"Xun Ying," Wen Yu suddenly called out.
Hearing this, Xun Ying looked at her with some confusion. "Miss Wen?"
"Do you like me?" She looked at Xun Ying suspiciously and couldn't help but ask.
Previously, when she said that the Wen family would adopt him as an adopted son, he refused.
Now he had lost control like this.
She was not an innocent young girl. If Xun Ying didn't have feelings for her, she really couldn't understand his actions.
Being asked so directly, Xun Ying was stunned again.
He couldn't help but pause his action of applying medicine, then quickly turned his head. "Miss Wen, I..."
"A person like me may have already lost her heart. If you fall in love with me, there won't be a good result." Wen Yu didn't give him a chance to speak and just said bluntly, "You've been a secret guard for too long and haven't had the chance to meet more women."
After she finished speaking, Xun Ying subconsciously wanted to refute, but he was defeated by her calm eyes and didn't know how to speak.
Seeing this, Wen Yu gently hooked her lips and said, "After I kill Ji Yunqing, you can leave."
She was going to drive him away?
Xun Ying completely froze and began to feel at a loss.
"Miss Wen, is there something I did wrong? Why do you want to drive me away?" Xun Ying hurriedly asked and quickly added, "If there's something I did wrong, please tell me. I will definitely change. Don't let me go. I don't know where to go."
He spoke very quickly, and his eyes were full of uneasiness.
"Xun Ying, I've said that you should have a normal life. If you really have feelings for me, it won't be a good thing for you to stay by my side."
Wen Yu's tone was very calm.
Xun Ying had seen everything she had been through.
She wasn't even sure if she could live like a normal person after killing Ji Yunqing and Li Qilun.
How could she drag Xun Ying into the mire with her?
After going through these things, she could trust Xun Ying as a guard and regard him as her own kin or friend.
But the identity of a lover was extremely dangerous in her eyes.
She didn't know if she still had the courage to trust others.
"I don't want to leave." Xun Ying rarely refuted. After he finished speaking, he lowered his head and quietly continued to apply medicine to Wen Yu.
Seeing his stubbornness, Wen Yu got a little angry.
She wanted to retract her leg, but Xun Ying held it down.
He looked up and stared into Wen Yu's eyes. "I don't dare to ask for too much. As long as I can stay by Miss Wen's side, that's enough."
"If you don't trust me, His Highness has many capable people. I can ask His Highness to poison me. If I dare to have any rebellious thoughts against Miss Wen, then let me die a horrible death."
"Will this make you feel at ease?"
Xun Ying's attitude was very firm.
He held Wen Yu's ankle, not giving her a chance to dodge, and stubbornly looked into her eyes as if he wouldn't give up until he got an answer.
"I never knew you were so stubborn before. I'm driving you away for your own good. Isn't it good to get out while you're not completely hopeless?"
Wen Yu was a little annoyed and there was also a bit of anger in her eyes.
Xun Ying had always been obedient. It was rare for him to be so assertive.
Why was he so assertive about this matter?
"Miss Wen, both Pei Shen before and Ji Yunqing now said they were doing it for your own good. Why didn't you yield?" Xun Ying countered. He held Wen Yu's ankle with one hand and stubbornly applied medicine with the other.
Wen Yu couldn't struggle free and couldn't help but lean over and bite hard on Xun Ying's shoulder. She said angrily, "Can this be the same? They were just bluffing me, but what I said is really for your sake."
"I don't need it."
Xun Ying said indifferently.
After finally applying the ointment to all her wounds, Xun Ying looked up at her again and said firmly, "I'm originally a secret guard who licks blood on the tip of a knife. I'm not afraid of death, let alone other things."
"I just want to stay by Miss Wen's side. Even if you don't agree, I won't leave unless you order someone to kill me."
"But Miss Wen knows that I'm not bad at martial arts."
Xun Ying had always been as quiet as a shadow. It was rare for him to be so stubborn.
Wen Yu was a little helpless with him and could only say harshly, "I won't like you. Do you want to stay by my side and watch me marry someone else in the future?"
"Yes." He answered without hesitation and added, "If Miss Wen really likes someone, I'll just watch. If one day that person treats Miss Wen badly, I'll kill him for you."
His tone was very serious. It didn't seem like a perfunctory answer but more like a solemn promise.
"Xun Ying!"
Wen Yu couldn't bear it anymore and shouted angrily.
But Xun Ying remained unmoved. He was like a silent mountain, quietly watching Wen Yu get angry.
"Do you have any other orders, Miss Wen, besides this matter?" He hid the medicine bottle under the bed so that Wen Yu could apply the medicine by herself later.
Wen Yu glared at him angrily and said thoughtlessly, "You're determined to go against me now. Does it matter if I have any other orders? Will you listen?"
"Miss Wen said before that I could do what I wanted to do. And I just want to follow you."
Xun Ying was extremely persistent.
He didn't know why Wen Yu had discovered his little secret. He also clearly knew that Wen Yu and he were not from the same world.
If Wen Yu hadn't encountered trouble and actively asked Ji Yundan for help, he might never have had the chance to have any interaction with such a person in his life.
But things had happened, and a person like him had the chance to get close to the bright moon.
How could he keep his heart steady and how could he be willing to leave?
He knew in his heart that even if the bright moon was temporarily covered in dust, it was still beyond the reach of a shadow like him.
But he still wanted to guard this moonlight.
Just watching her gradually get rid of the gloom made him very happy.
"Xun Ying, you just haven't had contact with others. There are many women in this world, and there are many who are better than me. Why do you have to fixate on just one person?" Wen Yu softened her tone and persuaded him earnestly.
Hearing this, Xun Ying gave a low laugh and said self - deprecatingly, "Miss Wen may not be the best in the eyes of others, but besides Miss Wen, who would care if a secret guard is involuntary?"
"Since Miss Wen wants to give me freedom, then please also allow me to like the person I want to like."
He stared at Wen Yu steadily. His eyes were hot but there was not a trace of profanity.
Even though Wen Yu was now wearing a sheer veil and there were some ambiguous marks on her body that couldn't be hidden.
The look in his eyes still carried admiration and reverence, as if he regarded her as a god, pious and without a trace of lust.
She hadn't seen such a look in a long time.
Wen Yu had known very early on that she was beautiful. Since she had grown up, the looks of the eligible young masters always carried an aggressiveness that she couldn't accept.
But Xun Ying didn't.
His eyes were too clean.
So clean that Wen Yu felt a bit ashamed of herself.
"You can go out."
Wen Yu was a bit deflated and said in a low voice.
Seeing that she was no longer entangled in the matter of driving him away, Xun Ying secretly breathed a sigh of relief. "If you can't bear it anymore, just call me. Even if I have to sacrifice my life, I will definitely kill your enemies for you."