Chapter 50 [50] How could he kiss there!
【50】/First release
Yun Ran was not prepared for Sima Jing to suddenly open the window.
When our eyes met, I suddenly felt embarrassed as if I had been caught.
"Your Highness, what a coincidence." She smiled awkwardly.
"...Unfortunately, this is my window."
Sima Jing lowered his dark eyes and stared at her: "Why are you here?"
The cold and distant tone instantly blew away the awkwardness, and Yun Ran also remembered that he came here in the middle of the night to ask for an explanation!
But before that—
"Your Highness, please help me. This window sill is too high. I can't get up."
“…”
Yingxuan Hall was built along the mountainside. To prevent insects, snakes and moisture, the foundation was built with large blocks of bluestone layer by layer, which were joined together tightly, so the height was naturally not low.
Sima Jing glanced outside and noticed that Yun Ran was standing on the stone at the base of the wall, while her maid was standing below, holding her legs tightly.
What a unique way of appearing.
He pursed his thin lips, then stretched out his arms, held Yun Ran's armpits, and carried her in from the window.
As soon as Yun Ran's feet touched the ground, she almost fell into the man's arms. Fortunately, she steadied her steps in time and kept some distance.
"Qingling, you don't have to worry about me anymore."
Yun Ran turned around and leaned back onto the windowsill, shouting down, "Go up front and find Eunuch Chang. Ask him to find you a warm place to rest."
Qing Ling raised her head and replied, "I understand. Princess, please go and do your work."
After arranging Qingling, Yun Ran closed the window with peace of mind, and naturally noticed the bottle of red plums placed by the window.
Her eyebrows moved slightly, but she said nothing.
When she turned around and saw the man in green robe standing quietly beside the white gauze lantern, she said loudly, "Your Highness, have I offended you in any way?"
Sima Jing was slightly startled, his brows furrowed. "Why do you say that?"
Yun Ran: "If I didn't offend you, why would you hide from me?"
Sima Jing: "...I didn't hide from you."
Yun Ran: “Yes.”
Sima Jing: "No."
Yun Ran: "Yes, there is!"
Sima Jing: “…”
His calm gaze swept over the young lady in front of him who was wrapped in a white fox fur cloak. Perhaps because she had rushed all the way here, her snow-white cheeks and nose were red from the cold, and her clear black eyes were staring at him, as if angry, but also revealing a hint of grievance.
She came here in the middle of the night in the cold wind, so why should I argue with her?
"Come and sit down."
Sima Jing walked to the table and poured her a cup of warm tea.
Seeing this, Yun Ran curled his lips but still walked over.
A cup of hot tea dispelled the chill from her body and gave her more energy to denounce Sima Jing: "I was so worried about you last night that I ran to Xingchen Tang to look for you, even using up a top-grade talisman. And yet, you didn't even say thank you, and you even brought it out without a word... If you have a problem with me, just say it directly. Why are you being so unclear and confusing?"
Thinking of what happened last night, Sima Jing couldn't help but tighten his long fingers that were resting on the edge of the table.
After a long moment, he looked at Yun Ran and said, "I just want to be alone."
Yun Ran: "Your Highness, do you think I'm noisy?"
Sima Jing: “…”
"If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your consent. Since you find me noisy, then I... I'll just leave."
Yun Ran drooped her thick black eyelashes, as if a little sad, but quickly raised her eyes: "But before I leave, you have to explain what happened last night to me clearly, otherwise I will have to think about it by myself again and won't be able to sleep all night."
Sima Jing could see the disappointment beneath her forced calmness. After a moment of silence, he finally told her what happened last night.
"So that's what happened!"
After hearing the whole story, Yun Ran was dumbfounded: "I was wondering why Aunt Lan Gui was so strange. You look like you've been possessed by an evil spirit."
It turned out that it was not evil spirits that caused the disease, but Chinese medicine.
Yun Ran looked at him worriedly: "How are you feeling now? Are you still feeling unwell? I wanted to wait for you to come back last night, but I was so sleepy that I fell asleep without realizing it..."
Sima Jing felt a sudden surge of heat in his heart when he saw that she had heard everything and her first reaction was to ask about his situation.
When he spoke again, his voice was a little hoarse: "The imperial physician has examined him, and there is nothing serious."
"That's good."
Yun Ran nodded and sighed softly, "I didn't expect it to be like this. The Queen Mother and the Nanny are too anxious. What's the rush? It's not like I'll die tomorrow if I don't do it today... Even if they were really anxious, they could just tell me no. It's not impossible for us to just treat it as a matter of fact. Why bother drugging them and making everyone look so embarrassed now..."
