Chapter 36 Intimacy. Not enough, still not enough. ...

Lu Songyuan raised an eyebrow and turned to look at Jing Hui, "You really did all that?"

Jing Hui was listening to him when he heard this, so he tilted his head back and blinked in confusion.

After making eye contact with Lu Songyuan, Jing Hui reached out and slapped Lu Songyuan's large hand that was holding her waist.

Lu Songyuan's wrists were covered in marks from the straps, but Jing Hui only glanced at them before turning away.

"You're bluffing me."

She twisted her body forcefully and sat sideways on Lu Songyuan's lap. Even sitting like this, Jing Hui's legs couldn't touch the ground.

She glanced down, then, to keep from falling, grabbed Lu Songyuan's arm, glared at him with her captivating eyes, and said, "You don't remember anything at all!"

Lu Songyuan gave an ambiguous chuckle.

Sure enough, the next moment, Jing Hui immediately started to label him.

"It was clearly you! After tasting my aged wine, you were so greedy that you insisted on having a few more cups. After drinking, you went on a drunken rampage, yelling at me and at A-Yu. A-Yu was terrified by you!"

Lu Songyuan watched her make a scene, "Why would I yell at her?"

"Who knows? You can ask her if you don't believe me."

Jing Hui pointed, and A Yu, who was standing outside the door, wanted to come in and reply, but was coldly interrupted by Lu Songyuan.

"go out."

"You were just as mean to her that night too!"

Jing Hui seized the opportunity to slip away, saying, "Since you don't want to see A Yu, you probably don't want to see me either. I'll go first, let go!"

As she spoke, she began to struggle, grabbing Lu Songyuan's wrist and trying to pull his hand away.

She simply didn't want to be with him.

Lu Songyuan's anger, which had just subsided, suddenly flared up again. He pulled Jing Hui into his arms even tighter and said to A Yu, who was standing at the door, "Get out and close the door."

Memories of that night flooded back, and Jing Hui struggled even more fiercely.

"I don't want to, Lu Songyuan, let me go!"

"Tsk."

Lu Songyuan placed his arm across Jing Hui's abdomen, and used his other hand to hold her chin with his thumb and forefinger. Jing Hui was forced to tilt her head back, her delicate, lotus-root-like neck arched upwards, and lean against Lu Songyuan's shoulder.

Lu Songyuan whispered in Jing Hui's ear, in a voice only the two of them could hear, "If you obediently let her out, I won't do anything. Or do you want her to watch me kiss you?"

Jing Hui froze instantly. She looked at Lu Songyuan for a while and saw that he wasn't joking.

She reluctantly said, "You promise you won't do anything."

"I promise."

Lu Songyuan looked completely at ease, and Jing Hui thought that Jing Ning's decision not to get married was indeed thanks to Lu Songyuan.

After a long battle between the celestial beings, she closed her eyes and waved to Ah Yu at the door.

Ayu glanced at Jing Hui with concern, bowed, and left the bedchamber.

Only the two of them remained in the bedchamber. Jing Hui watched as the door closed, then straightened up, patted Lu Songyuan's hand, and said, "Let me down. I don't want to sit on your lap anymore; it's uncomfortable."

Lu Songyuan remained silent, only looking down at Jing Hui.

Jing Hui didn't hear Lu Songyuan's voice for a long time. When she looked up, she saw that Lu Songyuan's eyes were very deep and the emotions in his eyes were so intense that Jing Hui could hardly breathe.

She knew something was wrong and quickly reached out to put her hand on Lu Songyuan's neck, pushing him away to prevent him from getting closer.

"You said you didn't say anything..."

Before she could finish speaking, her lips were bitten.

It's true, I got bitten.

As if venting his anger on her lips, Lu Songyuan pressed his lips against hers and sucked once before opening his mouth and biting and rubbing his lips together for a while. Before she could react, his tongue forcefully squeezed into Jing Hui's mouth, hooking and entwining with her tongue.

