Chapter 2 Imperial Order
Yuan Ying only felt a warm current overflowing from the boy's lips, then from her throat, then to her stomach, then to her torso, and even to her toes.
This indescribable warmth continued to flow into her body.
She looked closely and saw a scarlet light seeping out from between the boy's lips. In an instant, the red light changed unpredictably, the temperature in her body rose suddenly, and she lost consciousness.
The next day, when Yuan Ying woke up, the boy was nowhere to be found. She felt as if she had had a lustful dream. In her dream, there was a charming and handsome boy, whose appearance was unforgettable.
After she finished washing up and opened the door, she saw a handsome young man under the green leaves and new branches. He was dancing with a sword alone, focused and serious.
If it weren't for the pair of blood-red bracelets on his wrists, Yuan Ying would have found it difficult to connect the young man in white in front of her with the sinister young man from last night.
"Miss, you're awake. I'll ask the kitchen to prepare breakfast." When the maid Xiao Cui saw Yuan Ying coming out, she hurried over to speak.
"Didn't he eat?" Yuan Ying asked.
Xiao Cui was stunned for a moment: "Are you talking about uncle? Miss, you didn't get up, so the servants didn't call uncle to eat."
Yuan Ying frowned: "Don't neglect him like this in the future."
Xiao Cui lowered her head, replied "yes", and hurried away.
Yuan Ying had never seen the boy's swordsmanship before. As a family of monster hunters, swordsmanship was a skill that needed to be improved. After all, on the way to conquer monsters, there were not only monsters to be feared, but also people.
Yuan Ying has been practicing martial arts since childhood and has seen many sects in Jiuzhou, but she has never seen such a paranoid and strange sword technique.
At this moment, a sparrow flew down from the tree and passed between Yuanying and the boy. In a flash, Yuanying moved in front of the boy. She pulled out the branch hidden behind her and attacked the boy.
The young man dodged sideways, and the sharp sword flashed silver, flying towards Yuanying. But Yuanying was not panicked. It seemed that due to the warmth of yesterday, her body had regained its long-ago softness. She leaned back and easily dodged. After the cold light flashed, the young man turned around and continued to attack.
Yuanying stepped on the flower, quickly moved to another position, and cleverly broke the second attack.
"Miss Li, you have great skills." The young man curled his lips, then his eyes flashed, he held the sword in his backhand, turned his body, and rushed towards Yuan Ying.
Yuan Ying did not dodge. She looked at the boy calmly until a trace of panic flashed in the boy's eyes. She quickly turned around, used the boy's force to counter his attack, switched to the boy's position, grabbed the boy's hand, and once again resolved the boy's attack.
"Since you and I are husband and wife, I still need to know your name, right?" Yuan Ying whispered in the boy's ear.
Although the boy looks young, he is still a head taller than Yuanying. His profile seems more fascinating than his front face.
It seems that many women are crazy about him. Yuan Ying couldn't help but think so.
The boy's face suddenly turned red. He seemed angry and glared at Yuan Ying fiercely.
"Why are you so close to me? You have no shame!"
Li Yuanying was stunned by the boy's words. What the boy did yesterday was even more shameless than her, so why was he so coy now?
"Don't change the subject today. You have to tell me your name." Li Yuanying ignored the boy's struggle and grabbed his fair wrist, not allowing him to leave.
The young man seemed a little annoyed. He thought for a moment and then said, "I'm the youngest in my family and I have six older sisters. You can just call me Qilang."
"Six sisters?" Yuan Ying was a little surprised. She saw that the man in front of her who called himself Qilang looked delicate and weak, perhaps because he had six older sisters.
"What? Are you scared? Didn't you say yesterday that you wanted to be my sister?" Qilang stared at Yuanying with some amusement.
Yuan Ying thought to herself that Qilang had six older sisters, which showed that his family was eager to have a child. Now his father had kidnapped the only son of the family and brought him to be her husband, and to be a son-in-law, which was really cruel.
"Do your...family members know that you are married now?" Yuan Ying couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know."
"Do you need to write a letter to let me know?"
Qilang chuckled. "You didn't ask many of the questions I thought you would ask. I never expected you to ask this."
