Before Ling Yunxi could answer, Xiao Mingyan said urgently, "Let me help you back."
Still feeling exhausted, she didn't refuse outright, but simply hummed in agreement.
Xiao Mingyan's outstretched hand paused for a moment, and he did not immediately reach out to help her up.
Instead, he lifted her up in his arms.
Ling Yunxi exclaimed in surprise, her pupils contracted slightly, and she instinctively reached out to hug him tightly.
Realizing something, he let go, his hand hanging in the air for a moment, at a loss.
"I can walk..."
Xiao Mingyan's Adam's apple bobbed, but he offered no explanation.
Her hands were getting a little sore, so Ling Yunxi gently placed her hands on his broad, strong arms again.
The rough touch on her fingertips instantly evoked bloody images in her mind—
"ah--!"
"Why are they refusing me?!"
"Smack!"
The thorny whips brutally lashed the male, who was curled up on the ground.
"Are you mute? Speak up!?"
Before the male could answer, another lash of the whip fell.
Then, one lash after another fell repeatedly on the same spot on the male...
Until the flesh was mangled and blood flowed from the male's body into the yard.
The male held himself tightly with trembling arms, but never resisted.
And the place that was repeatedly whipped was precisely at the tip of her fingertips at that moment.
Her fingertips trembled, and her eyes secretly observed this man who was nominally her beastly husband.
My gaze first fell on his sharply defined jawline.
Further up, there are slightly pursed, thin lips that look somewhat aloof.
Seemingly sensing her gaze, Xiao Mingyan's Adam's apple bobbed unconsciously.
"What's wrong, Mistress?"
When the male felt the female in his arms touch the scar on his arm, a fierce glint flashed in his eyes.
Then a barely perceptible smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
His silver-gray eyes were fixed ahead, but he was secretly observing her reaction out of the corner of his eye.
"nothing."
Ling Yunxi frowned slightly and looked away.
"Just a little longer, we'll be home soon."
Xiao Mingyan suddenly quickened his pace, and his breathing became more rapid.
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