Jing Hui tilted his head back and was forced to swallow, but his body went limp after a short while.

After kissing for a long time, Lu Songyuan slowly softened his movements. He held Jing Hui's lips in his mouth, his eyes slightly open, looking at Jing Hui's dazed appearance.

Only at this moment does she truly belong to herself.

But it's not enough, not enough.

She cares about too many things.

In her mind, he probably wouldn't even make the cut.

Lu Songyuan pulled Jing Hui's arm around his neck, then pulled it back slightly, bringing their noses close together, and asked, "Azhu, who am I?"

Jing Hui finally caught her breath and was so focused on inhaling that she couldn't answer Lu Songyuan.

Lu Songyuan narrowed his eyes, gently bit Jing Hui's lower lip, and then pressed his lips to Jing Hui's, "Speak."

Annoyed by his questions, Jing Hui reached out and patted Lu Songyuan's neck, saying softly, "Lu Songyuan."

I didn't make a mistake.

Lu Songyuan stared at Jing Hui.

Lu Songyuan nibbled at Jing Hui's lips for a long time. After he stopped, Jing Hui's lips and tongue felt itchy, and a burning heat came from where they were pressed together. She hummed a few times in dissatisfaction.

Lu Songyuan placed his large hand on Jing Hui's back, hugged her tighter, kissed her forehead, and asked, "What did you say?"

"More..."

Lu Songyuan froze for a moment, then raised an eyebrow, looked down, and asked, "What do you want? Ah Zhu, make it clear."

Jing Hui seemed to be addicted to this.

Knowing that Lu Songyuan was doing it on purpose, she glared at him and did as he said, pulling down the arms around his neck forcefully.

She opened her eyes, her gaze fixed on him, her eyes glistening with tears.

"I want to kiss you too..."

Lu Songyuan chuckled softly, his Adam's apple bobbing with each laugh.

"good."

Jing Hui obediently closed his eyes, and his lips remained silent for a long time.

She opened her eyes in confusion, only to see that Lu Songyuan had sat up straight at some point, and the distance between their lips was about an arm's length.

Jing Hui blinked, "You..."

Lu Songyuan's eyes were full of smiles, and he curled his lips as if he was certain that Jing Hui would come closer.

He opened his mouth and said, "If Ah Zhu wants it, then come closer to her."

Jing Hui was furious. She looked at Lu Songyuan for a while, and between jumping down and walking or taking the initiative to kiss him, Jing Hui chose to remain still and pressed down hard on the back of Lu Songyuan's neck.

Lu Songyuan remained motionless, watching Jing Hui's antics with a smile.

Jing Hui struggled for a long time until her hands ached. She angrily let go of Lu Songyuan's hand and turned to leave, but he pressed her back, pinched her chin, and kissed her again.

If the kiss just now was a downpour, this kiss was a real storm, and Jing Hui almost drowned in it.

The sun was high in the sky when Jing Hui slumped in Lu Songyuan's arms, patted his back to help him catch his breath, and fed him a large glass of water.

"I'm going to kill you."

Jing Hui closed her eyes, leaned on Lu Songyuan's shoulder, and pinched his arm, saying, "You're so annoying!"

"Who was it that kept trying to kiss me just now?"

Lu Songyuan put down his teacup and reached out to pinch Jing Hui's nose.

"Get out of the way!"

After a while, Jing Hui regained most of her strength. She shook off Lu Songyuan's hand and was about to walk out.

Where are you going?

Lu Songyuan refused to let go, and his hand deliberately slid down to Jing Hui's lower back and squeezed it.

Jing Hui immediately stopped what she was doing, reached out to squeeze his hand, pulled him close and hugged him, warning, "You're not allowed to lay a hand on me again!"

"I am your husband, why can't I move?"

This statement was so frank and open that Jing Hui was unable to refute it for a moment.

Lu Songyuan pressed on, "Isn't that right? Only husband and wife can be so intimate and inseparable, without any distinction between 'you' and 'me'?"

