Chapter 67: Chapter 67 : Zhang Fengxi Is Too Partial

"You have some guts," Xie Jianshen said as soon as he closed the door. His tone was calm, but the omega was furious.

Lying on his back on the guest bed at Shuiran Palace, Zhang Fengxi sneered at his opponent.

"I have to. You were cruel enough to stick me with a blood-sucking parasite."

Xie Jianshen clicked with his tongue.

"Oh, don’t be a baby. So many human beings lived with them for years. You have only been with the worm for what, two weeks?"

"..."

Did Xie Jianshen just say that he, Zhang Fengxi, was acting like a baby when there was a fat, greedy worm feeding from his heart? Maybe Xie Jianshen needed to swallow one of those worms for a change.

"Uhh."

Zhang Fengxi winced.

The Gu Worm was acting up again.

"Hmph."

Xie Jianshen shook his head. He went to open a cabinet and took out a basket full of small clay pots. Inside were various herbs, grasses, roots, and other medicinal ingredients that he collected over the years.

"What an irony. Most alphas I know are wimpy, but they can become palace masters and emperors. Omegas, no matter how strong or capable, will always be mud under alphas’ boots."

Zhang Fengxi rubbed at his chest in an attempt to calm the little beast inside his body.

"Is this why you try to turn your brother into an alpha?"

Startled, Xie Jianshen’s hand stopped in the air while picking through the pots. He then turned to look at Zhang Fengxi with a sneer across his face.

"You know a lot," he said. "You know too much."

Zhang Fengxi raised an eyebrow at him.

"Are you going to make me eat a worm for every piece of knowledge I have? Why don’t you just kill me now?"

Xie Jianshen scoffed.

"And what will your parents say if your corpse emerged from this guest room after I told everyone that I was going to treat your ailment?"

Zhang Fengxi shrugged. He shot Xie Jianshen an innocent look.

"I don’t know. You need to think about a good excuse. I cannot be of much help after I die."

Xie Jianshen narrowed his eyes at Zhang Fengxi. His piercing gaze scanned Zhang Fengxi from top to bottom, as if trying to scope out some hidden information that he could use as a weapon.

Naturally, he found none.

"Whatever secret you know about Little Yu will remain a secret until you reveal the biggest one," he then decided.

Zhang Fengxi bowed his head in a mocking manner in front of Xie Jianshen.

"Then I have to thank you for neither forcing me to eat more worms nor taking my life right away."

Xie Jianshen scoffed.

"If you dare to do anything funny to Little Yu, I will gut your stomach myself."

Wow.

Xie Jianshen really loved his little brother, didn’t he?

The Shuiran Palace Mistress grabbed one of the pots. He approached Zhang Fengxi’s bed and showed him its content.

The Bitter Nightshade Roots had been cleaned, crushed, and dried, leaving a fiberlike dark red mass behind.

"This is the Bitter Nightshade Roots," Xie Jianshen said. "Brew a pinch with boiling water every month and drink it religiously for one year. The Gu Worm will stop causing you problems. Fair warning from me -- it will still kill you if you break your oath."

Zhang Fengxi chuckled.

Did he need Xie Jianshen to remind him?

"I will go and brew you the first bowl now. Excuse me."

Xie Jianshen exited the room, and then someone knocked at the door. Zhang Fengxi lifted his upper body with a hiss and said, "You can come in."

It was Xie Jianyu.

"Hey," he said.

"Yo."

Xie Jianyu’s almond eyes drifted to Zhang Fengxi’s face. As he watched the young alpha’s pale complexion, he felt extremely uneasy.

"What did my big brother do to you?"

Zhang Fengxi answered smoothly, "Nothing. I don’t know what you are talking about."

Only proficient liars could survive the Gu Worms.

Xie Jianyu lowered his gaze and squeezed the ends of his sleeves with a conflicted expression on his face. He looked like an upset child. Zhang Fengxi’s heart softened. Oh, how he would like to reach out and squeeze those white cheeks...

"We need to see each other less in the future," Xie Jianyu said.

Zhang Fengxi’s thoughts scattered away like dust in the face of a storm.

"Huh?"

Xie Jianyu raised his face and looked at Zhang Fengxi.

"Liu Wenyuan harbors dislike toward me, that’s why his wolf attacked me. He might suspect that there was something between us."

Zhang Fengxi gaped at Xie Jianyu for a while before he laughed.

"No, of course not. My Wenyuan is neither a jealous nor an unreasonable person."

Xie Jianyu furrowed his brows at him.

"I am not saying that he is jealous or unreasonable. I just say that we should keep our distance, lest he misunderstands."

Zhang Fengxi groaned when he pushed himself to a sitting position.

"Look, Xie Jianyu, the bond between Wenyuan and me is as strong as a warship that survived thousands of naval battles. You don’t need to worry about anything.

He has been wrongfully punished by the Golden Dragon Palace twice now, so naturally he gets nervous and insecure. I merely hope that all of you stop being unreasonable and punishing my betrothed again in the future."

Wrongful?

Zhang Fengxi never once thought that Liu Wenyuan did anything wrong. When he knelt in front of the Golden Dragon Palace that day, it was because he was convinced that Liu Wenyuan had been bullied by the Emperor.

Pain flashed in Xie Jianyu’s eyes.

Did it mean nothing to Zhang Fengxi when Liu Wenyuan’s wolf attacked him? It tore at his arm and cut his face!

It hurt so much.

They were both omegas, but why must Zhang Fengxi act as if Liu Wenyuan was the victim here? What was Xie Jianyu then, the troublemaker?

Xie Jianyu’s chest felt stuffy.

If he stayed there any longer, he might burst into tears due to Zhang Fengxi’s partial treatment toward Liu Wenyuan.

"Well, then."

Xie Jianyu turned to leave. Before he slipped out of the door, he stopped and said, "Congratulations on your engagement. I wish both of you eternal happiness."

Unaware of Xie Jianyu’s hurt feelings, Zhang Fengxi beamed at him.

"Thank you, Crown Prince."

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