Phoniex Requiem
Chapter 85: Removing Poison

Chapter 85: Removing Poison

"The good boy. On behalf of my son, I apologize to you, Miss Yi.” Rong Yi helped Yi Qianying stand up and helped her get rid of the wild hairs on her temples.

Yun Ruoyao clearly did not understand Yi Qianying's thought process. The crown princess will become the future empress! Was Yi Qianying crazy, giving up the opportunity on such strength and prestige ?!

On the other hand, Yun Ruoyan examined her cousin seriously.

"Your sister is not a simple girl to deal with," whispered Li Mo into Yun Ruoyan's ears. "But with me around you, you don't have to fear anything."

Thus the conclusion of the three-year flower-watching party.

Instead of returning to the Yi family, Yi Qianying followed Yun Ruoyao and Yun Ruoyan back to the Yun family. When Yun Lan found out about what had happened, even though she thought it was somewhat damaging to Yun's reputation, she was satisfied that the crown prince was at least responsible for the showdown.

His grandmother, the matriarch Yun, pondered the news calmly. She looked at Yi Qianying with a complicated expression while pondering over the information, as if trying to understand what she thought of the matter. After quite a while, he finally closed his old, wrinkled eyes. Madam An was the happiest, and she gave Yi Qianying a pair of cat-eye earrings as a gift.

“Mother, the empress originally handed Yi Qianying the position of crown princess, but she completely rejected it! I can't believe she's willing to accept the role of one of her concubines, ”Yun Ruoyao told her mother at her residence.

The crown prince can have two concubines, but only one crown princess. The crown princess could even ascend the throne. How could Yi Qianying let go of such a precious position?

“This is what makes Qianying so smart,” comments Mrs An, while pruning the newly grown peony flowers. “This child knows his place in society. The position of the crown princess was indeed precious, so precious that she did not deserve it. If she accepts the empress' offer, I promise you, she won't live to see another year".

Hearing his mother's words, Yun Ruoyao felt cold sweat drenching her back. If she was found to be in the same state, she would accept the empress' offer without a second thought. What's gonna happen to her?

Madam An obviously knew what Yun Ruoyao was thinking, as she smiled and continued, “Dumb girl, you don't have to worry about any of this. Although she was the only daughter born from a wife, Yun Ruoyan could hardly find a groom. Among princess Yun, you will have the grandest marriage and the greatest dowry, and you will definitely have the status of crown princess."

Yun Ruoyao thought back to the crown prince's behavior yesterday. "No, oh no." He immediately shook his head. “Having Qianying there is enough.”

Madam An looked towards the deep red peony flower and smiled in satisfaction. "Qianying should consider herself lucky to be the crown prince's concubine, given her birth."

Yun Ruoyao then told her mother about the Slaughterer King and Yun Ruoyan. While Madam An was initially surprised, she then started laughing. It was fitting that an eccentric personality like the Slaughter King would choose someone like Yun Ruoyan.

“But wouldn't that be a problem for us, Mom?”

“The Slaughterer King might be famous throughout the continent, but he doesn't have a good reputation. There was no war in sight, and his martial skills meant nothing in peacetime. Removing an annoying girl like Yun Ruoyan from this household will not hurt us.”

The annoying Yun Ruoyan felt extremely irritated at herself. The Slaying King, whom he had rarely met in the past, was now starting to appear with increasing frequency in his room. Moreover, like Li Qianhan, he did not like to pass through the main entrance.

Unlike Li Qianhan, Yun Ruoyan could not even sense Li Mo's presence at all. He slipped in and out almost as if he was a ghost, and even Qiuqiu had no other way to fight him.

One night, Yun Ruoyan was just about to wash the birthmark from her face when the window behind her opened, and Li Mo entered her room like a gust of wind. It was so shocking to Yun Ruoyan that she almost spilled her water basin.

Li Mo handed the white jade bottle to Yun Ruoyan, which supposedly contained a "magic ointment to improve her appearance", and refused to leave until she applied it on her skin.

Without any other path, Yun Ruoyan could only do so. At Li Mo's request, he applied a fragrant smelling ointment evenly to his entire face, then closed his eyes for about fifteen minutes. When he opened it again, Li Mo had disappeared.

The other afternoon, while he was meditating, he suddenly felt someone watching him. When he opened his eyes, he was so shocked that his heart almost came out of his ribs.

Li Mo's ink-dark eyes were right in front of him, and their noses almost touched. He reached out to push her away, but Li Mo instead dragged her into his embrace. He was about to shout when Li Mo kissed him excitedly.

