Dance Of The Phoenix
86. Female Competition

"Miss Su, long time no see."

The figure of the black-bladed woman in a beautiful yellow dress, walked into a room that no one should be able to enter.

He was silent for a while, looking at the room so plain and black and white. His strange gaze hinted at something, but no one could guess. He turned straight towards Su Churan and Gu Yuena who were talking.

More precisely, Su Churan who was 'lecture' like a state teacher.

"I don't remember Your Majesty letting you into his room at will." Su Churan was annoyed and glanced at the woman sharply.

The woman smiled gently without thinking about Su Churan's circus speech. "Miss Su is here, I'm not entering recklessly."

"Your Majesty let me take care of my old friend, do you mind?" Su Churan sneered at the woman.

"Old friend?" His smile widened, then stepped closer to see who exactly the 'old friend' meant.

Gu Yuena looked at the two women who looked incompatible. There seems to be a lot of competition here, he doesn't need to interfere. Silence is the best.

Ming Chin, the woman who had just sparred with Su Churan looked at Gu Yuena with the best smile. He had heard that the woman Bai Youzhe had brought was a very beautiful woman, but what was this? Just a pale woman who came from nowhere.

Ming Chin snorted inwardly. It was the prettiest one here, even Su Churan lost to him. How could Your Majesty be more interested in a woman who is already like a corpse.

Gu Yuena who felt noticed immediately looked at him strangely. This person clearly had no good intentions. Reminded him of Lin Xi and Lin Milk alone.

"Include me, my name is Ming Chin, the only daughter of the Tianshuang Palace's Ming Elders. If you'd like, may I find out how I called you?" Her tone was very polite like a learned princess. No wonder.

Gu Yuena only replied indifferently. "Gu Yuena."

"Ah, Brother Gu, can I call you that?"

"Sister?" Gu Yuena put on a strange expression. Actually, which other crazy person did he meet? Other than Yun Qiao, why didn't he just once meet a sane person!

Su Churan who was aware of Gu Yuena's discomfort immediately mediated. "Miss Ming, my friend has a trauma to the word 'sister'. He had a younger brother who snatched his fiancee, of course he avoided having a younger brother." Su Churan's indirect insinuation was very clearly aimed at Ming Chin.

Ming Chin looked wrong. He laughed awkwardly, then tried to maintain his image. "So so. Sorry, I don't know."

"At least you should have ethics when meeting people. Miss Gu's identity is unusual. If you offend him, even Elder Ming cannot help."

Su Churan was very good at making stories and threatening. Gu Yuena gave a thumbs up for him.

Not wrong, actually. Gu Yuena, right, the daughter of Linghun Palace and indirectly the daughter of Wyvernia also—though not yet recognized. But those two irises showed his powerful identity.

Ming Chin was of course unaware of it. He thought that Gu Yuena was a woman who was picked up from somewhere. He could not even feel any aura on Gu Yuena's body. He's not wrong.

"What's that big?" Ming Chin looked in disbelief. Where did someone with a large identity get injured and come to this remote place?

But Ming Chin must not ruin his own image and choose to pretend to be stupid.

"Ah, then .. I'm sorry if Miss is offended. But I sincerely want to get closer to you." Ming Chin persuaded Gu Yuena to get closer to him.

I don't know what the woman is planning.

Su Churan looked on with dislike, while Gu Yuena was flirting with a strange person out of nowhere.

As a result, Gu Yuena simply nodded awkwardly.

"Miss Gu, I have some good food and fruit for your health. Try." Ming Chin slightly nudged Su Churan who was blocking the way to go towards his servant.

The woman carried the tray directly and placed it beside Gu Yuena. His smile still looked bright, as if he wanted to give a good impression to Gu Yuena.

"This ...." Gu Yuena frowned.

"Red ginseng soup." Ming Chin took a bowl of ginseng soup to give to Gu Yuena. "It's quite difficult to find him in a cold region like Tianshuang Palace, so this includes being valuable. I heard from the medics, you had a blood clot due to the ice essence. So I put a blood-thinning pill in it. Very good for health."

Gu Yuena looked at him with a suspicious look. Since when was there such a good person to her? Especially when they first met.

Totally suspicious.

Gu Yuena looked at the ginseng soup she received in her hand. Does he have to drink it? What if it's poisonous? Although it was non-toxic, what if it had other effects on his currently weak body?

