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As soon as he thought of the fragrant kiss she had just offered, Gu Huachang couldn't help but smile. They had only known each other for a few days, yet they had already shared such a life-and-death experience.
In his unconscious state, he felt a pair of hands that were not particularly gentle but warm enough wrap around his back, starting to bandage him, accompanied by a faint, delicate fragrance in the air.
He struggled to open his eyes, wanting to see Luo Hongyi's expression at that moment, but found her half-kneeling, half-sitting on the edge of the bed. Her long hair was casually draped over her shoulders, and her face was flushed with what seemed to be a mix of anxiety and shyness. Meanwhile, he was leaning against her shoulder, barely covered.
Realizing this, Gu Huachang's face instantly flushed with heat, a strange emotion rising in his heart—like a mix of delight and embarrassment.
“Oh no! The wound ointment! I haven’t applied it yet!”
Before he could fully grasp this odd feeling, Luo Hongyi hurriedly jumped off the bed to find the ointment.
With her departure, Gu Huachang lost his support and fell face-first onto the bed with a thud, warm blood trickling from his nose.
“Have you ever seen someone so useless? I’ve never seen anyone as useless as you! I called you here to teach someone a lesson, and look at you—forgetting everything and getting yourself half-dead! Poisoned and injured, and now I have to clean up your mess!”
“Jinse Sister, don’t say that!” Luo Hongyi pouted sweetly at Hua Jinse while awkwardly wrapping Gu Huachang with clean bandages. “You’re actually the kindest one among us! Otherwise, you wouldn’t have brought me back to Meng Po Hall in the first place!”
“Stop flattering me!” Hua Jinse stomped her foot in anger and rushed to the bedside.
Just thinking about how she had been urgently summoned and found her carefully trained assassin entangled with a man on the same bed—touching faces and rubbing chests—made her furious. The scene was so scandalous it rivaled all the steamy scenes from the erotic novels she had ever read; she nearly spat blood in rage.
“Master Huachang!” Gu Huachang coughed lightly. “As the leader of Meng Po Hall, you should set a good example for those beneath you. How can you speak so indecently…”
"I speak foul words? You've taken so much advantage of my family’s Red Robe, and I haven't even settled the score with you yet. How dare you lecture me?" Hua Jinse pulled out a black wooden abacus that she had hidden behind her back. "Touching hands costs fifty taels, kissing costs one hundred taels, a peck on the lips is five hundred taels, and looking at the chest is one thousand taels..."
Upon hearing this, Luo Hongyi's face turned bright red as she pouted, "Sister Jinse, it was I who initiated the kiss! So you can forget about charging for that, alright?"
"I'm going to die, I'm going to die..." Hua Jinse tugged at her hair in frustration, completely engulfed in despair. "After ten years of hard work, I've raised someone who turns their elbow outward! Not only did they get taken advantage of, but they’re also saving money for the other party!"
Gu Huachang cleared his throat a few times and playfully blinked his clear, bright eyes at Luo Hongyi. "So, Master Hua, how much betrothal gift do you desire? What are Red Robe's birth details? When can we proceed with the three letters and six rites? Should we go directly to Meng Po Hall for the wedding, or…"
"Thud!" Hua Jinse fell off her chair onto the floor, her face filled with regret as she wished she could poke her own eyes out. "You dare say that again!"
"Master Hua, this isn't appropriate. Red Robe and I… we have already been honest with each other and have shared intimate moments. I am not someone who disregards propriety..."
Hua Jinse shot a murderous glare at the blushing and lovesick Luo Hongyi beside her. "Honest with each other? Intimate moments?"
"No, Sister Jinse, it's not what you think it is!"
"Get lost! I don't want to see you two adulterers anymore! Wuwu! After nurturing you for over ten years, this is how you repay me?! Gu Huachang, if you want to marry me, forget it! One hundred thousand taels of silver—if you can't gather that amount in your lifetime, don’t even think about marrying her!"
"Don't say that, Sister Jinse! He doesn't have that much money. How about I kill a few more people and deduct the betrothal gift from my earnings? Can we do it in installments…"
"No way!" Gu Huachang firmly rejected. "You are already mine; you can't go out and do such things anymore! At most, I will take your place…"
"Is that true?" Hua Jinse's eyes lit up as her expression of resentment vanished instantly. "Then it's settled!"
With such a powerful lineup at Meng Po Hall, Hua Jinse seemed to envision golden ingots rolling towards her in a long line!
Gu Huachang and Luo Hongyi were momentarily stunned, exchanging glances that conveyed an unspoken sense of having fallen into a trap.
It seemed that this was the very idea Hua Jinse had in mind from the beginning.
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