Seeing Wei Shuxuan looking at him with pleading eyes, Xin Zizhao knew he was helpless against her. "Fine... but you must tell me after we leave here, okay?"
"Got it..." Wei Shuxuan couldn't help curving her lips when she saw Xin Zizhao's helpless expression. Her heart felt sweet, just like tasting delicious honey.
Xin Zizhao grabbed the quilt on the side of the bed, wrapped Wei Shuxuan in it, and then picked her up in a princess - carry. "Let's go quickly."
Looking at the quilt wrapped around her and feeling the man's thoughtfulness, after they came out of the room, they dodged the patrolling guards, leaped onto the roof, looked for an opening, and took the opportunity to escape through it.
They stood on the roof for a while, and there were still many guards patrolling. Wei Shuxuan felt the cool night wind and couldn't help sneezing slightly. Xin Zizhao looked at Wei Shuxuan in his arms worriedly. "Xuan'er, are you okay?"
"I'm fine. I can bear it. Don't worry about me."
Seeing Xin Zizhao's worried face, Wei Shuxuan grinned, trying to make him stop worrying about her. Xin Zizhao touched her forehead. Fortunately, the temperature was still normal. "If you feel uncomfortable, remember to tell me."
"Okay, I know."
After a while, Xin Zizhao saw the masked man appear again. The masked man called out the patrolling guards. Xin Zizhao didn't know what he wanted the guards to do. After the masked man said a few words to the guards, the guards left with him. But when they left, Xin Zizhao clearly saw the masked man's glance in their direction, with a faint smile on his lips.
Xin Zizhao felt the uneasiness in his heart. "Let's go."
After the guards left, Xin Zizhao and the others left smoothly. Ge Zian remembered the scene where the masked man called away all the guards before they left. "It's really lucky for us. The patrolling guards were just called away, so we could leave smoothly."
"No... this is not luck," thinking of the masked man's look just now, Xin Zizhao tightened his arms around Wei Shuxuan in his arms, and his eyes darkened. "This masked man had already noticed our presence. He didn't say anything, probably because he made some deal with Xuan'er."
Xin Zizhao felt annoyed. He felt for the first time that he hadn't trained hard enough, which was why Xuan'er was captured and forced to make some strange deal with that man.
"Master, let's go back first. Miss Xuan doesn't seem to be okay..." Xin Shang noticed the unnatural flush on Wei Shuxuan's face.
Xin Zizhao looked down, quickly tested the temperature of her face with the back of his hand. "She's so hot. Xuan'er has a fever. Let's go back quickly! We have to treat her quickly."
In the room, Xin Zizhao was busy applying a wet towel to Wei Shuxuan's forehead to reduce her fever. Just now he had written a prescription and sent Wei Wei and Ge Zian out to the pharmacy to buy medicine. Xin Shang stayed in the room to see if Xin Zizhao needed any help.
"Xin Shang, go and fetch another basin of water."
"Yes."
The medicine had been bought back. Xin Zizhao sent Wei Wei and Ge Zian to decoct the medicine. He took out the golden wound - healing medicine he had developed and applied it to Wei Shuxuan's wound again. Seeing Wei Shuxuan in such pain, Xin Zizhao thought that she must have caught a cold from the wind last night. Coupled with the wound on her body, that was why she had a persistent high fever.
Xin Zizhao felt a little heart - ache. After changing the medicine for her again, he held her hand. "Xuan'er, you'll be okay. You must pull through."
After saying that, he kissed her cold hand.
Wei Shuxuan's fever finally subsided on the third day. She woke up groggily and felt her hand being held. She turned her head slightly and saw Xin Zizhao sleeping on the edge of her bed. She felt sticky all over. She tried to pull her hand out of Xin Zizhao's, but accidentally woke him up.
"Sorry, I woke you up..." Wei Shuxuan looked at Xin Zizhao with some apology.
Xin Zizhao, who had just been woken up, had dark circles under his eyes. Wei Shuxuan watched as he grabbed her hand to feel her pulse, and then touched her forehead with the back of his hand. Fortunately, the fever had really subsided. Xin Zizhao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Xuan'er, you really worried us..." Xin Zizhao held Wei Shuxuan's hand and murmured.
"Sorry, I didn't know I would have a fever. I made you worry," Wei Shuxuan smiled apologetically. "By the way, I want to take a bath. I'm all sticky now."
"Sure. I've told Wei Wei and Xin Shang to prepare a medicinal bath for you. It can speed up the healing of the wound on your body and enhance your immunity."
After Wei Shuxuan took a bath and changed into a new set of clothes, Xin Zizhao was drying her hair. "Now you can tell me what deal you made with that masked man?"
"Then tell me, when you took me away that day, did anyone give you any trouble?" Wei Shuxuan turned to look at Xin Zizhao.
"The masked man helped me distract the guards. We left there smoothly," Xin Zizhao put down the towel in his hand. "Now you can tell me what you and the masked man agreed on."
"In that case, the negotiation between me and him is established," Wei Shuxuan curled her lips into a smile. "It's like this..."
That night, Bai Yue looked at Wei Shuxuan and whispered in her ear, "I'm neither your enemy nor your friend. I just choose the side that is beneficial to me. If you can defeat Sima Tianhai, we will stop the war with your Yulong Kingdom."
"Why?" Wei Shuxuan looked at Bai Yue in confusion.
"Our Qiangfeng Kingdom doesn't like war in the first place. But under Sima Tianhai's sweet talk, our emperor believed him and started the war against the Yulong Kingdom. Once Sima Tianhai is dead, the war will definitely stop."
"Are you so sure?" Wei Shuxuan didn't quite believe what the people from Qiangfeng Kingdom said.
"Don't worry. I'll take the responsibility of persuading the emperor."
"That's not right. Aren't you Sima Tianhai's man? Why do you want to help us?" Wei Shuxuan really didn't understand the man in front of her.
"Didn't I just tell you the reason?" Bai Yue smiled. "If I can let you leave here unharmed, the negotiation between us is established. What do you think?"
"Okay, but I think I need to verify the truth of what you said."
"Of course, there's no problem with that."