Chapter 30: Will You Marry Me If I'm Not Dressed Up?

The two of them were too close, and Ji Xun frowned slightly.

He tried to distance himself from Yun Xi, but she was lying unsteadily. If he let go even a little, she would fall out of the cabinet. He could only bend his long legs, put his arm around her waist, and hold her in his arms.

The girl's body temperature was very warm, like a burning charcoal, and it seemed particularly hot against him. Her dress was mostly wet, and the fabric outlined her beautiful figure. Her snow-white skin in the dark was very eye-catching.

Yun Xi seemed to feel uncomfortable in this position and moved her body, trying to move inside.

The soft touch rubbed against his abdomen. Ji Xun's eyes fixed, and he held him down without saying anything: "Your Highness, don't move."

Feeling the vibration of the other person's chest, Yun Xi's cheeks were hot and she didn't dare to move for fear of falling out.

The two maintained this posture while the people outside continued to quarrel.

"A Luo, you have to believe me. I don't want to marry Princess Roujia. This is what the emperor and my father want."

Hearing this, Yun Xi couldn't help but turn her head, trying to see the scene outside through the gap, but she only saw the hems of two people's clothes, one green and one white.

The person outside is...Xie Zhao?

Yun Xi was surprised and her eyes widened.

I didn't expect that the person I had been looking for for a long time would meet me in this way.

Judging from what he just said, Xie Zhao didn't want to marry her either, and... the woman in the green dress outside seemed to be his ideal partner.

Yun Xi raised her eyes and met Ji Xun's sight. He was also listening attentively. A ray of light happened to hit his golden face, making his features clear and unique.

Ji Xun noticed her gaze, his pupils turned, and he put his slender fingers between her lips, signaling her not to speak.

After a while, the woman's crying outside stopped and the sound of rain gradually became smaller.

"You said you've always liked me, but what can you prove? Now that the emperor has made up his mind, there's no point in saying anything."

Xie Zhao's voice was a little anxious. "Can't you feel that I like you? I said I would go to your house to propose marriage a year ago, but you insisted on testing me and waited until now. What should I do, Luo? I am sincere to you."

"I have no interest in any other woman in my life. Only you can move my heart. If you don't believe me, I will prove it to you now."

"Ah! You...what are you doing? Let me go..."

There was a loud noise outside, clothes rubbing and bumping around, and after a while, a strange sound was heard.

"A Luo, I like you. Don't reject me again, okay?"

"Let me go! Don't...ah!"

The man's urgent calls and the woman's condemning cries mixed together, and then gradually changed.

Yun Xi, who was in the wooden cabinet, was stunned. She had never expected that when she dodged, she would actually see...

As expected of a restricted article, this theme can be found wherever you go.

But fortunately, she is not the protagonist this time.

Yun Xi was not surprised that Xie Zhao had a lover. What surprised her was that Xie Zhao was not incompetent. Instead, he was extremely brave in this kind of thing and could guess it by listening to the noise outside.

Yun Xi felt like her whole face was about to burn. Fortunately, the light here was dim, otherwise her face would have turned as red as an apple.

She quietly raised her eyes and glanced at Ji Xun, and found that he still had no expression on his face, his eyes were calm, and he didn't care much about matters of love between men and women.

Yun Xi secretly marveled at his strong willpower. She had been maintaining the same posture for a long time, and apart from other things, her waist was already extremely sore.

She couldn't help it and quietly moved back, trying to find a comfortable position, when she suddenly felt something touching her from behind.

I remember there were a lot of brooms in this cabinet before I came in. Maybe I accidentally knocked them over when I came in.

The people outside moved their position from the door to the next room, and the sound gradually faded away.

"Ji Xun." Yun Xi's voice was as light as a feather. "Can you kick the broom behind you?"

His fingertips stagnated slightly, his Adam's apple rolled, and he silently turned his eyes away in the darkness: "Your Highness, I cannot move."

Yun Xi lay on her stomach, her warm breath on his chest. She couldn't help but move her legs: "Then how do I get up? It will poke my stomach."

The big hand holding his waist suddenly tightened. Ji Xun endured it and closed his eyes: "It will be fine in a while."

He tensed his abdomen, and the wound began to bleed again. Yun Xi felt a warm sensation on her dress: "Did your wound open again? You made me wet."

"...Your Highness, could you please shut up?"

His original harsh nature was exposed for a moment.

This was the first time Yun Xi heard him speak in this tone: "Why are you so mean to me?"

She clearly cared about him.

Ji Xun's forehead was covered with sweat. He turned his head away and remained silent.

The sweet fragrance of a young girl lingered in his nose, and he had to pay attention to her. The movement just now was not enough to make him want to move his heart, but she was always restless in his arms.

He is a normal man, not a eunuch.

Why did she dare to move so boldly and recklessly?

