Chapter 82 A casual glance at the sleeping man in the corner...

Not only did they suck on it, but they also used their teeth to bite it... grinding her skin until it went numb and her whole body trembled.

"Let me go."

He looked up at her for a long time, then leaned forward, took her earlobe in his mouth, and slowly kissed it, from her earlobe all the way to the base of her ear.

Her ear cartilage itched, and she felt something wet pressing against her, licking her most sensitive ear cartilage, over and over again, until she went limp and leaned weakly against the window.

"Let go!" Seeing her dress being lifted, she reached out to pry the man's hand off her legs, but couldn't. So she grabbed the back of his hand, but instead, her hand was held in place, her palm pressed against his, their fingers interlocked.

What's gotten into you this time?

The man lowered his head, resting his head on her shoulder, and remained silent.

"Say something."

After a long pause, he said, "I'll give you oral sex."

She laughed angrily, "...No need, no need."

"How could I let an adult do something so ridiculous and embarrassing?"

"……Um."

He actually stopped what he was doing, silently hugged her from behind, rested his head on one of her shoulders, and his body was not relaxed, but extremely stiff.

Her body stiffened as well, and her back ached from being pressed against the skin.

She opened her lips as if to speak, but then didn't know what to say, so she closed her lips and waited for the man to speak.

Yin Yuan did not utter a word until the coachman finished resting and they set off again.

The carriage was eerily quiet.

She was the first to break down: "My lord, you should go back. Sister Yi should be back soon."

Yin Yuan: "She won't."

"I have already sent her to ride with Jiang."

She seized the opportunity to say, "Well, shouldn't you go back and keep Jiang company, sir? After all, she's your newly acquired concubine, and she was sent by your colleague. You can't neglect her."

"...Are you angry?"

Leng Cuizhu chuckled and said, "My lord is quite confident."

Yin Yuan was not only unusually confident, but also extremely hypocritical.

No one would hold a knife to his throat to force him to take a concubine. Whether or not he takes a concubine, or keeps a mistress, is entirely up to his own will. Therefore, he is just pretending to be deeply in love.

Now he has taken Jiang Mimi as a concubine, which is exactly the same as when he took her as a mistress back then. The only difference is that she is the one who was kept in the dark and deceived in her feelings.

"Um."

"Lingniang, I'm sorry."

She glanced at her and asked, "Why are you sorry?"

The man remained silent, pursed his lips, kissed her neck, hesitated for a moment, and then bit her.

He didn't use much force; his teeth rubbed against her skin, leaving small red marks that made her itch.

Not only is my skin itchy, but my heart is itchy too.

She was aroused and felt hot, her breath coming out in hot air, and her shoulders trembled uncontrollably.

She choked back and said, "I told you, I wanted you to let me go."

The man released his lips, stared at the teeth marks on her neck for a moment, then removed her outer garment, stroked her smooth and delicate bare shoulders, murmured softly, and suddenly bit down.

She gasped in pain, her shoulders gripped so tightly she couldn't tremble, all her resentment and confusion turning into a few soft moans, like weeping and lamenting.

Smelling the faint scent of blood, she felt a momentary sense of pleasure.

How strange... This feeling is both unfamiliar and familiar.

She suddenly realized.

She looked down and raised her wrist, the throbbing veins making her feel as if she were facing a formidable enemy. She had never expected, and had almost completely forgotten, that the Gu poison within her body would take effect at this very moment.

"Let go!" She hurriedly tried to push the man away, but couldn't. So she grabbed at his graying hair that fell across her chest. "Let go..."

The man sighed, leaned closer, and with a flick of his tongue, licked the bite mark on her shoulder. As he licked, he looked up at her expression. His pale lips were stained with blood, and his eyes sparkled with a captivating allure.

After licking the bite mark on her shoulder, he didn't stop, kissing her neck slowly from her shoulder.

Before the kiss even reached her neck, she couldn't take it anymore and collapsed onto the couch, the man behind her falling down with him.

"Don't kiss here." She raised her hand to cover his lips, slowly closing her misty eyes.

"Kiss here."

She originally thought that this would alleviate the poison, but unexpectedly it was like dry wood meeting a raging fire, only getting worse.

She had no choice but to take a break to draw the curtains, blocking out all light, and wholeheartedly immerse herself in the passionate affair.

They arrived in Xilin County in the evening. The carriage stopped by the roadside, and Leng Zhen came over and told her to get off and go to a restaurant for dinner.

"Weren't you sitting with Yin Yuan?" Seeing Leng Cuizhu get off the carriage alone, Leng Zhen was stunned for a moment, then turned her head to peek at the scene inside the carriage.

