After the convoy reached the summit of Roosting Phoenix Mountain, where the Alliance Trade Fair was being held.
Gu Chenfeng and Liu Fuyan stepped out of the carriage one after the other.
Both were properly dressed, their hair smoothed into place and the corners of their clothes straightened.
Nor had any intimate relations actually taken place.
Yet both looked tense, like thieves with guilty consciences.
Gu Chenfeng felt all the more embarrassed and apologetic.
He said quietly, "Ah... Steward Liu, I'm terribly sorry. It was all my oversight.
That bottle of medicine was actually something I used for experiments.
Please don't misunderstand. I absolutely wasn't trying to..."
Even now, after taking the antidote and purging all the toxins, Liu Fuyan's lovely face remained flushed.
She merely waved a hand.
"There's no need to explain, sir. Of course I know you're not that sort of person."
If Ge Hong truly had improper intentions toward her.
Just now, there had only been the two of them in the carriage, and she had been poisoned and lost consciousness.
He could have done whatever he pleased. Why bother giving her an antidote and going to the trouble of explaining?
Besides, Liu Fuyan could vaguely recall.
Her involuntary actions after being poisoned, and how Ge Hong had found the antidote in time and treated her.
When she thought of how, with her mind clouded and her body controlled by desire, her hands had wandered restlessly over Ge Hong.
And the utterly shameful position the two of them had maintained while he treated her.
Liu Fuyan nearly died of embarrassment.
She resented Ge Hong for actually concocting such an evil drug and making her lose control.
At the same time, she could not help thinking to herself.
*If Ge Hong hadn't had the antidote with him,