Chapter 133:
Moreover, that was her cousin. Even if their relationship wasn’t close and she had no impression of her, that could still be considered her distant younger sister.
Which prominent family doesn’t have a few fallen relatives? For such distant relatives, if an orphaned one comes seeking shelter, they have to settle them somewhat out of regard for face.
No matter what, she was a proper young lady from a good family.
In the end, falling into Lu Ziyan’s hands, she became a brothel prostitute offering herself up.
Xie Wanning didn’t know that Chen Xi’er in her own father’s hands wasn’t much more noble.
So at this moment, she was somewhat annoyed. She glared at her husband in front of her, fuming, “She even looks like me, and you didn’t have the slightest thought?”
She didn’t believe it!
He wasn’t really incapable!
Being glared at by her, Pei Yuqing felt like laughing, and he indeed chuckled.
“What kind of thoughts could I have about her?” He gripped her slender neck and kneaded it, his adam’s apple rolling uncomfortably, “Really, at that time my mind was full of you. When she came close, I only felt her scent was overpowering.”
Xie Wanning’s anger grew even more, “You even let her come close!”
“…” Being questioned like this, Pei Yuqing fell silent for a moment.
He actually began to reflect on whether he had let those women take any advantage.
After thinking for a long time, he felt he was completely upright.
Knowing this young lady was very petty, he earnestly explained, “I didn’t even look at her twice. It was only when she stuck close that I lifted her chin and pushed her away a bit.”
He actually touched another woman’s chin!
“And then?” Xie Wanning flipped over, propping herself on the bed with one hand and pinching his neck with the other, looking down at him imperiously, demanding: “Since they were offering themselves, those young ladies must have been dressed scantily too. Did you see that young lady’s body?”
“…” Pei Yuqing was speechless, silently looking at her.
There was nothing left to not know!
Xie Wanning’s anger erupted instantly, and she pinched his neck hard, “They stripped naked?”
“She wanted to undress herself, and I didn’t touch her at all.”
Pei Yuqing had never seen this young lady so angry for his sake. At this moment, he felt both flattered and at a loss, hurriedly explaining, “Don’t be angry.”
But Xie Wanning wouldn’t let it go, “If I had seen another man naked, would you not be angry?”
“Wanwan! It’s my fault. I promise, from now on, I won’t look at another woman even once.” Pei Yuqing gripped her neck, the jealousy he had been suppressing surged up, his eyes reddening as he pressed her to his chest, “Don’t say such things again.”
Xie Wanning pouted stubbornly, still unable to vent her anger, and bit heavily into his neck. Pei Yuqing drew in a sharp breath, trying to slow his breathing, but his muscles gradually tensed.
Xie Wanning stiffened slightly and released her teeth, her gaze falling on it.
This man’s skin was probably even more tender than that of boudoir ladies, his fair and slender neck marked with a red imprint from her light bite.
She looked at it with some heat in her eyes and quickly changed the subject: “Were you uncomfortable holding back then?”
“A bit,” Pei Yuqing held her in his arms, his lips against her ear, slowly saying: “But I couldn’t let him see I was uncomfortable. After all, Wanwan, you told him I was a waste. Only by confirming I was a waste would he let me go without using force.”
That voice was calm and unwavering, yet Xie Wanning could always hear a hint of accusation.
She fell silent for a moment, then explained: “I didn’t tell him. He guessed it himself.”
Why could he guess that? Because he knew they hadn’t consummated.
And why could he know they hadn’t consummated…
Pei Yuqing was so clever that with one turn of thought, he understood everything.
“As expected, he deliberately wanted to provoke our relationship.” He kissed her earlobe and smiled: “But I didn’t believe him.”
She couldn’t be a young lady who would confide to an outsider that her husband had a hidden illness.
If he didn’t even have this much trust, how could he dare say he loved her.
Xie Wanning didn’t really want to hear about the clash between the two men.
Lu Ziyan had drugged him, sent women, and provoked discord.
A series of actions had led to her now nestled in another man’s arms.
She didn’t know what reaction he would have if he learned of tonight’s events.
A scene flashed in Xie Wanning’s mind, inexplicably showing that man spitting blood.
Her breathing abruptly stopped, and she couldn’t say what feeling it was.
Her heart was full of complexity.
Noticing the young lady in his arms was distracted, Pei Yuqing continued: “The trap he set for me was quite elaborate. He even drank the same wine as me.”
Xie Wanning was stunned.
He meant Lu Ziyan had also been drugged with aphrodisiac?
“What we were given was Warm Affection Powder, a brothel aphrodisiac. The wine was prepared by him, and he toasted me first. Actually, if he only wanted to trap me, he could have done it another way.”
Pei Yuqing lifted her chin, lowering his eyes to look at her quietly, “I just don’t know for what reason he wanted himself to be poisoned with Warm Affection Powder too.”
“…What do you mean?” Xie Wanning frowned, puzzled: “Why would he deliberately drug himself with that kind of medicine?”
Though she didn’t know brothels, from the name aphrodisiac, she could guess it was to arouse the patrons’ interest.
It wasn’t anything good…
“At the time, I wondered if he would use this opportunity to sneak into Duke Pei’s Mansion to find you, but later I dismissed the idea.” Pei Yuqing gripped her chin tightly, his voice gentle: “Wanwan, two young ladies seemed to enter his room.”
The two had been gazing into each other’s eyes, and with these words, he personally saw the young lady before him’s pupils shrink sharply.
A sourness suddenly rose in his chest. He suppressed it forcefully, his fingertip rubbing her tender jaw, “You mind him doing that?”
“…Don’t talk nonsense!” Xie Wanning stiffly turned her face away, irritably saying: “Whether he wants two young ladies or twenty, it has nothing to do with me. What would I have to mind?”
She said that, but Xie Wanning’s heart was still somewhat complicated.
……Two young ladies.
She pinched the person beside her, “You deliberately tell me this, what do you want!”
“Didn’t you want to know what happened at Cuiyun Tower today?” Pei Yuqing gathered her wrist into his palm, his expression calm: “I’m just telling you the details one by one.”
Xie Wanning fell silent.
He clearly wanted her to dislike Lu Ziyan more but wouldn’t admit it.
After all, comparing the two, compared to Lu Ziyan who took two young ladies, his restraint in the face of a young lady resembling her who actively undressed was even more remarkable.
Would this man use such an obvious trick?
The room fell silent for a moment.
She hadn’t spoken for a long time, so Pei Yuqing asked: “Are you sleepy?”
Xie Wanning listlessly hummed. Used to being pampered, after being held down and toyed with by him for so long and talking for a while, of course she was tired.
