Bi Xie stared blankly at the suddenly enraged youth, baring his teeth and brandishing his claws, and asked the system in bewilderment, "Ru Hua, is there a mistake? I feel like the villain is acting very strangely after he found out I'm the original owner. Was I good to him? Is he a masochist who enjoys the original owner torturing him?"
Ru Hua: "I don't know, how about the host slaps him a couple of times and see if the happiness value increases?"
"What use are you!"
When Imperial Guard Lin brought the medicine over, he noticed that the atmosphere in the carriage was strange. His young prince was hanging his head dejectedly, not saying a word, looking like a wronged little wife. General Xu calmly took the medicine bowl, but his bitter and resentful expression didn't seem like he had coaxed his prince at all.
He forced himself to speak, saying, "General Xu, this medicine should be drunk while it's hot so we can continue our journey." He then lowered the curtain and retreated, leaving the matter of getting His Highness to drink the medicine to General Xu.
The carriage was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Bi Xie held the medicine, pondering whether to force-feed it to him if necessary.
Suddenly, the medicine bowl was snatched away and raised to pour it out of the carriage. Bi Xie exclaimed in surprise and quickly grabbed the bowl, but most of the medicine still spilled, soaking the clothes of the two men. Bi Xie was really annoyed. What kind of villain is this? He can't even drink medicine properly and needs to be coaxed. We really spoil him!
"Are you going to drink it or not?" She glared at him angrily, grabbed his restless right hand and pressed it above his head. "If you don't drink the medicine, I'm going back to Kuiyang Kingdom right now. What the hell have you been doing, throwing a tantrum like a young master? Just because you're pretty doesn't mean I can't bear to hit you, do you?"
Startled by his shout, he stared at her silently, his eyes red-rimmed. After a long while, as if confirming something, he uttered a single, hoarse word, "...drink."
Bi Xie breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed he was still afraid she would return to Kuiyang Kingdom; the villain's desire for imprisonment play was still alive and well.
"Don't throw a tantrum, you hear me? I don't have a bad temper either," Bi Xie said, afraid that if he let go, he would spill the medicine again, so he held the bowl of medicine to his mouth, his voice gentler, "Open your mouth..."
He finished the medicine sip by sip, then sat in the carriage staring at her intently, his gaze strange and eerie.
Bi Xie felt very uncomfortable under his gaze, so she simply started weaving things with the grass she had found. First, she wove a grasshopper out of a palm leaf. She learned how to weave grasshoppers from an old man who sold handicrafts in a local area when she was traveling. The old man was very skilled and could make many grass toys out of straw and leaves. She learned the simplest ones.
Once a lifelike grasshopper had taken shape, she looked up at the boy who had shifted his gaze from her to the grasshopper.
The boy's pale, sickly face was filled with surprise. His lips moved slightly, and he muttered, "What is this?" Caught off guard, he saw her suddenly look up at him. His pupils contracted sharply, and he quickly looked away, coughed awkwardly a few times, and looked up at the scenery outside the car.
Bi Xie couldn't help but chuckle, holding the grasshopper up to him. "You've obediently drunk your medicine, this is a gift for you."
"A gift for me?" He turned back, looking at her uncertainly. Seeing her smile and nod, he carefully took the grasshopper from her and asked curiously, "What's this?"
"Grasshopper".
He played with it for a while, then awkwardly looked up at her and said very softly, "I'm sorry..."
"Hmm?" Bi Xie looked up at him. "What?"
He assumed she hadn't heard his muttering, and awkwardly blushed, saying, "It's nothing."
Bi Xie raised an eyebrow: "You just said sorry, what were you sorry for?"
It turned out she had heard it.
Han Yun looked at her with red eyes. After seeing the smile in her eyes, his moist lips pursed into a thin line. After a long while, he seemed to finally muster up his courage and asked, "I... can I call you A-Xie?"
Bi Xie was stunned for a moment, unsure if he was testing her. In Xu Xie's memory, Han Yun had always treated her with great respect. Even when the original owner was imprisoned in Ye Xi Kingdom, Han Yun always granted her every request and treated her with utmost respect.
"Is that not allowed? What's your name?" He stared at her intently and continued to ask.
Bi Xie's heart skipped a beat; he had indeed discovered that she was not the original owner of this body.
Ru Hua: "Host, your acting is really... terrible. I don't know how you've survived so many quick transmigration worlds."
Bi Xie couldn't refute it. He stared warily at the sickly yet beautiful young man. The two stared at each other for a while until the carriage started moving. Then Bi Xie cleared his throat and said in a nonchalant tone, "You can call me whatever you want. It's just a name."
He chuckled softly, a joy as bright as moonlight dispelling dark clouds, calling out, "Ah Xie, Ah Xie, Ah Xie..."
Bi Xie got goosebumps from his repeated calls and didn't dare to look at his smile. He asked Ru Hua guiltily, "Has the villain fallen in love with me? Why do I feel like his eyes are... so hot?"
"The host no longer suspects that the villain's love interest is the original owner?"
Bi Xie: "I'm not stupid. The villain is a reincarnated person. He knows the original owner so well. Although I have the original owner's memories, what kind of IQ does the villain have? He must have already realized that I am not the original owner. I'm just a little puzzled. He has already realized that I am not the original owner, so why doesn't he angrily stab me with a dagger? Why does he let me, this lonely ghost, continue to occupy his general's body?"
She glanced at Han Yun, who was engrossed in playing with a grasshopper, occasionally coughing with his fist clenched, a faint smile on his lips.
Bi Xie: "Ru Hua, don't you think his smile is...?"
Ru Hua chimed in, "It's very spring-like, like a cat in heat."
Bi Xie's lips twitched, and he remained silent. Ru Hua urged, "Host, you must strike while the iron is hot! Take advantage of his youth and get him! The villains in this world are so perfect, except for being a bit of a crybaby! They're so tender and innocent."
"Oh dear, it's because it's so tender that I'm suddenly a little embarrassed to eat it."
Ru Hua spat, "Host, you're so shameless. Back in the beastman world, how many times did you and Yu Feng do all sorts of things in the wild, by the stream, and behind the trees? I don't believe you're embarrassed."
As it turned out, Bi Xie was not embarrassed at all. Before they even arrived in the capital of Ye Xi Kingdom, she had already won over Han Yun with a straw rose ring and sweet words. The two went from sitting opposite each other to sitting side by side, and then they sat close together under the same cloak.
As Lin Jinwei watched his young prince obediently drink his medicine, he gazed tenderly at Bi Xie, but also felt deeply worried about the future of Ye Xi Kingdom. His Majesty had three palaces and six courtyards, and the Crown Prince also had many wives and concubines. How could it be that the young prince, who was the most promising person to inherit the throne, was such a romantic?
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