Chapter 66 [VIP]

"What are you looking for?"

Xiao Chuan saw Mi Yao rummaging around under the pillow, so he bent down and gently kissed her neck, helping her find the dagger hidden on the bed.

Xiao Chuan kissed the cold scabbard with even more tenderness as his fingers touched it.

"You were so scared when I wasn't around?"

Upon hearing this, Mi Yao wanted to retort, but Xiao Chuan took her parted lips as an invitation.

Her lips were fiercely sealed, the intense kiss seemingly trying to pierce her very soul. Mi Yao's scalp tingled, and her originally wide eyes gradually became weak and hazy.

She wasn't using the dagger to defend herself against others; she was clearly using it to defend herself against this lecherous man!

But this lecherous man didn't even give her a chance to argue.

"Hold on."

Xiao Chuan's calloused, wheat-colored fingers continued to caress Mi Yao's waist. He stopped midway and heard the sound of running water. When Xiao Chuan turned back, Mi Yao realized that he had taken a cold shower.

Mi Yao wiped the moisture from the corner of her mouth, feeling that Xiao Chuan had finally realized that important matters were at hand, and that even if the die was cast, he had to stop and explain the current situation in Yizhou to her.

Thinking about it, Xiao Chuan, who had just finished taking a cold shower, casually wiped the water droplets off his body, and without saying a word, climbed back onto the bed and continued everything that had just stopped.

Mi Yao: ...

"I've been cooped up all day, and I'm sweaty, so I don't want to get you dirty."

Xiao Chuanchao explained to Mi Yao.

"After being cooped up all day, can't you just rinse it off and get it clean?"

Mi Yao's annoyance earned her Xiao Chuan's hand, which he then touched to the areas he was focusing on cleaning. Afterward, he placed her hand on the tip of her nose.

"Smell it, there's no smell."

Mi Yao: ...

This is insane!

When she felt her fingers brush against her lips, Mi Yao's breath hitched for a moment. Meeting Xiao Chuan's eerie gaze in the darkness, she felt like she was having a nightmare.

Xiao Chuan didn't come back, and she didn't have her mouth touched by dirty hands late at night.

She closed her eyes, trying to quickly fall asleep and escape the nightmare, but the earth-shaking noises around her made it difficult for her to breathe, and she couldn't close her eyes at all.

She glared at Xiao Chuan, but he grabbed her hands and placed them on his waist: "Didn't you say you missed my burning body temperature and strong waist? Why are you closing your eyes and not looking at me?"

Xiao Chuan recalled the contents of Mi Yao's letter.

Three months later, the two continued to correspond, but Mi Yao's letters became increasingly brief, consisting of greetings, statements that everything was fine at the mansion, or relaying what the child had said to him.

The relay was perfunctory; there was a serious greeting from Xiao Yi, and Xiao Liang's few unfocused remarks vaguely boasted about how happy Mi Yao was when he wasn't at the Xiao residence.

Xiao Shan would put her hand in ink and stamp the document each time, which was a way of showing that although she didn't have much to say to him, she was still giving him face by participating.

When it came to the last two letters, Mi Yao simply sent Xiao Yi to write them, too lazy to even lift a pen herself.

If it weren't for those two comforting words she once said, he doesn't know how he would have survived until now.

Originally feeling guilty for disturbing her late at night, Xiao Chuan's grip tightened even more as he thought about Mi Yao's coldness over the past few months.

Sensing Xiao Chuan's anger, Mi Yao soothingly touched his tanned skin.

She had no idea what he had done in Jiangning. She had thought that only his face and neck were tanned, but she hadn't expected that his body skin had also turned wheat-colored.

Oh, there's one white, perky butt left.

It looks like a male peacock with its tail feathers plucked, so ugly it doesn't even try to cover it up.

"It seems that you have been eating well these days, young master."

Touching Xiao Chu's abs, which hadn't shrunk but were even more swollen, Mi Yao praised them in a sarcastic tone.

"It seems I haven't thought about you that much, and I haven't lost weight for you."

Xiao Chuan picked up on her teasing remark, but in the next moment he didn't give her a chance to speak again. In the midst of the storm, Mi Yao was like a small boat in a giant wave, with no choice but to hold on to him tightly.

When the storm subsided, Mi Yao pounced on his back, buried her head in his neck, and bit him hard.

Xiao Chuan tried to turn over and pull her in front of him, but she tightly wrapped her arms around his neck, preventing him from pulling her back.

"You want to kill me?"

Knowing that her neck was sore and that she would be in even more pain than him if he tried to forcefully pull her off, Xiao Chuan simply let her go and allowed her to bite his neck.

After he stopped resisting, Mi Yao indeed reduced her strength.

The warmth of his lips and teeth occasionally enveloped a certain spot on his neck, and the softness on his back combined with the painful heat made Xiao Chua let out a gasp.

"The bite marks on my hand have faded. Why don't you bite me again?"

Xiao Chuan extended an invitation.

Mi Yao bit him hard at the time, and he didn't try to hide it, which attracted a lot of attention and a lot of pointless teasing.

He found it extremely bothersome at the time, but now that the traces have faded, he feels something is missing.

"don't want."

Mi Yao leaned against Xiao Chuan's back, feeling sleepy. The sleepiness that had been suppressed by her anxiety was now overwhelmed by the movement. She yawned and said, "I'll sleep like this from now on. It's the safest way to sleep."

Seeing that she had no strength left, Xiao Li...

But once she entered Xiao Chuan's embrace...