Yun Ruoyan began to struggle earnestly, but the more she did, the more ferocious Li Mo kissed her. In the end, she almost cried. When he blinked, tears flowed upwards and flowed down his face, and the pervert actually caught him with a finger and tasted him. He even seemed to enjoy it, as if his tears were some sort of delicacy.

Afterwards, with her magnetic voice, she added, “Yan'er, you are really tasty. If it wasn't for restraint, I'd have eaten you a long time ago.”

Yun Ruoyan was convinced that Li Mo was an extraordinary pervert. The crystallizing wisdom of his many relationships with him was that, as long as he ignored and did not respond to his seduction, then he would be safe.

At that moment, Li Mo would just stare at him silently before sighing, "Yan'er, it's no fun if you don't fight."

After he had done that a few times, the Slaying King finally stopped appearing for several days in a row.

Two days later, after Yun Ruoyan confirmed that her back window was tightly closed, she finally relaxed and washed her face cleanly. His fake birthmark had long since hardened, and Yun Ruoyan had to remove the impurities from his face.

"Oh, this is very convenient." Yun Ruoyan buried her entire head into the bathtub before letting out a satisfied groan.

In order to deal with Li Mo's sudden appearance, Yun Ruoyan kept a fake birthmark on her face, unable to wash it off so that Li Mo did not appear at the right moment. In the sweltering summer, half of his face was trapped in what was essentially the same as an airtight mask.

It was a very uncomfortable feeling, and it just so happened that the ointment Lin Zainan gave her was not harmful to the skin. Otherwise, he would definitely experience prickly heat all over the left part of his face.

Yun Ruoyan lay in the bathtub as she glanced at the ointment Li Mo continued to bring for her. It is a brown, sticky substance and its consistency is somewhat gel-like. He rubbed it on his palm, waited until it frothy, then applied the gel to his face.

If nothing else, applying it on her face gave her a very satisfying feeling, so much so that she would not be able to sleep well without doing so.

It was already late at night, and after Yun Ruoyan finished her night cultivation routine, she immediately fell asleep.

The long fingernails slowly poked the deadbolt into his back window, and the tightly closed latch easily slipped away after some deft manipulation. Li Mo opened the window and jumped into his room.

Yun Ruoyan turned around in her sleep, her mouth forming a slight smile. The moonlight on the midsummer night was like a bright white veil in front of her bed.

The black shadow slowly stepped on this veil.

Li Mo glanced at Yun Ruoyan. In his sleep, with the birthmark removed from his face, he shone brighter than even the brightest phoenix orchid.

“Xun Mo,” Qiuqiu's carefree voice was transmitted directly to his head through that bracelet. "You've fallen in love with my master."

"How can you be sure?" A smile still hung on Li Mo's lips.

“From the way you looked at my employer. This was how the Beast King looked at his empress in the past. ”

"Is that so?" Li Mo raised his eyebrows.

“That's why I'm sure you like it,” chirped Qiuqiu happily. "I'm afraid you've suddenly changed your mind and want to kill my master, but now you're even going to protect him!"

Li Mo reached out a hand, wanting to touch Yun Ruoyan's face. However, before he did, he paused and said, "Qiuqiu, do you remember Hua'er?"

"Hua'er?" Li Mo's sudden question left Qiuqiu perplexed for a moment. “Oh, the magical beast that the empress gave you? Leopard cubs leopards?”

“I liked it so much, back then. It was always very obedient, very charming. The fur is as soft as silk, and I like to touch it while I'm asleep.” Li Mo seemed to be reminiscing about a pleasant memory. "But when I escaped from the slaughter of animal skins, I ate them." Li Mo's tone turned rough, raspy, like spring returning to a harsh winter. “I ate his flesh, drank his blood, and sewed his skin into a pair of comfortable boots.”

He grinned at Yun Ruoyan's bracelet. “I like a lot of things, Qiuqiu, and I have destroyed a lot of things I like. Don't try to predict my actions, and don't dare reveal my identity to your employer. Otherwise, to protect myself, I might destroy my other valuables again.”

A long silence followed.

“I understand,” Qiuqiu finally said.

Li Mo nodded, satisfied. Yun Ruoyan looked better than before, and she knew her medicinal ointment was working.

Although he did not know how Yun Ruoyan had managed to cure her poison, he had discovered that the skin under her birthmark, which had scars, still contained quite a bit of poison. It won't hurt him in the short term, but there will be long-term effects if the poison isn't cleared up completely.

The deadly poison deepened Li Mo's curiosity. Where did such a powerful poison come from, and who had poisoned Lin Yuemei?