Chapter 30 Protect You and Let Her Break.

Zhu Qing slumped on the low couch, her mind filled with questions. Why did Feng Huaihe do this?

Gazing at the courtyard scenery outside the round moon window, Zhu Qing waited anxiously for Feng Huaihe to return. On the small table beside her lay a stack of erotic books that Feng Huaihe had left there yesterday.

Zhu Qing couldn't help but get up, grab a book, tear it into pieces, and throw it haphazardly on Feng Huaihe's desk.

Looking at the pile of messy pages, Zhu Qing slumped back in despair. Even if she burned down the entire courtyard of the head secretary, it would be of no use.

As she lay there, the afternoon heat finally arrived, and Zhu Qing couldn't resist and drifted off to sleep.

As evening approached and the sun began to set, Zhu Qing groggily awoke. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Feng Huaihe a few steps away, leaning over a table, his wide sleeves rolled up, revealing a strong forearm, writing and drawing with a pen.

The orange-red glow spread around him, giving him a soft golden edge. His demeanor was as exquisite as a figure in a painting. When he noticed she was awake, he calmly glanced at her.

Zhu Qing suddenly sat up, and for some reason, her first instinct was to check if her clothes were intact...

Seeing that her clothes were neatly arranged, Zhu Qing exhaled without making a sound. Suddenly, Feng Huaihe's cold voice drifted from ahead: "You didn't eat or take your medicine today."

He used a declarative sentence.

Zhu Qing looked up and met his deep, cold eyes. A chill ran through her. She mustered her courage and said, "I want to go home."

Feng Huaihe stood up, put down his brush, and walked out, saying, "I've prepared dinner. We'll talk after we eat."

Zhu Qing shouted at his retreating back, "You're keeping me under house arrest, you haven't done anything to create any momentum at all!"

Feng Huaihe paused.

He didn't turn around, leaving her only with his dark back and a detached silhouette. The messy pages she had torn earlier had been cleaned up sometime earlier. In the large and spacious secretary's room, Feng Huaihe stood silently, his back as cold and aloof as a mountain.

The silence made Zhu Qing nervous, and she glanced fearfully at the bow and arrows hanging on the wall.

"Why would you think that?" Feng Huaihe finally turned to her, his eyes crinkling with laughter, looking completely harmless. "We grew up together, and our friendship is unparalleled. The secretary's office is in poor condition, and the staff quarters are not comfortable either. It's perfectly normal for me to invite you to stay in the chief secretary's office to live in a better place."

How could someone have a smile on their lips, yet their eyes and brows be filled with madness? Zhu Qing felt a chill run down her spine and said in horror, "I went out today, and you arranged for people to stop me, and my elder brother, Zhuo Yunmeng..."

“I was protecting you,” Feng Huaihe said, stepping closer to her.

Zhu Qing stepped back nervously, "I don't need your protection, I want to go home!"

"Huang Chao has already entered Tongguan. I have to protect you and your family. You have really misunderstood me."

Feng Huaihe lowered his eyes, suppressed his smile, and sighed, looking pitiful and wronged.

Zhu Qing shouted, "You're still pretending! You're really good at pretending! I know everything that happened last night!"

Feng Huaihe's face instantly turned cold, no longer concealing his true feelings. A wave of madness surged from his eyes. "What do you know?"

He stared intently at Zhu Qing as he approached her step by step.

Did she know he sneaked in at night and did something absurd to her, or did she know that the secret room was prepared for her?

He revealed his true colors, and Zhu Qing was terrified. She tried to back away, but her calf bumped into the low couch, causing her to lose her balance and fall.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Feng Huaihe pounced forward like a tiger pouncing on its prey, accurately, directly, and ruthlessly locking the throat of his prey, Zhu Qing.

Almost the instant Zhu Qing collapsed onto the low couch, her neck was gripped by a large, cold hand.

Without applying any force or pinching her, just a light, loose grip, she dared not move again.

“You…” Zhu Qing swallowed hard, staring at him with wide eyes.

Feng Huaihe could feel her throbbing pulse.

one time.

Two times.

It was regular and warm, right in the very center of his palm.

Her slender neck looked pitiful under his large hands, as if a gentle pinch would break it.

He remembered the moans and wriggling that came from here last night, but she just couldn't open her eyes.

