Chapter 17. Yu Wanyin was stunned for a moment, even her breath caught in her throat.
The clothes that were already hanging loosely on her body slipped off her shoulders as she suddenly stood up.
Her snow-white shoulders and slender arms were suddenly exposed to the man's rude gaze.
Rong Si's gaze swept over them.
Yu Wanyin's icy skin felt as if it had been scalded, and she hurriedly pulled her clothes tighter around herself. "You, who allowed you to come in..."
Rong Si said in a drawn-out tone, "Young Madam, that's not what you said when you were in my tent that day."
"Why is it okay for you to trespass into my tent, but it's not okay for me to trespass into yours?"
"It's truly a case of 'the magistrate is allowed to set fires, but the common people are forbidden to light lamps.'"
"I haven't even hidden in your trunk yet, and I've already soaked your clothes everywhere."
Every word he said made Yu Wanyin feel incredibly guilty.
As she spoke, Yu Wanyin suddenly noticed the clothes scattered haphazardly on the ground, and a thin piece of clothing lying on the ground not far from Rong Si, its appearance ambiguous and messy.
Just by looking at this scene, one can imagine it.
What happened in this room just now? How was that thin piece of cloth stripped off her body and thrown on the ground?
Even now, she is not wearing a heart-shaped garment.
She was even covered in the marks of another man.
Rong Si saw it too, of course; he recognized the garment.
It was the one she had dried in his tent, passed through his hands, and must have passed through another man's hands not long ago.
"What, are you lying to me?" Rong Si said slowly, "Yu Wanyin?"
Yu Wanyin felt her scalp tingle from being called by his full name, as if every hair on her body stood on end.
Her disordered breathing, which had subsided after the act, flared up again.
Her body was flushed even more from nervousness.
"What did I say before? You have no family, and you're not engaged. You want me to protect you, and you're willing to be with me."
"I prepared everything, and you ran away. Suddenly I have a family and a marriage."
Rong Si bent down and lifted the thin thread of her dress, deliberately emphasizing her status, "Madam of the Prime Minister, are you playing games with me?"
Every word he uttered struck at Yu Wanyin's sensitive nerves. Yu Wanyin held her breath and watched his actions, watching him touch her personal belongings.
Those hot, rough hands could completely control him with just a gentle squeeze.
She had felt the strength of that hand; once it gripped her, there was no way to escape.
His palms were so hot they felt like they could melt her.
Rong Si held the small piece of fabric in his hand, stood up, and walked over to Yu Wanyin, who had just experienced a surge of passion. "So, does your husband know that you and I have a somewhat unusual relationship?"
Do you want him to know?
Yu Wanyin instantly sensed an eerie and dangerous atmosphere.
Seeing him walk without stopping, she clutched her clothes and hurriedly stopped him, "You...you...don't come any closer! There are people outside. If I call for help..."
But this advice is completely useless in this situation.
Instead, it will arouse a man's fighting instinct, prompting him to say, "Let him in and try."
Yu Wanyin suddenly fell silent, her imposing manner gradually weakening as he approached.
"Have you forgotten that I'm a bandit, and I only play with my worthless life?"
"You really think that just because I had a few nice words with you, I'm some great philanthropist who loves to take in the lonely and destitute? I'm capable of doing all sorts of awful things."
Yu Wanyin watched him walk towards her wedding bed, his figure appearing like a mountain in the dimly lit room.
If he were to do something to her at this moment, she would have no chance to resist. "You...you...you won't."
Yu Wanyin wasn't wearing a heart-shaped garment, and even though she was covered by clothes, she always felt like she wasn't wearing anything at all. Just like that, she was enveloped by his figure, and Yu Wanyin didn't dare to think about what would happen next.
This is her wedding bed.
Her husband and he came in within fifteen minutes of each other; if that's true...
Yu Wanyin's voice trembled whenever she thought about those possibilities. "I really did wait for you at the teahouse that day. You were late, so how can you blame me?"
"If you had arrived before Chu Yu, I would have married you on the mountain."
Rong Si laughed, "How else do you want to fool me?"
“How could I be lying to you?” Yu Wanyin was telling the truth. “I didn’t want to go back to Shang’an City, but the Prime Minister ran into me during his city patrol. If I didn’t go back, he could catch you by following me.”
“If I really intended to harm you, I could not only come back and marry him, but I could also destroy your village.”
Rong Si said leisurely, "So I should thank you?"
Yu Wanyin's voice trembled violently, but she still confronted him with a straight face, "Then I don't want to encounter treason and be chased by rebels. I don't want to hide in a tent, or a bandit's stronghold."
