Chapter 55 [VIP]
“My lord, listen to me. If you have any misunderstandings, you should explain them to the Prince. Don’t hold a grudge and take it out on me later.”
Mi Yao watched Xiao Chua approach, then stepped aside, giving the impression that they could fight all they wanted, just don't involve her.
Sensing Mi Yao's ease and casualness, Tang Tanyi looked surprised, cupped his hands to Xiao Chua, and continued Mi Yao's words: "Would Governor Xiao like to come with me to the teahouse for a while?"
"No need. I've come to fetch my wife back to the manor. We can discuss official business with the Prince when we have time later."
Since he specifically said it was official business, it means he doesn't take the misunderstanding he just mentioned to heart.
Sensing the underlying meaning in Xiao Chua's words, Tang Tanyi smiled and said, "The magnanimous governor would not believe baseless rumors. I was judging a gentleman by my own petty standards."
Xiao Chuan did not deny his words.
"I married my wife because of her beauty. A gentleman seeks a beautiful and graceful woman. There are many men with the same taste as me. What does it have to do with her?"
Sensing the strong possessive intent in Xiao Chua's demarcation, Tang Tanyi thought of the widely circulated rumors about Chang Xuanke's cause of death, so she stopped talking, bid farewell to the two of them, and tactfully left first.
As soon as the person left, Xiao Chuan looked at Mi Yao and saw a regretful expression on her face.
Knowing that she wasn't reluctant to part with Tang Tanyi, but rather regretted that he and Tang Tanyi hadn't fought, thus depriving her of a spectacle, Xiao Chuan scoffed.
Mi Yao hadn't yet noticed what was wrong with him again. After the man left, she looked at Xiao Chuan and asked, "Is my husband keeping an eye on the Prince of Jiangning, knowing that he was coming to create a coincidence with me, so he rushed over here, or was he simply guided by jealousy and happened to walk onto this street and run into me and the Prince of Jiangning?"
Neither of the guesses were good. Xiao Chuan glanced at Mi Yao, then turned and left.
When they reached the place where the horses were tied, Xiao Chuan mounted his horse. The clatter of hooves faded into the distance. Watching Xiao Chuan's disappearing figure, Mi Yao remembered what he had just told Tang Tanyi: that he would come to pick her up.
Is this how they pick someone up?
Didn't he hear what she just said? Let him vent his anger on Tang Tanyi, not secretly on her.
He really does everything the opposite of what he always does.
Her good mood was overshadowed by inexplicable anger. Mi Yao went to the shop to check the money she had earned that day before she calmed down.
Who would have thought that once her anger subsided, Xiao Chuo, the very source of her rage, would reappear before her.
"Why are you back again?"
Seeing the disgust on Mi Yao's face, Xiao Chuan's eyes and brows turned icy: "Didn't you hear me? I came to take you back."
"Today is neither the first nor the fifteenth of the month, I don't want you to answer."
Her temper, which had subsided, surged up again. Mi Yao bumped heavily against his shoulder and walked ahead.
After bumping into Mi Yao, Xiao Chuan stumbled. She wanted to hurt Xiao Chuan, but forgot about his size and muscle density. When they collided, she almost lost her balance and fell, while Xiao Chuan didn't even sway.
Seeing this, half of the frost on Xiao Chu's face melted, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
When he's happy, Mi Yao gets angry.
Mi Yao shook off Xiao Chuan's hand that was supporting her and continued to walk forward with big strides, but she was caught up by Xiao Chuan after only a few steps.
Despite being surrounded by countless eyes, Xiao Chuan didn't touch Mi Yao, but simply walked beside her.
As they approached the carriage, he caught a glimpse of her reddened eyes and grasped her wrist.
"Because of me?"
Xiao Chuan's tone was full of confusion. She was fine just a moment ago, so why were her eyes red and her nose red at this moment? She didn't say a word or even look at him, but she looked aggrieved as if she had suffered a great humiliation from him.
Mi Yao couldn't shake off Xiao Chuan's hand, so she brought it to her mouth and nibbled on it.
Xiao Chuan kept an eye on the people around him, not wanting them to see the spectacle, and kept all his emotions hidden, but Mi Yao was different.
She exerted all her strength, but Xiao Chu frowned and called for her to let go, but she wouldn't budge.
