Female Master's Warm Jade

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Pei Jingyao closed his eyes and tremblingly touched his lower back. Every inch of the rough and uneven skin made him feel chilled.

He would always remember the scene of the branding on the day. The screams around him continued to ring out. The red-hot iron pressed on the flesh through the clothes. The crackling sound and a puff of white smoke drifted by. The flesh and clothes melted together, and the wound looked horrible. Pei

Jingyao had never seen the slave mark on his waist, but he had seen Pei Xiaoying's, but most of them were equally ugly.

For a long time, he didn't even have the courage to touch it carefully. Every inch he touched, he would hear the screams of the Pei family.

Pei Jingyao raised his hands and tightly grasped the wooden bathtub. The water drops he brought out scattered on the ground. He opened his lips and breathed silently.

Yun Si stood there and looked at the screen, his ears filled with the noise just now. A candle was lit next to the bathtub, and the man's shadow was reflected on the screen with the candlelight, blurring into a shadow.

Pei Jingyao had always been very quiet when bathing in the past, but what about today? Yun Si sighed in his heart. She cleaned up the bowl and the ground that Pei Jingyao had just broken, and took a new set of clothes for him and put them next to the screen.

"Don't soak for too long, get out when the water gets cold."

Yun Si's voice sounded behind the screen. Pei Jingyao's wet eyelashes trembled, and he opened his dark eyes faintly, and said "OK" softly in his eyes.

He wanted to stand up from the water, but his ankle hurt more because of his self-abuse behavior. Pei Jingyao could only barely support the bathtub with his arms, and his left foot didn't even dare to touch the ground.

He was waiting for the pain to pass, waiting for him to step out of the bathtub so that Yun Si couldn't see any clues.

Pei Jingyao stood there at a loss for a long time, so long that the cold wind came in through the crack of the door, causing goose bumps on his body, and the water temperature gradually became colder.

Yun Si, who had just heated up the heater, entered the room and found that the bed was empty. The man who usually crawled into the quilt had not come out yet. Yun Si frowned, put the heater in the quilt and walked to the screen.

The man's standing figure was vaguely reflected on the screen, and the clothes she had just placed on the low chair were not moved. Yun Si asked in doubt: "Why hasn't he come out yet?"

Pei Jingyao's heart tightened when he heard this. His fingertips, which were holding the wooden barrel tightly, had turned white from the force, and his wet hair had become cold and stuck to his body. He thought the pain would pass quickly.

Pei Jingyao turned his head to look outside the screen. From this angle, he couldn't see Yun Si's figure, but he still looked straight at the opening of the screen, and he was actually looking forward to seeing the woman's figure in his heart.

Yun Si waited for a long time. Just when she thought Pei Jingyao would not answer, his voice full of grievances rang softly behind the screen.

"I can't come out..."

This was the first time Yun Si heard Pei Jingyao's tone of grievance so obvious, like acting like a spoiled child, and crying.

She was going to go straight behind the screen, but suddenly she remembered Pei Jingyao's extremely shy nature, and Yun Si's steps paused. She reminded him, "I'm coming in."

Just as Yun Si entered behind the screen, her eyes collided with the man who was looking straight at the entrance.

Pei Jingyao stood in the water with his hands on the edge of the wooden barrel. The corners of his mouth were originally tightly pursed into a straight line because of the pain, but the moment he saw Yun Si, the grievance in his eyes instantly became real, and his pearly teeth bit his lower lip.