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Ye Qingyi's mind was howling. "I was just transmigrated but now I'm going to be finished off by those horses' hoofs, what's more it was that b.i.t.c.h Ye Hongling who pushed me over!" She was dying from her grievance! 

Ye Qingyi figured that since she was clad in red, after she died perhaps she'd turn into a brutal ghost and eat Ye Hongling raw.

What came next was beyond her expectation as a pair of broad hands gripped her waist and within a split second Ye Qingyi had been seated into the carriage. With her senses just coming back to her, Ye Qingyi found herself in a rather luxurious carriage. There were low tables and soft couches, volumes of books and chessboards, and all the fixtures and fittings which one would need. It was nothing less than a small mobile house.

As she raised her head, a pair of freezing pupils were reflected in Ye Qingyi's eyes. A man was seated in a soft couch with carvings, wearing a golden-fringed black robe with a silver mask covering his face. One could not see his looks but could only tell that this man gave off an icy cold air sitting there like an iceberg. The guard stood beside him was a man in a tight black outfit with sharp eyebrows and s.h.i.+ning eyes who also looked like an ice cube without much emotion in his face.

Huangfu Yi sized up Ye Qingyi for a while. The woman in front of him had dark and coa.r.s.e skin and a light red birthmark as big as an elm seed on her right cheek. With such an appearance, she could not be considered beautiful at all, but the only exception could be her s.h.i.+ning black eyes which were like black pearls, smart and pure.

"Thank you for saving my life, sir," said Ye Qingyi who broke the silence of the carriage first.

Huangfu Yi didn't reply at all. He witnessed that woman in purple hurt his horses with silver needles, and she then tried to murder someone by another's hand and the victim was Ye Qingyi who had just visited the Beauty & Fragrance Pavilion.

After recognizing the woman just now, he rescued her at once. He was known as Ruthless Rakshasa Lord, cold and bloodthirsty. This time he actually took the initiative to rescue a strange woman. If this news was spread, others would not believe him, as he also did not know why he was not behaving like himself.

She didn't hear an answer. The master and servant were both like ice sculptures. Ye Qingyi frowned, forcing herself to say it again patiently, "Thank you for saving my life, sir."

There was silence; eternal silence.

Ye Qingyi's patience was instantly crushed and she said angrily, "Hey, are you really an ice cube? Although you just saved me, you don't have to be on a high horse all the time."

"Hey, watch your mouth! My lord was suffering from a cold poison seizure yet he went out of his way and saved you, yet you make such ungrateful remarks!" said Leng Yu furiously as he could not help thinking. 'Since when is my cold and aloof master so nosy that he would actually rescue such a presumptuous and plain-looking woman?'

Ye Qingyi paused and looked at him carefully, noticing that the lips of this masked man were almost transparent. If his cold poison seizure was triggered, he would feel more painful than death. The cold poison had penetrated his bones and no ordinary man could bear it, while the man in the mask took it so easily, which made Ye Qingyi admire him very much.

Leng Yu knitted his eyebrows and could not stand to see his lords.h.i.+p being tortured by the cold poison. Every time his lords.h.i.+p had a seizure, he would take a special pill made by the Immortal Doctor, Liu Ruyu. Although it could not cure the cold poison, it could relieve the pain, but it was a pity that all the pills had been taken. Meanwhile, since Liu Ruyu was a person of uncertain whereabouts, his lords.h.i.+p could only hold out against the seizure by himself.

Ye Qingyi was a person who clearly distinguished between kindness and hatred. She was both vengeful to her enemies and grateful to her saviours. It was thanks to the man in the mask that she was saved, and in the modern times she was an internationally well-known medical saint, so she decided to diagnose his health condition first.

Ye Qingyi was just moving to the couch when Leng Yu stared at her with a startled look and some suspicion in his tone. "What are you up to?"

Ye Qingyi jolted her eyebrows and replied sa.s.sily, "Did you not say your lord is having a cold poison seizure right now? I have medical skills, so I'll have a look. I, Ye Qingyi, don't like to owe any favours to anyone."

"You have medical skills?" Distrust was written all over Leng Yu's face. Ye Qingyi in the General's Mansion was a notorious good-for-nothing which he had heard so long a time ago.

The cold poisoning of his lords.h.i.+p had puzzled all the famous doctors in the whole state yet this woman, without missing a beat, dared to say that she had medical skills. Had he misheard her?

Ye Qingyi could not be bothered to waste her time on the guard, pulling Huangfu Yi's hand directly to her, and within a split second she felt as if his hands had been soaked for a thousand years in an icy pond, being so freezing cold that it made her s.h.i.+ver all of a sudden.

Leng Yu was stunned at first and then came back to his senses. He was just about to tell off Ye Qingyi when Huangfu Yi began to talk. His voice was as mellow as the clinking sound of jade tapping against jade. There was a s.e.xy twist in his ending tone. "Leng Yu, let her try."

"Yes, my lord." Replied Leng Yu who suppressed his shock.

Leng Yu glanced at his lords.h.i.+p in a complicated and confused mood. His lords.h.i.+p didn't like to hang out with women at all and no woman had ever been close to him, within three feet, let alone displayed such intimate, skin-touching behavior. He already found his lords.h.i.+p to be strange, but now only this notorious Ye Qingyi could come so near to him, which was unbelievable. In fact, even Huangfu Yi could not understand why he chose to believe the woman in front of him.

Although he had been outside the Shanhai Pa.s.s for many years, Ye Qingyi's reputation was too infamous not to be heard of. He had heard a lot about this woman's various unbearable stories. It was strange that he did not dislike her as much as others.

He could not help but think of the conversations he had heard between this woman and his brother in the Beauty & Fragrance Pavilion. He and his brother were always at odds. This woman was as clever as a fox. She fought against his brother and even knew how to win over public opinion and put pressure on his brother. Was such a woman really as bad as people said?

There was some spice being added to Huangfu Yi's gaze at Ye Qingyi. At the same time, Ye Qingyi calmed her mind. Her fingers were feeling Huangfu Yi's pulse. With the pa.s.sage of time, Ye Qingyi's face became more and more gloomy, but Huangfu Yi did not seem to care about it. Leng Yu, who stood beside him, repeatedly tightened and loosened his clenched fists, since he was so tense that it could not be put into words.

Ye Qingyi did not say a word for a long while and Leng Yu could not contain his worry for his master and asked, "How's my lord?"

Ye Qingyi withdrew her hands and did not answer Leng Yu's question, but started to talk in her own way. "He has been penetrated by cold poison for at least ten years…"

"That's right. My lord caught the cold poison when he was seven and it's been eleven years now…"

Ye Qingyi rolled her eyes towards Leng Yu before he had finished talking. He then took the hint and coughed lightly, saying, "Please continue."

Just like his names, Leng Yu was not a talkative person. He only interrupted Ye Qingyi because he was so happy and surprised to see that she really did have genuine skills and knowledge.

Huangfu Yi was surprised by Ye Qingyi's medical skills as well. He originally thought that, at most, she knew some shallow medical tricks, but did not expect this. When he caught a glance of Ye Qingyi rolling her eyes to Leng Yu, his bloodless, thin lips could not help curving secretly. He thought by himself, 'This woman seriously bears grudges.'

"The cold poison in your body will attack you more and more frequently as you grow older, and it will become more and more severe as time goes by."