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"Elder sister, you seem to have a fragrance on your body."

The younger brother, who was buried in his neck, suddenly opened his mouth, stepped back a little and rubbed his nose, revealing a puzzled expression.

Gu Mingyan's expression changed slightly as he lifted the corner of his sleeves with his fingertip, and smiled lightly as he touched Gu Xu's cheek. His fingertip wiped the corner of his clean lips, and said: "Look at you, you don't even know if the corner of your mouth is dirty."

"Maybe it was the grass crumbs that entered my mouth just now."

Gu Xu's face immediately flushed red, but he did not avoid Gu Mingyan's hand.

The fragrance seemed to have become heavier.

Gu Mingyan's mouth had a pure smile on it the entire time, he placed the small bundle in his embrace onto his bosom, revealing a few books of medical techniques and a few medicine bottles inside. She nodded in satisfaction, but her other hand continued to grip tightly onto Gu Xu's forearm, raising her head to look at him.

Just as Gu Xu was about to enter, he felt his vision go black, and he actually fell forward.

Ignoring the pain from the tugging on his back and arms, Gu Mingyan threw the medical books and porcelain bottles onto the ground. He opened his hands and took his brother into his arms, then stuffed a small pill into his mouth before walking back into the house with difficulty.

"It's quite heavy …"

Gu Mingyan struggled to drag her into the bed and placed her on it. Then, he pulled up the blanket and covered her with it.

The wound on his back oozed blood through the fine cloth and fabric.

She took a deep breath, but could not smell anything at all. She only tucked Gu Xu in, turned, and walked out.

He went to the door, bent down and picked up the medical books and the medicine bottles, then walked to another room in the courtyard.

Xiao Qiran, who was hiding in the darkness, had already seen the bloody back of her shoulder.

The small room was brightly lit by candles, and the sound of the gongzi's voice could be heard from the market a few blocks away.

She took a glance at the cold gusts of wind in the courtyard and carefully closed the door. She even closed her eyes and did not look at the dark patch in the courtyard.

"Creak —"

The door closing made a slight noise, Gu Mingyan even wanted to turn around and close the window.

When he turned around, he saw that there was already a figure in front of the table.

"You!"

Gu Mingyan was so frightened that he retreated a few steps, and even remembered to cover his mouth to prevent himself from screaming again.

His eyes were wide open to the extreme, and even his legs were trembling.

Xiao Qiran was dissatisfied that she had only worn such a thin set of clothes on the night of spring, but his expression was a field of ice: "Let me apply the medicine for you."

Gu Mingyan patted her chest in fear. From the start to the end, she had been holding onto the edge of the table to catch her breath, only then did she clear her mind, and raise her hand to rub between her brows.

Seeing Xiao Qiran, he felt a wave of exhaustion.

She carelessly sat on a chair in the hall. She dusted her outer robes and helplessly looked at him: "There's no need, this medicine is not thicker than last time. If you apply it for me, it will only cause you to be poisoned."

Xiao Qiran paused as he held onto the bottle.

"No one cured you?"

"Gu Zhiyuan was infected with my blood poison, so Madam Liu knew that I know medicine, so he simply did not allow anyone to enter, and only sent some herbs for me to diagnose my illness. However, this is also good. No one can see that I am acting strangely. I can add some poison into these medicinal herbs as well. Otherwise, I'm afraid that I won't be able to get out of bed from the pain. "

Gu Mingyan laughed at himself, and then took off his bloodstained clothes.

The back of the snow-white inner garment was drenched in a lot of blood. Presumably, it was because of the purpose of pulling Gu Xu into the room just now, that was why the wound on her back was dragged around. Seeing that Xiao Qiran did not seem to be planning to leave, she only snatched the medicine bottle from Xiao Qiran's hands, and gave him some medicinal powder to put in, reminding him: "Your Highness, your golden body, it's best if you don't touch anything that I've touched in this room."

With that, she went around to the back of the simple screen.

Due to her continuous confinement, the two maidservants had never stayed in the same place again. There was not even a mattress on the bed.

However, Gu Mingyan sat on the bed with his legs crossed, as if he was used to it. With a cold expression, he slowly took off the inner clothes that were stuck to his wounds, and Dong Ri's whip wounds were still on his arms and back. Under the ruler, there was yet another layer of soft, red and purple, and a few drops of alluring blood dripped down into the slightly sunken ground.

A strange sense of beauty was born within him.

Xiao Qiran looked at her: "This matter started because of me."

"The Sacred Heart is hard to fathom, it has nothing to do with His Highness."

Gu Mingyan took the chance to turn his head and smile faintly at him. His two hands could be said to be well-practiced, and after rubbing the jade bottle with the liquid in his hands, he slowly rubbed it on his back, his movements extremely fast, as though he was not afraid of pain.

But her lips were bleeding from her own bite, and her arms, which had been folded behind her back, seemed unconscious.

Xiao Qiran was helpless against this, he could only watch as she applied the medicine for him, her hands were covered in blood, as though she wanted to hold onto her clothes to cover her vitals and turn around, but she suddenly remembered that there was a man behind her, and in the end, she stopped, her ears turning red.

"Can you not stand behind me?"

Her highness didn't even say a word, but Xiao Qiran actually only pulled out a set of clean inner clothes from the cupboard and placed it beside her. His eyes unconsciously landed on that softness, causing Gu Mingyan's face to turn even redder.

Xiao Qiran laughed: "You actually know how to be shy."

Gu Mingyan did not say a word, and quickly wiped off the blood droplets and medicine on his back, then put on a clean set of inner clothes.

Waiting until after he put on his clothes, Gu Mingyan originally wanted to tell Xiao Qiran about this matter, but after getting up, he suddenly fell into a warm embrace. Xiao Qiran carefully avoided the wound on her back, and gently placed one hand on the side of her waist, while the other hand covered the back of her head.

"Is this how you apply medicine every time you are injured?"

Even while he was marching and fighting, soldiers were bandaging each other.

Yet just now, all he could see was the empty bed, and the similarly empty woman sitting on it. She endured the pain and quickly applied the medicine for him.

Gu Mingyan's heart uncontrollably twitched for a moment, and a moment later, he regained his calm.

"If I am injured and hurt others and myself, if I am on the verge of death, I might be able to obtain the life of others in exchange."

"If the blood poison is slightly contaminated, it can be cured. If it is contaminated in many places, then your lifespan will be cut down and you will become ill."

Those eyes were empty, as she looked at Xiao Qiran indifferently: "If you were to cure the poison in my body, and take medicine for a year or two, then entangle yourself with pain, and then wait two or three more years for the medicinal herbs to eat before they completely pass away."

Since Xiao Qiran could come at this time, she might as well tell him everything.

This kind of body could not accompany him for too long, and instead became a disaster. He could only hide in the mountain forest and search for a pure land.

Xiao Qiran now knew that what she had said before wasn't a lie.

At this moment, he still walked up to her, arms behind his back, looking at her: "Since it's solvable, why wouldn't I want to see it?"

Those eyes reflected his pale face.

Gu Mingyan laughed softly, "Since Your Highness is here to see me, why would you need to be so entangled with the affairs of your children? If you have to listen to what I have to say, you should face me in the future."

Xiao Qiran frowned, why was he always unwilling to face this matter head on?