Chapter 48 Some Unsuccessful Events
After sending Wen Baibi away, Xiao Jinlian came to me again, claiming that the imperial physician had prepared some medicine, but the emperor was unconscious and couldn't drink it. Could I do it for her?
"They want me to feed it to Li Siyan mouthful by mouthful?"
Xiao Jinlian nodded hopefully.
I snorted, "You wish! Tell them to find a funnel and stick it in their mouths. I don't believe they can't get it in."
After saying that, he turned around and went back to the imperial study, ignoring Xiao Jinlian no matter how she called him.
There was no such thing as me personally feeding medicine, watching over him all night, or wiping his body and face. None of that happened. I threw the dog emperor to the imperial physician and leisurely returned to the imperial study, not going out for the entire night.
According to Huiyue, when Li Siyan woke up the next day, the first thing he said was: Where is Chen Ying?
Huiyue was so busy that night that she didn't even step out of the inner hall. When she heard the emperor asking about me, she was unable to answer for the first time in her life.
Just as she was thinking of asking someone to call me in, she saw Li Siyan, who had just escaped death, lift up the quilt without saying a word, got down barefoot, and staggered out.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" She hurriedly followed.
At that time, I was practicing calligraphy on the emperor's rosewood desk.
The emperor's desk was truly extraordinary. The wood was hard enough and the paint was smooth and flawless. Just sitting in front of the desk, one would feel as if he was looking down upon the world.
In order to cater to my mood at the moment, I copied a common poem onto Li Siyan's imperial tribute paper: No one believes in nobility, who can express my heart?
Just as I finished copying and was feeling sad about the passing of time, Li Siyan broke in.
I was so frightened that I hugged the paper tightly in my arms, and got ink all over my sleeves.
What kind of quality! He didn't even knock on the door!
Li Siyan must have just woken up, with a head of messy hair, underwear hanging loosely on his body, and no shoes or socks on.
The moment he saw me, his tense shoulders dropped and he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. He just stood at the door, staring at me greedily, almost staring a hole in me.
I said angrily, "Even if you are the emperor, you can't enter the house without knocking!"
"Don't worry, I didn't peek at your things. Xiao Jinlian said you demolished the house I used to live in, so I had no place to sleep, so I had to stay in the imperial study for one night... What are you doing?"
Before I could finish my words, he had already hugged me in his arms.
His arms were like iron hoops, almost squeezing all the air out of my lungs. I tried to struggle and found that his body was trembling slightly.
People will only hug so hard in one situation: when they think they are going to lose something, and that thing suddenly appears in front of them.
Those who gain power through influence will leave without looking back once the cage woven by power is loosened. He is well aware of this, so he is even more anxious about gains and losses.
He was afraid, he was lacking, and he had no self-confidence at all, so he needed clear and strong confirmation to confirm that I was still in his hands.
"Chen Ying."
His call was very close, his voice was light and a little weak, indicating that the person in front of him was not fully recovered yet.
I said with great effort: "Let go, I can't breathe."
He ignored me and called my name again, as if hoping I would respond enthusiastically.
Of course I wouldn't do what he wanted. I opened my mouth and bit his shoulder. When he felt the pain, I suddenly pushed him away and said unhappily, "Didn't you wash your face?"
Not only did he not wash his face, but his whole body also smelled of medicine, which was very unpleasant.
I looked him up and down, my brows furrowed, my disgust evident in my expression.
Li Siyan was stunned for a moment, and when he touched the side of his neck, he only felt several thick layers of fine cloth.
"Don't lie! This was carefully prepared for you by Doctor Fan!" I said loudly.
When I shouted at him to stop, he silently put down his hands, and the strands of hair on his forehead fell down, covering his gloomy and dull eyes.
After a while, he walked up to me, suddenly pulled a piece of paper out of my arms, unfolded it and took a look.
"No one believes in nobility, who can express my true feelings?" He read it out, "What does it mean?"
"It's nothing special. It's just a line from a poem written by an ancestor." I said, "Don't worry, I didn't peek at your confidential documents. I just borrowed your paper and pen to practice calligraphy."
