After helping him sit up, Yun Jinnian quickly bandaged his wounds.
"I didn't expect a girl cloistered away in her boudoir to have medical skills!" Chu Yu spoke coldly.
And to such a remarkable extent.
"My maternal grandfather happens to be the Divine Doctor. Is it so strange that I, as his granddaughter, know how to heal?" Yun Jinnian tried her best to stay calm, speaking lightly.
But she still felt uneasy inside.
All this, because she had learned it in her dreams; otherwise, she wouldn't know how.
"Divine Doctor? Han Xuzi?"
"Yes!"
Chu Yu said no more.
His cold gaze rested on Yun Jinnian, casual yet piercing. Earlier, he had only pretended to faint. Had Yun Jinnian dared to act recklessly, he would have been the first to kill her.
And coming here wounded was a test.
Unexpectedly, Yun Jinnian truly was Han Xuzi's granddaughter!
That obstinate old man actually had such a granddaughter; he wondered if he would feel pained for her.
Yun Jinnian's mind was in chaos, but she had to remain calm. She didn't know what Chu Yu was planning. Was his arrival an accident or intentional?
"Help me to the bed!" Chu Yu commanded in a deep voice.
"Ah, oh!" Yun Jinnian, somewhat dazed, helped Chu Yu to the bed and then came back to her senses, looking at her own hands.
In that moment just now, she acted without thinking—she didn't even know how she had moved him to the bed!
Shock and awe in her eyes, she looked at Chu Yu, "What did you just do to me?"
"Nothing much, just used the Soul Leading Technique a little," Chu Yu said carelessly, the corner of his beautiful mouth curving up, his sword-like eyebrows slanting across his temples, and his eyes bright and spirited within his finely carved handsome face.
He was extremely good-looking.
But as the room was quite dark, Yun Jinnian couldn't see clearly, "I am your savior. How can you use the Soul Leading Technique on me!"
"It's precisely because you're my savior that I used the Soul Leading Technique instead of taking your life!"
"Why?"
"Because you know too much!"
You're arguing against reason!" Yun Jinnian fumed.
She had kindly saved him, hoping to have someone to rely on, yet he didn't take it seriously at all.
"Heh heh!"
Chu Yu leaned against the bedhead, chuckling coldly.
Still so young and inexperienced, stirred up by his few words.
"I need water!"
"What?" Yun Jinnian asked in a low voice.
"I want water, hot water!"
Yun Jinnian, hearing this, gradually calmed down, went off to splash cold water on her face, and after freshening up, she changed her clothes. She stepped out of the room and began to pick up the blood-stained cotton and garments from the floor, throwing them in a basin to burn them, speaking faintly, "I'm not as favored as you might think. There's a small kitchen in the courtyard, so if you want water, you'll have to wait until daylight. In the meantime, if you don't want me to be drowned in a pig cage, sent off to a farm, or poisoned to death with a brew, it's better for you to keep quiet and not make a sound!"
Indeed, that was a complaint.
Yun Jinnian wanted to let Chu Yu know the great risk she had taken in saving him.
Chu Yu received the news that Yun Jinnian was indeed not favored.
He became silent for a moment.
Meanwhile, Yun Jinnian was not idle. After burning the discarded items, she began to wipe the floor with a rag, quietly carrying out the bloody water, fetching cold water to continue, and keeping the oil lamp burning while she cleaned, her little hands turning red from the cold.
Only after cleaning the floor did Yun Jinnian open the window to let fresh air in and lit more sandalwood to mask the blood smell in the room.
The sandalwood had been sent by Yun Chen the day before. The person who brought the sandalwood only mentioned that the good spices were gone and told her to make do with what was sent until more arrived.
Yun Jinnian didn't speak.
She had used even the best spices in her dreams.
When everything was taken care of, Yun Jinnian finally pulled up a stool and sat in front of Chu Yu, "I think we should talk!"