Xie Jingxing stood up and picked up the teapot from the table at the side. He poured out the water and reached out to scoop a pot of lake water. He placed it on the stove to boil and said, “I’m indeed not that kind-hearted, but on account of your loyalty, I’ll be a good person for once.” At this point, he looked up at Shen Miao and said, “Everyone says that Shen Xin is loyal. I didn’t expect a girl from the Shen family to be so loyal too. Thank you for not selling me out.”
He was half joking and half serious, so Shen Miao did not explain that he had actually misunderstood. At that time, if she immediately said that the person in the secret room was Xie Jingxing, the two of them would immediately kill her. However, Xie Jingxing thought that she did not say it because she was loyal. If she could make Xie Jingxing feel that he owed her a favor, why not? Therefore, Shen Miao did not intend to explain this misunderstanding.
However, Shen Miao lowered her head and thought that even if she really exposed Xie Jingxing, with Xie Jingxing’s ability, he would probably be able to escape unscathed.
After a short silence, the water in the pot was boiled. Xie Jingxing casually tore off a piece of fabric from the corner of his robe and wet it with some hot water. He held Shen Miao’s calf in one hand and placed it on his knee, wiping the dirty blood around the wound with the other.
Shen Miao felt a little uncomfortable. She turned her head away and couldn’t help but curl her toes slightly. In her previous life, other than Fu Xiuyi, she had never been so intimate with another man. Even Fu Xiuyi never treated her with such gentleness. Most of the time, Fu Xiuyi acted like an emperor in front of her rather than a husband. Therefore, she found this intimate interaction quite awkward and uncomfortable.
Feeling that it was awkward, Shen Miao asked, “Who are those people?”
The “those people” she was talking about were naturally the abductors. Hearing this, Xie Jingxing did not say anything. After wiping the dirty blood off Shen Miao’s calf, he sprinkled some powder on it and took out a handkerchief to bandage it for her. When he was doing this, he lowered his head with an extremely serious look, and his methods were very practiced, as if bandaging wounds was a daily thing. The lights on the boat shone brightly on his face. The young man’s eyebrows were unbelievably handsome, and in this short dazzling moment, he gave off a gentleness that was never seen from him.
Even Shen Miao couldn’t help but be slightly stunned. However, this illusion of gentleness did not last long. Xie Jingxing put down her feet and suddenly placed his hands beside Shen Miao, leaning close to her. His well-defined face was inches away from Shen Miao, and his eyes seemed to be filled with intoxicating wine. He looked at her with a faint smile. It was so domineering that it made her unable to breathe.
Shen Miao looked at him calmly and stared at him for a while before Xie Jingxing let go and said indifferently, “It’s not good for you to know too much.”
“I don’t want to know anything.” Shen Miao said, “I just hope you won’t implicate me.” As soon as she said that, she regretted it. For some reason today, perhaps it was because it happened too suddenly, or perhaps it was because she was injured that she was frustrated. When she faced Xie Jingxing, she brought out the temper that she had locked deep inside her.
“As long as you don’t push your luck, no one can implicate you,” Xie Jingxing said. He tidied up the messy boat and found a long pole to hang Shen Miao’s wet clothes on to dry them.
