Chapter 59
HEART PROTECTION: CHAPTER 59
Tian Yao and Yan Hui calmly rested that night . The next day bright and early, Zhu Li knocked on Tian Yao's door .
Yan Hui's and Tian Yao's rooms were close to each other . When Zhu Li knocked, she actually was already awake . When she got up, servants from outside came in to serve her . Yan Hui wasn't used to this kind of treatment . She wanted to dismiss them, but then one of the servants spoke: "Miss, you are going to meet the prince today . It's best that you wear Qing Qiui's hair style today . "
Yan Hui thought about it; it did make sense . After all, she entered another's domain . It's was already miraculous the demon clansmen weren't discriminating against her for being a xian cultivator . For other matters, she should do as the natives so as much as she could .
Thus she stood in front of the dressing mirror and allowed the servants to comb her hair and dress her .
When they were done, Yan Hui covered her wound and looked in the mirror . She felt like Qing Qiu's style suited her pretty well .
Yan Hui exited her room . Zhu Li and Tian Yao were waiting for her in the courtyard . When Zhu Li saw her, his eyes instantly brighted, and his cheeks flushed red . He hurriedly looked away and with a shaking voice said: "You . . . . . . . you suit . . . . . . . "
"How's your facial wound?" Tian Yao cut off Zhu Li . "It wasn't bandaged last night?"
Tian Yao picked a good topic . At his words, not only Yan Hui, but also Zhu Li himself didn't further wonder why Tian Yao interrupted him .
Yan Hui touched her chin: "The attendant who applied the medicine last night said they were scared of it interfering with today's treatment, so they didn't bandage it . "
Zhu Li nodded: "I came precisely to talk you two to the doctor . Right now the doctor is at my Third Uncle's residence to treat his illness . I came by to get your wound treated, and it just so happened that Third Uncle also wanted to meet Tian Yao . "
Wanted to meet Tian Yao? Yan Hui mulled over it . That's right, probably everyone in Qing Qiu wanted to meet Tian Yao .
Zhu Li continued: " . . . . . . . then we will meet the King of Qing Qiu . "
"Meet . . . . . . . . who?" Yan Hui was stunned . "The king? Your king?"
Zhu Li nodded .
Yan Hui instantly was wary .
She was a xian cultivator . Since childhood, she was taught the nine-tailed fox demon clan's strength was nigh untouchable, especially their king . It was unknown how many years the king has lived . Rumor was he could swallow 10 people whole .
Yan Hui was braver than the average xian cultivator, but she wasn't so brave that her legs didn't tremble at hearing she was about the meet the strongest demon alive . Especially with the hostility between xian and demons right now, one misspoken word, and she might lose her life . . . . . . .
If she were to die here in Qing Qiu, probably no one would speak out on her behalf .
"I'm not going . " Yan Hui repeatedly shook her head . "The one your king wants to meet is definitely Tian Yao . If he goes, that'll be enough . I'll return to the courtyard by myself to recuperate . "
The tip of Tian Yao's eyebrow twitched when he saw how easily Yan Hui abandoned him . Zhu Li quickly said: "Don't be scared . Us clansmen know the difference between grudges and gratitude . Yo saved me at Chen Xing Mountain, so you're my savior . Royal Grandfather just wanted to thank you . "
"Thanking me is easy . Just give me money . "
Zhu Li was slightly angry: "How can my life be valued with money!"
"To me it can be . "
Zhu Li: " . . . . . . . "
"First get her wound treated . " Tian Yao broke apart their conversation and took the lead on leaving the courtyard . His words temporarily shelved the topic .
The nine-tailed fox demon clan's Third Prince had lost his eyesight several years ago . His body was also weak . He already relied on medicine to keep him alive . Every few days, the doctor would come to the prince's residence . Thus, there was a courtyard just for the doctor to stay and rest in .
Yan Hui went straight to the doctor's courtyard . She didn't wait long before someone notified her the doctor was coming .
Zhu Li, who was sitting by Yan Hui, coughed and reminded her: "I heard the doctor today isn't in a good mood . When the doctor comes to look at your injury, don't talk . Don't say a word . "
Yan Hui raised an eyebrow: "You're scared of the doctor?"
"No way!" retorted Zhu Li, but his voice was somewhat weak . " I just . . . . . . . . we respect the doctor for healing and treating us . "
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At the end of his words, the doctor appeared with a case in hand .
Yan Hui didn't expect Qing Qiu's revered doctor to be female . The doctor placed the case on the table with a thunk .
The doctor's expression wasn't good . While others greeted Zhu Li, she didn't even spare him a glance . Instead she directly walked to Yan Hui: "You're the injured one?" Her tone was extremely impatient .
Yan Hui's face relied on her to treat, so Yan Hui silently kept her mouth shut and endured the attitude .
The doctor pinched Yan Hui's chin in her hand and brusquely turned it to the right . In a split second, Yan Her could practically hear her neck pop .
Fuck . . . . . . . a little more strength and her neck would've been broken . . . . . . . .
Yan Hui's back broke out in sweat . She was thinking about asking for another doctor when the female doctor spoke: "The knife wound has cold poisoning . Injury is a day old, and the poison has entered the bone . Requires nine days of acupuncture, nine days of medicine to dispel the cold . " As she spoke, the boy by her side recorded .
The doctor spoke rapidly . She didn't even look to see if the boy could keep up . She only cared about finishing her diagnosis and then picked up her medicine case to leave . No one dared to stop her . Even Zhu Li could only look at her . Everyone remained silent . Only Tian Yao frowned and spoke up: "Will the wound scar when it heals?"