“He’s fallen asleep,” she said, pulling Leng Zhen back. “Let’s go, don’t worry about him. You’ll be unhappy if he actually comes down and eats with us.”

“I don’t care,” Leng Zhen rolled her eyes. “If he doesn’t come, that vain Jiang Mimi will ask.”

"Don't blame me for being rude to her. Why should I be so respectful to her? And you too, why should you be so accommodating to her? She's just a vixen who destroys other people's families."

"Well, if that's the case... then I'm a fox spirit too, and you're just a fox cub. You're not even as presentable as Miss Jiang."

"If you don't like her, then have less contact with her and stop trying to impress others. If you behave yourself, you'll get beaten and scolded less."

"Look, the scar on your eyelid hasn't healed yet. Don't be so foul-mouthed these next few days, or you'll offend Miss Jiang and she'll give you another slap. Then it'll be perfectly natural for an aunt to discipline her own child."

“…” Leng Zhen bit her lip and remained silent.

Before the new mansion was fully renovated and their luggage was unpacked and settled, Yi Yinwan invited them to dine at a nearby restaurant.

"Just tell the shopkeeper what you want to eat, and I'll pay for it."

Upon hearing Yi Yinwan say this, Leng Zhen immediately snatched the menu from the shopkeeper and pointed to most of the dishes on the paper: "I want all of these."

Shopkeeper: "...Sir, sixteen soup dishes, isn't that a bit too many? And as for the meat dishes, our kitchen might not have enough meat to make them."

"Why are you talking so much nonsense? You're not happy even though I'm giving you money?"

"Haha, I'd love to."

Yi Yinwan rolled her eyes, then turned her head to continue chatting with Jiang Mimi.

"Cold Lady".

Leng Cuizhu looked up: "Ah, what's wrong, Madam?"

Yi Yinwan looked at her and laughed for no reason. She turned her head and exchanged a glance with Jiang Mimi, then smiled and said, "Could you please go downstairs and pay for the meal?" She took off the purse from her waist and handed it to Leng Cuizhu.

"Keep a close eye on things, so the shopkeeper doesn't underestimate or miss anything."

"Oh, okay." Leng Cuizhu took the purse and stood up.

Leng Zhen stared at her, watching her obediently walk towards the door. She hesitated, then lowered her head to drink her tea, without saying a word.

When Leng Cuizhu returned after paying, all the dishes had been served.

She sat back down, took a sip of tea, and out of the corner of her eye noticed that Leng Zhen beside her was deathly pale. Faced with a table full of delicacies, she only picked up a few green vegetable leaves to eat.

Meanwhile, Madam Yin and Madam Jiang on the opposite side were chatting happily with smiles on their lips.

During dinner, Leng Zhen pulled her aside to speak with her alone.

"That Jiang Mimi seems to be a man."

"Huh?" She was shocked. "Zhenzhen, no matter how much you dislike her, you can't spread rumors about her like this, can you?"

Leng Zhen quickly said, "I'm not spreading rumors! I touched it."

"...You touched it?"

Where should I touch? Above or below?

Oh my god.

She cleared her throat: "Seeing is believing, don't think about these things."

"Mother, why won't you believe me?" Leng Zhen cried out in desperation, "She's a demon!"

"What good will it do me to believe you? To stand up for you?" she muttered softly. "Compared to my fancy but ineffective skills, your ruthless methods are more intimidating."

"Since you hate her so much, why don't you just kill her and eliminate any future troubles? Isn't that what you're best at?"

How could you say that?

“If I don’t say it this way, how can I say it…” She frowned. “It’s the truth. If you don’t like it, you can cover your ears and run away. Nobody will care about you, nobody wants to care about you. I won’t be surprised if you do something outrageous. Don’t even mention killing demons, I wouldn’t be surprised if you killed an emperor.”

She turned and walked towards the lobby.

She encountered Yi Yinwan and Jiang Mimi on the road and stopped to greet them, but the two kept whispering to each other and occasionally looked up and smiled at her. She couldn't get a word in edgewise and stood there blankly for a while. Just as she was about to leave, she was called back.

"Lady Leng," Yi Yinwan said with a smile, "does it hurt when autumn mosquitoes bite?"

"Ah," she thought, puzzled, but still tried to think, "It shouldn't hurt much, right? It's more like itching."

"Mosquitoes shouldn't be common this season..."

She returned to the carriage, where Yin Yuan was still resting by the window, his brow furrowed.

He was not dressed, only wearing a cloak draped over his shoulders, his dark hair loose.

She carefully pulled the hairpin the man was holding, put it back in her hair bun, tidied the stray hairs around her neck, and touched the redness and swelling on her neck with her fingertips.

it hurts.

