"Owner?"

Ah Fei gently hugged his calves and pressed her chest against the boy's knees.

I don’t know if it was because he was panicking, but for the first time, Zhou Huaiyan’s whole body stiffened when Ah Fei approached him.

"......It's OK."

The boy's Adam's apple moved unconsciously, and his heartbeat began to lose control for the first time. He held back for a while before blurting out,

"It's better to wash it off as soon as possible. Leaving the pigment on your body is not good for your skin."

【Bad for the skin? 】

——The owner likes dry and soft skin!

The little cat quickly wrote down his new discovery in the little notebook in his heart, feeling extremely lucky. Fortunately, when he was studying medicine with Doctor Li, he secretly prepared medicine to remove the scars on his body, otherwise his master might not be happy to see it.

But on the surface, Ah Fei still lowered her head obediently, her tone sounding a little lonely.

"If the master does not allow this painting to remain on my humble body, I will wash it off immediately."

"No, that's not what I meant... It's not that I don't want you to."

Zhou Huaiyan felt that Ah Fei was very strange today, or perhaps he was the one who was very strange, but he couldn't tell exactly what was strange about her.

His mind was in a mess, and he was not calm for the first time. Finally, the boy waved his hands and gave up the excuse.

"Forget it...If you like it, keep it."

It's not a tattoo. According to Ah Fei's habit of bathing every day, no matter how careful she is, the tattoo will not last more than a week.

Zhou Huaiyan never thought that he was just trying to dispel the emperor's suspicion as he did before, but in the end he ended up confusing himself.

This is not right, this is...very dangerous.

"Yes, thank you, Master."

Ah Fei immediately hugged his knees, and her posture looked like a cat acting coquettishly.

Can.......

His collar was torn open by Zhou Huaiyan, and the collar fell loosely to below half of his shoulders, revealing a large patch of bright red plum blossoms, especially the spot he just touched, which was the most dazzling and eye-catching. If this scene had happened to someone else, Zhou Huaiyan's first reaction would certainly be to think that this was some kind of clumsy seduction method. However, Ah Fei tore open his collar himself. The fallen plum blossoms on his chest were painted by him last night. Therefore, this overly imaginative scene was actually caused by him. Ah Fei just followed his orders.

Zhou Huaiyan: “….”

He suddenly began to wonder if he had been pretending to be a lecherous playboy for too long, and that he had gradually developed this tendency.

This horrifying guess instantly froze the boy.

After a moment's silence, Zhou Huaiyan looked away, then pretended to be calm and pulled the kitten's collar tightly.

"Go down first. Your Highness needs to be alone for a while."

He changed his name unconsciously.

Ah Fei was stunned, and his beautiful blue eyes dimmed. He thought that the master suddenly pulled his collar because he had some idea, and even tried to please the master in the most careful way, but the result was...

The owner seemed completely unmoved, he just opened the painting to look at it, then pulled up his collar. The boy looked normal, serious, and cold-hearted as always, as if he had no interest in his body at all.

But this is not right.

Ah Fei clearly had excellent grades in this subject, but no matter what he thought in his heart, he still had to obey his master's orders on the surface.

"Yes, I'll wait outside."

When he heard that he still had to wait outside, Zhou Huaiyan suddenly became excited.

"No need! Didn't Master Wei give you any homework today? Go and practice more."

"But,"

The little cat didn't understand.

"I have finished everything."

"......"

Zhou Huaiyan was silent for a moment, and finally thought of an excuse.

"Didn't you say you wanted to learn medicine? Go learn it now!"

Ah Fei was surprised.

"But didn't the master say that it is not necessary..."

"Yes, yes."

Zhou Huaiyan quickly pulled the kitten up and pushed it out.

"Doctor Li is old and doesn't look like he will live for many more years. You should hurry up and learn from him. I, your master, will hand over my body to you in the future."

"......"

The master's body... is handed over to him?

Ah Fei heard this. He blushed and whispered for a long time,

"Then...then I will definitely live up to the trust of my master."

"Okay, okay, let's go."

bump!

Zhou Huaiyan closed the study door.

