Chapter 13.1

A Woman’s Fragrance (13) – The irritability within surprisingly calmed down (1)

[It was night. Lu Fei Yue and the other three were on their way to Cangzhou and had yet to find a place to rest. Lu Zhi Yao knocked on the table and looked somewhat apologetic: “Sorry, the poison in my body seems to have reacted.”]

[The two hurriedly stopped the carriage and pulled out the thick quilt from the carriage to give it to him. This gentle man did not refuse, and after a soft thank you, he put the quilt over his body and said no more.]

[The night was as cold as water, but he didn’t feel the slightest discomfort. He just leaned against the wall of the carriage with his eyes closed as if he was asleep, his voice was still gentle.]

[“It’s okay, we can go.”]

This is the description of Lu Zhi Yao’s poisoning in the book, in just a few sentences, without pinpointing any pain, so Li Ruo Shui thought that the poison was not so unbearable.

After all, when the supporting male lead suffered, the author must have written a big story out of this to make him win the female lead’s love and pity. If the author did not write much, maybe the poison was nothing.

Now is the time for her to pay the price for her ignorance.

The coldness gradually emanated from her body, and the closer she got to the source of the fire, the more obvious the pain became, like a knife cutting through flesh and blood, a sharp pain.

Li Ruo Shui had already retreated to the top of the Buddhist altar, and the knife cut-like pain was much less, but what followed was a chill that radiated from the inside out. She was shaking like a sieve but it did not help much.

Li Ruo Shui sat on the Buddha’s altar hugging herself tightly, breathing out on her palms, not knowing if it was an illusion, her breath also seemed to be cold.

Lu Fei Yue and Jiang Nian hurriedly went to get the quilt from the carriage with their umbrellas. There were only two people and one cat left in the temple.

The orange cat rubbed up against her side and looked at her curiously, casually sticking out its tongue to lick her hand, only to be agitated by the cold temperature and shivered and sneezed.

“Ha, ha.”

Li Ruo Shui thought it was funny but she could only laugh stiffly due to her shivering, the words popped out one by one.

The temperature of this tiny ball of fluff was like a warmer to Li Ruo Shui, and without hesitation, she took it into her arms, not realising that her temperature was so low that even a cat with fur would dislike it.

The orange cat couldn’t help struggling. Li Ruo Shui gasped and let it go with a shudder. She then rubbed her hands together for warmth, but the temperature did not rise.

“Why did you let the cat go?”

Lu Zhi Yao had been poisoned and naturally knew how comfortable the animal’s body heat was to her.

“It doesn’t want to keep me warm, why force it.”

Lu Zhi Yao stood up, his dark hair falling behind him, and slowly approached the Buddhist altar.

“Now that you have tried the poison, do you regret blocking the hidden weapon for me?”

Li Ruo Shui glanced at him, so cold that she couldn’t speak too clearly: “To be honest, yes, a little.”

“Is it painful?”

“It’s too painful.” If Li Ruo Shui could look in the mirror, she could probably see that her lips were slightly bluish.

“Really.” Lu Zhi Yao stood in front of the Buddhist altar, pulled out his sword and handed it to her, smiling kindly.

“In that case, why don’t you finish yourself off, so you don’t have to suffer from the pain, and you can still honour our bet.”

???

She thought he had found his conscience and wanted to come over to tell her how to relieve the symptoms of the poisoning, but she never thought that this guy would be so mad!

Li Ruo Shui shivered. Originally she was cold, but now she was angry, she could speak a lot more quickly.

“I’m not going to mention who I was poisoned for again. As for the matter of our bet, I won, right? We met Lu Fei Yue and saved the others. It was exactly the same as what I said before.”

The smile on Lu Zhi Yao’s lips narrowed a little.

In the past few days during their journey, he had been focusing on one thing, and that was Li Ruo Shui.

An exclusive document with his name on it, tempting him to make a bet with her, paying little attention to him, using her life to protect him from poison, all of these things were in front of him, but it was difficult for him to find out what she was up to.

The smile remained on his face but he was actually very annoyed.

Originally, he was just having fun with her, but now these things were like a thorny cage, slowly haunting him, making him think about them all over again every day.

Lu Zhi Yao didn’t know what these feelings were, but he didn’t like these very much.

Only by cutting out the root of this worry could he return to the peace he used to have.

“I don’t know how to love someone, so the future bet will not come true. It’s better to die under my sword now than to be tortured by poison later.”

“How do you know you won’t fall in love with me when the future isn’t even here! I found that you are too outrageous.”

Maybe it was because she was a little emotional, her body temperature had warmed up a little. Li Ruo Shui was like a hungry tiger rushing towards food, wrapping her arms around his neck with her legs crossed around his waist, full of unwillingness.

“What’s better, do you think you are a primary school student who is making sentences? Then why don’t you say that instead of watching me die of cold, you should sacrifice your life to warm me?”

Being so close, if he had made a move, she would definitely take him away too.

Li Ruo Shui’s body was cold, but it still felt like the cat he had held as a child, soft and warm, but it didn’t take long for it to run away.

Lu Zhi Yao suddenly withdrew his sword and stroked her hair with his right hand, smoothing it over and over again.

The irritability within was strangely calmed down.