Sima Jing: “…”
What does it mean to treat it as a matter of fact?
Is this the point?
"However, Nanny Lan Gui has been transferred, and the Queen Mother has also expressed her stance. Your Highness, please don't dwell on this matter anymore."
Yun Ran smoothed the sleeves of his embroidered lilac robe and said sternly, "Anger is harmful to your health, and overthinking is useless. Let's be more careful in the future."
At this point, she couldn't help but frown. This wasn't a big deal, but when she thought about it carefully, it was terrifying. Eating in the inner courtyard of the palace, if you weren't careful, you could be drugged, and the person who drugged you was a close relative...
She had to admit that the Queen Mother's actions were really excessive.
Even if it is done out of "good intentions", it seriously undermines the trust that should exist between relatives.
How sad it is if a person has to be on guard against even his own biological mother.
"Your Highness, I won't ask you to forgive me, but you should stop thinking about it. Otherwise, you will be the only one who suffers, and it's not worth it."
Yun Ran wanted to say a few more words of comfort, but seeing the man sitting silently beside the couch, she swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue: "...Since you want to be alone, then be alone."
"If you still want to go to the market on the 15th, just send someone to let me know in advance. If you don't want to go, I can also arrange an appointment with my fourth brother and the others in advance."
"Well, I'll be leaving now."
Now that he had found out everything he wanted to know and met the person he wanted to meet, Yun Ran felt that he should be able to fall asleep tonight.
I didn't expect that as soon as I stood up from the couch, my wrist was strangled.
Yun Ran turned his head in surprise: "Your Highness?"
Sima Jing raised his head, his dark eyes gazing deeply at her: "Stay."
Yun Ran's eyes flickered: "But didn't you say..."
Sima Jing's jaw tightened slightly. "It's a dark and windy night."
Yun Ran: "My cloak is quite thick and windproof. There are also many palace servants holding lanterns on the road, so I am not afraid of the dark."
Sima Jing: "...It's already late at night."
Yun Ran: "It's okay. I've already washed up and can go back and fall asleep."
Sima Jing: “…”
Yun Ran didn't say anything, just looked at him with her big, bright eyes.
She is not a fool either.
The moment she saw the plum blossoms on the windowsill, she knew that Sima Jing didn't mind her being noisy, but he was just feeling awkward again.
Although she didn't know why he felt awkward again, since he wanted her to stay, he had to say it himself.
She had said before that she didn't want to guess and waste her time and energy -
If you have a request, just say it directly.
If you don't tell her, she will pretend not to know.
In the end, he is the one who suffers anyway.
How could Sima Jing not see that Yun Ran was pretending to be stupid?
But over the years, he has become accustomed to keeping his heart closed.
If you have no desires, you have no demands; if you have no demands, you have no harm.
Reason told him that there was no one in this world that he could trust and rely on. Even his closest relatives would betray him and become his enemies, let alone others.
But the warmth coming from the slender wrist held in my palm is so tempting.
Can't bear to let go.
Nor willing to let go.
His throat rolled up and down for a long time. He raised his eyes again, his voice slightly dry, "Yun Ran, I want you to stay."
Finally said it.
It wasn't as difficult as I imagined, but my heart felt like it was suspended in mid-air by a thread, waiting for her response.
Or, charity, mercy?
Anything is fine.
As long as she nods.
Yun Ran didn't know what was going on in the man's mind. She only knew that he had finally learned to express his thoughts!
The surprise at this moment was no less than the first time the puppy, at his hundredth birthday, was able to catch her flying bone.
She wanted to do the same thing to Baisui, rush up to hug him and kiss him: "You are so great!"
But Sima Jing is not a puppy.
She had no choice but to suppress the urge and the upward curl of her lips, blinking: "Your Highness, do you mind my noise?"
Sima Jing looked at her: "I never thought you were noisy."
"Oh, so—"
Yun Ran said, "I have wronged Your Highness. I want to apologize to Your Highness."
“…”
Sima Jing squeezed her hand tightly and said, "It's getting late. Now that you've washed up, go to bed and rest."
Without waiting for Yun Ran to say anything else, he turned off the lights until only two were left in the room, turned around and pulled Yun Ran to the bed.
Yingxuan Palace was a temporary palace, and the bed was far less spacious than that in Feiluan Palace. When Yun Ran was lying inside, she clearly felt that the man next to her was closer.
