Su Yan just lifted her eyelids to glance at Ji Yu.
Without a word, she turned and started walking into the Marquis Mansion.
Ji Yu was stunned for a moment, then swiftly caught up and grabbed Su Yan’s hand.
"Marquis..."
He spoke, but as soon as those words fell.
His grip on Su Yan’s hand was shaken off.
Su Yan walked forward step by step. At this moment, Lanzhi also came running through the downpour.
"Young Master, the doctor went to tend to the lord’s injury. The bleeding has stopped, so it’s not too serious. Are you alright?"
As Su Yan listened to Lanzhi’s words, she closed her eyes and could vaguely make some sense.
Followed by her voice,
"Guard the door, no one is allowed in."
Lanzhi nodded.
"Yes!"
She walked step by step toward her courtyard.
Ji Yu, who was always calm and unhurried, now lost his composure.
Braving the torrential rain, he tried to stop Su Yan.
The panic on his face and the helplessness in his eyes were clearly visible to the naked eye.
Su Yan looked at the person blocking her path once again.
She took a deep breath.
"Do you have something to tell me?"
Even though she tried to keep her voice calm.
But listening to it, there was still impatience in it.
Ji Yu looked at her, trying not to appear too flustered.
"Marquis, Marquis, where are you going? Ji Yu will accompany you."
Su Yan lowered her head, clenched her hands.
"Get to the point."
Ji Yu didn’t know why, looking at her detached and impatient demeanor.
He fell silent.
After a long while, finally a sentence,
"Marquis, I can explain."
As Su Yan listened to his halting speech, she tugged at her collar, and her blood-stained hand touched her neck, smearing it with blood.
Her expression was calm, word by word,
"Explain your identity?
Say that this time’s incident is related to you.
Or do you want to say you’re actually not just a simple male prostitute?"
She wasn’t questioning; she just wanted the conversation to proceed faster.
Yet, with her impatient tone.
No matter how one listened, it sounded angry, as if looking at Ji Yu, nothing was right in her eyes.
Ji Yu’s body stiffened, and he reached out, trying to hold Su Yan’s hand.
Su Yan closed her eyes briefly.
"Wait until the rain stops to tell me what you have to say. Lanzhi, remember to guard the door; no one is allowed in."
"Yes."
With that, Su Yan brushed past Ji Yu.
Ji Yu stood there in the pouring rain.
His hand still posed as if trying to grasp hers.
A flash of lightning crossed the sky.
Instantly illuminating the entire Marquis Mansion.
One could see Ji Yu standing there motionless, like a statue.
When Su Yan returned to the room, she closed the door.
She took off her soaking wet clothes and wrapped herself tightly in quilts, collapsing onto the bed.
Xiao Hua observed her host’s reaction.
Then thought, this time, the host was unusually harsh towards the Lord Hero.
Thinking back, the host couldn’t bear to see the Lord Hero sad or upset before.
Even when it rained, she was like this.
This time, it was different from before.
This was the first time Su Yan had stayed in the rain for so long.
To the point where she almost lost her mind and might do something uncontrollable.
The rain continued to fall until past midnight, when it finally stopped.
The next morning, another sunny day began.
Su Yan emerged from a pile of quilts.
Blinked her eyes.
Gentle and harmless.
The look in her eyes had calmed down.
Everything returned to tranquility.
Xiao Hua’s childish voice.
"Host, good morning~~"
Su Yan responded softly.
"Morning."
Upon hearing her host’s voice, Xiao Hua knew the host was back to normal.