And a large part of that steaming hot bowl of porridge had even spilled onto his clothes!
“Are you so keenly seeking for death?” Zhuge Yin said through tightly gritted teeth as he glared at the bumbling Zi Jin.
Zi Jin was so frightened she was trembling all over, not daring to make a sound. Zhuge Yin’s brutality yesterday had left an indelible deep set fear in her.
“Young Lord, isn’t the lass from the Shadow Moon Palace?” A sharp eyed youth immediately spotted the uniform Zi Jin was wearing.
Zhuge Yin’s brows immediately creased together. After what he had experienced yesterday, the words, “Shadow Moon Palace” had already become like a dark cloud that enveloped his heart, and just hearing the mention of those three words irritated him endlessly.
“From the Shadow Moon Palace?” Zhuge Yin’s voice was laced with danger.
“That’s right! She was present yesterday as well. Oh! I remember, when Young Lord you were fighting the match on the arena stage, this lass had seemingly disappeared halfway through. I remember that when that kid from the Shadow Moon Palace arrived, this lass had been standing just beside him! This lass must have slipped out to secretly inform him!”
Zi Jin became even more nervous.
When Zhuge Yin heard those words, the fiery rage in his heart immediately roared into a raging blaze. He went forward to grab Zi Jin collar in his hand, lifting the small sized Zi Jin right off the ground.
“Wretched wench! Tell me! Did you go running off to bring that little scoundrel? Damn it! I had been thinking why that brat would suddenly come running! So it’s you, this damned wench that went carrying tales! ?” Everything had been going very well till Jun Wu Xie appeared, which threw Zhuge Yin into such a helpless quandary. If not for the arrival of Jun Wu Xie, Yue Yi would have died at Zhuge Yin’s hands, and the disciples from all the other palaces would not hold so much animosity against the Dragon Slayers Palace.
Zhuge Yin diverted all the rage he felt against Jun Wu Xie onto Zi Jin, the eyes that glared at Zi Jin looking like he wished for nothing more than to be able to swallow her alive.
Zi Jin bit on her lip as she stared at Zhuge Yin, the terror in her heart gradually spreading, but she detested being treated in such a manner.
“So what if I had been the one? When the Dragon Slayers Palace bullies people with their might, people are not allowed to even speak of it? A sparring match, was supposed to be carried out within certain boundaries of propriety, but you had seeked to take a person’s life! You mind might be filled with malice, but others need not be so dumb as to submit themselves to be killed as per your whims!” Zi Jin said as she glared at Zhuge Yin. Such an ugly display of evil from disciples of the Twelve Palaces, completely nauseated her.
“Ha! Damned wench has got a sharp tongue?” Zhuge Yin narrowed his eyes as his gaze swiveled to look around. In that huge expansive garden, only the few of them were there, with no sign of anyone else around. Zhuge Yin’s eyes then flashed with a glint of venom.
“You can really prattle on can’t you? Men, hold her for me.” Zhuge Yin said with a chilling laugh, and the several disciples from the Dragon Slayers Palace immediately went forward, to hold Zi Jin in a tight grip.
Zi Jin did not have strong powers, and was unable to resist against so many people holding her down, unable to move as she was held helplessly before Zhuge Yin.
Zhuge Yin’s venomous glint then swept over Zi Jin’s body. “This wench has such a smart mouth, I would really like to see what kind of help she would be able to bring in today!”
Volume 18
Chapter 1724: “Encountering a Nasty Dog (2)”
An ominous premonition rose within Zi Jin’s heart as she stared in terror at Zhuge Yin.
Zhuge Yin laughed sinisterly and a hand suddenly felt Zi Jin on her slim waist.
“The wretched wench’s body is rather good. A pity the looks on this face of hers puts me off.” Zhuge Yin seemed to be trying to torment Zi Jin’s mind, his hand slowly roving over Zi Jin’s hips.
Like a viper that was slithering over her body, Zi Jin’s entire body felt absolutely disgusted. She fought to try to break free, but was unable to overcome the strength of the youths holding her down, unable to do anything but be subjected to the torment.
“Aren’t you very good at bringing in help? Go bring help now would you? I would really like to see what that brat would say if he comes here. Would it be the same as yesterday, to casually dump you, leaving you to be dealt with as I wish? Haha!” Zhuge Yin said maliciously.
