Chapter 79: She seems to like him more...
The night sky was low, and the moonlight cast the mottled shadows of the forsythia trees on the bluestone slabs. The courtyard was very quiet.
After a while, Jiang Yunjin gently curled his lips, his dark eyes reflecting a calmness that seemed to be accompanied by extreme madness and paranoia: "I'm betting on whether you will let me drink it."
In the end, his A Luo was reluctant to let him drink it, wasn't she?
At this point, Cui Yiluo realized that his gentle and upright gentlemanly demeanor was just a facade. Not only did he not follow the rules, he was also extremely manipulative. With a simple act of drinking the medicine, he had deceived her.
Her clenched hands hanging in her sleeves trembled unconsciously.
"What if I really let you drink it? Will you go find someone else to find the antidote?"
The antidote to the "Mixian Yin" was sexual intercourse, and the antidote wasn't simply to relieve the pain, but to rely on the pleasure of sexual intercourse. She'd feigned her period, and in his eyes, if he wanted the antidote, he had to seek help from someone else, or face death.
When Cui Yiluo thought of this possibility, her heart felt as if it was pierced by a sharp thorn. She felt such intense pain that she could hardly breathe.
His tone was extremely calm, as if he was speaking of something quite ordinary: "A-Luo, even if I die, I will never share the antidote with anyone else."
What's more, he remembered everything about her clearly, and her menstrual period had not come in the past few days.
Cui Yiluo pinched her palms, and the pain helped her calm down.
"So, you knew I put the Immortal Enchantment in the wine I gave you at the banquet at Duke Zheng's mansion, right?"
His sense of smell was so sharp that he could even discern the type of dried flowers in the sachet. His reaction to the wine just now clearly indicated he had already detected the scent of the Immortal Charm. If he could distinguish it this time, how could he not have recognized it last time? Even if he couldn't, he would have known something had been added to the wine.
But he drank it with a normal expression.
Chu Ke had given her the medicine, and she pretended not to know as she passed it to him, and he also pretended not to know as he drank it. But in the end, they both knew the medicine in the wine.
Jiang Yunjin did not hide it like before, "Yes."
Although she already knew the answer, Cui Yiluo's mind went blank for a moment.
"Why?"
Jiang Yunjin looked up at her with a hint of self-mockery in his eyes, and said word by word: "You need an excuse, and I need an excuse too, don't I?"
Cui Yiluo's ears were struck by thunder, and she asked in disbelief, "What did you say?"
Jiang Yunjin stood up, his gentle and dignified demeanor fading into a paranoid and ruthless one. He walked over to Cui Yiluo, who had never seen him like this before. She subconsciously took a step back, but he immediately pulled her back by the wrist.
He let her shadow him, forcing her to look at him. "Because I want to marry you. When you approached me and I knew you were the one in the cave, I wanted to marry you. But I can't. You're already engaged, and marrying you would go against social norms and etiquette. I shouldn't do this. But I like you, and that glass of wine was an opportunity for me to marry you. So even if you drugged me, I don't blame you at all. Ah Luo, I just feel that you chose me."
At that time, he watched her marry someone else, even someone as old and lustful as Cheng Feng. He wanted to kill Cheng Feng and take her place countless times. But at that time, he was still under the pressure of rules.
Cui Yiluo's breathing was choked, and she could hardly breathe suddenly, her chest heaving.
"You knew it was me in the cave?"
She had asked him before when he recognized her, and he had replied after they got married. So, he had recognized her so early, so early, and he had developed feelings for her so early...
Jiang Yunjin curled his lips in self-deprecation: "I knew it not long after you came to Shengjing."
"Why did you lie to me..."
Jiang Yunjin took her hand and intertwined his fingers with hers despite her resistance, tightly wrapping around her like a vine and locking her up, never letting her go.
"I don't want you to know that I'm actually so despicable. I don't want you to see my bad side."
So he had been hiding his feelings, hiding the fact that he had known for a long time that there was medicine in the wine but deliberately drank it, had a night of love with her, and then married her.
Cui Yiluo was about to ask why he admitted it so directly now, but he seemed to be able to see through her every thought and said, "Now that you know everything, I will never let you have the chance to leave me. Ah Luo, I'm very happy that you chose me back then."
The cold mask is torn, the bright and clear sky is fake, only the scheming is real.
The paranoia and madness in his words were like an invisible net that covered both her and him, and no one could untie it. She was destined to be with him for the rest of her life.
Cui Yiluo tried her best to maintain a calm tone: "Chu Ke's horse went crazy and caused Cheng Feng to fall off the horse. Was this your fault?"
He nodded slightly: "Yes."
Cui Yiluo felt a chill in her heart: "Did you also cause Zhao Jian to fall off the cliff?"
"yes."
Chu Ke dared to covet her, Cheng Feng humiliated her, and Zhao Jian was even more hateful. It was not that he could not take their lives, but it would be better to let them live a life worse than death than to die so cleanly.
