Couldn’t she have at least sent him a letter?
No matter how much he disliked Chu Yun, he wouldn’t have stood by and done nothing.
Zhaixing, tears welling in her eyes, looked strangely at Xie Zhaoshen: “Miss, why are you cursing yourself?”
Xie Zhaoshen snapped angrily: “I feel like it!”
Zhaixing choked back her words: “It’s not like Miss hasn’t resisted. Openly and secretly, she’s made them suffer plenty. It’s just… living under someone else’s roof, it’s not good to truly tear the face apart.”
Xie Zhaoshen sneered and cursed again: “Serves her right!”
Back then, when he learned of Chu Yun’s situation, he proposed marrying as soon as possible, at least to give Chu Yun a place to settle down. But not only did Chu Yun refuse, she even deliberately chose words that stabbed him right in the heart.
Zhaixing’s eyes brimmed with tears: “Miss, why are you cursing yourself again?”
Xie Zhaoshen was speechless: “Let’s not talk about this. First, find a way to contact me… contact General Xie.”
Since he had inexplicably possessed Chu Yun’s body, Chu Yun had most likely possessed his.
Zhaixing said: “What? General Xie is back?”
Xie Zhaoshen frowned. He had sent a letter to Chu Yun before setting off, informing her that he would be detouring through Jiangzhou. Judging by Zhaixing’s reaction, she seemed completely unaware of this?
Thinking further about the Meng Family’s scheme to marry Chu Yun off, he immediately understood—his letters had likely all been intercepted by the Meng Family.
Xie Zhaoshen licked his left canine tooth again. That kick earlier had landed in the wrong place—it should have been aimed at Meng Zhuo’s family jewels!
Xie Zhaoshen said: “Yes, find a way to contact him as soon as possible.”
Zhaixing replied: “Miss has some shops in Jiangzhou, and the people there listen to her. This servant will go find someone to contact General Xie right away.”
Wiping away her tears, Zhaixing stood up to leave. When she reached the door, she turned back, asking worriedly: “Just now, the young master said he was going to divorce Miss. What should we do?”
A fierce glint flashed again in Xie Zhaoshen’s eyes: “Let him die!”
Zhaixing was stunned. The Miss after losing her memory had suddenly become so terrifying. Not daring to say another word, she hurried out to find someone.
After Zhaixing left, Xie Zhaoshen picked up the bronze mirror and looked at the face he had hated for years, yet also missed for years.
How unpredictable life was—the once dazzling noble lady of Shangjing had fallen to such a state.
If he hadn’t possessed Chu Yun’s body, he would have mocked her thoroughly!
But then Xie Zhaoshen thought of something else. In the recent battle against Rouyi, although he had achieved remarkable military feats and been appointed as a general, the cost was a body full of scars. The deepest one, due to the fatigue of travel, still hadn’t healed.
This was truly a matter of life and death.
That crybaby Chu Yun—when she was little and followed him around, if she accidentally scraped a patch of skin the size of a fingernail on her elbow, she would tear up and cry endlessly, making it seem as if he had bullied her.
If Chu Yun had to endure the pain from all his wounds, wouldn’t she scream and wail, crying until the heavens and earth turned dark?
Thinking of this, Xie Zhaoshen felt a wave of despair.
His lifelong reputation was likely to be ruined by Chu Yun!
“Ahhhh!”
“It hurts! It hurts!”
“It hurts so much!”
Pig-slaughter-like screams echoed in the room. Doctor Lin, applying the medicine, was drenched in cold sweat, while the guards inside all looked shocked.
Deputy General Du Huan finally couldn’t take it anymore and said to Doctor Lin: “What’s wrong with you today! How could you make the General suffer so much pain!”
Doctor Lin wiped the sweat from his forehead. “The medicine is the same medicine, and the application technique is ordinary.”
Du Huan asked, “Then why is the general screaming like this?”
It wasn’t just Du Huan; the others were equally puzzled.
