm smile,

"Don't worry. There is no animal hair or blood here. There is no odor in the cave, either. Therefore, it should not be a beast cave. I will go to the eave entrance to snap some branches and light a fire. Even if there are wild wolves outside, they do not dare to approach when seeing the flames."

Gu Yunxi's heart trembled, and a thin sweat oozed from the tip of her nose. She pulled on his dirty robe,

"Go back quickly. Don't go too far."

He looked directly at her, who was anxious, in the quiet moonlight, and raised her jaw with a smile. He gave her a deep kiss and immediately comforted her,

"Rest assured. There stands a tree at the entrance. I just take a few branches and come back."

He lit the fire torch and handed it to her. Then he strode out of the cave in the moonlight. When he came back, he had some branches in his hand.

Soon, a small bonfire was lit in the cave. It was warm and bright, reflecting two tight black silhouettes on the rough stone wall.

"Darling, I suddenly come up with an idea that will make Huanan Xin lose the reason for attacking us. With what we have, we can also, in turn, hold the ringleader of this assassination in play."

Gu Yunxi's cheek was almost pressed on the man's chest. Through the clothes, she deeply felt his heartbeat, and the rhythm was fast and powerful.

The man's eyes were narrowed like a bottomless pool, making people unable to distinguish his mind.

"Talk to me."

Huanan He was intrigued, and his phoenix eyes were clear like the stars in the night sky.

Gu Yunxi slowly moved her body and whispered to him.

He was deeply shocked when he heard this. He grabbed the woman's small hands and kissed them with a look of admiration,

"That's really a good idea."

Gu Yunxi leaned close to him. Her eyes were empty, and she sneered,

"Repeating the mistake is forbidden. If we want to take the initiative to take back and seize what belongs to us, we must let that person solve Huanan Xin's Eastern Depot for us first."

"It's up to you!" Huanan He's raised his gray eyebrows and his eyes released a bitter cold light,

"The hatred of taking my wife and the hatred of killing my subordinates are absolutely resolved. I will never show mercy to Huanan Xin this time."

Gu Yunxi smiled coldly and steadily. She looked down slightly,

"Get some sleep. We'll quickly find our way back to the temple in the morning."

…

Everything was quiet. The bonfire glowed, and the wood smoldered with a "crackling" sound occasionally.

Huanan He couldn't fall asleep.

His dark eyes, which were illuminated by the glow, were fixed on the fire. His consciousness became clearer and clearer.

Quietly lowering his head to look at the little woman in front of him, he found that she had not even fallen asleep. The woman looked straight at his handsome face with a pair of almond-shaped eyes, as if waiting silently for something.

In the flickering firelight, she looked at the dim shadow of the man's face and blinked. The man's heart, which was so disoriented, stirred again.

He couldn't help but look at her exposed large areas of skin under her torn clothes carefully with his eyes aglow.

In the two years after he returned to Jing City, many young and beautiful women had lived in Ninth Prince's Mansion.

However, Huanan He never had any desire for them and only regarded them as playthings that could be scolded and bullied. They were either eaten by Heifeng or killed by him. None of them had a happy life.

He thought that he was pure-hearted and had a unique preference. However, after many midnight dreams, he had long been obsessed with the beautiful but sad mysterious figure.

When all the truth came to light, his complex emotions that had been gathered in his heart for a long time were like spring vines that had been irrigated and unstoppably crazily grew. With unstoppable momentum, it occupied his entire crazy body and mind.

With his Adam's apple moving a few times, Huanan He gave an evil and free smile,

"Yunxi, can you guess what I dreamed about last night in the meditation room?"

Gu Yunxi suddenly flushed. Knowing that he was up to mischief deliberately, she looked aside and blamed him,

"I don't know and don't want to know."

Did he think she was blind?

Didn't she see the change in his body when he was asleep on the bed?

Huanan He was amused by her delicate appearance. His fingers fingered repeatedly on her smooth shoulders. The gentle and beautiful touch like tribute silk made his mind ripple again.

His eyes flickered, and he wrapped his arms around her waist. He wheezed,

"Yunxi, don't bully people with amnesia. Since you are married to me, how can you not sleep with me?"

"You... You're still so naughty!"

Gu Yunxi was ashamed and indignant. Although she scolded him, she flushed when raising her head.

Huanan He got closer to her. Their faces were so close and their breaths were urgent.

He boldly reached out his hand and slowly probed into the woman's clothes. With a pair of soul-sucking phoenix eyes full of deep affection, he murmured around her ears,

"Darling, can I?"