I've been bullied and humiliated for thirteen years; when I wake up, I'll be bloodthirsty.

Chapter 701 You Are Truly Heartless

As Lin Wuji listened to Lu Yangyang's voice and felt the real warmth of her palm, he was still momentarily mesmerized.

But then came a sense of relief; her eyebrows curved slightly, and a low smile unconsciously crept onto her lips.

He didn't seem to care what Lu Yangyang said.

Lu Yangyang knew he understood, so she let go of his hand.

Tu Jiuying led her people into the house and happened to see Lin Wuji with his eyes open. She was immediately delighted and said, "Oh, you little girl really do have some skills. You haven't woken up much since you fell into a coma these past few days. I thought you wouldn't wake up!"

"Young Master Lin, how are you feeling?" Tu Jiuying walked over, bent down to meet Lin Wuji's eyes, and said smugly, "I went to great lengths to save you."

"Sister Jiuying, may I begin now?" Lu Yangyang turned to ask Tu Jiuying.

Tu Jiuying glanced at Lu Yangyang and Lin Wuji, then nodded. "I hope you keep your word."

"I'm already here. If I can't cure her, then I'll leave it to Sister Jiuying to do with as she sees fit," Lu Yangyang said sweetly.

Tu Jiuying stared at her for a moment, then turned and left.

The room door was closed, and besides Huang Sumu, who was Lu Yangyang's assistant, only a few maids remained in the room.

Lu Yangyang reached out and pulled open Lin Wuji's clothes.

Lin Wuji's lips were pale, and his voice was hoarse from not speaking for a long time. "If you take off my clothes, you have to take responsibility for me."

Lu Yangyang used scissors to cut open the blood-soaked cotton cloth binding his body, and scoffed expressionlessly: "I've stripped hundreds, if not thousands, of people naked. You're not even in the top tier."

Lin Wuji sighed softly, "It's been so long, how come you're still so heartless?"

"Considering how badly I was injured, almost to the point of death, and that we've reunited at this time, don't you have anything you want to say to me?"

Lin Wuji looked at Lu Yangyang with a smile in his eyes.

Lu Yangyang used force without any restraint, causing Lin Wuji to hiss softly in pain. He gritted his teeth, but his gaze didn't waver for even a second.

Lu Yangyang thought for a moment, "There is indeed something I need to tell you."

"Hmm?" Lin Wuji looked at her with delight.

“The question you asked me last time, although I rejected you, I was really clueless about relationships back then, and I hadn’t really experienced what romantic love between a man and a woman was like. Perhaps I didn’t express it clearly enough.” Lu Yangyang washed her hands and treated his cracked and inflamed wounds as she said earnestly, “But I’m sure now. Romantic love is optional for me, but if it’s him, then I’ll want him.”

Lu Yangyang spoke calmly, but her hands showed no mercy as she used a small blade to scrape away the rotten flesh from the wound.

Lin Wuji's mind went blank for a moment from the pain, but the physical pain seemed insignificant compared to the stimulation he received in that instant, which made his vision go black and black.

He gritted his teeth, sweat beading on his brow. "I've been to the capital."

"Oh, so it seems you already know," Lu Yangyang replied casually.

Lin Wuji felt that he might not die from his injuries, but from being driven to death by the anger of his beloved.

He asked her if there was anything she wanted to say to him. After visiting the capital, he already knew her identity and her past with the infamous deposed crown prince.

When he learned of this fact, he was so angry he almost laughed.

He was initially relieved that Lu Yangyang and Zong Que's marriage was only by imperial decree, and that Zong Que was deposed as crown prince and exiled to Yuzhou shortly after their marriage.

Thinking back to when they first met in Jiangnan, it was probably when she was exiled along with the deposed crown prince. At that time, she didn't seem sad or upset.

So he thought they must have no feelings for each other.

Lu Yangyang doesn't seem like the type of person who would be blinded by love.

Her so-called liking is probably just because of their marriage contract.

But everyone knows that the deposed crown prince is crippled and incompetent; they are merely figures in name only.

He didn't think Lu Yangyang would really love Zong Que.

He might not be so hard to break through this wall.

But as he learned more and more, he became uncertain again. He learned about Lu Yangyang's background. She was the daughter of the Duke of Sheng's family who had been abandoned outside the capital. She had suffered a lot before returning to the capital, but was not valued. In the first two years after she arrived in the capital, the Crown Prince was her biggest support.

The friendship we shared over those years may not have been romantic at the time, but Zong Que just happened to be the one who claimed the title and got there first.

Lin Wuji's feelings were very complicated.

But no matter how complicated things are, nothing is more complicated than this moment. He finally saw the person he had been longing for and wanted to hear if she would explain to him why she had concealed her identity. But instead, he was met with a heart-wrenching pain.

It pierced straight to the heart.

Lin Wuji saw flashes of black and white before his eyes.

"You are truly heartless."