"You've only slept for half an hour. Why don't you sleep a little longer? Did I wake you up?"

His fingertips rubbed Su's soft and round shoulders, which still left shallow marks. After applying the ointment a few more times, the skin would return to its original delicate state.

"cold."

Huo Yan's fingers were a little cold, and while Su Ruanruan wasn't paying attention, he had already slid along her shoulders into the quilt, causing her to tremble.

The cool breath of lips also came on her shoulder. Su Runrun's cheeks were rosy and tender, her eyebrows were as black as green mountains, and the lingering blush on her face had not yet dissipated, making her look like a ripe peach.

When he wanted to make another move, Su bit his wrist.

"Get up."

But Huo Yan remained unmoved, clinging to her back like a tightly clasped spoon.

"General Huo, if you have no place to vent your energy, go out for a walk and sweep the snow."

Huo Yan chuckled, "Have you guessed my identity?"

"If I can't guess it again, then I've lived in vain..."

He practices martial arts in the yard every day. He is strong and healthy, and has so many new and old wounds on his body. His palms are covered with calluses. It is really hard not to guess.

In fact, she had thought of it before, but she was not sure. Now he has admitted it himself.

It turns out that he is really a great general.

But, what on earth was he doing here?

Su Ruanruan moved her sore waist, and Huo Yan's big hands rubbed her waist, "Don't move, I'll hold you for a while."

Su Ruanruan was silent for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "Huo Yan, why did you come to the northwest? And why are you still hiding here?"

Huo Yan pinched the soft flesh on her waist and said, "It's not good for you to know too much."

"Huo Yan, why do you always appear in the mountains?"

"I remember asking you if you were hunting. What did you say?"

"You said, 'The prey is too cunning, so we have to take it slowly.'"

"So, what exactly is your prey?"

Behind her, no one answered for a long time, and Su Ruanruan even wondered if Huo Yan had fallen asleep.

But he approached her, staring at her with his inky black eyes.

Su Ruanruan felt a little numb from his stare, so she reached out and pushed him, "Get up."

"Who are you? I sent someone to ask Gu Ji. He was the first one to provide you with the herbs you used to disguise your face."

"Even that cave was found by him and you. He has seen your true face."

"So, this body of yours is indeed Su Ruanruan." But Huo Yan changed the subject and said, "But there are too many unreasonable things about you. Who taught you to play the piano? And who did you learn the method of making ice from?"

"Just before you woke up, I went to the courtyard where you and...he lived. None of the books on his bookshelf mentioned the method of hiding and revealing by writing. I also went to Tianhong Academy, and the students there had not seen any special books either."

"So, he knew the method and told you, or did you already know it yourself?"

Huo Yan looked at the shock in Su Ruanruan's eyes, and said slowly, "Not only that, I also found something interesting."

Huo Yan took out two pieces of paper from his arms, on which were written beautiful hairpin-shaped small characters. Su Runrun took a closer look.

One was the bill from the tofu shop, and the other was the script she had not finished, which she had left on the desk in her room at Mu Bai's house.

And their handwriting was exactly the same, so she couldn't deny it.

"So, you are the one who provides the storybooks to the bookstore, wearing a veil and speaking with a foreign accent?"

"You really are... a treasure map!"

"Even if he teaches you to read seriously, the real Su Ruanruan can't learn to write well in such a short time."

"There is no trace of disguise on your face, so who are you?"

Su Ruanruan pursed her lips. She had originally wanted to take the initiative and ask him about it first.

Now, I am so passive.

She hooked her arm around Huo Yan's neck and said, "If I tell you that I am a wandering ghost in the human world, will you be afraid of me? Will you still protect me?"

Huo Yan whispered in her ear, "Why should I be afraid of you? It's my blessing to know you."

……

The snow finally stopped after two days, and the sun showed its long-lost smile. Su Runrun stood in the yard, watching the snow on the eaves gradually melt, falling drop by drop to the ground.

Now, Huo Yan doesn't even let her leave the yard.

Yesterday, she was planning to go to the tofu shop, but she met some bad guys on the way and was almost kidnapped.

In the end, Huo Yan showed up in time to stop them. When the gang realized they couldn't kidnap her, they wanted to kill her.

She remembered that when the blade was only half a finger away from her chest, the man's head was chopped off by Huo Yan, and blood splattered all over her face.

Others were also surrounded by Jin Yu and Niu Mang, but those people committed suicide by hiding poison in their teeth.

Then, she was brought back by Jin Yu and Niu Mang.

These two people have been taking turns sitting on the wall since yesterday, and no one knows where Huo Yan has gone.

"Aunt Su, would you like some buns?" Niu Mang sat on the wall, looking outside with his eyes rolling.

Su Ruanruan, "..."

"Don't call me auntie, call me Miss Su or Su Ruanruan."

"That won't do. You are my eldest brother's concubine. I can't call you that anymore. I can only call you Aunt Su. I know this."

Su Ruanruan walked towards the wall and looked up at Niu Mang who was sitting there.

"Do you want to take a concubine too?"

Niu Mang was so shocked by these words that he almost dropped the bun in his hand. He said quickly, "Don't say that. I didn't say that."

"Really? You don't have any thoughts about Miss Madoka?"

"How could I have any thoughts about her? I just treat her as my sister..."

Su Ruanruan spread her hands and said, "I don't believe you are saying one thing and thinking another."

As he was speaking, Niu Mang's eyes lit up, "Brother is back."

Su Ruanruan looked towards the door and saw that Huo Yan had indeed returned.

Huo Yan's stern brows gradually relaxed when he saw Su Ruanruan standing in the yard.

Seeing him coming back, Niu Mang tactfully disappeared from the wall.

"Where have you been?" Huo Yan approached, and Su Runrun smelled blood on him.

"Hey, I went to do a little errand. I'm going to change my clothes first, and then I'll take you out for dinner."

Huo Yan didn't move closer to Su Ruanruan, but walked into the house, brushing against her shoulder.

"Stop!" Su Ruanruan quickly chased after him.

He exchanged glances with Huo Yan and reached out to untie his cloak.

The green clothes with some blood stains were revealed.

Su Ruanruan looked at the spurting blood and knew that it was not his blood.

But, is this human blood or animal blood?

"What on earth did you do with these?"

Now that she had discovered him, Huo Yan did not hide it anymore. He was afraid that these traces of his would scare her.

But then he remembered that his delicate and soft woman was different from others, and she was not afraid of these things.

Huo Yan stretched out his hand and pinched her smooth little face, "I'm going to vent your anger for you."

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