Only Tricks Win Hearts

"You!" Yun Yun's gaze instantly turned dangerous.

In all her life, no man had ever put his hand so close to her chest.

But before Yun Yun could speak, Lu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. "You're finally awake. Now I don't have to take off your inner armor. I've never done anything like that in my life."

As he spoke, Lu Yuan took a bottle of tier-three healing medicine from his Storage Ring and set it beside Yun Yun. Then he quickly stood up and turned around. "I only have tier-three healing medicine. I don't know if it'll do anything for your injuries. Apply it yourself."

His movements were swift, without the slightest trace of reluctance to leave. He almost seemed to be fleeing in a panic.

Yun Yun froze. This wasn't what she had thought was happening.

Wasn't this lecher taking advantage of her while she was unconscious?

That was right. She had just been unconscious.

The Amethyst Winged Lion King had gravely injured her and sealed her cultivation.

She had used a secret technique to escape some distance, but she was still in the inner reaches of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and her luck had been bad enough that she ran into a Third-Order Magical Beast, the Green-Scaled Water Python.

Now it seemed that the young man before her had dealt with the Green-Scaled Water Python and saved her. Was he her savior?

Having sorted out her thoughts, Yun Yun struggled to get up, only to find that her whole body was weak and she couldn't move.

She lowered her gaze and saw her shattered inner armor, her badly injured chest, and her nearly naked body.

A strange flush appeared on her deathly pale cheeks. Yun Yun spoke very softly, her words coming with some difficulty. "Young... brother."

"Hm?" If Lu Yuan hadn't been waiting for Yun Yun to call him, he wouldn't have heard her at all.

"I... I can't move right now." Yun Yun closed her eyes. "Sorry for the trouble, but please help me apply the medicine."

"No!" Lu Yuan immediately refused.

"Hm?" Yun Yun opened her eyes again.

"I, I've read some storybooks." With his back to Yun Yun, Lu Yuan seemed to be weighing his words. He spoke with some trepidation. "The storybooks say you shouldn't pick up women outside, and you especially shouldn't pick up powerful women outside."

"If you pick up a powerful woman outside and treat her injuries, she'll kill you to silence you in the end."

Yun Yun: ???

Yun Yun: "..."

Yun Yun suddenly wanted to laugh, but she didn't have the strength.

What was going on in this young man's head?

She couldn't avoid being taken advantage of a little next, but there was nothing she could do about it.

"If it weren't for you, even if the Green-Scaled Water Python hadn't eaten me, it would have delivered me to the Amethyst Winged Lion King. I wouldn't have come to a good end. You've already saved me once."

"If you apply the medicine for me now, you'll be saving me a second time."

"You'll have saved my life twice. I won't repay your kindness with enmity."

"Are you sure?" Lu Yuan turned his head and met Yun Yun's eyes with some trepidation.

"Don't worry." Yun Yun closed her eyes again, her breathing a little faster. "I'm a sword cultivator. Those who cultivate the sword must have a clear heart and mind, or they'll find it hard to make even an inch of progress on the path of cultivation. I won't repay your kindness with enmity."

Those words seemed to convince Lu Yuan. He took a deep breath, put on an expression as though he was throwing caution to the wind, and crouched down beside Yun Yun again.

"Um, sister, what's your name?" Lu Yuan asked.

My name?

I can't tell him that.

I'm the dignified Misty Cloud Sect Master. I have my face to consider.

"Yun Zhi." A flash of inspiration crossed Yun Yun's mind, and her red lips parted. "My name is Yun Zhi."

"All right, Sister Yun Zhi." Lu Yuan took the opportunity to bring them closer and asked, "Should I use my tier-three pills, or your own higher-tier pills?"

"How muddleheaded of me." With a thought, Yun Yun took two medicine bottles from the Storage Ring on her hand. "The one in the white bottle is taken orally. Feed it to me. The one in the blue bottle is medicine for external injuries. Apply it to my wound."

"Before you apply it, first... help me sit up, turn me so my back is facing you, and take off my inner armor."

Lu Yuan did as she said at once, first taking out a pill and feeding it to Yun Yun.

Once he had fed it to her, he helped Yun Yun sit up, moved around behind her, and began taking off her inner armor. "This will hurt a little. Bear with it."

"I don't need you to remind me." Yun Yun clenched her teeth.

Lu Yuan said nothing more. He placed his hands a little below Yun Yun's armpits and helped her take off the inner armor.

The movement tugged at her wound, and Yun Yun sucked in a sharp breath, but she gritted her teeth and made no sound.

"The wound's gotten bigger."

"It's bleeding again."

"Raise your arms. I'll help you take it off."

"All right, that did it. It's out."

Yun Yun's eyes flew open. "Shut up!" she said, ashamed and angry.

"Oh." Lu Yuan sounded a little aggrieved as he answered. He set the inner armor aside and dutifully applied the medicine from behind Yun Yun.

The whole process went extremely smoothly.

"Lie down."

Lu Yuan lowered Yun Yun back down and took out a new blanket to cover her.

Once he had done all that, he said, "Sister Yun Zhi, I have to go now."

"You're leaving!?" Yun Zhi's eyes flew open.

"My companions are still waiting for me. I have to get back and let them know I'm safe." Lu Yuan nodded.

"Then are you coming back?" Yun Zhi asked, a little nervously.

Her cultivation was sealed now, leaving her an ordinary person.

In fact, with her injuries and her whole body weak, she was worse off than an ordinary person.

"I've already finished applying all the medicine for you. Why do you still need me to stay?" Lu Yuan asked, though he already knew the answer.

"My cultivation won't recover for seven days. Even the most ordinary wild wolf could take my life." Realizing she could only rely on Lu Yuan from here on, Yun Yun chose to hide nothing.

If Lu Yuan had wanted to do anything untoward to her, he could have done it when he first found her.

Whether he had wanted to molest her or take the Storage Ring on her hand and claim its contents, she would have been powerless to resist.

"Protect me during this time, and I'll reward you generously once I've recovered." Afraid Lu Yuan would refuse, Yun Yun continued, "If the Amethyst Winged Lion King finds me before I recover, you can take my Storage Ring, abandon me, and leave on your own."

Seeing that Yun Yun had gone this far, Lu Yuan decided it was about time. He nodded and said, "All right. I can protect you for seven days."

"But I still have to leave now and explain the situation to my companions. If I don't go back for so long, I'm afraid they'll worry about me."

Hearing this, Yun Yun felt an unprecedented fear rise in her heart.

This was the weakest she had ever been in her life, and Lu Yuan was the only life-saving straw she could grasp right now.

But she couldn't argue with his reason for leaving. She couldn't expect him to disregard his companions for her sake.

"Then... come back as soon as you can," Yun Yun said with great reluctance.

"I will." Lu Yuan immediately stood up and said, "You don't have to worry about safety here. This place is underground."

After bidding Yun Yun farewell, Lu Yuan had the Earth Nether Rock Turtle open a passage and returned to the surface.

"Earth Nether Rock Turtle, I'll disguise myself. You mix in with the large group of magical beasts searching for someone..."

Lu Yuan took out a pill and swallowed it, making his presence disappear completely. Then he lay down and covered himself with a layer of dirt.

"Let's go."