When the dark green bed curtains were lowered, the bed was plunged into darkness, and the breathing of the two people became clearer.
It was obviously not the first time they slept in the same bed, but Yun Ran was inexplicably a little nervous tonight.
She couldn't explain why, but she just felt something was different.
Maybe it was because tonight, Sima Jing took the initiative to ask her to stay?
Well, that's probably the reason.
She stared at the dark ceiling of the bed, trying to calm her disordered heartbeat, but a man's voice came from beside her: "Are you sleepy?"
Yun Ran was slightly surprised, then shook his head: "It's okay, what's wrong?"
Sima Jing: "Nothing."
After a pause, he said, "It's just that a few days ago, you had a lot to say even when you lay in bed."
But tonight it was unbelievably quiet.
Yun Ran: "Your Highness, do you want to talk to me?"
Sima Jing: "If you have anything to say."
Yun Ran: “…”
Tsk, what a tsundere weirdo.
But what to say?
Yun Ran thought about it and realized that what she wanted to ask most at this moment was the scars on Sima Jing's body——
After falling into the pool last night, she discovered that in addition to his chest, his back, waist, and arms were covered with scars. In addition to the criss-crossing whip marks, there were also many burns.
Her third senior sister was accidentally burned. Even through her clothes, her arm was covered with redness, swelling and blisters. She was in so much pain that she kept crying out and even cried in pain at night. After it finally healed, it was left with an ugly scar.
The burn on Senior Sister's hand, which was not too big, was very painful. Yun Ran couldn't imagine how painful it must be for Sima Jing to have so many wounds on his body.
Although he had heard from Lord Yao before that Sima Jing was tortured in Rongdi, when the literal "torture" was presented before his eyes in the form of shocking scars, Yun Ran felt the heaviness even more deeply.
Sima Jing waited for a while, and seeing that there was still silence around him, he realized that something was wrong.
"What's wrong?"
He asked, and just as he was about to turn sideways, something warm rolled into his arms.
Sima Jing's body stiffened.
When the young lady's slender arms tightly embraced his waist and her face rested on his chest, his deep eyes softened and he raised his hands to embrace her.
The two of them were silent, not saying a word, just hugging each other, feeling each other's body temperature and breath, transmitting and blending.
After a long while, Sima Jing heard the muffled voice of the person in his arms: "Your Highness has always refused to take a hot spring bath. Is it because you are worried about the scars on your body?"
Sima Jing's breathing stagnated.
After a while, he closed his eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "Did I scare you?"
"Your Highness, who are you looking down on?" A soft little hand touched his back very gently. "I'm not afraid of even demons and monsters, so why would I be afraid of a little scar?"
“…”
Sima Jing lowered his head: "Don't you think it's ugly?"
Yun Ran: "It's okay. It's a bit intimidating at first glance, but after a second look, I don't think so. Does Your Highness think it's ugly?"
Sima Jing said nothing.
"It's okay. Everyone loves beauty. If Your Highness feels ugly, I understand. But if you give up the pleasure of bathing in a hot spring because of a scar, it really doesn't make up for it."
Yun Ran whispered, "How about asking the imperial physician tomorrow for any scar-lightening and skin-beautifying ointment to see if it works after applying it for a while? If the ointment doesn't work, we can always find a tattoo artist to cover the scar with a tattoo. Doesn't Your Highness like snakes? How about embroidering a viper? Wrapping it from the shoulders to the back, and adding some auspicious clouds, the sun, the moon, and the stars, it would be quite majestic."
Sima Jing: “…”
He had imagined her disgust, disdain and resistance after seeing the scars, but he never imagined that she would think of a tattoo pattern for him as if nothing had happened.
"If you don't like the Teng Snake, embroidering a phoenix, a blue dragon, or a white tiger are all pretty good too..."
Yun Ran recalled the embroidery patterns she had seen before and enthusiastically introduced them to Sima Jing. However, she became quiet again and shook her head, saying, "Of course, it's best not to embroider."
Sima Jing: "Why?"
"Anyway, besides bathing and soaking in hot springs, you won't be running around naked on weekdays. Tattoos may look nice, but I heard the needles are painful. It's better not to suffer that pain just for the sake of beauty."
Yun Ran sighed, and couldn't help but reach out and touch the mottled scars on the man's chest through his ivory-white underwear: "Your Highness, does it hurt?"
Sima Jing didn't know whether it was because of her soft hand caressing him or because of her gentle question, but he felt as if something in his heart was melting.