Zi Jin was in a panic and highly flustered, wishing she could bite Zhuge Yin to death.
“Zhuge Yin, there’s truly nothing you fear.” A voice suddenly rang out from behind Zhuge Yin’s back.
Zhuge Yin immediately turned his head around to discover Gu Ying dressed in white clothes who had suddenly appeared in the garden. Gu Ying was leaning languidly against the side of a willow tree, his arms crossed over his chest as he stared calmly unaffected at Zhuge Yin who had been about to turn violent.
Zhuge Yin’s heart jumped up in shock. Although he had intentions of befriending the Blood Fiend Palace, but he just could not seem to get along with Gu Ying alone. The two of them had already broken out in a squabble on their very first day in the Pure Grace Palace and they had developed a deep dislike of each other.
Although Zhuge Yin did not feel like bothering with Gu Ying, but he could not help thinking about Gu Xin Yan. If he were to let Gu Ying go tell Gu Xin Yan about what he seeked to do today, then wouldn’t that…..
“Let’s leave.” Zhuge Yin did not want to stir up more problems and he immediately said that to the other Dragon Slayers Palace disciples.
The disciples quickly released their grip. Zi Jin had used up all her strength and suddenly losing all support, she fell right onto the ground. She stared with red rimmed eyes to see Zhuge Yin and the other Dragon Slayers Palace disciples leaving the place in a hurry, her gaze filled with hatred.
“Can you stand up?” A gentle voice then rang out from above Zi Jin’s head.
Zi Jin raised up her head to see Gu Ying looking at her smilingly, under the bright sun, the handsome youth standing with the sun’s rays behind him, the golden glow forming a beautiful circular halo at his back.
In an instant, Zi Jin was suddenly mesmerized.
“I…..” Zi Jin stuttered.
Gu Ying already had his hand extended in front of her.
Zi Jin blushed, as she pulled on Gu Ying’s hand to stand up.
“Thank you.”
She remembered this youth. He was Gu Ying from the Blood Fiend Palace. On the day of the banquet, he had gotten into a quarrel with Zhuge Yin and it was him that saved her life today.
Gu Ying smiled as he pulled Zi Jin to her feet. “That Zhuge Yin is quite a bad nut and he has a grudge against the Shadow Moon Palace. It would be better if you do not move around by yourself alone here in the Pure Grace Palace.” As he spoke, he looked around before he then continued to say: “Where is the other person from your Shadow Moon Palace? Why do I not see him accompanying you out here?”
Zi Jin knew that Gu Ying was talking about Jun Wu and her smile became a little forced.
Gu Ying’s eyes glinted briefly with a flash, but his face was still showing the same brilliant and innocent smile.
“Are you hurt anywhere? Do you need me to accompany you back?”
Zi Jin’s face turned redder and she quickly shook her head.
“I’m not. I’m fine.”
Gu Ying’s smile was rather handsome. To the extent that he was even more handsome than any other youth she had seen before. Having such a radiant youth staring at her smilingly like this, it just caused Zi Jin’s heart to thump wildly all over the place helplessly.
Volume 18
Chapter 1725: “Distrust (1)”
“Are you still shook?” Gu Ying asked as he looked at Zi Jin with his head slightly tilted.
Zi Jin lowered her head and shook her head slightly.
; Gu Ying laughed lightly and said: “Hurry up and go back then.”
Zi Jin raised up her head and looked at Gu Ying’s face with his brilliant smile, her gaze hesitant. At the moment her eyes met Gu Ying, her heart fluttered and she quickly lowered her head back down as she ran away.
Gu Ying remained standing in his spot as he looked at the flustered Zi Jin running off, and the brilliant and gentle smile on his face slowly changed bit by bit.
“Shadow Moon Palace….. Kek.”
Zi Jin’s heart was jumping all over in a fluster the entire way she went running back to the room, the strange feeling in her heart still not fading away. Remembering that she had gone out to bring back some food for Yue Yi and she had come back empty handed, she continued towards Yue Yi’s room feeling rather awkward.
Inside Yue Yi’s room, Jun Wu Xie had just finished with the initial stages of treatment for Yue Yi.
