Chapter 73: Clearing Up Misunderstandings (Part 2)

She really didn't like this and pushed him away with force. If it were the day before yesterday, she could have competed with him and broken his arm. She thought to herself, it's a good thing that Chai Che temporarily blocked her martial arts, otherwise she would have been guilty of causing Mu Jin to break his bone.

Jiaoran was still wondering if she had shot him that day. If so, then today would be her apology.

On second thought, if it were someone else, would she apologize in the same way?

When he realized that she didn't respond to his kiss, Jiaoran was held by his side with her face in his hands and kissed by him.

That's how he slowed down.

She tried to push him away many times and accidentally touched a wound on his abdomen that had already scabbed over.

Jiaoran did not forget that this was the person who injured him last time at Huiying Inn.

His blood was flowing on the bed. Jiaoran was really afraid that he would bleed to death, so he distracted himself to cover the arrow wound for him.

He noticed her movements and said angrily, "Don't worry about my life or death. I know what's going on."

She was sweating profusely and at some points she even found it difficult to breathe.

She caressed Mu Jin's body, but suddenly thought of Cheng Yuan. Before she shot him, they were a couple...

Mu Jin was so attached to her body, it was obvious that Cheng Yuan had long replaced her to stay by his side, and it had become his habit.

Mu Jin kissed her shoulder from behind, but she had her back to him and could not see the piety and cherishment on his face at all.

After he had finished making a fuss, Jiaoran got up, put on his clothes, applied medicine to his wounds to stop the bleeding, and bandaged them again.

There was no light in the room, and she was afraid he would wake up and stumble from weakness, so even though it seemed unlikely given his condition, she lit a lamp.

She looked at him carefully, as if she was taking a good look at this man for the first time.

When she first entered the Governor's Mansion, she didn't dare to look at him too much, for fear that he would see through her ill intentions and that she was a spy who came for the secret book. Later, when she entered the mansion again, she didn't want to look at him too much because too much had happened between them.

Now lying beside him again, she felt as if she were in another world.

A ray of light shone on his face, making her think of the gods who came to the world in ancient paintings.

She didn't dare to think about her crazy behavior just now, as it seemed like blasphemy.

"Have you seen enough?" Mu Jin suddenly asked her.

Jiaoran lost his voice and said, "Ah?"

She quickly covered her mouth, afraid that he would recognize her voice.

"Do you think I'm so injured that I don't know who I'm being affectionate with?"

Jiaoran was silent for a moment. Isn’t it his own name Ayuan, Ayuan?

"My name is Cheng Yuan. I just wanted to see your reaction."

Jiaoran rolled his eyes, "Mu Jin, are you looking for a fight?"

He opened his eyes, patted the place beside him, and said, "Come to sleep."

"What? I just bandaged you." Jiaoran said.

But he had already reached out his hand and took her hand to lie down together. The two of them snuggled together as if they had never been apart. All the groundless speculations and hatred in the past disappeared in that instant.

"I find that sometimes you have a bad heart." Jiaoran said.

He hummed, "Just found out?"

"I didn't know you were that kind of person before, but I gradually realized it later. Three years ago, you pretended so well that I didn't even notice it before your wedding."

Mu Jin held her hand, gently stroking her fingertips with great affection, "You're not pretending very well. At that time, I thought that a third-rate spy dared to come to the Governor's Mansion to steal things, how brave he was."

Jiao Ran snorted, "If you weren't so cunning, I wouldn't have been deceived."

"There's still enough time, Jiaoran, please don't leave me for now, okay?"

He sometimes spoke in strange ways, and Jiaoran couldn't understand him. "What time is enough? I'm already here at Siyu Garden, I'm definitely not leaving."

Mu Jin wanted to tell her a lot of things, but looking at Jiaoran leaning on him, he couldn't say anything.

"By the way, did you already know who I was? Did you hear what I said?"

"Not only that, you almost made me vomit blood." For the sake of fairness, she had to find a new person and ask him to forgive her. He was going crazy just thinking about it, so how could he forgive her!

"Oh, I'm sorry." Jiaoran said disapprovingly, "But I'm only telling the truth. There's no need to be angry."

"Cheng Yuan and I are only married in name only, never in reality. Her father came here for the Gao Shan Shou. He had a strange disease and heard that this secret book in the Governor's Mansion had the miraculous effect of reshaping the tendons and veins, so he thought of stealing it during the wedding."

Jiao Ran asked, "Did her father leave later? Why did he leave her here alone?"

She felt a little sad when she thought of her father.

Mu Jin paused and continued, "The plan must have failed, so he went back." Sometimes her inexplicable kindness would bring a lot of trouble. He didn't want Jiaoran to be too sympathetic to Cheng Yuan. After all, Chai Lie was behind her.

"By the way, are all men like this?"

"What's the meaning?"

"You learned it all on your own. Last time, you didn't know anything. Did you think about it specifically, or... You said you and Madam Cheng weren't actually married. I don't know which of your words are true and which are false."

He held it in for a moment, then chuckled softly, "So, do you think it's good?"

"Okay, anywhere is fine."

"It will be better when I recover from my injury. We can come back then, okay?"

Jiao Ran said, "Then you have to take good care of your injuries."

"Don't worry about me, I've been..."

"Just what?"

"Nothing." He smiled. "I mean, no one cared about me since I was a child. Isn't that how I grew up?"

Jiao Ran tutted his words, "You're so ungrateful for what you've got. There were natural disasters in our town before, and supplies couldn't be delivered to us. We nearly starved to death. The mountains were practically barren, and much of Mianyuan was barren land with poor soil, so nothing could grow. You've got enough to eat and drink, yet no one cares about you? Look who in the mansion doesn't care about you, except your uncle. He's a bit eccentric and always scares people."

Mu Jin leaned close to her earlobe and gently nudged her with the tip of his nose, "Do you really think they're all so nice to me?"

Jiao Ran said, "Of course. Look how much Chai Che cares about you. Oh, and your elder brother is also very concerned about you. They also said that they must catch the murderer and avenge you."

He was unable to say those words for a moment, frowned, and said nothing more.

"Has Chai Hui been bullying you since you were little? He really deserves a beating. Sometimes I beat him up several times a day."

He suddenly burst out, "Don't mention him."

It seemed that he had really been bullied badly. Jiao Ran kissed his face and said, "Don't be angry. If he bullies you again in the future, I will help you beat him back."

Looking at Jiaoran's smile, he felt extremely aggrieved for a moment, but he didn't say it out loud in the end. As innocent as she was, he didn't want her to know the pain that was too old and could not be recalled.

Jiaoran was laughing with him when she suddenly felt a breeze blowing in. Mu Jin saw her stand up and asked, "What's wrong?"

Jiaoran raised his head and saw a crack in the window, through which half of Cheng Yuan's sinister face appeared.