"I'm not doubting you." Li Siyan looked up at me and said slowly, "I'm asking you, to whom do you want to reveal your feelings?"
"ah?"
I was stunned at first, then I understood. I stamped my feet in frustration and said, "You're mistaken! This sentence was written by a senior when he was falsely accused and imprisoned. It means that no one believes that I am as noble as an autumn cicada, so who will come to clear my name? It has nothing to do with expressing one's true feelings!"
I felt that there was a long and arduous task to do in educating the dog emperor about literacy. My earnest explanations failed, so I had to show him the original collection. After confirming that it did not have any other meaning, the dog emperor finally got better. After saying a weak "I know", he returned to the inner hall barefoot without saying a word.
Still startled, I grabbed Huiyue at the door and asked, "...When did he wake up?"
Hui Yue's eyes were red from staying up late, and she looked haggard as she said, "Your Majesty just woke up and came to see me without even putting on shoes."
"He's so anxious, does he think I've gone to seek refuge with the Queen?"
"I dare not comment on your Majesty's actions." Hui Yue did not comment as usual.
As he was speaking, there was a sudden commotion in the inner hall, followed by the crisp sound of breaking porcelain, mixed with the crying voice of Chan'er's persuasion.
Huiyue and I looked at each other.
Huiyue looked so exhausted that she was about to faint, but she closed her eyes and resigned herself to her fate, running to the inner hall with me.
As soon as he entered the hall, he saw Li Siyan cursing at someone in a harsh tone, scolding Chan'er for meddling in other people's business. Chan'er, with disheveled hair, knelt at his feet, followed by a group of fearful old doctors with white beards.
Seeing that the situation was not good, I hurried over to pull Chan'er up, then turned to Li Siyan and said, "What are you doing? You just woke up and you're already angry. Be careful not to burn your heart and lungs with anger!"
Li Siyan said coldly: "She disobeyed the order and should be punished."
I asked Chan'er what was wrong. She clutched my hand tightly with tears in her eyes, as if grasping a life-saving straw. But she caught a glimpse of Li Siyan staring at the place where our hands were clasped, and hurriedly let go. With red eyes, she said, "Your Majesty said he wanted to go to the hot spring to bathe, but...but the imperial physician said that the wound should not be exposed to water. It would harm the dragon's body..."
Li Siyan was furious again: "When will it be your turn to point fingers at me?"
"They're not wrong!" I pulled Chan'er behind me and looked up at Li Siyan fiercely: "A patient should behave like a patient. Go lie down on the bed and don't get off until you're better!"
The cicada hiccuped softly behind me.
Li Siyan didn't move, his thin lips slightly pursed, half of his eyes hidden by his hair, his emotions unrecognizable. The thin undergarment on his body was blown by the draft, outlining his thin figure like a bamboo.
The wind also blew the smell of his medicine to my nose, which was strong and bitter and lingered.
I thought about it for a moment and seemed to understand why he insisted on taking this bath - maybe it was because I just said that the medicine smell on his body was unpleasant, and he took note of it.
"If you don't like the smell of medicine, just use some aromatherapy. You don't have to take a bath." I slowed my voice and pushed him towards the bed. "Once your wound is healed, you can wash however you like."
Li Siyan said, "I don't like incense."
"Then I won't smoke it. I'll go to the study to sleep."
"Move back." He ordered me very bluntly.
"No," I refused even more bluntly. "I don't want to sleep with a patient."
Li Siyan's eyes turned cold again.
My body stiffened and I suddenly remembered what Wen Baibi said to me yesterday.
She said: Whether I stay in the palace or wait for an opportunity to escape, the most important thing is to gain Li Siyan's trust.
──Let him believe that I have accepted my fate and will not have any second thoughts. In this way, he will not mobilize a large number of troops to guard closely outside the palace, and I will have a precious chance to catch my breath.
"But he's a suspicious person, so there's no way he'd trust me enough." During our private conversation yesterday, I confided my doubts to Wen Baibi, saying sadly, "I tried to coax him, but he just thought I was lying."
Wen Baibi listened while steadily picking up the cup and taking a sip. He said calmly, "If you do it too deliberately, he won't believe it. The affection between men and women always develops gradually. You don't need to reveal too much. Just let him see hope."