Speaking of the indistinguishable nature of us, Jing Hui suddenly thought of the jade pendant on Lu Songyuan's body.

She hadn't noticed it at first, but now that she'd come to her senses, she realized the pendant was right under her buttocks.

Since we're husband and wife, and we don't distinguish between "yours" and "mine," what's wrong with her using it?

Jing Hui's guilt immediately dissipated by more than half. She gritted her teeth and said with a smile, "Yes, you're right, hmph!"

"What are you humming about?"

Her cheeks were soft, and Lu Songyuan reached out and rubbed them with the back of his hand.

Jing Hui irritably dodged away, grabbed Lu Songyuan's wrists with both hands, and said, "I told you not to lay a hand on me!"

With my wrist right in front of me, the wound above, which had been healing for so long, now showed increasingly prominent purplish-blue marks from the restraints, looking quite horrifying.

Jing Hui unconsciously softened her movements. She glanced at Lu Songyuan and saw him staring at her intently. Jing Hui said, "You insisted on playing with ropes after getting drunk. Look, you're injured. I'll go out and get someone to bring you some medicine."

"Need not."

Lu Songyuan stopped Jing Hui, helped her sit steadily on his lap, and called out, "Come in."

Jing Hui turned her head and saw Lu Qingyue carrying a plate of medicine and a silk handkerchief, walking over to the bedside and putting it down.

"Your Highness, General, the medicine has been brought."

"Then let Lu Qingyue apply the medicine for you."

Jing Hui said, "I'm hungry. I'll go see what the kitchen has prepared for lunch."

"Qingyue, go and apply the medicine for me."

Lu Songyuan raised his chin. "Eat after you've applied the medicine."

Whom are you directing?

Jing Hui tossed his hand aside, "I won't, and I don't care."

"Do you just throw it away after you're done using it?"

Lu Songyuan raised an eyebrow. "Ah Zhu is so heartless."

This statement encompasses a wide range of meanings.

Jing Hui reluctantly said, "Fine, then I'll apply the medicine for you."

"So readily agreed, Ah Zhu, have you been doing something shady behind my back?"

Jing Hui, who was feeling guilty, blinked a few times upon hearing this and said loudly, "Why are you making such a fuss? If you don't need it, I'm leaving."

"Yes, you do it."

Lu Songyuan gestured to Lu Qingyue to place the tray where Jing Hui could easily reach it, and then went out to call A Yu to help with the meal.

Jing Hui had never done applying medicine before. She watched for a long time, not knowing how to start. In the end, Lu Songyuan directed her to do it.

"Apply the medicated oil to your palm, warm it up, and then rub it onto the wound."

"This one?"

Jing Hui picked up the bottle of dark, greasy medicine and shook it.

Lu Songyuan said, "Mm."

The moment Jing Hui opened it, she almost choked on the medicinal oil and cried. She coughed a few times and said, "Why is it so pungent?"

Lu Songyuan patted her on the back and said, "It's homemade in the Northern Border, and it's very useful."

"It stinks."

As Jing Hui spoke, she pulled up her sleeves and applied the medicated oil to her hands with a look of disgust. After rubbing it to warm it up, she reached out to Lu Songyuan and said, "Put it here."

Lu Songyuan handed over his hand.

Jing Hui gripped his wrists with both hands, her face contorted in a ferocious expression, rubbing them violently as if she wanted to crush Lu Songyuan's wrists.

Lu Songyuan chuckled, propping his forehead up as he looked at her.

When Jing Hui applied the medicine, she had no skill whatsoever. She rubbed Lu Songyuan's wound with both hands, occasionally moving them up and down, until almost half of Lu Songyuan's arm was covered in the medicated oil.

The slippery medicated oil cut through and penetrated into the skin. Lu Songyuan's wrist was rubbed red in no time. Logically, this should have been very painful, but Lu Songyuan felt a strange itch.

If it weren't for my arm...

