Male Lead Is Always That Heartless

Chapter 38

Gu Yi blinked. Her eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, and she saw Xiao Yan only wearing middle clothes. Her ears heard Xiao Yan’s cold voice: “I can not sleep in the middle of the night, so I came to see you.”

Gu Yi froze. What does this mean?

Xiao Yan saw her sitting on the bed like a wooden chicken, implicitly reprimanding her: “Your wound has scabbed. You should not scratch it. It has left a lot of scratches now. If you scratch it and it bleeds again, you’ll have to start over–”

Gu Yi hadn’t fully awakened yet, and now, she felt ridiculous. Xiao Yan didn’t sleep at night, running to the next door and pretending to be a ghost to scare and reprimand her!

Outrageous!

She barely faked a smile and said, “I understand.”

Xiao Yan looked at her impatient expression, knowing that she must have woken up suddenly and was unhappy. So he got up and said, “Since you knew it, you should sleep.”

Gu Yi: How can I sleep?

But the imperial order was hard to disobey, so she lay flat again. However, Xiao Yan, in front of her, left the bed to stand before the curtain, unmoving. What’s going on? Are you going to continue to spy on me while I’m sleeping?

Xiao Yan’s eyes darkened. Because of her movements, Gu Yi’s clothes untied at some points, exposing the inside silk bellyband. In the night, the brocade was still visible. The exposed neck was as white as snow, and the shoulder arc was silky smooth, like a cage of moonlight in the night. He remembered their time together, though it was over a month long. The silent night was still deep, and warm incense lingered in the chamber. His heart couldn’t help but stir, and a heat rose.

Gu Yi closed her eyes when she felt the wind around her. She turned her head to look, and Xiao Yan unexpectedly took off his black robe and entered the bed.

Her pupils quaked! “Your Majesty!”

Xiao Yan, however, hugged her waist from behind, his soft lips pressed against her earlobe, whispering, “I’ll be careful not to touch your leg……”

Doggy Xiao!

Gu Yi struggled to turn over, but Xiao Yan held her down. She felt a slight chill on the back of her neck. Gentle, warm, soft touch like butterfly feathers, gently fluttering down.

*

After waking up, Gu Yi’s injured leg was fine, but she had a sore back and bruised knees. On the contrary, Xiao Yan walked in high spirits, heading towards the front hall before dawn. He came and left at night, coming and going in a hurry, like an unfeeling benefactor.

Tao Jia sat by the side of the bed, uncertainly wiping ointment lightly on her knees, “How did you hurt her knees?”

Gu Yi swallowed a mouthful of hot tea, “I was a bad sleeper and kicked the bedpost in the middle of the night.”

Tao Jia naively said, “How bad of a sleeper you were? How many times did you kick to get so bruised!”

Gu Yi almost choked on her tea.

Tao Jia, are you mocking me?

Gu Yi shook her head and said, “It doesn’t hurt that much.” She lowered her eyes and saw that Tao Jia’s index and middle fingers, smeared with medicine, were red and swollen, like two slender carrots. In surprise, she said, “What happened to your hands?”

Tao Jia hastily hid her fingers into the sleeve, “Forgive me, I got frostbite ……”

Gu Yi made an ‘ah’ sound, “Then you take the Heluo Hall’s sign and quickly go to the Imperial Hospital to receive some frostbite ointment. My knees do not hurt anymore!”

Tao Jia paused and mumbled, “Thank you for your grace.”

After Tao Jia left, Gu Yi waited but did not receive the calming tonic.

Doggy Xiao, is this your after-sale service? Is it so spontaneous that he even forgot about such a big event?

She secretly counted the days and felt that she should be safe.

In the Heluo Hall’s side hall, Xiu handed Zhao Wan a bowl of brown medicinal juice, “Beauty, the Emperor’s heart ached for you and gave you a bowl of calming tonic. Quickly drink it.”