The huge room finally became quiet, and he was the only one left. The young man poured himself a cup of cold tea and drank it one cup after another. After a long time, he finally calmed down.

Zhou Huaiyan unconsciously rubbed his hot fingertips and began to think seriously that his reaction today was really too abnormal.

[——What went wrong? ]

Could it be because of that book “Secret Pictures of Spring Night Plays”?

But it's not like he hasn't read that kind of book before. When Zhou Huaiyan was lost in thought, Hongdou's voice suddenly came from outside.

"Your Highness, the book has been lost."

"Well, come in."

Zhou Huaiyan sat on the chair, unconsciously touching the jade beads around his waist.

"Hongdou, do you feel that there is something wrong with me today?"

The maid was a little surprised, but after a moment's hesitation she answered.

"Yes...some."

Zhou Huaiyan paused.

"Where?"

"Your Highness would never change a decision that has already been made because of a book."

"......reasonable."

Just like analyzing all the hidden enemies in the past, Zhou Huaiyan began to analyze his own strange behavior today in his mind.

"Could it be that the book is stained with something strange?"

Red beans shake their heads,

"I have checked everything that Your Highness has handled in advance, and there is no tampering."

“—That’s strange.”

Zhou Huaiyan attached great importance to this matter.

"Then why did I feel so flustered when I saw Ah Fei today?"

Upon hearing this, Hongdou immediately became nervous.

"Your Highness, I will go and ask Dr. Li to come."

"no!"

Zhou Huaiyan had never rejected something so quickly.

Ah Fei had just gone to see Doctor Li, and now she called him over. Could it be... Could it be... Could it be the latter? The boy couldn't figure it out. But Hongdou was surprised.

"...Your Highness?"

"Would you like to feel my pulse?"

Zhou Huaiyan rolled up his sleeves. This action showed that he could not afford to argue.

Even though Hongdou only knew a little bit about medicine, she had to go forward and take the boy's pulse when His Highness spoke. She carefully felt for a moment, and the expression on her face was first shock, then joy, then gradually solemn, and finally hesitant. This series of changes confused Zhou Huaiyan.

"Your Highness, this pulse may indicate a happy event..."

The boy had a blank expression on his face.

"—speak human language."

Hongdou quickly organized her words.

"Your Highness's pulse is now almost as healthy as that of an ordinary person, but your Highness is still a young man, and it is normal for him to be a little... a little restless."

She raised her head, her face showing joy, and sincerely suggested to Zhou Huaiyan,

"Your Highness, how about Hongdou find a clean and pretty girl to serve you in your room tonight? If so, if Your Highness likes men, Hongdou can definitely find one..."

"Shut up!"

The maid of honor fell silent immediately.

Zhou Huaiyan tapped the table irritably. In other words, the reason why he was so abnormal today was that his body had recovered and that part of him was getting stronger, so he might need to find a way to vent.

The young man never expected this to be the result. No matter in his past life or this life, he has always had dull thoughts in that aspect. Especially in this life with his congenitally deficient body, he has absolutely no worldly desires.

As a result, after an assassination, she was poisoned by some unknown poison, and her body became much stronger, even in terms of sexual desire... She even had unspeakable thoughts about Ah Fei, who was also a man.

Zhou Huaiyan held his forehead, not knowing what expression to put on. He took a deep breath and changed the subject.

"Have you found anyone in the North?"

"This......"

Hongdou was in a dilemma.

"There are very few people who know about the various poison sources and insects of alien races, and most of them are related to the royal families of alien races, so they are not easy to find."

"Um."

Zhou Huaiyan knew this, he just wasn't used to his body which had suddenly become so strong that it seemed a little strange to him.

Being able to make a person with congenital deficiencies recover to be the same as an ordinary person in just a few months, such a miraculous effect must have brought about a great backlash.

Moreover, the so-called backlash was still unknown to Zhou Huaiyan. Sometimes, a little unknown was more deadly than a huge threat.

......

After dinner——

As usual, Ah Fei washed himself thoroughly inside and out, ready to warm the bed for his master, but this time, he was stopped outside the bedroom by Hong Dou.

