Before she traveled through time, Song Luan was a gentle and timid girl. She didn't talk much and seldom quarreled with others since she was a child. The elders praised her as a good girl, and she had never been mean to others.
So Song Luan thought she was very fierce towards Zhao Nanyu. In fact, in his eyes, what she did was not even tickling, but more like being coquettish, like a kind of fun.
On the contrary, Zhao Nanyu liked her spoiled look, which was much better than being indifferent and indifferent.
His cold lips pressed against her collarbone, and one hand firmly grasped her thin waist. Zhao Nanyu sniffed the fragrance on her body and sighed, "Luanbao smells so good."
He remembered that Song Luan's mother called her that. At that time, Zhao Nanyu kept it in mind silently, and when his feelings were strong, he called out "Luanbao".
When Song Luan heard this name, she got goose bumps on her arms. These two normal words sounded very erotic when pronounced by Zhao Nanyu.
The atmosphere in the hibiscus tent was very ambiguous. He kept reciting, biting her ear, as if forcing her to respond. Her toes curled up, which was very adorable. Song Luan was panicking. If she couldn't defeat him, couldn't she just run away?
She instinctively shrank back, but Song Luan had never been his match, so she couldn't run away. There is no escape from being picked up and bullied.
Song Luan had a sad face and angrily said to the man, "I told you not to touch me, why are you so unreasonable? It's really annoying that you keep touching me."
Her expression was not intimidating at all, and her tone was soft. Zhao Nanyu was amused by her behavior, "Luanbao, are you acting like a spoiled child to me?"
Song Luan was furious, "No, I'm being mean to you!"
Can't you see? Isn’t that obvious enough? The male protagonist is really shameless.
She was teased so much that she couldn't make a sound, and the tiny sounds spread from inside the house to the outside.
Song Luan couldn't bear it anymore and reached out to push him, "Also, don't call me Luanbao, I don't like it."
When he pronounced these two words, he deliberately prolonged the ending tone, and his voice was so nice that she trembled when she heard it.
Zhao Nanyu asked her in a very good-tempered manner, "Why?"
"My mother would pronounce it like that." Song Luan had a bitter face, but suddenly she smiled, her eyes narrowed into slits, "Do you want to be my mother?"
Zhao Nanyu raised his eyebrows and chuckled, "You have a sharp tongue."
Zhao Nanyu kept calling her like this that night. Song Luan didn't want to listen, but there was nothing she could do. She couldn't stop him from talking, and pinching and kicking him was considered a romantic gesture between husband and wife.
The next day, it was good weather again.
Song Luan lay half dead on the bed, thinking carefully with her eyes open. She should not have said that she wanted to be her mother last night, which made Zhao Nanyu unhappy, and she took revenge on him out of pettiness.
Even if I woke up now, I didn't want to move anywhere on my body. I felt sore and weak.
After a long time, Song Luan sighed deeply and sat up from the bed listlessly. Nanny Lin heard the noise and tactfully came in to find clothes for her.
After Song Luan put on her clothes and washed up, the maid outside brought breakfast into the room.
Song Luan has a very specific taste. She doesn't like sweet or greasy food in the morning, so she drinks white porridge these days and has never changed.
However, in the past few months, she felt that the taste of white porridge seemed to have changed. There used to be a hint of sweetness in the porridge, but now she could no longer taste it.
Song Luan drank two bowls of porridge to barely fill her stomach. After breakfast, she found that Zhao Nanyu had already left the court and returned home.
It was a sunny day, with little wind and not too cold.
Zhao Nanyu was in a good mood. He went into the house, changed his clothes, and said to her, "Do you want to go horseback riding?"
Song Luan was walking around the room to digest his food. When he heard what he said, he immediately stopped, his eyes lit up, and nodded, "I thought so!"
To her shame, she has never ridden a horse.
However, Song Luan remembered that the original owner could ride a horse, and his horsemanship was pretty good. Every autumn, the emperor would personally preside over the autumn hunting competition, and all the prominent young men and women would sign up to participate, which included equestrian competitions.
The book briefly mentions this, with a sentence saying "Song Luan once won the first place in women's equestrianism."
Zhao Nanyu patted the back of her head and said, "Go change your clothes. I'll take you to the horse farm."
Song Luan hurried to change into riding clothes. Her plan to have a quarrel with Zhao Nanyu last night was wasted.
The riding uniform shows off one's figure very well. Song Luan wore a red riding uniform with her hair tied up, which made her facial features stand out clearly. She looked energetic and bright.
