Yet she had done nothing to him, and instead gave him delicious candy. If that was all, it would have been fine, but now she gave him several dozen taels of silver and told him to return to the desert.
Why?
Xie Yi's mind suddenly became a mess, inexplicably surging with a kind of anxiety.
A moment ago, he was still calculating how to seduce Su Mu, to make her fall in love, willingly give him money, so he could take the money and escape back to the desert.
But the next moment, with the heavy silver in his hand, it felt like a heavy dark cloud hanging over his head, gloomy and gray. As his long-missed homeland beckoned to him, he found he could no longer generate any joy or happiness in his heart. Instead, a feeling of reluctance grew.
Reluctance?
Xie Yi sneered in his heart. Reluctant about what? Reluctant to leave the needle-sharp minds and viper-like vicious hearts of Jiangnan men? Did he think the brand on his chest wasn't deep enough?
But... Xie Yi lowered his head, looking at Su Mu's skirt hem soaked by puddles, showing a decadent deep red color after being soaked in water.
He dared not look into Su Mu's eyes, dared not directly face the smile in her eyes. If there was any reluctance, it was only for one person, Su Mu.
"Then it's settled." Su Mu's voice, filled with a smile, came from above his head.
It was only at this moment that Xie Yi fully believed that Su Mu was not testing him. She truly wanted to let him go.
Perhaps from the moment she brought him home and tore up the slave contract in front of him, she already had this intention.
She had emptied all her savings to rescue him from the hands of an evil master, personally removed the collar from his neck, and set him free.
Yet from beginning to end, he had been maliciously speculating about her. Xie Yi buried his head even lower, his heart feeling as if it had been harshly burned by smoke.
Xie Yi didn't consider himself a good person, but at this moment he realized from the bottom of his heart that applying those dark thoughts he had before to Su Mu was a desecration of her.
Xie Yi returned to his room in a daze and lay down, because after applying the medicine, Su Mu had told him to rest well.
Even though she had clearly decided to send him away, Su Mu was still so kind to him, so kind it made him feel guilty, made him feel unworthy.
It started raining again outside. The rain in Jiangnan seemed to never stop. The cold, damp air crept into his flesh and bones, the long-accumulated moisture in his body making his heart feel almost moldy.
Xie Yi tossed and turned on the bed, the low eaves and the sound of rain annoying him more and more.
The bright silver was placed by his pillow, but now he found it an eyesore. He suddenly sat up, pushed away the silver he had previously longed for but now found irritating, and picked up the small bag beside it.
The bag contained the honey-coated seeds Su Mu had bought for him. Xie Yi took one and put it in his mouth, and his restless heart finally found some relief.
Would he still be able to eat honey-coated seeds after returning to the desert?
Xie Yi's heart, which had just found relief, suddenly felt empty again.
The round, orange honey-coated seed was like the setting sun in the desert. Such a magnificent scene appeared in Xie Yi's dreams every night, but now as he recalled it, he found its radiance had dimmed, far less attractive than the honey-coated seed in his hand.
There was a faint sound from outside. Xie Yi got up and opened the window to look out.
In the misty rain, Su Mu entered the kitchen, seemingly preparing to cook.
Xie Yi ran out in the rain: "Mu Jiejie, let me do it."
Xie Yi was panicking inside. He had already received so much kindness from Su Mu. Xie Yi, who had always been thick-skinned and enjoyed women's preferential treatment of him due to his beauty, for the first time sincerely wanted to show his worth in front of Su Mu.
After all... after all, he was going to leave anyway.
Before leaving, he should be nice to Su Mu, even nicer. Or maybe cause some trouble for Su Mu, make her dislike him, scold him. Make him forget her goodness, only remember her bad side.
Otherwise, when he returned to the desert, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to stop thinking about her often.
"No need." Su Mu smiled as she tied on her apron, revealing her snow-white arms. In the misty rain, her snow-like skin was like priceless ice jade.
Xie Yi's breath caught, and a blush spread across his face.
Su Mu skillfully washed the rice, cut two pieces of sweet potato and put them into the pot, then expertly started the fire. The whole process was smooth and flowing. Though it was an action full of fireside atmosphere, in her hands it seemed like casting a spell.
"Do you like the candy I gave you?" Su Mu asked as she stood by the stove. Her thick, beautiful hair was tied up with a hairpin, with a few strands of black hair falling by her temples. The warm orange firelight shone on her ice-like transparent skin, as if it would melt the next moment.
Xie Yi's eyes avoided her gaze, not daring to directly look at Su Mu's gentle and dazzling radiance. He lowered his eyes and nodded: "I like it."
The honey-coated seeds actually tasted very ordinary, and the sweetness was cloying, but for some reason, he just liked them. He liked to take one out and eat it when he had nothing to do, as if addicted.
"I'm glad you like them." Su Mu lowered her head and smiled: "Although honey-coated seeds are very cheap and common candy in Juan City, you can't get them in the desert. Tomorrow I'll buy more for you to eat on the way."
Xie Yi remained silent, but he tightly grasped the candy in his hand, his knuckles turning blue and white, the honey-coated seed in his palm cracking.
Why was she so kind to him?
"The food is ready." Su Mu stood up and lifted the pot lid. A burst of steam came out, condensing on her fair arms.
Xie Yi quietly looked at her tall, jade-like figure. Such a good person, yet without a single good person around her, having to cook for herself.
She didn't even have a man to serve and warm her bed. If he left, would she truly become all alone?
Xie Yi was suddenly startled by the thought in his mind of imagining himself as Su Mu's man.
He touched his cheeks, forcibly suppressing the blush that had risen.
A woman like Su Mu, after divorcing, must have lots of men begging to marry her. Why was he anxious to find someone for her?
"Let me." Xie Yi stood up and took the bowl from Su Mu's hands, his fingertips inadvertently touching her knuckles.
Xie Yi felt as if his heart had trembled, his dark green eyes in turmoil.
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