Chapter 108 Don't Shake Your Bones

The next morning.

Xie Yanyu went to find Xie Chengjin.

Yesterday, she was called upstairs by the disciples of the Zongwu Hall. She thought it was something extremely urgent, so she didn't have time to say much to Xie Chengjin.

But since he came here to discuss her engagement, she had no choice but to go find him again—

The process of engagement for aristocratic families is very complicated.

According to the protocol, after Li Xun sent his proposal to the Xie family, he had to wait for a reply before personally returning to the Xie family with gifts and gifts to retrieve Xie Yanyu's horoscope. Only after receiving the horoscope could the two establish a heart-to-heart agreement and then hold the engagement ceremony, effectively concluding the engagement.

But now that Xie Chengjin is here, these processes can be simplified by half.

Since he came here for the engagement, he should have her fortune disc with him. As long as Xie Chengjin agreed to the engagement, Li Xun would not need to go to Xie's house in person. He would just need to give the gift list to Xie Chengjin for review, then send someone to deliver the gifts to Xie's house, and then take her fortune disc from Xie Chengjin.

So now I'm just waiting for Xie Chengjin to nod.

But now,

Xie Yanyu knocked on his door and explained his purpose, but he didn't say a word.

He stood at the doorway, staring at her for a long time with his dark eyes. After a long pause, he spoke softly, "It's late in the morning, and it's not yet fully light."

Xie Yanyu was stunned. He didn't expect him to say such a thing. It had nothing to do with marriage.

She didn't understand his intention and pondered for a while: "Did I come at the wrong time and disturb my brother's rest?"

But it shouldn't be like that.

Xie Chengjin got angry very early. He usually got up at the hour of Mao to practice sword-fighting. This was known to everyone in the Xie family.

It was already the end of the morning hour, and he should have been up long ago. She looked at his face and couldn't tell his emotions, but she felt that he didn't look like he hadn't rested well.

So what does it mean to suddenly say this to her?

Xie Yanyu didn't like to guess what other people were thinking. He thought of several possibilities in his mind, but felt annoyed. He didn't show it on his face, but then his mind stopped thinking and he was too lazy to think about it anymore. He just stood there quietly without saying a word.

But it wasn't quiet for long.

After a while,

Then I heard Xie Chengjin say, "I remember you rarely get up this early."

Xie Yanyu rarely gets up so early.

but--

How did Xie Chengjin know what time she usually got up?

Xie Yanyu didn't think her daily routine was difficult to find out. She could just ask the monster next to her, or observe Xie Chengjin more carefully beforehand. She was mainly surprised. Why would someone like Xie Chengjin remember her daily routine?

She was confused, but nodded: "Yes, on weekdays from the morning hour."

After he finished speaking, Xie Chengjin hummed indifferently, his tone still lacking emotion: "You woke up so early just to talk to me about getting engaged?"

Not entirely.

Yesterday, Helan Wei and Li Xun had a fight. It was too late and the clan hall was about to lock its doors. In the end, he failed to help Helan Wei write the maze book. Xie Yanyu didn't want to miss the opportunity to learn the formation, so he made an appointment with Helan Wei to go to the clan hall again today to help him organize it.

It will take some time to sort it out, and I don’t know when it will be completed.

The clan hall opens at noon, so she got up at dawn today, preparing to settle the wedding matters before going there.

But even so, Xie Yanyu was not prepared to explain to Xie Chengjin what he was going to do.

When he asked this, she nodded and said vaguely, "Yeah."

This answer came out,

I don’t know what happened, but the air around me seemed to be suddenly frozen. There was a feeling of stagnation, making it difficult to breathe.

Xie Yanyu looked at him and asked directly this time without beating around the bush: "Brother, you don't seem happy? Is there something wrong with this marriage?"

There is no problem with the marriage.

So there was no reason for his displeasure.

So Xie Chengjin pursed her beautiful lips and responded, "I'm not unhappy."

Xie Yanyu continued, "So there's something wrong with this marriage?"

Xie Chengjin didn't answer this time.

The air was quiet for a while.

Xie Yanyu looked at him with a hint of inquiry in his eyes.

But she hid this inquiry very well and didn't show it much. After a while, she suddenly changed the question: "Why is my brother so reluctant to agree?"

Her tone was quite gentle, but her question had an aggressive tone, as if she had to find out the reason why Xie Chengjin refused.

But this is the reason Xie Chengjin least wants to think about.

He realized that he didn't want to see her get married to someone else, but he was reluctant to think about the reasons behind it. However, she insisted on digging deep into the matter. Xie Chengjin felt as if he was stabbed by a sharp blade and suddenly raised his hand -

Originally, the two of them were standing at the door of the room.

They were very close, so when Xie Chengjin lowered his eyes, he could see her face clearly from top to bottom.

From his angle, he could see the top of her thick, black hair. Her hair was very black, so black that it was opaque, and it shone with a satin-like luster. When he touched it, it felt like satin, cold and smooth, and then there was her delicate nose tip and light-colored lips.

At this time,

He raised his hand and pressed the tip of his thumb between her lips.

Xie Chengjin's movements were somewhat impatient. He blocked her from speaking again, and said in a cold tone, "It's not that I don't agree."

His action was too sudden.

Xie Yanyu didn't expect that he would attack her directly. She was stunned and couldn't move for a while because he pressed his lips with his fingertips.

Hearing him say that, she half-heartedly uttered a syllable from her throat: "Hmm?"

Xie Chengjin still had no expression on his face: "You should know that before the marriage is finalized, there is another step called Naji."