Gu Yuena's knowledge of medicine wasn't very good, so he had to consider whether or not to accept this stranger's gift.

But if he refused, the person behind Ming Chin would definitely make things difficult for him in the future. Although it would not linger here for long, who knew how influential the elders of Tianshuang Palace were?

He glanced at Su Churan who was putting on a complicated look, seemingly thinking of something. He remembered Su Churan learning medical science from his teacher, that was why he could tame the blood butterflies that often took his blood as food. Su Churan had to go extra during maintenance so as not to die silly.

But Su Churan thought for so long. Gu Yuena was impatient, while Ming Chin urged.

"Is there something wrong?" Ming Chin asked carefully.

Gu Yuena shook her head, then glanced at Su Churan again. The woman is still digging up brains that seem very hard to remember.

It's just ginseng soup, isn't it?

Gu Yuena raised the cup in her hand, about to drink it.

When the liquid soup entered his mouth, the sound of two people stopping him made Gu Yuena startled and gushed out unintentionally.

"Wait a minute!" Su Churan suddenly stopped Gu Yuena. He was speechless when he saw Gu Yuena choking and spitting out her soup.

While on the other hand, Bai Youzhe appeared to approach the woman. Bai Youzhe's arrival was immediately welcomed, earning honorary greetings from the two women who were with Gu Yuena as well as her servant.

Chu Xin was seen carrying a tray behind Bai Youzhe, looking guilty of something while looking at Gu Yuena with a wry smile.

Bai Youzhe looked at the soup that Ming Chin had given her, then looked towards Gu Yuena back.

"The medical officer has prescribed you a special meal, should not eat any other food while it is still in recovery." Bai Youzhe immediately spoke to the point. Then glanced at Chu Xin to hint at something.

Chu Xin nodded, then placed the tray on the table and gave Gu Yuena a bowl of porridge. He replaced the ginseng soup bowl with white porridge.

Gu Yuena's face became ugly.

Su Churan heaved a sigh of relief without saying anything, whereas Ming Chin looked uneasy seeing the soup bowl he gave Chu Xin.

The woman said to Bai Youzhe, "Your Majesty, what soup did I give you outside the medics prescription? Ming Chin got all his ingredients there."

"Don't know what's mixed, better be careful." Bai Youzhe glanced at the woman coldly. Ming Chin ciut for a moment. "Did the influence of Elder Ming really free you to enter all the places in my palace?"

Ming Chin was surprised by Bai Youzhe's sneaking remarks. He nodded and hurriedly apologized. "Sorry, Your Honor. Earlier, Ming Chin saw that Miss Su was in His Majesty's room, then came to greet him."

"I told you that I'm here on orders. Did you forget or intentionally?" Su Churan replied in a satirical tone. He saw Gu Yuena who seemed to be strongly refusing her food, "You should eat it."

Gu Yuena glanced at Chu Xin. Chu Xin put on an apologetic face. "That's ... Miss is prohibited from eating greasy food because it is still in recovery. But I've added chicken in it."

Gu Yuena sighed. It was like being in a hospital. Sucks.

Bai Youzhe ignored the frightened-looking Ming Chin. He sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Gu Yuena warmly.

"Just for now."

"Bai Youzhe, who are you setting me up?" Gu Yuena was acting tough and turned her face away. Inevitably, he also ate his food with a slurred look.

Gritting Gu Yuena did not irritate Bai Youzhe, but rather smiled slightly. He missed Gu Yuena who was angry at him.

While Ming Chin was very surprised to hear Gu Yuena casually mention Bai Youzhe's name in a high tone. Even showing such a face.

They look close. It irritated her and silently clenched her fists behind the skirt. This was seen by Su Churan.

Su Churan snorted. He walked carrying Ming Chin out of the room with Chu Xin and one servant trailing. There is a problem to be solved by him.

"What's wrong with you?" Ming Chin looked at Su Churan with an annoyed look. It could be disrespectful in front of the king.

Su Churan narrowed her eyes, then took the ginseng soup in Chu Xin's hand tray. He hinted Chu Xin to go do her duty.

After making sure Chu Xin actually left, he thrust the ginseng soup before Ming Chin.

"Drink."

Ming Chin chuckled. Both of his eyes looked at Su Churan with full protest.

"Miss Su ...."

"It's very good for health." Su Churan showed a smile that did not reach her eyes. "Darguably it was thrown away."

