Chapter 5 Basic Martial Arts Seeing the Body
Yun Xi was a little nervous. She had always been afraid of heights. Only after she removed the ladder did she realize that the beams of her bedroom were so high.
She took a deep breath, looked at the distance between them, mustered up the courage to let go of her hand, and jumped off the beam.
Yun Xi did not fall and landed in a stable embrace. Ji Xun caught her and didn't even let her feet touch the ground.
Ji Xun's body temperature was relatively cool, and Yun Xi was only wearing a thin inner garment. Leaning against him felt a little cold, but surprisingly made people feel at ease.
Yun Xi heard Ji Xun groan when he caught her, her brows slightly furrowed, and her expression didn't seem very good.
Yun Xi: "What's wrong with you?"
Ji Xun said calmly: "You are a little heavy."
Yun Xi: "...Forget about not smiling, but could you be a little more tactful when speaking?"
Ji Xun: "You're a little heavy."
Yun Xi wanted to hit him twice. After getting off him, Ji Xun turned around and was about to leave. Even the intimate contact just now did not make him feel any emotion.
At this moment, Yun Xi was actually very satisfied with his indifference. This was what a normal guard should be like.
But when he walked to the door, Yun Xi suddenly smelled blood. She looked down and saw blood dripping on the ground, which came from Ji Xun's body.
"etc."
Yun Xi called him.
Ji Xun paused, turned around, and stared at her with dark eyes, waiting for her instructions.
Yun Xi looked at him worriedly: "When you caught me just now, did your wound split open?"
She didn't even think about it.
Ji Xun's reaction was very flat: "Yeah. What's wrong?"
Yun Xi: "Why didn't you say anything? You're bleeding."
She endured the mental trauma and selected the blood-restoring pills to restore his health. She didn't know how much of this would be wasted.
Ji Xun looked down and saw that the small piece of cloth on his abdomen was soaked with blood and was dripping down, staining the floor of the bedroom.
"I'll help clean it up, Your Highness."
Yun Xi was impressed by his unique train of thought: "Have you applied the golden wound medicine I gave you during the day?"
"No." Ji Xun answered truthfully.
Yun Xi: "Why not?"
"I sold it for money."
Yun Xi: “???”
"You sold it so quickly? Are you so poor?" Yun Xi felt incredible.
"Yeah." Ji Xun didn't refute, "Let's go to the pawn shop. It's very close."
Yun Xi: "Why are you so short of money? The Princess's Mansion provides food and accommodation, and you won't be short of any benefits."
Ji Xun asked her in return, "Why did Your Highness insist on buying me as a guard?"
"...Because I've heard you're very strong."
She wanted to cut off her bad romantic relationships and live her life to her own will. Ultimately, it was all about survival.
Yun Xi understood.
Ji Xun was also trying to survive. He had been sold into slavery and had endured enough hardship, so he had a firm obsession with money.
In the original novel, Ji Xun pursued money and power all his life. His goal was clear and pure, which was to avoid repeating the life of a slave.
Yun Xi sighed: "Ji Xun, come here and sit down."
Ji Xun came over obediently and did as she said.
He speaks with a straightforwardness that comes without thinking, and when he is obedient, he is like a well-trained wolfhound, doing whatever he is told.
Yun Xi took out a box of medicine from the small box beside the bed and placed it in front of him: "Apply the medicine. There is a small couch in the bedroom. Rest here tonight."
She was afraid that after she gave him the medicine, he would sell it again. Only after she saw him apply the medicine did she feel relieved.
Ji Xun was silent for a moment, then used his slender fingers to untie the black-gold python waist belt and prepared to take off his clothes.
Yun Xi was a little flustered: "Wait, what are you doing..."
"You asked me to apply medicine." He said expressionlessly.
Yun Xi finally reacted and quickly turned around: "Okay, you wipe it."
After she finished speaking, Yun Xi heard a rustling sound behind her, which seemed to be the sound of clothes rubbing against each other.
She was facing the dressing table, and the bronze mirror on the table reflected the scene behind her.
Ji Xun untied his waist belt, letting it hang loosely on his body. His black clothes were half removed, revealing his upper body completely.
It was a perfect body, with distinct and smooth muscle lines from waist and abdomen to arms, neither exaggerated nor thin, just the right amount of toned and powerful. As the arms flexed and extended, the muscles bulged and veins appeared, and the taut waist and abdomen were clearly defined.
He had many scars on his body, a mixture of new and old, like branding.
Yun Xi couldn't take her eyes off him for a moment and stared at his movements through the mirror.
