Chapter 36 The exciting affair behind the rockery

Willows drooped low in the depths of the rockery, and the misty morning dew wet the hem of Chu Yangyang's skirt.

She was about to call out to Luo Xifeng when she suddenly heard the rustling sound of clothes coming from behind the bluestone.

Luo Xifeng suddenly grabbed her wrist, and the two hid behind the Taihu stone. A woman's silver bell-like laughter came from behind the rockery.

The red hem of Haitang's skirt swept across the bluestone, and Chu Yangyang could see through the sparse and intertwined leaves, seeing what was going on inside.

The woman stood on tiptoe and tied the white jade pendant around the man's waist, her fingertips making a lingering circle on the coiled dragon pattern.

"Your Highness is always so anxious." The woman raised her face and let the man kiss her eyelashes. The flower fragrance in her hair rose and fell with her breathing. "Don't let anyone see us."

Chu Yangyang suddenly opened her mouth, which was then covered by Luo Xifeng.

The big, blinking eyes stared at Luo Xifeng, as if saying, isn't this Lin Shuyue and King Jing Li Rongjue?

Luo Xifeng unconsciously held Chu Yangyang in his arms, fearing that she would make a sound and alarm the two of them.

Li Rongjue grabbed Lin Shuyue's wrist and pushed her against the stone wall. "Good Yue'er, how have you been doing with what you promised me last month?"

He suddenly held her earlobe in his mouth and chuckled, startling her so much that the butterfly hairpin on her temples fluttered and seemed to fly away. "Hmm?"

"Your Highness wants to see me, is it just for that matter? Your Highness doesn't really care about Yue'er." Lin Shuyue scolded him and pretended to be annoyed and wanted to break free, but he held her tighter.

Li Rongjue gently twisted the loose hair at Lin Shuyue's temples with his fingertips and pinned a freshly picked pink peony into her dark blue hair. "How could this prince not miss you? Yesterday, when I passed by the flower house, I saw that this color suited you so well, so I ordered someone to bring a few to your Lin Mansion."

Lin Shuyue gently punched his chest with her pink fist and said with a smile, "Your Highness, you have the most tricks."

"Also..." Li Rongjue held her mischievous fist with one hand and took out a book from his bosom with the other. "This is your favorite 'Shu Yu Ci' that I copied for you. Read it carefully and don't miss the token of my love for you."

After saying that, he put his lips close to her ear, causing her to shudder.

At this moment, Chu Yangyang suddenly felt a little numb in her legs, and her calves moved slightly.

With a "creak", the sound of branches breaking immediately startled the man and woman behind the rockery.

"Who is it? Who's there?"

Li Rongjue turned around to look when he heard the noise. Lin Shuyue was so frightened that she quickly covered her collar tightly and said in panic, "Your Highness, I'm leaving first."

Then he turned around in a panic and went into the rockery.

Li Rongjue tidied his clothes and slowly walked towards the direction where Luo Xifeng and Chu Yangyang were hiding.

The corner where the two of them were hiding was a dead end, with no escape route.

In order to avoid being discovered, Luo Xifeng and Chu Yangyang pressed their bodies together, sandwiched between the rocks.

Seeing Li Rongjue getting closer and closer, Chu Yangyang pried open Luo Xifeng's hand that was covering her mouth and said softly, "Meow~~~~"

Suddenly, he heard a cat's meow, and Li Rongjue stopped walking.

It turned out to be a wild cat.

He flicked his sleeves and turned to leave.

As the footsteps gradually faded away, Luo Xifeng released his hand from Chu Yangyang's lips, but still kept holding her against his chest.

The moisture from the moss seeped into the fabric of their clothes, and the warmth of their intertwined bodies evaporated into fine beads of sweat between the cracks in the rocks.

The movement of Chu Yangyang's forehead touching his Adam's apple was like the vibration of jade beads rolling over silk.

She didn't dare look up; they were too close.

Unconsciously, he wanted to escape, but Luo Xifeng restrained him again, "Don't move, in case he comes back."

Chu Yangyang froze immediately, not daring to move.