Cui Yiluo knew that what Cheng Yi of Huaming Pavilion had said today was true. It turned out that when Jiang Yunjin had asked Dr. Xu to come to the Cheng family to treat him, she wasn't talking about treating Cheng Yi, but rather treating Cheng Feng. Cheng Feng had been burned by the drugged tea she had poured on him, leaving him unable to move. This was naturally more painful for the lustful Cheng Feng than a death sentence, so Cheng Feng had agreed to Jiang Yunjin's offer.
He was so calculating. He first gave Cheng Feng hope, and then destroyed this hope completely with his own hands.
Cui Yiluo never thought that he was such a person.
He was still staring at her, unwilling to miss any of her reactions. She took a step back, and he pulled her back along her clasped hands, pulling her into his arms and holding her tightly with his other arm.
He laughed mockingly, "A Luo is afraid of me."
His eyes were dark and contained a strong stubbornness, but when he saw her step back, a hint of hurt flashed in his eyes.
Cui Yiluo didn't say anything, so he stubbornly waited for her answer, still holding her in his arms with one arm.
After a while, Cui Yiluo let out a breath, and her tense shoulders relaxed slightly.
She shook her head, her voice heavy and stagnant: "No, I'm not afraid of you, it's just that you've been hiding too many things from me."
She simply couldn't accept it for the moment. After all, she wasn't a kind person herself. Or, more accurately, she was ruthless and unscrupulous, so how could she possibly fear or dislike him?
Jiang Yunjin's dark eyes lit up slightly, as if reflecting a few inches of moonlight, and his voice was a little hoarse: "So, you don't want to leave me?"
Cui Yiluo shook her head.
Jiang Yunjin felt relieved after getting her affirmative answer, but the next moment he heard her speak.
"But you liked me back then, yet you scolded me for breaking the rules every day and kept me at a distance. Even when I risked my life asking you to help me, you ruthlessly rejected me. Jiang Yunjin, don't you think you're too contradictory?"
When talking about the previous events, Cui Yiluo's voice turned cold.
"Yes, I hadn't let go of the rules yet."
On the one hand, he punished himself by adhering to the rules for the death of his parents, as if it were a form of atonement. On the other hand, he was wavering, wanting to follow the desire deep in his heart. He was in such a contradiction and struggle at that time.
"But Luo, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have let go of the rules. After my parents died, rather than being the hardworking and motivated person people say I was, perhaps I was more like a walking corpse. I just felt that following the rules was what I had to do, until I met you again."
After his parents' death, the real him seemed locked away by layers of shackles, like a pool of stagnant water. To him, Cui Yiluo was more like the yellow forsythia planted beside the stagnant water, bright and tenacious, full of vigorous vitality. She didn't even need to drop a stone into the water to attract him and create ripples.
She said she broke all his rules, but wasn't it he who led her to break them?
Cui Yiluo took a deep breath. "But you've lied to me for so long and treated me like that before. I can't forgive you. Unless you promise me one thing."
"What?"
"These days, I've been wanting to learn how to follow the rules. You said no more than two times a night, no daytime indecent libation, no intimate acts except on the couch, no cuddling at night, no talking while eating or sleeping, and no tea or snacks in the study. Besides, I won't be going to the study anymore, as I want to focus on my work. As for that, it shouldn't be too frequent; three times a month is enough. I've exceeded this month's limit, so I'll take the next month's allowance to make up for it, and so on."
Jiang Yunjin obviously didn't expect her to make such a request. He was stunned for a moment, and then his expression became increasingly gloomy.
Cui Yiluo was at her ease, "Jiang Yunjin, do you agree?"
Let's not talk about anything else, just talking about that matter, it has happened more than dozens of times this month. If this continues, he can't touch her for a whole year.
Jiang Yunjin's face was as gloomy as water, and his dark eyes inexplicably made Cui Yiluo see a hint of resentment. He was silent for a few breaths, and finally let out a resigned, "Yeah."
As long as I can be with her.
Cui Yiluo also responded, then her eyes moved to his arm around her waist and his hand interlocked with hers, and she ordered, "Let go."
Jiang Yunjin's eyes darkened instantly, his jaw tensed, but he listened to her and loosened his grip. The two separated, and Cui Yiluo deliberately took a step back. Sure enough, a look of reluctance flashed across his face, but he suppressed it forcefully.
"Also, I have something else to ask you," Cui Yiluo asked. "Tell me honestly, why do you get so anxious every time something happens to Yuan Ling?"
Jiang Yunjin pursed his lips and turned his head away slightly, obviously not wanting to answer. When Yuan Ling was mentioned, his face became even darker.
Having come to this point tonight, Cui Yiluo didn't want him to get away with it: "Tell me."
