Chapter 101: 90 Candid (Revision)


    Xiao Ling had no clue about the olddy’s secrets, let alone know where she got the golden wound ointment from. However, this wasn’t the time to contemte these issues. Gu Jiao’s condition was critical, and her wounds needed immediate attention.


    Though they had shared a bed, it was always with their clothes on. Now, however, he had no choice but to lift her garments.


    Xiao Ling steadied his emotions, then gently turned her over so she was lying on her stomach.


    His slender fingers, trembling slightly, hooked up her slightly warm undergarments, gradually revealing her skin.


    The lengthy whip mark ran from the barely visible right side of her waist all the way to her left shoulder.


    He reluctantly had to strip her of her clothes entirely, revealing her smooth and unblemished back.


    Her hands were ced on her pillow, her position entuating the beautiful shape that was unique to young girls.


    In order to assess her injuries clearly, Xiao Ling lit an oilmp in the room, but his gaze unintentionally lingered on ces it shouldn’t have.


    His breath hitched for a moment, and he hurriedly looked away, daring not to gaze any further.


    Once he steadied his emotions again, he dipped his fingertips in the cool ointment and gently applied it bit by bit onto her whip marks.


    Seemingly feeling some difort in her slumber, she slightly furrowed her brow.


    The whip marks were hideous, as if not caused by an ordinary whip.


    She didn’t seem like someone who would allow herself to be bullied, at least not now. Xiao Ling couldn’t help but wonder how she sustained such injuries and who her adversaries were.


    That she seemed indifferent to her injuries, as if it was something she was ustomed to, perplexed him even more.


    Although she had a bitter life since childhood, it wouldn’t extend to being abused constantly.


    Carrying his doubts, Xiao Ling finished applying the ointment and covered her wound with a clean piece of cloth. Only afterward, did he lower her clothes and cover her with a quilt.


    Afterpleting all this, he nned to return to his room but identally kicked something while standing up.


    With a loud thud, it seemed like a box had fallen over, its contents scattering all over the floor.


    Xiao Ling ced the small wooden box back onto the table and picked up the scattered items, cing them all back onto the table. Looking at the pile of items covering the entire table, he was left bewildered.


    “What are all these things?”


    “And, why are there so many?”


    The variety of peculiar objects were spread all over the table. He wondered how a small box could hold so many items.


    The day when Gu Jiao fell into the water for the first time, he hade to her room looking for something, he was certain that she didn’t have this box at that time.


    First, it was the inexplicable injuries, then it was this peculiar box. How many secrets was she harboring?


    Xiao Ling shot aplex nce at the sleeping Gu Jiao. He felt irritated, yet he couldn’t pinpoint what exactly was bothering him.


    Ultimately though, he didn’t have a habit of prying into others’ secrets. He didn’t investigate the medicines on the table and ced them all back into the small medicine box.


    Even he was amazed at how the small box could fit so much inside. Truly impressive.


    Now, he truly nned to get back to his room.


    However, he must not have ced the medicine box securely as it tumbled off the tabletop with a thud, the contents once again scattering all over the floor.


    What was astonishing, however, was that these items seemed to be different from what fell out earlier!


    “Is my vision ying tricks on me or…”


    Xiao Ling suspiciously looked at the medicines on the floor, for the first time doubting his own eyes.


    He ced the items back into the box, nning to overturn the box again to verify. Suddenly, Gu Jiao, who was sleeping on the bed, turned over and hurt her wound, she murmured ufortably.


    Xiao Ling halted his actions, he suddenly realized that it was inappropriate to rummage through someone’s things in the middle of the night. With a sigh, he ced the box back and left her room.


    The next day, Xiao Ling woke up early.


    Gu Jiao’s high fever had mostly subsided, but she was so exhausted that she continued to sleep deeply.


    Xiao Ling didn’t wake her up. He made breakfast, informed the olddy, and then proceeded to the Academy.


    At the vi, the Yao family, who had waited all night, couldn’t wait any longer and followed the Governor Gu to the vige.


    The door was opened by Little Kong.


    Generally, doors in the countryside were not locked, but Little Kong had bolted it to prevent people from disturbing Gu Jiao’s sleep.


    Little Kong peeked his round little head through the door crack, curiously staring at the Yao family and Governor Gu at the doorstep.


    He recognized the Yao family, a beautiful woman who often went to the temple to offer incense.


    He also recognized Governor Gu, the big bad guy who had ordered the capture of him and Jiaojiao!