When Zhao Wan saw the medicine bowl, she felt a slap in the face, scraping into her face. The harem history recorded Heluo Hall’s Beauty Zhao last night, so she got this bowl of calming tonic today. She took it and slowly swallowed it, her mouth full of bitterness. The Emperor didn’t believe her but wanted to use her as a target, so she was still a usable person for him.

In the Luoying Hall, Consort De squeezed the harem history book, leaving a few fingerprints on the edge of the paper.

Dong Cao curtsied and advised, “Your Highness, calm down!”

Consort De got up irritably and paced back and forth in the flower hall. “I asked you to look into the matter of Wu Shan Palace. How is the investigation going?”

Dong Cao replied, “I bribed one of the palace maids that accompanied Lady of Fairness Gong, and she said that Beauty Zhao was indeed summoned to Xuanyu Pavilion by the Emperor in Wu Shan. She also said she entered the Emperor’s eyes because she saved Lady of Fairness Gong in Wu Mountain. The mountain’s road is dangerous, and Lady of Fairness Gong accidentally slips and falls; Beauty Zhao uses her body to catch her at the expense of her injured legs. After that, she held the umbrella for the Emperor and always ingratiated…… ”

Consort De stared: “Saved Lady of Fairness Gong? Injured feet?”

Dong Cao nodded: “Precisely. I heard that Chief Qi carried her down the mountain ……”

Consort De caressed her fingernails. “So, it’s turned out like that—” Her face showed a cold smile. Ask if Chief Qi and our Beauty Zhao have other chance encounters.”

An ingratiated person will, of course, not miss any time.

After noon, Xiuyi Hall’s Lady of Fairness Wang came to visit Gu Yi in Heluo Hall. She had long heard that Lady of Fairness Gu had a scar on her foot, and Gu Yi saw her gaze towards her was a rare empathy.

Lady of Fairness Wang used a silk handkerchief to wipe the corners of her eyes falsely, “Sister Gu, how pitiful to have encountered a thief in the imperial garden ……”

Gu Yi smiled drily, “I’m sorry to trouble Sister Wang for remembering.”

Lady of Fairness Wang sighed quietly, “Sister Gu is the most favorite of the whole palace, and now someone has hurt your leg, was that kind of villain who took advantage of the situation? I’m worried for you, ah.”

It’s unnecessary.

Gu Yi laughed: “Sister, you’re wrong. Beauty Zhao was born beautiful, with good female skills and the ball game. Although currently residing in the Heluo Hall’s side hall, her future is uncertain — ”

You should be sober; don’t fan the flames and go against the female lead’s halo!

Lady of Fairness Wang saw Gu Yi’s face was light. She sipped a mouthful of tea, saying: “Now that the Emperor has no heir and without empress, whoever’s child born in this harem will be the Emperor’s eldest son. So, it doesn’t matter if the favor fades away in the future. What do you think, Sister?”

Gu Yi’s eyelashes fluttered when she heard this. In the book, Xiao Yan has no heir, and the story ends with his and Zhao Wan’s lifetime together. He was probably allowed Zhao Wan to give birth to his heir later.

Gu Yi smiled faintly and said: “Sister Wang, I understand this kind of heartfelt words, but the thunder and rain are all the Emperor’s thoughts. Whether a favor or grace depends on His Majesty’s heart. Sister Wang and I can only wait quietly.”

Lady of Fairness Wang shook her head furiously, “You’re the head of a hall. What’s so difficult about cleaning up a beauty in a side hall!”

Gu Yi frowned slightly. “Indeed, it is not difficult.” She slowly added, “But there are rules in the palace. Beauty Zhao is not disrespectful, and I can’t intervene.”

Lady of Fairness Wang saw that she couldn’t be moved, defeatedly said: “In that case, I no longer persuade you. See you another day.” After saying that, she left.

The six palaces had their mind to be busy, and finally, this day passed with bluster.

