Chapter 5 Drinking the Love Gu in Front of Her

This problem was unexpected.

Xie Yanyu didn't know why he suddenly became so concerned about this. She rarely looked him in the eye when they met before. After all, there were distinctions between the high and the low, and aristocratic families had many rules. For someone of her status, looking directly at him would have seemed a bit rude. Perhaps he was in a bad mood, so he was picking on anything.

"Master Helan, you're joking." She was a little impatient, but she hid it well. She raised her head a little, but still didn't look directly at him. She said calmly, "It's even darker and the dew is heavier. I didn't expect you to visit so suddenly. It's a bit of a neglect to let you stand here."

She inquired, "How about I take you to the hall?"

This was said respectfully and politely, even lightly avoiding his previous question with a joke. It was a bit perfunctory, but there was nothing wrong with it.

Because of her humble origins, she has always been clear-headed and aware of her own status, and has always maintained a proper sense of etiquette and distance.

Talking to her should be a very comfortable thing.

Helan Wei felt a little stuffy, as if there was a ball of cotton stuck in his throat.

He was holding a lantern, the light was bright, he looked at her, but his vision was a little dim.

Xie Yanyu waited for a long time but didn't get a reply from him.

She could sense that he was unhappy, even more unhappy than before, but she was too lazy to coax him.

Besides, this place is not suitable for staying for long.

Behind her was the side hall, where she and Helan Wei were standing, just one door away from Xie Chengjin.

What if Xie Chengjin pushed the door open and saw Helan Wei, and she caught him red-handed?

This night had already been enough to exhaust her, and she didn't want to waste any more time dealing with this kind of thing, so she pretended not to notice Helan Wei's emotions, and didn't even wait for his response. When he didn't say anything, she took it as his tacit agreement and said gently, "Follow me."

After saying this, she lifted her leg and walked directly towards the hall.

However, after walking out for a long time, he did not hear the footsteps of Helan Wei catching up.

If he didn't follow, Xie Chengjin would still see him when he pushed the door open. Xie Yanyu took a deep breath, suppressed the impatience that was about to burst out of his heart, and prepared to turn around and invite him to the hall in a nice tone.

However, just as she stopped and before she could turn around, she heard Helan Wei's footsteps approaching again -

He caught up again.

But the footsteps sounded a little anxious, not as smooth as usual.

Even when he walked next to her, she could clearly feel the low air pressure around her, giving her a feeling of oppression.

She chose to ignore it.

Since he had caught up with her, she didn't need to turn around and say anything.

She continued walking forward.

When she arrived at the hall, she opened the door and saw a bowl of sobering soup on the table.

It was the bowl that she had asked the maid to deliver before, and now it was brought back intact. She was right, Helan Wei came to find her to hold her accountable.

When Xie Yanyu thought of this, he actually felt a sense of relief. The plot was finally about to begin.

She led Helan Wei in sideways, sat him down at the table, and glanced at it.

As if she had just seen this bowl of hangover soup, she pretended to be surprised and said, "Master Helan, this soup——"

She just wanted to finish this plot as quickly as possible, so she went straight to the point and led the conversation to the topic of hangover soup.

After hearing this, Helan Wei finally stopped talking.

He continued, "I heard you cooked it yourself?"

His tone was so light that it was hard to tell he was angry.

He is a person with indifferent emotions. He always entertains people and things around him with a playful attitude and is always at ease. That kind of gentleness and casualness is engraved in his bones and blood, so even if he is angry at this time, there will not be a significant difference from usual.

Even though Xie Yanyu had some experience in observing people's words and expressions, it was still difficult for him to understand his emotions.

She had just read the original plot and knew that he didn't like being plotted against. Later, when she heard him call her full name, she realized that he must be very unhappy.

When she heard him ask this question, she felt it was the prelude to trouble.

So she lowered her head and simply admitted, "Yes."

Helan Wei asked again: "You cooked it yourself, why didn't you deliver it to me personally?"

