Chapter 72 Chapter 72 "Don't scream if it hurts too much later."
Zhang Jingxuan's expression suddenly turned cold: "Are you pretending to sleep?"
Xue Yuanyin asked back, "Why don't you say that you didn't notice that I wasn't asleep?"
Zhang Jingxuan frowned, his expression darkening slightly.
Xue Yuanyin was not very happy when she saw that he did not answer.
She had actually been awake the whole time.
She had been having trouble sleeping at night these past few days and was restless. When she heard footsteps at the cell door, she woke up.
But she was still sleepy at the time, and she wanted to see what the visitor was going to do, so she didn't open her eyes.
Unexpectedly, it was Zhang Jingxuan who had not come all day who came to see her late at night.
She was not unaware of the gaze from above falling on her face.
He fed her medicine, which was beyond her expectations.
Zhang Jingxuan was so smart that he didn't even notice that she was pretending to be asleep, which was inconsistent with his sharp nature.
She suspected that something external had disturbed his mind, or even that he had encountered something more dangerous than her torture, so she secretly opened her eyes, intending to see what he was going to do.
Unexpectedly, after doing all this, Zhang Jingxuan turned around and was about to leave.
She naturally wouldn't do what he wanted. He wanted to leave right after coming here? How could it be that easy?
Xue Yuanyin seemed not to notice the coldness in his eyes and smiled: "Aren't you going to explain?"
Zhang Jingxuan's expression remained unchanged as he said calmly, "You are about to serve your sentence. I can't bear it, and I'm afraid you'll be sad to see me, so I came here to say farewell. Miss Xue, are you even fussy about this?"
He tried to break free, but Xue Yuanyin held on tighter. Staring at his handsome face, which was blurred in the darkness, she narrowed her eyes slightly, seemingly smiling, but hinting at a hint of sarcasm:
"After all, we were once lovers, and you can watch me die so calmly and calmly?"
I don't know which word hit Zhang Jingxuan again, making his face turn slightly cold:
"Are you so determined that you want to die?"
He wanted to pull his hand away and said, "Let me go."
Xue Yuanyin grabbed his arm and suddenly pulled it inward with force. Zhang Jingxuan suddenly leaned forward, his calf tripped by the edge of the bed, and he fell straight onto the couch.
The bed in the cell was already low, and Zhang Jingxuan's arm was grabbed by her. He had no time to hold on to the headboard and lost his balance in an instant. Xue Yuanyin grabbed his throat and pulled him towards the bed. She heard him groan from being hit.
Xue Yuanyin didn't care about him and immediately turned over. She quickly grabbed his shoulders and sat on him without hesitation.
She had used up all her fighting strength to complete this set of movements. Now she was panting. She looked down and confirmed that she had finally succeeded in flipping up. Only then did she have time to appreciate her masterpiece.
The gentle and dignified man lay on a simple straw couch, but his dignified demeanor was not concealed at all, but rather highlighted.
This feeling of looking down is really addictive once you try it once.
Zhang Jingxuan frowned, his voice a bit cold as he said, "Get up and get off me."
Xue Yuanyin pretended not to hear him. She lowered her eyes to look at him and smiled with her eyes curved: "Why did you come to see me in the middle of the night?"
After a slight pause, she supported herself on both sides of his body, leaned over gently, and stared closely into his eyes, which were always calm and composed. Her smile widened as she asked, "Are you feeling sorry for me?"
She looked as if she had caught him, with a hint of cunning and pride in her expression.
Zhang Jingxuan looked at her and said calmly and objectively:
"I have known you for many years, and we have a deep friendship since childhood. Although I have become more treacherous as I grow older, I am not a heartless or ungrateful person. Naturally, I cannot remain indifferent to what you are about to face."
Xue Yuanyin didn't like this answer. She looked at him for a moment, then suddenly said, "Zhang Jingxuan, you're not one for explaining so much about this kind of thing. So what are you trying to hide?"
She leaned closer again, nose to nose, eyes staring into his, the warm air she exhaled brushing against his face, their eyes entwined and blending at such close distance. She said slowly:
"Does it have anything to do with your sudden visit to me tonight?"
The silent night froze for a moment.
Zhang Jingxuan suddenly sneered and said coldly, "You've forgotten that you wouldn't have asked so many questions like this before. So what are you trying to figure out? You want to know what I'm thinking, right?"
He looked at her with a deep and focused gaze that made her heart skip a beat.
Xue Yuanyin pretended to be casual and said, "Then can you speak it?"
Zhang Jingxuan said calmly, "Get off me, and I'll tell you."
Xue Yuanyin scoffed softly, and said with a hint of sarcasm: "When I get down, you will be out of prison. You can't fool me."
He didn't answer for a moment, and Xue Yuanyin didn't want to wait for his answer. She lowered her eyes and thought it would be a pity to sit on him without doing anything. The night made it difficult to make out his expression. She reached out in the dim light to touch his temples, stroked the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, then to the bridge of his nose, and finally to his lips.