"You imitated the cat's meow just now very well." He lowered his head and whispered in her ear, his warm breath brushing her thin red earlobe.

Chu Yangyang shrank her neck.

At this moment, her hands were pressed against his chest, the thick touch more horrifying than snake scales. However, his tone was still as clear as if soaked in plum wine, "What do you think King Jing wants Miss Lin to do?"

She stared at the broken branch on the ground, her throat tightening. "Maybe it has something to do with the Linzhou disaster relief funds three years ago."

Before the last syllable fell, he felt the person in front of him breathe hard, and the medicinal fragrance of green bamboo suddenly became stronger.

"How do you know?"

Chu Yangyang opened her mouth and then closed it. She couldn't say that she had seen this content in the original book.

Luo Xifeng was the first to discover this matter, which dealt a heavy blow to King Jing.

This caused the emperor to lose trust in King Jing, and the crown prince became more and more favored by the emperor.

"I guessed it. Lin Shuyue's father is the Minister of Revenue. I passed by the study and accidentally overheard my father say that Minister Lin was investigating the disappearance of the Linzhou disaster relief funds three years ago."

Chu Yangyang made up a reason.

Luo Xifeng suddenly chuckled, making her whole body numb.

He plucked away the jasmine petals that had been stuck in her hair at some point, and crushed the white petals into pieces of jade between his fingers. "I didn't expect that the princess would always be able to use them in critical moments."

"Then you should pray that I live a long life." She blurted out. At this moment, he suddenly pressed her lips with his fingertips. The cold touch made her eyelashes tremble.

The conversation between King Jing's guards and King Jing could be heard from afar. Luo Xifeng brought her half an inch further into the shadows in this posture.

The sunlight filtered through the holes in the Taihu stone, casting a butterfly-wing-like shadow on his brow.

Chu Yangyang looked at his pupils reflecting the starlight, and suddenly remembered that in the original book, he had the same calm expression when he cut open his enemy's heart.

Drops of water seeping from the stone wall slid down her collarbone into her clothes, causing her to tremble violently.

"Cold?" Chu Yangyang stopped him from taking off his outer robe, and the trembling of the girl's fingertips could be heard through the thin shirt.

"Shh." Chu Yangyang raised her eyes and signaled with her eyes, as if someone was approaching.

The footsteps were approaching, then slowly moving away.

Chu Yangyang lowered her shoulders and breathed a sigh of relief.

Luo Xifeng lowered her eyes and happened to see a drop of dew rolling down the tip of her nose.

Chu Yangyang's crow-feather-like eyelashes trembled, casting a butterfly shadow on his porcelain-white cheek. The broken hair that was rubbed by the stone wall was stained with the scent of jasmine, and it brushed across his jaw vaguely.

Her lips were pursed into a light crimson color due to nervousness, like cherry peel wet by rain, which was very cute.

His hand, which was loosely resting on her waist, was knocked half an inch off balance by the stone edge, and his palm unexpectedly touched the gauze covering her lower back.

The girl hurriedly raised her hands to support his shoulders, but she didn't know that this action of tilting her neck would bring the small cinnabar mole between her snow-white breasts into his sight.

The light red at the corners of Chu Yangyang's eyes was even more scorching than the rouge tributed from the Western Regions.

Luo Xifeng had never truly appreciated her beauty, but at this moment he discovered for the first time that she, now gentle and no longer crazy, was actually so breathtakingly beautiful.

The chirping of cicadas in the distance suddenly became deafening, bringing Luo Xifeng's distracted will back.

Luo Xifeng suddenly loosened the shackles, but when he withdrew his hand, the gold bracelet on her wrist was hooked on the jade belt hook.

Chu Yangyang hurriedly tried to untie it, and her warm fingertips brushed against the soft flesh on his waist, and they both froze at the same time.

"Be careful."

He grasped her wrist, his knuckles digging into the throbbing pulse.

The gold bracelet on the girl's wrist slid against his palm, but the coolness could not extinguish the fire that rose where their skin touched.

Chu Yangyang raised her eyes and saw the shattered water light in his eyes.

At this moment, she was also inexplicably thinking that perhaps, she had another way to make Luo Xifeng give up on killing her...