Chapter 35: She has always liked him
Yun Xi suspected that he had no idea what he was doing and was just using his clumsy imitation to retaliate against her for "molesting" him.
Sure enough, she immediately heard him say, "I am asking for my reward."
Yun Xi blinked. She was very close to him. She tilted her head and her soft eyelashes just brushed against his golden face. She caught a glimpse of his bottomless black pupils out of the corner of her eye, which still contained no emotion.
He's just a stupid dog with a broken head, what does he know?
Yun Xi couldn't help but sigh. He had proved to himself more than once that he was a piece of wood with no emotions at all.
Many times, after she felt relieved, she felt inexplicably blocked again.
Is she so unattractive in his eyes that he doesn't even change his gaze?
When this thought came to her mind, Yun Xi was shocked by herself.
When did she start to care about what Ji Xun thought of her?
Maybe he is really too special.
“…”
Being held in an ice-cold embrace, it was so tight that she could hardly breathe, but she did not feel a trace of resistance or disgust in her heart.
It seemed as if she had never felt disgusted by Ji Xun's approach. He was not like an ordinary person, but more like a puppy, sticking to her just because he wanted to do so, and he did it openly.
His body temperature was always on the cool side; when close, she could almost smell the cold fragrance of wind and snow, just like him, cold and indifferent. This embrace had protected her from danger so many times, leaving her unable to push it away or resist.
"You haven't held me yet?" Yun Xi was breathing with some difficulty, her cheeks were hot. "How long do you want?"
"No." He said, turning his head and continuing to smell the fragrance on her neck.
At this moment, Yun Xi felt that he was just a stupid dog, and started to sniff her for no apparent reason.
She raised her hand and tentatively touched his head. His hair was very cold, like the river water that had just melted in spring, smooth and slippery, and there was a hint of chillness when it passed through her fingertips.
Ji Xun, who was leaning on her shoulder, opened his eyes, narrowed them slightly, and asked, "What's the next step?"
Yun Xi recalled what was written in the booklet and couldn't help blushing: "This can't happen. Let go, you're strangling me to death."
I don’t know where he got such great strength from, it almost seemed like he wanted to break her waist.
Ji Xun let her go as he was told and took two steps back calmly: "Your Highness and I are even."
Yun Xi was finally able to breathe deeply. Her little face was flushed red. It seemed that she could not withstand the torture. If he used more force, he might leave marks on her body.
"Don't hug me so tightly next time." Yun Xi glared at him. "How can you treat a girl like this? Am I your enemy?"
I wish I could crush her into pieces.
“…”
Ji Xun pursed his lips, looked at his hands, and fell silent.
"Did it hurt Your Highness?"
He didn't expect her to be so delicate, her face flushed red at the slightest touch.
He didn't do it on purpose, he just followed his inner thoughts.
After all, Yun Xi looks soft all over. When you hold her in your arms, she feels like a pillow filled with cotton wool. It makes people unable to resist increasing their strength to test her limits. If she is soft, she will only be deformed but not broken if you pinch her.
This time it was his negligence.
"I won't do that next time." Ji Xun said lightly.
Yun Xi blushed and took a few steps back: "Okay, now you don't have to lie against your conscience. You can tell them openly."
"Um."
After saying that, Yun Xi turned around and rushed back to the study, her steps even faster than before. However, Ji Xun was not in a hurry and followed slowly.
From an angle that Yun Xi couldn't see, the thousand-year-old cold face beneath the golden mask seemed to curl up into a faint smile.
…
On the third night, after Yun Xi fell asleep, the twins from the Ministry of Rites finally found Ji Xun.
The three of them met in the courtyard. Ji Xun was guarding the door for her and was ready to leave after she fell asleep.
The first one to meet him was the breeze.
Qingfeng walked towards him with a gentle smile on his face. Ji Xun ignored him, folded his hands behind his back, and stood as straight as a pine tree.
He did not like these two etiquette officials. Those who used their beauty to please others were the lowest of the low no matter where they were placed.
Ji Xun never paid much attention to these people before. In the princess's mansion, he only felt disgusted.
"Guard Ji, has anything happened between you and His Highness in the past few days?" Qingfeng asked softly, getting straight to the point.
Ji Xun knew his purpose and followed Yun Xi's wishes, saying, "Yes."
Faced with his indifference, Qingfeng was not angry, but just smiled: "Your Highness, do you look like you are not interested in bed? Guard Ji can tell us the truth so that we can go back and report to the Queen."
Ji Xun narrowed his eyes slightly and remained silent: "..."
On the bed?
Yun Xi had never told him about this aspect.
"I don't know."
A hint of doubt flashed across Qingfeng's eyes as he continued, "I heard that Guard Ji entered the Princess's residence a while ago. We inquired about it, and the Princess's head maid, Sister Yuanhe, said that His Highness particularly liked Guard Ji and stayed overnight to enjoy his company right after he entered the residence. How could he not know about this?"
Ji Xun paused for a moment, pondering the two unexpected words in his words: "'Visiting'? Who said that?"
"What Sister Yuanhe said must have been revealed by His Highness himself," Qingfeng said. "Sister Yuanhe also said that His Highness truly loves Guard Ji and even arranged for the maids in the mansion to let you know her feelings. I thought the two of you had already..."
“…”
Ji Xun pursed his lips, his eyes deep.
He never knew about it.
Yun Xi likes him?