Xue Yuanyin gently stroked his face, tracing its contours. She asked, "Zhang Jingxuan, if I died tomorrow, would you be sad for me?"
Although she was smiling, she looked indifferent. Zhang Jingxuan was a little annoyed by her blunt question. He pursed his lips and did not answer.
Xue Yuanyin was not surprised by his silence. The night was too dark, and she did not notice his sudden change of mood. She stroked his lips downwards, landing on his protruding Adam's apple, kneading it gently with her fingertips. She was immersed in her own thoughts and continued:
"My mother is dead, my brother is dead, and my father wouldn't have a good ending if you caught him. So, there's not even anyone in the Great Zhou who can build a tomb for me. I used to be able to ask Gao Songlin to help me build a tombstone after my death, but now he's in prison and can't protect himself. I thought about asking Princess Ning Yan for help, but she's of noble status, and doing something like this would easily shorten my lifespan in my next life. After much thought, I think you're the only one who can help. Are you willing, Zhang Jingxuan?"
She thought carefully and spoke sincerely, "This is easy for you. It's just a matter of giving an order. I won't trouble you in vain. I can pay you a reward of five hundred taels of silver."
She pinched his Adam's apple, which brought about an indescribable itch and a subtle heat that spread.
Zhang Jingxuan sensed some hidden desires from her little movements and was distracted for a moment, but then he regained consciousness, suppressed the anger between his brows, and warned:
"Xue Yuanyin!"
He seemed to be unable to bear it any longer, so he pressed her shoulders and pushed her aside, then stood up from the bed and said coldly:
"I have nothing to say to you now. It's the dead of night and I don't want to argue with you."
Unexpectedly, Xue Yuanyin did not stop him. She stood up obediently and allowed him to turn over smoothly.
He didn't look back, and she didn't call him, just watched him leave quietly.
Zhang Jingxuan placed his hand on the iron gate and paused. The night was dark and the air was extremely quiet. Even though he didn't look back, he knew she was looking at him.
Unlike usual, her previous gaze was tentative, which made him walk more smoothly. This time, it was frank and straightforward, but it was like a hook with bait, making it almost impossible for him to take a step.
Finally, he tilted his eyes slightly and whispered:
"Eat more and don't be picky. The food in this prison is made with medicinal food. You are getting weaker and weaker, so this will replenish your body."
There was the sound of chains behind him, and she took a step towards him.
Zhang Jingxuan seemed oblivious to the clanging of chains as she approached, nor did he consider that she would die tomorrow, so what good would a medicinal diet do? He stared at the asphalt-colored wall hidden in the darkness, muttering to himself,
"Don't worry about other things anymore. No one can restrain you now. Just do what you want to do."
The sound of rattling chains grew closer in the dim and quiet cell.
Zhang Jingxuan paused for a moment before continuing softly, "You're only seventeen, and you still have a lot of life ahead of you. I remember the Emperor gave you a house..."
Xue Yuanyin approached and stopped behind him. She suddenly laughed and said:
"Zhang Jingxuan, you're talking nonsense and you don't even dare to look me in the eye."
Zhang Jingxuan clenched the iron gate slightly, then let it go. He turned around and looked at her, his face calm, "Why shouldn't I dare?"
Xue Yuanyin suddenly reached out and pushed him, unprepared, pushing him against the wall. Seeing his brows about to furrow again, she leaned in to kiss him. In the moment he paused, her cool fingertips, like fish swimming under a lotus leaf, delicately and precisely slipped into his shirt to knead his chest muscles.
The touch was as good as ever, making her always think about it and unable to forget it.
Zhang Jingxuan pushed her away violently and said angrily, "What are you doing?!"
Xue Yuanyin didn't care about him. She pulled down his blocking arm and continued to search downwards with her fingertips. When she found his well-defined abdominal muscles, she stroked them lightly and heavily, lingering on them greedily.
After a while, she gently pinched a pair of red and astringent fruits on the branches.
Zhang Jingxuan suddenly grabbed her wrist, his face slightly cold as he said, "I don't want to do these things with you now!"
"You haven't finished your sexual business with me yet, have you?"
Xue Yuanyin kept working while taking a break from his busy schedule to mutter, "I couldn't sleep, so I wanted to do these things with you. You're so trustworthy, you won't just ignore me, right..."
How could she not hear those words that sounded like a last will and testament?
How could she let him go when she could clearly see that something was wrong with him?
Xue Yuanyin didn't know what Zhang Jingxuan wanted to do or what he was planning to do. She was exhausted and didn't want to guess anymore.
Now she just wanted to do something according to her heart...at least not let him leave so soon, and stay a little longer.
The man opposite her had a tense waist and abdomen, veins on his arms and wrists bulged slightly, and he gripped her wrist with great force, clearly resisting her actions.
Zhang Jingxuan tried his best to suppress the slight irritation welling up in his heart. Even though it had completely reared up, bulging his pants in the dim light, his breathing remained restrained and cold.
Xue Yuanyin couldn't see his expression in the night, but she didn't care. She curved her heartless eyes and sighed:
"It feels so good to touch... Tell me, am I leading you on, or are you leading me on? No wonder everyone says you're the crown prince's most brilliant counselor. You're practically setting a trap for me."
