"Of course, my people must bear my seal. The marks just now were just the marks I made a few days ago."

——Where were the points marked a few days ago?

Dousha was the smartest one, he was the first to react.

"Yes, I have a bad memory and forgot about this matter. I was almost deceived by that foreign servant!"

Suo Wo Xie was stunned by the reversal of the situation. After a pause, he hastily refuted

"No! Impossible! I... I can't possibly recognize the servant seal wrongly! It must be! He must be the most lowly servant..."

"——It's so noisy."

The hoarse howl made the boy frown. The next second, someone immediately blocked Sovoxie's mouth.

Seeing this, the young eunuch spoke again.

"Not only did this person disrupt the Feng Shui of the Xuan'an Pavilion, he also dared to damage the reputation of Your Highness. His intentions are sinister. He might be a spy from an alien race lurking in the palace!"

"Um."

As he spoke, Zhou Huaiyan had already finished the last stroke. He looked at it carefully for a moment, and finally put away the forbidden dagger with satisfaction.

The sensible maid immediately brought hot water and a towel. He stood up, handed the forbidden dagger over, and then slowly washed the blood off his hands.

"Since it's a spy, what are you waiting for? Just deal with it according to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

Sovoxie's eyes widened and he struggled desperately, but soon, the guards outside the door quickly dragged him out.

For a moment, everyone in the house was silent, and the only sound was the boy washing his hands.

"That's all for tonight."

Zhou Huaiyan carefully wiped the water droplets on his hands, his tone as usual,

"If I hear any gossip about this matter in the future, everyone present tonight will be regarded as a spy and executed according to the law."

Everyone inside and outside the house immediately knelt on the ground. Zhou Huaiyan sighed in his heart. He was afraid that after today, his reputation for being corrupt and licentious would be further tarnished.

But it doesn't matter. The worse his reputation is, the happier the emperor will be, and the longer he will live. Thinking of this, the young man waved his hands.

"Everyone, please go down. Your Highness is tired."

"yes."

After everyone left, Zhou Huaiyan finally had time to check on the bruised kitten.

The latter was still kneeling on the ground, with disheveled curly hair hiding the expression on his face. It was unclear whether he was frightened or in great pain, but his body was stiff and he curled up motionlessly, looking extremely pitiful.

Ah Fei covered his tattooed left ear, his hands were covered in blood. The familiar pain made him feel as if he had returned to the past long, long ago.

When he was five years old, his mother, the only person who could protect him, disappeared. Because of his body that was different from that of ordinary people, he was captured by the people in the slave camp.

The same thing happened to the assassin Mo Yin that night. He was surrounded by many people. They looked at him with the most contempt and disgust, and belittled him with the most filthy and insulting words.

The tattooer was extremely brutal, grabbing his neck like an animal, and the sharp iron needle soaked in black ink pierced his skin, leaving the most despicable mark.

Ah Fei cried in pain and called for his mother, but in the end, until his voice became hoarse, he still couldn't get the warm embrace in his memory.

At that time, a lot of blood flowed, mixed with the dark special ink, mixed into a dark red color, and looked extremely dirty.

But now, in the same situation, with the same tattoo, Ah Fei didn't feel any pain, not at all.

He feels happy.

The ink mark on a servant is a sign of lowliness, a reason why anyone can trample on them. But the mark given by the master is different, it is recognition, protection, and belonging.

The master tattooed him with his own hands, which meant that the master would never abandon him.

Ah Fei closed his eyes and carefully felt the burning pain behind his ears. From now on, he would belong to Zhou Huaiyan.

Live for the Master, die for the Master.

He heard a series of louder and louder thumps in his chest, as if he saw with his own eyes the frozen wasteland miraculously reviving at this moment.

Something hot is growing and thriving there.

However, when Zhou Huaiyan saw this scene, he thought he was holding his chest and trying to endure the pain. The boy squatted down and wanted to touch the kitten's head, but after thinking about it, he gave up.

He still remembered that he accidentally hurt Cuicui's nails when cutting them. The cat resented him for a long time and kept scratching and nibbling at her and refused to let him touch her.

Even cats hold grudges, let alone humans.

But the situation just now forced him to do so. If he hadn't said that, Ah Fei would have to bear the lowly label of "servant" for the rest of her life. Being forced to be tattooed by the cruel Ninth Prince sounded better than being a servant of a foreign race.

Zhou Huaiyan sighed as his thoughts turned to confusion.

