After Yu Xi dressed neatly, he remained silent in front of Qi Yan who was still sleeping on the bed.

What should he do? He slept with his best friend whom he felt very fond of, and he slept with him when he was unconscious... What if he investigates this matter, will Qi Yan think that he is a heartless scumbag?

——The Smiling Fox Who Has Been Smart All His Life Yu Xi, the big boss, urgently needs a military advisor to make plans for him at this moment.

While thinking, the person on the bed suddenly groaned, and then the figure turned around. Under Yu Xi's nervous gaze, Qi Yan woke up slowly. When he just woke up, Qi Yan seemed a little confused. He relaxed for a long time before blinking.

The soreness in his body was still roaring faintly. Qi Yan's mind was half awake, and he saw the culprit sitting by the bed, staring at him with complicated eyes.

Under his gaze, Qi Yan's eyes gradually turned red.

"Ah!" Yu Xi panicked and quickly took out a handkerchief from a wooden box on the side: "Why are you crying? I'm not irresponsible."

After hearing this, Qi Yan, who was originally a little confused, was completely awake. Recalling everything that happened during the day, crystal tears flowed down the corners of Qi Yan's eyes and sank into his hair.

Red eyes are a physiological reaction after waking up, but the tears falling now really represent Qi Yan's unspeakable bitterness.

Seeing his tears streaming, Yu Xi was completely confused. He clumsily wiped Qi Yan's face with a handkerchief, and even though the other party glared at him fiercely, it could not reduce the guilt in his heart in the slightest.

After a while, Qi Yan felt that he had recovered some strength, so he sat up suddenly, endured the pain and coldly pushed away Yu Xi who wanted to help him, got out of bed naked without any hesitation, bent down with great effort, picked up his torn clothes one by one, and gently put them on, as if trying to cover up the ambiguous traces on his body.

Such a cold and strong look made Yu Xi feel even more guilty, and even faintly, there was a trace of pain.

I don't know why, he didn't want to see such a cold Qi Yan... It should be said that he was a little selfish, what he wanted to see was still the kind and intelligent Qi Yan, even if he faced everything with a face indifferent to the world.

"Qi Yan, you..."

"You might have been set up by thieves yesterday." Qi Yan's voice was a little hoarse: "You have to be careful these days. Also, if there is nothing else, please don't go to the yamen to call me, I still have my own work to do."

"Qi Yan, do you blame me? I'm sorry about what happened today, but..."

"Do you want to be responsible?" Qi Yan responded with a smile: "Forget it, you don't need to be responsible for anything, whether it's the secular world, human ethics, or me, you don't need to be responsible."

Yu Xi wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Qi Yan's loud voice: "Let's pretend that what happened today never happened."

Yu Xi felt a pang of bitterness in his heart, and unknown emotions rose from the darkness. He knew that Qi Yan was drawing a line between them, and even their past friendship had vanished into thin air at this moment...

Why, after such an intimate thing happened, would they draw a line? He disagreed!

"Do you really want to draw a line?" Yu Xi snorted and laughed: "Forget it, since you don't want to, why should I bother to do that? It's better to pretend that this matter never happened, so that I don't have to be distracted by it."

He deliberately said such words to provoke Qi Yan, and sure enough, his almost invisible figure trembled slightly.

Although Yu Xi felt distressed, he couldn't help but say anything to Qi Yan. He put his hand on the curtain and pulled it hard. The moon-white curtain gauze gently lay on Yu Xi's hand with a tearing sound. Yu Xi walked to Qi Yan's side, draped the curtain gauze on Qi Yan, and wrapped him up in it.

"Even if you want to leave, wait a moment. I'll ask someone to bring some clothes... and get a bucket of bath water. You must wash yourself."

Seeing his thin and frail body trembling in the tent, Yu Xi couldn't help but hug him in her arms.

"Whether you blame me, hate me, or want to draw a clear line with me, I will listen to you. But before that, shouldn't you listen to my sincere words? If you miss it like this, will you really not regret it?"

[The male protagonist's favorability towards Qi Yan +5, current favorability: 85]

The tears that had been suppressed for a long time finally overflowed at this moment. Qi Yan stood upright in the same place. Even if Yu Xi hugged him, he didn't move over.

It was as if he was maintaining his only dignity. Qi Yan like this made Yu Xi feel distressed.

Qi Yan simply left without insisting. Wrapping Qi Yan in the quilt, Yu Xi tried to push open the door that Qi Yan said was locked, and it opened with a slight push.

Yu Xi looked at the quiet corridor outside in surprise, then turned to look at Qi Yan, and found that he was sticking out his head, and was also looking at the door that opened with a slight push in shock.

"...Be careful when you go out." Qi Yan became even more worried: "I'm afraid it's a scam."

Yu Xi didn't suspect that Qi Yan was lying, and he sorted out all the things in his mind, and found that there were really many suspicious places.