After Xushi (7-9 pm), the Zhuque Gate was wide open. When the guards saw a person dressed in blue flying fish official clothes and hat slowly walking out from the palace door, they kneeled and said, “Greetings, Eunuch Gao.” They were used to seeing Eunuch Gao, covered with a black veil hat, leaving the palace. The palace staff who led the horse were waiting outside the Zhuque Gate early. Eunuch Gao rolled onto the horse and went away. Black horse galloped into the city, stopping at a tea shop at the west.

The tea shop door was closed, and the only access was a half-open side door in the alleyway. In the dark tunnel, the weak light from the doorway revealed the sharpness of the blade.

Xiao Yan dismounted, pushing the door open. Two shadow guards dressed in black knelt and said, “The thief has been captured. How will he be sentenced?”

Xiao Yan lifted the black veil and looked closely at the gray-robed man sitting paralyzed on the chair in the room. His face was so ordinary that he would not have remembered this person even if he had seen him in the palace. Whip marks and blood covered his robe.

Xiao Yan waved his hand, and the two shadow guards exited the room. He approached the gray-robed man, pursed his lips, and smiled as if he were talking about family matters. “How long have you been lurking in the palace?”

The gray-robed’s face man, covered in blood, only coldly smiled and did not answer.

Xiao Yan laughed again, “Tanyuan Palace was burned, but you still can not save Consort Dowager. It’s so wasteful.”

The gray-robed man raised his eyes to look at him viciously.

Xiao Yan suddenly stepped forward and reached out to tightly pinch his lower jawbone.

A click was heard.

The gray-robed man trembled; his eyes showed pain, and beads of sweat oozed out from the corners of his forehead, but he remained silent.

Xiao Yan hummed and released his jaw, “Have you poisoned yourself mute? Or are you originally mute?”

Speaking, he lifted his robe and sat on the bamboo chair before the gray-robed man. “This kind of tactic is not like Xiao Lu’s.”

Contemplating briefly, Xiao Yan slightly bent his eyebrows. He rested one hand on his cheek and smiled, “Then …… are you a Qi family member or a Liu family member?”

The gray-robed man hung his eyes without saying anything. Xiao Yan got up, pulled out the long sword placed aside, and went straight around behind the gray-robed man.

The long sword touched the ground and made a piercing sound. The gray-robed man stiffened and closed his eyes tightly, but his hands behind the chair suddenly loosened.

Xiao Yan unexpectedly raised his sword to cut the knots that bound his hands.

“I will grant you a chance to live. If you can walk out of this room on your own, I will let you go.”

The gray-robed man listened to his lighthearted tone, like a cat teasing a mouse. His heart hardened, and he immediately leaned down to touch the short knife in his boot. This was the last fight he left for himself.

Xiao Yan laughed, watching him pounce over. Dodging to avoid it, he lifted his sword to gently scratch the side of his neck teasingly, tiny beads of blood gushing out at once.

The gray-robed man trembled, rubbed his neck, and lunged towards the doorway. Xiao Yan, however, suddenly raised his foot and stomped on his robe’s corner.

The gray-robed man stumbled and fell to the ground. Xiao Yan held his longsword and violently stabbed his calf.

Blood splashed everywhere. The gray-robed man shook like a falling leaf.

However, Xiao Yan asked, “Does it hurt?”

As soon as the words left his mouth, he raised his hand to pull out the longsword and stabbed it again towards the injured area where the blood and flesh were churning.

The gray-robed man’s mouth opened wide in pain, but he couldn’t make a single sound, only curling up on the ground, trembling.

Xiao Yan straightened up and called out, “Come in.”

The two dark guards entered and saw that bloodstains covered the front of his blue coat. They immediately bowed their heads and asked, “How do we dispose of him?”

Xiao Yan’s dark brown glazed eyes narrowed slightly. He thought momentarily before saying, “Chop off his head and send it to Consort Dowager so she can also have a thought.”

“We obey the command.”