[Emperor Chapter 34] I don't need your protection

After a night of nonsense, Chu Jiao finally ran out of energy and fell asleep with her eyes closed. Her snow-white body had been swollen and red from the hemp rope, and marks were all over her skin, which looked messy and strangely beautiful.

"How could you do this to her!?"

"What's wrong with me!? Haha, don't you feel it? She likes it too..."

"You vicious and cold-blooded person, get out of my body!"

"I am you, you are me... This is our common body, have you forgotten?"

Chu Jiao woke up from the sound of quarreling in a daze.

"Well, Achen, what's wrong? Who are you quarreling with?"

She muttered with her eyes closed, and the quarrel beside her suddenly stopped.

Chu Jiao felt a little strange, and when she opened her eyes, she found that there was only Jing Chen beside her, and there was no one else.

"Ah Chen?"

She tilted her head to touch the young man, but forgot that she was still tied up with hemp rope.

"Hiss..." It was too intense just now, and her wrists were rubbed raw.

"Ah Jiao, are you okay!?" The young man who was bowing his head beside her heard her cry of pain, and hurriedly raised his head nervously, "I'll help you untie it right away!"

"Ah... Chen?" Chu Jiao finally realized what was different. The young man's eye color returned to normal, and his reaction was more like the him she knew before.

"Are you... afraid of me?"

Jing Chen untied the rope on Chu Jiao's body and pulled the quilt to wrap her body.

"How could that be," Chu Jiao stretched out a hand from under the quilt and held Jing Chen's big palm, "I will never be afraid of you."

"I'm sorry, I don't want to hurt you..." Jing Chen held Chu Jiao's wrist distressedly, blaming that "him" for treating his treasure so rudely.

"I know," Chu Jiao leaned over and kissed Jing Chen's eyes as she did before, "Don't worry, I'm fine."

"You're not angry anymore?" After these days, Chu Jiao probably guessed that the time when the "red-eyed" Jing Chen appeared should be when the young man's emotions fluctuated too much.

Jing Chen shook his head, "I won't be angry with you."

"Liar!" Chu Jiao pinched his nose, "You are obviously angry that I left you without saying goodbye." Otherwise, how could another personality appear?

"...Okay, a little bit," Jing Chen nodded, and quickly added, "But now that you're back, I can't wait to be happy!"

"I won't leave you again. Look, didn't I take the initiative to come to you?"

Chu Jiao deliberately stretched out her feet with grievance, "I came all the way here. Look, my feet are all worn out."

"Let me see, where is it? Does it still hurt?" The young man grabbed her little feet with his big hand, and rubbed his fingers on them to find the scars.

"It doesn't hurt anymore..." Chu Jiao felt itchy and shrank her feet, but was held firmly by the young man. She looked at him with his eyes wide open as he lowered his head and placed a kiss on the back of her feet.

"I'm sorry, I didn't protect you well." The young man's eyes flashed blood, and then suddenly darkened.

This sentence was an apology that he had been holding in his heart for two whole years.

If he had been strong enough, his little dumpling would not have been persecuted and driven away, and the two of them would not have been separated.

"Silly Achen..." Chu Jiao softened her eyebrows, held his face and said seriously, "I don't need your protection, I will try my best to stand by your side."

I am not a dodder, I want to be the kapok beside you.

You have your copper branches and iron trunks, and I have my soft body.

We share the cold wave, wind and thunder, and thunder. We share the mist, flowing clouds, and rainbows.