Meeting her intensely red eyes, Xiao Chuan truly couldn't understand why, even though she seemed to be biting him to pieces, she was the one who was becoming more and more aggrieved.
Are you a dog?
Feeling he couldn't stop Mi Yao, Xiao Chuan simply let her be. When her mouth was full of blood, she was so frightened that she let go of his hand. He shook off the blood and saliva mixed with blood from his hand, glared at Mi Yao, and said with a hint of ruthlessness in his voice, "You bit me like this. If you still dare to cry, you'll see what I do."
Mi Yao wasn't afraid of Xiao Chuan's threats, but she also didn't have the ability to force out tears just because she disagreed with him.
He took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood from his mouth.
Seeing the pale pink embroidered handkerchief stained with water-red, she realized that most of the blood in it was her saliva. She only regretted letting go too quickly and should have bitten it a little longer.
After wiping her mouth several times to make sure there were no traces left, Mi Yao went to instruct the coachman to drive away first, while she walked to the front of Xiao Chuan's horse: "Help me up."
Upon hearing Mi Yao's domineering instructions, Xiao Chuan stared at her as she performed the six rites of greeting, asking, "Is the Yu family hiding that you have a mental illness?"
Even when he hurt her at night, she didn't react.
The way she let go of his mouth clearly showed that it was because she found the blood smelled so foul that she didn't want to bite any further, rather than because she was afraid of actually biting off a piece of his flesh.
"Am I supposed to scare them like this?"
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"What are you afraid of with your own blood?"
Mi Yao's eyes were full of defiance. Xiao Chuan was certain that if he didn't do what she wanted and carried her onto the horse, she would bite his other hand as well.
He reached out and wiped the blood from her chin, then grabbed her waist with one hand and placed her on the horse.
After Mi Yao mounted her horse, she saw that Xiao Chuan hadn't mounted yet. With no wall behind her to lean on, she looked at the suddenly rising scenery and felt a bit lonely at the top, so she silently leaned forward a bit.
Why aren't you coming up?
"I don't want to ride with a woman who has a mental illness, for fear that she might push me off the horse and break my neck."
Seeing Xiao Chuan talking while pulling the reins forward, Mi Yao suspected that he was crying wolf and wanted to take the opportunity to break her neck.
"With so many people coming and going, you, the dignified Commander Xiao, are content to be my stable boy?"
The provocation had no effect on Xiao Chua, so he continued to lead the horse forward, saying, "You know how people come and go."
There weren't many people at the intersection where she bit him, but if even one person saw it, it would spread throughout Yizhou City sooner or later.
"If you have a temper, you should have dueled with Tang Tanyi just now, why were you mocking me?"
"Judging from what the Prince of Jiangning said, the two of you haven't even exchanged more than a few words. You have a good memory, remembering his name and surname."
Sensing the jealousy in Xiao Chuan's words, Mi Yao hugged the horse's neck, turned her head, and looked down at him.
Xiao Chuan let her look at him.
After a while, seeing that Mi Yao's bright eyes were still fixed on him, and her eyes were even getting brighter, but she didn't speak, he finally asked, "Does your neck hurt?"
Without waiting for Mi Yao's reply, he continued, "It's good that it hurts. I usually have to look down at you so much that my neck gets so sore from looking at you for so long that I've forgotten that I even have to lift my neck."
"Xiao Lang, you are more handsome when you are silent. Now you keep saying one thing after another, as if you want to win the favor of the woman you admire, but you don't know how to express it, so you keep saying things against your will, as if the more you say these things, the better you can hide your true feelings. In fact, your thoughts are obviously written on your face."
Xiao Chuan paused in his words, and Mi Yao thought he was embarrassed by what she said, but to her surprise, he looked at her impatiently the next moment: "Aren't you going to get off? Are you planning to ride into the room?"
Mi Yao looked up and realized that she had been talking to Xiao Chuan all the way without noticing that the horse had entered the Xiao residence.
"Why are you being so fierce? If you don't carry me down, do you think I can fly down from that height?"
As Mi Yao opened her arms to wait for Xiao Chuan to hug her, she saw Xiao Chuan curl the corners of his mouth. Before she could figure out what the smile on his lips meant, she felt a sudden drop beneath her. She screamed in fright and clung tightly to the horse's neck. When the horse stopped moving, she realized that the commotion was because the horse had bent its knees to lower her and let her dismount.
