Chapter 55: Can’t I Even Do This Small Thing for Your Highness?
Tian Lang sat on the table admiring the ceiling. Catching a glimpse of Cang Jiu staring at Xie Qiang, it immediately moved its wolf body, blocking his view completely.
Cang Jiu raised an eyebrow, sneering in his heart. He also tilted his body, continuing to stare at Xie Qiang.
Tian Lang immediately moved its wolf body again, continuing to obstruct his view.
After several rounds back and forth, Cang Jiu finally couldn’t be bothered to argue with it and spoke silently: Is this fun?
Tian Lang put on a “punchable” expression: ┗(▔，▔)┛
Cang Jiu narrowed his eyes, a provocative sneer appearing on his face: What’s the use of working so hard when you have a useless master who can’t be carried?
Tian Lang was instantly enraged. It suddenly stood up, lowering its wolf body and baring its teeth fiercely at Cang Jiu, letting out a low, menacing growl.
Its large wolf tail followed suit, lashing hard against the table to declare its anger, but it accidentally swept against the water glass on the table. The glass instantly flew into Xie Qiang’s lap.
“Ah!”
Hearing Xie Qiang’s surprised cry, Tian Lang immediately retracted its fierce look and turned to look at her nervously.
The water glass rolled to the floor, shattering into glass shards with a pop. Xie Qiang’s white lab coat was quite wet, but fortunately, the water in the glass was lukewarm, so she wasn’t burned.
Tian Lang sat down guiltily, its lowered wolf head looking at Xie Qiang pitifully. “Awoo…”
“It’s fine.” Xie Qiang patted it, just as she was about to get up to clean the glass shards. Cang Jiu, who had walked over at some point, cast a cold glance at the floor before bending down and picking her up.
Her body suddenly became airborne. The feeling of weightlessness made Xie Qiang instinctively grab Cang Jiu’s clothes. “Cang Jiu?”
Cang Jiu placed her on the table. Meeting her eyes, which were full of confusion but no wariness, the heart in his chest suddenly beat faster.
How could she look at him with such eyes…
The rapid heartbeat nearly shattered his sensitive eardrums. Cang Jiu could not ignore his own abnormality. The discovery that the girl actually trusted him made him feel like a fox that had been thirsty for a long time and suddenly licked a bit of sweet water—it didn’t quench his thirst at all, but rather worsened the craving.
If he told her the identity of the person who hung the Sentinel’s corpse, would she grant him more sweet water?
If he drank more, would he stop being thirsty?
He desperately wanted to know the answer.
The silver-haired youth’s palm rested lightly on Xie Qiang’s collar button. With a gentle flick, he unbuttoned it. “Don’t be in a hurry, Your Highness…”
I will find out.
But there was something more urgent now, which was, “Your clothes are wet. Let’s change them…”
Cang Jiu was leaning in a bit too close. His soft, elastic fox ears unconsciously rubbed against Xie Qiang’s cheek and nose, causing a few light, tickling sensations that made her want to sneeze.
Xie Qiang couldn’t help but lean back a little. “There’s no need…”
She reached out to block Cang Jiu’s movement, only for him to catch her hand. Those watery fox eyes looked up, visibly showing a hint of grievance. “Can’t I even do this small thing for Your Highness?”
The youth’s face was so close she could clearly see those two beautiful moles under his eyes, like night stars soaked in light. They were so striking that Xie Qiang couldn’t help but lose herself for a moment. “It’s not that…”
“Then Your Highness shouldn’t refuse.” Cang Jiu unbuttoned the last one. His long, fair fingers slid over Xie Qiang’s shoulders, holding both sides of the collar. With a gentle tug, the white lab coat slid off onto the table.
Looking up and seeing Xie Qiang still staring at his face, Cang Jiu couldn’t help but blink.
If any other Guide looked at him so directly, he would have wanted to gouge their eyes out long ago.
But if it were her…
Cang Jiu raised his hand and gently brushed aside the stray hair by her ear, smiling lazily and alluringly. “Does Your Highness like my face?”
Just as the words left his mouth, the sound of the door opening suddenly came from behind.
Before he could turn to see who it was, a pain that felt as if his shoulder was about to shatter suddenly erupted.
Cang Jiu’s brow twitched with pain. He then grinned and looked at the newcomer with a half-smile. “Commander Sen, why are you being so heavy-handed?”
Sen Ji’s face was dark. His emerald tiger eyes, usually as bright as jade, were now as dark as an unfathomable deep pool, radiating a lethal danger without any concealment.
“Let go.” He cast a cold glance down at Cang Jiu, carrying an overwhelming pressure that could not be ignored. “What are you doing to the Imperial Daughter?”
“Heh, can’t Commander Sen tell?”
Cang Jiu pulled Xie Qiang into his arms. His fingers idly toyed with her soft hair, the corners of his lips curling into a provocative smirk. “I’m helping Your Highness undress~”
Xie Qiang finally managed to pull her head out of Cang Jiu’s chest, only to feel a chill on the top of her head. A sense of dread, as if being stared down by a dangerous beast, quickly spread.
Ah, it feels safer to stay still right now?
“Your Highness~” Cang Jiu whispered in her ear, his voice trembling slightly. “Commander Sen is too narrow-minded. I was clearly helping you, yet he’s being so rough with me.”
He spoke in a spoiled tone, but his face was a blatant provocation to Sen Ji. “If it were Xiao Jiu, I wouldn’t be so jealous as to act without rhyme or reason.”
“Cang Jiu!” Sen Ji’s face grew darker, and the strength in his hand intensified. “Release her!”
Seeing that Sen Ji really intended to crush his shoulder, Cang Jiu finally let go, feeling bored. He looked at Sen Ji coldly and said, “Your Highness and I haven’t done anything yet, but you’re already charging in like a mad bull. If Your Highness marries other National Consorts in the future, wouldn’t you just explode?”
Cang Jiu’s words were like a bucket of cold water poured over Sen Ji’s head, causing him to suddenly sober up.
Right, what was he doing just now?
The last time he saw her, he clearly said he wouldn’t interfere in her business. How could he have impulsively come up to block the intimacy between Xie Qiang and Cang Jiu?
His fingers clenched unconsciously. Sen Ji tried to find a reason to convince himself. “Who knows if you were forcing her, or…”
“Hah?” Cang Jiu laughed, looking at Sen Ji’s faltering form with a trace of merciless pity. “Mo Yin’s spiritual body is right here. How could I force Her Highness?”
Tian Lang immediately let out an “Awoo.”
Exactly, I’m still here! If this smelly fox dares to use force, I’ll be the first to bite off his skull.
Sen Ji finally noticed that Cang Jiu and Xie Qiang were not the only ones in the room.
He had actually completely ignored the reality of the situation and rushed in recklessly just because he saw Cang Jiu taking off her coat.
How could he be like this?
A sense of embarrassment belatedly filled his heart. Meeting Xie Qiang’s confused expression, he couldn’t help but take a step back and speak raspy, “…This was indeed my mistake.”
Sen Ji wanted to quickly escape this embarrassing place, but for some reason, his feet felt as heavy as an entire planet, making him unable to move at all.
Why… does he seem unwilling to leave?
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