The Story Of Dusk 235 She Loved Him

"Thank you. I will ask someone to send you back to Jun's mansion." Xiao Tianyao said as he walked the physician out of the room and summoned three of his guards to accompany him.

Afterward he returned with a cup of warm tea for Luna and sat beside her, watching her drunk her black tea.

"Do you think you can ask Gong Xu to make it?" Xiao Tianyao blurted out. "He will come the day after tomorrow to give your medicine." He twirled a strand of Luna's hair between his fingers, playing with it.

"I don't know…" Luna mumbled. "But I will try…" She said with a faint smile on her lips, recently she often smiling and this captivated Xiao Tianyao as he pulled her closer and hugged her silently.

They stayed like that for long time, feeling comfortable, Luna fell asleep in his embrace, but before she lost her consciousness she felt Xiao Tianyao kissed her forehead while whispering something that Luna couldn't catch.

The moment she was awake she was laying on the bed, wrapped with blanket with strong arms hugged her from back.

Luna turned around and found the familiar face that she had grown to love. Under the dim light of the room, there was only his contour face that she could see.

Luna raised her hand and traced her slender fingers along his jaw line, halted on his lips. She loved him. She really wanted to say that she loved him and heard he said the same words to her.

However, probably it was too early for him to say those words and it was too early for him to hear it.

No matter what happened next, Luna felt blissful with their current situation as she indulged in Xiao Tianyao's affection.

His real affection.

From the moment Xiao Tianyao realized he was under Luna's control and since her pregnancy, everything that happened between them was real.

The anger, the sadness, the agitation, the disappointment and the kiss that they shared…

Luna snuggled deeper to his warm embraced, cherished every moment that she spent with him, she hoped she could turn back time and started everything all over again.

She wanted to approach him in different way and fell in love with him earlier, so they could be together, without hurting each other, longer…

They would raise their child together and stood side by side until their hair turned white…

What a lovely dream that she had…

Feeling the movement in his embrace, Xiao Tianyao grunted and hugged Luna tighter as he fell back to sleep.

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The appointed night when Gong Xu would come to deliver Luna's medicine was tonight. The moon was covered with white clouds as the sky was so clear without stars.

Luna was standing alone at the backyard's gates while wrapping her body with a warm white cloak, waiting for Gong Xu's appearance.

She didn't need to wait for long time before Gong Xu came into her line of sight, the young man looked skinnier than the last time Luna saw him.

Her heart ached for him, he must have gone through a lot of hards.h.i.+p since her absence, because when Luna was around, their father wouldn't be so cruel toward him.

In Modama's eyes, Gong Xu's existence was a shame for him as he didn't inherit the ability as the bloodline of the mind controller.

To put it simply, Modama hated him, but he also needed his skill to create any poison and antidote.

"Sister." Gong Xu walked hastily toward Luna with faint smile on his lips. "Everything is alright at your side?'

"You don't need to worry." Luna a.s.sured him as she looked at him intensely. "How about you? Did father put you in hards.h.i.+p?"

"Father is being father." Gong Xu scoffed, reluctant to continue a conversation about their father in their short precious time.

"Gong Xu, I want to ask you about something." Luna's expression suddenly turned serious. "Did father ask you to create a poison recently?"

Gong Xu shook his head. "He didn't ask me to create a poison, but he asked me to make the same poison that I had made three years ago. Do you remember the poison that could torture the victim and people around them with bad smell." He remembered how distressing that poison and wonder why he created such thing.

"So, it's really the same poison." Luna mumbled.

"Four days ago, father asked me the specific poison and I made one, afterward I didn't know what father would do with that." Gong Xu scratched his head. "It is not a deathly poison and father will not answer even if I asked him." He shrugged nonchalantly.

"Can you make the antidote?" Luna asked directly the important matter.

"I can…" Gong Xu then realized Luna's strange behavior. "What happened? Did father use the poison to someone that you know?"

Luna grabbed Gong Xu's hand and led him to sit on the bench so she could have a proper conversation.

"I want you to make that antidote. How long it will take?" Luna asked directly.

"I can make it in a day…" Gong Xu knitted his brows, still couldn't understand his sister. "Something happened?"

"I want you to make one for me, can you?" Luna tightened the cloak around her body as the cold wind blew. "Does father know about the antidote? Or, there is another person who knows about it?"

Gong Xu shook his head, befuddled. "No, it is only me who can make the antidote. Father is never really concern about something like the antidote as a poison is used to kill."

Luna fell into a deep thought, if it was only Gong Xu who knew about how to make the antidote, then he would be in trouble once Bai Yuyan was cured.

"I want to tell you something." Luna raised her head to meet Gong Xu's eyes.

"What is it?" Gong Xu felt uncomfortable under Luna's gaze.