Chapter 10 Lingyu, can you just show your affection to a man like this? ...
The darkness was dark and the candlelight was dim, but the faces of the two were still clearly visible at such a close distance. Mu Xingchen could not bear Li Jing's gaze, so her eyelashes trembled slightly to relieve her nervousness.
"I heard that you want to leave?" Li Jing asked in a deep voice.
"Oh." Mu Xingchen raised her head. "It's... because..." Her eyes began to turn red as she spoke. "I..."
A tear fell from the corner of Mu Xingchen's eye.
Li Jing frowned, but his tone softened unconsciously: "Why are you crying?"
Mu Xingchen sniffed and choked up, "If I disappear for too long and my father finds out, he'll beat me to death. They'll think I..."
"Why?" Li Jing asked.
"I thought...I thought I eloped with someone..." After she said that, her eyes turned red again, and her face also turned red at the same time.
Li Jing's breath stagnated. Eloping with someone? At this moment, Li Jing's mind suddenly recalled Mu Xingchen wearing a light veil that day. He pursed his lips inconspicuously.
Mu Xingchen raised her head, her moist eyes looking at Li Jing pitifully: "So, Master Jing, can you please let me go back? I really don't want... to let my father be disappointed in me again..."
Li Jing looked into her eyes, narrowed them, and said coldly: "Now that you know my identity, do you think I will let you go?"
Mu Xingchen was stunned. She asked with a confused look on her face, "Sir...what is your identity?"
Li Jing frowned and looked into her eyes, as if wondering whether what she said was true or false. Did she not guess that he was from the Ganyue tribe, or was she deliberately pretending not to know?
"Aren't you afraid?" Li Jing asked.
Mu Xingchen asked curiously, "What are you afraid of?"
The cloak on Li Jing's head fell down with the wind, and a piece of white silk moved in the wind and danced all over the sky.
He took a step closer: "My eyes, my hair." He stared at her intently, trying to detect any clues from her.
Mu Xingchen looked at his hair, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes. Her eyes curved into crescent shapes, and she said in surprise: "Why are you scared? Master Jing's eyes and hair are very beautiful, I like them very much." When she said this, her face was pure and innocent, just like a child, who could easily catch people off guard.
Li Jing's pupils froze. Very beautiful? Like it very much?
Mu Xingchen stared straight into his eyes, with unhesitating affection in her eyes.
Li Jing frowned. Did she know what she was saying? Expressing her feelings to a man she'd only met twice...did she even know who he was? And saying such things in front of the Yuegan Clan, a group everyone shunned...
Mu Xingchen pleaded pitifully, "Master Jing, please let me go back. I will definitely come to see you often in the future."
Li Jing frowned even deeper. "Come to see him often?" He pursed his lips slightly and asked, "Do you want to go back so much?"
"Yeah." Mu Xingchen looked at him hopefully.
Li Jing lowered his eyes and was silent for a moment: "Bai Ri, I'll have someone take you back."
Mu Xingchen smiled in surprise and said, "Really? Master Jing?"
"Yeah." Li Jing actually felt a little regretful. He continued, "But don't mention what you saw me to anyone. You saved me twice. We are grasshoppers in the same boat. If other people know about this, you will die." There was a cold threat in his tone and eyes.
Mu Xingchen ignored his gaze and curled up the corners of her mouth sweetly, as if she was acting like a spoiled child: "Master Jing, you are so good to me."
Li Jing frowned even deeper. He threatened her, but she said he was good?
Mu Xingchen took a step forward and looked at him shyly: "Master Jing's eyes are really beautiful, I am not lying."
Li Jing's heart skipped a beat. He took a step back, his face becoming serious. "Can you just show your affection to a man like this?"
Mu Xingchen blinked, seemingly not understanding what he meant.
Li Jing said again in a deep voice: "Don't do this in the future."
"Ah?" Mu Xingchen asked with an innocent look on his face.
Li Jing looked at her confused expression and couldn't help but blame himself for overthinking. How could he doubt her?
He said in a complicated tone, "Aren't you worried about damaging your reputation? Then from now on, don't say these things to men."
Mu Xingchen nodded with a confused look in his eyes and said, "Okay."
Li Jing looked at her confused expression and his face became even colder. Did the Mu family never teach her these things?
Mu Xingchen's bright eyes stared at him unabashedly. Li Jing slightly avoided her gaze and said, "I'm leaving now. You should get some rest." He left immediately and opened the door. Qi Feng was waiting outside. Li Jing ordered in a cold voice, "Early tomorrow morning, have Xu Cen send the people back."
Qi Feng's pupils widened, and he caught up with Li Jing: "No, my Lord, are you just going to let him go like this? You're not going to investigate? Then the spiritual power in your body..."
Li Jingtong paused, "If she's missing for too long, the Mu family will become suspicious. Let's send her back first."
"Oh oh..." Qi Feng suddenly realized. He said that his master would not be obsessed by love.