“I ran into a bandit who had a little conscience, and it just so happened that they were enemies of my father and husband.”
"What would you do if you were in that situation?"
Yu Wanyin didn't realize it until she said it.
He felt even more unlucky after saying that.
She must have done evil for eight hundred lifetimes to earn such good fortune.
Seeing that he remained silent, Yu Wanyin lowered her voice slightly, "If I hadn't run into him, I was planning to go with you and live a good life in the village. Otherwise, I could have just gone to find him in town."
"But you can't be late, and then blame me after he brings me here to get married."
Rong Si watched her with great interest for a while, then took a deep breath and suddenly bent down.
Yu Wanyin restrained herself and saw that he had placed his hands on either side of her, like a solid cage trapping her here.
The man exuded a wild and untamed energy.
His gaze traced the lines of her moving lips, his voice deep and hoarse, "This mouth of hers, it really knows how to talk."
Rong Si had a vague feeling that he was about to be deceived again.
“I shouldn’t blame you,” he teased. “Then shouldn’t I blame him? If Chu Yu dies one day, will you still want to continue our marriage?”
Yu Wanyin's pupils dilated slightly as she listened to his arrogant words, and she remained speechless for a long time.
Yu Wanyin used what little rationality she had left to think.
Who would be deceived into marrying her?
This is nothing more than seizing on loopholes in her words to vent one's anger.
He truly wanted Chu Yu dead. If she said so, and if something really happened to Chu Yu in the future, he could easily abduct her.
If she says no, then she's just lying to him, and he'll have another excuse to get back at her.
Yu Wanyin was in a predicament, caught between a rock and a hard place.
As if things weren't going to go wrong, Qing Song suddenly asked from outside, "Prime Minister, you're here so quickly?"
Chu Yu's voice rang out, "Something was left behind."
Yu Wanyin gasped, and in her panic, she quickly shoved Rong Si.
Rong Si was gently pushed to the side of the bed, and he grabbed her wrist. Yu Wanyin was pulled so hard that she fell onto him.
Her already loose dress was rubbed open, and Yu Wanyin immediately pressed it down with her hands, but she couldn't free her hands to pry open his grip.
Chu Yu was right outside the door, and Yu Wanyin didn't dare to make a sound.
Rong Si's teasing gaze moved from her tightly clenched fingers to her face, and he handed her the heart-shaped garment he was holding in his other hand.
Yu Wanyin frowned, looking at the underwear held in the man's rough hands, and dared not take it.
Just then, the sound of Chu Yu pushing open the door came from outside.
Yu Wanyin was so anxious that she didn't have time to think about anything else and immediately got up to greet him.
She even casually put down the gauze curtain and rushed to the front hall to stop people.
This action made Rong Si raise his eyebrows silently.
Yu Wanyin wasn't wearing her inner garment after all, and her clothes were hanging loosely on her body, making it awkward no matter how she tried to straighten them.
He suddenly became undignified.
In a daze, she finally understood what Rong Si meant by handing her the heart-shaped garment earlier.
I kind of regret not answering, but he's already been arrested...
It felt a little strange for her to wear it again.
Besides, she couldn't change it in front of him.
Chu Yu walked in and saw her tidying up her loose clothes; her hair was still disheveled.
He couldn't help but ask, "Why aren't you resting?"
"I haven't washed up yet," Yu Wanyin said nervously, her clothes still disheveled. "Why are you back?"
"I'll get a seal," Chu Yu said, heading towards the inner room.
Yu Wanyin stopped him, "I tidied up the shelf yesterday, let me go find it."
Chu Yu laughed and said, "You might not know which one it is."
Yu Wanyin lied through her teeth, "I happened to see one yesterday."
She went into the inner room first, saying, "I'm a little hungry, could you go and get me some snacks?"
Just as Chu Yu was about to go out, he suddenly caught a keen whiff of an unfamiliar scent of grass in the air.
He suddenly stopped in his tracks, turned to look at Yu Wanyin's back, and realized that Yu Wanyin's series of reactions just now were a little strange.
The gauze curtains that were not originally lowered in the inner room were now lowered as well.
It was as if they were intentionally hiding something.
Chu Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, carefully observing the scene inside the dimly lit gauze curtain.
The interior room was shadowy, with light and shadow flickering.
He did not go out as Yu Wanyin had told him to, but instinctively paused outside for a moment after Yu Wanyin entered the inner room.
They followed and entered the inner room.
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