The bright red wedding candles burst into a loud flame. Shi Lan pursed her lips and asked him, "So what if you're back? It's just keeping an idle person around. But are you sure you want to discuss this with me right now?"
Previously, because Shi Lan mentioned the current customs, Zhu Yi changed his previous procrastination and sent the person away decisively. However, Qian Zhiqing secretly returned to the mansion. Zhu Yi did not want Shi Lan to think that he was a person who broke his promise. He was prepared for her to question him, but she just casually mentioned it and even joked about him with a bit of teasing.
Zhu Yi felt relieved, and his restless heart settled down. The feelings that had been born from her appearance deepened with her trust.
“My wife is right. Life is short, and I must strive to achieve my goal,” Zhu Yi chuckled and lowered his head. This time, he captured her lips, gently kissing and rubbing them. When Shi Lan couldn’t help but pant, he gently parted her lips, lightly brushing her gums. When she couldn’t help but slightly part her pearly teeth and moan, he carefully circled her shy and soft tongue, teasing and entwining it with hers.
His breaths, sometimes light, sometimes heavy, kept spraying on her face. Shi Lan's body trembled violently. Her calm rationality turned into mush under his actions. At this moment, she seemed to be drifting aimlessly, feeling a kind of disorientation.
Zhu Yi raised his head with satisfaction, a long silver thread bearing witness to the passion between the two just now.
Zhu Yi lowered his head and gave Shi Lan a deep kiss, then traced his kiss down her soft cheek to her neck.
Her clothes had been pulled open at some point, and her thin inner garment was pulled down to her shoulders and neck. Above the bright red bodice, her delicate collarbones were hidden. Zhu Yi lowered his head and gently bit her, then slowly moved his lips and tongue down the thin rope, following the undulating curves to her most prominent nipple.
Zhu Yi raised his head, glanced at Shi Lan whose soul still lingered in the heavens, opened his mouth, and took a bite that seemed both light and heavy.
A stinging pain, accompanied by an unusual tingling numbness, stimulated Shi Lan's nerves. Her wandering soul returned to normal, and Shi Lan realized that she had unknowingly become half-undressed, and Zhu Yi was reaching out his claws to grab her waist.
Shi Lan's mind went blank for a moment. She hurriedly gathered her clothes and stared at Zhu Yi with wide eyes, trying to see him clearly.
Zhu Yi was stunned for a moment, not expecting Shi Lan to react so strongly.
Shi Lan noticed this as well, slowly sat up, and moved closer to him.
Zhu Yi blinked, looking puzzled, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"But did I hurt you?"
Shi Lan shook her head, her eyes fixed on him.
His dark eyes were just as I had seen them before, and several black lines between his brows seemed to flow like water, gradually drawing out a complex pattern.
Shi Lan reached out and cupped Zhu Yi's face, gave him a light kiss, and then straddled him.
Zhu Yi also leaned back and let her slowly press down on him.
Shi Lan stretched out her finger and traced the flowing lines. After a moment, she asked in a low voice, "Do you know that you have a strange pattern between your eyebrows?"
Zhu Yi was taken aback and asked, "You can see that?"
Shi Lan nodded and asked him, "Do you want to eliminate it?"
Zhu Yi asked, "Do you have a solution?"
Shi Lan smiled: "Of course."
Zhu Yi tilted his head to look at her, a hint of curiosity in his eyes. Over the years, she was the first person to notice the pattern between his eyebrows. However, the pattern did not bother him, and since others could not see it, he eventually let it go.
Shi Lan lowered her head and gently traced the very distinct lines of his lips with the tip of her tongue.
“As long as you listen to me,” she mumbled, “be good, open your mouth.”
Zhu Yi was both amused and exasperated. This was clearly something he should be doing, but she had taken the initiative instead.
However, he was still willing to indulge this small request, hoping that there would be more of this kind of initiative in the future.
Shi Lan pressed her lips to his, her tongue hesitantly sliding along his teeth, slowly exploring as if searching for something. After a moment, she withdrew and stared at him intently for a while.
Zhu Yi tilted his head, letting her look him over.
Shi Lan lowered her head again, pressed her moist lips together, and let her tongue slip inside again, mimicking what Ning had done to her earlier.
After a while, Shi Lan looked up, stared at him for a moment, and then, somewhat frustrated, rested her head against his neck.
Zhu Yi reached out and patted her gently, asking softly, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing," Shi Lan shook her head, her heart filled with resentment.
At that moment, she suddenly understood why Qian Zhiqing dared to let herself stay by his side. Zhu Yi's feelings for her had been deeply ingrained, and a simple kiss was simply not enough to bring him back to his senses.
Shi Lan sighed in frustration, slowly stood up, and said, "Your poisoning is severe, and I can only do my best."
Zhu Yi smiled and put his arm around her waist, saying, "So you were just detoxifying me?"
Shi Lan nodded and said seriously, "We cannot consummate our marriage before the secrets are fully revealed, otherwise all our efforts will be in vain."
Zhu Yi chuckled twice, pulled her back a little, and leaned against the four-poster bed, teasingly saying, "Since that's the case, it's still early, please continue with the detoxification, my lady."
Shi Lan pouted, but still obediently stepped forward and kissed him.
Although Zhu Yi was so excited he was about to explode, seeing her swollen lips and the fact that she was almost crying, he didn't want to force her. He could only endure the pain and went along with her wishes, spending most of the night together.
The sky was already beginning to lighten, and Shi Lan looked at him through the dim light from the window.
After scrutinizing him for a while, her furrowed brows relaxed slightly, and she placed her slender hand on his firm chest.
He patted it and said, "It seems to be working, just a bit slow."
Zhu Yi sighed and asked cooperatively, "How much longer?"
Shi Lan tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know."
Zhu Yi slumped onto the bed, then suddenly sat up and asked fiercely, "No, give me a deadline, or I'll take you right now."
Shi Lan shrank back slightly, thought for a moment, and said, "It could take as little as six months, or as long as two or three years."
Shi Lan wasn't really sure either. The dark lines between his eyebrows were much lighter than Hao Ze's, and her kiss did indeed lighten them a little, but it was so insignificant that Shi Lan didn't know when they would be completely gone.
“No, I’ll only give you half a month,” Zhu Yi slowly approached Shi Lan. “After half a month, whether you like it or not, you will be mine.”
Shi Lan pouted her slightly swollen lips and muttered, "The time was too short."
Zhu Yi narrowed his eyes dangerously, placing his long fingers on Shi Lan's shoulder: "Or you can collect the bribe I'm owed right now."
Shi Lan quickly smiled and said, "Half a month it is then," she thought for a moment and emphasized, "But during these half a month, you must stay by my side and be available whenever I need you..."
“Okay,” Zhu Yi replied decisively before she could finish speaking.
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