Volume 1 ◆ The Palace in Chaos 040 You're like this, it makes me want to kiss you

  Listening to the familiar footsteps outside the door, his lips curled up slightly, and then froze! She's here, but why did he inexplicably feel delighted?

  "Knock knock knock!" The sound of knocking on the door rang out.

  Her thin lips moved slightly, and unexpectedly she thought of her decision a few days ago. Didn't she say... to stay away from her? "Miss, it's late at night, please..."

  "Bang!" The door was kicked open, hanging crookedly on one side, and Su Jinping's angry face appeared in front of him!

  This is killing me! A few days ago, he pleaded for her, and she actually treated him as a friend, so that's why she came to find him this time. And yet, it's still the same old "please go back"!

  His eardrum shook, and for some reason, he wasn't annoyed, but rather a little excited. What's wrong with him?

  In a daze, Su Jinping took several big steps forward, pulling him by the arm and walking away: "You, what are you doing?" Her voice was still calm.

  "Aren't you indifferent to everything? What business is it of yours where I take you?" Su Jinping said in a fit of anger.

  Who knew, he actually calmed down and quietly let her pull him along.

  As she saw him calm down, the anger in her heart dissipated a little, and the force in her hand also lightened up.

  He quietly followed behind her, his eyes flashing with a deep color like the moonlight, Su Jinping, Huangfu Huaihan's talented person, now a palace maid, approached him again and again, what was her purpose? He also wanted to tell himself that she had no purpose, but possibly?

  Still that tree, a woman with an unpleasant expression looked at him: "Go up!"

  "You... " wanted to say something, but didn't finish.

  "Is that all? Let you go up!" Damn it! Haven't seen such a person, difficult to deal with is one thing, what she can't tolerate the most is that she actually thinks of coming to provoke him for no reason, cheap! Extremely cheap!

  He didn't move after seeing him for half a day, so in anger he grabbed his collar and threw it upwards, then quickly climbed up the tree. Sitting next to him, with a stern face, waves of anger steaming...

  "What are you looking for me?" He was thrown onto the tree, but he didn't get angry and took the initiative to ask.

  His voice was like a celestial music, not too salty or bland, with a clear and elegant tone that inexplicably calmed one's emotions. The fluffy cat's anger dissipated significantly. Taking a few deep breaths, he turned his head to gaze at the other's stunning side profile: "I want to ask you, if someone is very good to you, but... you don't even know her, and maybe you're not even yourself, would you go against your own will to save her?"

  "Maybe you're not who you are at all" flashed through his mind. His keen senses picked up on the unusualness of the sentence, but he didn't say anything else. He closed his eyes and leaned quietly against the tree.

  After a while, when Su Jinping thought he wouldn't speak again, his cold voice sounded once more: "Why did you come to ask me?"

  "Because we are the same kind of people!" Her voice was sonorous and powerful, without a hint of hesitation! Yes, although she had an eccentric personality, he was cold and proud; she regarded wealth as her life, while he looked at everything with detachment. However, she could still be certain that they were the same kind of people, both having unyielding pride and dignity deep down in their bones!

  As soon as the words fell, his eyes snapped open! A faint glimmer of light flashed across the icy pool-like bottom of his eyes, but in his heart, a stormy sea was already raging! The same kind of person? The same kind of person?! How did she make such a judgment? But also because of this sentence, he inexplicably felt a sense of closeness.

  She felt her eyes locked tightly on his profile, then closed them again, opening her mouth slightly: "You already have the answer, don't you?"

  When these words came out, Su Jinping was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing: "Haha... If you were a woman, I would really like to conquer the world with you, and then become a prosperous couple!" She didn't expect that he could be so sharp and... intelligent! It made her appreciate him somewhat, but it's a pity that such a person can't see his own worth!

  When he heard her say this, the corners of his mouth moved, and she could say such rebellious words, which didn't seem like a prime minister's daughter who was raised in the inner chambers.

  "Tell me, how did you know I was in trouble that day?" She had thought about this for a long time and couldn't understand it. If she had to have an answer, she felt the only relatively reasonable one was that he was a fortune teller! Hmm, blind man telling fortunes, pfft...

  It seemed that he knew what she was thinking, and his thin lips opened slightly: "I won't guess your fate. That day, in the Pear Garden, the servants were discussing it, saying that a palace maid was in trouble, and they guessed it was you." He had never figured out why he couldn't help but rush to rescue her just because of this guess.

  Su Jinping's mouth twitched, this person is really long-winded! But it's good that he responded.

  "Have you ever heard of a poison called 'Hui Sha'?" The question was more of a probe than a genuine inquiry. He had been trapped in this place since childhood, blind and unable to see. Even if he were as knowledgeable as the moon goddess, he would know very little about it, and it's unlikely that he would be aware of what kind of poison it is.

  The two words "I don't know" were about to come out, but he swallowed them in his throat. Was she poisoned? Her ears didn't move, her breathing was steady, and her pulse was normal, with no signs of poisoning, so why ask this again?

  "It's not me being poisoned, it's the servant girl who grew up with me since childhood!" She let out a faint sigh, somewhat despondent.

  He quietly leaned against it, speechless. Today, he had already said too much!

  "If you know, I hope you'll tell me." In this palace, apart from him, she didn't know who else to ask. The imperial physician and that so-called Imperial Noble Consort might not speak the truth. Huangfu Yi was also not on her side, while Huangfu Ye and Hong Feng were both Huangfu Huaihan's people; if she asked them, it would surely alarm them and blow their cooperation, and Shallow Memory's life would be in danger. There was only him, who like her didn't seem to belong to this imperial palace, so he might also become a friend.

  The sincerity in his tone slightly moved him. Although he warned himself in his heart that she was Huangfu Huaihan's person and he couldn't expose himself, yet he still couldn't help but speak: "Gui Ze, a poisonous medicine, can only be paired with an antidote. If not resolved within three months, it will lead to death."

  "Thanks!" It was indeed exactly the same as what was written on that paper, which also said that the antidote was not in the palace or the prime minister's mansion. Although she didn't recognize ancient characters, she could still guess the general meaning of words that weren't too obscure. The antidote was hidden so well... She coldly snorted to herself, this group of people really did look down on her!

  "And you?" Suddenly turned around and looked at him.

  Some people don't understand him, how is he?

  "What poison is in your eyes? Is there still a cure?" She hadn't forgotten that she had promised to heal him.

  "I don't know." Two faint words, seemingly indifferent to one's own life and death, whether seen or unseen, it seemed to make no difference to him.

  Looking at his indifferent appearance, she suddenly leaned her face close to his and said in a charming voice: "Do you know that when you look like this, it makes me want to kiss you?"