He activated the little spiritual energy he had left, and a small blade of grass growing from a crack in the wall outside the door instantly came to life, peeking out to observe.
Lu Chen looked down and met its gaze, then squatted down and touched its little leaves.
The little grass shook its head excitedly.
The door suddenly opened, and Ye Zhiyu looked at the man in front of her with surprise and rushed over.
Lu Chen caught her, letting her cling to him. Neither of them spoke. Lu Chen carried her inside, and Ye Zhiyu reached out to close and lock the door.
The little grass tilted its head slightly, as if wondering why it had been abandoned.
As soon as Ye Zhiyu looked up, her breath was taken away. Lu Chen held her tightly, expressing his longing in their tender embrace.
The sound of water filled the quiet space. Ye Zhiyu was dressed in thin clothes, and the place where she was close to Lu Chen was warm, but her back was constantly being assaulted by the cold air.
She instinctively shrank her neck, but Lu Chen thought she was going to run away.
A large hand gripped the back of Ye Zhiyu's head, rendering her unable to move.
Unable to speak, he could only speak during the brief moments of breathing.
"Go...to bed..."
Those three words made Lu Chen feel a surge of heat throughout his body. Reluctantly, he withdrew, and a wisp of silver thread appeared between the two of them. Unable to withstand the pull of gravity, it fell and disappeared.
"Ayu, you're not married yet, you can't."
He knew his girl was a vixen, but when in Rome, do as the Romans do; it was absolutely forbidden before marriage.
Ye Zhiyu, who was catching her breath, immediately understood, blushed bright red, slapped him, and said in embarrassment and annoyance, "What are you thinking? I'm cold~"
Both of them were controlling their volume, almost speaking in a whisper.
Lu Chen remained calm and even breathed a sigh of relief, but...
"Ayu, why don't you put on another cotton-padded coat? I'm dirty and I'll make your bed dirty."
He didn't want things to go wrong if he lost control of himself.
But Ye Zhiyu refused, saying matter-of-factly, "Just take off your coat."
"this..."
Ye Zhiyu was getting impatient. It wasn't just Lu Chen who missed her; she missed Lu Chen too. They were being all lovey-dovey, and it was really cold.
"Hurry up, if you don't want to go, go back. I'm going to sleep."
Seeing that Ye Zhiyu was clearly unhappy, Lu Chen agreed.
He came to see her as soon as he got back because he had endless longing to express, so he didn't want to leave like this.
Ye Zhiyu lay on the bed watching Lu Chen take off his clothes, even though he only took off his outer coat.
But for some inexplicable arousal, her body temperature rose, and every movement of Lu Chen seemed to be slowed down in her eyes.
She watched helplessly as Lu Chen placed her hands above her head.
Are you still cold?
Ye Zhiyu shook her head.
The next moment, the blanket covered the two of them. In the darkness, their five senses were amplified. They could hear Lu Chen's heavy breathing and his thin lips began to move.
Gradually, her breathing became rapid.
Try to ignore those strange sensations and suppress the groans that are about to escape your lips.
Her fingers tightened and loosened their grip, leaving marks on her broad back with her delicate pink nails.
"Ah Chen, don't do this."
Ye Zhiyu noticed that his head was gradually drooping, and for the first time she felt that inviting Lu Chen to share a bed with her because she was afraid of the cold was a mistake.
Her hands had been released, and she was pushing against the man's strong body.
Seeing that he couldn't push her away, he tried to move upwards, but she grabbed his waist and he couldn't move.
Just as she was about to use her spiritual power in desperation, the flower core was completely attached to her, and her hands went limp, unable to exert any strength.
When it was all over, Ye Zhiyu leaned against Lu Chen's chest, panting softly.
Except for the final step, they explored every inch of the landmass that could be explored.
"Tell me, what have you been learning outside? Why have you suddenly become so bad?"
Ye Zhiyu's fair and delicate hands weakly gripped Lu Chen's neck, with a small part of her shoulder exposed.
Lu Chen carefully covered her up, took her wrist, placed it to his lips, and kissed it.
The warm touch on her hand instantly reminded Ye Zhiyu of the spot where he had kissed her.
Her ears turned red, and she withdrew her hand, hiding it under the covers.
"Ayu, you're wronging me. I've always been self-taught when it comes to you."
Ye Zhiyu was taken aback by his words: "Hmph, you still say you haven't gone astray? You never said things like that before."
Lu Chen kept quiet about the two books he bought on the black market, one about sweet talk and the other about that kind of thing, all to please her.
"But didn't I call you 'baby' and 'darling' before?"
Ye Zhiyu choked for a moment, feeling that it seemed right, yet also wrong, and that something was off.
Unable to figure it out, he stopped worrying about it, yawned, and asked, "Was the journey smooth? It must have been tiring. Shall we continue?"
She had been in a daze before, but she perked up when Lu Chen came back. After all that commotion, she was a little sleepy.
Lu Chen gently patted her back to help her fall asleep.
"It went smoothly, it was alright, not too hard. It's going to snow soon, so I'm not going any further."
Ye Zhiyu's eyelids kept drooping, and she hunched over, snuggling into Lu Chen's arms.
Muttering to himself, "Liar, how could...it not be hard work..."
The eyes slowly closed, and the sound grew softer and softer.
Lu Chen stared at her sleeping face and answered softly, "I didn't lie to you. For you and for myself, it's all worth it."
Ye Zhiyu pressed his ear to the ground, annoyed by the soft buzzing of mosquitoes. He shut his mouth and gazed greedily at the person in his arms, unable to get enough of looking at her.
Suddenly, the person in his arms half-closed their eyes and hummed softly.
Lu Chen couldn't hear, so he brought his ear closer.
"Lu Chen, let's get married."
He stood there stunned for a long time, his eyes shining brightly, his whole body trembling with excitement.
The voice gently coaxed, "Ayu, could you say it again?"
But the person who had stirred his heart was already asleep, breathing deeply and sleeping soundly, as if it were just a dream that Lu Chen had been fantasizing about.
But he was certain he hadn't misheard; Lu Chen had already begun to imagine their life after marriage.
He closed his weary eyes only when he could no longer bear it; the dark circles under his eyes and the beard around his mouth reflected his exhaustion.
Ye Zhiyu woke up at four in the morning because of the heat.
In her dream, she was surrounded by a volcano and couldn't escape no matter what she did.
She was soaked in sweat from the heat, almost cooked, when she woke up with a start at the moment the volcano erupted.
I stared blankly at the ceiling, its height uncertain due to the darkness.
As I slowly came to my senses and my senses returned, I realized that I was being held in a pair of strong arms, and the man beside me was the volcano from my dream.
Ye Zhiyu stretched out one arm and leg to touch the cold air and let out a refreshing sigh of relief.
She turned her head cautiously, peering through the darkness to make out the man's features with her eyes.
This was an experience she had never had before; it was novel and...sweet.
This must be the happiness Dad was talking about?
Just then, the person next to her woke up. After a brief moment of disorientation, they realized that Ye Zhiyu was awake.
"Why are you awake? Did you not sleep well because I was next to you?"
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