Chapter 181 I Love Her
"It's raining." Chen Yu said, leaning against the window.
Xie Tingzhou reached out to close the window from where she was and said softly, "It's time to go to bed."
In this humble house, listening to the increasingly dense sound of rain outside the window, they lay in bed with their clothes on, sleeping close to each other, their souls being the most compatible.
Xie Tingzhou saw her eyes open in the darkness.
"Can't sleep?" Xie Tingzhou asked in a low voice.
Shen Yu nodded slowly.
She was a little afraid to sleep. Recently, whenever she fell asleep, her dreams were all about Xie Tingzhou's bloody figure.
Xie Tingzhou put his cheek against hers, "You've been having nightmares lately, and sometimes you even called my name. What did you dream about?"
Chen Yu turned her head and buried it in his arms, "I dreamed of Yanliang Pass."
This is the best way to end the topic. Yanliangguan is the pain that she has buried deep in her soul and can never let go.
Xie Tingzhou really stopped the topic and kissed her temple. "Go to sleep. I'll wake you up if you have a nightmare."
Chen Yu closed her eyes obediently, but heard footsteps in the rain that did not belong to the night.
"Shh." Xie Tingzhou raised his hand to his lips, got out of bed quietly, and grabbed Yinfeng from the knife rack.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and finally stopped at the door. A shadow fell on the door under the illumination of lightning.
"Ayu." The person outside the door asked, "Are you asleep?"
Xie Tingzhou was stunned, and turned his head to see Chen Yu had already climbed up from the bed in a panic like a catapult.
"It's my brother, what should I do?" she asked silently.
Xie Tingzhou walked over and whispered, "Your brother will know sooner or later. Just continue sleeping and leave the rest to me."
"My brother will beat you up."
"You stole his cabbage, so it's no big deal to get beaten up." Xie Tingzhou asked her to lie down and lowered the bed curtains.
Shen Zhao put his ear to the window. He seemed to hear someone talking, but the thunder made him unsure.
"Ayu?" Shen Zhao called out again.
I thought it was strange. I couldn’t sleep when there was thunder in the past. But tonight the thunder was about to hit my head, so why was I sleeping so soundly?
Chen Yu was indeed afraid of thunder, but that was something from her previous life. Living alone in this world, she had to learn to be strong.
Shen Zhao didn't hear a response and was about to leave when the door suddenly opened.
One in pajamas, one
One of them was wearing a conical hat, and the two of them looked into each other's eyes in the strong light of lightning.
Shen Zhao seemed to be frozen in place, and was then awakened by a loud thunderclap.
"Where's Ayu?" Shen Zhao's face turned pale.
"She's asleep." Xie Tingzhou said calmly, "She hasn't been sleeping well lately. Let's go talk somewhere else."
Chen Zhao clenched his fist tightly, as if the fist was about to fall on Xie Tingzhou's face at the next moment.
Xie Tingzhou closed the door and walked towards the room next to him.
He entered the room, turned on the light, turned around and said, "Brother..."
There was already a sound of wind blowing in his ears. Xie Tingzhou could obviously dodge it, but he took the punch head-on and was knocked off balance by Shen Zhao's punch.
The force was quite strong and Xie Tingzhou had tinnitus for a moment.
Shen Zhao grabbed his collar again and said word by word: "Xie, Yun, you think that there is no one in my Shen family, and you bully my sister. How dare you, how dare you..."
His hands were shaking badly, and he punched Xie Tingzhou on the jaw with his backhand.
Xie Tingzhou's mouth tasted blood. "I won't defend myself." He said, "I love Ayu."
"You love her?" Shen Zhao was furious. "If you love her, you should respect her, but you are having an affair with her like this. This is bullshit love!"
"That word is too harsh." Xie Tingzhou pulled away the hand that was grabbing his collar unhappily and said, "Brother, you can scold me, but--"
"Shut up!" Shen Zhao threw his bamboo hat and said angrily, "You are not qualified to call me big brother."
Xie Tingzhou continued, "Brother, you can scold me, but don't look down on your sister. The word you used just now to describe her and me is looking down on her."
Shen Zhao shouted, "If you didn't look down on her, why would you be in her room tonight?"
"I can't help myself. I feel uneasy when I can't see her." Xie Tingzhou said seriously, "But I also respect her. Although she has agreed to my proposal, and I have sworn in front of my father-in-law's grave that I will protect her for the rest of her life, I will not cross the line before we officially get married."
Hearing him say this, Shen Zhao's anger faded a little, but only a little.
"I thought so." He sneered, "I realized something was wrong that day. Tell me, did you threaten her with revenge?"
"Is she the kind of person who would be coerced?" Xie Tingzhou asked back.
Chen Zhao paced back and forth angrily,
He had no place to vent his anger, so he kicked over a chair.
"Don't even think about it!" He looked at Xie Tingzhou gloomily, "Don't even think about marrying my sister away from me so easily."
Xie Tingzhou knew that if he wanted to talk to Shen Zhao, he would not be able to use the method of calculating people's hearts, and what he had to rely on was a true heart.
"I never thought it would be easy." He said calmly, "It's never easy to marry her. Big brother doesn't know how much I've paid along the way. It doesn't matter. You'll see it in the future. In fact, I'm happy about the punch I got tonight. It means you love her. There's one more person in the world who loves her."
Chen Zhao was so angry that his head hurt. He grabbed a chair and sat down. "She didn't sleep at all. Even if she did, she should have woken up with such a big noise. She knows she did something wrong and doesn't dare to come to see me, right?"
Xie Tingzhou said: "I don't think she did anything wrong, nor that she didn't come, but I didn't let her come. Big brother is angry, and he can vent his anger on me. I, Xie Tingzhou, will accept it all, but Ayu can't."
Xie Tingzhou looked at the accumulated water in the yard and said softly, "She has suffered so much along the way. I don't want her to suffer any grievances. If you meet her, you might scold her again. She won't talk back to you, but she will feel very uncomfortable. You are a very important person to her. Any words you say to her are of great importance, including scolding."
Shen Zhao's anger eased a little. Hearing Xie Tingzhou talk about how hard her journey had been, he was also heartbroken.
Xie Tingzhou picked up the fallen chair and his bamboo hat, saying, "To me, she is the only wife of my life, but to me, you are just his brother. I will not let anyone hurt her."
He glanced over calmly, "Including you."
Chen Zhao saw a warning of danger in Xie Tingzhou's eyes. It was the look of a bird of prey protecting its cubs, and it was Xie Tingzhou's determination to take Chen Yu under his wing.
Chen Zhao surprisingly did not get angry, "Thank you for stopping the boat, there is still a long time to go."
He pointed to his eyes, "I'll keep an eye on you."
When Shen Zhao was about to leave, Xie Tingzhou saw him off with a lantern.
It was raining heavily and a lot of rain splashed down the porch.
Xie Tingzhou was walking in front wearing a loose robe, and Chen Zhao was watching from behind, thinking that his demeanor was truly unique and independent, and that there might not be another person like him in the world.
But……
Anyway, no one is worthy of my A-Yu.
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