Lu Xiaoyun smiled and gently brushed the ends of Zhu Yu's hair, which had been blown to his chest by the wind. She then scratched his slender neck with the ends of his hair.
Zhu Danxin trembled slightly upon seeing this scene and turned her face away.
Zhu Yu shrank his neck and grabbed Lu Xiaoyun's large, calloused hand: "Stop it, it tickles."
Zhu Dan's face was somewhat dark.
Zhu Yu was in a very good mood.
"Zhu Chen is so obsessed with seizing the position of Crown Prince that upon hearing this news, he immediately ordered his chief guard to take a tea set that Ruoling had used when she was infected with the plague, pack it in a box, and bring it back to Shengjing City."
Zhu Dan's lips twitched: "Fourth Brother, you didn't actually take this tea set and put it in the Crown Prince's room, did you?"
Zhu Yu glanced at him: "Of course not. I just found an identical set and framed him. Although the Crown Prince is beyond cure, there are still many servants in the First Prince's residence. I am not as heartless as Zhu Chen. If this plague spreads in Shengjing, I will truly become a sinner. Although I, Zhu Yu, am not a good person, I will not kill innocent people indiscriminately."
Zhu Dan chuckled and shook his head, giving Zhu Yu a strange look.
Zhu Yu straightened up and said unhappily, "What are you laughing at? And what's with that expression?"
Zhu Dan looked at Lu Xiaoyun and said, "Yun'er knows. Tell Fourth Brother."
Lu Xiaoyun glanced at Zhu Dan. These two, ever since she was caught in the middle, have been seizing every opportunity to stab each other in the back.
Seeing Lu Xiaoyun's expression, Zhu Yu knew that she must understand Zhu Dan, which frustrated him and made him very unhappy.
Unexpectedly, Lu Xiaoyun looked at the clouds on the horizon and said, "I don't know either."
Zhu Yu was in a better mood and raised his eyebrows at Zhu Dan.
Zhu Dan choked and gave Lu Xiaoyun a deep look.
Yun'er has changed. She wasn't like this before.
After Zhu Dan left, Zhu Yu looked at Lu Xiaoyun and said, "Speak."
"say what?"
“Lu Xiaoyun, do you know that you are actually very bad at lying? Every time you lie, you don’t dare to look at me and your eyes wander, just like now.”
Lu Xiaoyun grinned at him.
"I know you understood Zhu Dan's smile. Don't try to protect my pitiful pride. I'm not as fragile as you think."
Lu Xiaoyun rubbed Zhu Yu's little head and pinched the hair bun that Li Feng had combed for him: "The virus will die a few hours after leaving a living organism, and the tea set that Ruoling used has long lost its ability to spread the disease. So it doesn't matter whether you take Ruoling's tea set or not and put it in the Crown Prince's room."
Zhu Yu: "..." Although there were still many words he didn't understand, he understood their meaning.
"I saw Zhu Chen's head guard order the tea set to be smashed and then burned. All that effort was for nothing."
Lu Xiaoyun pulled Zhu Yu into her arms and kissed his little lips: "Oh my, how come the current Prince An is so cute? Are you still the 'Number One Demon King of Shengjing' that women used to use to scare children?"
Zhu Yu let out a howl and pounced on Lu Xiaoyun, saying, "Want to try and see if I'm still the same fierce 'Number One Demon King of Shengjing' I used to be!"
Lu Xiaoyun poked his chest: "You rely on this small body?"
Zhu Yu's face darkened, and he pinned her down, reaching out to pull at her belt.
Afterwards, the two lay on the large bed in the Prince An's mansion, their faces still flushed.
Lu Xiaoyun turned to the side, propped her head up with her hand, and nudged Zhu Yu.
Zhu Yu said wearily, his eyes closed, "Stop messing around. Even if you still want it, you have to let me rest first."
Lu Xiaoyun blushed. Ever since they consummated their marriage with the four-colored grass, apart from the few days when Zhu Yu had his period and the few days when they deliberately avoided the fertile period, it seemed that they really hadn't stopped.
She was quite diligent: "We do this every day, aren't you afraid of getting pregnant?"
Zhu Yu opened his eyes a crack and glanced at Lu Xiaoyun, then closed them again: "So what if she's pregnant?"
Anyway, he had already told Lu Xiaoyun last time that pregnancy and childbirth were too dangerous for a woman, and he would rather bear the danger himself than have anything happen to her.
After all, although the original owner's mother was framed, she died because of giving birth to her.
The mere thought of even a one in ten thousand chance filled him with dread.
Lu Xiaoyun got up and dressed: "I'm going to the palace to ask my father for permission to marry you."
Zhu Yu closed his eyes and took her hand: "Zhu Zixuan has just died. If you go to ask him to issue an imperial decree to grant you marriage at this time, Father will not agree."
Lu Xiaoyun stopped in frustration; how could she have forgotten about this?
Why didn't she go to the palace yesterday?
Look at the beautiful woman lying next to me, women really do make things worse!
Lu Xiaoyun leaned back and lay back on the bed.
Zhu Yu turned his head and stared at Lu Xiaoyun: "Do you love me and want to marry me, or do you only want to marry me so it will be easier for you to sleep with me in the future?"
Lu Xiaoyun couldn't help but laugh, eager to hear his thoughts: "Is there anything different?"
The arrogant Prince An snorted coldly: "Of course it's different. If you have me in your heart and truly love me, then even if there are mountains of knives and seas of fire in front of me, I am willing to split mountains and fill seas to marry you, no, to marry you."
Zhu Yu looked intently into Lu Xiaoyun's eyes: "But if you don't have me in your heart, and you only want to marry me because you're lusting after this body so it'll be easier to sleep with me in the future, then even if everything in front of you is peaceful, I still won't want to marry you."
He turned his head and looked at the gauze curtains above the bed. The warm light from the glass lamps shone on the slightly swaying gold gauze curtains, like ripples on a lake under the warm winter sun.
He said through the ripples in the water, “Lu Xiaoyun, I grew up without a father’s love or a mother’s love, so my heart is cold and closed off to the outside world. Even with Ren Yong’an, I only gave her some things, thinking that was love for someone. But now I know that it wasn’t love, but just a way of repaying her for saving my life.”
"But you're different. You stole my heart. You made my emotions rise and fall with yours. Although I can't help but stab Lao Wu in all sorts of ways whenever I see him with you, you know that Lao Wu is too outstanding. Compared to him, I'm nothing."
“Given your past relationship, I lack confidence. I’m afraid you’ll choose him and leave me, so,” he looked at her earnestly, “if you don’t truly love me, then let go now.”
"After Zhu Zixuan is buried, it won't be long before Father Emperor will make Zhu Dan the Crown Prince. And our bodies will be switched back soon. If you're willing, you'll be his Crown Princess, the only woman in his harem."
Zhu Yu turned his head to look at Lu Xiaoyun, who was listening attentively to him: "So, Lu Xiaoyun, can you tell me the answer?"
After saying this, it felt as if half of his body had been emptied out. His heart was pounding violently. Countless times he wanted to ask, but he was also afraid and uneasy.
Lu Xiaoyun reached out and hugged Zhu Yu: "Zhu Yu, you are unique. Zhu Dan and I are separated by two thousand years of time and space, and I no longer love him. You are wonderful, there is no need to belittle yourself. No matter how wonderful Zhu Dan is, to me he is just Zhu Dan, not the person I, Lu Xiaoyun, love. Zhu Yu, the person I love is you."
Zhu Yu, the person I love is you!
He murmured, each word reaching his ears.
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