Chapter 40 Gentleness Appears
"It's me." Xie Lingxiao's voice rang out.
Sensing that something was wrong, Shen Jingxuan suddenly opened the window.
Without waiting for the window to be fully opened, Xie Lingxiao's body rushed in through the open window, threw himself into Shen Jingxuan's arms, and knocked her down with him.
The two men fell to the ground, and Xie Lingxiao still had his eyes closed and did not move.
Shen Jingxuan pushed his body away with force, and seeing that he was still unconscious, she had no choice but to move him to the bed.
Seeing the unconscious Xie Lingxiao, Shen Jingxuan felt inexplicably anxious.
Shen Jingxuan felt his pulse and realized that something was wrong with his body, as if he had been poisoned.
Because of his weak body and excessive bleeding, he fell into a coma.
Shen Jingxuan hurriedly undressed Xie Lingxiao and checked where he was injured.
When Shen Jingxuan saw the palm-long knife wound on his stomach, she was stunned.
She didn't care about anything else, and instantly took out the alcohol in the space and quickly cleaned Xie Lingxiao's wound.
After she cleaned the wound, Shen Jingxuan found her homemade healing medicine and helped Xie Lingxiao apply it.
Seeing that he was frowning, not sure whether it was because of the pain in the wound or because the medicine made him uncomfortable, Shen Jingxuan slowed down the speed of applying the medicine.
By the time she had packed everything, more than two hours had passed.
Shen Jingxuan was exhausted and sat down on the footstool beside the bed, not wanting to move. She stared at the person on the bed.
At this time, Xie Lingxiao no longer knew where he was.
He just felt uncomfortable all over, as if he was in a dream and returned to his childhood.
At that time, his mother was still around, and he lived a happy life every day.
Then suddenly one day, his mother died in front of him.
Xie Lingxiao cried and shouted, but he still couldn't get his mother back.
His mother left him just like that.
After his mother died, his temperament suddenly changed.
He no longer laughed or spoke, sometimes not saying a word for the whole day. Later, the Queen Mother raised him.
The Queen Mother had her own children before, but they died tragically in the palace when they were very young.
Xie Lingxiao has always known that there was something strange about his mother's death.
But so many years have passed, and he still hasn't found any clues.
And this seemed to have become a knot in his heart that could never be untied.
Every time I wake up in the middle of the night, I seem to be able to hear my mother's last words before she died.
She allowed herself to live a good life and grow up happily.
But without his mother, how could he be happy and live well?
The only reason he has survived to this day is because of his obsession with finding out the cause of his mother's death, and that's all.
"Mother...Mother..." Xie Lingxiao murmured softly.
Shen Jingxuan sat on the footstool and fell asleep in a daze.
I had just fallen asleep when I was awakened by his mumbling.
She sat up and saw Xie Lingxiao still lying there, muttering something.
Shen Jingxuan slowly approached him, wanting to hear his words clearly.
When the voice sounded again, Shen Jingxuan finally heard clearly that he was calling his mother.
Because of her proximity just now, Shen Jingxuan was very close to Xie Lingxiao.
At this moment, she suddenly realized that Xie Lingxiao's body temperature was very high. Even without contact, Shen Jingxuan still felt the heat on her face.
She brought more water, kept wiping Xie Lingxiao, and then changed the water, repeating this process over and over again.
It was not until dawn that Xie Lingxiao's feverish body finally returned to normal.
Shen Jingxuan fell asleep sitting on the footstool exhausted.
After an unknown amount of time, Xie Lingxiao suddenly opened his eyes, looked at a somewhat familiar place, and forgot to react for a moment.
When he was about to stand up, his arm was pressed by a foreign object. Xie Lingxiao looked sideways suspiciously.
He turned his eyes slightly, and what came into view was Shen Jingxuan's sleeping face.
Xie Lingxiao suddenly understood why he felt this place was familiar, it was because this was Shen Jingxuan's boudoir.
Thinking about going out of the city to deal with things last night, I learned about the death of Shen Jingxuan's father and got some news.
Xie Lingxiao wanted to deal with the matter and then go back to the city to tell Shen Jingxuan.
But he didn't expect that he would be ambushed along the way.
Xie Lingxiao didn't bring many people with him, but it seemed like the people who surrounded him were endless. After one group died, the next group came to fill in.