His skin, which had always been cool, became hot at this moment. A nameless anger rose in his chest, and he couldn't help but hold her waist tightly.

"Your body is so hot, are you having a fever?" Yun Xi felt the abnormal temperature of the body under her palm and showed worry.

She had told him that wearing wet clothes in the wind would cause one to catch a cold. He refused to take them off at first, but now he's caught.

Silly dog.

Yun Xi adjusted her posture and raised her hand to touch his forehead, which was much hotter than his usual body temperature.

She felt a little uncomfortable, so she put her legs together and pressed down on the broomstick.

The man above him quivered his eyelashes, and for the first time ever, he showed an awkward expression: "Your Highness, please stop moving."

Yun Xi didn't know what was going on, so she loosened her legs. At this moment, the people outside left.

She couldn't hold it back and fell out of the wooden cabinet. Finally breathing fresh air, she gasped, but the air was filled with a strange smell.

When she looked up again, Ji Xun had already come out of the wooden cabinet. He covered the wound with half of his clothes and his expression had returned to calm.

Yun Xi looked into the cabinet and found that the brooms inside were neatly arranged and not tilted.

Yun Xi: “……?”

That's impossible.

"Um...are you okay?" Yun Xi asked weakly.

"Your Highness should be the one asking this question." He reached out and pulled her up. "The ground is cold, Your Highness, please don't get cold."

Yun Xi looked him up and down, and seeing that there was really nothing wrong with him, she couldn't help but feel relieved.

Sure enough, he had no feelings for himself at all.

"Your Highness, how should you deal with that person?" he asked calmly.

Yun Xi was stunned and didn't react for a moment: "Who?"

"Your fiancé." He emphasized the last three words, biting them. "If your future husband has an affair with someone else, how will the laws of the Wei Dynasty punish him?"

Yun Xi came to her senses, suddenly realizing what had happened. She then said casually, "There's no relevant law in the Wei Dynasty. Let him be. Since he also has a lover, that's perfect. Actually, neither of us wanted to have this marriage, and after we get married, I won't get in the way of a couple in love."

After a moment of silence, Ji Xun said, "...Your Highness must marry him?"

"Yeah." Yun Xi looked down at her belly, "I need a nominal child to stabilize my father's kingdom."

She had no choice.

Due to the limited plot of the original novel, she could still use Ji Xun to avoid it, but this is not possible.

"It's just a child. Who can be his consort?"

"That's not the case. At least he has to be someone with power and influence." Yun Xi smiled helplessly, "So I often think, if I also have the ability to stir up the political situation, maybe I won't have to be led by others."

Ji Xun pondered for a moment and said, "So, Your Highness, do you want to learn?"

Yun Xi: "...No one is willing to teach me. They all think I'm stupid."

Ji Xun pursed his lips and said calmly, "If Your Highness wants to learn, I happen to know a few tricks of the trade."

He always read only the surface of the elegant and virtuous books of sages, and only cared about the words. But in this respect, he had quite a few insights.

After all, he was born in the palace of the Great Jin Dynasty, and as a prince, he was always secretly playing games with others. He was able to survive and become the crown prince, but he had stepped on the blood of countless political enemies.

"You know all this?" Yun Xi was surprised. "I know you want to comfort me, but you don't have to be like this."

In the first half month, he was still a dullard who didn't even answer when he saw her father. If she hadn't protected him, he would have lost his head several times.

Ji Xun: “…”

"As your Highness wishes, I was just mentioning it casually. Now that the rain has stopped, will you still go look for that person?"

Yun Xi thought about it and shook her head: "No, he's having a good time with his sweetheart, it would be awkward for me to go. I want to go back home and take a shower."

After all the trouble, she and Ji Xun were covered in dirt and it was inconvenient for them to go out and see other people.

Judging from the time, the Jinyiwei she sent out should have also inquired about the news of the guests in Xie Mansion.

So the two of them chose a place where there were no people, quietly left the Prime Minister's Mansion, and returned to the carriage in the Princess' Mansion.

When Yuan He saw the two of them coming out early, she hurried forward to greet them. When she saw that their clothes were soaked, she realized something was wrong.

"It was my fault for forgetting to bring an umbrella to Your Highness."

She thought Yun Xi was in the Prime Minister's Mansion and would not get wet in the rain.

Yun Xi didn't blame her. She waved her hand and got into the carriage tiredly.

Yuan He approached the two men and saw that their clothes were disheveled and there was a strange smell on their bodies. She realized it belatedly and her face turned red.

“…”

After Ji Xun got on the carriage, Yuan He and the coachman looked at each other, and a smile appeared in their eyes.

It seems they really shouldn't have sent the umbrella.

Fortunately, I didn't go, otherwise I would have disturbed His Highness and Guard Ji's good deeds, and it would have been their fault.

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The author has something to say: Yuan He: I hit it [shy]

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