When they arrived at the horse farm, Song Luan realized that there were more than just the two of them. She also saw the Sixth Prince and the little girl Ayun beside him.
The Sixth Prince had a warm and approachable face, and he took the initiative to talk to her without any airs at all.
"Miss Song, I heard that you are an excellent rider. I wonder if I will have the honor to see it today."
Song Luan smiled awkwardly, "Thank you for your compliment."
She doesn't know how to ride a horse, but maybe once she gets on one, she'll have the instinct to do it.
Ayun hid timidly behind the Sixth Prince. She seemed afraid to go out. She was cowardly and spoke in a low voice.
She poked her head out from behind the Sixth Prince, looked at her with concerned eyes, and asked in a low voice: "Miss Song, are you better now?"
Song Luan has a good impression of Ayun. The little girl is innocent, cute, and naive. She makes people want to protect her. But unfortunately, she didn't seem to have seen her name in the original book, and her final outcome was unknown. Maybe Song Luan forgot the plot, or maybe she didn't read the book carefully.
Song Luan herself did not realize that there was pity and sympathy in her eyes when she looked at Ayun, because after the Sixth Prince ascended the throne and became the new emperor, the empress was his former wife Xuan Zhengqing. Not only that, the new emperor also had several favorite concubines in the harem.
To take a step back, if Ayun was the woman locked up in the new emperor's golden house, she would be very miserable too. Life is only a few decades long, and the hidden concubine would never have a chance to escape from the shackles in her lifetime.
Song Luan had only met Ayun twice, and each time she could see Ayun's unreserved love for the Sixth Prince in her eyes.
She smiled, "Yeah. Okay. Did I scare you last time?"
She saw that Ayun seemed to be about to cry last time.
Ayun nodded awkwardly. She was indeed very frightened and thought Miss Song would die from the pain.
Zhao Nanyu was not very happy with her talking so much to other irrelevant people, so he dragged her over to choose a horse.
Song Luan picked a docile-looking pony from the stable. She patted the pony's buttocks and said, "This is it."
Zhao Nanyu took a look, raised his eyebrows, and was a little surprised, "Are you sure?"
Song Luan coughed uncomfortably and replied, "He is the best looking."
Zhao Nanyu was at a loss for words about this reason. He thought that given Song Luan's personality, she would never choose this underage pony.
But it’s better this way, I don’t have to worry about her getting bumped into anything.
Song Luan was carried onto the horse by Zhao Nanyu, which made her feel a little embarrassed. She was short and had short legs, so she couldn't climb up after climbing for a long time.
Zhao Nanyu stood aside and watched her joke with a malicious look at first, but when she became so angry that she was about to throw the whip, he suppressed the smile on his lips and carried her onto the horse's back.
Perhaps it was the instinct of this body that Song Luan was able to control the horse very well once she got on it. However, she did not dare to ride very fast and just circled the horse farm twice.
Zhao Nanyu followed behind her. He was wearing a black riding suit, which made his handsome features look more heroic. The sunlight falling on his fair face made him look more noble.
After turning around twice, Song Luan felt tired and almost twisted his foot when he jumped off the horse.
It seemed that the Sixth Prince and Ayun had not started riding yet. Ayun looked pale and a little scared. She held the Sixth Prince's arm and tried to pull him away but couldn't.
It was unknown what the Sixth Prince said to Ayun, which frightened her to the point of tears. He looked at her pitiful appearance with red eyes and laughed out loud, then held her face and kissed her.
Song Luan thought, this is really a very bad man.
It was meaningless for Ayun to follow him without any status, not to mention that she couldn't see the future.
The character of the new emperor in the original book was not likable. He had countless beauties in his harem, but the emperor's heart was always cold. He would kill the women he had doted on to the sky without even blinking an eye.
Song Luan thought of Zhao Nanyu again. Actually, he was not a good person either. Before he became a powerful official, he was a gentle and elegant young man. When he held the power of life and death, he began to eliminate dissidents in the court. Anyone who opposed his regime was eliminated one by one. Sometimes even a person’s entire family will not be spared. Men, women, young and old are all unavoidable.
His cruelty gradually became apparent. At first, there were some brave people who submitted memorials to denounce him, but unfortunately the new emperor doted on him too much and never paid any attention to them.
However, Zhao Nanyu was very vengeful. He wrote down the names of those who reported him and dealt with them without mercy, killing entire families without leaving any way out. Over time, no one dared to provoke him anymore.
Zhao Nanyu was violent and cruel, but his methods were effective in Daliang State. The national treasury was gradually filled and the lives of the people were improving.