Combined with her many abnormal behaviors before, Ji Xun suddenly had a vague answer in his mind.
He lowered his eyes, hiding the expression in his eyes, his face still calm and composed: "I understand, you can go back."
Qingfeng's face froze, and he was confused again. He didn't understand what Ji Xun meant by this expression, but remembering the task he had assigned, he swallowed and asked again, "So, what exactly is Her Highness..."
Is it possible in that area?
"Um."
Before he could finish, Ji Xun responded softly.
Qingfeng: “…”
Qingfeng could only interpret it as "OK". Seeing that Ji Xun was absent-minded and didn't seem to want to answer him, he could only withdraw and ask in detail another day.
…
The princess's bedroom.
It was late at night, and the night watch maids were dozing against the doorposts, propped up by a weak lamp, and the surrounding area was dim.
When Ji Xun reached the door of the bedroom, one of the maids opened her eyelids and took a look, then fell asleep again. Every place in the princess's mansion was never guarded against Ji Xun. Even in Yun Xi's bedroom, he could come and go freely at any time.
He walked lightly, almost like a black panther on the hunt, and quietly opened the door of the bedroom.
What caught his eye was a bed with overlapping gauze curtains behind the screen. His night vision was so good that he could even see the girl lying on her side on the bed.
Coming to the desk, he picked up the booklet he had read during the day and opened it.
He had only read part of it in the study during the day, but now that he had read it all, he realized how absurd the content was.
Does Princess Wei have to try these things before getting married?
She was more open than he had imagined. No wonder Yun Xi was so secretive.
After closing the book, Ji Xun turned his gaze to the girl on the bed. The words he had heard before made him walk towards her involuntarily.
But he was a Jin person after all, and there was a moral barrier in his heart. He could only vaguely look at her sleeping face through the gauze curtain.
The dark eyes looked from the sleeping girl's hair to her whole body, examining her carefully, as if he wanted to carve her whole body into his eyes.
After hearing what the etiquette official said, he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night and wanted to come and see her.
Ji Xun wanted to look at her and then leave immediately, but Yun Xi suddenly frowned in her sleep, mumbled in her sleep, and hugged the quilt in front of her tightly.
"don't want……"
The soft and sticky voice penetrated his ears softly, but he couldn't hear it clearly, which aroused his curiosity.
Eavesdropping on people's dreams is really despicable.
He raised his foot to leave.
"Stop touching me...it's itchy..."
After thinking for a moment, Ji Xun withdrew his foot and retreated. He gently put down the scimitar and half-knelt in front of her bed.
Not knowing what she was dreaming about, Yun Xi's face gradually turned red, her breathing became a little rapid, and half of her face was buried in the pillow.
Ji Xun thought she was having a nightmare again, so he went to look for the sleeping cream based on his previous memory. If he remembered correctly, it should be in a small box on the dressing table.
"Ji Xun..."
She suddenly called his name.
Ji Xun's back stiffened, but he didn't turn around: "Your Majesty..."
He thought she was awake and was about to explain himself, but he swallowed the words back when they reached his lips.
Since Yun Xi likes him, why bother explaining further?
She is the one who should explain.
He never knew when she had "favored" him.
Thinking about it, he turned around, but found that she still had her eyes closed and was still talking in her sleep.
The girl lay on the bed, her graceful figure unable to be concealed by the thin quilt. Her red lips opened and closed as she called his name, panting and asking him to go slower, her legs clamped tightly around the quilt.
"Stop kissing, it's dirty..."
Ji Xun's pupils suddenly shrank, his knuckles clenched, and he stared at her motionlessly.
He was not a fool, and after some speculation, he could guess what she dreamed about.
Ji Xun vaguely remembered that on the day when he regained his memory, Yun Xi mentioned her dream. At that time, she looked abnormal and was evasive.
Is she missing him so much that she's sick? She's even thinking about him in her dreams...
Ji Xun's eyes focused, his Adam's apple rolled, he loosened his hands, and finally couldn't help but lift the gauze curtain.
Gently and silently lowered his body.
Those pink lips were still moaning to him, making him feel numb and numb. He couldn't help but recall the pear scent he smelled on her body during the day.
This time, he had the opportunity and reason to smell it enough.
Although the person under him was sleeping defenselessly, Ji Xun only sniffed from her hair to her neck and did not go any further.
He was a little skeptical at first and didn't dare to act rashly, but now he can be sure that she really likes him.
He had always seen Yun Xi's resistance to other men. If she was a casual person, there was no need for her to reject them.
However, she let him enter and leave the bedroom without any scruples, asked him to stand behind the screen and accompany her in the bath, wore that kind of dress for him to see, and even thought about him in her dreams.
But she had never expressed her feelings... Maybe she had, but he was too slow at that time.
Yun Xi is a princess after all. It would be embarrassing for her to confess her feelings to the guards, so she asked the maid to convey the message indirectly.
But she didn't know that the maids in the princess's mansion usually didn't dare to get close to him, let alone say a word in front of him.
"Don't kiss there... kiss above, spare me..."
Yun Xi, who was sleeping, could not feel the increasingly hot gaze of the person in front of the bed, and was immersed in her own dream.
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, Ji Xun suddenly tightened his fingers and grasped the hair hanging by her cheek. His knuckles trembled slightly, but he tried his best to restrain the movement, and brushed her hair aside like a feather.
Staring at those slightly moist lips.
"Yun Xi, you said this yourself."
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