She felt that biting someone was retaliation, but for Xiao Chuan, it was a matter of course.

Their breaths mingled, and Xiao Chuan captured Mi's scent in his mouth.

Upon hearing this, Mi Yao spat twice. She had just bitten his neck to vent her anger, but little did she know that his neck was covered in sweat, and she had unintentionally eaten his sweat.

“These days I have seen many displaced people. My lord is not in Yizhou, so he does not know how serious this flood is. Several villages were hit at night, and people died in their sleep…”

Mi Yao originally said these things to distract Xiao Chuan, but as she spoke, her own mood also became low. She hugged him and said, "Forget it, I'd rather rock the bed with you than think about these things."

Xiao Chuan patted her head, kissed her forehead reassuringly, and actually rocked the bed with her, without saying a few more words of comfort.

"The medicine that Doctor Jiang prepared needs to be taken half a month in advance. I have already taken it for half a month. If it doesn't work this time, it will be a waste to kill my descendants."

"Have you been fighting the enemy these days, or have you been frequenting brothels?"

From the moment he let her smell his scent to now when he talks about having many children and grandchildren, although she never thought he was honest before, at least he wasn't as dissolute as he is now.

"I didn't stay in Jiangning for long."

Xiao Chuan used cold water for himself, but found hot water to wipe Mi Yao down. After dressing her, he hugged Mi Yao back into his arms. "There are rumors of mines nearby. I'm mainly going to explore for minerals."

As for Jiangning, after several attempts by the Huainan military governor to test the waters, he suddenly turned north and occupied Xuzhou. After killing the governor of Xuzhou, he has now declared himself king. If he were to fight again, he would send troops to Bianzhou.

This trip gave him a clearer understanding of the current situation in Daxing.

No faction wants to touch Jiannan now, not only because Jiannan has a strong army and its territory is difficult to conquer, but also because everyone is waiting for internal strife in Jiannan.

He didn't realize it when he was in Yizhou, but when he stepped back and looked inward, Jiannan did indeed show signs of falling apart.

The fact that the father was delaying in appointing a young master gave many people the illusion that they could take over.

In the past, he only wanted to take things one step at a time and do everything according to his father's arrangements, but at some point he began to have the idea of ​​wanting to be stronger and more powerful.

Xiao Chuan looked down at Mi Yao in his arms, as if after having her, he felt that all the money and power he had were no longer enough.

If he weren't strong, she could easily become someone else's possession.

That snowy night, her eyes lit up at the mention of power and money he spoke of; who knows when she might be attracted by someone else's offer?

"Yizhou will be in chaos for a while. I will help my father quell the chaos. When everything is over, if I am still alive, your status will be different."

Will you lose your life?

Upon hearing this, Mi Yao looked up and blinked. Because she knew Xiao Chuan was the male lead, she had always had great confidence in him, but he himself was always prepared to sacrifice himself.

This made her feel uneasy as well.

She didn't organize the timeline while reading the book, but based on her memory of the events, if there was internal strife in Yizhou at this time, it would have happened much faster than in the book.

Surely this sudden change of events wasn't caused by her?

"Yes, it will."

Xiao Chuan noticed Mi Yao's unease and kissed her ear. It wouldn't be accurate to say that he loved Mi Yao so much that he would risk his life for her.

But it's true that he definitely doesn't want her to show her smile in front of others.

She is his, and for that to hold true, he must live, and live better than many men.

"Saying I'm going to die is just a way of testing how much you value me."

As Xiao Chuan met Mi Yao's angry gaze, he curled his lips and said, "At most two months, once the internal strife is quelled, I will come to bring you back."

"Is it absolutely necessary to leave?"

Mi Yao hesitated for a moment, thinking of her shop and the disaster relief grain she arranged every day.

As if sensing her concerns, Xiao Chuan said, "The reason I sent you and Xiao Shan away is because many people will try to harm you, and you won't be very safe in Yizhou."

Moreover, he would be constrained.

In the past, he would never have considered sending his loved ones away, but now, the thought of them getting into trouble makes his blood boil and he loses his rationality.

"If you are worried about the people who have been affected by the flood, rest assured, your father loves the people like his own children. Even without you, the people will be properly resettled."

"Yes, it's no big deal if I'm gone."

Mi Yao's frustration found an outlet because of Xiao Chuan's words. She got up and packed her things, saying, "Then hurry up and send me away, so I don't get in the way here."

“My family is from the North. First there was drought, then war. When I was five, my family of more than ten people fled from the North all the way to Yizhou. Yu Miyao, I’m not criticizing you. Just pretend I don’t know how to talk.”

Xiao Chuan didn't want to explain, but seeing Mi Yao's puffed-up cheeks and thinking that they would be separated for several months again, he came to his senses and was already standing in front of Mi Yao, and he opened his mouth to bring up the past.

After the dozen or so people arrived in Yizhou, only five remained. After his parents, elder brother and sister-in-law passed away one after another, he, Xiao Rou, Xiao Liang and Xiao Shan were left, making a total of five people.

He didn't dislike Mi Yao's kindness, and when he heard that she had taken the initiative to help with disaster relief, he understood even more why he had fallen for her.

"Forget it, don't go. I can protect you if you stay in Yizhou. I won't feel at ease if I send you away."

Xiao Chuan pulled the still dazed Mi Yao into his arms. It was fine before he saw her, but now that he had hugged, kissed, and spoken to her, he was reluctant to be separated from her for so many more days.