Chapter 35 [VIP]
When Mi Yao got up from the tatami mat in the afternoon and walked out of the room, she was still a little dazed.
Everything happened so suddenly.
She initially thought that Xiao Chuan was just being stubborn because of his pride. The fact that he kept quiet for so many days despite her misunderstanding showed that he was the kind of person who was extremely concerned about saving face.
Today, he broke his own code of male dominance by explaining to her, which must have made him unhappy. So he's going to use those things in bed to make her show her fear, so he can regain his superior position between them.
He's the leading man now, so naturally we have to give way to him.
So she acted very gently, sometimes coquettishly, sometimes looking at him with teary eyes, hoping he would be satisfied and let her go.
It can only be said that she thought too highly of men. She thought that if she was accommodating enough, Xiao Chuan would know when to stop. Who would have thought that even after she begged for mercy until her voice was hoarse, he would still forge ahead and carefully discuss with her how long an inch was. After she said that he was bad at math and used an inch as ten inches, he even went to find a ruler halfway through so that she could measure it herself.
At that time, Xiao Chuan's face was still the same, but he seemed to have completely transformed into another person.
A flush of heat, as if he were drunk, appeared on his usually cold face, and his mind seemed to be completely controlled by Niu Zi.
"Where is Yu Xiu?" Mi Yao asked the maid in the courtyard as she pushed open the door.
"Reporting to Madam, the concubine is in Qingyue Courtyard. Would you like me to summon her?"
"No need, I'll go find her myself."
After saying that, Mi Yao cursed Xiao Chua in her mind as she walked away.
She usually gets up around this time, but this time her body feels like it's falling apart. Not only is she not well-rested, but her legs are also sore. Every step she takes feels painful, and she feels uncomfortable as if she can't close her legs.
After Xiao Chuan left, she originally planned to sleep a little longer, but as soon as she closed her eyes, she felt that the room was full of Xiao Chuan's scent.
The moment she smelled his scent, images of how awful he had been flashed through her mind, so she simply got up to find Yu Xiu and figure out what was wrong with her today.
Originally, she thought Yu Xiu was trying to get into her bed, but after Xiao Chuan's actions, she began to suspect that Yu Xiu had been bribed by Xiao Chuan to frame her.
Qingyue Courtyard is close to Tingsong Courtyard, but it is some distance from the main courtyard. Mi Yao sat on the veranda halfway there to rest. When she arrived, she saw Yu Xiu pacing anxiously in the courtyard with red eyes, while Shi Ya accompanied her.
Upon seeing Mi Yao, Yu Xiu quickly walked up to her, her fair face filled with shame and embarrassment.
"Sister, has your husband made things difficult for you? Shiya told me, and I was wrong..."
"Let's talk about it inside."
Mi Yao didn't know if Xiao Chuan had destroyed her barrier. Xiao Chuan said there was still a large section left, and when she glanced at it, it was indeed only halfway done. However, when she got up, she saw some bloodstains on the quilt, but she wasn't sure if it was blood.
“What are your thoughts? Tell me clearly from beginning to end.”
Sitting down inside, Mi Yao didn't beat around the bush and looked directly at Yu Xiu, demanding a reasonable explanation.
Seeing the stern look on Mi Yao's face, Yu Xiu was even more nervous and afraid than when Xiao Chuan scolded her.
She was always perceptive and knew that if her explanation didn't satisfy her older sister, her sister wouldn't give her any more chances.
"Sister, I just think I can endure hardship."
Yu Xiu stood in front of Mi Yao with her head down, knowing that if she cried at this moment, it would annoy Mi Yao, but her eyes still couldn't help but burn, and her tears fell onto the carpet on the ground.
“I heard my older sister say that sleeping with her brother-in-law was a hardship, so I thought that if my older sister was going to find someone to replace her, instead of finding another stranger, I would rather take her place. I am more on the same page as my older sister than any outsider.”
When Mi Yao asked the broker to find a beauty, she had this idea, but she remembered her elder sister's warning that if she wanted to get her elder sister's protection, she should not go around her to curry favor with Xiao Chua.
With her older sister and Xiao Chuan starting to sleep in separate rooms and no longer suffering, her thoughts faded away.
The reason she had this idea again was because she saw the marks on her older sister's body a couple of days ago. She felt that her older sister was too delicate and suffering too much from Xiao Chuan's brutality. If things continued like this, her older sister would die sooner or later. So she took it upon herself to climb into Xiao Chuan's bed.
She never expected Xiao Chuan to reject her.
Because in the Yu family, whether it was her father or her uncles and aunts, as long as the maid could find an opportunity to appear when they were alone, no one could fail.
Based on what she overheard from other servants, she concluded that men would not refuse any woman lying in their bed.
Who knew that when Xiao Chuan saw her in the blanket, his cold eyes looked as if he were looking at a dead person.
It wasn't until Xiao Chuan dragged her into her elder sister's room that she recovered from her shock and realized that her life was saved and that Xiao Chuan wouldn't kill her.
"It was my fault, elder sister. Please don't send me away. I promise I'll never act on my own again. I'll always listen to you..."
Yu Xiu stammered out her thoughts, and the more she talked, the more she felt that she had brought this upon herself. Her older sister had warned her to be obedient, but she still didn't ask her sister and made her own plans, doing the things her sister disliked.
"Are you trying to help me, or do you think I'm not liked by Xiao Chuan and are afraid of being too late, so you're bypassing me?"
Yu Xiu and Mi Yao fell into deep thought, a rare occurrence for them.
There are too many connections, but she realizes that the people around her have their own thoughts, and are not just NPCs who add details to the plot, but are actually two-dimensional characters.
And she accepted it.