Motoying didn't understand what Shichiro was laughing at.
"Forget it. I don't need to write a letter to inform my family. Now that I'm marrying you, I will stay with you." Qilang raised the corner of his mouth, showing an expression that seemed to be a smile.
This expression looks very familiar.
Li Yuanying had seen this subtle expression on the demon's face many times.
After all, monsters are not human beings. They just transform into human form. Therefore, they spend their whole lives learning to cry and laugh like humans. They look like humans, but they will never be human.
After a while, Xiao Cui came to call Yuanying, and breakfast was ready.
The table was filled with yam cake stuffed with date paste, bird's nest porridge, pickled side dishes, and a bowl of exquisite wontons.
After Yuan Ying got married, she no longer ate with the master and the mistress. She could dine alone with her brother-in-law.
Li Yuanying noticed that Qilang didn't seem interested in sweets, so she said, "If Qilang doesn't like these dishes, you can ask the kitchen to make them for you."
"Really? I can eat whatever I want?" Qilang leaned against the back of the mahogany chair, looking quite cynical.
Xiao Cui was a little disgusted. The Li family had strict rules, and the young lady had always abided by them, behaved properly, and never overstepped the boundaries. But who would have thought that this son-in-law was so unruly and annoying, with only a good appearance for show.
"Just ask Shichiro to give the order."
Qi Lang said with a wicked smile: "Then I want to eat the baby in confinement, the bride's feet, and the boy's eyes. Is that okay?"
Xiao Cui was so frightened that she lost her mind and was terrified.
Qilang thought that a rich lady like Li Yuanying who only knew how to follow the rules would be scared by him, but the woman in front of him was not like that.
With a smile on her face that he couldn't understand, she said softly, "If I make this for Qilang, will Qilang really eat it?"
Qilang didn't expect Li Yuanying to reply to him like this. Her tone was 70% true and 30% false. He couldn't figure out the meaning for a moment.
It's really unpredictable.
Thinking of this, Qilang couldn't help but recall what happened last night. When he woke up today, the woman didn't ask anything and didn't even blush. Perhaps she was already used to that kind of thing?
Thinking of this, Qilang felt a little unhappy. He put down his chopsticks heavily and said, "I'm really full."
Then he left the restaurant.
My son-in-law is indeed a bad boy.
Li Yuanying shook her head. She realized that her relationship with her husband was a long and endless journey.
Normally, after breakfast, Yuanying should take her husband to the master's room to serve tea, but she didn't expect that before this ceremony could be completed, the emperor's order arrived first.
This decree was delivered personally by a eunuch from the palace on horseback at full speed.
The emperor's order only said that Li Yuanying should immediately accompany Eunuch Li to Chang'an in a carriage, as there was an extremely urgent matter, but it did not specify what this urgent matter was.
The incident happened suddenly and Li Yuanying had no time to prepare and had to set off immediately.
Before leaving, Mr. Li asked his son-in-law Qilang to accompany him.
This move was something Li Yuanying hadn't anticipated. In the past, whenever she went out to exorcise demons, Master Li always warned her not to bring anyone she didn't know. Every time she went out to exorcise a demon, it was a life-or-death struggle, and she couldn't leave her behind to others.
How much does her father trust Qilang that he would ask her to take him to Chang'an?
Li Yuanying also felt something was amiss. Chang'an was within the Yuanming Realm, so it should be safe from demons. The Li family was stationed in Yaoshui County, a full 300 miles from Chang'an, because Yaoshui County was the training ground for stabilizing the spiritual energy of the Yuanming Realm.
But why did the imperial edict transfer Li Yuanying to Chang'an this time?
Wouldn't this make Yaoshui County's defense weaker?
But Li Yuanying knew that if she didn't go, the Li family would be disobeying the imperial order and would face execution.
The journey to Chang'an will definitely be bumpy. She looked at Qilang with some concern. Although he knew swordsmanship, he was weak and frail.
Especially now, he was completely unaware of the seriousness of the situation and looked carefree.
Yuan Ying gently grabbed the corner of Qilang's clothes and said, "Qilang, this journey will be difficult and dangerous. You just need to hide behind me and don't put yourself in danger."
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