Chapter 2302 — Back at the Inn
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Sun Jingyan hurried to open the door—and found Wei Zhao's face deathly pale. Outwardly he seemed normal enough, yet Sun Jingyan could sense that he must be very weak. "You're hurt?"
"Yes, wounded. I need to heal." Wei Zhao nodded.
Sun Jingyan let him in, double-locked the door, and then said, "Is there anything I can do?"
"Just get me a wet towel to wipe my face." With that, Wei Zhao sat cross-legged on the bed of his own accord, circulated the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, and began to heal himself.
Vast true qi poured ceaselessly from the jade pendant's space into Wei Zhao's meridians, repairing his injured body and bringing him immediate relief—yet in his heart he felt all the more shocked and frightened in hindsight. Thank heavens Tagan Long was only an early Earth-Rank expert; had his strength been a little greater, the one gravely wounded today would surely have been Wei Zhao himself!
Though he had kept the thought of flight in mind and could probably have escaped in the end, it would never have been so easy.
Sun Jingyan fetched a towel from the bathroom, wet it, and came back meaning to hand it to Wei Zhao—but seeing that he had already sat cross-legged on the bed and begun healing through his art, she did not disturb him. Instead she took the towel herself and began to wipe his face...
Gazing at Wei Zhao's pallid face, Sun Jingyan felt a strange stirring in her heart. Gratitude? Guilt? Or something else?
To Sun Jingyan's mind, Wei Zhao must surely have been wounded so badly because of her. She had used the Thousand-Silk Mask to slip past the Tagan clan's search, while Wei Zhao had been forced to fight his way out. And with the Tagan clan's experts gathered thick as clouds, that Wei Zhao had escaped with his life at all was a blessing among misfortunes—yet still Sun Jingyan felt she had wronged him.
At the very beginning, when she had called Wei Zhao her lover, there had been a certain intent to make use of him. But later, as the two grew familiar and their bond drew closer, "lover" became a joke between them. And now, Sun Jingyan felt an urge to truly become Wei Zhao's lover!
A man who would give so much for you—even if only from the standpoint of a friend—moved Sun Jingyan to the depths of her heart! Never, from childhood to now, had anyone done so much for her!
Her parents had passed away early, so she had been independent since childhood. Though the old master of the Sun family doted on her somewhat, Sun Jingyan had still formed the habit of handling her own affairs. Only after Wei Zhao appeared did she realize that some things she truly could not do alone—and that at her side, she truly needed a man... (To be continued) RQ