It seems that she has been in the palace for two months, and although she seems to be living in a small corner, she has actually been secretly carrying out a close observation plan of the Dog Emperor, waiting to share everything she knows with me today.
Based on detailed and thorough investigation and analysis, Wen Baibi made his closing statement.
"It's best to approach him with a half-hearted attitude. Given the emperor's obsession with you, even if you do just one thing, he'll convince himself to the fullest."
It's so damn right. I was so impressed that I slapped my thighs and suddenly understood. I wanted to take out a pen and paper to write it down and stick it on the head of my bed, and read it every day when I woke up.
Men are creatures that are both inferior and conceited.
Thinking of this, I turned around and stood on tiptoe, reaching out to cup Li Siyan's handsome yet sinister face. I pulled the corner of his mouth upward with my thumb and said cheerfully, "Why do you always have a stern face? You just had a near-death experience and survived. Shouldn't you be ecstatic?"
"Come on, give me a smile."
While forcibly pulling the corners of his mouth, I demonstrated to him a standard eight-tooth smile.
Huiyue tactfully took Chan'er and the imperial doctors to leave.
Li Siyan was not used to this kind of intimacy. After a moment's silence, his eyes darkened. He grabbed the back of my head and pretended to kiss me.
I pushed him away again and said harshly, "Don't touch me until you rinse your mouth."
Li Siyan was particularly soft today. No matter how I pushed him, he didn't fight back. In the past, if I dared to go against his wishes, he would force me to obey.
His gaze lingered on me for a moment, then he floated away and went behind the screen.
I took a sneak peek and saw him take willow branches, bamboo salt and clean water, and then carefully clean himself.
I opened the door, called Huiyue and the others in, and whispered, "It's done. You guys get busy. I'm leaving first."
Chan'er grabbed me and pleaded with tears in her eyes, "Madam Shen, please stay. His Majesty can't be here without you. As soon as he opens his eyes, the first thing he will ask is where you've been. If he doesn't see you later, he will definitely hold Sister Huiyue and me accountable."
"I'm not a doctor." I muttered.
But after looking at the deep dark blue under Chan'er and Huiyue's eyes, I still couldn't bear it. I sighed and said, "Okay, you go and rest first, I'll take care of him."
I was soft-hearted for a moment, and the result was that I had to face the dog emperor alone again.
I closed the door of the hall, pulled a cushion to sit down with melancholy, and stared out the window in a daze.
Outside the window, cicadas were chirping noisily, and the shadows of the green trees fell on the quaint stone bricks. A young palace maid walked under the eaves, and the wind blew up her willow-green skirt.
When Pingsheng was captured yesterday, she was also wearing a palace skirt like this. I wonder how she is doing now.
He wanted to ask Li Siyan how to deal with her, but he felt it was unnecessary. In Pingsheng's case, even if she betrayed the princess to protect herself, she had already hurt the emperor's life, and her only outcome would be death.
The pills she left behind were still on the pillow. I walked over as if possessed, took out the poison pills, hesitated for a while, and finally put them in a vase that Li Siyan gave me.
I can’t explain why, but after I hid the pills, my heart started beating violently, as if I were a thief.
There was a slight noise coming from behind the screen. I tiptoed to the window and sat down, resting my chin on one hand and looking out the window.
After seeing the mirror, Li Siyan finally realized how unsightly his image was. He hesitated behind the screen for half an hour before coming out neatly dressed. He wore a gorgeous brocade gown over his snow-white undergarments and tied his hair into an elegant bun.
Seeing this, I was surprised and asked, "You can actually tie your hair?"
He sat down next to me and said, "Don't even mention tying your hair. I can do any household chores you can think of."
His ten fingers gently brushed my hair, he held me in his arms, and kissed my lips with his side face.
I felt uncomfortable, but thinking about my goal, I resisted the urge to struggle and obediently put my arm around his waist.
My hands seemed to have magic power. Wherever they went, the muscles under my palms tensed up.
