Chapter 74 074 A Fainting of Consciousness...

Chapter 74

With a "snap," the silver chain tied to the side shelf at the foot of the bed pulled off the round stool that had been hooked, and it rolled with a clatter under the desk by the window, spinning around once.

In the dim light, the curtains fell, obscuring the candlelight on the desk.

Do you like this chain?

Xie Huaiyuan deliberately hooked the chain that had slipped to the ground with his fingertips, and a crisp, melodious clanging sound echoed. The chain was slowly pulled back from the cold floor, link by link. He slowly wrapped the chain, which was hanging on the floor, in his palm, circle after circle.

"asshole!"

Lin Wan thought that her whispered curse would make Xie Huaiyuan loosen the chain, but little did she know that the chain around her ankle was getting shorter and shorter. He easily pulled up her slender, white legs, which were bound by the chain, and raised his chain-bound hands above his head. She had no choice but to pull up her legs along with the chain, and the scenery of the lush forest suddenly reappeared.

Xie Huaiyuan saw it; his pupils were so black they seemed to be able to drown everything in the world. He lowered his eyes and stared, gradually revealing an expression of wanting to devour it whole.

Xie Huaiyuan: "This silver chain was specially made by a master blacksmith from a century-old blacksmith shop in the capital. It cannot be easily broken. You don't need to think about any other unnecessary things."

"What do you take me for, locking me up like this?"

“On my way back, I passed by a blacksmith shop and thought, since you can run so fast, I'll give you a chain. You might like it. I even spent a long time choosing one.”

"If you lock me up like this, do you intend to keep me locked up forever?"

Xie Huaiyuan: "Perhaps."

"You're so awful!" Lin Wan, enraged and embarrassed, took a big step back and kicked him away, trying to kick off the hateful chain and Xie Huaiyuan who was angering her, but the chain only tightened around her.

Xie Huaiyuan: "You're only hurting yourself by doing this."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Huaiyuan tightened the chain around his hand and suddenly knocked on the door.

Unable to break free, Lin Wan suddenly trembled as if suffocating, and in a fit of anger, she scratched her nails across the bedding.

In the dim light, her eyes couldn't see clearly, which amplified her senses. Xie Huaiyuan, with his eyes slightly narrowed and his gaze lingering on the moss-covered forest leaves, knocked on the hidden door. Lin Wan couldn't bear it any longer and screamed, cursing him.

Xie Huaiyuan sneered upon hearing this, then arrogantly lowered his head, revealing his white teeth as he gnawed and rubbed them, his honey-like juices trembling and flowing amidst Lin Wan's soft, suppressed moans.

He didn't forget to take a moment to reply to Lin Wan: "Wanwan, don't you think it's more interesting to be chained up like this?"

It was completely pointless; Lin Wan had no desire to continue this topic with him.

She was furious and didn't want to pay attention to him anymore. She angrily struggled to break free and turned to the side.

Lin Wan didn't forget to use her previous words as an excuse: "It's boring, not at all. Can you help me untie the silver chain?"

Xie Huaiyuan: "Not now, but later, raise it up."

It was just like children playing under a tree, chasing each other. Lin Wan was so annoyed that she couldn't stand it and tried to hide to the side, but Xie Huaiyuan followed her step by step. He quickly seized the opportunity when Lin Wan wasn't paying attention and took the initiative to grab her two snow-white breasts. Lin Wan looked at him in surprise. Their eyes met and her hand scratched the surface of the mandarin duck quilt very hard.

She didn't know how much time had passed when she groggily collapsed onto the bed. Xie Huaiyuan even lifted her up, half of her body, and she instinctively dodged, causing the movement to stop. Unexpectedly, she didn't notice that a large object was right under the door of her grove of trees. In that instant, he pushed through the fog to reveal the world, and with great force, he strode in.

"Ugh."

The sounds of cursing and sobbing drifted through the cracks in the window sill and floated in mid-air.

Lin Wan was so shocked that she was momentarily disoriented. Su Shaohua in the Su family was also in a similar state of disorientation and unable to react.

After Shen Rongshi spoke, Su Shaohua, who had just relaxed, gasped for breath again.

Su Shaohua: "What, what did you just say?"

With a shocked expression, he looked at the person opposite him in disbelief, then hesitated before asking again, "What did you say?"

Even when his teacup tipped over and spilled tea, he didn't care. It was Shen Rongshi who quickly reached out to help Su Shaohua steady the teacup and reminded the maids serving in the hall to wipe up the spilled tea. Only after everything was in order did he continue to respond slowly.

"The young master intends to marry Miss Lin. I wonder if Lord Su would be willing to facilitate this and act as matchmaker for the two of them?"

When Su Shaohua came here, he had tried to think of many different things and different interpretations, but he never thought it would be this.

He gently put down the teacup on the table, his thoughts returning to him. He recalled the last time Lin Wan went to the temple with Meng Shi, she was injured on the way back and recuperated there for a while. It was from there that he vaguely sensed that the two of them might have a close relationship.

Xie Huaiyuan, the heir of the Prince of Xiangyang, who was highly favored in the capital, had seen all kinds of noble families, so why was Lin Wan the only one allowed to approach him?

