If he was so infatuated with me back then, why didn't he come looking for me?
Su Xuerong felt somewhat depressed.
Seeing this, Xiao Yuan cautiously asked, "What do you want to ask? I'll tell you everything!"
Su Xuerong had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask, "Who exactly are you?"
Xiao Yuan knew she would ask this, and replied without hesitation, "If I tell you the truth, you won't go back on your word, will you?"
"Go back on what?"
Xiao Yuan suddenly hugged her tightly: "What you just said, marry me!"
Su Xuerong felt the pressure on her waist and couldn't help but struggle, but she couldn't break free.
At this moment, Xiao Yuan was injured in the leg and was still leaning against the cave wall. When Su Xuerong threw herself into his arms, she was leaning against him.
Despite his injured leg, his grip remained firm. Seeing her struggle, he pulled her closer to him again, turning her face toward him.
Su Xuerong felt the sensations of the past few months with him again, her cheeks flushed crimson, and her body began to burn.
"You...you have to tell me the truth..." she murmured involuntarily.
Xiao Yuan smiled, resisting the urge to lower his head and kiss those red lips, and gently touched her forehead with his own: "Okay."
“I am the Prince of Fenyang, the seventh son of the current emperor.”
Su Xuerong immediately feigned shock, opening her mouth in astonishment: "You...you're a prince?"
Looking at the girl in front of him, Xiao Yuan couldn't help but smile: "Mm!"
"Th-th-that..." Su Xuerong was speechless for a moment.
She knew everything she needed to know, and now she was going to pressure him to hurry up and get married before Zhou Shi found him a suitable husband.
Otherwise, she was worried that something might happen to Xiao Shiyan and the Chen and Fang families.
Xiao Yuan looked at her with some curiosity: "It seems you're not as surprised as I expected?"
Su Xuerong quickly pointed to the jade pendant he was wearing: "Don't you even look at these things you're wearing? Is this something an ordinary person could wear?"
Xiao Yuan looked down and nodded silently: "We need to pay attention to this next time."
Su Xuerong hurriedly said, "Let's not talk about this now..."
She had to find a way to bring Xiao Yuan back to Lin Family Village and get her parents to agree to their marriage.
Xiao Yuan was stunned upon hearing this: "So fast?"
Su Xuerong glared at him reproachfully: "I spent time alone with you last night. If you don't want to marry me, I'll just have to become a nun!"
Xiao Yuan hurriedly said, "I didn't do anything last night..."
I dare not, and I cannot, my leg injury hasn't healed yet.
"So you mean you're not willing to take responsibility for me?" Su Xuerong was annoyed and pushed him away.
Looking at Su Xuerong, who was bristling with anger, Xiao Yuan suddenly laughed, then easily pulled her into his arms, his voice low and husky as he said, "How could I dare?"
Having met such a wonderful young lady, one would cherish her and hold her in the palm of one's hand, how could one dare to push her away?
"Then I'll go back first and have my brother find someone to take you down the mountain!" Su Xuerong felt that there was no time to lose and that she had to hurry home.
Xiao Yuan tried to pull her back but couldn't, and could only watch helplessly as she covered her head and rushed into the rain.
They waited for a full two hours.
Xiao Yuan had never waited for someone so anxiously before.
He was terrified that the young woman would disappear from his sight, just like before...
Xiao Yuan suddenly froze.
Why would he have such thoughts? It seems he lost her once before.
Two hours later, the heavy rain gradually subsided, and Xiao Yuan heard footsteps coming from the foot of the mountain.
More than one person.
Just to be on the safe side, he put on the human skin mask.
When Su Xuerong arrived with Su Shirong, Lin Zhuang, and several guards from the Lin family manor, she found that Xiao Yuan had put on his human skin mask again, and she breathed a slight sigh of relief.
I didn't have time to warn him just now. It would be terrible if his enemies found out.
Su Shirong was genuinely surprised that his younger sister had saved a young man on the mountain, and his expression turned somewhat grim.
My younger sister didn't come home last night, and everyone in Linjiazhuang was looking for her. It turned out she and this man had spent the night in a cave.
Although his face was pale, Su Shirong felt a slight sense of relief when he saw Xiao Yuan covered in blood.
With her injured like this, I probably can't do anything to her!
Several men took turns carrying Xiao Yuan down the mountain.
Around noon, Xiao Yuan was carried to the Su family's courtyard.
He was left under the eaves by Su Shirong, and soon the whole family came out.
When Su Jingxuan and Zhou Shi saw Xiao Yuan, they looked at each other in bewilderment, their expressions uneasy.
Is this the man my daughter insisted on marrying?
How could someone so ordinary-looking be worthy of his Ah Rong?
Su Shirong said with a dark face, "What makes you think you're worthy of marrying my little sister?"
Madam Zhou couldn't help but glare at her son, forcing a smile as she said, "Young master, if you want to marry my Arong, you'd better tell me about your family background, wouldn't you? Where do you live? Who are the people in your household? How much income do you have each year? Do you have any lovers...?"
"mother!"
Su Xuerong came out of the kitchen carrying a basin of hot water, looking annoyed: "Didn't I just explain everything to you?"
Aside from his identity as the Prince of Fenyang, everything else was mentioned.
After all, their biggest fear is marrying into the royal family and repeating the same path their great-aunt took.
Zhou glared at her, annoyed. "What? Can't we ask for some details?"
Su Xuerong tilted her head back and said, "I slept with him in the cave last night. Who else could I marry but him?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yuan and the Su family were all stunned.
Chen, who was standing nearby, quickly covered Su Jian's ears and muttered, "Aren't you ashamed!"
Su Xuerong ignored her and instead said to Zhou Shi with her head held high, "Mother, I've finally met someone I like, and I'm going to marry him!"
Zhou was so angry that she almost slapped her.
Su Jingxuan quickly stepped forward to stop his wife, gently advising, "You two should talk things out properly, don't make a fool of yourselves in front of the guests..."
Zhou glared at Xiao Yuan and pointed at his nose, saying, "Let me tell you, you'd better tell me honestly what happened last night, or I will never forgive you!"
Su Xuerong hurriedly blocked Xiao Yuan's path, stamping her foot and saying, "Mother, didn't you say you would help me find an honest, reliable husband who truly cares for me? He is that man!"
Xiao Yuan, listening behind her, was astonished, his heart overflowing with a strong sense of happiness, and he was overjoyed.
I never expected her to trust me so much.
He felt that if he didn't express his opinion, he would be letting down such a pure and beautiful young woman.
"Please rest assured, elders, now that I have met Arong in this life, I will never let her down!" Xiao Yuan gently pulled Su Xuerong's wrist and pulled her aside, then said to Su Jingxuan and Madam Zhou, "My true identity is the seventh son of the current emperor, the Prince of Fenyang in Hangzhou. I now swear in the name of all the ancestors of the Great Zhou Dynasty that I will marry Arong in this life. If I dare to break this oath, may I be struck by lightning and die a horrible death!"
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