Chapter 96 [VIP]

After dinner, the children eagerly went to set off firecrackers.

Because this year they were spending the New Year with Yu Shaoyang's family of three, and Xiao Shan and the others had their older brother and sister-in-law looking after them, Mi Yao simply dragged the full Xiao Chuan back into the house.

"So urgent?"

Xiao Chuan took small steps, looking down at Mi Yao holding his hand, and slowly followed behind her.

Knowing he was enjoying being led by her, Mi Yao shook off his hand, but as soon as their hands separated, Xiao Chuan took over with his other hand.

"I was wrong, I was too impatient."

On the battlefield, he is an iron-blooded war god who never retreats, but in front of his wife, he is a man who can bend and stretch, and can put away his smug face at any time.

"If it weren't for the fact that your eyes are so tired you can barely keep them open, who would bother with you?"

When he first rushed back, he was full of menacing energy, his brown eyes fully exposed, his gaze deep and cold. But as we ate, his eyelids drooped lower and lower, until now they are drooping and covering half of his eyes, his face full of fatigue and exhaustion.

Even so, he still doesn't speak honestly.

"I know that you feel sorry for me, Madam."

Xiao Chuan took a step forward and hugged Mi Yao from behind.

After he confessed his thoughts and tried to find out what Mi Yao wanted, Mi Yao did not give him any reassuring response.

Sometimes he even felt that she was treating him differently, and when she realized it herself, she would feel something was wrong and give him the cold shoulder for a few days.

In this situation, he was excited by the difference in her this time, and couldn't help but greedily want more.

Lying down on the bed, Xiao Chuan held Mi Yao's hand and looked at her intently: "You won't leave while I'm asleep, will you?"

"Why are you acting like a child? Do you think you're Xiao Liang or Xiao Shan, needing an adult to watch over you while you sleep? Even they aren't that childish these days..."

Her words were interrupted by a sudden, stealthy kiss from Xiao Chuo as he lifted his neck.

Mi Yao gritted her teeth and bit his neck in annoyance.

Once or twice is one thing, but how boring is her speech? Every time she speaks a long sentence, he has to shut her up.

“Huhu, um…”

She wanted to bite hard, but all she could hear was Xiao Chuan's wet breath, and before her eyes was the new wound that Xiao Chuan's collar couldn't cover. Speechless, Mi Yao raised her head and covered Xiao Chuan's eyes with her hand.

"sleep!"

Feeling an itch from the hair on her palm, Mi Yao's hand trembled.

She found Xiao Chuan to be rough around the edges.

His palms were rough, and his eyelashes were stiff like tiny needles.

“Huhu”.

"Um?"

"I've heard that people can hallucinate when they're freezing to the extreme. I wonder if I'm home or if I'm asleep in the cold wind."

Smelling the warm fragrance unique to Mi Yao, Xiao Chuan's magnetic voice grew lower and lower. He placed his hand on Mi Yao's hand, and his hoarse voice, coupled with his dry, cracked lips that were still bleeding despite being coated with oil, carried a hint of pitifulness.

"Stop pretending, I don't fall for that."

He was so cold that he hallucinated, thinking he was the Little Match Girl.

She knew he brought this up because he wanted her to take the initiative to do things that weren't part of his hallucination, such as intimate physical activities that stimulated his senses.

Mi Yao decisively withdrew her hand and pulled the quilt over him, covering him completely from head to toe.

She shouldn't have been so nice to him.

Xiao Chuan could sense her increasingly aggressive changes, and she could clearly see that she was developing feelings for him.

In the past, she would have hated this feeling of caring about others. Giving her feelings to others was a risky investment for her, which could very well mean that she would lose everything.

But once she starts to care about Xiao Shan and the others, her feelings inevitably flow towards Xiao Chuan.

He begged her to love him a little more, and since he was asking so sincerely, it didn't seem like much for her to give him a little.

"Is Father asleep?"

The door was gently pushed open a crack, and Xiao Liang, with his rosy lips close to the gap, whispered a question.

"Mother, may we come in?"

Xiao Shan also brought his mouth close to the edge of the gap.

Mi Yao opened the door: "She's asleep."

Hearing their mother say that he was asleep, the three of them rushed in together and stood by the bed to admire Xiao Chuan's sleeping appearance.

"Is Father snoring like the legendary snoring?"

Xiao Liang leaned against the windowsill, put his ear close to Xiao Chuan, and mistook Xiao Chuan's breathing, which was much heavier than usual, for snoring. "Mother, it's too hard for you to sleep with Father who snores. Sleep with me tonight."

"Follow me, follow me."

Afraid of waking Xiao Chua, the two lowered their voices. However, they were both grimacing and making very expressive faces in their struggle for Mi Yao's right to sleep with them.

"My mother and I are both women, so my mother should sleep with me."

Xiao Shan's cheeks puffed up like steamed buns that had been steamed.

"I'm willing to become a woman for my mother, will you?!"

Xiao Liang's face was like a larger, white steamed bun.

"I was born a woman, why should I change!"

Xiao Shan waved his hands wildly, not to hit Xiao Liang, but because he was unhappy.

Xiao Liang retorted, clenching his fists and striking the air like a drum: "That's right, that's exactly what you are, so you only know how to take and never give to your mother."

"I don't."

Xiao Shan was two years younger than Xiao Liang after all. Even though he was quick-witted, he still didn't have as many nonsensical arguments as Xiao Liang.

The first round of competition has ended in victory.