The more he thought about it, the more the itching sensation spread from his heart to his limbs, up to his Adam's apple, and down to his penis.

With his kidney energy abundant, Lu Songyuan stopped staring at Jing Hui and turned to look to the side, forcefully suppressing the desire in his heart.

Jing Hui was still sitting in his lap. She had just stopped rejecting his kiss, and he couldn't let that scare her away.

After lost in thought for who knows how long, Jing Hui waved his hand in front of his eyes. Lu Songyuan turned his head and saw Jing Hui frowning, saying, "What are you thinking about? Give me your other hand."

Lu Songyuan handed it over as instructed, and Jing Hui began to rub it again. Lu Songyuan turned to look at her bandaged hand.

The excess medicated oil was wiped off the wound, and the silk scarf tied around his wrist was neatly bound. She even thoughtfully tied a bow on it with a red string.

Lu Songyuan couldn't help but chuckle, finding her incredibly adorable. He then leaned closer to Jing Hui and kissed her forehead.

Jing Hui had been observing Lu Songyuan's reaction. She thought she could anger Lu Songyuan, but to her surprise, he not only wasn't angry, but he even smiled!

It's a ghost!

"Get out of my way, don't bother me."

"Um."

Jing Hui rubbed the medicinal oil until her arms ached. Seeing that it was almost done, she picked up a green rope and tied it to Lu Songyuan's other wrist.

One red and one green, it looks really festive.

Jing Hui couldn't help but chuckle.

Lu Songyuan let her act up, reached for a damp cloth to wipe her hands, then picked up Jing Hui and put her on the ground, saying, "Go and have your meal first."

Finally free, Jing Hui jumped on the ground and, without any mercy, turned and walked away.

She stopped after taking a couple of steps, turned to look at Lu Songyuan, and asked, "And you?"

"Change your clothes."

Lu Songyuan didn't even look up, but instead bent down to straighten the clothes that she had made mess of sitting on his lap.

Jing Hui snorted at Lu Songyuan. She hadn't even complained about how hard his legs were, and he was already tidying them up!

Jing Hui had only eaten half of her meal when Lu Songyuan came over after changing his clothes. The two ate lunch together. After changing his clothes, Jing Hui didn't even say a word to Lu Songyuan before rushing out again.

Lu Songyuan was pushed by Lu Qingyue to the corridor, where he could only catch a glimpse of her receding clothes.

Lu Songyuan frowned, and Lu Qingyue immediately said to someone in the corridor, "Go see what the princess is doing."

"yes."

After that person left, Lu Qingyue pushed Lu Songyuan toward the study in the backyard.

After walking a few steps, the man returned and reported, "Reporting to the general, Her Highness the princess has gone to the Prime Minister's residence."

Lu Qingyue looked down, expecting her general to be angry again, but Lu Songyuan simply said, "Let her go, you go with her."

"yes."

Lu Qingyue watched the man's departing figure, then turned around, grabbed the wheelchair handle, and pushed Lu Songyuan forward.

Her curiosity was piqued again, and she asked cheekily, "General, don't you dislike the princess meeting with the Lieutenant General? Why are you being so generous today?"

Lu Songyuan was in a good mood, and upon hearing this, he glanced at Lu Qingyue and said, "Too talkative."

have to.

Lu Qingyue pursed his lips, "Yes, subordinate knows his mistake—"

"You should indeed admit your mistake."

Lu Songyuan's voice regained its usual coldness as he said, "Go and see Zhou Xue."

Lu Qingyue stopped smiling and lowered her head to reply, "Yes."

The wheelchair turned a corner, and a quarter of an hour later, they arrived at Lu Zhouxue's residence.

The servants pushed open the door, and Lu Qingyue pushed Lu Songyuan inside.

The door closed, and the room became much darker. Lu Songyuan frowned, but before he could say anything, he heard a crash from behind the bed curtains—the sound of a porcelain bowl shattering.

"Sister!"