The pain made her realize her mistake, and she covered her face in embarrassment.

That's so embarrassing.

Her lack of self-control and succumbing to Yin Yuan's influence was already frustrating enough, but to let others see the suggestive marks on her neck was even worse. So, Madam Yin and Miss Jiang were laughing at her the whole time? Oh no, what will they think of her? Miss Jiang likes Yin Yuan so much, will she be disappointed because of this…? She should have held back!

We must find a way to get rid of that wicked curse today, lest it cloud our minds again and cause us to do wrong things.

She didn't want Yin Yuan to use this weakness to control her. Their relationship couldn't be eased by sleeping together a few more times; love and lust shouldn't be confused.

Yin Yuan was really strange. Did he think that coaxing her to sleep would solve everything? She didn't know whether to call him naive or simply too lazy to waste any more emotion on her.

Her face contorted in a grimace. She got off the carriage, took a dagger from the coachman, returned to the carriage, and huddled in a corner, brandishing the dagger at her wrist.

She gestured for a long time, hesitating and not daring to go down. She reached out and pinched the blue veins on her wrist, trying to force the Gu worms out of her blood vessels, but it was in vain.

"……never mind."

She gritted her teeth and slashed straight down, leaving a shallow cut on her wrist from which blood slowly began to flow. She wiped it away with a handkerchief.

Seeing that the Gu worms inside her body were not reacting, she took a deep breath, slid the dagger down, and aimed it at a spot slightly away from her wrist.

Another stab.

"hiss……"

The Gu worms remained unresponsive; only her hands and her entire body trembled with pain, as if her heart had been ripped out.

This time, she learned her lesson and stopped rushing to cut her hand, instead lowering her head to think seriously.

Fingertips traced the bite marks on his shoulder.

Does the poison only activate when someone bites you?

Just then, the rooster sneaked in from outside the curtain and shouted as soon as it saw her, "Host!"

"What are you doing here?" She glanced at the sleeping man beside her.

The rooster noticed too: "Oh dear, I think I've come at the wrong time... Did you arrive before or after the event? I'm a little confused."

Leng Cuizhu ignored its words: "Perfect timing, bite me now."

She reached out her hand to it.

The rooster, seeing the knife mark on her wrist, was horrified: "Cluck cluck cluck cluck—what, what happened? You guys are having such a wild time!"

"Bite it quickly."

The rooster couldn't bear it, so it only lightly pecked her arm like a dragonfly skimming the water, then looked up to await her praise.

"I really can't count on you." She grabbed the rooster by the scruff of its neck and threw it away.

In such a short time, the blood oozing from her wrist wound had already soaked her sleeves, staining the turquoise fabric of her clothes a deep purplish-red.

She quickly wrapped the wound with a handkerchief and tried to wipe the blood off her sleeve, but it wouldn't come off, so she simply rolled up her sleeve to keep it out of sight.

A crow perched on the window.

"lady."

"Ah, you've come." She hid her blood-stained hand behind her back, looking slightly flustered.

The crow lowered its gaze and paused.

“I was worried after hearing them talk about you, so I came to see you, madam.”

……they?

She remained somewhat confused: "I'm fine, nothing's wrong. How are you? Are you still in pain?"

The crow suddenly flew towards her, and just before it touched her, it transformed into human form, knelt down in front of her, and leaned closer.

"I'm not sure."

She lowered her eyes, scanning the man's skin from bottom to top, and whispered, "Looks like you're almost healed; you even have the energy to tease me now."

She raised her eyes, her gaze falling on the man's lips. She opened her mouth as if to retort, but was stunned by his question.

Want to kiss?

This time, her slightly parted lips didn't close; they moved slightly as she sighed deeply, "Why not..."

She held Eun and kissed him for a long time until her tongue went numb and the smacking sounds stopped. She gently pushed the man away and turned her head to breathe.

"You can leave now."

What about at night?

She playfully said, "Come find me again tonight."

He then transformed into a crow and flew out of the carriage.

Leng Cuizhu stood up from the ground, dusted off her skirt, and casually glanced at the man sleeping soundly in the corner.

He called out, "Yin Yuan."

"..."

She breathed a sigh of relief, rested briefly, and then got off the carriage to watch the servants carry their luggage.

She had barely left when the man in the car opened his eyes.

There was no resentment or hatred in his eyes, only a deep, still pool that rippled occasionally before returning to tranquility.

When the woman returned from outside, he closed his eyes again, pretending to relax.

"Yin Yuan?"

"Um."

"You're awake... When did you wake up?"

He glanced at her: "Just now."