Shimmer Forest

Deliberately bumping into his shoulder and walking over, the originally lazy gaze was now full of killing intent.Until he walked away, Xiao Qinghan didn't raise his head, but clenched his fist tightly.

I wanted to give him some time to calm down, but his motionless appearance was really worrying.Su Jin stepped forward and shook his fingers, calling softly, "Xiao Qinghan?"

The temperature of that finger was cold to the bone, as if all the blood had been drained.Su Jin raised his head and saw Xiao Qinghan's face under the shadow, only a frightening calm.

The calmness that seemed to have frozen all the hatred and anger was so strong that it was distorted.

Su Jin couldn't help shivering.

"It's okay." The frosty face quickly returned to normal, and he even smiled casually: "Let's go back."

Su Jin wanted to ask something else, but looked at the pale face that was bloodless, and shut his mouth tactfully.

This trip to the Heavenly Palace really made people panic.He couldn't help thinking.

The two were silent all the way, and after returning to the house, Xiao Qinghan only said a few polite words in a symbolic manner, and then went back to the house to rest.

Su Jin had no desire to play anymore, and lay on the bed honestly, thinking about what happened today.

He felt that he had entered a well-designed trap, waiting for a storm to come.

There seemed to be some noise in the yard.He hesitated for a moment, got up and opened the window a gap.

It was a man dressed as a servant, bowing down and handing Xiao Qinghan a bowl of medicine.Xiao Qinghan refused to drink, and then the servant said something, his face became even paler, he grabbed the medicine bowl and drank it down, then threw the medicine bowl back.

The servant bowed away with a smug smile on his face.Xiao Qinghan stood in the middle of the courtyard, looking up at the sky with a lonely expression.

It seemed that when he was alone, he would show such a fragile expression.

Su Jin closed the window silently, lost in thought.

At night, when he was half asleep and half awake, he heard a slight cough.

The coughing sound was intermittent, very light and weak, as if he had almost lost the strength to breathe.

He casually put on some clothes and walked to the next room.After a pause, he still made up his mind, knocked on the closed wooden door, and called softly: "Xiao Qinghan, are you okay?"

"It's okay." The people in the room replied softly, with difficult gasps in their weak voices.

"...Call me if you feel uncomfortable."

"it is good."

For a short answer, it seems that saying one more word will consume one's strength.Su Jin didn't want to disturb him anymore, pulled the clothes on her shoulders, and went back to her room silently.

The drowsiness was gone. From time to time, he heard the sound of coughing that was suppressed deliberately.

No sleep for one night.

For the next ten or so days, every afternoon, someone would bring medicine over and ask Xiao Qinghan to drink it before leaving.

And Xiao Qinghan's health became worse and worse, and he even coughed up blood a few times.

Xuan Lingxiao came here almost twice a day, but he sent him away each time on the grounds of being with Su Jin.

Su Jin, who was used as a shield, expressed that he was under great pressure, because Xuan Lingxiao looked at him more and more coldly, and even showed killing intent.

Perhaps it was precisely because of seeing this that Xiao Qinghan took him by his side every step of the way.

Xiao Qinghan treated him very well. Every time there was any delicate food, he would be the first to give Su Jin to eat, and he would be the first to pick out the items that were rewarded. Modify your clothes for him to wear.

As Xuan Lingyun said, that emperor really spoiled Xiao Qinghan.All kinds of delicious food and drink are served, and the words will inadvertently show concern, but Xiao Qinghan doesn't seem to want to accept his affection.

And although Xuan Lingyun said harsh words last time, he didn't dispose of those animals as he said, but still let them do harm everywhere.But when it was time to find fault, he would still find it, almost every time he arrived at the meeting, he was so angry that he almost passed out before leaving.

I don't know if it was because Xiao Qinghan was not pleasing to the eye, so he was implicated.Xuan Lingyun even looked at him with provocative and hostile eyes.

In the huge palace, there are dangers everywhere, and there is no pre-holiday festive atmosphere.Su Jin was sure that he must have been deceived. The hanging ladder was not an invitation from another world at all, but a trap from another world.

While thinking, there were loud footsteps outside the window.It was the servant who forced Xiao Qinghan to drink medicine every day. He squeezed his voice and made an announcement, inviting Xiao Qinghan and him to a banquet.

Xiao Qinghan frowned tightly: "I can go alone."

"No." The servant raised his head, with an arrogant look, aggressive: "The master said, I want you to go with Mr. Su."

The Hongmen Banquet is coming so soon?Su Jin sighed, lying on the edge of the window, and said to Xiao Qinghan who was about to resign: "Why don't you take me to a fun place."

"Go back!" For the first time, Xiao Qinghan spoke to him in an orderly tone, with suppressed anger in his unusually serious expression.

