Chapter 148 - First published on Jinjiang | Parallel Universe ⑤
Jia Rou's long eyelashes trembled slightly: "Don't you... dislike sweets?"
Xiao Che gently wiped the glistening moisture from her lips with his thumb, smiling as he said, "The sweetness in my sister's mouth is naturally different from others. How could I not like it?"
"The little rabbit's lips are sweet, but what about the rest of her body? Is there anything sweeter than this?" His hand slowly moved down, cupping her ample bosom, and he said meaningfully, "On our wedding night, I will savor it properly."
Yan Jiarou didn't understand the deeper meaning in his words. She just tilted her head up and looked at him expectantly, asking, "Brother, when can I marry you?"
"My royal sister is so eager to marry me, is she so impatient?"
He had only intended to tease her a bit, to see her blush and stammer in denial, but to his surprise, the girl just stared at him intently and nodded very seriously: "Yes, I can't wait. I dream of becoming your bride. I want everyone to know that we are a match made in heaven."
Xiao Che's Adam's apple bobbed as he gazed at her with affection: "Silly girl, what girl would say such things on her own initiative..."
Yan Jiarou pursed her lips, lowered her eyelashes, and buried her face in his chest with a hint of grievance. After a long while, she said, "Brother, I can be shy too, but I like you so much, so much that I don't care about anything else... I just want to tell you how I feel..."
Xiao Che felt his heart gradually warming up, as if someone had lit a lamp in his heart, warmly illuminating it and driving away the cold and dampness in his heart.
His heart softened instantly, and he gently stroked her face, saying, "Sweetheart, it'll be soon."
"Soon, soon, you always say that..." Jia Rou didn't get the answer she wanted, and was still somewhat dissatisfied: "But I'm already of marriageable age, why can't I..."
"Yan Yan, the time is not right yet. Once I'm in that position, I'll give you a magnificent wedding."
“But I don’t care about any of that,” Yan Jiarou said, her beautiful eyes glistening as she stared at him intently. “All I want is to marry you.”
“Silly girl,” Xiao Che sighed, pressing his forehead against hers, and said very softly, “But I love you, so I want to give you the best in the world. Besides, you are going to marry me eventually. Between you and me, apart from the rites of marriage, we have already done everything that a husband and wife should do. Getting married is only a matter of time, so why rush it?”
"Okay, I'll listen to you, brother." She didn't want to be unreasonable, but she was still in a bad mood, and her voice sounded muffled: "Then kiss me again... kiss me and I won't be unhappy..."
Xiao Che smiled and said, "Alright, I'll listen to my darling."
They then engaged in another long period of tender affection, inevitably losing their sense of propriety in their intimacy. Xiao Che reached under her skirt, and Yan Jiarou let out a soft moan, collapsing into his arms. Just as the two were deeply in love and inseparable, a furious shout suddenly rang out in their ears like a thunderclap: "What are you doing!"
Xiao Che frowned in displeasure, and had no choice but to temporarily leave Yan Jiarou's soft lips, pressing her into his arms to cover the exposed skin in front of her body. Only then did he look up at the person who had come, and said slowly, "Your Highness the Crown Prince."
Xiao Jue, panting heavily, veins bulging on his forehead, pointed a trembling finger at the two of them and said, "Xiao Che, what have you done? You distracted her during class, and then you lured her into doing this kind of shameful thing with you after class. Do you even deserve to be called an older brother? Instead of properly guiding your younger sister, you led her astray!"
“Wrong path?” Xiao Che rolled the two words on the tip of his tongue, and said slowly, “What is wrong path? Seducing a girl and then abandoning her is wrong path. The Crown Prince knows this very well. Yan Yan and I are not related by blood. If I can get married to her in the future, then it cannot be considered wrong path.”
He hugged her tighter as he spoke, asserting his ownership: "She was going to marry me eventually. I'm just doing some things with her that we'll do later. What's the big deal? Why is Your Highness making such a fuss?"
"Your Highness seems to disapprove. What's wrong? Are you jealous?" Xiao Che smirked lazily. "Speaking of seduction, you can seduce her all you want. What, is she not interested? Oh yes, she has only ever loved me since she was little. No matter how much the Crown Prince does, it's all in vain."
These words struck a nerve with Xiao Jue. His face turned pale, and he stared intently at Xiao Che, saying, "You!"
Finally, enraged, he spat out a few words through gritted teeth: "The behavior of a brothel owner!"
Xiao Che dismissed these words as mere boasting due to his incompetence, and laughed them off. Yan Jiarou, however, couldn't bear to see Xiao Che spoken to like that. She had already straightened her clothes, and suddenly stood up, turning to shield Xiao Che in a protective stance. Her chest heaved with anger.
She looked up to meet Xiao Jue's gaze. Although she barely reached his chin and was already at a disadvantage in terms of presence, she didn't back down at all: "What gives you the right to say that about him?!"
Xiao Jue's brows furrowed deeply. The thought of his beloved defending another man in front of him, even at the cost of confronting him directly, was truly unbearable.
He slowly clenched his fist and murmured, "Jiarou..."
Yan Jiarou snorted coldly and said, "Crown Prince, I still call you Crown Prince because I still remember our childhood friendship. But if you continue to slander Xiao Che like this, then don't blame me for disregarding our sibling bond. Xiao Che is the person I love, and if you oppose him, you are opposing me. I am just a commoner princess adopted by the royal family, bearing the title of princess. I have no blood relation with you princes and princesses. So what if I am like this with Third Brother? How could it bother you? Why do you keep ruining our fun? It's so annoying!"
Xiao Jue felt his blood surging and the veins on his forehead bulging. He took a deep breath and said, "But you are still siblings in name only. How can you be so shameless and disregard propriety in broad daylight? Aren't you afraid I'll tell Father?"
"Tell Father?" Yan Jiarou chuckled. "If that's the case, then I have to thank Second Brother. Father has long said that whichever of the princes I like, I can marry. I can't wait to marry Third Brother, but he always tells me to wait. If you go and tell Father about our affair, even if he's a little angry, he will eventually issue an imperial decree to grant us a marriage. Once the decree is issued, Third Brother will have no choice but to marry me, and Second Brother will become our matchmaker. I'll definitely make sure you sit at the head table then."
Xiao Jue never expected her to say such a thing. He was both angry and anxious and stared at her, saying, "You! You really are..." He couldn't bring himself to say the words "shameless".
Yan Jiarou ignored him and snorted. She turned and pulled Xiao Che's arm to help him up. "Brother, let's go. There are annoying people here. Let's go somewhere else." She hadn't let him kiss her enough yet.
Xiao Che smiled lazily, his eyes overflowing with doting affection: "Okay."
As the two of them brushed past him affectionately, Xiao Jue felt an indescribable tightness and stagnation in his chest, and gradually a bizarre and surreal feeling arose, as if he were lost and confused. For some reason, he felt as if he had lost something in the dark, as if in another parallel universe, it was he who was being treated with such care and affection by Yan Jiarou.
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