"I... I deserve to die, I can't understand... I understand..."

Cen Xi had a long criminal record, and upon hearing her say this, Chunlan was so frightened that she knelt down with a thud, her words even stuttering.

"If you can't figure it out, I'll give you five counts of time. If you still don't talk, then leave me. I'll spare your life for the sake of you being a maid, but you've probably heard about what happened to the two maids I sent down the mountain before."

Seeing that Qingyi had already brought the food into her room, Cen Xi quickly jumped off the bed, casually threw on a robe, and sat down at the pear wood carved table. While eating, he spoke to Chunlan, who was kneeling.

"I just feel that you should keep your distance from Chen... after all, Yunying is unmarried, so as not to... to avoid gossip. I'm just doing this for your own good."

Chunlan closed her eyes, forcibly bolstering her courage, and stammered.

"I want to hide, but what if I can't?"

Cen Xi picked up a bite of food with her chopsticks, chewed it slowly, and then asked Chunlan with a smile.

"I can't escape it... I can't escape it..."

Chunlan looked up at Cenxi, who had a blank expression on her face. Yes, what if a man tries to take you by force? A man like Prime Minister Shen, even if a girl wanted to escape, she couldn't.

"So you've run out of things to say?"

Cen Xi asked.

"But Master... you did it voluntarily, didn't you?"

Chunlan tried to struggle a bit more, but in the end she said what she wanted to say.

"Ha! You mean I was willing from the start? Do you think I'm that despicable?"

Upon hearing this, Cen Xi was furious and lost her appetite. In the eyes of the world, no matter what, as long as a woman and a man have a relationship, regardless of right or wrong, it is always the woman's fault.

Where is justice? Damn it, if she had been able to avoid it back then, would she be in this state now?

"I…"

Chunlan was so frightened by Cen Xi's angry expression that she trembled all over and couldn't say a word.

"Tonight I'll find a man to serve you in your room, so you can experience what it means to be willing! If you can still say 'willing' tomorrow, I'll admire you, and I'll give you some money and send that man to you so you two can live a good life together."

Cen Xi was so angry that she had no appetite, so she asked Qingyi to take the food away. Remembering what Shen Jinchen had told her not to have too much emotional fluctuation, she had no choice but to try to calm herself down. However, she couldn't quell the anger in her heart without dealing with the girl.

"No, no... Mistress, Miss, I will never dare to do it again. I know I was wrong."

Hearing her say that, Chunlan kowtowed repeatedly, begging for mercy. Her kowtows made a loud thud on the floor, and in no time, her forehead was covered in blood.

"You still know you're a servant? Then do you know your duty as a servant?"

Cen Xi squatted down, grabbed her chin, and asked coldly.

"This servant knows, this servant knows, I will obey your orders in everything and will not question any of your decisions."

Chunlan looked at Cenxi with hopeful eyes and gave a proper answer, her eyes filled with the desire to survive.

"Good, very good! From now on, you will no longer be called Chunlan, but Erxi, and you will be my personal maid. Do you dare? Do you want to see how I seduce Prime Minister Shen?"

Cen Xi stood up, clapped her hands, and smiled at Chunlan, waiting for her reply.

“I…yes! This servant will obey my master’s orders.”

Chunlan looked up at Cen Xi, then kowtowed to express her gratitude.

"Erxi, go and have someone boil some water. Your daughter wants to take a bath."

Seeing that she agreed to lean against the beauty's foot, he immediately ordered her to get up.

"yes!"

Erxi wiped the thin layer of sweat from his forehead and quickly left the room.

When Qingyi returned and saw her rushing out, she asked Cen Xi:

"Master, what is she doing? Why do you still want her to stay by your side?"

"Of course I'll go with her. What a fun girl! She's just a bit too proud, but after today, she'll know her place as a servant."

Cen Xi lay there lazily, her face relaxed and at ease, and she was in a very good mood. She had gained a lot from this illness. Her previous problems were easily solved, and she no longer needed to rack her brains to reconcile with Jun Jianchou. How wonderful! To some extent, she even had to thank that Yan Taizu.

"Okay! Then this servant will go out first."

Seeing that Cen Xi had finally dealt with Chunlan's matter, Qingyi breathed a sigh of relief.

"Alright, I've been sick these past few days, and you've had your fill of work. Go and rest. Erxi will take care of you here."

Cen Xi closed her eyes and waved her hand lazily.

"yes."

Qingyi adjusted the charcoal fire in the room and then silently left.

A short while later, Erxi brought over two buckets of water with two old women. After filling the bath tub behind the screen with water, she carefully woke Cenxi.

Cen Xi opened her eyes and hummed in agreement, then quickly had Er Xi undress and get into the bathtub.

As soon as she stepped into the bathtub, she remembered what she and Shen Jinchen had done in the hot springs those past few days. Thinking of his firm, smooth, tanned skin, her face flushed slightly. So she said to Erxi:

"You can go now, I can manage on my own."

"yes!"

Having just been taught a lesson by Cen Xi in a way he would never forget, Erxi was very obedient and left as soon as Cen Xi finished speaking.

After she left, Cen Xi was taking a bath in the tub, thinking about which part of her body that man hadn't sucked. It seemed like there wasn't a single spot, while she seemed to have left very few marks on the man's body. It was just that in the heat of the moment, she had scratched his back a few times.

Thinking about this, she inexplicably felt a bit cheated, and she suddenly had an urge to get it back.

The more she washed, the more distracted she became. In the end, Cen Xi had no choice but to rush out, get dressed, and lie down to calm herself down.

At this moment, she finally understood why Shen Jinchen had been so unrestrained in the small house those few days—it was because this stuff was addictive. For example, she was having impure thoughts right now. Before, when she didn't have feelings for him, even if they did it together, she wouldn't have those kinds of thoughts. But after Shen Jinchen was injured for her sake, she willingly accepted everything.

Now, even lying alone, she thinks about those kinds of things. Cen Xi feels somewhat shameless; perhaps she really was...

It's not entirely Shen Jinchen's fault.

As she was thinking, a gust of wind blew in through her back window, and then a man in white appeared in front of her bed.

Seeing that Cen Xi was about to cry out, Shen Jinchen quickly covered her mouth and said softly:

"I came secretly, they won't find out."

What are you doing here?

As soon as he released Cen Xi's mouth, she looked around, not forgetting that both of her rooms were occupied.

"I missed you! Ah Xi, don't worry, I entered the room in front of Jun Jianchou, turned off the lights and rested. They don't know I'm in your room now, so it won't damage your reputation."

Shen Jinchen gently climbed onto the bed, his left hand softly encircling Cen Xi's waist, his chin gently resting on Cen Xi's shoulder, his voice soft yet magnetic, while his restless right hand slipped directly into Cen Xi's inner garment, slowly moving downwards.

Cen Xi let out a soft gasp, and then was swept away by the frenzy. In the end, Cen Xi had only one thought in her mind: this person is crazy, and she is crazy too. He is injured, yet he is still so persistent, and she is still enjoying it.