The maid's tone was as cold as usual.

"His Highness said that he is not feeling well tonight, so you don't need to come in and serve him."

Ah Fei was stunned.

A great fear instantly crept up his spine. He was in a trance for a moment before coming to his senses, speaking in an anxious and flustered tone.

"But, but why, what is wrong with the master?"

Clearly yesterday, the owner used him as a canvas to paint, touched him, and hugged him, and he was fine even in the afternoon.

How come at night, suddenly...

Suddenly you don't want him anymore?

"A Fei,"

The eldest maid looked at him expressionlessly,

"Remember your identity. If the master says he doesn't need you to serve him, does he need to give a reason?"

Ah Fei's breath was choked.

He stood there blankly for a moment. In fact, he had heard words that were a hundred times more humiliating than this, but this time it just made him suddenly feel as if his heart was suddenly crushed by a hand.

"But...but Sister Hongdou, can you...can you tell me, is it Ah Fei who has made the master angry in some way?"

Those beautiful cyan eyes were filled with tears, reflecting the dim candlelight, like a piece of broken jade.

Hongdou remembered her master's preference for Ah Fei, and finally softened her tone a little.

"It's not your fault, it's just that Your Highness is in a state of confusion tonight and wants to sleep alone."

"......"

But this sentence did not comfort the little cat. To him, this sentence was more like——

From tonight on, the master has lost interest in him.

But, but didn’t the master still...still...last night?

As if thinking of something, Ah Fei's face suddenly turned pale. Could it be that after the master had watched him last night, he lost interest in him? This guess was very reasonable. At least in Ah Fei's world view and self-proclaimed logic, it was the most reasonable explanation.

After a while——

"......I see."

He lowered his head and left in despair.

Hongdou was relieved to see him leave. She thought that given Ah Fei's stubborn personality, she would have to persuade her for a while, but she didn't expect that she was actually an obedient person.

Thinking of this, Hongdou went in to reply to her master.

"Your Highness, he is gone."

Zhou Huaiyan clenched the book in his hand, but didn't read a single word.

"You didn't cry?"

Hongdou recalled it for a moment and described it in detail, doing her duty.

"I was about to cry, but I held it back."

"......"

Zhou Huaiyan was stunned for a moment, and finally heaved a long sigh. How could he not want to sleep with the warm little cat in his arms, but when he saw Ah Fei in the daytime, he reacted like that...

Not to mention sleeping in the same bed at night.

Thinking of the soft and pink protrusion that his fingertips touched at that time, Zhou Huaiyan covered his face with the book. He clutched the collar of his shirt at his chest and couldn't help but breathe rapidly.

He couldn't tell whether it was some strange poisonous creature at work or whether he really had some evil intentions towards Ah Fei.

Zhou Huaiyan had indeed taken the man down on a whim. But it was totally beyond his expectation that it had come to this.

He hates unexpected things the most, because all accidents are basically dangers and threats to him.

The boy threw the book aside, feeling very upset. Anyway, he decided to sleep alone before finding out what kind of poison he had been poisoned by in the assassination.

Looking at the long-lost bed full of hot women, the young man stood up.

"Okay, go to sleep."

Back to the past, when he slept with a hard hot water bottle in his arms, Zhou Huaiyan couldn't fall asleep and tossed and turned in bed. Not long after, he suddenly heard Hongdou's hurried footsteps outside.

"Your Highness! Your Highness!"

Zhou Huaiyan woke up in shock.

"——What's wrong?"

"It was my fault. I didn't realize that Ah Fei didn't leave, but was standing outside your bedroom. He was only wearing a single layer of clothes..."

The palace maids around wanted to take him back to the house, but they all resisted fiercely. Ah Fei learned martial arts from Master Wei and was born with supernatural powers. He looked like nothing, but when it came to fighting, even five or six eunuchs couldn't pull him away.

Zhou Huaiyan didn't hear what she said next, he lifted the quilt and ran out in a hurry.