"This ... has been drunk Miss Gu."

"I don't think I've had time yet."

Ming Chin sighed, feeling Su Churan was completely out of order. "I don't know why you suspected me to be like this."

"I just feel a pity because red ginseng is so expensive."

"Why I pressured him, you already know the answer. As the daughter of Elder Ming who is the main alchemist of Tianshuang Palace, you definitely know a lot of medical science. Ginseng and blood-thinning pills should not be taken together."

Ming Chin was stunned. He forgot, that Su Churan had the medical ability of his mysterious teacher.

"I .. don't know. I think it's very good for health. Ginseng soup can improve blood circulation and blood-thinning pills can help clot the effects of blood."

"Therefore, you mix the two to produce side effects when the condition of my friend's body is not fine. Maybe it won't affect some people, but my friend is in a sensitive state, there hasn't been a day of being free from coma. You want to make him bleed and bleed to death!"

"No. .. I ...."

"Have it, for now I won't complain to you. But I warn you one thing, don't act rashly just because of a momentary emotion. You're an adult, think grown up, don't childish." Su Churan sighed in annoyance, then left while sneering silently, "When I could have just reported her actions earlier."

Ming Chin simply fell silent without being able to go against Su Churan's remark. Right, he wanted to make the outer woman die. At the very least, he had to get rid of his competitors quickly. He could not get rid of Su Churan, so he looked for the softest target. But unexpectedly, Su Churan even helped the woman.

The plan failed completely.

Even so, it does not mean he gave up.

He had been enlightened by the difference in Bai Youzhe's attitude just now when he was with Gu Yuena and the others. Su Churan was not a person he deserved to rival, as he was only an insignificant follower after today's observation.

Gu Yuena is the one to watch out for.

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"Why are you still here?" Gu Yuena asked without even glancing at the blue-sliced man of the night who was still looking at her.

Bai Youzhe leaned against the head of the bed in a sideways state, looking at the quiet-looking Gu Yuena while eating Chu Xin's congee.

"I'm not asking a living statue, am I?" Gu Yuena protested for being ignored.

"This is my palace, also my room, I can be wherever I want" Bai Youzhe replied.

Gu Yuena glanced at the man intensely, then turned her face back. "Then move me to another room and palace. No, I'll leave immediately."

"no need. This is your place." Bai Youzhe replied briefly, but in a warm tone.

That was what made Gu Yuena goosebumps herself. Long time no see Bai Youzhe, making her feel very foreign and familiar together.

Gu Yuena was looking for another topic to avoid awkwardness.

"Are you opening a harem palace?"

"Harems?"

"The strange woman .. seemed to dislike me. It's just natural, anyway. But he looks ... very strange in front of you."

"Any?" Bai Youzhe pulled her eyebrows.

"I have a few theories. First, the theory states that you who brought me to your room personally caused a perversion of the minds of the palace people. There will be a lot of jealousy. The woman wanted to call me 'brother' for a closer relationship, with an accent that seemed like a 'conquest' who called 'legitimate wife' as her brother."

Gu Yuena was silent, feeling that the theory was so strange that she had to deny it many times.

"Then the second theory, he had bad thoughts on me for feeling like he failed to chase you after learning that I was in your palace for a long time. The point is, he wanted to kill me out of jealousy. What's your relationship with him until he's acting so weird?"

Bai Youzhe looked calm as usual. He thought, who is the woman in question. Then he remembered Ming Chin's strange behavior just now.

"I don't even know the woman you mean. Other than his identity, I don't know much."

Gu Yuena was astonished. "You're the leader, time doesn't know his people?"

"Do I have to recognize one by one until the servant level? I only noticed a few palace higher-ups and people who deserved attention. That woman is not on the list and is not important at all."

"not important? Even though he's in and out of your palace so free?" Gu Yuena looked at the man with a face of protest.

"He misused the elder's token freely and I couldn't stop him. It could be .. if you ask." More precisely, Bai Youzhe would do everything in her power to stop that woman from Gu Yuena asking for it.

That made Gu Yuena stunned. He blinked his eyes twice, looking at the pair of blue irises that night closely. The next second, he turned his eyes back and devoured all the porridge in the bowl.

"Are you upset with him? I can give him a punishment."

Gu Yuena hurriedly said, "No need. If anything pisses me off, only I can punish him."

