The fingertips that fell on the corners of her eyes were as cold as Cheng Ying, who lacked the aura of a real living person.

And Cheng Ying's eyes seemed to be looking through her, at someone.

Yu Jiao had this feeling more than once. Many times, Cheng Ying's expression seemed to treat her as someone else.

Yu Jiao thought that man must have a very important position in Cheng Ying's heart, otherwise why would his eyes turn red when he watched her playing the pipa?

"Master Du, who are you looking at?" Yu Jiao raised her hand and grabbed Cheng Ying's wrist, moving his fingertips away from her eyes. "Can you see clearly? Who am I? Who is the person you really want to treat well?"

Cheng Ying seemed to be awakened when he heard this. His phoenix eyes opened and closed quickly several times. He withdrew his hand, and his lips were tightly closed. After a long silence, he said, "I... once had a beloved woman. She was a female doctor like you..."

After only saying the beginning, Cheng Ying opened his mouth, his throat felt dry for no reason, the tip of his tongue touched his teeth, it tasted slightly bitter, he paused and said:

"I treat you well only because you have similar personalities to hers, and also because I have some connections with your mother, and I was entrusted by her back then."

Yu Jiao's expression changed slightly. Seeing the suppressed sadness on Cheng Ying's face when she mentioned her beloved, it seemed like it was really true.

When Yu Jiao heard Cheng Ying talking about her mother, she already had many doubts in her heart, such as Liu Sanniang's concealment and deception, her elder brother's lies, and Gu Yun's hesitation.

"You know my mother?"

"You taught me medicine because of my mother?" Yu Jiao looked up at Cheng Ying and asked curiously, "Do you also know how to perform a caesarean section?"

Cheng Ying raised his eyelids slightly, "Do you remember the incident in Huairou?" Without waiting for Yu Jiao to answer, he denied it again, "It seems not. Who did you meet in Huairou on your trip to Liangzhou? What did he tell you?"

Cheng Ying thought that she should not be someone who knew about the past events of Princess Huaiyang's mansion, otherwise the little girl would not be so calm in front of him after knowing her life experience. Just like Liu Ziqi, even though he had pretended to be ordinary over the years, he could not suppress the hidden murderous intent when facing him at a certain moment. He did not care about Liu Ziqi's hatred, and he had thought that one day in the future, he might die in his hands. Cheng Ying did not care about this.

On the day he climbed up, he had already thought about the fate of being torn into pieces one day.

But he didn't want to see hatred in Liu Yuning's small, round, almond-shaped eyes. These eyes and the person in front of him made him inexplicably unable to look directly at the hatred in them.

"Did Liu Ziqi never tell you about your mother?" Cheng Ying seldom lied. When he helped Emperor Mingzheng eliminate dissidents and sat high in the government, he no longer had to lie to anyone. But at this moment, he thought about it for a while and said ambiguously, "You will know about your mother one day, but not from me. You shouldn't ask me."

He continued, "Back then, your mother asked me to save your life. Later, you were taken to Huairou. After I found you in Huairou, I took you with me and did teach you medicine. But you were so stupid at that time. You could only memorize bits and pieces of medical books. You really had no talent for medicine..." At this point, Cheng Ying's eyes became sharp. "I am also a little curious. Who did you learn your medical skills from? You forgot about your youth, so how could you still remember the caesarean section technique I taught you?"

Yu Jiao felt uneasy when Cheng Ying looked at her. It turned out that Meng Yu Jiao had actually learned medical skills from Cheng Ying, and that she knew the skills of caesarean section!

Will Cheng Ying be like her...

Yu Jiao was uncontrollably excited when she thought of this possibility, but she soon calmed down in Cheng Ying's deep and thoughtful eyes.