After kissing her until she was completely disoriented, Zhu Yu finally released her. His eyes seemed to be filled with stars, the overflowing starlight almost drowning the person in front of him: "You still say you don't have me in your heart? If you don't have me, why is your face so red? And just now, and many times before, when I kissed you, you didn't feel disgusted."
Even when his tongue lingered between her teeth and their lips intertwined, she responded perfectly.
Last time, I even put my hands on his hips and kissed him back.
Is this the kind of reaction a woman should have if she doesn't like a man?
That's impossible.
These past two days, he had Li Feng dig out all the novels the original owner used to read; he'd already finished several of them.
The storybook says that if a woman falls in love with a man, the man will enjoy her affectionate gestures and will even want to cuddle, kiss, hug, and lift her up high from time to time.
Yes, he saw it all. Even though there were chairs and a soft couch in the room, she wouldn't sit down. She insisted on sitting on the edge of the bed, right next to him.
Last time, the time before that, and this time, he kissed her, and she thoroughly enjoyed it.
If she didn't like him, how could she tolerate a man being so unrestrained towards her?
Zhu Yu looked up at her expectantly, his heart pounding, and he pursed his lips.
The storybook says that if you like someone, you should tell them so they know.
Therefore, he must confess his feelings to Lu Xiaoyun today.
Zhu Yu gently brushed his nose against Lu Xiaoyun's: "Lu Xiaoyun, I've realized I've fallen for you. What should I do? I like you so much, hopelessly so. I always thought that love between a man and a woman was nothing more than sleeping in the same bed, sharing a blanket, having children, and spending a lifetime together. When we get old, we have someone to rely on, and we're buried together after we die. That's all."
"It doesn't even matter who the person I spend my life with is. Everyone says that I will only marry Ren Yong'an, but that's not true. It's just that Ren Yong'an was the first woman to appear in my life and happened to save me once. Before that, if it weren't for her, it wouldn't matter how many children someone else had for me."
"But since I met you, I don't think it's like that. Having children should be with a woman you love, not just anyone."
Lu Xiaoyun was stunned. Was Zhu Yu confessing his love to her?
However, her concern and anxiety for him stemmed solely from the fact that Zhu Yu now occupied her body, and their fates were intertwined by the system.
Lu Xiaoyun pursed her lips. Is that right?
"Moreover, childbirth is a great ordeal for women. They have to carry a child for ten months, endure all kinds of discomfort, and go through the hardship of giving birth."
Zhu Yu wanted to say that the original owner's birth mother died giving birth to him. The Crown Princess also nearly died from childbirth.
"Men only care whether a woman gives birth to a son or a daughter for him, but they don't care about the woman who suffers for him. I'm afraid of all of this, afraid that you will have to bear it."
Zhu Yu raised his eyes and stared at Lu Xiaoyun: "Childbirth is too dangerous for women."
Lu Xiaoyun's face grew increasingly red. She retreated, but Zhu Yu pressed closer, eventually cornering her against the wall.
“Lu Xiaoyun, I’ve even thought that if we really have to go through the pain of childbirth, then I’ll be the one to do it. Before we switch back, I’ll give birth to our child. If there are any risks, I’ll bear them. If I can survive, we’ll have a son and a daughter and grow old together.”
Lu Xiaoyun's throat tightened, and her body stiffly retreated step by step until Zhu Yu finally cornered her against the wall.
"If anything happens to me, you should ask the Emperor for a fiefdom far away from Shengjing, away from all the dangers and troubles of Shengjing, so that you can live out your life in peace."
Zhu Yu had never spoken so much before, as if he were saying all the things he had said over the past twenty years at once.
Lu Xiaoyun suddenly felt very uncomfortable, so uncomfortable that she couldn't speak.
In modern times, she dated Zhang Hao for six years.
Four years of undergraduate studies, two years of graduate studies.
They were already discussing marriage when Zhang Hao took her to his home. His mother saw her and said she was too thin to have children, and that as an orphan, she was not good enough for him. She forced Zhang Hao to break up with her.
Under his mother's constant crying, tantrums, and threats of suicide, Zhang Hao was forced to go on a blind date arranged by her.
After learning that he had gone on a blind date, Lu Xiaoyun removed him from her life.
Lu Xiaoyun was lost in thought when she saw Zhu Yu's face harden: "However, I'm very possessive. You can't find any other men besides me. Otherwise, I'll crawl out of my grave and come looking for you, circling your bed every day! Let's see how you two can still be intimate!"
Lu Xiaoyun gave a dry laugh, as if he were already carrying her child.
He then pulled the person into his arms.
“Lu Xiaoyun, before writing that divorce letter, I thought about it for a long time. I knew clearly that I had fallen in love with you and did not want to be separated from you. However, I cannot be so selfish. I have a poison that prevents me from having children, and I am afraid that I will never be able to make you pregnant in this lifetime.”
“But you told me you didn’t like children. At that moment I regretted it, so I went to the bedroom and the study to look everywhere for the divorce papers and the private seal, but I couldn’t find them anywhere. I knew you had hidden them. Maybe you hadn’t fallen in love with me yet, but I didn’t want to let you leave.”
Zhu Yu smiled bitterly: "But who could have imagined that, by some twist of fate, my brother-in-law would find out? My father, naturally, issued an edict ordering us to divorce."
Zhu Yu looked up, gazing deeply into Lu Xiaoyun's eyes: "Lu Xiaoyun, tell me, what else can I do besides be your mistress?"
Lu Xiaoyun's lips trembled: "My father and brothers will beat me to death, no, they will beat you to death."
"So, how about we reconsider and I marry you back? As long as you agree, I'll find a way to get through to Father. This time, I want to marry you in a grand and glorious way. Ten miles of red bridal procession, a hundred stages of betrothal gifts, with Heaven and Earth as our matchmaker."
"You have complete control over everything in my Prince An's mansion. You can do whatever you want, including me."
Lu Xiaoyun didn't know how to answer, fearing that her father and brothers wouldn't agree.
"You, you let me think about it."
The cuckoo's calls outside the wall grew more and more urgent.
Zhu Yu watched Lu Xiaoyun disappear into the night.
Next, he needed to carefully plan how to marry Lu Xiaoyun in a legitimate way.
Zhu Yu thought.
When Qi Shaocheng woke up the next day, he saw his servant Afu with red eyes and a look of utter despair.
With a hangover and a headache, Qi Shaocheng rubbed his head and said, "Afu, go and pour me a cup of tea."
Afu ran to fetch a large basin of cold water.
Qi Shaocheng stared wide-eyed: "What are you doing?"
With red eyes, Afu said, "Young Master, please wash your face and clear your head. Yesterday, in front of His Highness Prince An, you wanted to... wanted to marry Miss Lu..."
Qi Shaocheng's mind went blank. Drinking leads to trouble, drinking leads to trouble! How could he have spoken his true feelings in front of Prince An?
"Young master, why don't you go and apologize to His Highness Prince An with a bundle of thorns on your back?"
Qi Shaocheng: "..."
He's already said all that, and if he goes back to apologize, it'll make him seem like a scumbag who refuses to take responsibility.
"Young master!" Another servant rushed in from outside the courtyard, his face beaming with joy.
"Young master, I have found out that Miss Lu is going to Qinglong Temple today."
Upon hearing this, Qi Shaocheng immediately dressed and washed up, saying, "Quickly, bring me the horse."
Afu: "..."
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