Chapter 53 Happy Birthday to My Husband Ying Xinghuo

The next day, the morning light was dim. Winter was approaching, and the dawns were growing later and later. The brocade curtains over the couch were drawn, blocking out the spring light within. In the semi-darkness, a tall man stood beside the couch, buckling his jade belt.

The room was silent, with only a light click as the jade belt tightened, outlining the man's lean waist and abdomen.

When Cui Yiluo opened the brocade curtain, she happened to see this scene. Her eyes moved along the noble crimson-purple official robe. The man's handsome face still looked handsome and noble in the dim light.

Jiang Yunjin heard the noise and looked over. He frowned slightly and asked, "Did I wake you up?"

Cui Yiluo lay on the edge of the couch, her head resting on her arm, her long black hair flowing down. Because the charcoal brazier in the room was burning brightly, her snow-white cheeks were a touch red.

"My dear, please don't forget. I have to go out with my cousin Zhaoyue to the Lantern Festival today. Please go back to your room and take a shower first."

Her red lips curled up, and her watery eyes still had the morning mist, lazy and smart, looking at Jiang Yunjin standing in front of her without blinking.

Jiang Yunjin's eyes dimmed slightly, and he opened his thin lips slightly: "Okay."

Cui Yiluo listened to his indifferent tone. He never mentioned today being his birthday, let alone had the intention to mention it. He seemed unconcerned, as if it were just another ordinary day. She thought he truly didn't care whether he celebrated his birthday or not. After all, Jiang Zhaoyue had said he hadn't celebrated one since the fifteenth. But why? Jiang Zhaoyue was so secretive, and it seemed to be related to the unusual behavior Jiang Yunjin had mentioned long ago. Cui Yiluo was genuinely curious. He was so well-behaved, so what kind of extraordinary thing could he do?

After two breaths of silence, Jiang Yunjin said again, "Bring your guards with you, and don't miss the curfew."

When these words came out, Cui Yiluo sneered in her heart, but she remained calm and said, "Don't worry, husband."

If he said that, she would miss him even more. It would be best if he couldn't return home.

"I'm going to court. It's still early. You can sleep a little longer."

The work didn't end early last night. Cui Yiluo didn't understand how he managed to get up on time every day and focus on his work all day. It seemed like she was the only one who was tired, but it was clearly him who did the hard work.

"Husband, wait."

Cui Yiluo curled her lips and suddenly threw off the quilt and got off the bed. Jiang Yunjin hadn't left, standing there watching her approach. Without the quilt to hide her, her chest-length nightgown couldn't hide the few ambiguous red marks on her snow-white collarbone. The man's eyes darkened.

Jiang Yunjin was standing not far from the couch. Cui Yiluo easily approached him, hooked her arms around him skillfully, kissed his thin lips, lightly hooked her tongue, and quickly withdrew when the man was about to open his lips to hold hers.

"See you tonight, husband."

Her tone was meaningful, and Jiang Yunjin's eyes immediately became deep.

Cui Yiluo felt the pressure on her lower abdomen, and the corners of her lips couldn't help but rise higher. Her beautiful and charming eyes curved slightly, and then she stepped back.

The fragrance and warmth suddenly disappeared.

Jiang Yunjin's body stiffened slightly, he turned his eyes away uncomfortably, turned sideways, hummed briefly and lowly, then lifted the bamboo curtain and prepared to leave the room.

Cui Yiluo lay back on the couch, looking with interest at the figure behind the bamboo curtain who should have opened the door and left, but stood in front of the door for a long time, as if calming down.

After a while, there was a slight creaking sound, and after the door opened and closed, the bedroom fell into silence again.

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Cui Yiluo stayed in the mansion for a day. The mansion was no different from the usual, completely different from the liveliness on Jiang Mingxun's birthday. Except for the old people in the mansion, the other servants obviously didn't even know that today was Jiang Yunjin's birthday.

