She returned to Songhe Garden and hesitated to reply to Xie Xianyu, "My cousin is ill. She will probably need to rest for a few days."
"Are you sick? Have you called a doctor?"
Cuizhu replied hesitantly, "No, my cousin said her illness is not serious. She just needs to rest for a few days and there is no need to bother calling a doctor."
Xie Xianyu's eyes grew colder. "I don't think she's sick, she's just getting bolder."
Cuizhu's heart skipped a beat. She was about to defend Wanruo, but Xie Xianyu just stood up and walked out.
Wanruo was still lying in bed. Yesterday's incident had disrupted her entire plan and cut off her retreat. She couldn't find a way out and was no longer in the mood to deal with Xie Xianyu.
Suddenly, I heard a hurried greeting: "Young Master."
Then the door was pushed open and familiar footsteps came in.
Wanruo opened her eyes and saw Xie Xianyu standing beside her bed, looking down at her.
"Are you sick?"
Wanruo propped herself up on the bed and sat up. Her tone was calm, without any of her usual flattery or coquettishness: "Thank you for your concern, cousin. It's just a minor illness."
He pinched her chin and forced her to look up at him: "Are you angry with me, or are you reluctant to part with Lin Han?"
Wanruo looked straight at him and said calmly, "I'm just sick."
Her cold attitude made him feel inexplicably irritated. His face darkened a few degrees as he said word by word, "My patience is limited."
Full of warnings.
Wanruo turned her head to avoid his hand, then raised her hand to start unbuttoning her clothes.
His eyes paused slightly as he watched her undress and take off her white nightgown, revealing her fair skin and slender waist. She wore only a thin light blue bellyband embroidered with two crabapple flowers on her chest, but her graceful figure completely overshadowed the crabapple flowers.
"what you do?"
She looked up at him, her face calm. "Cousin, didn't you come here to ask me to wait on you? After we have sex, can you let me rest and recuperate?"
Xie Xianyu's temples were throbbing and his face looked visibly ugly.
Wanruo continued to untie the belt of her bellyband. Just as she was about to pull off the thin strap on the back, he suddenly grabbed her wrist with such force that it seemed as if he wanted to crush her wrist.
But she didn't even cry out in pain, just looked at him expressionlessly.
He sneered: "You said you were innocent towards Lin Han, but now you are against me for him?"
Wan Ruo said coldly, "How dare I go against my cousin? I'm already yours. Soon everyone will know that I've been in your bed and am a shameless bitch. Not to mention Lin Han, all men in the world will despise and spit on me. Besides my cousin, who else would be willing to take me in?"
She curled her lips, not knowing whether it was a smile or sarcasm: "Of course I am grateful to you."
Xie Xianyu's expression turned even uglier as he stared at her, "Xu Wanruo!"
"Are you still going to sleep?" She was already too impatient to deal with it.
He said angrily, "What have I not given you that you wanted? If you had just kept your distance from that Lin guy, I wouldn't have made things difficult for you. Wanruo, don't think I don't know what you're thinking."
He stared at her and said, "You are right about one thing. No one in this world dares to take you in except me."
Wanruo's face froze.
He let go of her hand and said coldly, "Rest."
Then he turned and left.
Wanruo pursed her lips tightly, her face pale. Xie Xianyu's words were like the most vicious curse in the world!
No, she would never stay here.
In the next few days, Xie Xianyu never came to see her again, but Cuizhu came to greet her every day and brought her some tonics.
Wanruo was in a bad mood and stayed in the courtyard without going anywhere.
In a flash, a few days passed and the capital became bustling again. The results of the Spring Examination were announced. Some were happy and some were worried. The sound of firecrackers announcing the good news never stopped all day long.
Wanruo had been looking forward to this day eagerly, but now, listening to all the hustle and bustle, she felt sad.
The next day, Su Yue managed to persuade Wan Ruo to go out.
"It's not right for you to be so bored in the house all the time. You should go out and relax. If you don't stay so unhappy all the time, what's the point?"
Wan Ruo said indifferently: "There's no point in coming here."
But she still had to buy herbs to make pills for Qi Ge'er, so she had to go out of the house to buy them herself. She couldn't let anyone know about this, so she had to do it herself.
But just as she was about to enter her herbal medicine shop, she suddenly heard an urgent call: "Miss Xu!"
Wanruo turned around in shock: "Lin Han?"
Lin Han hurried forward, looking nervous. "I, I've been waiting for you for two days. I remembered that you said you often come to this pharmacy, so I came here to wait. I, I have something to tell you."
Wanruo didn't want to face him and shook her head coldly: "I have things to do first."
Lin Han blocked her path and insisted, "If you don't listen to me, I won't leave the capital!"
Wanruo pursed her lips, still wanting to end things peacefully. She looked around and saw that no one in the crowd was paying attention to her, so she went into the alley next to her.
"Mr. Lin, what do you want?"
Lin Han swallowed hard and finally spoke: "I passed the imperial examination, Miss Xu, I, I want to marry you."
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