When Zi Jin saw Jun Wu, her heart skipped a beat, but the subtle feelings that shrouded her heart towards Jun Wu once before had now unknowingly disappeared. The feelings that filled her heart now instead went towards the youth she had accidentally bumped into at the garden.
Zi Jin had lived in the Spirit Jade Palace from a very young age and because of the Spirit Jade Palace, she held great animosity against the disciples of the Twelve Palaces. But without knowing the reason why, towards that bright and splendid youth, she could not make herself feel the slightest bit of dislike against him. She could still remember, when she had first met Gu Ying, Gu Ying had been at loggerheads with Zhuge Yin, which caused her to be unable to help herself but think, that the Twelve Palaces might not be completely bereft of pure and simple people.
“About the….. porridge….. There was no one in the kitchen.” Zi Jin did not dare to meet Jun Wu’s eyes and could only avert her gaze. She did not want Jun Wu to know about what had happened in the garden earlier because of the detestable things Zhuge Yin had done, and at the same time she did not want Jun Wu to know that she had had an interaction with Gu Ying.
Afterall, Gu Ying was from the Blood Fiend Palace and Jun Wu saw the people from the Twelve Palaces as his enemies.
“I’ve already gotten someone to go prepare it.” Jun Wu Xie said indifferently, not showing much of a reaction to Zi Jin’s words.
With Yue Yi’s current condition, in order for him to recover as quickly as possible, medicinal cuisine was required. And for the kind of medicinal cuisine that Jun Wu Xie created, besides herself, only Ye Sha and Ye Mei knew how to prepare it, the two of them having been taught step by step under Jun Wu Xie’s tutelage.
“Har? Oh.” Zi Jin was slightly taken aback, not knowing what she should say. She could only lower her head in silence, a strange emotion coming over her heart.
In just a while, Ye Gu came walking in carrying a bowl of highly aromatic and fragrant porridge. The smell was different from regular plain porridge, its scent tinged with a slight trace of bitterness.
When Zi Jin smelled that scent, she immediately lifted her head up, to look towards the bowl of porridge.
Ye Gu did not pay any attention to Zi Jin’s gaze as he went on to come to Yue Yi’s bedside. He looked at Jun Wu Yao seated upon the chair with his legs propped lazily upon his knee and then turned to look at Jun Wu Xie beside Jun Wu Yao. He sighed in helplessness inside his heart and raised up the bowl of porridge in resignation as he sat on the edge of Yue Yi’s bed, picking up the spoon to assume the job of a nanny.
“Hold it!” Suddenly, Zi Jin shouted.
Ye Gu turned to look at Zi Jin in puzzlement.
Zi Jin’s gaze was fixed upon the bowl of porridge. The porridge was rather special, not cooked with the regular types of grain. The colour of the porridge was also faintly tinged with a trace of green, which made Zi Jin feel that something was not right.
“What is this?” Zi Jin raised her head to look at Jun Wu, her eyes questioning, and looking a little sharp.
Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes slightly, and seeing that Zi Jin’s gaze was looking slightly different, she opened her mouth to slowly ask: “What are you worried about?”
Volume 18
Chapter 1726: “Distrust (2)”
Jun Wu Xie’s words startled Zi Jin slightly as the gaze she looked at Jun Wu Xie with slowly wavered.
What was she worried about? Even she herself could not explain it clearly. Actually, at the same moment those words left her mouth, Zi Jin already regretted them. But words that had been spoken was just like water that had been spilt, impossible to retrieve back.
“I…..”
“Bring it here.” Jun Wu Xie said as she looked at Ye Gu.
Ye Gu walked over to come before Jun Wu Xie. Jun Wu Xie then stretched her hand out to scoop out a spoonful to put into her mouth before swallowing it.
She knew what Zi Jin was questioning about.
“Will this do?” Jun Wu Xie asked Zi Jin with an eyebrow arched.
Zi Jin’s face flushed a deep red, endless embarrassment rising up and filling up her heart.
Lying upon the bed, Yue Yi witnessed all of it, the disapproval obvious in his eyes. He could not understand what could have actually happened that caused Zi Jin to distrust Jun Wu so much.
The question that Zi Jin had thrown out just now, had obviously been because she suspected someone had spiked the porridge.