Xie Yanyu's lips are thin but soft.

It's very similar to the touch I felt in my dream.

If you kiss it, you will want to suck and bite it.

Xie Chengjin placed his fingertips between her lips and could feel the touch of her lips. The pressure was as if he was groping for something. In just a moment, he had rubbed her pale lips until they were slightly red and swollen, as if he was simulating the feeling of being kissed.

He looked down at her, but his face remained expressionless.

And very quickly, he moved his fingers away and touched upwards neither lightly nor heavily.

He touched her nose bridge and brow bone, pressing and groping, "Naji is to look at the fate. If the fate is compatible, the marriage can go ahead. If the fate is not compatible, the marriage cannot go ahead. Even if I agree, I still have to ask the heavens for good or bad luck, to see if the gods and Buddhas will approve of this marriage."

Having said that,

His hand just touched her eyes.

Xie Yanyu had to close her eyes because of this. It was so strange. His strength was neither light nor heavy. His fingertips lingered on her skin, giving her the illusion of lingering affection. However, his posture was very cold, and the temperature of his fingers was still icy.

Because I closed my eyes,

She couldn't see his eyes, which were staring at her with a frightening darkness.

She could only hear his slightly hoarse voice: "The marriage proposal sent by Li Xun included his birth date and horoscope. What about yours? You were displaced when you were young, your parents are unknown, and your horoscope is unknown, so how can you be accepted?"

Xie Yanyu paused.

She actually doesn't care much about these things. In the original plot, he was engaged to Li Xun, and there was no Naji, right?

Moreover, the marriage would never happen in the end. After the engagement, she was ready to find a reason to cancel the engagement. Naji could have completely skipped this step.

She was about to speak and subconsciously opened her eyes, then she heard Xie Chengjin say, "Don't move."

Xie Yanyu: "..."

Xie Yanyu didn't move.

She felt his fingertips touch her eye sockets, and she heard him say: "The brow bone is hidden, and the person is cautious by nature. He was probably born in the You hour."

When Xie Yanyu heard this, he suddenly understood what he was doing.

He was touching her bones——

People with unclear horoscopes are not necessarily unlucky.

Because there are also numerology methods in this world, children from noble families should all know some of them. Even if they don't know the date of birth, or even the place of birth, they can still figure it out through numerology. However, to figure it out, they need to feel the bones and feel the shape of the skeleton throughout the body.

Xie Chengjin comes from a prominent family and is the most outstanding member of his generation.

Of course he had studied numerology.

She was quiet for a moment, then said nothing more.

It's OK to work out the eight characters backwards and go through the steps of Naji. Anyway, it's all about progress, so it doesn't matter.

But she always felt that the temperature of his fingertips was a little higher than before.

It was clear that she had asked him to help her find the monster's heart-protecting scales before in Tiandu, and he had touched it. But for some reason, he touched it all over at that time, but this time it seemed as if he stayed on every inch of her skin for a while longer, and there was an unspeakable secret ambiguity.

At this moment, his fingers moved away from her eye sockets and fell on her earlobes.

His fingers pinched the cartilage at the tip of her ear, pressed it, and then gently stroked it, as light as a feather, as if being brushed by someone's warm breath.

This part of Xie Yanyu is the most vulnerable to being touched.

In bed, Helan Wei liked to kiss her here and bite it gently.

At this moment, her entire back tensed up, and a strange feeling crept down her spine from behind her ears. Her legs also went weak, and she almost lost her balance and fell.

Fortunately, Xie Chengjin acted quickly.

He put his arms around her waist, his strong arms wrapped around her waist through the fabric, as if his throbbing blood vessels were pulsating against her waist.

Xie Yanyu's hair stood on end in an instant, and her whole body was tense. She pinched her fingertips, and her breathing was rarely a little disordered.

But when he looked up, Xie Chengjin's expression was still cold and calm.

It seemed as if she was the only one affected by this action. Xie Chengjin was clearly a cold and indifferent person. He was just doing his job to touch her bones, but she felt embarrassed and whispered, "Do I have to touch my ears when touching my bones?"

Xie Chengjin looked at her coldly.

Her ears were red, the corners of her eyes were a little red, and her neck was even a little wet.

Holding her in his arms, he could feel her body trembling slightly, like a fully drawn bow, just like in every dream that troubled him.

He paused and replied indifferently, "Yeah."

Xie Yanyu's body tensed even more.

Xie Chengjin carefully touched her ear again, from the earlobe to the auricle, and then to the skin behind the ear.

Finally, a restrained breath escaped from her throat.

He acted as if he didn't hear it.

Finally, he felt that she had no strength left. Her snow-white neck was a little wet with sweat, and her entire weight was on his arms. He picked her up and brought her into the room.

Put the person on the bed and sink into the quilt filled with his scent.

He coldly took off her shoes and socks, lifted her skirt, and started touching her bare feet, moving upwards little by little, concisely concluding his speech:

"The bones of the feet are too thin, from all the hard work."

"Slim and well-proportioned calf bones, round knee bones, prone to disasters. Born at 3:30 pm on the twilight hour."

"The hip bones are round, and the pubic bone..."

Foot bones, leg bones,

Hip bones, pubic bones, ischium, every single one.

Xie Chengjin's voice was serious, cold, and businesslike as he carefully calculated her birthday, but Xie Yanyu could no longer hear what he was saying. She fell into a trance, her body trembling constantly. She could only feel the touch of those scarred hands brushing against her skin, moist, itchy, mixed with her own sweat, and then upwards -

She heard the man say lightly:

"Don't shake, relax."