The logic of this statement is not sound and it can be called nonsense.
But she was enjoying herself to the fullest, and put her other hand on the jade leather belt around his waist. He suppressed his anger and tried to stop her hand, but she slowly moved it around his waist, her palm pausing as she walked.
Her palms were soft, and she would occasionally tease him downwards, like a flame that grew stronger and stronger, making him feel itchy.
Rising from his lower abdomen was a completely different feeling of anger and impulsive heat than usual.
After a while, when her palm touched his hip, Zhang Jingxuan finally couldn't bear it anymore and grabbed her hand, saying:
"That's enough! Stop it right now."
Xue Yuanyin suddenly grabbed both of his hands, pulled them up to hold his arms, and kicked him down. However, Zhang Jingxuan was caught off guard once and twice, so how could she succeed the third time?
He reacted immediately, let go of her hand, and dodged her attack sideways. She was extremely light, and she bent her legs and pressed against his waist and hips again. This part was too dangerous. He paused for a second, and Xue Yuanyin seized this second and stretched out her legs to trip him to the ground.
Zhang Jingxuan was not steady yet, so he raised his hands to remove the restraints on her arms. However, Xue Yuanyin's feet were still on his calves, and there was no leverage. They both lost their balance, and he dragged her down with him, rolling onto the cold ground.
Xue Yuanyin fell down first. Seeing that he was about to crush her, she rolled to the side. When he fell to the ground and tried to stand up, she stood up and sat on him, leaning down and smiling triumphantly:
"Can you do anything to me?"
Zhang Jingxuan was completely annoyed. He stared at her face looking down at him from above and scolded her coldly:
"Xue Yuanyin, it's the dead of night and I don't want to push you to the ground. I'll give you three seconds to get up from me immediately!"
"I just don't want to get up. What can you do? You said it was late at night. I want to do something else..."
Xue Yuanyin didn't want to care about how angry he was. Her heart felt like it had been soaked in cold water all day, nearly torn apart. Now she just wanted to let it out all at once. She was about to die, so why should she care about anything else?
As if using herself as bait to lure him, Xue Yuanyin took Zhang Jingxuan's hand on her own initiative.
The domestic rabbits were white and tender. She knew he loved them, so she half gave them to him and half led him over to let him scratch the rabbits' heads.
When the two touched, the palms and skin immediately became hot.
The next moment, she suddenly felt something.
Thinking of the plant she had glimpsed at the bottom of the lake, and seeing it fully awake now, she was secretly shocked.
Her waist was suddenly tightened with great force, causing her to feel a dull pain and almost collapse.
Xue Yuanyin forced herself to hold on and looked down at him. She really saw that Zhang Jingxuan's gentle and clear face was forcibly suppressing his emotions, and his waist and abdomen were tense.
She couldn't ignore the strangeness in him. His earlobe was silently stained with a faint red, but she concealed it well and didn't look unfamiliar or timid at all.
The moonlight fell on her face, reflecting in his eyes that were suppressing his passion, revealing the heartless smile in them: "Be my lover, let me fulfill my wish, and let your young master fulfill his wish too... We both win."
The cell was silent, with only her fingertips lingering near his jade leather belt, causing the iron chains to clash.
The rustling sound burned his sanity bit by bit.
Xue Yuanyin looked at him, and met a pair of dark, deep eyes, the expression of which was difficult to discern. Listening carefully, she could faintly detect the sound of increasingly rapid breathing, suppressed by the darkness.
Her heart trembled, but her face showed no fear at all. She even had the leisure to slowly adjust the cool jade belt on Zhang Jingxuan's body, and her smile was straightforward and successful:
"Don't think I don't know. You've been thinking about me doing that thing since we were in the courtyard in Qingxi Town, like the time I called you brother. I guessed it all, but I just didn't say it out loud. Zhang Jingxuan, you've been coveting me for a long time."
She was not afraid of the darkening color in his eyes at all, as if she had no idea what the consequences would be if she exposed it. She was like a fearless civet cat, obedient but with a bit of rebellious nature, with no awareness of doing anything wrong. She just blinked her clear round eyes and tilted her head towards you innocently and frankly.
Zhang Jingxuan suddenly turned over and stood up, picked her up almost roughly and threw her onto the mat, then turned over and pressed her down.
During these days, his nerves were always on edge, and deep down he was suppressing resentment, anger, and a faint panic. These emotions were piling up day by day, blocking his chest and unable to vent, making him restless day and night.
Finally, the accumulated emotions suddenly burned out almost all of his rationality, and burst out impulsively and clamorously.
Zhang Jingxuan's chest heaved violently. He suppressed his anger, smiled coldly, and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth:
"Well, it was your choice!"
Xue Yuanyin's back was hit against the wooden board, and the pain was almost numb. When he finally regained consciousness and opened his eyes, he was suddenly met with a pair of deep, dark eyes.
His hoarse and vicious voice rang in her ears:
"Don't scream if it hurts."
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