After dismounting, Mi Yao punched Xiao Chua with her fist.
The result was the same as when she bumped his shoulder; he didn't budge, and all the pain fell on her.
She glanced at Xiao Chuan's drooping hands as she thought about it.
She took a handkerchief to wipe her lips, but he just shook his hand, leaving most of the bloodstains on his hand.
The bloodstains were now mottled, and the ring of bleeding bite marks she left behind were particularly conspicuous.
It's unclear whether he's trying to preserve evidence or something else.
"Yu Miyao, are you really insane, or did you get rabies from being bitten by a rabid dog today?"
Although the punch to the chest didn't hurt, Xiao Chuan still frowned slightly, wondering why Mi Yao had suddenly become so fond of physical violence.
All these changes in her occurred after she met Tang Tanyi.
"I want to hit you. You should think about what you did wrong to anger me, instead of thinking that I have a disease and that's why I treat you like this."
Mi Yao raised her chin haughtily, "You must have heard the term 'spoiled and arrogant.' Since I know you're happy for me, why should I lower myself to please you? It's your turn to please me."
Xiao Chuan looked at her and laughed angrily: "You've read too many storybooks. You not only read them with your eyes, but you also make them up in your mind. You're dreaming."
"Wow, you secretly checked what books I usually read!"
Mi Yao seemed to have caught Xiao Chua in some way. Pointing her index finger at him, she felt like she had become the absolute victor. Her eyes were full of joy, and she left satisfied before Xiao Chua could even refute her.
Seeing her looking so happy, Xiao Chuan coldly led the horse to the stable.
After feeding the horse alfalfa and beans, the black horse licked his palm before eating, licking away the congealed bloodstains on his hand. It licked the teeth marks on his hand several times before finally lowering its head to eat.
Xiao Chuan leaned against the horse. He didn't need Mi Yao to tell him personally that she was spoiled and arrogant; he had already sensed that she was becoming more and more casual with him these days.
However, compared to what she said about him wearing his heart on his sleeve, he suspected that she was using a scheme to manipulate him, to make him more and more indulgent towards her, and to make him feel that he was as happy with her as she said.
So it was all just Yu Nu's scheme.
And what about her saying she was humble? He could see clearly that she had never been humble to him. Even when she looked up arrogantly just now, her face was full of coquettishness, her voice was sweet and charming, and her posture seemed arrogant but was actually deliberately seducing him.
He looked tired and lazy, but he never stopped trying to seduce her.
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Back in her room, Mi Yao immediately rinsed her mouth, spitting out water several times before sucking on a mint candied fruit to finally get rid of the bloody taste.
She didn't know why she got so emotional, grabbing Xiao Chu's hand and biting it, but she had to admit that the feeling after the impulse was very pleasant.
Xiao Chuan pretended not to see her and left first. She was angry that he didn't take her seriously, and then he came back after leaving. She was angry that he couldn't help but back down to her, but he wasn't obedient enough and had to make her angry first before he learned to be smart.
The latter was even more emotional than the former. Just as she told Xiao Chuan, knowing that he was in a weak position, she still had to suffer grievances no matter what she did. Naturally, she was taking advantage of his current affection to act arrogantly.
After all, a man's feelings are like morning dew meeting the sun, dissipating very quickly.
If she doesn't enjoy his indulgence now, how will she be able to act so aggressively when he's gone?
"Madam, the lady sent by the garrison commander has been waiting for some time. Would you like to see her now, or tomorrow?"
Seeing that Mi Yao had finished washing up and lay down, Shi Ya remembered Qi Niang waiting outside the courtyard and mentioned it to her mistress.
"The lady who was sent here?"
Mi Yao blinked, guessing that Xiao Chuan was probably being foolish and disgusted, and because he didn't want her to be in a superior emotional position, he brought in a woman to show off his masculine charm?
"This woman used to live in the Dong family. It seems that after the matter with the eldest sister-in-law was settled, the town magistrate sent her over."
As soon as Shi Ya mentioned it, Mi Yao remembered what Xiao Chuan had said about the formidable wife who could crush the entire Dong family with one hand. She immediately perked up and sat up: "Call them in."
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