Those who hate him want to kill him, and those who support him are devoted to him.
Zhao Nanyu appeared behind her and put his long arm on her shoulders. "Are you tired?"
Song Luan retracted his gaze and said unhappily, "Well, I'm tired and don't want to ride."
"Then go back and rest early."
"I don't." She raised her chin slightly and said unhappily.
Why do you want to go back when you haven’t been out playing for long? This time she really didn't intend to imitate the original owner's temper, but she was really irritable inside. She was annoyed by everything she saw and even by hearing him talk.
Song Luan thought about it and thought that it might be because her period was about to come, which was why she was so irritable and easily exploded.
Zhao Nanyu was always calm, and Song Luan had never seen anyone who could hide his emotions better than him.
"You're having a childish tantrum again."
"I just don't want to go back so early. I want to buy jewelry. Other girls have beautiful jewelry and beautiful clothes, but I don't have much."
Song Luan was lying with her eyes open. She had so many clothes that she couldn't wear them all. As for jewelry, she had picked out a lot of them in Zhao Nanyu's warehouse before.
Zhao Nanyu also indulged her and nodded thoughtfully, "Let's go, I'll take you to buy it."
Song Luan suddenly had the illusion that he was pampering her like a daughter.
The Sixth Prince and Ayun had no interest in staying at the horse farm any longer, so the four of them went to the downtown area together. However, the Sixth Prince seemed to have other things to do and did not go with them.
Ah Yun was still reluctant to leave Song Luan, and before leaving, he held her hand and said, "Miss Song, can I come and play with you in the future?"
Song Luan's pupils shrank, and it took a long time for him to come back to his senses. He replied in a daze, "Sure."
The Sixth Prince hugged her waist, looking unhappy, and said meaningfully: "You like her!"
Ayun bit her lip and said nothing.
After they left, Song Luan was still in a daze, just like the time with Huai Jin. The moment Ayun held her hand, many scenes she had never seen before popped into her mind.
A magnificent palace, a golden cage, and a dishevelled, tearful woman.
That woman is Ayun.
Even if Song Luan knew this, there was nothing he could do.
Seeing that she looked depressed, Zhao Nanyu grabbed her fingers and played with them, "Are you not happy about buying jewelry?"
Song Luan didn't say anything. Zhao Nanyu took her to visit all the best jewelry stores in the capital. She childishly wanted to empty his wallet, so she bought a lot of hairpins and earrings in one go.
Zhao Nanyu saw that she took so many things without blinking an eye. When she left the store, she even smiled and commented, "These are not very good."
Song Luan held her bag of jewelry and glared at him, "Why didn't you say so earlier?!"
Zhao Nanyu smiled slightly and didn't reply. Of course he wouldn't say it. Song Luan probably hasn't given up on leaving him yet. These cheap gadgets he bought are pretty good. They won't be worth much in the future if he runs away.
He hummed and said vaguely, "I don't want to spoil your fun."
Song Luan snorted, "You are just stingy!"
Zhao Nanyu smiled and said, "Do you want the key to my warehouse?"
The things in his warehouse had no pawn value, so Song Luan could only use or look at them, but could not exchange them for money.
In short, Zhao Nanyu would never let her have the chance to leave, so cutting off her source of income was a good idea.
Why not give it to her? Song Luan was not a polite person, so he stretched out his hand and said, "If you want it, give it to me."
Zhao Nanyu pinched her little hand and said, "I'll give it to you when we get home."
Song Luan believed him for the time being. When they returned home it was already evening, and the old lady suddenly called them over for dinner.
Today is not a family dinner, and there is no happy event.
Song Luan felt puzzled. The old lady clearly didn't like the two of them. She usually didn't welcome them when they came to pay their respects, so why would she suddenly let them have dinner with her?
Could it be that the old lady has thought it through and also wants to enjoy family happiness? That shouldn’t be the case. The old lady has many grandchildren, and she doesn’t need Zhao Nanyu as one.
Song Luan's head was pounding and he felt uneasy.
Women's intuition is surprisingly accurate. The old lady's behavior was obviously not well-intentioned.
The old lady had a dignified face. The three people had just stopped eating. She raised her eyes, scanned their faces, paused and said, "I called you here today because I have something to tell you."
Zhao Nanyu looked indifferent, "You go ahead."
The old lady took a sip of tea and said calmly, "I want to take Shi Ge'er to live with me."
Song Luan was unable to breathe, and her face was distorted with anger at the old lady's words.
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