The next second, Li Jing turned around with a frown and came to Mu Xingchen's room again.
Qi Feng asked puzzledly from behind: "Hey, Master, what are you going back for?"
Mu Xingchen was changing clothes in the room at the moment, with her coat hanging on her arm, revealing her aqua-colored bellyband without any concealment, and her beautiful curves and snow-white skin were clearly visible.
The next second the door opened without any warning.
Mu Xingchen was confused by Li Jing's sudden intrusion.
Li Jing's pupils shrank, and he immediately closed his eyes and turned his head.
Qi Feng followed behind him, and before he could say anything, Li Jing quickly closed the door. In a corner where no one knew, a touch of pink quietly spread to his earlobe, revealing what he had just seen.
Xiao Qi screamed frantically in her heart: "Mu Xingchen, you deliberately seduced him again? It was just like that last time, ahhhhhhh, this is simply not suitable for children. I have to say, you really can win an Oscar for Best Actress."
Mu Xingchen curled his lips, "Didn't you hear what he just said to me? It's obvious that he has fallen in love with me, but he doesn't know it yet. I'm just helping him. But this time, he broke in on his own, don't blame me~"
"You, you, you, are simply..." Xiao Qi talked for a long time but couldn't make any clear words.
Mu Xingchen had already put on her clothes. She pushed open the door, and the moonlight shone on her face for a moment, giving her snow-white skin a rosy hue. Li Jing was the only one outside the door. Mu Xingchen asked in confusion, "Master Jing?"
Li Jing pursed his lips and looked at her silently.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Mu Xingchen called out again: "Master Jing?"
Li Jing said in a deep voice: "I'm sorry. I will knock on the door in the future." He had just instructed her a moment ago, and the next second he was...
Mu Xingchen smiled and said, "It's okay, but Master Jing is back so late, is there something wrong?"
Li Jing's expression began to become complicated, and he asked with a hint of scrutiny: "Why did you appear at Fuya Mountain that day?"
The smile on Mu Xingchen's lips faded, she lowered her head, and her eyes began to redden again.
Li Jing frowned.
Mu Xingchen began to sob softly. She said in a wronged voice, "That day, I was knocked unconscious by an arrow. When I woke up, I found myself in a very dark place. I couldn't see or hear anything. I shouted for a long time, but no one answered. So I could only grope my way through the dark. Not long after, I heard a noise. I groped towards the sound and found a person."
She trembled all over, as if she was afraid when she recalled the scene that day. "I couldn't see at the time, and I didn't know that the man was Master Jing. I felt a lot of blood on him, and there was a strong smell of blood. I couldn't stop it no matter what I did. I was so scared."
"Then I was so anxious to save him that I carried him on my back and walked for a long, long time before I got home." Mu Xingchen wiped her tears, trembling all over. "I thought we were all going to die there. Wuuuuu, Master Jing, you have no idea how scary it was. I've been afraid of the dark since I was a child. It must be Prince Yan. He wanted to cancel the engagement, so he threw me into that place to fend for myself..."
Li Jing frowned: "Don't cry, that day you said you broke a jade pendant, and did you steal it from the study?"
Mu Xingchen stopped crying and nodded with sobs: "In order to save the young master, I used medicine to knock out the two guards at the door. I have never done such a thing before. I was so scared. I just wanted to use the medicine to save the young master. I didn't notice that there was a jade pendant under the box. Wuuuuu..." As she spoke, she began to cry again.
Li Jing pursed his lips slightly and said with a smile: "Do you know what that jade pendant is?"
Mu Xingchen shook his head in grievance.
"It's a spiritual pendant that contains the spiritual power of the Galaxy Realm. Otherwise, how do you think you managed to escape from Li Yan's search?"
Mu Xingchen's pupils widened, and she suddenly sat down on the ground, tears streaming down her face. "Wow, isn't that the jade pendant that my father treasures the most? I actually stole it, and... and broke it... My father will beat me to death..."
Seeing Mu Xingchen crying harder and harder, Li Jing pursed his lips and said stiffly, "Don't cry."
Unexpectedly, Mu Xingchen not only continued to cry, but also cried even louder, "I'm sure I won't survive..."
Li Jing saw her crying so hard, and softened his tone somewhat stiffly: "Don't worry, I won't let you die."
Mu Xingchen lowered her head to hide the smile on her face. What was wrong with the tone of voice she used to coax a child? It sounded strangely stiff.
Seeing that Mu Xingchen had stopped crying, Li Jing continued to ask, "Where is the broken jade pendant?"
Mu Xingchen said heartbrokenly, "I don't know. It's too dark. I really can't see." As he spoke, Mu Xingchen's eyes began to blink again, and they were about to become moist.
Looking at Mu Xingchen's bloodshot eyes from crying, a trace of annoyance flashed in Li Jing's eyes: "Don't cry, I will find another one for you." As he said that, a trace of spiritual power from his fingertips made her stand up from the ground.
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