"How do you feel now? Does your chest still hurt?" Chu Feiyan sat down on the edge of the bed and looked at him.

"I'm fine now... cough cough..." He was about to speak when he coughed out a trace of blood.

"How could this happen?" Chu Feiyan's face changed and she quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth.

Liang Ying, who was standing next to her, said, "Princess, the master was poisoned last night. He had alternating hot and cold sensations. He had just soaked in the medicine barrel to detoxify when those assassins rushed in! Because the soaking time was not enough, the poison in the master's body could not be suppressed..."

"Liang Ying, I have something to say to the princess, you go down first!" Gong Beixuan interrupted him and waved his hand to let him go out.

"Yes!" Liang Ying had no choice but to go out first.

Chu Feiyan held his hand and said, "Why didn't my body sense the onset of your poison this time?"

"What we can sense between each other is the love poison, and I was poisoned by it when I was a child. Although it is not fatal, it can make people suffer from severe pain." Gong Beixuan smiled faintly at her, and his smile was miserable.

"You were assassinated because of me." Chu Feiyan felt guilty. "Gong Beixuan, I told you before that the emperor has pushed me to the forefront and made me a shield for the prince. People who are close to me..."

Gong Beixuan covered her mouth with his hand, "Don't talk nonsense, this has nothing to do with you. You and I don't have much interaction on the surface, it's impossible for you to kill me for no reason just because we met a few times."

Chu Feiyan pulled down his hand and didn't continue what she had just said. "After dinner, let's practice together tonight! Maybe it can alleviate your pain."

They hadn't practiced together for four days, and tonight was the day they had agreed to practice.

"Yeah." Gong Beixuan nodded slightly. Seeing her tired look, he couldn't help but feel distressed: "You've worked hard for my sake."

"This is my duty." Chu Feiyan felt guilty again when talking about this:

"During this period of time, many people from the underworld have been stranded in Jinxiu City. I knew something would happen. I was careless and did not check on these people earlier. Otherwise, what happened last night might not have happened."

"These wanderers are nothing but a group of rabble! They go wherever there is profit, but they all have one characteristic. Although they love money, they value their lives even more. Even if they are given a lot of money, they dare not assassinate a country's national teacher. Maybe someone is taking advantage of this and wants to divert our judgment." Gong Beixuan said.

Chu Feiyan's eyes darkened; she had also thought of this.

This was a premeditated assassination. The killers were well-trained and highly skilled in martial arts. They were definitely not wanderers, but it is possible that they were from martial arts sects, such as those with marks on their bodies.

But the mastermind behind this is very cunning. He has pulled the martial arts sects into his own camp. If the assassination fails or the court starts investigating, he can shift the attention to the martial arts sects.

But why did the person behind this want to kill Gong Beixuan? Who did he get in the way of?

Thinking of this, she suddenly realized that she knew nothing about Gong Beixuan's life experience. "Gong Beixuan, where are you from? Who else is in your family?"

Gong Beixuan held her hand and told her his life story: "I am from Dalin. My mother died of illness when I was six years old. My father had many wives and concubines. My stepmother was cruel and could not tolerate me. The poison in my body was put in by her. But when my father knew the truth, he did not seek justice for me. Instead, he despised me for being useless.

The people in the back house have always flattered the powerful and bullied the weak. When they saw that my father had given up on me, the servants who usually served me changed their ways and ran to curry favor with my stepmother. At my stepmother's instigation, these people bullied me openly and secretly. They only gave me a few moldy steamed buns to eat every day. Because I was so hungry, I often sneaked to the kitchen in the middle of the night to find food.

Once they found me, beat me up and locked me in the woodshed. I didn’t have a drop of water for two days. I was so thirsty and hungry that I couldn’t even stand up. In addition, the poison in my body was acting up, and I felt very uncomfortable.

I thought I was going to die that time. Just as I was waiting for death to come, my master suddenly appeared in front of me and asked me if I was willing to go with him. I thought he was a god who came to save me from suffering, so I nodded and agreed without hesitation.

So, the master held me and found my father, saying that he and I had a predestined relationship as a master and disciple, and hoped to take me away. My father only took one look at me, waved his hand in disgust, and asked the master to take me away quickly.

Chu Feiyan's eyes turned red after hearing this. She didn't expect his life story to be so tragic. "It's better not to have family like that. Just having me is enough for you in the future!"

"Yes." Gong Beixuan raised his hand and smoothed her hair. "Ayan, I have been tortured by poison for more than ten years and have become indifferent to life and death. Only Master has never left me alone and has been running around looking for medicine for me. He also said that he had read my fortune and that I would be a rich and powerful person in the future, and advised me not to give up easily.

I just smiled when I heard that, and in order to live up to my master's expectations, I tried hard to stay alive.

Maybe the master's prediction is accurate, because I met you, which made me more greedy and expectant about this world. I want to live, I want to watch the sunrise and sunset with you for the rest of my life, I want to accompany you to see the prosperity of this world, I want to be by your side and grow old with you. "

"Okay..." Chu Feiyan's throat felt sour. Her sealed heart cracked open a small gap at this moment. Something warm filled in, softening her cold, hard and angular heart bit by bit.

"Gong Beixuan, we all need to live well."

Gong Beixuan raised his hand and gently traced her delicate eyebrows with his fingers. "Ayan, there are some things I can't tell you for the time being, but please trust me and give me some more time to arrange everything. Then, I will tell you everything."

"Is it related to the assassination?" she asked.

His family background is complicated. His mother is gone but he is still the legitimate son. Perhaps it was his stepmother who sent someone to assassinate him.

If his stepmother has such ability, it shows that his identity is not simple, but since he doesn't want to say it, she won't ask, and will tell him when he wants to!

"You can say that! Seeing that I'm not dead, they might have become desperate! But I'm still not sure what the motive of these people is for assassinating me. I'll tell you after I find out." Gong Beixuan said.

"Okay, then I'll wait," Chu Feiyan smiled and didn't pay much attention to what he said. Who doesn't have a little privacy?

"Princess, it's time for dinner!" Dongmei's voice rang out from outside.

"Well, let's serve the meal!" Chu Feiyan ordered.

She helped Gong Beixuan get an outer robe for him to put on, and the two of them walked out of the outer room together. They saw that Dongmei and Xia An had already set the table for the meal. The two maids left and closed the door.

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