Their general was someone who, even after being wounded on the snowy plains, could charge for two hundred li and still raise his spear to annihilate the entire Shuomo Army. Back then, when he underwent bone-scraping treatment, he merely furrowed his brows. So why, after more than a month with this wound, was he suddenly crying out in pain?
Chu Yun, in her high fever, only managed to catch a few words. Amid the pain, her thoughts were chaotic, and she thought her hypocritical aunt wasn’t even pretending anymore, directly taking a knife to scrape her flesh.
Wait, why were there several men’s voices in her boudoir?
In her panic, Chu Yun broke into another cold sweat. Could it be that scraping her flesh wasn’t enough, and they also wanted to ruin her reputation after her death?
Damn them!
She would rather die than be manipulated by them.
Struggling through the intense pain, Chu Yun forced her eyes open. Seeing several burly, muscular men, her vision went dark. Hoarsely, she said, “How much silver did she give you? I’ll pay ten times that.”
After speaking, she herself was stunned.
This…
This wasn’t her voice.
Her voice was melodious like a nightingale’s song, but the sound she had just made was rough and raspy.
Of course, being unpleasant wasn’t the most important thing; what mattered was that this was a man’s voice!
Chu Yun thought she must have misheard, so she steadied herself and spoke again: “That voice just now…”
Horrifying!!
“General! You’re awake?” Du Huan leaned in with concern, not daring to mention her earlier pig-slaughtering screams.
General?
Chu Yun looked down and realized this was a man’s body, and a rather familiar one at that.
Doctor Lin brought over a bowl of medicine. “General, drink this medicine quickly. Only after drinking it will your fever go down.”
Chu Yun lowered her head and saw, reflected in the swaying medicine bowl, a face she had bitterly resented for many years and also missed for many years.
Sword-like eyebrows slanted sharply toward the temples, the corners of the eyes slightly upturned with a hint of severity, pupils dark and deep like a cold pool, and a slightly parted mouth in surprise, revealing a canine tooth.
This face was too familiar!
Xie Zhaoshen!
How could she be Xie Zhaoshen?
Then where had Xie Zhaoshen gone?
Chu Yun drank the medicine in a daze, the bitterness in her mouth reminding her this wasn’t a dream.
Under everyone’s concerned gazes, Chu Yun asked tremulously, “What… what happened to me?”
Doctor Lin replied, “General, your old wounds haven’t healed. You were supposed to return to the capital with the main troops to rest properly, but you insisted on detouring to Jiangzhou, traveling day and night, causing your old injuries to flare up. You’ve been burning with fever for a full day and night.”
Jiangzhou?
Chu Yun blinked. Why would Xie Zhaoshen go to Jiangzhou?
Du Huan was impatient by nature and now spoke with frustration: “When the general went off to war, that woman, afraid of being widowed, rushed to break off the engagement! Later, as soon as she finished mourning, she married someone else. It’s clear she’s restless and discontent. Why should you exhaust yourself running around for such a woman?”
Chu Yun paused before realizing “that woman” was herself. She coughed and tried to defend herself: “I… perhaps she had her reasons?”
Du Huan said, “What reasons could she have! You didn’t even mind the decline of the Chu Mansion and were willing to fulfill the marriage contract, yet she was afraid of being widowed and refused. Now that you’ve returned victorious, you’re still worried she might not be doing well, visiting her despite your injuries.”
Chu Yun fell silent. Xie Zhaoshen was worried she might not be doing well?
More like worried she was doing too well.
Back then, to break off the engagement with Xie Zhaoshen, the things she said were utterly heartless.
He was such a proud man, driven to the point of reddened eyes, and without a word, he rode off on his horse, leaving her to swallow a mouthful of dust.
Even if Xie Zhaoshen had detoured to Jiangzhou for her sake, it was only to mock her.
Chu Yun felt a headache coming on—not just her head, but her entire body ached. “How much longer until we reach Jiangzhou?”
With everything in chaos before her, she had to see Xie Zhaoshen first.