Meeting Chu Mubai's questioning gaze, she bluntly stated, "Chu Mubai, there's something I need to make clear to you. Your rapid recovery isn't due to the medicine I used. You've probably noticed that the wound on your back scabbed over and fell off overnight. As for the toxins in your body, I can tell you they're dissolving, but I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing."
Chu Mubai pondered for a moment, then smiled faintly, "That doesn't matter. The worst outcome is death anyway. I have been bedridden for many years, and to be in this situation now, stepping onto the land of Beiming and hiding in this cave with General Yan, is something I never imagined before."
She was touched by his words and felt relaxed. "That's true. Life is only a hundred years at most, so we should all live life to the fullest."
Chu Mubai looked at the light overflowing in the eyes of the man opposite him and was momentarily dazed. He subconsciously murmured, "Living towards death..." Why did he feel that this was familiar?
It's as if I've heard a clear, beautiful female voice say this in that bizarre and fantastical world.
Xia Yixin didn't pay much attention. Instead, she walked to the cave entrance and watched the large snowflakes falling with the north wind. The horses were also brought into the cave. Outside, the snowflakes would probably bury half of the horses.
"Given this level of intensity, we'll have to leave once the snowstorm subsides a bit, otherwise we might get buried here," Xia Yixin said, frowning.
Chu Mubai nodded in agreement.
However, the snowstorm not only did not subside, but intensified, and people outside could be blown away in a matter of minutes.
Left with no other choice, Xia Yixin carried a large rock to temporarily seal the cave entrance. There was a small hole at the other end of the cave, so they wouldn't suffocate.
Although the campfire was warm, Xia Yixin was still woken up by the cold in the middle of the night.
She immediately sensed something was wrong, rolled over and got up, and sure enough, she saw that the campfire had gone out, and Chu Mubai was curled up with a pale face.
Xia Yixin was fine because she had internal energy to support her, but Chu Mubai was just an ordinary person and might freeze to death if he continued to sleep!
The worse news was that the campfire got damp and wouldn't light.
She patted his cheeks, trying to wake him up. "Chu Mubai, Chu Mubai! Wake up, wake up!"
Chu Mubai slowly opened his eyes, his eyelashes covered with a thin layer of ice. He sat up and coughed a few times. "...General Yan?"
The man's voice was husky and magnetic, causing Xia Yixin's ears to turn red even faster as she spoke next.
"The temperature is too low. You definitely can't stand it without internal energy. So, if Lord Chu doesn't mind, how about we sleep together?"
Damn it, she's Yan Jiu now, for a grown man to say that to another man is just too ambiguous!
Chu Mubai was slightly surprised to see the man opposite him slowly blush, uttering, "This general is attracted to women, this method is out of necessity..."
Yan Jiu was already handsome, and when he was wearing armor, he had a fierce and murderous aura. But now, with his handsome face slightly flushed, he was surprisingly cute.
Chu Mubai shook his head, secretly laughing at himself, thinking he must be hallucinating from being too cold.
After weighing the pros and cons, Chu Mubai bowed to Yan Jiu and said, "I have troubled General Yan."
Xia Yixin secretly breathed a sigh of relief. "It's nothing. You are our strategist after all. Linglong still needs your help to keep an eye on her. You are the future regent."
"The Regent?" Chu Mubai shook his head. "I have no interest in him."
Xia Yixin blurted out her thoughts when she was happy, but luckily he didn't notice. She laughed it off and didn't say anything more.
It would be too awkward for two grown men to hug each other face to face, so they just stood very close together, their backs touching. She looked at the man's thin but not frail back, and smelled his faint, cool fragrance. She couldn't help but bring her face closer to rub against him, but thankfully, reason stopped her in time.
Perhaps because of so many previous experiences of the two of them sharing a bed, she naturally developed a habit, which is absolutely terrifying.
She quickly closed her eyes and turned around, reminding herself, "I'm a man!" as she channeled her inner energy, transforming it into a small heater, and the warmth traveled through her spine to Chu Mubai.
But this time, for some reason, neither of them felt sleepy.
The cave was so quiet that you could even hear the soft rustling of snowflakes falling to the ground outside the large rocks.
Xia Yi was the first to break the silence, "Lord Chu, do you really not want to be appointed a marquis and prime minister, and become a regent? That would be second only to the emperor." In the original story, he actually sat in that position.
A man's gentle voice sounded behind her: "Even kings and generals are nothing more than a handful of dust after they die. What does it matter if you are above ten thousand men?"
"Then why do you still..."
"He encouraged Zi Linglong to become the empress." He finished her sentence for her.
She chuckled, "So you actually knew it was instigation."
Perhaps it was because the cave was too dark, or perhaps it was because the two of them were now in a state of mutual fortune and misfortune, Chu Mubai couldn't help but trust "him" more, and explained, "More than twenty years ago, the Seven Deadly Poisons that I was afflicted with were transferred from the late emperor."
"What!?" Xia Yixin sat up in surprise to look at him.
Chu Mubai also sat up cross-legged, his calm face revealing neither joy nor sorrow. "The late emperor offended a hidden family due to years of war and was poisoned with the Seven Deadly Poisons. When he was first poisoned, the late emperor originally wanted my father, Grand Tutor Chu, to draw out the poison, but I agreed later. If my father had drawn out the poison, the Grand Tutor's Mansion would have been unable to gain any power within thirty years, and the Chu family would likely have become a vassal. But I am different. It is worth it to exchange my life for the late emperor's promise."
Xia Yixin frowned, recalling the contents of Chu Mubai's previous letter. "A promise? Didn't the late emperor issue a secret edict ordering the Chu family to protect the country...? Wait, what did the late emperor mean?"
Chu Mubai's eyes darkened slightly. He hadn't expected that Xia Yixin would tell Yan Jiu the contents of the letter as well.
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