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It was widely known in the capital that Ji Yunchan, the eldest legitimate daughter of Minister Ji, was exquisitely beautiful and gentle, making her an ideal spouse. However, she was alread...
Chapter 27: The Deceitful Wedding Night Ji Yunchan Carried Away...
As soon as Ji Yunchan's back touched the bed, the person in front of her pressed down.
The kiss was like a violent storm, and the pair of rough hands pinched her wrist, making her unable to move. Ji Yunchan's heart beat very fast, and she was almost scared, so she closed her eyes with trembling eyelashes.
But the kiss stopped.
He even loosened his grip on her wrist, and she felt her whole body lighten as the person in front of her stood up.
Ji Yunchan opened her eyes in confusion and met Yan Heng's complicated gaze.
After just a moment of looking at each other, Yan Heng moved aside and lay down beside her.
Ji Yunchan didn't understand, so she sat up and called out to him helplessly, "General?"
Yan Heng's voice became hoarse when he heard the voice, and he said in a dull tone, "Go to sleep."
He lay flat on his back, looking at the pattern on the top of the bed curtain, his chest still rising and falling.
"But we haven't..."
Before Ji Yunchan finished speaking, she saw Yan Heng close his eyes.
The difficult words circled around the tip of the tongue twice before being swallowed back into the stomach.
She felt empty inside and just lay down.
......
Yan Heng turned over and opened his eyes.
The ground beneath him was tense and uncomfortable, and the culprit was lying behind him with a wronged look on his face.
The breathing sound remained unchanged, and you could tell he was not asleep.
How could he not want to?
But Ji Yunchan was afraid of him. This fear might be related to her virginity, but it was still like a basin of cold water, reminding him that Ji Yunchan didn't love him.
At that moment, Yan Heng just felt it was boring.
That kind of embrace should make both body and mind close together. If you want her to pretend to be obedient, it is better not to do it.
On her cheated wedding night, she actually cared about perfection.
Yan Heng thought back to her aggrieved expression, and after a few breaths, he still thought with a hard heart.
There's no point in feeling wronged about this matter.
......
Ji Yunchan huddled in the quilt, her hands clenched tightly, her nose tingling with grievance.
She tried her best to persuade herself that Yan Heng had been very good to her and was just angry for the time being. He would naturally consummate the marriage with her when he calmed down. How could she do such a thing while she was angry?
At the same time, she felt so aggrieved that her vision became blurry. Today was her wedding night, how could he do this?
Ji Yunchan is too greedy.
What wedding night? It’s yours, not his.
You are just a concubine. He will eventually marry a wife. Maybe he wants to keep her with his new wife?
Thinking of this, Ji Yunchan finally couldn't help but shed tears silently.
She tried her best to breathe steadily, but she couldn't help thinking aggrievedly that Yan Heng was still the same Yan Heng, but he might belong to some rich girl living in a wealthy family or owning a large house, but not to her.
Her tears soaked the pillow. She looked at the figure in front of her with tearful eyes. She reached out to get closer, but shrank back when she felt his body temperature.
......
Both of them had their own concerns and neither of them slept well.
Ji Yunchan's emotions fluctuated in the first half of the night, and she could only barely fall asleep in the second half.
When she woke up at the usual time every day, she found herself alone and Yan Heng was gone.
She propped herself up dejectedly and sat for a moment.
The two maids heard the noise and drew aside the curtain to look at her.
One of them was the one Ji Yunchan had met on a rainy night. She had a kind round face. Seeing her sitting there, she smiled and spoke to her, "Auntie, are you awake?"
The other one with an oval face and a prettier appearance was not so friendly. She looked at Ji Yunchan, said nothing, and walked aside to hang the curtain.
It took Ji Yunchan a while to realize that the word "aunt" was referring to her, and she said "hmm" softly.
"If you are tired, you may as well sleep a little longer. It is still early." Yuye bowed to Ji Yunchan, "Your servant Yuye." After saying that, she tugged at the hem of another maid's clothes inaudibly, and the latter followed suit and bowed, "Your servant Yunyan."
Yuye poked her anxiously, and she reluctantly changed her words: "Your servant Yuyan."
"No need." Ji Yunchan shook her head, and when she raised her eyes, she was taking in Yuye's actions.
She couldn't help but ask, "What's your name?"
Yuyan said bluntly in a bad tone: "My original name was Yunyan, but I changed it to Yuyan to avoid the taboo of my aunt's name."
Ji Yunchan looked at her expressionlessly.
She was not angry about this, and thought to herself that she might have made the little maid so unhappy that she didn't give her a cold look in person.
However, there are two situations: either he is loyal to his master and thinks her character is worrying; or he is in love with him and has a high opinion of himself, but she gets there first.