The warm current surged in the empty heart cavity, and then flowed through this unsightly body with the blood, and those uneven and ugly scars were stretched and smoothed...
He couldn't help but lower his head and kissed her hairy head with his thin lips, then followed his instinct and moved down little by little.
It fell on her forehead, between her eyebrows, cheeks, and the tip of her nose...
Finally, in the quiet darkness, he kissed those soft and fragrant lips.
The kiss was deep, yet gentle.
Yun Ran felt a very different emotion——
She didn't know if it was because this was the first time they kissed while lying in bed, but she clearly felt a love that was cherished and carefully protected in the palm of her hand.
Love?
She was kissed so hard that her breathing became disordered, and she began to doubt her own judgment at that moment.
But before she could think about it, the hand around her waist tightened its grip, and she clearly felt something like a dagger pressing against her belly.
After her last visual inspection, she immediately realized what it was. Her cheeks flushed and her heart beat wildly.
How could it be, how could it suddenly get up?
There was clearly nothing at the beginning.
In the darkness, Sima Jing stopped the kiss.
His breathing was not steady, and the heat swept across Yun Ran's neck, causing an itch.
"Your Highness, please go to bed."
Yun Ran thought that the kissing for tonight was over and it was time to go to bed.
Unexpectedly, the man's kiss fell again, this time on her neck.
Yun Ran: “…”
Although the neck will be itchy, I have kissed it a few times before, so I'll just kiss it.
But as they kissed, she felt something was wrong. Why was her collar open? Why was his head below his collarbone?
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty!?"
Yun Ran's breathing became disordered, and his hands subconsciously hugged the dark head in his arms: "What are you doing?"
How can you kiss there? It’s against the rules!
The voice coming from my chest was deep and hoarse: "Don't forget the second request."
"...I haven't forgotten. I'm getting used to your touch, right?"
“It’s not just a mouth habit.”
The soft, faint sweet fragrance filled Sima Jing's nose, and his throat rolled uncontrollably. He raised his hand to push the thin embroidered silk cloth upwards, then lowered his head again, his eyes dark. "From head to toe, you have to get used to it."
“……!”
“Hmm…”
Yun Ran felt something was wrong, very wrong.
She held her head in front of her with both hands tighter. She didn't know how to describe this strange feeling. It was both comfortable and uncomfortable, and she inexplicably wanted to cry.
She felt that Sima Jing was bullying her.
But his request did not say that it was limited to just touching the lips.
She wanted to refute him, but she couldn't find any reason.
Besides, she also knew that what Sima Jing was doing to her at this moment was what a husband and wife should do——
The little porcelain figurine given by my mother, the spring albums she bought, and the words said by my third sister-in-law, all revolved around this matter.
But the book didn't say what it felt like to be kissed like this.
Yun Ran felt that she was about to make that strange sound again.
She bit her lips hard, trying to hold it in, and wondered dazedly how His Highness could kiss her for so long.
My skin seemed to be swollen from his bite.
When those two long, cool fingers touched the belt around her waist, Yun Ran trembled all over and hurriedly pressed the man's hand: "Your Highness..."
Her voice was soft and delicate, as if covered in a layer of thick honey, revealing a bit of unconscious charm that seduced people.
Sima Jing raised his face from the soft cloud, his voice hoarse and unbearable: "What?"
Yun Ran was really about to cry. The stimulation tonight had almost reached her limit.
"It's late." She swallowed her sobs and said, "Go to bed."
Sima Jing could feel the trembling under his palm.
I hadn't originally planned to eat her tonight.
But she took the initiative to roll into his arms and said those words, which aroused her anger as she kissed him, and she couldn't help but want to kiss him a few more times.
I just peeled off the rice dumplings leaves and tasted the crystal clear, delicate and dense white rice dumplings.
It tasted better than he imagined.
I wish I could swallow it in one gulp.
But the zongzi surrendered tremblingly, which was so cute that it made people's hearts melt.
That's all.
Wait a little longer.
At least it's not in the palace, under the eyes of those people.
After taking two deep breaths, Sima Jing smoothed her collar and lay back down beside her, but he kept his arms around her, showing no intention of letting go. "Go to sleep."
Yun Ran: "Your Highness..."
Sima Jing: "If you don't sleep now, I really won't let you sleep."
Yun Ran: "But..."
Sima Jing: "One."
Yun Ran: "My..."
Sima Jing: "Two."
Yun Ran: “……!”
