After Rebirth, I Became a Powerful Minister’s Beloved - Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Did I Hurt You

Translator: Exodus Tales

Editor: Exodus Tales

Nan Baoyi was stunned!

She tried hard to please Xiao Yi and now, not only did she fail to improve the relationship, she made him hate her even more?

She lifted her blanket and got dressed hurriedly, “I want to see him!”

“It’s still raining outside.”

“Not a problem…”

Nan Baoyi was about to leave when she suddenly glanced at the balm for wounds on her dressing table.

She was a playful and naughty kid, always injuring herself with scrapes and wounds. Grandmother bought this balm for a high price from a highly-skilled doctor in Shu County. After applying it to wounds, there would not be any scars.

Her eyes shined brightly, grabbed the balm, and ran out of the room.

The sky was turning dark, the heavy rain continued to splash into the corridor, soaking the girl’s pink skirt.

The maids lit up a lantern and one after another got out of the way and bowed to her when they saw her. But she ignored them, only focusing on the lane to Pipa Yard.

She ran to Pipa Yard breathlessly, ashamed to see this place looking so rundown.

Speaking of which, the Nan family really treated Xiao Yi badly. He had the title of the Nan family’s Second Young Master but the place he resided in was extremely shabby and old. No wonder he did not help out when the Nan family was in trouble in the previous life.

She fixed her skirt and carefully walked into Pipa Yard.

The courtyard was quiet, a tall loquat tree was seen at a corner. Under the eaves, hung two white color-fading lanterns. The entire place was so quiet it felt deserted.

She walked up the steps and pushed the thin door open like a thief. She looked around for his bedroom.

This was the first time she set foot in his house. It was much cleaner and tidier than she expected, the air had an unknown cold and sweet scent. There was a bookcase against the wall filled with brushes, ink, inkstone, paper, and two yellowing traveling books.

The teenager was sitting on a wooden bed by the window. His upper body was naked with his back showing signs of the whip injuries running vertically and horizontally on his flesh. Although his wounds stopped bleeding, it was still a very shocking sight.

This was all because of her!

Nan Baoyi felt very ashamed. She tiptoed forward quietly and called out near his ears, “Second Brother?”

The closed-eyed teenager suddenly opened his eyes wide fiercely.

His slender fingers gripped mercilessly at the girl’s thin neck, almost hearing a ‘crack’ sound of a broken neck the next minute!

Nan Baoyi was terrified!

She looked at the teenager alarmingly, “Second, Second Brother?”

Xiao Yi looked carefully, realizing it was her and slowly loosen his grip.

Nan Baoyi dropped to the floor on her buttocks. She touched her thin neck thinking it was okay, it was not broken.

In the previous life, she heard of this powerful man killing people without a second thought. Not just on the battlefield, even in Shengjing City he was still the same and viewed people’s lives as unimportant.

Once, the governor of the West went to his residence as a guest. He praised the young girl who served him wine, saying that her hands were soft and beautiful. Before he left, Xiao Yi gave him a gift; a pair of hands that was chopped off from that same girl.

All the other ministers could not get used to seeing him having so much authority and power. They sent a dozen assassins to assassinate him. The next morning, outside his residence, hung a dozen of beheaded bodies with their skin peeled off!

That was that. The main thing was that he was just as merciless to the woman who admired him.

There was an extremely beautiful princess in the palace. In order to marry him, she put in some medication in his wine to trick him. But the next day, not only there was no news of them spending the night together, that princess went missing unexpectedly. A shocking wine vessel was delivered to the palace from Xiao Yi’s residence. The vessel was made from the skull of a beautiful woman!

Nan Baoyi looked up.

Her Second Brother was staring arrogantly at her from above.

He looked extremely handsome under the light, but his phoenix eyes were very cold and detached, with faint blood in his pupils like a terrifying blood moon.

She shivered and held out the white porcelain jar pitifully, “Th..this balm can re..remove scars, it’s expensive…”

Xiao Yi pressed his lips together tightly.

It was only ten whips worth of injury, he did not care.

He looked down at the little girl who shivered vigorously. Her face was white and her pale pink skirt shook along with the silver bells around her waist. She looked like a little hibiscus blooming in the quiet and deserted house.

He twirled his fingertips calmly.

This little girl was born with an evil nature. Using her position as the daughter of the third son, she humiliated him in multiple ways. She forced him to eat her leftover kernels, forced him to kneel down and became her footrest, and even secretly burned his book collections…

Today, however, she seemed to have changed.

Was she up to something, or…did she see him killing someone and was now terrified?

His dark phoenix eyes grew deeper and said, “The balm.”

Nan Baoyi was happily surprised and obediently offered the balm.

“You, put it on for me.” The teenager ordered.

Nan Baoyi was stunned.

Even if she was now a pampered Miss Jiaojiao, however this person in front was not the same, he was the future powerful minister!

If he was willing to protect everyone in the Nan residence and her, she was even willing to be whipped by him!

She climbed up to his bed, scraped out some balm and applied it carefully to the scars on his back.

Out of the corner of her eyes, she noticed there were actually many more old wounds on his back and waist. She did not know where it came from…

The rain danced outside the window.

Xiao Yi frowned slowly. The girl’s hand brought along a cooling sensation on his wound which relieved the hot pain. However, another kind of fire seemed to ignite elsewhere. It started on his spine and spread through his limbs and bones.

Suddenly he grabbed her thin wrist.

A pale pink sleeve embroidered with hibiscus patterns hung on her forearm, revealing a thin white wrist, like a freshly washed lotus.

Her small hand was soft and white with the red mark caused by him earlier still visible on the back of her hand. Her skin was really too delicate.

With her hands being so delicate, he could mangle it with one bite…

Nan Baoyi looked at his deep, gloomy stare and could not help but started to shiver again, “Second Brother, did I hurt you?”

Xiao Yi was silent. Her little fingertips were clean and moist, with a little trace of the clear green balm.

She loved to curve this little finger when she was angry and ordered him around…

Suddenly, he lowered his head and bit her fingertip.

This little girl always used water from the dew of hibiscus flowers to wash her hands. Besides the taste of the medication, her fingertips had a light hibiscus fragrance.

Girls at this age were always soft and smelled good.

Nan Baoyi shivered terribly. The little bells on her waist sounded and she looked at the teenager in front with teary eyes. He was handsome and attractive but he was colder than the night rain outside. It was as if he was about to swallow her hand up!

His sharp teeth pierced her skin.

“Pain…” Nan Baoyi’s tears rolled down, watching blood oozing from the young man’s teeth but she dare not regain her hand back hastily. She cried pitifully on his bed, “Second Brother, I’m in pain…”