Even though Jiang Yunjin didn't want to celebrate her birthday, everyone in the mansion tacitly avoided mentioning it. Even when she paid her respects to the old lady today, the old lady didn't mention it at all, and she looked even more depressed and silent than usual.

This is too weird. If Jiang Zhaoyue hadn't told her, she would never have known Jiang Yunjin's birthday.

It seems that I will have to ask Jiang Zhaoyue again in the future.

When the sun set in the evening, Cui Yiluo ordered people to harness the carriage and leave the palace according to the time. When the carriage arrived at the Duanmen Gate outside the imperial city, it was time for officials to go off duty.

There is a lantern festival in Shengjing tonight, and the number of carriages waiting outside the Duanmen Gate has increased significantly. The bright afterglow shines on the magnificent Duanmen Gate, lengthening the shadows of the officials on the stone floor.

But after wave after wave of officials came out, the number of people gradually thinned out. Only three or four people occasionally walked out of the vast Duanmen Gate, and all the carriages around had left. Cui Yiluo had not yet seen Jiang Yunjin.

The sky gradually darkened, and when the last ray of afterglow shone on the magnificent gate, a familiar figure appeared in the imperial city.

The man stood straight and walked steadily. Even though he had been on official business all day, his official robe was still neat and tidy, not a strand messy. His face was as handsome as a jade, and he didn't look tired at all. Only his dark eyes were drooping, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Cui Yiluo stood in the dimness, not calling him, just staring at him, waiting to see when he would notice.

The next moment, Jiang Yunjin paused and quickly looked over.

In an instant, a hint of surprise appeared in his dark eyes. Seeing his slightly stunned expression, Cui Yiluo couldn't help but curl her lips and chuckle, looking at him with a bit of pride, as if she had enjoyed teasing him.

His slow pace suddenly became fast, and he reached the front of the car in just a few steps.

"Why are you here?"

He spoke in a low voice as if suppressing something.

Cui Yiluo didn't answer. Her tone was slightly raised, and it was unclear whether it was anger or coquettishness: "Husband, you are leaving your shift so late, are you deliberately making me wait so long?"

Jiang Yunjin pursed his lips, looking guilty: "Sorry, I didn't know you would come, later..."

After he said two words, he realized something, his eyes dimmed, and he didn't say anything else.

Cui Yiluo's eyes were full of interest. She smiled at him and deliberately said, "In the future? My husband, you don't want me to come and pick you up in the future, do you?"

"No."

Seeing him like this, Cui Yiluo's lips curled up even more, and she deliberately reached out to hold his hand. Although it was getting dark and most of the officials had left, there were still a few people around, not to mention the guards on duty at the Duanmen Gate.

He would definitely be annoyed if she held his hand so boldly in public. After all, the last time she just held his arm, he scolded her for not being intimate outside the house.

But the next moment, he held her hand back, and the moment his bony fingertips touched the back of her hand, Cui Yiluo was stunned.

She looked away from their intimately held hands and looked at him, but saw that he was deliberately avoiding her eyes, but his hand was still firmly held.

"Get in the car."

After the two of them got in and sat down, the carriage started moving steadily.

Jiang Yunjin's eyes fell on the familiar wooden box on the table.

"Husband, please change quickly."

Jiang Yunjin has always been intelligent, and now he obviously understood it. There was no more surprise on his face. On the contrary, the gloom on his face when he walked out of the imperial city gate just now suddenly and silently disappeared.

"Turn your back first."

Cui Yiluo looked at his face which became a little uncomfortable again, chuckled softly, and without turning around, she supported her chin with her hand and looked at him straight.

His tone was tinged with a hint of helplessness, and his eyes warned: "Cui Yiluo."

Cui Yiluo's eyes lightly swept across his waist and abdomen, then stopped and turned away.

There was a slight and restrained sound of clothes rubbing against each other in the carriage, and he changed his clothes extremely quickly.

"Don't you have an appointment with Third Sister?"

Cui Yiluo smiled playfully, "Isn't it a little too late for my husband to ask after he's finished changing his clothes?"

Jiang Yunjin pursed his lips and said nothing.