He knocked on the wooden door lightly, quite rhythmically, which was the secret signal of the secret guards beside him. The moment the sound of the door stopped, a man in black was kneeling beside Yu Xi.

"What's unusual?" Yu Xi asked in a cold voice: "Where did you go just now? What happened in the building?"

The man in black was respectful, his voice was hoarse like a machine: "Nothing unusual. I just went to the government office, and Lord Liu came down to inspect and found that Master Qi was not there."

Qi Yan's heart was tense: "Then what?"

"One person in the prison rescued Master Qi, and he is now safe."

Yu Xi lowered his eyes and looked at him for a while, then asked: "Did you find any suspicious people when you came back?"

"There are no suspicious people around, but..." The man raised his head and looked at Yu Xi with a puzzled look in his eyes: "Did the master close the restaurant?"

Yu Xi was stunned: "When did I close the restaurant? Although it is late now, it is still in the afternoon, closer to dusk and farther from night--"

Yu Xi's voice stopped abruptly. He turned his head in disbelief and saw Qi Yan looking at him with horror.

"Yu Xi!" Qi Yan shouted, and before Yu Xi could come back to his senses, he felt a pain in his abdomen.

Looking down, he saw the man in black looking at him with a smirk on his face, and his eyes were full of disdain and ridicule. There

was a dagger stuck in his abdomen, and the dagger was pulled out, and blood was flowing. Yu Xi frowned. The man seemed to think he was dead, and stood up and was about to leave. Yu Xi's eyes darkened, and he gathered strength in his hands and slapped the man hard on the back of his chest.

A mouthful of blood spurted out, and the man didn't even have a chance to scream. He just lay on the ground, his eyes wide open.

Qi Yan didn't care about anything else, and quickly ran down from the bed, came to Yu Xi's side, and supported him.

"Yu Xi, how are you? Are you okay? I'll go get a doctor!"

"Don't go!" Yu Xi grabbed him, sweat dripping from his forehead: "This building may be under surveillance, you must not act rashly."

"Then what can you do?" Qi Yan said anxiously: "It's okay, they don't recognize me, and no matter who it is, they should know that I am from the government. Even if the situation in Daliang is imminent, no one dares to take action against people from the court!"

"You are just a little jailer, who cares whether you are from the court..." Yu Xi said these words with difficulty, and moved step by step towards the bed. Seeing that he was so stubborn, Qi Yan had no choice but to support him obediently.

There was no one in the restaurant except Qi Yan and Yu Xi, including Yu Xi's secret guards.

Almost overnight, the entire restaurant was replaced.

Yu Xi's wound was not particularly deep. Although Yu Xi did not dodge the dagger, he dodged at Qi Yan's scream, causing the dagger that would have pierced him to deviate a lot. So the wound that seemed to bleed a lot was not that serious after being treated with medicine.

After simply treating Yu Xi's wound, he pulled her aside to ask about what happened.

"When I came, you were already drunk on the table. I wanted to help you, but when you woke up, you looked very wrong, and then..."

Qi Yan did not say anything else about what happened, and Yu Xi also knew what happened, so he did not ask any more questions.

"Why did you drink alone before? Also, did you ask someone to call me to the restaurant?"

Yu Xi's face was also a little pale. After thinking about it, he said truthfully: "It was indeed me who asked you to come to the restaurant. It's just because we haven't been together for a long time and want to have a good reunion."

"Then why did you drink alone first?"

"I didn't drink..." Yu Xi stretched out his hand and pinched his eyebrows: "I'm afraid something else made me dizzy."

Qi Yan didn't say that when he came in, the smell of alcohol in the room was very strong, so he suspected that Yu Xi was drunk.

"This restaurant is yours, how could you be framed in your own territory?" Qi Yan paused, and the light in his eyes dimmed a little. After pondering for a moment, he asked a question he had asked many times.

"Are you really a spy from the enemy country?"

This time, Yu Xi remained silent, instead of pretending to deny it lightly like before.

Qi Yan's heart sank slightly, and after a long time, he sighed and said, "Forget it, I already know."

"Would you care?" Yu Xi said, "I am willing to tell you because I am not afraid. Even if I die in your hands in the end, I will have no regrets."

The heart seemed to be wrapped in warmth, but behind the warmth, there was a layer of ice wall, which could dissipate the warmth and chill the whole heart at any time.

This man, even if he died in his own hands, it would not matter?

"Don't trust me too much." Qi Yan's voice was light, and no joy or anger could be heard.

His tone made Yu Xi believe him even more.

These are two familiar people, who are familiar with each other's tone and movements. Even though they have only known each other for less than a year, their tacit understanding is unprecedented.

"Do you think this was done by the court?" Qi Yan changed the subject: "Do you want to hear my speculation?"

Yu Xi raised his eyebrows: "I'm all ears."