Chapter 874: Chapter 874: 872: Want to Share Life and Death with the Master

Seeing her distress, Mu Fei put away his folding fan and set it aside, “Don’t worry, I just happen to be hungry.”

Ah Jing couldn’t cook or make pastries—she only learned after coining to his side.

Yet, as Mu Fei ate the pastries, his mood remained calm, and gradually, he finished a plateful of them.

Ah Jing looked at the empty plate, incredulous, “Master, don’t they taste bad?”

Mu Fei patted her head, “They’re not bad, don’t doubt yourself.”

“Master…” Ah Jing’s eyes suddenly reddened, and a restrained joy emerged, “Master, you’re too kind to me. These pastries… they’re really not good.”

If it hadn’t been for an extreme hunger, she was afraid even she couldn’t have finished them, but Mu Fei ate them all.

Seeing her tears, Mu Fei pulled her to his side and carefully wiped her face, “Why are you crying?”

“I’m just happy. You really are good to me, Master. I’ve never had anyone treat me so well before.”

Ah Jing’s lips puckered as tears rolled down one by one. She remembered her own past, “I never knew who my parents were. Ever since I have memories, I was scavenging food from garbage heaps. Later I was captured and enslaved, nearly died several times, and when I was sold to the ghost market, had you not bought me, Master, I would have been tortured to death long ago. You are the first person to ever be kind to me.”

Moreover, she felt that Mu Fei doted on her.

He killed all the female slaves that had been sold with her, leaving only her alive.

He made sure she was well-fed and well-dressed and took her with him everywhere he went.

Even at night, he would have her sleep behind the screen to keep watch.

A dull pain throbbed in Mu Fei’s heart, “Just this is being good to you?”

“Yes, Master, you’re really very good!”

All Jing couldn’t help but lean into his embrace, her delicate, tender arms encircling Mu Fei’s waist, “Ah Jing wants to be with Master for a lifetime, to serve Master.”

“Is that so?” Mu Fei’s lips trembled slightly.

He, a man despised for his misdeeds, stained and unworthy, also had someone who would be so loyal, desiring to be with him for a lifetime?

“Yes, Master, don’t you have the Heart-Eater Gu?”

All Jing lifted her head from Mu Fei’s embrace, her eyes spariding.

Mu Fei nodded, “This thing is not good. After two people take it, if one dies, the other cannot live.”

“Ah Jing wants to take it, to take it with Master. This way, whether Master lives or dies, All Jing can always be with Master!”

All Jing’s clear eyes glistened like the purest glaze, devoid of any impurity.

Her purity made Mu Fei avert his gaze from her eyes.

He pushed Ah Jing aside, “Never say such foolish things again!”

Ah Jing thought Mu Fei was angry and quickly knelt before him, “Yes, Ah Jing understands her mistake. I won’t dare to say it again. Master shouldn’t be angry. The Heart-Eater Gu can be harmful to the body, Ah Jing does not dare to hurt Master.”

“It’s not…”

Mu Fei almost wanted to tell her that the Heart-Eater Gu wouldn’t harm the body, and even if it did, he had ways to counteract it; he had plenty of good medicine here.

But…

He couldn’t be so selfish as to have Ah Jing take the Heart-Eater Gu with him.

Mu Fei took a deep breath, letting out a long sigh. “Enough, you may go. Order someone to deal with the two in the firewood shed, to kill them once they’ve had enough.”

Mu Fei frowned in agitation.

Ah Jing trembled slightly as she got up.

She wanted to ask Mu Fei if it was something she had said wrong that had made him angry.