Chapter 174 What Did You Do to Me
"Sweet?" Xu Chuchu raised an eyebrow.
Xiao Yu touched his bride's hair and said, "Yes, the smell of the madam is probably sweet."
Xu Chuchu lowered her eyes and smiled: "Slippery tongue."
"Let's not waste any more time, let's get married first." Xiao Yu took the neatly folded red veil from the table, spread it out and placed it on Xu Chuchu's head.
The veil is made of thick gauze and does not block all vision and light like ordinary red cloth.
Xu Chuchu could vaguely see the outlines of people and other objects around her through the veil.
"Come, slow down." Xiao Yu carefully led her to the center of the bridal chamber.
According to the worship process of the Xia Dynasty, candles had to be lit, incense burned, firecrackers set off, and music played.
However, because there were only the two of them during the whole process, no one set off firecrackers or played music. Only Xiao Yu personally lit candles and burned incense.
Xu Chuchu loves money, but she claims that she is not a materialistic woman.
As long as she's with the one she truly loves, she doesn't care if the wedding is simple or even non-existent. She just doesn't care if she doesn't make any money.
But the current scene is different, this wedding is not just simple.
It's outrageous.
"Chu Chu, let's worship heaven and earth first." Xiao Yu's gentle voice came over, and Xu Chuchu, with the help of her peripheral vision, worshipped heaven and earth with him.
The next step was to pay respects to their parents. Since neither of them had any parents or elders, a portrait of Yue Lao was placed in front of them instead, to thank Yue Lao for tying the red thread for the two newlyweds.
"Turn around, Chuchu." Xiao Yu held Xu Chuchu's arm and turned her to face him.
"Are you ready for your last bow?" he asked.
"Yeah." Xu Chuchu nodded obediently.
The custom of "husband and wife bowing to each other" in the Xia Dynasty was very immoral. It did not mean that men and women knelt down at the same time, but that the woman bowed first and then the man bowed after she refused to get up.
After the man finishes his greetings, he stands up first, followed by the woman.
These rules were explained by the maid in the mansion the night before.
Under normal circumstances, Xu Chuchu would definitely not accept this kind of female-lowering wedding ceremony, but now she doesn't care, as long as she finishes the ceremony as soon as possible.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Yu said that he didn't want to bow first or second, but wanted to bow together with her, so she didn't refuse.
Just as she was about to bow, she noticed that Xiao Yu hadn't moved from behind the veil. His figure swayed, and then he seemed to be drunk and unsteady on his feet.
"What's wrong with you?" Xu Chuchu asked softly.
Xiao Yu let go of her, held onto the table with red candles, but struggled and fell to the ground.
"Head, dizzy..." His voice suddenly became weak and he paused, "What did you do to me? Did you drug me?"
Xu Chuchu was not surprised that he guessed the truth so quickly, because he had not gone out for days, and apart from her, no one in the mansion had a reason to drug him.
She slowly lifted her red veil and looked down at Xiao Yu, who was sitting on the corner of the table, dizzy and in pain.
"Are you surprised that I got the drugs? Do you think you have everything under control?" she asked calmly. "You should have known that doing this would backfire."
Xiao Yu did not answer, but kept shaking his head, seeming to be very dizzy.
The bright red wedding dress that represented joy was wrinkled and hung on the ground, looking funny and ridiculous.
The groom was drugged and knocked unconscious by the bride on the wedding day... If this gets out, who wouldn't say it's a joke?
Looking at the embarrassed Xiao Yu, Xu Chuchu opened her red lips slightly, wanting to say something, but she didn't say the last word.
Imprisonment, humiliation, torture...all the unwilling emotions surged up, and she couldn't help but clench her fists.
She had been waiting for this day for too long, and she had even imagined today's scene during many idle days.
She thought about how she would forcefully declare her victory, how she would criticize him for what he had done to her recently, and at what angle she would kick Xiao Yu between her legs...
But in the end she said nothing and did nothing.
She suddenly felt that every minute and every second spent on him was a waste of life.
She bent down, groped Xiao Yu's body, and soon found a bunch of keys.
Xu Chuchu knew these keys. They had been used countless times to open the magic cage that imprisoned her and to restrain her handcuffs... and this prison, which others saw as a place of extravagance but she saw as a dark and gloomy prison.
As long as she left and opened this door, Xiao Yu would no longer be able to catch her.
"Goodbye, Xiao Yu." She said a simple farewell to Xiao Yu and stood up to walk out.
After taking only two steps, her feet suddenly stopped. It turned out that Xiao Yu was struggling to turn over and fell over, grabbing her ankle.
"Are you really leaving?" he asked softly.
Xu Chuchu found this innocent question amusing, and the anger that had been suppressed flared up again: "What else? Do you think I'm a brainless woman who is willing to be locked up by you for the rest of my life, let you vent your anger, and give birth to your children?"
Xiao Yu said: "But, I have already promised you that you can go out every few days..."
"Promise me?!" He was interrupted by Xu Chuchu before he could finish his words, "Xiao Yu, what gives you the right to 'promise' me? Are you my father? Or did I sell myself to you?"
"Xiao Yu, let me tell you, let alone we haven't gotten married yet, even if we were, I would be an independent person first, and your wife second!" She finally let out all the words she had been holding back these days. "You have no right to ask me to stay by your side all the time! Not to mention allowing me to go out or not. This is my freedom, not something you give me as charity!"
Xiao Yu listened to all these words without missing a word.
His face became paler and paler, but he still held on to Xu Chuchu's ankles tightly and did not let go.
"So... your negotiations with me, and your closeness to me these days, were all lies to me?" he asked.
"Of course," Xu Chuchu admitted mercilessly. "You're too shrewd, Xiao Yu. If I hadn't acted more realistically, I wouldn't have had the chance to drug you. But I didn't expect you to believe it so quickly, to think I'd given in and compromised... You really think too little of me!"
Xiao Yu fell to the ground, his eyes closed tightly, with a hint of tears in them.
"No, I can't leave..." He murmured to himself, "Chu Chu, I really can't leave you. I...you can't imagine the feelings I have for you."
"Of course I know you have feelings, and they are indeed deep." Xu Chuchu gently pulled her foot out.
She suppressed the bitterness rising in her heart and softened her tone, "I know... you're not like that at heart. Your true nature is the Xiao Yu I first knew: brave, righteous, gentle, and sincere. If there's a flaw, it's that you can be a little arrogant sometimes."
Xiao Yu still closed his eyes and smiled silently.
"Yes, I know you're being controlled by the brocade-scaled anaconda. This is your fate, born with it, and it's unavoidable." She continued, "I know you don't want this to happen, and you can't control yourself. I know this isn't your fault."
Xiao Yu said: "Then why do you..."
"Because I'm powerless! Xiao Yu." Xu Chuchu held her breath. "I was too arrogant. I thought I could help you get out of this. Now I realize I was wrong, so wrong! Not only did I fail to help you, but I got myself into trouble."
"Your fate is set, Xiao Yu. No one can change it, including me." She turned away sadly. "I once loved you very much, but I can't jump into the abyss to accompany you."
She walked quickly to the iron gate and took out the key.
"Just leaving like that... Aren't you going to kill me?" Xiao Yu's faint voice came from behind, "Now is the best opportunity to end me... You don't have to suffer anymore, and you don't have to worry about me pestering you again."
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