Until later, he finally killed the last man, but he was already exhausted.
Xie Lingxiao's consciousness gradually became blurred at that time, and he didn't expect to come to Shen Jingxuan's place.
He looked at Shen Jingxuan quietly and saw that she was sleeping soundly on his arms.
After an unknown amount of time, Shen Jingxuan felt someone staring at her, and she slowly opened her eyes.
A pair of dark eyes like the dawn were staring at her. The dark eyes were so deep and so gentle...
Gentle? Shen Jingxuan suddenly woke up and stood up abruptly.
However, his legs became uncontrollable due to sitting in the same position for too long, and his body fell towards the bed.
Xie Lingxiao saw her fall over, raised his hands and supported Shen Jingxuan who was rushing towards him.
Seeing the face so close to them, the two of them stood there in a daze, unable to come back to their senses for a long time.
They maintained this posture, staring at each other, as if they could see into each other's hearts through their eyes.
There were footsteps outside the door, and the two people came back to their senses instantly. Shen Jingxuan quickly stood up.
Chuntao's voice rang out: "Miss, are you up?"
Shen Jingxuan's pretty face turned slightly red at this time, and she hesitated how to start.
Fortunately, Xie Lingxiao supported her in time, otherwise they might have collided with each other.
Thinking about how their faces almost touched each other just now, Shen Jingxuan's face turned even redder.
She pretended to be calm: "Not yet, I'll call you when I wake up."
Hearing Chuntao's response and the footsteps leaving outside the door, Shen Jingxuan's heart slowly settled down.
The two of them looked at each other in silence, and the room became unusually quiet for a moment.
After a while, there was a sound of someone getting dressed on the bed. Shen Jingxuan hurried over and said, "Your injury is very serious and you can't move."
Seeing that Shen Jingxuan not only took care of him all night, but also cared about him so much at this time, Xie Lingxiao's heart gradually warmed.
"No problem." He looked at Shen Jingxuan and said.
Thinking of the news from the secret guard last night, Xie Lingxiao hesitated for a moment, but finally spoke out.
"Last night, the secret guard reported that your father's death was indeed strange. I came here to tell you about it."
Shen Jingxuan frowned when she heard this: "Don't you know you're injured? If you hadn't rushed to me, you would have died on the way here."
"You could have just sent someone to tell me. Why bother coming here in person when you're so badly injured?"
Listening to Shen Jingxuan's scolding, Xie Lingxiao remained silent.
He didn't know why, but even though he was being scolded, he could hear that Shen Jingxuan cared about him.
Thinking of his emotional changes every time because of Shen Jingxuan, Xie Lingxiao was puzzled.
He had never come into contact with other women and didn't understand what was going on during this period.
I just feel that since meeting Shen Jingxuan, his emotions have become more and more, and I don’t know whether it is good or bad.
Thinking of this, Xie Lingxiao frowned: "It's not that easy for me to die."
"Do you know that you were not only injured, but also poisoned?" Shen Jingxuan asked Xie Lingxiao.
Xie Lingxiao touched the wound and looked up at Shen Jingxuan: "Oh, the foolish girl known throughout the capital?"
"If they knew that you not only know medicine but also poison, I wonder what their expressions would be."
Shen Jingxuan looked as if it had nothing to do with her: "What if I know? What if I don't know? No matter what they say, I don't care."
Xie Lingxiao looked at her and curled the corners of his lips: "Miss Shen is indeed different."
"What? You don't call her ugly anymore?"
Shen Jingxuan pursed her lips and said, "Xie Lingxiao, your poison needs to be removed as soon as possible."
"Well, we are still missing a few medicinal herbs."
Seeing that Xie Lingxiao was unwilling to mention this matter, Shen Jingxuan also stopped talking about it.
He is neither anxious nor concerned. Even if she talks her mouth off, he will still remain indifferent.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Xie Lingxiao said, "Don't you want to know about your father? Why don't you ask?"
"Waiting for you to say it." Shen Jingxuan said lightly.
Xie Lingxiao glanced at her: "Come here."
Shen Jingxuan came to his side, and Xie Lingxiao motioned for her to get closer to him.
When the two were close enough, Xie Lingxiao leaned over to Shen Jingxuan's ear and whispered something.
Shen Jingxuan's hands gradually clenched, and her face became darker and darker.