"Don’t move, you are making it difficult for me. I know you wouldn’t dry your hair if I let you do it, so just stay still while I help you." Yun Shu warned the guy not to move around as she dried his hair, Bai Yunxian gave up as he didn’t stop her anymore.
However, the guy’s face turned warm and hot as the corner of his lips moved upwards.
Yun Shu dried his hair skillfully as she braided it as well before finally letting him off, satisfied with her skills.
"It’s all set. Now you should eat something and take a nap." Yun Shu put the towel away as she was about to get up, when her clothes were tugged again.
"Husband..." A certain someone mumbled under his breath as he lowered his head, Yun Shu turned around in disbelief and shock, but couldn’t see his face.
"You... don’t you have something you should explain properly? I’m... I’m still angry, and I won’t eat or do as you say until you give me a proper explanation!" Bai Yunxian glared at Yun Shu with red eyes, clearly angry.
But all Yun Shu could see was a fluffy and cute stray cat hissing at her, complaining that what she was doing all this time, not going to find it sooner.
’Hahhh... this cute kitten...’
Yun Shu sighed as she facepalmed in resignation, it would be a disaster if someone else were to discover this cuteness, wouldn’t it?
Bai Yunxian could see the darkness appearing on Yun Shu’s face. Was he angry because he forced him to answer his questions?
"I-I’m sorry, I spoke out of turn because I was anxious. I won’t make the same mistake again..." Bai Yunxian’s voice turned thin and dull with each word, as his eyes deemed.
Just as he felt disappointed, a voice rang out into his ears, making him startled.
"Of course there was a reason for the acting. But why are you apologizing without any reason?"
"...!!! O-oh! I, Is that so?" Ashamed, Bai Yunxian blushed after feeling the hot breath brushing against his ear and neck as he scurried away from Yun Shu quickly, holding the pace where is tickled as he was on his guard.
But turning towards Yun Shu, there was no other intentions he could see as she looked puzzled, Bai Yunxian shook his head.
’What am I thinking about all the time? I can’t believe I’m becoming so lecherous with every passing day!’
’Just by looking at those eyes, I can tell the Lord doesn’t have any impure intention towards someone like me. Maybe it’s because I’m the one thinking of bad things in my mind. I’m the one with impure intentions.’
Bai Yunxian thought to himself as he shook his head in resignation. It’s all inside his head, Lord Yun wouldn’t do those things without consent.
However, the empty and hollow feeling in his heart didn’t go away. Instead, it turned even stronger than before.
When he turned to face Yun Shu, his eyes stuck in a place like glue, unable to move away.
"It’s just that, I thought that I may have asked something I shouldn’t have..." Bai Yunxian murmured as he was staring at Yun Shu’s throat, he could see her slender neck and her cuffs that were naked because of her loose clothes.
"You didn’t ask anything wrong. It was a plan created and kept a secret between some of us, since all the soldiers don’t have a tight lip. If we want our plan to work out, then we need to create tension within the army. And it was perfect timing to do that." Yun Shu was patient as she explained to him everything little by little.
"As for not telling you, I thought a letter was sent for you? Didn’t they explain everything there? Or was there something wrong with it? It didn’t reach you?"
Yun Shu could guess what possibly happened, so she asked him on purpose.
But Bai Yunxian didn’t say anything in response as he handed the envelope to Yun Shu, his expression telling her to take a look at it.
’This is indeed the envelope I handed over for him.’ Raising her eyebrows, Yun Shu looked at the envelope with suspicion as she looked around it, then opened the letter inside to read it.
’This is...’
Definitely not my handwriting.
Yun Shu recognised the letter at a glance as she looked around.
The letter she left inside wasn’t written in a coarse paper, but an expensive paper. She used floral scent and pattern on the paper to express her affection, but there was no such thing in this paper. The handwriting was also pretty familiar, as well as a guess on who it could be that swapped her letter.
"Someone swapped the letter when I wasn’t looking." Yun Shu sighed as she folded the letter and put it on the corner of the table.
Then she turned towards Bai Yunxian, and unexpectedly pinched both his cheeks and squeezed them. Her eyes were clearly showing signs of sadness, showing that she was hurt by the matter, "But did you really think I would send you such a cheap letter in an extravagant envelope? What do you even think of me?"
"No, I... I didn’t mean to hurt My Lord, I simply...!" Bai Yunxian was flustered by Yun Shu’s hurt expression.
To tell the truth, he also suspected that this letter wasn’t sent by Yun Shu long ago. But he wanted to make sure it really wasn’t him, that’s why he made an attempt to test him.
"I was just worried that something bad might’ve happened, that’s why..."
Hurting Yun Shu is never an option.
"Sigh, my wife doesn’t believe me. I feel so hurt..." Yun Shu pretended to be sad as she looked at Bai Yunxian’s distressed face.
"I didn’t mean to...! I didn’t mean to hurt you, My Lord! Please believe me!" Bai Yunxian panicked to see Yun Shu cover her face with both hands, her shoulders trembling.