Mi Yao watched for a long time as they waged a war without gunpowder, relying entirely on grimaces and the imposing instruments played in the air.

Seeing that the two had finished arguing and turned their gaze to her, Mi

Although she had come from the beginning, now that things had come to this point, it would be too much of a shame for her not to sleep with him tonight.

Xiao Chuan slept until dawn. After searching for a while without finding anything beside him, he opened his eyes and stared at the bed curtains for a long time before getting up and going to Tingsong Courtyard.

They opened Xiao Liang's room but didn't find anyone. They went to Xiao Shan's room and found Xiao Liang and Xiao Shan sleeping on either side of Mi Yao, slumped over in different positions.

Feeling herself being picked up, Mi Yao didn't open her eyes, but smelled the familiar scent and put her hands on Xiao Chuan's shoulders.

Because everyone was staying up to welcome the New Year, the candles in each room were still lit. Before leaving, Xiao Chuan extinguished the candles in the brother and sister's room to prevent them from waking up too early and disturbing him and Mi Yao.

I had a dream a few days ago.

The feeling of being carried around while half-asleep was so comfortable that after Xiao Chuan put her on the bed, she felt a sense of loss and lost her sleepiness.

What did you dream about?

Upon hearing Mi Yao speak, Xiao Chuan took off his outer robe and lay down next to her, while putting his arm around her waist and asking.

"I dreamt that something happened to you, and I woke up crying."

It was in this dream that she realized Xiao Chuan had become important to her without her even noticing. After waking up, she was stunned for a long time, touching the wet tear stains on her face, unable to distinguish whether she was in a dream or reality.

Compared to Mi Yao's first sentence, Xiao Chuan clearly cared more about her second sentence.

He held her close and kissed her cheek tenderly, as if to make up for the comfort he hadn't been able to provide a few days ago.

The burning heat from the touch moved back and forth across her face, creating a soft mist that entered Mi Yao's eyes, making her originally clear almond-shaped eyes appear slightly watery.

The feeling of being wronged came unexpectedly.

Xiao Chua realized this and became somewhat flustered, wondering if he had done something wrong.

“I’m not that easy to die. In the past, I thought it was enough to make a good knife and I didn’t care too much about life and death. Now that I have you, and the responsibility of raising Xiao Yi and his two brothers, and even more so the responsibility of Jiannan, how could I dare to die?”

"It's good that you know. Don't beg me to like you. If you beg me to soften my heart and give you any feelings, you'll make me lose everything."

She woke up that day with a heavy heart for a while. Recalling the sequence of events in the book, she realized that the current progress was much faster, especially Xiao Chuan, who had gained Zhao Tianhe's attention more than a year earlier than in the book.

She didn't know if this was good or bad, but she knew she was terrified that Xiao Chuan, who could become a powerful ruler in the book, would die young because of her existence.

Thinking about it, Mi Yao punched Xiao Chua in the chest twice.

"If you don't live well, I'll remarry the moment you die."

The word "remarry" made Xiao Chuan's heart skip a beat, and he even stopped breathing. Of course, he had no doubt about Mi Yao's charm.

Her beauty alone has attracted a large number of men to compete for her. Now, her reputation for comforting disaster victims and handling internal affairs has spread far and wide. The Prince of Huainan recently stated in a public setting that his only regret in the first half of his life was not marrying Mi Yao, but he would make up for this regret as soon as possible in the second half of his life.

When these words reached his ears, if it weren't for the fact that the plan still needed time, he wouldn't have just responded by saying that the King of Huainan was like a string of candied hawthorns; instead, he would have actually rushed to Huainan and stabbed him in the back.

However, even if he can't rush over now, it won't be long before he does it.

He held Mi Yao in his arms and comforted her for a long time, assuring her that he would absolutely cherish his life. When he saw the tears in Mi Yao's eyes disappear, Xiao Chuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, Mi Yao punched him twice in the chest.

Meeting Mi Yao's angry, wide eyes, Xiao Chuan asked cautiously, "Did you have any other dreams?"

"You wish! I dream of nothing but you all day long."

A hint of grievance appeared on Xiao Chuan's pale face: "I dream about you every single day."

Although most of the dreams involve the two of them being naked, there are also times when they are dressed, and she is nestled in his arms, acting coquettishly.

What's particularly special is that he dreamt of their first meeting. From the very beginning, he lowered his stance, didn't scare her, and fully accepted her attempts to please him, and they immediately began to have a deep conversation.

Of course, he couldn't tell Mi Yao about these dreams in a serious setting.

If he dares to say it, then he'll only be able to do it in his dreams from now on.

Men are indeed more lewd and despicable than women in this matter. He asked himself if his love for Mi Yao was because of that, but whenever he thought of her or saw her, that was all he could think about.

Unlike her, who would worry about his safety and shed tears in her dreams.

Thinking of this, Xiao Chuan hugged Mi Yao even tighter.

"It's all my fault, Hu Hu should have hit me a few more times."

"I'm hitting you because I'm angry that you weren't here, and I'm going to clean up your mess."

Mi Yao explained, so that he wouldn't think she had no legitimate reason to act.

A few days ago, she was upset after having a dream. She felt that Xiao Chuan was affecting her too much. Xiao Chuan was too far away for her to beat up, and she was too embarrassed to hit Xiao Shan and the others who were related to Xiao Chuan by blood because they were too young.

So she vented her anger by scolding all the aristocratic families who had shown goodwill towards Xiao Chuan.

But saying it was to vent his anger was actually to save Xiao Chua trouble.