While thinking, his eyes were always on Yuyan.
The gaze was calm, not like that of someone who had been provoked. It just stared at Yuyan without moving, which made her feel scared and she couldn't help but shrink back.
Yuye was watching from the side, feeling angry and scared. She and Yuyan were both from Shuozhou and had not experienced the general's past. However, it was rumored in the mansion that the new concubine was an old acquaintance of the general. Based on this fact, she should serve him with caution.
Besides, the new concubine seemed quite kind.
She stepped forward and said with a smile, "Shall I help my aunt to get up?"
Ji Yunchan came back to her senses and nodded.
Yuye hurriedly brought over new clothes, and then signaled Yuyan not to stand there and to go do something.
Yuyan pouted. She disliked Ji Yunchan anyway and felt that she had just been unlucky, so she went to the kitchen to order food.
Ji Yunchan put on her clothes with Yu Ye's help.
She was dressed in red, like a newlywed, even wearing red agate earrings, and her hair was combed into a married style.
Looking at herself in the bronze mirror, Ji Yunchan felt a little uncomfortable.
Everything that happened these days seemed like a dream, making her feel unreal.
She touched her hair, and her hand moved down from the pearl hairpin to her cheek. She looked at herself in the mirror for a moment before finally accepting that she was a married woman.
She smiled at herself in the mirror and regrouped.
He stood up and walked to the table. When he sat down, he casually asked, "General, have you eaten yet?"
Yuyan stood by the table and couldn't help but sneer when she heard the voice: "The general is not as leisurely as my aunt. He got up early in the morning, ate something casually and went out."
"I'll wait for the meal for the aunt." Yuye spoke at the right time, with a hint of warning, "Yuyan, go clean up the inner room for the general and the aunt."
Yuyan was sent to the inner room and reluctantly made the bed.
The large quilt with the auspicious pattern of dragon and phoenix was very dazzling. She walked forward with jealousy and turned it over. When she opened the quilt, a corner of the snow-white Yuan handkerchief was exposed.
Yuyan paused and reached out to pull it out.
There was no trace of blood on the cotton handkerchief.
She turned the bedding over and there was no bloodstain anywhere.
Yunyan stood there and sneered.
......
After Ji Yunchan had breakfast, she asked everyone to leave.
She sat by the window and looked around the room.
The three friends of winter are still painted on the window paper, and the table is still the same table, still in the same place.
But compared to when Yan Heng lived alone, many more things were added, and wedding characters were posted everywhere. On the candle holder in front of the bed, only the wedding candle was burnt out. The bright red color made the whole house more festive and lively.
It's just that she has changed her identity in this room.
From a maid to half-master, from not belonging to her at all to belonging to her in a vague way, the boundaries are so blurred that it is probably a luxury.
So he was very cautious and restrained, not even daring to eat the wedding cake prepared for her.
......
There was still the chess game by the window, the game in which she defeated Yan Heng.
She was lost in thought as she stared at the chess piece, inadvertently finding a flaw and subconsciously reaching for Yan Heng's black piece. Before she could place it, she heard whispers from outside:
"I tell you, the general did not consummate his marriage with her." A voice with a hint of contempt came.
Ji Yunchan's hand trembled, and the chess piece rolled from his fingertips and landed somewhere else, further aggravating Heizi's trapped situation.
It sounds like that maid who was looking for trouble, Ji Yunchan thought.
"Speak less," another voice advised. "Why meddle so much in the masters' affairs?"
"What kind of master is she?" the maidservant said disdainfully. "She was brought in just to be displayed. Everyone knows the general still harbors resentment. When he gets tired of her, she'll be thrown aside to fend for herself. This main house wasn't meant for her to live in. Sooner or later, she'll have to move out."
She grew increasingly angry as she spoke: "I'm going to change my name for her. Tell me, is this fair?"
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These words may sound hurtful at first, but after hearing them many times, I feel calm instead. I don’t know if it’s because I’m numb or because I don’t care.
But it wasn't completely useless. At least it gave Ji Yunchan the answer to her morning guess. This girl had fallen in love with her master and considered herself an imaginary enemy.
What an unexpected disaster.
Ji Yunchan took another white piece and found a place to place it.
But this makes it even more difficult for Heizi to break through.
She paused as she raised her hand, undecided for a moment, and had to look at the overall situation again.
The gossiping voices outside the window lasted for a long time and finally stopped.
After a while, a few more scoldings were heard from a distance, and the voices sounded like Chang Sui's.
Ji Yunchan pondered for a while, and finally hesitantly placed a black piece.
Only then did she realize that Chang Sui had been with Yan Heng all day long. Now that he was back, did Yan Heng come back too?
As the white piece fell, she looked towards the door as if she had sensed something.