The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 640 - 640 307 The Truth Revealed (second update) _2

Chapter 640: 307 The Truth Revealed (second update) _2 Chapter 640: 307 The Truth Revealed (second update) _2 Xiao Liulang closed the door for the emperor and looked at Gu Jiao, “Are you okay?”

The emperor was subjected to an assassination attempt, and she happened to have brought him back; such a coincidence was bound to raise concerns about whether she was in some kind of danger, too.

The reason why the word “pick up” is used is mainly because Gu Jiao has a proclivity for bringing strays home…

First unintentionally bringing home the dowager empress, then the little monk, and then the former High Priest of the Guozijian…

Okay, to be fair, the High Priest was brought home by the old dame, not her.

Gu Jiao initially wanted to say that she was unscathed, but when the words were on the tip of her tongue, she swung her little eyes around and held her hand out, “My hand hurts a little.”

“What happened to your hand?” Xiao Liulang instinctively held her hands, carefully examining them all over, from the palms to the back of the hands, the heels to the fingertips.

After looking, he didn’t find a single scratch. He gazed at her questioningly.

“It’s sore,” Gu Jiao explained without changing her expression.

Xiao Liulang: “…”

Just as Xiao Liulang was about to retract his hand, Gu Jiao suddenly yelped.

With one hand in his grasp, she lifted her other to cover her left eye, an expression of extreme discomfort on her face.

Xiao Liulang, however, wasn’t so easily fooled this time. He asked casually, “What’s wrong? Is your eye sore too?”

Gu Jiao rubbed her eye, “I’ve got some sand in it.”

Caught between not knowing whether to believe if Gu Jiao actually had sand in her eye, Xiao Liulang couldn’t help himself. When he saw her rubbing her eyelids and cheeks red, he lifted her hand away, “Let me take a look.”

His slender, jade-like fingers gently rested on her pupil; his thumb landed on her cinnabar birthmark. The birthmark had no temperature, yet his fingertips strangely warmed up.

Perhaps because of the sand, her left eye was red and shone with a tender moisture. The corners of her eyes were also slightly red, filled with a delicate vulnerability like she had just been bullied.

Utterly irresistible.

Xiao Liulang swallowed, his voice hoarse.

He slowly lowered his head, approached her eye, and gently blew on it.

“Is there still sand in there?” he asked softly.

Gu Jiao blinked her eye and pondered, “There is.”

He lowered his head again, as if about to kiss her eye.

“Oh no, I didn’t see anything! Carry on!”

Upon seeing her young miss and the lord romantically entangled in the corridor, Yu Yaya, who had just tidied up the stove, hurriedly covered her eyes, turned around, fled back to the stove, and closed the door in one fell swoop!

A wave of embarrassment washed over Xiao Liulang.

He hadn’t done anything, yet he bore the title of a romantic escapade, quite aggrievedly.

Gu Jiao’s eyes were fine.

Xiao Liulang intended to escort her back to her room. But unbeknownst whether she had exerted too much force in saving the emperor, the pipa button on her chest had broken, opening her collar and revealing a strip of white underdress embroidered with pink lotus flowers.

Xiao Liulang unintentionally glanced at it and promptly shifted his gaze, yet the image of the delicate pink lotus tip was as though a nail hammered into his mind, refusing to go away!

Gu Jiao, however, seemed unaware that one of her buttons had popped open.

“You…” Xiao Liulang was about to remind her when Gu Xiaoshun and Gu Yan returned from outside.

Since they got shadow guards, the duo had extended their training times, not worrying about any dangers on the road.

“Huh? Brother-in-law?” Gu Xiaoshun saw Xiao Liulang and…

Before his gaze could fall on Gu Jiao, Xiao Liulang turned to block her fully. He stationed Gu Jiao between himself and the wall, with his arms placed on either side of her, leaving no gaps in sight.

This attitude was very much like that of a beast guarding his food.

He turned back and said in a stern voice to the two, “You guys, go inside first!”

The two, who hadn’t even been treated this seriously by their brother-in-law when they landed at the bottom of the class, “…”

Brother-in-law looks furious!

The two obediently went inside as asked.

Gu Jiao blinked at Xiao Liulang who was very close, her husband had her against the wall.

Xiao Liulang cleared his throat, withdrew his hand guarding her, opened his mouth, but ultimately didn’t remind her about her button. Instead, he took off his outer robe, draped it over her, “Let’s go back to the room. It’s chilly at night.”

The emperor woke up in the middle of the night.

The anesthetic wore off, and he felt the pain all over his body.

Yu Ya watched in his room and saw him wake up. She quickly called for Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao said to Yu Ya, “You can rest now, you don’t have to keep an eye on things after this.”

“Yes.” Yu Ya went back to her room.

Gu Jiao entered the room.

Yu Ya had taken good care of the emperor. He hadn’t sweated, nor had he been chilled; she had done just fine.