Chapter 32 Desire Grows Wildly

Yu Wenxue remained silent for a moment.

As an adult, she certainly knew what that change meant.

In situations like this, playing dumb is the best solution. She let go of her hand, scratched her head, and stared blankly out the window.

"The weather is nice today."

"This outfit is quite pretty."

"Second Young Master, have you eaten?"

"..."

After receiving no response for a long time, she couldn't continue her fabrication and casually glanced back.

Gu Yun Shen had already changed into clean clothes and was sitting on a chair to the side, watching her with a leisurely air.

People are always more curious about what they don't have. Their eyes and brains are constantly fighting each other. One tells them not to look down, that it's very impolite, but the other can't help but keep glancing.

For the first time, I had the thought of gouging out my own eyes.

"You've been watching me for a long time today," Gu Yun Shen said calmly.

"No," Yu Wenxue said in a very soft voice, her denial sounding guilty.

"They've looked at me eight times since I changed my clothes."

"...Alright then."

His eyesight is quite good.

Yu Wenxue rolled her eyes, and finally sighed, "You're so beautiful that it's like eating chewing gum – I just can't stop looking at you."

After hearing these words, Gu Yun Shen remained silent for a long time, unsure how to respond.

He pursed his lips and chuckled softly, "Liars will be caught by wild beasts."

"I'm not lying."

That's true; she did think he was quite handsome.

Of course, this only applies to the face; after all, she didn't look at the other parts...

Ugh, you stubborn fool, you remembered it again.

Yu Wenxue withdrew her gaze and looked out the window again, but her fingers, hidden in her sleeve, unconsciously clenched.

Her fingernails dug into her flesh. After thinking for a while, she randomly picked up a book from the bookshelf, trying to ease the awkward atmosphere.

"I'll read for a while, you can do as you please."

"New Tales of the Lamp-Trimming"

It looks very serious.

She needs to calm down.

*

"The remaining poison has not been completely eliminated, but it is well under control and there is no major problem."

Lu Qingsheng, sporting dark circles under his eyes, packed up his medicine kit and suddenly laughed: "You stayed up all night, instead of going to keep your little cousin company, why are you suddenly concerned about your health?"

"Sometimes I feel uncomfortable being with her."

Gu Yun Shen's expression was unusually serious: "I can't say I'm uncomfortable, it's just that I sometimes lose control of myself, so I came to ask you how to deal with it."

For example, some bodily reactions.

He wasn't naive; he vaguely knew what it was, but he didn't understand why it would flare up whenever he was alone with her.

After listening to Gu Yunshen's description, Lu Qingsheng quickly understood what he meant and was both amused and exasperated. He then said in a certain tone, "It's normal that you like her."

Gu Yunshen corrected, "It's that she likes me."

Seemingly puzzled, he asked curiously, "She clearly likes me, so why am I acting differently?"

Will she change too?

Lu Qingsheng looked at him, feeling a sense of powerlessness, like punching cotton.

They searched Shuozhou all night long in order to find this girl as soon as possible, but now Gu Yunshen says that this girl is in love with him. It seems absurd no matter how you look at it!

He shook his head and coaxed, "Then think carefully about what that girl did that made you uncomfortable."

Gu Yunshen paused, then remained silent.

Holding hands, embracing, every touch she made, every breath she took.

Even thinking about her brings back that feeling.

Uncontrollable, yet irresistibly infatuated.

Intense desires arose and spread wildly.

I want more, but I don't know where to start.

He said seriously, "You mean I'm very healthy?"

“She’s perfectly healthy!” Lu Qingsheng smiled. “You need to think carefully: does she like you, or do you like her?”

"Is it that she can't live without you, or that you can't live without her?"

"It's because your medical skills are inadequate."

Lu Qingsheng pursed his lips, rummaged through the medicine box for a long time, and finally took out a yellowed old book and handed it to him: "Some things, you have to figure out for yourself."

Gu Yun Shen: "Uncontrollable?"

