Chapter 18

“I appreciate your interceding with His Highness!” Xingyi expressed her gratitude to Yueying after they arrived at the corridor outside the room, her the look in her eyes showed that she was by no means willing to submit.

Expressionlessly, Yueying cast a glance at her and then shifted his gaze into the distance. After a while, he began. “Don’t be so reckless again!”

Xingyi froze for a moment before she revealed a look of resentment. ”You also sensed something wrong with His Highness, didn’t you? Or you would have stopped me earlier!” she said, clenching her fists.

“His Highness is just caught up in the moment. He will soon get tired of him.”

“Really? Then why was he so furious? He never stood up for anyone except for that woman, but he just had a go at me because of that… ”

“I’m sure His Highness has his own reasons. We shouldn’t make wild guesses.” Yueying turned and interrupted in a low voice, his eyes beaming with a grim look. “Prince Mu is your master, so it’s none of your business whom he dotes on. Xingyi, I hope you don’t get carried away!”

Hearing that, Xingyi felt her heart skip a beat for no reason. “I’m just worried what happened five years ago might happen again!”

“His Highness won’t make the same mistake again!” Yueying said in a resolute tone. The outsider sees the most of the game. He felt both Prince Mu and Xingyi were not themselves today!

“Xingyi, you have feelings for His Highness, right?” He put it straightforward.

“What are you talking about?” Xingyi was stunned and immediately denied it.

However, the blush on her face gave her away.

Putting on a new piece of silk underwear randomly, Nangong Du got out of the soft couch and walked to Zixiu angrily. As if trying to prove that he wasn’t being partial, he gave Zixiu a good kick when the latter was still in a coma. “You asshole, drop the act! Get up!” he roared.

Clearly in pain, Zixiu opened his eyes in a state of half-consciousness, letting out a whine like a cub. He looked at the person in front of him with his brain fogged and muttered something with a frown, as if he didn’t see Nangong Du at all. Then he tugged the quilt and wrapped himself even tighter before he curled up and closed his eyes again.

“Damn it! You’re still in the mood for sleeping!” Out of rage, Nangong Du bent over, pulled Zixiu up from the floor and threw him against the wall. “You little brat, open your eyes! I haven’t gotten even with you for pushing me into the pool! How dare you…”

Nangong Du stopped short when he found Zixiu unresponsive. After a short period of hesitation, he turned Zixiu’s face to himself.

Zixiu was still in the state of half-consciousness with his eyes closed. He mumbled something with a frown, but Nangong Du couldn’t hear it clearly. Though the two of them had already had intimacy, Nangong Du had focused more on Zixiu’s private part than on his face, so this was the first time he had ever looked at him carefully. Watching Zixiu’s delicate face, especially his slightly trembling, seductive red lips, he found it hard to shift his gaze from this man appeared out of nowhere. Though he had always been lingering in theatres and brothels, Nangong Du had neither fallen for anybody in those places nor even kissed his male concubines. However, at this point, Zixiu’s lips were like poppy in full bloom to him, which almost made him unable to restrain himself.

However, he finally managed to suppress his desire. No matter how impulsive he was, Nangong Du knew it well that the poison was acting up in Liu Zixiu, so if he pressed his lips on the latter’s, he would be poisoned as well. That was why he thought Zixiu’s lips look like poppies, not cherries. If he hadn’t turned down his mother’s invitation to lunch on the pretext of “keeping the princess company”, Liu Zixiu might have been destroyed by that mean girl, Xingyi!

Then again, why did he care about Ziuxiu so much?

Needless to say, out of pity for this ‘beauty’! As the well-known Prince Mu, Nangong Du wasn’t that narrow-minded. Moreover, Liu Zixiu would be useful to him in carrying out his long-term plan. With such thought in mind, it was no wonder that he lost his temper with Xingyi.

To show his generosity and mercy, he fed Liu Zixiu with the antidote.

As the night fell, the breeze gently lifted the curtain. Zixiu finally woke up, the toxins in his body were gone, and his temperature had returned to normal. However, he felt even more painful all over and his head heavy, as if he had a stone weighing a thousand pounds on it. Actually, it was inevitable that he should feel this way. Needless to say, the prince wouldn’t have carried an ‘audacious rebel’ who had offended him countless times to the bed, so Zixiu had been lying on the floor for the whole afternoon. What was more, because his forehead had swelled up after being bumped against the wall for a few times, it would definitely hurt like hell.

When he struggled to sit up from the floor with all his strength, Zixiu suddenly felt a stab of pain in his ass, so he had to turn slowly and lie on his stomach.

In addition to the occasional birds’ twitters coming from outside the window, the room was quiet. As Zixiu hadn’t completely regained his consciousness yet, he felt like he was in the mountains again.

He gawked at the scene out of the window and after quite a while, he finally came back to the cruel reality, which made him shiver out of fear. “Where’s the pervert? I pushed him into the hot water, so he’ll definitely seek revenge!”

“Rumble…” As Zixiu hadn’t had anything for two days in a row, his stomach suddenly growled.