A Face Rippling with Springtime Desire

"Mo Li, try pinching me. See if I'm dreaming!"

As soon as Mo Yan finished speaking, Mo Li gave him a vicious pinch. Mo Yan cried out, "Hiss-ow! Why did you pinch so hard? That hurt like hell!"

Mo Li looked utterly disdainful. "Didn't you ask me to pinch you?"

"But I didn't ask you to pinch that hard! It really hurts, okay?" Mo Yan wailed.

Since he wasn't dreaming, all of this was real, then. Their master had actually smiled!

"Mo Li, what's gotten into our lord?"

"He's yearning for romance, what else? Look at that face of his, rippling with springtime desire!"

"We're finished. Even our coldhearted, unfeeling master has found his spring. What are we supposed to do?"

"Serve ourselves cold!"

"How about we make do with each other?" Mo Yan draped an arm over Mo Li's shoulder and chuckled.

"Your skin itching for a beating?" Mo Li shot Mo Yan a cold glance, his face full of contempt.

"Damn it, Mo Li, you're going to lose me like this!"

"Noisy!" Mo Li snorted coldly and turned his gaze below.

"Mo Li!"

An icy, almost merciless voice came from ahead.

"Master!"

"Go cripple both arms of that pig!"

The chilling, devilishly alluring voice of an asura rang out.

Mo Li stepped forward, his icy expression not shifting in the slightest, as cold as a block of ice. He respectfully acknowledged the silver-masked man, then darted away.

Feeling the chill radiating from his master, Mo Yan couldn't help shuddering.

His master was terrifying. Just because that pig's hand had touched Ninth Miss Mu's hand once, he was going to cripple both of his hands!

Below, after the prime minister's guards carried Zhu Ganglie away, the entire street returned to normal. Mu Yunxi entered a nearby teahouse and was drinking tea from a cup.

After fighting for so long, her mouth was dry!

Waving the folding fan in his hand, Feng Yun approached Mu Yunxi with a faint smile, looking dashing and debonair.

"Greetings, Ninth Miss Mu. I'm Feng Yun. It's a pleasure to meet you!"

"Pfft-"

The moment Feng Yun finished speaking, Mu Yunxi couldn't help bursting into laughter, spraying out all the tea she had just taken into her mouth.

Had Feng Yun not dodged in time, Mu Yunxi really would have sprayed tea all over his face.

"Feng Yun, hahaha! Young man, don't tell me your father's called Conquer the World!"

Mu Yunxi recalled a television drama she had watched when she was very young. Wasn't it called Wind and Cloud: Conquer the World? Hearing the name of the man before her, she couldn't help bursting into laughter!

Beside her, Feng Yun's lips twitched, his face a picture of bewilderment.

What did his name have to do with conquering the world?

"Ninth Miss Mu, my father chose my name. I was still young then!"

Only after hearing Feng Yun's words did Mu Yunxi stop laughing. She looked at him, her brows lifting slightly as she gave a cool smile.

"Did you need something, Young Master Feng?"

Only after quieting down did Mu Yunxi search her mind for information about the man before her.

Feng Yun, the Feng Clan's eldest young master, was the renowned heir to the greatest fortune in the Eastern Tomb Kingdom. Besides that, he was also Xuanyuan Jin's good friend.

The thought that this man was good friends with that stone-faced scumbag Xuanyuan Jin made Mu Yunxi feel somewhat averse to Feng Yun.

Still, at least this man wasn't badhearted. Otherwise, he wouldn't have wanted to step forward and stop Zhu Ganglie when he attacked her.

"Does wanting to be friends with Ninth Miss Mu count?"

Feng Yun gently waved his folding fan, looking at Mu Yunxi with a smile.

He believed that, with his looks and family background, probably no woman could refuse him, much less this woman whose engagement the fourth prince had broken off.

"Friends?" Mu Yunxi hadn't expected this man to have come to make friends with her. She couldn't help scoffing. "Your status is so exalted, Young Master Feng. I wouldn't dare be friends with you. I have things to do. May we never meet again!"

With that, Mu Yunxi walked straight out of the teahouse.

Friends? What were they worth?

What she, Mu Yunxi, needed least was friends!

Watching Mu Yunxi's slender figure retreat, Feng Yun couldn't help curling his lips. Interesting. More and more interesting.

A woman who knew who he was yet could remain so unmoved had truly stirred his interest.

"She left?"

Xuanyuan Jin came downstairs and saw Feng Yun standing there with a smile on his face. His gaze darkened, and a trace of displeasure suddenly rose in his heart.

"Yes, she left. Fourth Prince, you agreed beforehand. If I like her, she's mine!"

At the sight of Xuanyuan Jin, Feng Yun spoke firmly, his expression serious.

"Feng Yun, she isn't suitable for you!"

Hearing Feng Yun's words, Xuanyuan Jin felt quite displeased and immediately rejected the idea.

That woman loved him, and she was also a woman whose engagement he had broken off. How could someone with that status be worthy of Feng Yun? Besides, based on Xuanyuan Jin's understanding of Mu Yunxi, she might well be playing hard to get with him again.

He would see just how long this woman could keep up her act!

"Why?"

"I'm the one she likes!" Xuanyuan Jin said.

At Xuanyuan Jin's words, Feng Yun's expression froze briefly. Only after a long while did he smile and say, "What does that matter? Since you've already broken off the engagement, Fourth Prince, why not give this young master a chance? A woman this interesting really does intrigue me!"

"Then don't play with fire and burn yourself!"

"Don't worry. I'm only playing around!" Although Feng Yun had some interest in Mu Yunxi, it was still far too early to speak of anything else.

Yet it was precisely this "too early" that made him lose the love of his life forever!

Had he been able to foresee the future, Feng Yun thought he probably would never have spoken those words!

Mu Yunxi wandered around outside and bought quite a few medicinal herbs before heading home.

As soon as she returned to the estate, Mu Yunxi sent the maids out of her courtyard, then suddenly vanished into thin air from her room with a large pile of medicinal herbs.

On the rooftop, the silver-masked man who had followed Mu Yunxi back to the general's estate narrowed his eyes when he saw her suddenly disappear from where she had been standing.

The moment Mu Yunxi entered the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Realm, a transparent soul flung itself into her arms.

"Little master, you've finally come to see your baby!"

Xiao Kun hugged Mu Yunxi tightly, nuzzling her over and over, his face full of delight.

At that moment, all of Mu Yunxi's attention was on refining pills. She didn't notice Xiao Kun taking liberties with her at all.

"Mm, I'm going to refine pills now. Be good and go play by yourself!"

After sending Xiao Kun away, Mu Yunxi set out the Heaven and Earth Cauldron and the medicinal herbs.

Although all the toxins had now been cleared from her body and all her blocked meridians had been opened, it was still a body that had been ruined for over a decade. Its foundation was far too weak, and she still needed to nurse it back to health properly.

However, if she could refine an Origin Stabilizing Pill, it would be excellent for her body.

But the Origin Stabilizing Pill was a second-grade pill. Though she had been proficient in medicine and poisons in her previous life, this was her first time refining pills. She didn't know how it would turn out.