"Does it still hurt?"

"......"

Ah Fei looked up blankly. He saw the boy's gentle face, and his blank expression gradually changed. The dirty and scarred kitten looked at him, and its pale blue eyes were filled with tears.

It seemed as if it would burst into tears with a "meow" in the next second.

【Ah, this...】

Zhou Huaiyan found this a bit of a headache, so he waved his hand and asked the eunuch to get a hot towel and medicine.

"Come here, I'll give you some medicine."

“......!”

Hearing this, the little cat, with tears in his eyes, knelt down beside Zhou Huaiyan very swiftly.

The blade of the forbidden dagger was very small and thin, almost equivalent to a modern scalpel, so the wound was very small and had already formed a scab, but it looked a little scary.

Zhou Huaiyan applied medicine to him and comforted him,

"I pierced it only superficially. This medicine has the effect of removing scars. It won't be left with any marks in a short time."

[Remove...remove scars? ! ! ]

“…!!!”

——The master didn't allow him to leave his seal? !

Ah Fei's eyes suddenly widened, and he immediately covered his ears and retreated far away in panic. He shrank behind the bookshelf, curled up into a ball, revealing only a pair of panicked eyes.

Zhou Huaiyan, who was frozen in mid-air holding the medicine, said: "......?"

[This...seems like he really holds a grudge. ]

As expected, cats always bear grudges, even people who look like cats are the same. Seeing Ah Fei staring at him as if facing a formidable enemy, Zhou Huaiyan sighed again.

He had no idea that their brain circuits were totally different. Ah Fei sobbed as she wiped off the medicine she had just applied, trying hard to hold back her tears.

The master would not allow him to leave his mark, the master did not want him.

The joy he had just felt was gone, and bitterness flooded his heart like cold sea water.

Perhaps the master just did that just to preserve the reputation of the royal family. How could he be so self-righteous and self-indulgent as to think that the master did that for himself?

——This is the reasonable explanation.

He rubbed the remaining medicine behind his ear vigorously, feeling as if he had suddenly fallen from the clouds into the mud again, shattered. The scab that had just formed also fell off, bloody.

Bang!

The boy grabbed the wrist bone.

“What are you doing!?”

Seeing Ah Fei's nearly self-harming behavior, Zhou Huaiyan's tone became a little angry. The little cat carefully grabbed his clothes and tried for a long time before he vaguely uttered a word with a crying tone,

“Stay…stay…”

【Please allow me to leave my mark. 】

The little cat looked at him eagerly, its emerald eyes filled with tears, as if it had suffered a great injustice.

"Keep?"

Zhou Huaiyan was stunned, and suddenly realized something.

"You think I'm going to chase you away?"

Although the meaning is slightly different, it's almost the same. Ah Fei looked at him and nodded with sobs.

"...Why do you think so?"

Zhou Huaiyan was stunned for a moment as he looked at the kitten's frightened and panicked eyes. The former did not answer, but just lowered his head in embarrassment.

"......"

There was a brief silence in the room.

"A Fei,"

After a while, Zhou Huaiyan let go of his hand. The little cat heard him sigh softly.

"Do you want to leave?"

【Leave?!】

The kitten's eyes suddenly turned red and he shook his head hurriedly. He sobbed and a panicked sob sound came out of his throat.

"In that case, then stay."

The warm fingers fell on his hair and rubbed it gently.

"Stay with me."

Ah Fei stared at Zhou Huaiyan blankly, and these words began to repeat endlessly in her mind.

【Stay by my side...】

At this moment, the boy's handsome face seemed to be glowing with a certain brilliance, infinitely gentle yet infinitely eye-catching.

"......"

Without any warning, big tears rolled down from those beautiful jade eyes.

Before Zhou Huaiyan could react, Ah Fei suddenly hugged him. His movements were so fast and urgent that he threw the boy backwards.

After living a life of luxury for so many years, this was the first time that Zhou Huaiyan was thrown to the ground. He didn't expect that Ah Fei, who looked thin and small, could be so strong.

He suddenly found it funny, but the next second, he felt a damp, hot and shivering sensation in his waist and abdomen.

The boy was stunned. He could clearly hear the kitten crying.

Harsh, dumb, painful,

It was like a young beast that had lost its shelter, been bullied, and was covered in wounds, and finally found a warm nest.

All the insecurity, humiliation, grievance and suffering you have ever experienced should be cried out at this moment.

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