He became more and more obsessed and more and more excited. Not satisfied with the rubbing of lips and teeth, he also tried to pry open my teeth. I hesitated for a while, but decided to give in to his wishes. I moved my teeth slightly and tentatively licked the tip of his tongue.
If I remember correctly, this was the first time I responded to his affection.
This seemed to have touched a strange switch. Li Siyan's breathing became extremely heavy. He grabbed the back of my head and pressed it towards him. He was so anxious that he was almost trembling. But he was not good at kissing, so he could only kiss my lips and teeth helplessly.
Wow, quite innocent.
In this moment of passion and confusion, I maintained my noble calmness and even had the leisure to think: seeing that he looked so naive, he must have never touched his concubines.
Compared to him, I have seen some of the world. I have never eaten pork, but I have seen many scenes of fancy pig runs in legendary stories. I immediately took the initiative, hooked his tongue, and teased him like a real female seductress.
Li Siyan paused, and was confused and a little embarrassed by my sudden initiative, but he was a dog emperor with a strong desire for control. He quickly mastered the trick and snatched the initiative tyrannically.
After giving me enough sweetness, I retreated and let him kiss and nibble me without giving me any response.
Tired of being kissed, I bared my small white teeth and bit the tip of his tongue, not too hard or too lightly. Then I pulled away and said, "Okay, there has to be a limit to pestering."
Our kiss was like a war. It seemed that Li Siyan was in the lead, but in fact, I was secretly controlling the advance and retreat. I touched my swollen lips and kept comforting myself: This was a necessary sacrifice to gain Li Siyan's trust.
As the saying goes, you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing the child.
"But I don't want to stop," he said.
"What?" I was stunned.
Li Siyan raised his head, and there seemed to be two flames burning in his eyes, the heat emitted could almost burn my skin. He stared at me without blinking, his eyes as dark as if he saw a wolf cub. His tongue with a slight wound licked the corner of his mouth, and he looked like he was about to bite me at any time.
I immediately realized that something was wrong.
So he took several steps back and said seriously, "Li Siyan, you can't go back on your word. You said you wouldn't touch me until I recover. You're just a puppy if you cheat."
"I regret this. Do you want to hear me bark like a dog?"
He easily grabbed my wrist and pressed me firmly on the small desk where I usually write. Before I could react, I was like a fish tied to a chopping board. The dog emperor trapped me with his body. I wanted to run, but he blocked me and I couldn't go out.
Oh my god!
"I... I'm pregnant! It's unlucky!" I shouted in horror.
"Liar, don't you think I don't know your menstrual period?" Li Siyan gritted his teeth and laughed.
"you!"
Help! Is he really the emperor who is so busy with his affairs? How did he know when I would have my period?
The dog emperor pulled off my belt in two moves, with a firm attitude and sparkling eyes, reflecting two little me.
He looked so focused, as if I was his internal organs, his treasure, his whole world.
"Beast! Bad guy! Bastard!" I was almost crying with anger. Who wanted to be his whole world? I regretted so much that I had provoked him without any consideration. I shot myself in the foot. I lost a lot!
"A few more curses, and I can be even more beastly."
Li Siyan laughed while panting, his smile was excited and bright. The piece of meat that the wolf cub had been coveting for a long time was finally going to fall into its mouth.
I felt a chill on my shoulder. He had already pulled down my outer robe. I knew without looking that I was lying in front of a man in the most humiliating and weak posture of a girl. My expression was panic-stricken and terrified, but my body was as soft as the distant mountains in spring - no man could resist such temptation, including Li Siyan, who had poor self-control.
Everyone in the world loves the rain hitting the pear blossoms, which make them green and red. They are eager to destroy clean and complete things, make them cry, make them feel pain, and let them fall into the soil, where they can only rely on themselves to survive.
As an expert in wild emotions who writes legendary stories, I understand this sticky desire too well.
I was overwhelmed with grief and cried out loudly while biting my lips. Tears rolled down my cheeks and fell to the ground, forming a large small pond.
Li Siyan paused for a moment and wiped away my tears with his fingertips, but this time, he was not going to indulge me and continued to take off my outer robe seriously.
