Chapter 236

236 YOU CAN TAKE IT OFF

Bai Chen had indeed heard the rumor that Wu Jinhai was cursed, but the man suddenly told him that he was poisoned.

Cursed and poisoned, the two things were different, right?

But, whether the man was cursed or poisoned, Bai Chen assumed that the incident was related to the man’s face which caused the man to continue wearing the golden mask the entire time.

“Do you want to tell me that you have something like a scar on your face due to poison? If that’s the truth, then why didn’t I see anything when you didn’t wear a mask as Zhu Ge?” Bai Chen replied, and the last question he said was the thing that confused him.

He had seen Zhu Ge’s face on the first day he had transmigrated into this world. True, he didn’t pay much attention to the man’s appearance back then because he was too shocked by the transmigration, but then he could see the man’s face clearly when he went to the Red Pavilion to complete the mission from the system.

Zhu Ge did not attempt to cover his face at all, and not even a strand of his black hair remained in front of his face to cover his face. Instead, Zhu Ge confidently tied his jet-black hair behind his head, and that was why his face was completely exposed to everyone.

That fact alone managed to confuse Bai Chen, and that was why the Werewolf Prince looked disturbed as he looked at the man in red who was sitting next to him.

“It’s not a scar that remains on my face, but it’s normal if you couldn’t see it when I pretended to be Zhu Ge,” Wu Jinhai replied, but he still didn’t set his sights on the Werewolf Prince who was still looking at him with his blue eyes full of curiosity.

It might not be very obvious, but Bai Chen knew that the man was trying to avoid his gaze, and that was why he was more suspicious of the man’s attitude.

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“Then, what is it that remains on your face?” Bai Chen asked again. “And why couldn’t I see it when you pretended to be Zhu Ge? You two are the same person, right?”

Suddenly, Bai Chen had some doubts about his theory after hearing Wu Jinhai’s confusing answer. He had previously believed that Wu Jinhai and Zhu Ge were actually one person, but he ended up feeling confused after Wu Jinhai answered his question.

This time, Wu Jinhai was finally willing to turn to Bai Chen again, and the two of them looked at each other as the masked man replied, “My real face is what you usually see when I pretend to be Zhu Ge. I use medicine to hide some parts of my face for a while, and that’s because people would be disgusted or maybe scared if they saw the real me.”

Bai Chen couldn’t understand, and that was why he kept looking into Wu Jinhai’s eyes without voicing a response. Wu Jinhai’s pair of brown eyes only peeked through the twin holes of the mask, but Bai Chen could somehow see a hint of insecurity in the pair of eyes until finally, Wu Jinhai once again looked away from him.

That reaction only proved that Wu Jinhai was indeed insecure when the two of them talked about the matter related to the man’s face, and Bai Chen was even more curious because the man even said that people would feel disgusted or perhaps scared if they saw that thing on his face.

“So, the medicine you’re taking can hide the thing on your face?” Bai Chen responded to the man again. “If the medicine is so powerful, then why do you have to cover your face with the golden mask all the time? You can just rely on the medicine, right?”

“I can’t do that,” Wu Jinhai’s answer came instantly. “The medicine isn’t that strong, and if the thing on my face comes into contact with water, then the effect of the medicine will wear off.”

Bai Chen frowned as he tried to digest Wu Jinhai’s words. The medicine wasn’t that strong? The medicinal effect would be lost if the thing on Wu Jinhai was exposed to water?

Bai Chen’s pair of blue eyes widened in shock when he finally understood the man’s words. “So, that’s the reason why you got angry when I accidentally touched your forehead with my slightly wet finger? It was because you were afraid the water would reveal the truth on your face?”

This time, Bai Chen’s brain worked quite fast, and he could immediately understand the meaning behind Wu Jinhai’s not-very-clear statement.

Now, he was waiting for the man’s response, and he could see how the man carefully turned his gaze towards him again, and their pair of eyes once again met in an invisible line.

“That’s right,” Wu Jinhai confirmed. “I was mad at you when you touched my forehead with your slightly wet finger because I wasn’t ready to tell you the truth back then.”

“But the truth was still revealed only an hour after that time,” Bai Chen replied dryly as he couldn’t understand Wu Jinhai’s way of thinking.

The way Wu Jinhai suddenly appeared in Zhu Ge’s clothes was like the way he revealed everything in front of Bai Chen, and the moment happened only an hour after the incident at the river. Why would it be any different if Wu Jinhai had just revealed the truth at the river?

That was why Bai Chen was helpless when he tried to understand Wu Jinhai’s way of thinking, and that was why he sighed heavily before looking away from the black-haired man. “You’ve told me the reason why you keep wearing the mask, and I think now you can take it off to show me what thing you’ve been hiding all this time. You can’t use the excuse that I’d be disgusted by it because I’m mentally prepared to see what’s under your mask.”