Huo Wei fixed his long, slanting phoenix eyes on her coldly. "Shut up," he said.
The sharp hairpin pierced her skin. Just as Dugu Luanyue was about to cry out, a palm covered her mouth. Tears streamed down her face from the pain.
Huo Wei merely said, "Do you want to attract the assassins by screaming so loudly?"
Dugu Luanyue wasn't polite either. She sank her white teeth into Huo Wei's hand. There was a wild and domineering look in his eyes. "That's all the strength you have," he said coldly.
Before long, the wound was neatly stitched up. The stitches were done perfectly.
Huo Wei then sprinkled some white hemostatic powder on it. His movements were smooth and practiced, as if he were very familiar with the procedure.
After years of fighting on the battlefield, he was well-versed in such things.
Huo Wei covered her with his outer robe. "Don't sleep tonight. It'll be hard to wake up if you do," he said.
The wind and snow outside would reach their coldest at night. Even with the fire in front of them, they couldn't afford to be careless.
After all the suffering he had put her through, Dugu Luanyue's chest was already numb from the pain. Now, all she felt was the bone-chilling cold.
She whispered, "Huo Wei, I'm so cold. Can you come closer to me?"
Huo Wei's tall and imposing figure loomed over the fire. He held a long knife in his hand and scanned the surroundings warily. "Your Majesty the Queen is still thinking about men at a time like this?"
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Dugu Luanyue slumped against a rock.
Her hair was slightly disheveled, and a few strands were twined around her cheeks. Her haggard face, combined with her breathtaking beauty, gave her a kind of broken and alluring charm.
Since the wound on her chest had just been stitched up, she couldn't fasten her clothes tightly. She simply covered herself with a light veil, but it couldn't hide the fullness and allure of her chest.
Huo Wei's eyes darkened, and his Adam's apple twitched slightly.
Dugu Luanyue looked up at him. "Do I look good?"
Huo Wei turned his head away. "Your Majesty the Queen, please behave yourself."
Dugu Luanyue tilted and was about to fall. Huo Wei walked over and caught her. Her head rested on his shoulder.
"Then can you teach me how to behave myself?" she said.
She raised her arm and touched Huo Wei's face. His face wasn't smooth and delicate like a pampered man's, but it was firm and strong.
She could feel every contour of his face - his sharp browbones, his straight nose, and his chiseled jawline.
Her slender finger gently touched the tip of his nose. When it reached his lips, Huo Wei's jawline twitched involuntarily.
Dugu Luanyue smiled. "Why is your face so hot?"
Huo Wei glanced at her sideways. "Put your hand down. Don't force me to do something to you."
Instead of obeying, Dugu Luanyue slumped into his arms. She was already weak and had no strength left.
She looked up at Huo Wei's chin and said softly,
"I'm going to close my eyes. You're the softest bed. Can't you let me sleep, considering I saved your life?"
He wasn't used to being so close to someone, and his whole body tensed up.
Huo Wei felt a delicate body lying on his thigh, and a faint fragrance wafted into his nose.
The cave was so quiet that he could hear his own heartbeat.
Dugu Luanyue saw his Adam's apple move. She slowly wriggled into his arms, with a teasing smile in her eyes.
"Huo Wei, your heart is beating faster. Do you have some perverted thoughts?"
Huo Wei's voice became hoarse. He looked down and saw Dugu Luanyue's pale but extremely charming face and her snow-white chest.
"Dugu Luanyue, even if I act like a brute tonight, what can you do about it?"
He pinched her chin with his fingers and raised his brow slightly.
His usually calm black eyes were now surging with emotions, barely held in check.
Dugu Luanyue smiled. "I like to see you act like a brute."
She looked at the stitched wound on her chest. It was deep but not very long.
Huo Wei had stitched it up quickly, so the pain she had endured had been relatively short.
She reached out her finger to touch it, but Huo Wei grabbed her hand. "Don't touch it," he said.
Dugu Luanyue looked up at him blankly. "Why?"
Huo Wei said, "Your wound hasn't healed at all. Your hands aren't clean. It's easy to cause the wound to fester and leave a scar."
He paused for a moment and then added, "His Majesty doesn't like women with scars on their chests. How can you compete for his favor?"
Dugu Luanyue said, "As long as you don't dislike me."
For some reason, she felt colder and colder, so cold that she really wanted to close her eyes.
It felt as if she were sleeping in an ice cellar, cold to the bone. The air she exhaled turned into white mist.
She put her cold hands into Huo Wei's clothes to warm them. Her cold and soft hands moved around on his chest. When one spot got cold, she would move to a warmer one.
"I'm so cold. You don't hold me tightly enough," she said.
Huo Wei's dark face twitched. He pressed his tongue against his back teeth, and the veins on his forehead bulged. The subtle teasing made him feel uncomfortable all over, as if ants were crawling under his clothes, making him feel numb.
But Huo Wei didn't take her hands out. He just said, "Don't sleep."
Dugu Luanyue was drowsy and couldn't hold on any longer. She closed her eyes. Huo Wei touched her face with the back of his hand and found that her body was already so cold.
In Western Liao, he had also experienced this. When a person lost too much blood, their body couldn't maintain its temperature.
In this kind of weather, she would only die.
"Considering you risked your life to save me today, I'll repay this debt before I kill you," Huo Wei said.
Huo Wei took off his remaining clothes and then took off all of hers. He held the beautiful woman's cold body in his arms.
He spread the thickest winter clothes over both of them.
When they were naked together, the heat was transferred quickly. Dugu Luanyue gradually regained consciousness, and her body began to warm up.
She woke up and found herself in the arms of a hot-blooded man. His full and well-defined chest was pressed against her cheek, and she could even hear his heartbeat.
She realized what had happened and blushed deeply. She was completely naked...
Dugu Luanyue moved her body slightly, but she didn't struggle too much. She needed this warmth. She whispered in his ear, "Huo Wei, hold me tightly."
Huo Wei and she were lying on the dry grass. The heat of their bodies was no longer just warm. It was scorching.
Dugu Luanyue always had a sweet and charming fragrance on her body, and her body was so delicate. Now, she was lying naked in his arms.
As a normal young man, he felt as if he were being tortured.
He tightened his arms and held her tightly.