Just like when Yu Xiu drugged her before, she felt annoyed but had no other emotions. Since she didn't treat the other person as a living person, she couldn't expect the other person to be loyal to her like a programmed tool.
But now, the thought that Yu Xiu doesn't trust her makes her uncomfortable.
“Sister, I really didn’t mean to make you angry. At first I didn’t understand, but later I realized that your separate rooms from your husband didn’t affect your status. Besides, I might have been scared at first, but over the past few months, as long as you’re with me, I wouldn’t feel anything even if I left the Xiao family one day.”
Yu Xiu said solemnly while crying.
Although she felt that Mi Yao was doing something superfluous every time she saw her getting close to Xiao Shan and the others, she also felt, as Shuang Hua said, that her older sister was becoming more and more human.
Sensing Mi Yao's bottom line and pity, she no longer felt that Mi Yao was an unreliable older sister.
“In my opinion, going to my brother-in-law’s place is suffering, something you, sister, are unwilling to do. If I had known that all couples are like that, I wouldn’t have done something so foolish… But sister, is that really the kind of ‘intimacy’ that all couples have?”
Even at this point, Yu Xiu still couldn't help but have doubts.
Shiya said those marks were because Xiao Chuan doted on her elder sister, but she had never seen those red marks on the necks of the women in the Yu family's backyard, and her elder sister had also said that Xiao Chuan had a strange fetish.
"come over."
Mi Yao beckoned Yu Xiu to stand up and approached her with a bewildered look in her eyes.
Yu Xiu watched helplessly as her elder sister's face drew close to her neck, smelled the sweet fragrance emanating from her sister, and then felt a sharp pain in her neck.
It wasn't pure pain, but rather a tingling, stinging sensation.
For a moment, she was so frightened that she forgot to cry.
Mi Yao raised her head and looked at Yu Xiu, who was still in a daze: "Go look in the mirror and you'll understand what the red marks on my neck are. I didn't tell you before because I thought you were too young to talk to you about these things."
Mi Yao subtly conveyed her unwillingness to explain her cold attitude as a way of showing kindness to the other person.
She said it so naturally, and Yu Xiu found it pleasant to listen to.
"I just thought about it seriously. If I send you away, I might not feel anything at first, but when I think about it in the quiet of the night, I might feel that your mistakes are somewhat related to me."
To avoid reflecting on herself in the quiet of the night, she decided to give Yu Xiu another chance.
Besides, she had already apologized to Xiao Chu on Yu Xiu's behalf and paid the price she was owed. Sending Yu Xiu away under these circumstances would be too much of a loss.
Thinking of apologizing, Mi Yao reminded him, "I have already explained the whole story to Xiao Chui, so you don't need to apologize to him again."
"Sister, I understand."
Mi Yao glanced at Yu Xiu, whose face was flushed and whose expression had turned bewildered, and knew that she was still shocked by that kiss.
Seeing the shyness on Yu Xiu's face slowly overshadow her shame, Mi Yao felt that although her actions had frightened Yu Xiu, they hadn't taught her a lesson.
"Go and fetch the ruler."
Mi Yao instructed Shi Ya, "Don't take the one from my room."
Fearing that Shiya might mistake the ruler for a measuring stick, she added a sentence.
An hour ago, Xiao Chua said he needed to find a ruler to determine the depth of penetration, and he actually found one in her room. That ruler was the one she used to precisely measure the length when making flower vases; who knew that keeping it in her room would one day come in such a use?
Seeing that the rather long ruler looked shorter when placed on him, she nearly fainted due to her megalophobia.
When she used to read novels, she didn't think much of the character settings that the author added to the male protagonist, but it's not so good for her to face these settings directly.
After receiving the ruler, Mi Yao struck Yu Xiu's hands twenty times on each side.
When Yu Xiu was afraid of being driven away by Mi Yao, she burst into tears. But now, with her hand swollen from being hit, she held back her tears and solemnly admitted her mistake once again.
After punishing Yu Xiu, Mi Yao summoned Shuang Hua and first asked her if there had been any problems managing the inner courtyard of the Xiao family recently, before saying, "I've found you a helper. From now on, let Xiu'er follow you. Assign her some tasks, and if she doesn't do them well, teach her how to do them well. Don't assign her tasks that are too easy."
Originally, Mi Yao thought that Yu Xiu was only thirteen years old and was the original owner's younger sister, so it was not good to use child labor. Mi Yao's usual attitude towards Yu Xiu was similar to that towards Xiao Shan and the others.
—Eat well, sleep well, have fun, live a good life and don't cause trouble.
Since Yu Xiu was idle and didn't enjoy life, she took back her right to be a carefree child.
She figured it out: Yu Xiu was ambitious and couldn't stand a peaceful and leisurely life. Since that was the case, she would satisfy her ambition.
After arranging everything, Mi Yao went to the bathhouse.
When she arrived at the warm room, she heard the servants mention it and realized that Xiao Chuan had come. She had come to take a bath because she wasn't feeling well, but what about him?
Were you worried that the scratches on his shoulder that she had made wouldn't get infected?
Knowing that Xiao Chuan had just used the bath, she felt a little disgusted, but when her eyes fell on the steaming heat in the room and saw the hot water with dew and flower petals, which must be very comfortable, she still chose to get into the bath.
If she avoids and doesn't enjoy anything that Xiao Chuan has used, then she'll be the one who suffers.
With this thought in mind, she went back to her room and lay down on the bed. She could still feel Xiao Chua's lingering presence on the four-poster bed, and she managed to get used to it.
The man's sharp, domineering scent of vegetation lingered around her. Mi Yao kept reassuring herself that today was a day off, and she would definitely find an excuse to skip it on the fifteenth and make up for the rest she was supposed to get today.
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