Please Spare My Life, Disciple of the Demon Lord

After the stormy night, Tingfeng Courtyard welcomed a beautiful and clear morning. Jiang Tingwan slept on the bed with a jar of wine in his arms all night. He woke up naturally but did not hear the expected sound from outside.

"What's going on? It's already past noon, why hasn't Mu Yunzhong come yet?"

Sui Jiu, who was sleeping on the side, also replied dazedly: "You said that he doesn't need to serve me until his injury is healed."

"Did I say that?" Jiang Tingwan vaguely couldn't remember what he said yesterday.

"You told me that when you came back yesterday."

Recalling what he really said, Jiang Tingwan smiled bitterly: "Really?"

If you say that Mu Yun is finally obedient, he still dared to kneel in the rain to set up a trap and take the risk of assassination yesterday; if you say that he is disobedient, he actually doesn't come now.

Then how can she sing the play she prepared today?

After Mu Qingge arrived at Sanyuan Sect, Mu Yunzhong would go to practice with Cang Shuzi, so he had to perform this scene before he left Tingfeng Courtyard.

I can't let him leave with hatred towards me.

Thinking of this, Jiang Tingwan could only put on his shoes, get out of bed, and feel around to see what was going on.

As soon as he left the inner courtyard, Jiang Tingwan was puzzled. Which room was Mu Yun in?

Jiang Tingwan, who didn't know where Mu Yun finally lived, could only grope his way through the rooms one by one, and finally found signs of human habitation in front of a small house outside the Tingfeng Courtyard.

This small house seemed to be built with inferior wood and thatch. The overall architectural style and materials were not in harmony with Tingfeng Courtyard.

To put it bluntly, it's like a high-end doghouse built by the owner for his dog.

"This Bai Wangshu really treats Mu Yunzhong like a dog?" Even Jiang Tingwan couldn't help but sigh, "Now I understand why Mu Yunzhong killed me first when he came ashore. This is simply the counterpart of sleeping on straw and tasting gall."

After saying that, Jiang Tingwan bent over and lay in front of the window of the hut, looking at the situation inside through the gap. As soon as he got closer, he saw a person lying on the ground in the house, unconscious.

Although it was just a silhouette from behind, Jiang Tingwan still recognized that it was Mu Yunzhong.

Jiang Tingwan immediately opened the door and walked in. He shook him hard, but he did not move at all.

"Muyunzhong!"

Jiang Tingwan used all his strength to turn him over. He saw blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, his whole body was burning, and his slightly open collar revealed dark red marks.

Jiang Tingwan pulled open the collar to reveal a complete claw mark, which was the claw mark of the fox demon.

Jiang Tingwan thought to himself: This guy saw that my strength had not decreased at all last night, so he deliberately let Qinglan give me another claw to prove his innocence?

"Muyunzhong?"

Jiang Tingwan slapped Mu Yunzhong on the face under the pretext of calling him, wanting to confirm whether he was also pretending at this moment.

"Are you really fainted?"

Seeing that he didn't react at all and feeling the high temperature of his skin at close range, Jiang Tingwan realized that Mu Yunzhong was serious. He immediately dragged Mu Yunzhong to the bed with great effort, and then went into the house to get a bunch of medicine.

Then he said to the unconscious Mu Yunzhong with regret: "I didn't expect that the medicine that the head brother gave me would be used on you."

Then he picked up one and asked, "Which one should I eat?"

"Forget it, just feed them all!"

After Jiang Tingwan finished speaking, he immediately fed Mu Yunzhong several kinds of pills. The elixirs that Cang Shuzi gave her were all top-grade elixirs, so even if she took the wrong ones, she would not die.

But when she ripped off Mu Yunzhong's clothes, revealing his bloody wounds, Jiang Tingwan's heart that only wanted to protect itself was moved once again.

In addition to the claw mark, there were also the whip marks left on his body by Bai Wangshu yesterday. That was a punishment with spiritual power, no different from the demon's claws. In addition, it was soaked by yesterday's heavy rain and was now corroding his flesh.

No wonder he actually fainted.

Jiang Tingwan couldn't explain how he felt after seeing those wounds with his own eyes, but his hands became much lighter and he became more cautious when choosing medicine.

After busying around for a while, Mu Yunzhong's fever finally subsided. Jiang Tingwan's heart, which had been hanging in the air for some unknown reason, also settled down. When he looked at Mu Yunzhong, he suddenly felt relieved.

"...water..." Mu Yunzhong, who was in a daze, suddenly spoke. Jiang Tingwan came to his senses and immediately went to find a glass of water.

Jiang Tingwan lifted Mu Yunzhong's head and fed him water bit by bit. Mu Yunzhong tried to open his eyes in a daze, but he could only vaguely see a person through the gap, which was not real.

After drinking the water, Mu Yun finally fell asleep again. Jiang Tingwan reached out and touched his forehead. The temperature had dropped a lot. Now that he had just stopped sweating, his body began to feel cool.

Jiang Tingwan pressed the quilt tighter and wiped his sweat with a hot towel. After guarding him for several hours, she got up and left.

Sui Jiu was puzzled: You just left like that? If he wakes up and can't see you, then all your efforts will be in vain?

A childish voice came from the void, puzzled by Jiang Tingwan's behavior.

Jiang Tingwan replied, "You don't understand? This is called playing hard to get. I've left medicine in the room, and he'll know it's me even if he uses his toes to figure it out. More importantly, with Bai Wangshu's ability, if he really wants to save him, he can just transfer some spiritual power to him. If I really stay, wouldn't it just make him suspicious? It's better for me to half-save him now, half-not, and let him figure it out on his own."

Sui Jiu in the void half understood, nodded as if he understood, but finally shook his head in confusion: "I don't understand! Sometimes what you humans say is really hard to understand."

Jiang Tingwan: "That's right, you don't understand. You can't help anyway."

Suijiu: ...

In the evening, Mu Yun finally woke up, and Qinglan appeared in his house again.

"Did she really take care of me the whole afternoon?" Mu Yun asked in disbelief after waking up.

Qinglan handed over the towel soaked in hot water, and answered puzzledly: "Qinglan did not dare to expose himself, so he could only watch from afar. The woman did stay in the house for a long time before leaving. But if she really wanted to save the young master, she would not have to do all this troublesome work. But if she didn't want to, these are indeed top-grade spiritual medicines."

Mu Yun finally wiped the sweat from his forehead with a hot handkerchief, and his eyes fell on the pile of elixirs left by Jiang Tingwan in the room. He could not figure out Jiang Tingwan's motives no matter how hard he tried.

Qinglan's eyes also shifted from the medicine to Mu Yunzhong's face, and he immediately blamed himself and said, "If Qinglan hadn't been so harsh, the young master wouldn't have fainted. Otherwise, we would know what kind of medicine that woman is selling in her gourd."

Hearing this, Mu Yun finally seemed to think of something unpleasant, and threw the handkerchief in his hand into the basin in annoyance, splashing layers of water stains.

Qinglan took a step forward to avoid it.

"It's not your fault. You have to act as if you are the one doing it. I did this to dispel her doubts, but I didn't expect that she would actually save me."

Speaking of the word "save", even Qinglan remembered how Jiang Tingwan saved Mu Yunzhong from her yesterday.

"That woman has indeed been acting a bit strange these past two days!" Qing Lan thought about it and nodded secretly, "Then Young Master, what should we do next...?"

Mu Yunzhong raised his hand to interrupt her, "Since she took care of me, I should thank my 'good master' even more."

After he finished speaking, Mu Yunzhong's eyes were full of doubt, but a strange smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.