Perhaps my teasing just now gave him unrealistic fantasies, making him feel that the time was ripe and he could do something even more extreme to me. It didn't matter if I lost my temper, I could just coax him later.
No! I roared in my heart, I must make him understand that I have a bottom line, and if I use force, there will be no coaxing!
"Li Siyan," I sobbed, "Before you fainted yesterday, you said you wanted to start over with me. Don't you remember?"
He didn't expect me to bring this up so suddenly, and said in surprise, "That's right."
"Big liar!" I opened my tearful eyes and cried like a bird being teased by a big cat.
The accusation of grievance interrupted the emperor's bestial behavior.
The last time I cried so hard was on my wedding day.
The girl's tears were weapons. He leaned over me, looking at me with an unsatisfied and helpless expression.
"You've already kidnapped me into the palace, and I've already decided to give myself to you. My only hope is to retain some dignity and not give myself to my former enemy so quickly. But you won't even give me this little dignity, and you still talk about starting over? Are you trying to make me hate you forever?"
I choked and curled myself up into a big shrimp.
At this time, Li Siyan had already stripped off half of my underwear, and my shoulders, neck, and half of my arms were exposed to the air, like a large piece of soft snow, cold and shameful.
"Don't make me hate you anymore," I whispered. "Don't you feel how I've treated you lately? At this point, I just need a reason to convince myself not to dwell on the past and focus on the future. If you're not even willing to give me that reason, how can I let go of the past without any grudges?"
After hearing what I said, Li Siyan's expression slowly changed.
The wolf cub found a piece of fatter meat hanging not far ahead, but only if he was willing to give up the piece of meat under his hand would he be qualified to reach the more tempting piece of fat meat.
This is the ultimate reward I carefully selected for Li Siyan, wholehearted and long-lasting.
Yes, he was indeed suspicious and reluctant to trust others. He understood the intensity of my personality and was not necessarily unaware that I was trying to deceive him. But it was precisely because it was an impossible wish that it held a fatal attraction for him. So what if it was fake? If I could keep up the deception for a long time, what did it matter whether it was true or not?
But even so, I wasn't sure he'd listen. How could I not know how passionate men are about this? I had aroused his passion. Under his hands was the soft jade and the warm fragrance, and at his lips was the person he had long coveted. The arrow was on the string and had to be released. No matter how I looked at it, I was in danger today.
Seeing that he didn't respond for a long time, my heart gradually cooled down. After a while, I turned my head away in despair, my body trembling slightly, ready to withstand the storm that was about to come.
His hand dropped down, gripping the collar of my undergarment, his fingertips brushing against my skin, intentionally or unintentionally.
He sighed in frustration, perhaps out of reluctance or an uncontrollable possessiveness, he buried his head in my wrist and bit it, leaving a small red mark, like a small seal on my body, as his personal mark.
Then, he grabbed the collar and pulled it up, and up again, until my clothes were back to their original shape.
"You must remember what you said," he said, "I don't have any extra energy to play house with you. If you lie to me, I don't know what I will do to you."
He spoke harshly, but his actions were restrained.
It must be because the pancake I drew for him smelled so good.
Today I wore an apricot summer shirt and a lilac pomegranate skirt, which looked so old-fashioned and formal, but I didn't expect that such formal clothes would be more seductive than ordinary clothes after being wrinkled. After Li Siyan pulled the clothes, he did not get up and leave, but stayed above me, his eyes fell on the small piece of white skin exposed at my collar without any concealment.
Maybe he was considering whether the decision he made was worth it.
I clutched my collar and tried to get away from him, but when I was halfway there he grabbed me and pulled me back.
He picked me up and threw me onto the couch.
I almost couldn't breathe, and I really wanted to give this bastard a personality-correcting punch.
"Since you've agreed, don't touch me anymore." I stretched out a finger and pointed it directly at his forehead. "What's done is done. I won't hold you accountable for what happened to my family. But if you bully me again, I'll never show you a good face in my life!"
Li Siyan licked his lips: "What does it mean to bully you?"
"Even now." I said angrily, "Take your dog eyes away!"
Li Siyan raised half an eyebrow regretfully and reluctantly shifted his gaze away from my collar.
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