The doctor's footsteps paused . Her gaze was cold when she turned to look at Tian Yao: "I am a doctor that heals injuries . I don't deal with beauty . What does leaving a scar have to do with me?"
Tian Yao hadn't replied when Zhu Li piped in: "Doctor, is Third Uncle's treatment for today finished?"
"Same shit as always . " The doctor exploded into vulgarness . It was such that even Yan Hui, who usually viewed herself more like a man, raised an eyebrow . "Just let him die . I don't want to waste my time and energy keeping him half alive . "
Zhu Li swallowed and silently retreated a step . Off to the side, a servant took this chance to back out of the room . It looked like he went to bring reinforcements . Seems like . . . . . . . this doctor often lost her temper . . . . . . . .
Everyone looked familiar with this routine .
Yan Hui decided that his doctor truly was a man .
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After abusing Zhu Li, the doctor still wasn't done with being angry . She turned to look at Tian Yao . Fixing her gaze on him, she looked him up and down to size him up: "Huh, a dragon demon!" She paused, then continued with a strange, mocking tone . "You have a sinister appearance, but your inner breath is superficial . I heard twenty years ago you loved a widowed, cold xian cultivator and you were betrayed quite severely . . . . . . . . . "
When her words came out, everyone in the room was stunned .
Yan Hui was also surprised . What happened between Tian Yao and Su Ying had never been whispered about in the jianghu . Up to now, no xian cultivator knew that the one who Su Ying and Zhenren Qing Guang teamed up to kill was a millennium dragon demon . And by the looks of Zhu Li's face, it was clear the average demon didn't know either .
Tian Yao only looked at the doctor with a slightly chilly gaze .
"Blame my race's heart for being different . " The doctor had a peculiar expression as she spoke . It was extremely mocking toward Tian Yao, but her own eyes revealed pain . "Liking those heartless xian cultivators lead you to becoming like this . It's all your own fault . . . . . . . . "
Tian Yao didn't say a word in retort .
Yan Hui had always known suffering "dismemberment" at the hands of Su Ying was Tian Yao's deeply hidden anguish . He couldn't forgive Su Ying and also couldn't forgive the love-struck him back then . He didn't refute the doctor's words because he couldn't refute them . His wound was bared open in front of everyone with no warning, but he didn't avoid it because . . . . . . . .
He was also punishing himself .
Punishing that stupid, love-struck self sitting in his heart for falling for Su Ying .
"It serves you right!"
"Enough . " Yan Hui slammed her hand on the table and stood up . She stood in front of Tian Yao, blocking him from view . Yan Hui stared at the doctor with a cold light in her eyes . "What serves him right . "
The doctor was inflamed that Yan Hui interrupted her: "Since when can I be interrupted by an outsider!" She threw a pill at Yan Hui . Yan Hui narrowed her eyes . From that throw, she could tell that although the doctor might be highly skilled in medicine, her athleticism really . . . . . .
Was so poor .
With a casual wave of her hand, Yan Hui blocked the medicine pill and rebounded it, so it landed on the doctor instead . The strength of Yan Hui's throw was much more than when the doctor threw . When the pill landed on the doctor's shoulder, she cried out in pain . The pill exploded open, and her shoulder immediately broke out in an itchy, hard-to-cure rash .
The doctor gritted her teeth and promptly started to rummage through her medicine case for the cure .
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"This Qing Qiu outsider will continue with what she was saying . The person behind me, what serves him right?" Taking advantage of the doctor's flustered state, Yan Hui loomed over her and said:
"If he loved, then he loved . If he got hurt, then he got hurt . If he was stupid, then he was stupid . Did he interfere with your business or life? It doesn't matter if he used to love a xian cultivator . Even if he loved a pig, or dog, or chicken, or even some rock lying in the road, that has absolutely nothing to do with you . He didn't do anything that let down others, that let down morality and ethics, that let down sincerity . The one that you should be scolding, the one that you should be rebuking is the one that schemed treachery and despicably trampled on a heart . This kind of base character has nothing to do if they are xian or demon, nothing to do with how they look . It's all to do with their heart and mind . "
"Nothing to do with you, with me, and even more nothing to do with him . "
The room was silent after Yan Hui's speech .
The doctor had found the medicine vial, but she didn't move . It was like the medicine she made no longer had the ability to cure the itch .
"Pu Fang!" From outside suddenly came a man's feeble sounding call .
The doctor recollected herself at the call . She grabbed her medicine case and, like a rabbit, ran out of the courtyard .
"It seems like you're forgetting how to control your temper . Get back here!" The person yelled out, but Pu Fang had already disappeared without a trace . The sound of coughing immediately followed .
Zhu Li immediately went to the doorway . It was a rare sight to see that half-grown, liked-to-pretend-to-be-arrogant child respectfully greet another: "Third Uncle . "
The still coughing man was supported into the room by servants . Zhu Li also hurriedly went to help .
Yan Hui couldn't help sighing when she saw the man . The everyone in the nine-tailed fox demon clan was so attractive, really too attractive . . . . . . . .
Even with a pair of gray eyes and not a wisp of vigor, the man's facial features were at a level of sharp handsomeness that ordinary people could only dream of .
Zhu Li supported the man to sit in the middle of the room . Even though that half-grown child called him uncle, the man didn't look much different than how a 20 year old would look . It was just that his countenance had a weight younger people wouldn't have .
"Tian Yao . . . . . . . "
Yan Hui was still observing the man's appearance when she suddenly heard him ruefully sigh Tian Yao's name . "20 years have past since you left . Have you been well?"