"It's uncontrollable."

Unable to get the answer he wanted, Gu Yun Shen naturally lost patience and chatted idly with Lu Qing Sheng.

Since it can't be cured, let's just leave it alone.

He heard that the Gesang flowers in Shuozhou are very beautiful, and he wanted to bring them to Yu Wenxue to see.

The streets were bustling with traffic, and the faces of the people coming and going were filled with happy smiles.

Yu Wenxue held a half-eaten beef jerky in one hand and took a sip of the mare's milk wine she had just bought in the other, then happily twirled around.

"The point of living is to enjoy life!"

[System: A friendly reminder that there are less than fifteen days left until the mission completion deadline. Please keep up the good work!]

"Cough cough..." Before she could finish swallowing her sip of wine, Yu Wenxue stopped in her tracks, her face turning red from the choking.

She doesn't show up when she should, and when she does, she ruins her good mood!

When I tried to get help from it to save my life, it gave me a 404 error. Such a predatory contract...

A short while later, an arm reached out. "I heard that biting someone can relieve choking."

"What kind of statement is this?" Yu Wenxue stared at Gu Yunshen with some suspicion. Seeing his calm expression, he did indeed seem to be stating the facts.

She refused, saying, "I don't have a habit of biting people."

The boy slowly withdrew his movement, and the corners of his mouth, which had been turned up, unconsciously drooped down.

As they spoke, the two arrived at a quaint little courtyard.

The courtyard is small, but clean and elegant.

"Where did you bring me?" Yu Wenxue asked, tugging at his sleeve, her grape-like eyes darting around excitedly.

"There's a garden, a pond, and wow! There are koi in the pond, so beautiful!"

"This must be Miss Yu," Lu Qingsheng said, slowly emerging from the main hall to greet her, leaning on his cane.

Yu Wenxue only needed one glance to roughly guess who this person was.

In the original book, this masked, disabled doctor was highly knowledgeable and renowned, and he made great efforts to solve the plague problem. Unexpectedly, he was so young.

She gave a friendly smile and then said, "Just call me Wen Xue."

Gu Yunshen stepped forward to block her view and asked, "Are you hungry?"

Yu Wenxue looked down at the various snacks in her hand that she had only eaten half of, and honestly said, "I'm not hungry."

If you eat any more of her, she'll turn into a cow.

After saying that, Gu Yun Shen naturally took the half-eaten milk skin roll from her and ate it without changing his expression.

Before she could react, the mare's milk wine in her hand had also disappeared.

She reminded herself that when you're out and about, people from all walks of life don't care about such things, let alone a modern person like herself. If she had to be so calculating about everything, wouldn't that make her seem petty?

Thinking of this, she generously handed him the remaining half of the beef jerky, saying, "This is delicious too, you should try it."

"good."

Lu Qingsheng wiped his forehead and looked up at the sky.

That's too much! These two are even wearing matching outfits.

They completely disregard him!

Yu Wenxue was unaware of what Lu Qingsheng was thinking.

He certainly couldn't go back to the Marquis's mansion; since he was staying at someone else's residence, he had to give something in return. So, on his very first night there, he rolled up his sleeves and trimmed all the flowers in the courtyard neatly.

Lu Qingsheng initially wanted to turn a blind eye, since the house was left to him by Gu Yunshen's master.

But the flowers were planted by myself, and they were inexplicably shaped into a strange form that looks awkward no matter how you look at it.

He patted Gu Yun Shen on the shoulder and asked in confusion, "Didn't you say she was frail and sickly?"

Gu Yunshen: "Didn't you notice that she's not very strong? She even has trouble watering the flowers."

Lu Qingsheng choked, and just as he was about to retort, he saw Yu Wenxue pick up a bucket of water and splash it directly onto the flower bushes.

...

He decided to remain silent.

After currying favor with Doctor Lu with flowers, Yu Wenxue respectfully presented a bowl of dark, mushy soup to Gu Yunshen, saying with a grin, "Second Young Master, please take me with you."

