DOOMED TO BE CANNON FODDER -1

CHAPTER - 36

Lisa couldn't be bothered with hiding anymore. She suddenly shouted out, "Be careful!". As a result, Taehyung did take more care after hearing the words. He hauled his opponent behind him to block two flying daggers, but another one stabbed into his abdomen, causing him to fall to his knees with a gasp of pain.

Meanwhile, the other enemy raised a dagger. Lisa ran out without another thought. She had planned to push Taehyung out of the way after the enemy sent the other dagger flying.

But who knew her timing would be so good? That flying dagger seemed to grow eyes and stabbed straight into her shoulder.

So painful. Lisa faced Taehyung as she slowly collapsed.

He caught her with a face full of shock. Taehyung felt that she might die, so it was only right to say some stirring words before her death. After all, she was finally close to the supporting male lead. But her wound hurt too much to do anything grandiose. So she lay there in the crook of his arm, and drew in what could be her last breath to whisper, "As long as you're alright." She honestly couldn't say anything more, but she never thought her words would visibly move Taehyung.

"Madame Lisa, Madame Lisa, you..." His hands grew inexplicably warm. When he took one out for a look, he found it covered in blood. This was her blood, caused by the dagger she'd taken for him! He abruptly tugged out the dagger stuck in his own body and flung it towards the last jianghu member. The latter was preparing another strike when Taehyung's move abruptly ended his life.

Taehyung was planning to take her and leave, but he only felt more and more muddleheaded. Right at this moment, he saw Lisa struggle with a bottle of medicine despite being in too much pain to speak. When he opened it up, he found that it was Red Pearl.

Red Pearl was a medicine that could not only treat injuries but detoxify myriad poisons. It was especially effective against items that confused. It looked like the prince must have told her about its effects. He hurriedly opened the lid and took a whiff, his mind clearing up immediately.

"Madame Lisa, I'll take you to get treatment right now. Madame Lisa, Madame Lisa..." No matter how he called, that beautiful woman didn't respond. She'd fainted dead away. No, he couldn't let anything happen to her. He definitely couldn't!

Taehyung felt his heart trembling at this moment. Holding her carefully in his arms, he returned to the caravan at the fastest speed he could muster. In the distance, he could see Long Heng riding back with people to his aid.

As soon as he relaxed, he narrowly avoided fainting away himself. But he couldn't. If they fainted like this, it might affect her reputation. But she had risked her life to save him, so how could he let her suffer?

Taehyung gritted his teeth and had someone bring her back to her carriage. He then took a few steps before falling to the ground.

Jungkook ran over to help him up, his voice anxious. "Where are those people?"

"All dead. Madame Lisa is injured, save her first." After gasping out that last matter on his mind, he fell into blissful unconsciousness.

Startled, Jungkook handed Taehyung over to a subordinate before going over to the carriage for a look. He saw the bloody Lisa lying there unmoving, her face almost white from blood loss, her breath all but gone.

His heart ached as he rushed to pick her up. If he'd known that this was going to happen, he wouldn't have left her here. Who cared what other people said as long as she was safe? Ignoring what others thought, finding her a doctor was the most important thing. With everything done and over with, there was no telling whether she'd die just from excessive blood loss.

Jungkook's speed was very quick. He found a doctor in a nearby town in a flash. There was no time to attend to matters regarding male-female propriety as the doctor examined the wound and shivered, "It's not life-threatening. The dagger's already been taken out. She's just lost too much blood and needs quiet rest. She shouldn't be easily moved about, either."

"If there's no danger, why hasn't she woken up yet?" Jungkook asked with furrowed brows.

"Because she's lost too much blood. I believe she'll wake up in a while." The doctor explained as he busied himself with a patient that had just arrived. This time it was a subordinate bringing in Taehyung for treatment. There was no helping it. Both of them were severely injured, so they couldn't wait until they returned to the capital.

Taehyyng was a man, to begin with. Add that to his martial arts skills and deliberate defence of his vital areas, he woke up in less than an hour. After bandaging his injuries, he could stand up in the room and walk around. Naturally, he asked after Lisa's injury first. He was only relieved after hearing that her life wasn't in danger.

Just as he released a breath, Long Heng appeared with a cold face. "Just exactly what happened here?"

Vendettas in the jianghu typically wouldn't involve kidnapping women and children. Thus, the rest of the Song family were all fine, just rendered unconscious. But why was Lisa the only one who'd ended up with a blade stuck in her back? That had been a concealed weapon, so he didn't believe things were so simple.

Inexplicably, Taehyung felt a twinge of guilt prick at his conscience. He opened and shut his mouth before saying, "It was I who implicated Madame Lisa because she came to give me Red Pearl."

"Red Pearl? That's right, it can remove the effects of substances that confuse. Though, how did she know? I didn't tell her," Jungkook wrinkled his brows.

Taehyung gave a start, but quickly realized how she'd known. She hadn't been rendered unconscious because there was Red Pearl smeared on her nose. Thus, she'd guessed in that instant that Red Pearl could dispel the effects of the confusion. It was rare to find such an intelligent girl in this world.

"She deduced it," Taehyung smiled wryly before continuing. "When she was chasing me, she was spotted by an expert and was hit as a result. However, because of that I received the Red Pearl and recovered my wits enough to preserve my life." He was very sincere as he spoke.

"This is all thanks to Madame Lisa. But such affairs are too complex. For the sake of her good name, I can only say to outsiders that she was caught up in the action." He held back the words that Bai Lisa had spoken before she'd fainted. The words were like a spell, echoing in his ears long after she'd lost consciousness.

It was the same even now as if time had stopped at that moment.

Jungkook was calm as he replied, "You did the right thing, though I never expected such minor players from the jianghu to have the guts to kill the imperial court's appointed officials."

"I sent armed forces to suppress ten branches of his organization, so he came back to kill me. Looks like he doesn't want to live a peaceful life." Taehyung had received orders from the imperial court to investigate a few fugitives, thus earning the ire of some people in the jianghu.

Jungkook glanced at him and said, "I'll lend some troops to you this time."

"Ha, with your troops, they'll be more docile." His laughter jolted his injury, causing his eyebrows to knit in pain. He thought of the unconscious and wounded Madame Lisa. How much would it hurt for her after she woke?

Would a woman be able to bear it?

His brows further wrinkled at the thought, just as a servant girl stuck her head in to speak. "Which one is Sir Jeon? Your family's madame is awake, but she keeps saying it hurts."

"What?" Jungkook was happy to hear she'd awakened but grew alarmed at the mention of pain. His steps unconsciously quickened as he headed over to her room. Song Jiaoyue was worried as well, but he only followed two steps before stopping. He didn't have any right to enter her room.

It looked like all he could do was wait. Once he calmed down, he recalled the words she'd said to him. He hadn't paid attention to them back then, nor had he given them any thought when he was anxiously trying to save her life. But now the memory of those words brought him an endless ambiguous warmth. Why would a woman say those things to him in such a dangerous situation? Could it be, she...?

Impossible, impossible. She was Jungkook's concubine, and he was someone who couldn't even exist in her thoughts.

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