Ji Xun opened the porcelain lid of the medicine, scooped out a little white ointment with two fair fingers, and rubbed it on the wound.
The quick-healing medicine would cause severe pain when it first came into contact with the wound, but Ji Xun remained calm after applying it and calmly closed the porcelain lid.
Yun Xi was a little suspicious that he had no sense of pain. Just as she was thinking about it, Ji Xun raised his eyes and met her gaze in the bronze mirror.
Yun Xi, who was caught peeking at her, said: "...I'm sorry, I didn't mean to look at you."
She did it on purpose.
Such a beautiful □□, anyone who sees it for the first time can’t take their eyes off it.
Ji Xun put on his clothes expressionlessly: "I said I won't sell my body. If Your Highness insists, I will resist."
Yun Xi: "...Which eye of yours saw that I wanted you?"
Ji Xun: "I saw it with both eyes."
"That's admiration, understand?" Yun Xi argued, "If it were any other man, I would take a second look."
Ji Xun looked at her quietly, thought for a moment, and said, "Where is Ying Nanfeng?"
Yun Xi: "...then forget it."
She knew that Ying Nanfeng had a crush on her since childhood. If it was him standing behind her now, the plot might develop in an unspeakable direction.
Not all men can do that.
She doesn't like any of the men she has oral relationships with in the original novel.
But Ji Xun seemed different. Because she knew that there was no worldly desire in his eyes, only the desire for money, so she dared to look at him with confidence.
In this way, it seems that she still made a profit.
Yun Xi couldn't help but say, "Ji Xun, you are such a strange person."
In a restricted novel, there is actually a calm character like Ji Xun. This can be regarded as the author's last bit of conscience.
"Your Highness is also a strange person."
Yun Xi was curious: "Hmm? Why do you feel that way?"
"Your Highness doesn't look like the Princess of Wei," Ji Xun said. "I've never seen a princess like you."
Yun Xi: "I was born a princess of Wei. Have you ever seen other princesses?"
"Many wealthy people from the slave market are usually very arrogant," he said, "Your Highness seems simpler than them."
Yun Xi was silent for a moment: "..."
Is this another way of saying it, calling her stupid?
However, she really couldn't learn to be as scheming as other powerful people. After all, she was just a carefree girl in her previous life.
"I also think you're not an ordinary slave." Yun Xi said, "No slave would dare to speak to his master like that."
Ji Xun looked at her: "Really?"
Yun Xi felt that he was completely unaware of his own problem. "When you spoke like that in the slave market, wouldn't the Black Shopkeeper punish you?"
"I never spoke in Slave City," he stated calmly. "I usually stayed in the dueling arena."
Many people thought he was mute. Only Yun Xi liked to talk to him about those boring things. He was paid for the service, so it was okay to chat with him. It was nothing more than a question and answer session.
"Okay." Yun Xi said, "You can be more casual with me."
In reality, Yun Xi didn't care about his attitude; her anger would fade after a while. She actually enjoyed dealing with straightforward people like Ji Xun, as it saved her from having to guess what they were thinking.
"Okay, I'm going to rest now." Yun Xi said, "You go sleep on the small couch."
Ji Xun: "I won't sleep. I'll stay by your side."
Yun Xi: "Won't it be boring to stay up all night? I'm going to the palace tomorrow, you have to accompany me, don't get tired."
"No problem," he said.
Yun Xi: "Okay, if you're sleepy, just go to sleep. If you can't sleep, I have some books on martial arts on my desk. You can light a small lamp and entertain yourself."
After getting Ji Xun's affirmative answer, Yun Xi climbed into bed and went to sleep.
Ji Xun walked over to the small couch and sat on it, crossing his long legs. He really couldn't sleep. The medicine was taking effect, so it wasn't a good time to sleep.
He casually picked up a book from the table and read it in the moonlight from the window. Half of his silver face shone coldly in the moonlight, and the shadow of his feathery eyelashes was cast under his eyelids.
Page one.
[Her clothes were half-undressed, and she collapsed limply in his arms, her arms as soft as lotus roots entwined around him...]
Ji Xun paused and turned back to the cover——
Basic Martial Arts.
Using softness to overcome hardness?
Open the catalog again.
[Chapter 1: Jade. Power Stick Technique Chapter 2: Foot. Intercourse...]
Ji Xun closed the book, thought for a moment, and tapped the cover with his fingertips.
There was not a single word in the catalogue whose meaning he knew.
Then, he looked through the screen at a place not far away, and under the layers of bed curtains, he could vaguely see a figure turning over.
“…”
The martial arts of the Great Wei are truly unfathomable.
He should study it carefully.
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