He deliberately used very light pressure, afraid of leaving any marks that would attract her attention.

I didn't expect her to realize something was wrong so quickly; I really underestimated her.

"Tell me, what do you know?" Feng Huaihe leaned down and whispered in her ear, his small, white earlobe right in front of him. He couldn't resist sticking out his tongue to brush it against her earlobe, and then he felt her stiffen suddenly.

Zhu Qing wanted nothing more than to kick him away, but the bow and arrows hanging on the wall made her force herself to endure it.

"I wasn't asleep when you kissed me yesterday..."

The person on top of him jolted.

But the large hand holding her neck did not move away, and Zhu Qing's eyes slowly reddened. "I know everything. You just can't win over Ying Chunhua, so you want to use me as a substitute. You've been making soup and planting flowers, but I only agreed to do these things because I felt that friends could do them together!"

Zhu Qing's voice trembled with a faint sob, but she forced herself not to cry.

As he pinned her down, threateningly stroking her neck, she felt as if she had returned to yesterday evening, lying here with her eyes closed, listening to Feng Huaihe's footsteps, but too lazy to open them.

He suddenly approached her, startling her so much that she dared not breathe and could only pretend to be asleep. Then, she felt him kiss her.

The soft sensation of their lips touching made her nauseous.

Feng Huaihe stared at her for a long time, then got up and sat down next to her.

The clutches on her neck were finally removed. Zhu Qing quickly got up, stood to the side, and shouted, "I want to go back to Qingxi Village. Tell those people to leave."

She vigorously wiped her eyes, erasing the tears that had welled up from fright.

Uncontrollably, he glanced again at the bow and arrow on the wall.

Because of this bow and arrow, she was much more docile today!

But Feng Huaihe kept pushing her to her limits: "There's no one at home right now, where are you going?"

Feng Huaihe stared at her and sneered, "You want to go to Jin with Zhang Yin? What a coincidence, I have already arranged for Zhang Yin to assist Zhu Wen. Zhang Yin is arrogant and will surely anger the tyrannical Zhu Wen. It is only a matter of time before he dies at Zhu Wen's hands."

There was a hint of smugness in his eyes. Luckily, he discovered it early, otherwise Zhu Qing would have already quit her job and run away with someone else.

The suffering he endured under Zhu Wen in his past life will be made Zhang Yin experience it all in this life.

"Why did you suddenly bring up Zhang Yin?" Zhu Qing didn't care about this person at all. He only asked one question before saying hatefully, "You arranged for my eldest brother to join the Shence Army and took Zhuo Yunmeng away, thereby controlling my second brother through her. You wanted to help the three of us travel the trade route, but in reality, it was also a form of control. You wanted to control all my family members to threaten me, didn't you?"

She ran to the wall, grabbed a bow and arrow, and threw it out of the round moon window to a place where Feng Huaihe couldn't reach it.

After throwing it away, she turned around and glared at Feng Huaihe, bursting out her pent-up temper: "I knew it! Our relationship wasn't that good to begin with, so why did you suddenly become so friendly, offering to help me brew medicine and even buying my inkstone!"

Feng Huaihe gritted his teeth and said, "Don't talk to me like that! Besides, how do you know we don't get along? We grew up together in Qingxi Village. We're childhood sweethearts, how could we not get along?"

"You're kidding me! If we were really close, why didn't I get the medicine from you from the beginning, and why did you only ask me to get it after what happened with Tian Lingzi?"

Feng Huaihe narrowed his eyes, surprised that she was still so clever.

Zhu Qing roared, her voice cracking, "That secret room is yours! Don't take me for a fool! Let me tell you, even if every man in the world died, I wouldn't even glance at you!"

"Zhu-Qing!"

Feng Huaihe practically spat out her name, then jokingly got up from the low couch. Zhu Qing realized he wanted to grab her, so she turned and ran out of the chief secretary's office like a gust of wind.

As soon as I stepped outside, I realized that it had gotten completely dark. Thunder rumbled and roared on the horizon, and several bolts of lightning tore down from the sky.

Large raindrops pounded down, making the top of her head feel icy cold. Zhu Qing casually wiped them away and ran like a madwoman towards the side room.

Unable to leave the courtyard, the only place she could hide was this side room.

A note from the author:

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