Chapter 261 [Emperor’s Story 13] Ointment

Chu Jiao quickly covered her trousers.

“Don’t be embarrassed,” Jing Chen merely thought the little eunuch was being shy, “Let me take a closer look whether it’s serious or not!”

“It’s not serious! It’s not serious!” Chu Jiao shook her head quickly but said to herself, ‘It’s all going to be over for me once everything has been exposed to you!’

She didn’t feel that it was the right time to reveal her true gender just yet. There was still danger lurking in every corner of the palace, and the young boy in front of him still hadn’t fully developed his wings. If one more person were to know of her real identity, they would only be exposed to more danger.

Moreover, Chu Jiao didn’t know how Jing Cheng would react if he discovered that she was a girl all along and realized that he had been deceived for so many years right under his nose.

Would he become angry at her for concealing the truth from him? Disappointed? Indignant?

After spending so many years with this youth, Chu Jiao had already grown to know his character like the back of her hand. To those he didn’t care about, even if they bullied him until he was covered in cuts and bruises, they wouldn’t be able to hurt his heart. However, if it were someone whom he cared about, he would be sensitive and weak towards them, even a trifling matter would dwell longer in his mind.

“Th-This slave’s body is already badly damaged, so this slave wishes for no one to see it…” Chu Jiao blushed hard, immediately making up a reason on the top of her head, “Master… Please don’t look…”

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He vividly imagined ‘his’ bent waist… ‘his’ slender knuckles… and ‘his’ forbearing face…

Jing Chen held his forehead in confusion.

What’s going on with him?

Was he really making fantasies about a little eunuch!?

He had once heard several of his brothers discuss the bedfellows¹Bedfellow (Tong Fang) is the servant who’s supposed to teach the prince how to do ‘it’ the first time. bestowed onto them by their mother concubines and vaguely understood that they were talking about bed matters. However, Consort Rong had never arranged any for him. Today, he was already past 15 years of age and still hadn’t learnt the true ways of the world.

The first person he ever truly cared about was Chu Jiao. Moreover, the one he saw the most in his everyday life was also Chu Jiao. Even though he knew Chu Jiao was an eunuch, a mere subordinate, he regarded her as a close relative and friend.

He never discriminated against eunuchs, but he also knew they were different beings from men and women. However, Jing Chen felt confused for the first time. Why did he often act irrationally towards this little dumpling?

Was his heart thrown into utter chaos because he cared for him?

Throwing aside these wild thoughts in his mind, Jing Chen remained in the inner room for a while, finally regaining his former calm.

He left the court doors just in time to see the two little eunuchs carrying the pot of boiled water in the outside room like he ordered them.

At present, Chu Jiao was his personal eunuch, so ‘he’ didn’t need to carry out any of ‘his’ previous tasks, such as receiving food and fetching items. Jing Chen ordered the two of them to take some light meals and return, thinking that now the little dumpling’s body has been injured, he had to take good care of ‘him’ in the next coming days, so spicy food had to be avoided.

While thinking of items to avoid for ‘his’ injuries to not get infected, Jing Chen suddenly realized something. Now that the little eunuch was injured, how was ‘he’ going to take a bath?

He then mulled over it. As his master, what was there to be embarrassed about? Shouldn’t ‘he’ feel deeply grateful for being served by him? As expected, he shouldn’t have followed his previous request.

As the curtain of the night fell, holding the idea of wanting the little eunuch to feel better, Jing Chen walked back to the side room once again.

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