"That can't be done. There must be a lot of delicious food at the banquet. You must take me there." Su Jin didn't flinch, looked straight into his eyes, and had a weird smile on his lips: "You love me very much." ,Right--?"

The servant's expression froze in an instant with the words that clearly hinted at something.Xiao Qinghan is also a smart person, and immediately sensed his intentions, so he could only sigh: "I really can't do anything about you."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at the servant whose face had turned green, and his tone softened slightly: "Please report back, we will arrive on time."

When the servant was far away, he strolled to the window, rolled up his sleeves and frowned at him: "Do you know what that banquet represents?"

"It's nothing more than a Hongmen banquet." Su Jin retracted his numb arm, rubbed it lightly, and answered casually.

"Knowing that you are still jumping into the fire pit?" The other party's brows frowned even deeper.

"Didn't you drag me into this pit of fire?" Su Jin innocently shrugged.

"I didn't intend to take you..." Instinctively wanted to refute something, but the moment the words came out, Xiao Qinghan suddenly came back to his senses and swallowed back the unspoken words.

Although the voice was soft, Su Jin could still hear something from his expression and tone of voice.After being stunned for a while, he reached out and stretched the man's eyebrows, and said softly, "Don't worry, I'm not such an easy person to mess with either."

It's obviously just a child's unfounded self-confidence, but Xiao Qinghan finds it extremely credible.He was startled, looked at the other party's relaxed expression, leaned into his ear and asked in a low voice: "Who the hell are you?"

All he answered was a gentle smile.

At noon, the banquet started on time.The magnificent palace was full of people, and everyone seemed to be staring at each other.

Su Jin was beside Xiao Qinghan, and before he could sit down, he heard Xuan Lingxiao's cold voice: "Qinghan, come and sit beside me."

"No need, I'm in a low position, I'd rather just sit here." Xiao Qinghan threw out a lukewarm sentence, making it clear that he was against him.

"What, are you actually reluctant to leave that brat beside you?" Xuan Lingyun held his chin in one hand and looked at him with a wicked smile: "For that little brat's blatant disobedience to the king's order, you two really have deep feelings."

"Second prince, if you have any dissatisfaction with me, just say it, don't involve other people."

"Oh, I even excused that brat, it's really touching." Xuan Lingyun drank a glass of wine, and his face was covered with a faint red layer because of the strength of the wine or anger: "Why, my brother can't be satisfied You, are you looking for tender meat?"

"Please shut up, he's still a child." Xiao Qinghan clenched his fists, suppressing himself from shouting, his body trembling slightly because of anger.

"Puff haha!" The other party laughed unscrupulously, pointing at him out of breath: "You were the same when you were a child..."

"Ling Yun!" The unfinished words were stopped by the aloof Xuan Lingyun in time: "You are too much!"

"Yes, yes, how can I say such a thing? I forgot that you really dote on this scholar." After taking a sip of his wine, he hiccupped and became incoherent: "But look, You love him so much, he found a younger one himself."

"Ah, let's do it!" He didn't intend to stop, holding the wine glass and looking at Su Jin, his eyes were more narrow-minded: "How delicious is this child? Why don't you strip it naked and let me see it?"

"You—" Xiao Qinghan's tolerance had reached the bottom line, and rebuttal words were about to burst out.Su Jin, who had been silent all this time, suddenly stood up, with a calm face, and took off his clothes quickly.

The banquet became silent in an instant, and he took off the last underwear as if nothing had happened amidst the shocked gaze, and then heaved a sigh of relief: "Huh—it's much cooler."

"Su...Su...Su Jin?" Xiao Qinghan was so shocked that he couldn't even speak out because he didn't expect this sudden turn of events.I never expected that someone would undress so happily in full view, without even the slightest hesitation.

"Damn, if I let you take it off, are you really going to take it off? Do you have any sense of shame?" The original culprit was so frightened that he crushed his wine glass and quickly covered his eyes.

Su Jin was very surprised that this person who made pornographic jokes at every turn would be so innocent.He shrugged indifferently, and looked at him innocently: "What, you asked me to take it off, so I will take it off."

The people who reacted instantly became a mess, some covered their eyes and muttered "sin, sin", some covered their eyes with their hands, but couldn't help but open their fingers to take a look; Follow suit and be immediately taken away by their parents for education.

"What are you doing..." The child's actions were beyond Xiao Qinghan's comprehension. The moment he realized it, he took off his robe and wrapped it around Su Jin's body, with a look of pity on his face: "Even if it is to protect me , you don’t need to do this to this extent, do you?”

"It's okay." There was still a faint scent of ink on the robe, which made people feel at ease.Su Jin buried her face in her robe, and said in a relaxed tone, "Anyway, I often did this when I was in my hometown."

"Yes, is it?" Xiao Qinghan's lips twitched unnaturally: "Your hometown is really, really an open place..."