Damn it, where did he throw her coat?
It really makes me feel insecure to sleep without wearing a padded jacket.
She wanted to get up and look for it, but the man held her tightly, and the "dagger" was still very menacing.
Her desire to survive told her not to act rashly at this time.
Yun Ran had no choice but to close his eyes, trying hard not to think about Dou Yi, concentrating his mind and clearing his thoughts.
Probably because she had been tossing and turning until midnight, and she didn't get enough rest last night, she soon fell into a deep sleep.
Hearing the even and gentle breathing in his arms, Sima Jing slowly opened his eyes.
With the faint light coming through the gap in the bed curtains, he gazed at the docile face sleeping peacefully in his arms. Although his heart was as hard as stone and iron, his heart was soft.
Small rice dumplings delivered to your mouth.
Even if it was eaten clean, you can't blame him.
She said it herself, food, sex and nature are part of human nature.
**
Yun Ran slept very soundly that night.
When I woke up again, it was already bright outside the window.
She missed the best time for morning exercise again.
Realizing this, she sat up from the bed in annoyance, but felt a chill on her body.
Looking down, my cheeks suddenly felt hot.
All I could see was her thin, ivory-white undergarment, half-open and loose, revealing the deep and shallow peach marks on her fair skin, extending all the way down to her waist.
And the two not-so-big holes were indeed broken as she predicted.
Yun Ran felt a lump in his nose, and he felt ashamed, angry, and wronged.
Why is he like this? Is he really a dog?
She cursed Sima Jing countless times in her heart, and finally found her pocket shirt at the end of the bed.
It was wrinkled after being pressed all night.
Although she couldn't remember when it was taken off, it didn't stop her from continuing to curse Sima Jing in her heart.
Yun Ran quickly put on his clothes and got out of bed.
I don’t know if it’s psychological or for some other reason, but the skin kissed by a man seems to become unfamiliar, as if the warm touch of being kissed by lips and tongue still remains.
She shook her head to get rid of these messy thoughts and called for help outside.
Qing Ling walked in quickly, a gentle smile between her eyebrows and eyes: "My lady is awake?" Yun Ran saw this and was curious: "Is there any good news? Why are you so happy?"
"Is there?"
Qing Ling raised her hand and touched her face, her smile becoming even wider: "I think it's because I am happy to see that His Highness and Madam are reconciled as before."
Yun Ran was even more puzzled: "How do you know I've reconciled with him?"
Although she didn't think she had quarreled with Sima Jing.
Qing Ling smiled and said, "His Highness rewarded all the palace servants in Yingxuan Palace with two gold ingots a long time ago. I also received two. Although he didn't say why, Eunuch Changchun said that this shows that His Highness is in a very good mood. It must be thanks to you, my lady."
Two gold ingots per person, so generous!
But why was she the one being bitten, but she didn’t have two gold ingots!
Yun Ran secretly complained, but seeing Qing Ling so happy, he was happy for her: "Keep the reward well. When the New Year comes, I will give you gold ingots."
Qing Ling immediately smiled so hard that her teeth showed and she bowed repeatedly: "Then I would like to thank you in advance, my lady!"
"Sure, sure."
Yun Ran stretched and asked Qing Ling to fetch some hot water for him to wash up.
After finishing washing up, Yun Ran heard that Sima Jing was reading in the side hall. After thinking for a moment, he called a young eunuch and said, "If His Highness asks about it later, just say that I went back to Feiluan Palace and went to see my mother and fourth brother today. Let him make his own arrangements."
His kisses had left her body still sore, and at least now she didn't really want to see him again.
After leaving these words, Yun Ran took Qing Ling and left Yingxuan Palace.
After returning to Feiluan Palace and having breakfast and lunch, she sent someone to invite Zheng and Yun Shang to the palace to enjoy the scenery.
In the blink of an eye, it was evening, the dusk was deep, and the sky was filled with red clouds.
After parting with Zheng and Yun Shang in the Bonsai Garden, Yun Ran went straight back to Feiluan Palace.
Before entering the main hall, I saw Chang Chun standing guard by the wall.
As soon as he saw Yun Ran, he immediately stepped forward to greet her: "Princess, you are finally back. His Highness has been waiting for you."
Yun Ran was slightly surprised, but not terribly surprised: "He moved back?"
Chang Chun smiled without saying anything, and just bowed to Yun Ran with admiration.
Yun Ran: “…”
I can’t say I’m unhappy, but I can’t say I’m happy either.
My chest seems to be aching again.
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