"Brother Mu Yun, does your wound hurt?"
Cheng Muyun's fingertips trembled slightly as he draped the fabric of his inner garment over his shoulders. The rough linen brushed against his scabbed wounds, causing a slight stinging pain, but it couldn't compare to the complex emotions surging within him.
The dim candlelight cast interplay of light and shadow on his face, making his deep eyes appear even more obscure and unfathomable.
Ever since that day at Yunxu Temple when he had a long talk with the Taoist priest, Cheng Muyun had put an invisible shackle on himself.
The Taoist priest's words struck him like a heavy hammer: "If you want to protect Xu Zhuohua, you must have someone to die in her place."
From then on, he deliberately maintained a distant relationship with Luo Yunqiao.
Every time they met, he silently recited the plan in his mind, reminding himself that this was a choice he had to make for Xu Zhuohua.
But whenever Luo Yunqiao approached with concerned eyes or spoke to him with a gentle smile, Cheng Muyun felt as if a thin needle was repeatedly pricking his heart.
Seeing her furrowed brows with worry and hearing her concerned words, a wave of guilt overwhelmed him.
He knew all too well that he was plotting to push this innocent woman into the abyss, using her life to ensure Xu Zhuohua's safety.
This contradiction and struggle tormented him day after day. He was trying to protect the person he loved, but he ended up putting another person in danger.
Every deliberate and indifferent response felt like a piece of flesh being ripped from his own heart, leaving it bloodied and raw, yet he dared not stop.
"It doesn't hurt. What are you doing here? This isn't a place for you."
Luo Yunqiao opened his medicine box and took out jars of powdered medicine. "I've come to bring you medicine. This is a tissue-regenerating powder that I got from my father. It will help your wound heal faster."
Luo Yunqiao opened the lid, and a rich medicinal aroma wafted out.
Cheng Muyun thought for a moment and said, "The muscle-regenerating medicine in the military camp is effective enough. I don't need it. You should leave now."
Luo Yunqiao approached with the medicine in his hand. "Uncle Cheng had someone stop your medication. I was worried about you, Brother Muyun."
Cheng Muyun suddenly opened his eyes wide, took a step back, and increased the distance between himself and Luo Yunqiao.
"Who told you that?"
Cheng Yuguang did indeed stop giving Cheng Muyun all his medications; the medications he's currently using are all stolen from the military doctors by these adjutants.
Luo Yunqiao blinked his innocent eyes, "Last night, I overheard Uncle Cheng coming to our house to discuss something with Dad."
Alarm bells rang in Cheng Muyun's mind!
Chairman Luo has colluded with both the Si and Ke families, and Zhou Minhai was sent by the Si family to investigate him.
At this point, Cheng Yuguang went to see Chairman Luo, most likely hoping that Chairman Luo would plead for Cheng Muyun on his behalf.
Cheng Yuguang deliberately brought up Cheng Muyun's injury and lack of medicine in front of Luo Yunqiao, just to make Chairman Luo realize that his only daughter cares a lot about Cheng Muyun.
This plan was probably already in the works when Cheng Muyun's medication was stopped.
Cheng Muyun was terrified.
In his father's mind, Luo Yunqiao must have been of great value.
Xu Zhuohua, a daughter of the Xu family, has now become the successor of the Dongxing Nanxian line, and is someone who must be kept away from.
Cheng Muyun was afraid that Cheng Yuguang would harm Xu Zhuohua in order to save him.
He immediately sent a telegram to Xu Zhuohua, telling him not to touch weapons and to be careful not to be targeted.
However, Xu Zhuohua never wrote back after the telegram was sent.
Cheng Muyun waited for three days in a row, but instead of receiving a reply from Xu Zhuohua, he received a plea for help from Xu Jixin.
Xu Jixin's telegram stated that Xu Zhuohua had taken full control of the munitions on the southern front of the East, and that no one except Xu Zhuohua's men was allowed to touch the munitions.
In order to streamline the route, Xu Zhuohua even personally escorted a batch of weapons, just to convey his rule of being fully in charge of the weapons at the stations along the way.
Upon learning this, Cheng Muyun immediately ran away from the prison.
After contacting Xu Jixin and obtaining the route map for Xu Zhuohua's arms transportation, they set off immediately.
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