Xie Yanyu didn't expect him to ask another irrelevant question.

She paused and replied, "...because something happened suddenly."

"Xie Chengjin is looking for you?"

"No, we just happened to meet at the medicine pavilion, and then he dropped me off on the way back."

Just happened to meet.

This means she went to the pharmacy by herself.

But in her previous life, she clearly cooked the soup and brought it to him personally, and I didn't hear that she did anything else.

It was clearly something that happened a long time ago, but when Helan Wei recalled it now, he found that he still remembered it very clearly.

He stared at her, and his usually gentle and casual tone became a little more tentative: "What are you going to the medicine cabinet for?"

Is it necessary to lay so much groundwork just to ask for an answer?

Xie Yanyu was getting a little impatient. She really didn't know what was going on tonight. One of them kept hitting her, and the other kept asking about irrelevant things. She had a bad feeling and didn't want to continue this insignificant questioning. She always felt that if she continued asking, things might get out of control again.

She thought about this and was silent for a while.

Helan Wei waited quietly for her answer. She didn't speak, and he didn't ask any more questions.

There was silence in the air for a while.

Then,

Xie Yanyu suddenly knelt on the ground, as if his inner defenses had been broken. He lowered his head and said, "Master Helan, please be magnanimous and stop torturing me. I'll tell you everything. I shouldn't have put drugs in your hangover soup. I regretted it the minute I put it in. I didn't dare to deliver the soup myself, fearing you would blame me, so I hid in the medicine cabinet. Please forgive me this time!"

He was slow to get to the point, and she lost her patience, so she just broke the ice and confessed her guilt.

She wasn't really afraid in her heart, but when she spoke, she pretended to be very scared, and her voice was trembling.

As soon as these words fell,

Helan Wei stopped talking.

He looked at her silently, as if trying to detect some trace of acting on her face.

Xie Yanyu wasn't timid; she only appeared submissive. In reality, she was incredibly tough and courageous, and there was nothing she wouldn't do. Even if he exposed her for drugging her, she would deny it without batting an eyelid. Even if he asked her to test the drug to prove it, she would drink it without blinking.

It was like this in the previous life.

Helan Wei knew what kind of person she was. She was just acting now. She must have changed her mind and regretted drugging him.

A conjecture that I was reluctant to face finally took shape in my mind -

He can be reborn, so why can't she?

Because I didn't want to have anything to do with him anymore, I didn't personally deliver the soup to him, so I just exposed the drugging incident right away.

His eyes grew darker as he looked at her, as if twisted and dark thoughts were emerging from the bottom of his heart. He didn't want to let her go. They had broken up so cleanly in their last life, was it necessary to do so just as cleanly in this one?

He clenched his fingertips into fists in his sleeves, suppressing many thoughts and not realizing that his breathing was trembling.

The next second,

He cast a spell without leaving any trace.

The lights in the hall suddenly went out, and the surroundings became pitch black in an instant, with only moonlight filtering in from the small window on the side.

Xie Yanyu was a little surprised and looked up subconsciously.

She stood up and tried to light the lamp, but just as she stood up and took two steps, Helan Wei suddenly grabbed her wrist and pulled her forward.

The distance between the two people suddenly shortened.

She supported herself on the table with her other hand to maintain a face-to-face position with him. She was standing and he was sitting, about an arm's length away from her.

They were so close she could even smell his scent, a faint, cool orchid fragrance. He was looking up at her, his eyes obscure and difficult to read. She shifted her gaze, her gaze landing on the tip of his nose.

There is a small mole on the left side of the tip of his nose, like a tiny flaw on white jade.

His face is so perfect that it should have seemed distant, but the mole there draws attention to the lower half of his face, drawing the eye to the tip of his nose and his beautiful lips. This diminishes his perfect, inviolable aura and enhances his charisma, seemingly bringing out the restrained frivolity in his personality.

She was close now and could see every detail of his face clearly.

She subconsciously turned her face to the side.