“I….. I am not…..” Zi Jin was feeling rather panicked, and feeling rather guilty.
“Go give it to Yue Yi.” Jun Wu Xie did not even look at her as she stretched her hand out to hand the spoon to Ye Gu.
Ye Gu had not even had the time to reach his hand out to receive it when a large hand suddenly took the spoon from Jun Wu Xie’s hand before him.
With a loud crack, the white porcelain spoon was crushed to dust by that large hand, the fine dust particles seeping out through the gaps between the fingers to fall onto the floor.
“Apologies, I wasn’t able to control my strength for a moment. Go fetch another one.” Jun Wu Yao who had completely crushed the spoon with his hand said as he looked smilingly at Jun Wu Xie, his words seemingly meant for Ye Gu’s ears, only that his tone of voice did not sound the least bit apologetic.
Jun Wu Xie glanced at Jun Wu Yao a moment, finding herself speechless.
Ye Gu looked at Jun Wu Xie and then turned his gaze upon Jun Wu Yao before he self consciously put the bowl of porridge upon the table, and quickly turned to run out of the room to go get a new spoon.
Ye Gu had just stepped outside the door when he saw Ye Mei standing right outside looking highly displeased as he glared at him.
“What did that wench mean by that? Is she scoffing at my culinary skills?” Ye Mei had heard everything clearly from outside the door and he did not have to even think to know exactly what had happened inside the room.
With him being a proud member of the Night Regime, when he was dominating the battlefields, it was not even known where the ancestors of that little wench were still playing with mud! If this had been before, who dared to question what he did? There was no need to even talk about the dishes cooked by him, even if it was a fistful of dirt he had casually picked up from anywhere, there would be a whole bunch of people fighting to go chomp on it.
And this abominable wench dared to still scoff?
Seeing Ye Mei looking so infuriated, Ye Gu could was at a loss for words. If truth was to be told, when he saw the scene where Ye Mei hid himself in the kitchen as he worked and waved the wok, his eyes had almost popped out of his head. He really had not known that one of his most stalwart lieutenants had possessed such a “domesticated” skill.
“Cool it. Can’t you see even boss here had to personally feed food to that kid lying on the bed?” Ye Sha’s reaction was a lot calmer as he stood with his arms folded across his chest while looking at Ye Gu who had a twitch at the corner of his mouth.
Throughout the entire world, people who were able to enjoy such service from the boss of the Night Regime were truly few and far between.
; The shade on Ye Gu’s face turned an uglier shade. He stared at Ye Sha and said: “Later, both of you had better cover your eyes! Don’t come staring as you please!”
Ye Sha shrugged his shoulders to indicate he would do as he was told and Ye Mei had no choice but to shut his mouth.
From the look of things, it seemed that Ye Gu was in a worse position than them. With that for him to compare with, Ye Mei finally felt a little less indignant about the whole thing.
Volume 18
Chapter 1727: “Distrust (3)”
The atmosphere within the room was a little awkward as Zi Jin stood there feeling at a loss, not daring to move not say anything, but to just lower her head with her face beet red.
Jun Wu Xie looked at the state Zi Jin was in as she slowly took a sip of her tea before she said: “Zi Jin, do you still remember for what reason did you follow me here to the Pure Grace Palace?”
Jun Wu Xie’s voice was rather chilly and Zi Jin could not help but shiver when she heard it. Zi Jin did not dare to raise her head but only to nod slightly.
“If you still remember it, then you should know very clearly what position you should be taking in all of this. You are merely just an observer and the only reason I allowed you to come here is for you to go back and tell everything you’ve seen here to people who should know about it. If you do not even know this, I can send you back right now and exchange for a more suitable candidate here.” Jun Wu Xie was not bothered whether her ally understood her. She was not used to explaining her actions to others and she felt that there was no such need.
In an alliance, the most important component required besides the benefits to both parties, would be trust. She did not care how Zi Jin judged her as long as the young girl did not impede her actions. Even if Zi Jin did not like her deep in her heart, Jun Wu Xie did not feel that there was anything she should be unhappy about.
But now, Zi Jin’s emotions had gotten the better of her judgement where she had even begun to question Jun Wu Xie’s intentions. This was not the kind of ally that Jun Wu Xie wanted.
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