Su Shaohua was no stranger, but a colleague who had worked with Xie Huaiyuan in the court for many years. Even though the two pursued different people and their beliefs and ideas might be different, the person they were most familiar with was their enemy.

He knew Xie Huaiyuan, who was indifferent, restrained, and polite, very well, and had never seen Xie Huaiyuan get so caught up in anything.

However, the Xie Huaiyuan he knew was not the most authentic one.

In a secluded courtyard in Pear Blossom Alley.

Lin Wan was trapped by the tightly locked chains and couldn't break free. Frustrated and overwhelmed with mixed feelings, her feet were bound by the chains and couldn't be lowered, so they could only hang high in the air. Suddenly, an overwhelming stimulation surged into her dazed and confused mind. Xie Huaiyuan shoved the door shut and brazenly probed closer step by step.

But Xie Huaiyuan's aversion to moss caused her to gush with a torrent of heat, like the endless flow of the Yangtze River.

The wind and rain lashed against the banana leaves, causing Lin Wan's back to arch sharply. She rolled around in the wind and rain, making her silver chains clang loudly. At this moment, she seemed to be waiting for Xie Huaiyuan, which made her quite annoyed.

Su Shaohua, of course, had no idea about Xie Huaiyuan like this. He straightened up, still unable to understand: "You, you've come to act as an intermediary for the young master?"

No.

After figuring out that Lin Wan cared a lot about Xie Huaiyuan, Su Shaohua had already done some things for her. Especially since Lin Wan met Xie Huaiyuan as soon as she arrived in the capital, such a good man was indeed extremely attractive to her. Therefore, Su Shaohua tried to keep Lin Wan busy so that she wouldn't have time to think about anything else.

Unexpectedly, things took an increasingly unexpected turn.

Su Shaohua: "Then why did you come here? Was it just to deliver a message for the young master?"

Shen Rong thought for a moment, then looked at Su Shaohua with a sincere expression and said, word by word, "The young master is considering that there is not much time left before Miss Lin's coming-of-age ceremony, and hopes to get Lord Su's help to invite Miss Lin's father and brothers here. I wonder if Lord Su would be willing?"

Furthermore, Shen Rong had visited the villa in Pear Blossom Lane before coming to the Su residence and had seen Xie Huaiyuan looking radiant. He naturally understood and anticipated this, as well as why things were in such a rush.

Su Shaohua: "But Lin Wan has been missing for many days. It is really unexpected and a bit unbelievable that the young master would suddenly say that he wants to get married."

Moreover, this is a major life event like marriage; how could he decide alone? He couldn't make the decision for Lin Wan's parents. Leaving aside others, he would at least need to discuss this matter with the people in the household, certainly ask for his wife Meng's opinion, and also speak with Su Xuanhuai and Su Furong.

On the other side, in the study separated from the hall by a wall, Meng was patiently copying scriptures. On the right side of the desk were already copied scriptures, and there was also an incense burner that was being lit.

Suddenly, the quiet study was broken by a series of hurried footsteps.

After calming her disturbed mind, Meng put down her brush and looked up towards the door, following the sound.

Amidst the chaotic play of light and shadow, Su Shaohua strode in, still breathless, and eagerly asked, "Guess who's coming to visit today?"

Meng disagreed, since that was how it always was.

As she slowly and gently arranged the scriptures in the book, she asked Jijing, following Su Shaohua's words.

"Who is it? Which sir?"

Su Shaohua: "Shen Rongshi! He came to tell me on behalf of the Crown Prince that he asked me to help invite her father and children, because the Crown Prince is in a hurry to marry Lin Wan."

What?

How could that be? At this moment, Madam Meng did not continue to organize the scriptures on the desk. Even if she looked at Su Shaohua several more times, that sentence was still uttered again.

Both of them looked bewildered, as if they had not yet come to their senses.

They exclaimed in unison, "Really?"

Just then, a series of light footsteps approached and finally stopped outside the study door. Madam Meng turned around and saw Su Furong.

Having just returned to the mansion, Su Furong instinctively sensed that everyone must have something to say.

"What's wrong? Why do you all have such long faces?"

The scriptures on the desk remained open, but Madam Meng had no time to dwell on them. Instead, she asked in a loud, probing voice, "Do you know anything about Lin Wan and Prince Xie Huaiyuan?"

Su Furong was stunned for a moment.

What surprised her even more was that...

Su Shaohua: "Did you know that Shen Rongshi came by today and mentioned that the young master Xie Huaiyuan plans to marry Lin Wan? Do you know Lin Wan's whereabouts?"

Su Furong didn't know which answer to give for a moment. She lowered her eyelashes and hesitated for a long time before she could say anything.

It is clear that no woman is better than her mother.

Meng saw through Su Furong's subtle embarrassment and hesitation at a glance.

He pressed further, "You knew? When did you find out?"

As Su Furong reviewed the events in her mind, she admired the young master's courage to admit it, which truly surprised her.

She remained silent, looking up at her father and mother in front of her, hesitating whether or not to tell them what she knew.