FID – Chapter 286

What are you running for?

While running, Fu Yuzheng castigated herself in her heart.

But her feet didn’t even dare to stop.

She rushed back to her room, closed the door and gasped. Even the dull pain from the wounds on her back was disregarded.

She placed one hand on her chest, and felt a series of bang-bang-bang there, beating violently.

When she eavesdropped on his, she was still calm.

But the moment she met his eyes, her heartbeat suddenly went haywire.

What was wrong with her?

In the back garden, Xue Qinglian took eight steps quite proudly, “Zhixia, I exposed someone to you. You must remember this favor you owe me. I will find you later and ask for a payback.”

Liu Zhixia looked at him expressionlessly. “Your reputation as a divine doctor, is it earned by a thick skin?”

“Don’t hesitate to say whatever sour grapes you want, I don’t care. Someone knows whether I possess any real ability.” Xue Qinglian wasn’t at all annoyed. He smilingly approached, set up glasses of wine in front of the two, and after pouring them each a cup, he himself held the wine jar and directly drank from it.

There were only two cups, so he could only drink from the jar.

“I really do not understand you. One by one, you are trapped in the tender land and unable to extricate yourselves. What’s so great about women? You should live debonair like me. Without someone to control me, I can go wherever I want to go, eat what I want to eat, and play whatever I like. How blissfully carefree is that…”

The other two men drank their wine and looked at each other, got up and left.

Left Xue Qinglian dumbfounded and frozen there – drinking wine alone under the moon.

“Hey? Hey? Are you going to be like this? Am I so unpopular with you guys because I’m a damned doctor? I come and you leave? I’m telling you, I’ve just researched a new drug and will test it on you later!”

Something behind him whistled through the air and hit him straight in the back.

Xue Qinglian held his wine jar, quickly rolled over and dodged to escape it. 

Damn it, he met a person with better skills than himself; life was so unpleasant!

“Feng Qingbai, just you wait! I will definitely research good stuff that can crack the Hundred Poison Pills. I’ll see how you’ll beat me by then!”

The man’s voice drifted from afar, “After you research successfully, come and jump in front of me.”

“…I’ll let you do it first!”

They parted ways in the back garden, but Liu Zhixia did not go directly back to Liuyun Courtyard.

He stood for a while at the entrance of the courtyard where the servants live, raised his feet, and walked in.

He raised his hand and knocked on the closed door of the room.

“Who is it?” A woman’s cold voice came from inside.

“It’s me.”

Dang! Something was knocked over inside. When the woman spoke again, her voice took on a hint of imperceptible panic, “Young Master Liu, what is the matter that you have to come here at this late hour? There are differences between men and women. I am not at liberty to open the door to see you. If there is nothing, please return immediately.”

“I don’t know how much you heard just now; I want to explain to you.”

“There is no need to explain. I know that you have good intentions. There is absolutely no other meaning!” The woman’s voice replied sharply, as if afraid that he would say something else.

Silence settled at the door.

Hearing no answer from the man, Fu Yuzheng bit the lips inside the room, and nervousness inexplicably blossomed in her heart.

He did not leave, because she did not hear any sound of footsteps departing. The window paper on the door panel also still reflected his silhouette.

But he did not speak, and she did not know what he was thinking.

Was it because of her snarky comment that he was upset?

She wasn’t wrong, was she?

He said it himself. He pleaded for her as a friend.

She went off into wild conjectures, but no sound still came from the door. Fu Yuzheng slowly lowered her eyes.

“I know you’re a person who doesn’t like to owe people favors, and so do I,” the man’s mellow voice once again slowly penetrated the room door and fell into her ears. Fu Yuzheng’s eyelashes trembled. Her palms clenched, and she unconsciously relaxed her breathing.

What was he trying to say? Since he didn’t like to owe people either, why did he do that for her?

“If you owe someone a favor, you will always find a way to pay it back, and only after you pay it off will you feel at ease. However, I pleaded with Feng Qingbai for nothing. I don’t need your gratitude, and I don’t need you to pay back. I just …You don’t like to owe favors, then I will owe them, and I will pay them back. That’s all.”

After a pause, the man’s sigh that was as light as a breeze reached her ears, “It’s late at night, so rest early. Do not run around again until your injuries are healed.”

The closed door of the room babbled open just before the man was about to walk out of the courtyard.

“Why?” she asked.

Why help me? I dislike owing favors, but why will you owe and pay them?

Liu Zhixia turned around, looked at the woman whose whole body was bathed in dim light, and said lightly, “Because you deserve to be treated well.”

He only said this and left.

She stared in the direction of his departure and could not return to her senses for a long time.

Her chaotic heartbeat has calmed down, but hot tears slowly welled up and fell from her eyes.

He said, because you deserve to be treated well.

She shut the door, wiped off the tears on her face, before going to bed. She reached for the green lotus flower lantern on her pillow and held it in her arms.

In her dream, she was also smiling.

…

It took two days for Liu Yusheng to finish writing a complete plan, and early on the third day, she took a carriage and went straight to the Qian’s Mansion.

Upon hearing the concierge’s announcement, Qian Wanjin welcomed her inside in person. As soon as he saw her, he complained several times.

“You only came now to see me? Do you still have a conscience?! Do you know how many times I’ve gone to look for you? In addition to the first time with Shi Xianrou, I was able to go in to see you only once. Afterward, I was blocked at the door every time, unable to enter even the threshold of the royal residence!”

Liu Yusheng, “…”

Seeing her reaction, Qian Wanjin guessed that she didn’t know!

“I knew it, it must be that bastard, Feng Qingbai who’s up to his tricks! He refused to let me see you, so I must beat him up when I see him later! He’s too much!”

Liu Yusheng massaged her temples between tears and laughter. Just as Qian Wanjin said, she really didn’t know that something like this happened.

Feng Qingbai was really…

However, she did not let Qian Wanjin fool around. That was her man. Was he so happy scolding him?

“You want to beat him? You must be capable of fighting first.”

“…Lucky Nannan, who are you helping in the end?”

“Helping my relatives, of course.”

“Am I not a relative, huh? I’m your brother!”

“No, Feng Qingbai is my beloved.”

Qian Wanjin wanted to hit the wall. Had he known, he would not have come out to welcome her. Heartless fellow!

He crossed his arms and squinted at the conscienceless girl, “I’m not your beloved, so why did you come to me?!”

“I came to look for Master Qian.”

“…Lucky Nannan, I’m warning you, ah. Quickly coax me, or I’ll really get angry!”

He’d been looking forward to seeing her everyday for fun and was deeply concerned about her. But how did she treat him?

A hundred arrows through the heart didn’t hurt this much!

Liu Yusheng raised her hand and patted his head. “This trick only works for Shi Xianrou. Did she not come today to coax you, Xiao Jinzi?”

“…” A certain Young Master’s face immediately turned scarlet, and he swatted her hand down. “Someone is now covering me too. If you bully me again, I let Xiao Shitou avenge me! Come on in. You’ve come at a good time. My father and the others are here.”