Chapter 30: To Save Your Sweetheart From Getting Pregnant
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Even Wang Feng, for all his foolishness, knew why Zhao Qiaofeng was angry. His eyes suddenly lit up, and he hobbled over to her.
“Miss Feng, since you touched me, you have to take responsibility for me.”
She was not Dongfang Jibai’s fiancée. That meant he could pursue Zhao Qiaofeng now.
A girl this wonderful did not come along twice. If he missed this chance, he would never get another.
A smile tugged at the corners of Dongfang Jibai’s lips. He had been worried that Wang Feng might deceive Zhao Qiaofeng into doing something improper. But now that Wang Feng had admitted his intentions, there was no need to worry. As long as he kept an eye on him, the two of them would not overstep themselves under his watch.
“Shameless!” Zhao Qiaofeng stamped her foot and hurried back to her courtyard.
Ji Ci had been enjoying the spectacle. Why had it ended so suddenly?
She had not seen nearly enough.
“If you dare bully my cousin, Wang Feng, I will hunt you to the ends of the earth,” Dongfang Jibai warned in a low voice.
“You’re really dishonorable. Your cousin is as beautiful as a flower, yet you never once mentioned her to me.” Wang Feng climbed to his feet. The wounds on his body split open again, making him grimace in pain.
He seized Dongfang Jibai by the wrist and casually took his pulse.
“Why hasn’t the poison been neutralized yet?” Wang Feng’s brow furrowed, surprise flashing through his eyes. “You were poisoned with Phoenix Attraction? It has flared up four times already? Which woman helped you dispel it?”
Dongfang Jibai raised a brow. This half-trained physician was genuinely skilled. Just from taking his pulse, he could tell that the poison had flared four times.
“You needn’t worry. I know exactly what I’m doing.”
“No wonder you haven’t neutralized the Cold Marrow Powder. That poison causes infertility. It’s probably better to leave it in your system, so the woman you favor won’t get pregnant.” Wang Feng dusted himself off and headed toward the dining hall.
Ji Ci stared at Dongfang Jibai.
No wonder he had never made her drink any contraceptive medicine. So it was he who was incapable of having children.
Incapable of fathering children? Hmm... She would have to consider whether she still wanted him.
Dongfang Jibai picked up the little fox and gently tapped her forehead. “I’m doing this for your sake. You mustn’t be angry.”
Ji Ci nodded absently, not taking the matter to heart at all.
“Do me a favor. Treat Wang Feng’s wounds. He won’t be able to work for me in this condition.”
Ji Ci rolled her eyes disdainfully, cursing him furiously in her thoughts.
“Tch. You kicked him out with such force just now, without even worrying that you might kill him. And now you know you need his help?”
“When you need him, you call him darling. When you don’t, he’s just Wang Feng. What a thoroughly rotten man!”
Dongfang Jibai’s fingers twitched. He forcibly suppressed the urge to pinch that incessantly chattering little mouth.
He looked up at the sky. Why was the moon still not full? He was almost losing control.
Ji Ci hurried toward the dining hall on her short little legs. She nimbly leaped onto Wang Feng’s lap, her furry little head rubbing gently against his abdomen.
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Wang Feng’s pupils contracted slightly as he clearly felt a warm current pour into his wounds. Though the injuries did not heal immediately on the surface, a powerful vitality was circulating through his body. They would likely be completely healed by tomorrow.
“Let’s go.” Dongfang Jibai beckoned.
Ji Ci sprang into the air, and Dongfang Jibai caught her one-handed.
Watching this scene, Wang Feng understood everything.
No wonder Dongfang Jibai could always turn disaster into fortune. With a “Great Immortal” like this by his side, it would be difficult for anything to happen to him.
The poison of the Cold Marrow Powder had probably been neutralized by this little fox as well.
He gave a bitter smile and shook his head. He knew better than anyone that Dongfang Jibai had allowed the little fox to reveal her abilities in front of him because he was certain Wang Feng would never reveal the secret.
Such trust had come suddenly, yet it was heavy with meaning.
After all, if Dongfang Jibai harbored even the slightest suspicion of him, given that man’s methods, Wang Feng would probably not survive the night.
Wang Feng unconsciously rubbed the rim of his teacup. Suddenly, he let out a soft laugh.
So be it. Since he had already boarded this ship, he might as well settle in properly.
He lifted his eyes toward Dongfang Jibai. The instant their gazes met, a tacit understanding formed between them without a word being spoken.
Late that night.
Dongfang Jibai carried Ji Ci to a hot spring deep in the mountains.
Amid the swirling steam, he deliberately began undressing before her with maddening slowness.
“Have you looked enough?”
Ji Ci’s eyes were wide with fascination, and drool trickled from the corners of her excited mouth.
She pounced at him, her tiny tongue lapping enthusiastically at the muscles of his chest.
With a low laugh, he pressed the leaping little fox into the water.
Ji Ci splashed about wildly, completely unaware of the dark emotion surging through the man’s eyes.
She surfaced and began splashing water at Dongfang Jibai with an awkward dog-paddling stroke.
There was no desire in her eyes—only an intense longing to win.
Dongfang Jibai shook his head.
What a foolish fox.
[Warning: Danger detected.]
The system’s alert made both Ji Ci and Dongfang Jibai instantly vigilant.
A sudden burst of hurried hoofbeats rang out in the distance, shattering the tranquility of the mountains.
Ji Ci pricked up her furry little ears. Using Dongfang Jibai’s shoulder as a springboard, she leaped onto the bank and shook her small body dry.
Dongfang Jibai swiftly snatched up a silver-white mask from the rocks and put it on. It gleamed coldly beneath the moonlight, completely concealing his handsome features.
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Within the residence, he normally wore a mask made of human skin, but that mask was unbearably hot and stifling.
Only at night did Dongfang Jibai dare remove it for a while.
Tonight, he had brought the little fox to the hot spring, thinking that no one would come across them in the mountains. He had brought only the silver mask, never imagining that even after coming this far, they would still encounter someone.
Dongfang Jibai quickly put on his robes, drew the little fox into his arms, and concealed himself among the shadows of the trees.
Before long, several horsemen dressed in foreign garments galloped past, speaking in a strange, unintelligible tongue.
Ji Ci could not understand them at all.
“Northern Di?”
Her little eyes widened.
They were in Ping County, roughly three hundred kilometers north of Yanmen Pass. Had the Northern Di already infiltrated a place this far away?
No wonder that within half a month of Dongfang Jibai’s return to the capital, the Northern Di had captured three cities in succession.
She would never believe that no one in the imperial court was helping them.
Dongfang Jibai placed a hand over the little fox’s head and settled her small body inside his robes, leaving only her little head exposed against his chest.
“Don’t move,” he said.
Ji Ci nodded.
The Northern Di riders sped past, talking among themselves, but neither of them could understand a word.
“System, translate that.”
Ji Ci summoned the system. If she did not use it at a time like this, was she supposed to save it for having children?
[They said: Someone has sent word that Dongfang Jibai may not be dead and may have secretly returned to the capital. They must take this news back as quickly as possible.]
Dongfang Jibai’s eyes darkened.
Sure enough, someone in the capital was aiding the Northern Di.
“Did they say who that person was?”
[The person’s codename is Black Magpie.]
Ji Ci’s brow furrowed deeply.
What was going on? She clearly possessed the plot.
Why did she know nothing about any of this?
What? Wasn’t she someone who had transmigrated into a novel? Why had none of this been written in the book?
Ji Ci muttered inwardly, “Black Magpie?”
“Is there anyone in the imperial court called Black Magpie?”
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