Gu Yunshen frowned almost imperceptibly: "If I don't take you, you're going to poison me?"

“This is chicken soup I made for you myself,” she added. “It’s black-boned chicken, so it’s a bit dark.”

"..."

Despite his complete aversion to greasy food, Gu Yun Shen forced himself to finish it.

After rinsing her mouth, she sat lazily in the chair and said, "No."

"How cruel you are!" Yu Wenxue squatted down in front of him, spread her hands and said, "I've drunk the soup, so please take me there."

Gu Yun Shen smiled and said, "You can't call me anything."

"..." Yu Wenxue lowered her head and sat back on the couch: "Then I'll go to sleep first, you can play by yourself."

The room quickly fell silent.

The sound of a young girl's long, even breaths came from the bed. Gu Yun Shen's smile faded, and he walked straight to the bedside.

My gaze lingered on her lips.

He had read that book, but it was nothing more than erotic pictures. Did he think that if he followed the instructions, his transformation wouldn't happen?

He reached out and tentatively touched her lips, then, as if possessed, pressed them together.

Perhaps feeling it wasn't enough, he was about to pinch her nose, but just before he touched it, he slowly moved down and covered her with the blanket that had slipped off.

On the desk were the brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone he had prepared in advance. He knew she liked to paint, so he bought various colors and pigments, hoping she could stay here with peace of mind.

The cinnabar in the box had dried up and couldn't compare to the vibrant color of her lips.

He stared for a long time, then finally cut his wrist and mixed his blood into the cinnabar little by little.

From then on, his mark would appear on her paintings.

...

Yu Wenxue didn't sleep well. There were less than two weeks left until the mission ended, and she couldn't wait any longer.

Startled awake in the middle of the night, she hurriedly lit an oil lamp, went to the table, and picked up a pen to write a letter to Gu Rongting.

Fearing that her signature would be discovered, she put it in another envelope and wrote Gu Yun Shen's name in cinnabar ink.

Since Gu Yun Shen won't take her with him, she has to think of something herself.

Once you get busy, you don't have time to think about anything else. These past few days, I've been going out to eat and drink during the day, occasionally feeding the fish and tending to the flowers and plants. I'm enjoying my life quite a bit.

If I didn't have any missions to do, this kind of life would be wonderful.

Gu Yunshen felt uneasy about her unusual behavior. The night before he left, he stopped Yu Wenxue, who was planting vegetables, and asked, "Is there anything you want to say to me?"

Yu Wenxue brushed her hair aside, accidentally getting some dirt on her face. "Could you buy me some seeds? I want to plant some fresh vegetables for you to eat when you come back."

Gu Yun Shen lowered his eyes, concealing the gloom within them.

She said she would wait for him.

He raised his hand, gently patted her temple, wiped away the dirt, and said softly, "Okay."

The next morning, Gu Yunshen set off on horseback.

Lu Qingsheng had difficulty moving around, so he often traveled by carriage, which was also loaded with a lot of medicinal herbs for treating the plague.

The two places are far apart, one in the south and one in the north. In order to make up for the lost time, they traveled non-stop. Even Lu Qingsheng, who was sitting in the carriage, looked extremely pale.

In contrast, Gu Yun Shen's appearance was not affected in the slightest.

When Lu Qingsheng arrived in Yidong, he was completely distraught.

He tapped his cane and said helplessly, "Come out."

Yu Wenxue hopped down and stretched, saying, "I was so suffocated! I couldn't even stretch my legs."

Upon hearing the familiar voice, Gu Yun Shen paused in his steps.

Looking back, he saw a girl in a pale yellow gauze dress, one hand on her hip, waving at him and saying, "If you hadn't brought me along, I would have followed you myself!"

"How about that? Pretty impressive, right?"

Author's Note: Xiao Gu's Diary:

I want every soul you create to bear my shadow.

I changed my name, so you won't have trouble finding me! [Sprinkling flowers]