Her gaze was direct and fiery. Jiang Yunjin pursed his lips and said, "You had a lot of contact with him before the banquet at Duke Zheng's mansion. When you were at Duke Zheng's mansion, he even brushed the flower petals from your temples."
Cui Yiluo was stunned. He had actually seen all this. "But if you had seen it, you would have known I was avoiding it."
Jiang Yunjin curled his lips slightly, with a hint of bitterness: "I know, but I had just rejected you at that time. I knew you were looking for someone else, and I was worried that you really wouldn't want me."
Cui Yiluo hadn't expected him to think that way. No wonder he had dark circles under his eyes when she ran into him at Duke Zheng's residence after so many days. Back then, she'd thought it was from his overwork. Now, that wasn't the case at all.
"I did consider other people at the time, but what could I do? You refused to help me. But I never considered Yuan Ling."
The corners of Jiang Yunjin's lips first lowered, then raised very slightly, which was very contradictory.
He said, "I was very happy when you handed me the drugged wine. But when I rushed over that day, Yuan Ling was there. Ah Luo, I couldn't help but wonder if you would have gone with him if I had been late."
Cui Yiluo unconsciously played with the jade pendant tied around his waist. Hearing this, she looked up at him and said, "Now you know, I won't."
Jiang Yunjin's eyes welled up, and his previously low breath unconsciously became a little faster. He almost subconsciously wanted to pull her into his arms and kiss her, but he restrained himself.
Cui Yiluo looked at his slightly moving fingertips and pressed down the corners of her lips.
Suddenly, the strange scene when they were making love flashed through her mind. She looked at him straight again and asked, "When you were doing that before... you kept forcing me to call you husband. You were not satisfied when I called you husband and insisted that I call you by your name. Is it because..."
Jiang Yunjin knew that she was perceptive, and was not surprised that she realized this. After all, his reaction at that time was too strange.
He didn't want to admit it, but it was obvious that he couldn't hide it from her.
"Yes," he said with a hint of helplessness in his eyes. "In the beginning, you didn't approach me because you had me in your heart. I always wonder, if someone else had the same power and status as me, would you choose someone else? Or, if you really chose someone else, even if that person wasn't Yuan Ling, what would happen? Would you also call them husband and do the same intimate things with them as I do?"
Whenever he thought about this, his chest would feel sore as if it was about to explode. When it came to Yuan Ling's matter, he lost his usual self-controlled calmness and confirmed with her over and over again, letting her know that it was him and only him who were doing something intimate with her.
Cui Yiluo's eyes flashed with interest, and she raised an eyebrow and said, "Jiang Yunjin, why didn't I realize you were so childish before? If I hadn't offered you the wine, you wouldn't really want to see me marry Cheng Feng, right?"
After all, he had rejected her bluntly at that time.
Jiang Yunjin seemed to have thought about this possibility a long time ago and quickly shook his head.
His tone was very decisive: "No. Maybe I will always be conflicted, but if the day comes when you want to marry him, I will try to kill him."
Find a way to make her marry him naturally.
When Jiang Yunjin said the last sentence, his dark brows revealed a bit of cruelty that she had never seen before. The gentleman who had always been upright and upright suddenly turned cruel and ruthless, and the fierce aura of a superior who controlled life and death was revealed. The contrast was so great that it would probably make people feel scared.
But Cui Yiluo discovered that when he showed his true self, she seemed to like him even more.
- Cui Yiluo said that she had to "follow the rules", and Jiang Yunjin really followed her rules. Every night when he returned to the room, only the glass lamp hanging on the head of the bed was lit. He went to the bathroom without saying a word, and then lay down beside her.
She deliberately moved aside, keeping a few inches away from him, just like he had done to her when they first got married.
She could clearly feel that Jiang Yunjin's aura had become heavier, but he kept his promise and did not touch her. He just turned towards her stubbornly and fell asleep facing her, maintaining the last bit of stubbornness.
Sometimes she would even tease him deliberately, kiss him, touch him, make him breathless and his peaks high, and when he couldn't help but press her under him, she would push him away and make him behave himself.
After a few times, Jiang Yunjin knew that she was just trying to tease him, but every time she approached him, he couldn't help but take the opportunity to be intimate with her for a while longer.
When Cui Yiluo said she would not go to the study, she really did not go there. Jiang Yunjin even suggested several times, explicitly or implicitly, that he move his official business into the room, but she refused each time because the desk in the room was too small. After all, this was what he had said in person when he invited her to the study to look at the account books.
Jiang Yunjin pursed his lips upon hearing this and never mentioned it again.
On this day, Cui Yiluo was sitting under the flower stand reading a book. It was already spring, and the branches climbing up the flower stand had grown a few tender and small flower buds, waiting to bloom when spring was in full swing.
At this moment, Lilan suddenly came hurriedly from outside the yard.
She said in panic, "Miss, Master and Yao and the others..."
Cui Yiluo's heart still skipped a beat. "What's wrong?"
"They're dead."
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