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Li Zhenyao felt an inexplicable sense of relief, but as she stepped forward, she accidentally stepped on a fragrant pear rolling on the road. She stumbled and fell backward, landing flat on her back.
At the same time, she clearly felt a sharp pain radiating from the outside of her left foot.
"Master!" Qin Zhu screamed in panic, and at that moment, Lu Dongzan leaped off his horse. The sound of clashing swords and knives echoed around them, but Li Zhenyao felt a tingling numbness quickly spreading from her wound throughout her body.
Qin Zhu's face turned pale with fear as she hurriedly reached out her trembling hand to press down on Li Zhenyao's leg.
"It's okay, it's okay. Someone is coming to save us. You need to go to the medical clinic and find a doctor. Remember, ordinary doctors are usually not good at detoxification; you must go to doctor Ji on Feng Chuan Street. I remember he had a sign there that mentioned he could treat snake venom!"
"But you alone..." Qin Zhu clearly did not want to leave her by the roadside. Just then, Lu Dongzan rushed over. Upon seeing Li Zhenyao's face, he immediately reached for her skirt.
"Great Minister, no!" Qin Zhu quickly blocked him.
"Get out of the way! She's been poisoned by a snake..."
"I know!" Qin Zhu was anxious and flustered. "But... but in our Central Plains, only a future husband can touch a girl's feet! If another man sees them, the princess's reputation will be ruined..."
Before Qin Zhu could finish her sentence, she saw Lu Dongzan actually stand up and take off his outer robe. "Use this robe to cover your princess! Hurry!"
"Princess..." Qin Zhu felt helpless. When she looked at Li Zhenyao again, she realized that not only was Li Zhenyao's complexion pale, but even her lips had turned dark. She gritted her teeth and took Lu Dongzan's clothing to shield both of them.
Although Li Zhenyao's foot was numb and she could barely feel it, she still struggled to move her upper body away. However, Lu Dongzan resolutely lifted her skirt. When he saw the dark bloodstains around the sock opening, his expression turned grim.
"You..." Li Zhenyao began to speak, but Lu Dongzan had already removed her sock and leaned down to press his lips against the wound, sucking out the venom with urgency. After each deep gulp of toxic blood, he would glance at Li Zhenyao to ensure her complexion wasn't worsening before letting out a sigh of relief.
Li Zhenyao wished she could just faint, but it seemed that fate was intent on tormenting her. Despite being bitten by a snake, with one leg feeling numb and foreign, her mind was clear enough to notice everything around her.
As the color of the poisoned blood faded, she felt Lu Dongzan's kiss on her foot—soft and cool. The sensation of his sucking pull made her heart tighten and curl up, causing all the blood in her body to rush to her face and head.
"Do you know that just for what you've done to me, I could demand that you marry me?" Li Zhenyao's voice trembled slightly, but she was well aware that her weakness stemmed from insecurity rather than physical frailty.
Lu Dongzan paused for a moment: "The matter of the princess marrying our Tubo Zanpu has already been decided, and we Tubo people have never cared for such formalities. Besides, isn’t there a saying in your Central Plains that urgent matters should be dealt with flexibly? Life is at stake..."
"But what if I say I want you to marry me?" Li Zhenyao blurted out. Lu Dongzan visibly shuddered; his head lowered, only his thick eyebrows quivered slightly beneath his lashes. "From the day we met, the princess should have known that I came to the Central Plains for only one reason: to seek a bride for my king; and you, princess, are the queen I sought for him!"
"Lu Dongzan!" Li Zhenyao's heart skipped a beat, and suddenly her nose felt sour. "Didn’t you say you liked my personality? Aren't men from the grasslands known for their boldness in love and hate? Do you dare look me in the eye and say you don't like me at all?"
Lu Dongzan lifted his head, his lips slightly swollen and darkened from sucking the poisoned blood trembling for a moment. "Princess..."
This woman, who he recognized among three hundred others by her faint fragrance alone, dared to ask him to marry her?
"As long as you say you have no romantic feelings for me, I can immediately give up! I will keep my word without any hesitation or entanglement!"
Li Zhenyao stared intently at his face. She knew very well that both the timing and the person were wrong for her feelings.
She was about to be married off as Princess Wencheng, a key figure in ensuring peace between two nations. There was no possibility for her and Lu Dongzan.
Yet, she could not control her heart.
From the moment she realized her gaze always unconsciously fell upon him, and her mind uncontrollably wandered to thoughts of him, she had been waiting for this moment.
“Lu Dongzan, please say it out loud and let me give up!” She closed her eyes, anticipating the words that would shatter her budding feelings.
However, after a long wait, what she received instead were two warm lips pressing against her calf once more.
“Lu…”
“I won’t let anything happen to you!” Lu Dongzan spat out a mouthful of poison, his dark eyes shining like stars in the night sky. “Absolutely not!”
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