Cui Yiluo looked disappointed, and her tone was a little depressed: "My cousin can't go out because of something, so I have to ask my husband to accompany me. I hope my husband doesn't want to accompany me?"

Indeed, whether it was this time or last time, it was all helpless actions.

Jiang Yunjin lowered his eyes: "No."

After a while, the carriage came to a steady stop. The door opened, and the scene and noise outside suddenly broke into the carriage. Under the dark blue night, as thick as satin, the lake gurgled by, and the lakeside was filled with people lighting lanterns, talking and laughing.

A pleasure boat was parked on the shore with candles lit, and its reflections on the clear lake looked like dancing stars.

Cui Yiluo boarded the pleasure boat, but saw that the man behind her was staring at the crowd by the lake.

She looked in the direction she was looking and saw Jiang Zhaoyue squatting by the lake with a man lighting lanterns. The man was tall and very conspicuous in the crowd.

Cui Yiluo was shocked. She naturally knew who the man was, and Jiang Yunjin must have had official dealings with the Jingzhao Yin, so it was impossible that they didn't know each other.

Although the people of the dynasty were open-minded, many men and women were already hanging out by the lake today. It would be fine for other people, but Jiang Zhaoyue was the third daughter of the Jiang family, and she wasn't even engaged yet. A man as conservative as Jiang Yunjin would definitely not tolerate this. If he scolded her, and then brought the incident to his aunt...

Cui Yiluo was so shocked that she had forgotten what she had said in the carriage. She quickly took his hand and pretended to be calm, urging him, "Husband, what are you looking at? Won't you come up?"

Jiang Yunjin nodded softly, said nothing, turned around and boarded the pleasure boat.

Cui Yiluo secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Perhaps it was because it was dark by the lake and the man had his back to them, so they couldn't see his face clearly. His tall figure blocked most of Jiang Zhaoyue's view, so Jiang Yunjin didn't dare to make a hasty decision.

After entering the inner room of the pleasure boat, Cui Yiluo secretly observed the man's expression in the bright candlelight. She saw that he did not look angry. Instead, his expression was a little brighter. She didn't know if it was because of the brightness in the inner room.

But in short, Jiang Yunjin obviously did not find out about Jiang Zhaoyue.

The pleasure boat loosened its rope and began to drift slowly along the lake, heading straight to the center of the lake.

Cui Yiluo was sitting by the window. There was a lotus lantern on the table, and there were also lanterns hanging outside the window to suit the occasion. The lanterns swayed gently, and the light made the room inside brighter, and there was actually a bit of a warm atmosphere.

Cui Yiluo suddenly remembered the scene by the lake just now, and a ridiculous idea popped up in her mind. The Lantern Festival has always been an occasion for lovers to meet, with a somewhat ambiguous atmosphere. She and Jiang Yunjin really looked a bit like a couple on a trip together.

“Why don’t you go to the lake and release lanterns?”

Cui Yiluo smiled and said, "My husband doesn't like being in crowded places. What's more, it's just me and my husband on the pleasure boat. There are some things I want to talk to him alone."

Jiang Yunjin's eyes deepened when he looked at her.

Seeing that the pleasure boat had drifted to the center of the lake, its speed had slowed down a lot, but there were still many lanterns floating in the lake around it.

"What's up?"

He asked in a low voice.

Cui Yiluo looked at his dark eyes, which had become deeper. She wondered if she had guessed something, and asked deliberately with her lips curled, "Husband, what day is it today?"

A complicated look suddenly emerged in Jiang Yunjin's eyes. The flickering candlelight made the dark color in his eyes become darker and darker.

Cui Yiluo suddenly pulled out a small wooden box from the secret pocket in her sleeve.

Inside is a woven forsythia flower, blooming wildly and full of vitality.

The candlelight shone brightly on Cui Yiruo's beautiful face, and a smile flickered in her clear eyes. She looked at Jiang Yunjin, who slowly took the wooden box and stared at the forsythia flowers in the box.

"Happy birthday, my husband."

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