Bai Youzhe smiled widely. "You haven't changed."

Gu Yuena sighed. He placed the empty bowl of porridge on the table, then looked at Bai Youzhe.

There were many things he wanted to ask the man.

"Why didn't you say that you had dragon blood before?" That's the question that's been hidden for 6 years. Even until they parted ways, leaving behind a misunderstanding for Bai Youzhe, Gu Yuena still did not know the truth and was stuck on a strange feeling of being alone.

"I don't want you to look at me because of the dragon's blood. I am Bai Youzhe."

"It's not fair because you've known about phoenix blood for a long time."

"Thank me for being selfish. That's why I'm."

"No... What because there are two dragon bloods? I wonder why you haven't seen me in 6 years. Do you think that I'm with the blood of another dragon, or that I'm dead?"

Bai Youzhe was silent. For a long time, he had least wanted to think about this. Gu Yuena's death was the thing he least wanted to know, as it would severely beat him to the point of falling deep into the abyss of regret.

Regarding Gu Yuena who was with the other dragons, he thought there was no need to know about it either. Because he did not want to think that one day he would fight against Gu Yuena.

So that's why he pulled out all the spies and closed himself off from Gu Yuena. He avoided all reality for 6 years until he never heard from Gu Yuena again.

Not having the right response from Bai Youzhe made Gu Yuena anxious herself. The woman let out a long sigh, then said, "Whatever the reason, in the end it was me who chose to leave. You're not wrong."

"I wanted to tell you." Bai Youzhe finally spoke, while looking at Gu Yuena's beautiful blood red irises.

"Why not tell?"

"I misunderstood." Bai Youzhe admitted it. "I'm jealous, so don't tell. I should have told you that day to keep you from leaving. Now, I'm not gonna let you go again."

Gu Yuena narrowed her eyes. "Your confidence is becoming."

"I don't care who you like, I won't let you go for whatever reason." Bai Youzhe remained at her stance, making Gu Yuena extremely anxious and shaking her head.

If anyone else saw that a certain woman was shaking the head of the cold-blooded dragon, they would break out in cold sweat.

"By the way, thank you for helping me and Yuansu Palace." Gu Yuena said sincerely.

"Su Churan told you?"

Gu Yuena nodded. "Yuansu Palace is currently in decline, my teacher is gone, I don't know what to do. I want to help Yuansu Palace, but I feel unworthy." Gu Yuena looked down miserably, "I caused their destruction to the point of not daring to appear."

Bai Youzhe shook her head slowly, then gently rubbed Gu Yuena's hair. "It's not your fault. Your teacher's hope is your safety, you've met his expectations. He just wants you to live."

Gu Yuena straightened her head. He closed his eyes, then opened them again and took a deep breath. Bai Youzhe was right. Even though he was very downcast, he should not forget that he had to stay alive to fulfill Yan Shuiyin's wishes.

Revenge is the first step. Next was to get rid of all the barriers and help Yun Qiao awaken Yuansu Palace to its former glory.

First of all, he must recover to make amends.

"By the way, where are my cats?" Gu Yuena asked Bai Youzhe.

"They're having fun, maybe?" Bai Youzhe thought learning new things in the Assassin Guild was a way of having fun with monsters. He did not know, the two small monsters were depressed faced with other monsters.

"Then, what are you doing here?" ask Gu Yuena. He wanted to drive the man out of his own room.

But Bai Youzhe was lazing around with reason. "Let me rest in my own room after days of vigil. I'm so tired."

Gu Yuena looked at the man who was instead laying down the body beside her with bulging eyes. Automatically, Gu Yuena stayed away until she stuck to the corner of the bed carrying a blanket covering her body.

"This madman ...."

Gu Yuena wanted to move on and protest while driving him out viciously. But when he saw the man had closed his eyes, slept soundly, he stopped the eviction.

It's fast sleeping.

Gu Yuena felt a little unbearable despite being extremely annoyed. Bai Youzhe did not sleep for a full 5 days, waiting for her to wake up.

For this time, he would let the man wander. Yeah, just for this time.

Gu Yuena also broke down while looking at the man from the side. Being by his side, he somehow felt very safe. Perhaps it was because Bai Youzhe had saved him so many times, that it gave rise to a sense of security every time with him.

Just like it just happened. This is the reason the pearl of life brought him here.

"Thank you." That's all he wanted to say, as himself.