The temperature outside is already more than ten degrees below zero. Zhou Huaiyan didn't even dare to imagine what it would be like for a person to stand outside for an hour.

The New Year is approaching, and now is the coldest time of the year in the capital. There is heavy snow falling outside, so heavy that you can't see the road ahead clearly.

If Ah Fei hadn't been found by Hong Dou tonight, she would have been frozen into a corpse tomorrow morning. This thought flashed through Zhou Huaiyan's mind, and he felt that it was too cold outside, and even the air he breathed into his lungs made him feel painful.

When the young man hurried there, Ah Fei was still squatting in the corner, like an abandoned stray cat, wearing only a very thin undershirt, curled up pitifully, and shivering constantly.

"What are you doing!?"

Zhou Huaiyan strode over in the howling snow and wind. He seldom used such an intense tone, and it seemed that he was really angry. He ran straight over here. In such a cold weather, he was even wearing thinner clothes than Ah Fei.

"Don't you understand what I'm saying?! I told you to go back to your room, what are you doing squatting here?!"

The kitten was frozen to death, even its eyelashes were covered with a layer of frost and snow. When it saw Zhou Huaiyan, its ferocious look suddenly subsided. It said nothing, but just shed tears of grievance.

It hit the snow with a clattering sound, and in a few moments it condensed into beautiful ice beads.

This scene looks extremely sad and beautiful.

But Zhou Huaiyan didn't like it. He just felt angry, painful and panic in his chest.

——The boy had never felt such a strange emotion before.

"Your Highness! Your Highness!"

Hongdou hurriedly came over with a thick black cloak, wanting to put it on the boy, but Zhou Huaiyan snatched it away and angrily threw it on the frozen kitten.

He was so angry that he forgot that he was the one who was most afraid of the cold.

"You are so capable, but you insisted on guarding outside my bedroom. Why are you crying here now?!"

"Master... Master..."

The kitten's voice was hoarse, and it was obvious that he was crying. But before he could come to his senses, his body was tightly wrapped in a thick cloak.

The next second, Ah Fei was picked up by the young man and strode towards the bedroom.

"You've really grown in skill. You've even learned to use the same self-torture tactic as me?!"

Ah Fei was stunned, and subconsciously looked up at his master. He had never seen such a cold and angry expression on the boy's face, like magma surging and surging under the frozen ice.

It's terrifying, but also... fascinating.

As the kitten watched, it couldn't help but break the rules and used its cold hands to grab its owner's neck. It also put its face on the boy's warm chest to listen to his heartbeat.

Very fast and very heavy.

Again and again, it hit his side of the face.

Ah Fei knew what this kind of heartbeat meant, anger.

But he felt happy.

——This is the second time the owner holds him.

The first time was for show for others, what about this time?

This time it was Ah Fei who did it on purpose, it was an accident that the master had never expected.

But Zhou Huaiyan still came. Although he was extremely angry and threatened and yelled at him, in the end, the boy still hugged him.

——Hold him in your arms.

This shows that the owner cares about him.

As for the degree of concern, it is probably -

Although she was the one who was most afraid of the cold, she was still willing to run out in a thin night's snow wearing only a thin nightgown to scare him, and then carry him back.

Ah Fei had already thought about it. If the master didn't come tonight, he would quietly serve as an object in the master's hand, and be enjoyed by the master at ordinary times. If the master got tired of him, he would be the master's sword and shield. He would never have any unreasonable thoughts again.

But when the master came, for the first time, those peach blossom eyes, which were always calm, showed anxiety, anger and worry.

At this moment, Ah Fei clearly felt that the secret and unbearable delusion in her heart, as if it had obtained endless nourishment the moment she saw the boy, began to run wild without any shackles or fetters.

[Master, you tell Ah Fei what she wants, and I will work hard to get it.]

【Tonight is one of Ah Fei’s efforts.】

A commoner could seize vast territory and establish such a powerful Zhou Dynasty.

And he just wants a Zhou Huaiyan, so... it shouldn't be impossible.

Ah Fei snuggled tightly in the boy's arms, and in the dark corner where no one could see, she smiled a happy and contented smile.

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