At this time,

Helan Wei said slowly, "Why don't you continue looking at me?"

This was the second time Xie Yanyu had heard him ask a similar question today. She pursed her lips and feigned fear: "I...feel guilty."

She said, "I drugged your soup. I did something wrong and I'm scared, so I don't dare look at you."

Helan Wei remained noncommittal: "Bring the soup to me."

Xie Yanyu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

The plot is finally about to begin.

After all, why did Helan Wei ask her to bring the soup? It was simply because he knew she had drugged him and was plotting against him, and he didn't like being plotted against, so he wanted to force the soup into her mouth, let her suffer the consequences, and watch her in such a state that he could have fun.

She didn't have time to light the lamp at this time, fearing that something unexpected would happen, so she stepped back and put some distance between them.

But I don't know why,

At this moment, she suddenly had a little illusion, as if she had not seen in the dark for a long time, and she should not be able to see at night.

She thought the idea ridiculous.

She had just gone to the pharmacy in the dark to steal something.

She paused and quickly suppressed the thought.

Then she picked up the soup on the table and handed it to him, her movements quick and efficient, without any hesitation.

Helan Wei did not take the bowl of soup immediately.

He looked at her.

In the previous life,

In order to help him get a treasure, Xie Yanyu once entered a very dangerous secret realm. No one knew what happened in the secret realm, but he became night blind after coming out.

He consulted many doctors, but they all said there was nothing wrong with her eyes, and no matter how precious the medicine, it was useless. It was a demon within her that caused her to lose her sight at night, requiring her to use a lamp whenever she was in the dark. If she didn't overcome this demon, she would never be able to see at night again.

She never overcame this inner demon until her death.

Now her eyes can see.

She was not reborn, had no inner demons this year, and had no memories of her previous life, so she could only be seen after nightfall.

Helan Wei's fingertips slowly warmed up.

Seeing that he remained silent for a long time and refused to take the soup, Xie Yanyu knelt down with the soup in her hands and added more fuel to the fire:

"I know you're angry, but you didn't drink the soup. Since I've admitted it, why don't you just forgive me this time? I'm going to pour out the soup now and never again—"

Before he finished speaking.

Helan Wei suddenly took the soup again.

Should I pour out the soup now and not have any entanglement with him from the beginning of this life?

Xie Yanyu knew that Helan Wei hated being plotted against, so he deliberately spoke like that just now in order to provoke him.

He was provoked and wanted her to suffer the consequences.

Seeing him take the bowl away, probably preparing to pour the soup into her mouth, she reached into her sleeve to feel for the antidote.

When I look up,

He met Helan Wei's gaze.

In the dark night, his gaze was like vines growing out of the shadows, trying to wrap around her bit by bit.

He asked in an ambiguous tone, "I'm actually very curious. What drug did you give me? Why are you so scared before I even drink it?"

Xie Yanyu didn't say anything.

He bent down slightly, moved closer to her, stirred the soup with a spoon, and the spoon touched the wall of the bowl, making a crisp tinkling sound.

Xie Yanyu knew that he was going to feed her the soup.

This person is a bit evil at heart. He wants to torture people without giving them pleasure. Maybe he likes to feed her mouthful by mouthful.

Her heart was beating a little faster, and she raised her head cooperatively, holding the antidote tighter.

However, at this moment,

She saw Helan Wei raise his hand and scoop a spoonful of soup, but——

The next second,

He brought the spoon to his lips and drank the soup.

The soup was sweet and had already cooled down. When I put it in my mouth, the sweetness tasted a bit bitter.

Helan Wei swallowed it, his face hidden in the darkness and his expression could not be seen clearly.

This life had just begun, but for some reason she regretted drugging him. She wanted to regret it. But what right did she have to regret it?

Feed her the love thread Gu, she might be able to remove it later.

But he won't.

They should just stay entangled and not break up completely in this life. Why should they break up completely like they did in the previous life?

Not in this life,

He drank the poison.

Will entangle with her until death.