Chapter 137:
When he awakened his past life memory, she had already married that man for three days. He had already made the worst plans and convinced himself not to care about anything else, as long as she was safe and sound.
It was her. She gave him hope, and now she made him despair.
She tormented him over and over, teaming up with another man to toy with him.
No one had ever dared to play with him like this!
How dare she!
The hand around her waist suddenly tightened. Xie Wanning could only let him commit an indecent act, unable to even speak. It was both painful and urgent, and in her urgency, tears fell again.
The moment the warm teardrops fell, that hateful hand on her waist trembled with its fingers.
“Besides crying, what else can you do?”
Lu Ziyan withdrew his hand.
He lifted her chin to look at her tear-filled eyes. After a long moment, he lowered his head and kissed her.
The warm lips pressed against her eyelids, surprisingly with a touch of gentleness.
Xie Wanning’s eyelashes trembled lightly. She felt uncomfortable all over, standing stiffly as he licked her bit by bit.
This was only because she couldn’t move. If she could, she…
After a while, he thoroughly kissed away her tears before moving his lips away, staring fixedly at her eyes.
“When you deceived me, did you ever think about the consequences of your lie being exposed?”
Was she just planning to rely on crying?
Lu Ziyan was so angered by this thought that his teeth itched, yet he also felt a helpless uncertainty about what to do with her.
After all, after the initial rage that burned his reason, he was now actually starting to worry that the acupoint seal had been held too long and might affect her body.
With annoyance at himself, he gritted his teeth and released her acupoint.
“Bastard! What did I deceive you about!” The instant her acupoint was released, Xie Wanning exploded with curses.
Finally able to move, she covered her lapel with one hand while raising the other to slap him. But her wrist was firmly gripped by Lu Ziyan.
“You deceived me that Pei Yuqing is a waste and that you two wouldn’t consummate,” he gently pinched it and said calmly, “Wanwan, if you don’t give me an explanation for this, everything that just happened, I’ll do it all again right in front of your husband.”
He paused, then added, “Your crying won’t help.”
The three words “your husband,” he bit out heavily, word by word.
Xie Wanning trembled with anger but completely believed he could say it and do it.
Such an absurd thing, he was capable of!
“What exactly did I deceive you about! That day, I was also kept in the dark and misunderstood him. When have I ever intentionally deceived you!”
“Is that so?” Lu Ziyan’s tone was indifferent as his gaze fell on a red mark on her shoulder.
He had only used his hands just now, not his mouth.
So, who left this mark was self-evident.
“That’s exactly it!” Xie Wanning pulled her wrist out from his grasp and quickly straightened her clothes.
“I married him legitimately. Even consummation is only natural and right. There’s no need to deceive you.”
Legitimately married…
Lu Ziyan let out a sneer, “When did he touch you?”
Such a private matter between a couple shouldn’t be questioned by an outsider, but Xie Wanning dared not not answer.
She pursed her lips and said, “Last night.”
As soon as the words fell, Lu Ziyan’s reddened eyes snapped up, staring straight at her. “What did you say!”
Thinking of the cause and effect, a bit of vengeful pleasure truly arose in Xie Wanning’s heart.
But more than that was panic. Now that he was this deranged, after learning the truth…
“On our wedding night, you caused that commotion and we didn’t consummate. There was no consummation in the following days either. I once thought perhaps his body was weak, but later I realized it was my own misunderstanding.”
At this point, she nervously swallowed and continued, “Last night, he came back under the effect of an aphrodisiac, and we naturally consummated.”
He came back under the effect of an aphrodisiac, and we naturally consummated…
Lu Ziyan’s face instantly paled. “What do you mean by that?”
“You’re deceiving me again!” His voice was gritted through clenched teeth.
“I’m not deceiving you. That’s the fact,” Xie Wanning looked at him steadily, trying to calm the surging fear and anger, leaving only the pleasure of retaliation.
She said softly, “Pei Yuqing and I are a couple. He was under an aphrodisiac. I couldn’t just let him go touch another woman…”
“Shut up!” Lu Ziyan stepped forward, gripped her neck, and forced her close, his face full of ferocity. “The Warm Affection Powder he was under had already been resolved by the time he left Cuiyun Pavilion. Where did the aphrodisiac come from! Xie Wanning, you liar!”
Liar!
His gaze was fierce, as if he wanted to devour someone, but his slightly trembling voice betrayed his true emotions.
Xie Wanning suddenly wasn’t so afraid anymore. She lowered her eyelids, avoiding his reddened eyes, and said indifferently, “That’s the fact. If you don’t believe me, there’s nothing I can do.”
As the words fell, the room sank into long silence.
Besides Lu Ziyan’s rapid panting, neither of them spoke again.
The hand on her neck never let go. Xie Wanning feared provoking him and didn’t dare struggle at all.
After a long time, he said hoarsely, “If… if he hadn’t been drugged, would you…”
The sentence was spoken haltingly. Finally, as if he found himself ridiculous, he stopped.
He released her and turned, kicking the nearby square table to pieces with one foot.
The sturdy solid wood square table was shattered by his single kick. Xie Wanning was so startled that she shivered, thinking that if she took such a kick, she’d probably die on the spot.
Lu Ziyan turned back, gripped her waist, and pulled her into his arms, gritting his teeth. “You’re so considerate, using yourself as the antidote without even checking if he really needed it.”
He finally saw it. That sickly person was full of schemes, using his hand to take his woman.
He had been tricked, yet got what he wished for.
And everything was something he had actively facilitated!
A familiar metallic sweetness surged in his throat. Lu Ziyan swallowed it down hard and glared viciously at the person in his arms. “Do you think I’d be stupid enough to let him leave Cuiyun Pavilion while under an aphrodisiac?”
Xie Wanning’s heart skipped a beat. She subconsciously didn’t want to hear his words.
But he lifted her chin, not allowing her to avoid.
“Listen well. He’s a liar! An old liar!” Blood was between his teeth as he said word by word, “The Warm Affection Powder lasts only two hours. I took some myself too. By the time he left, the medicinal effect in his body was gone. He didn’t need you to relieve any drug for him!”
His eyes were red-rimmed, every word like blood, looking not only terrifying but more pitiable.
Xie Wanning listened in a daze, and the overlooked details instantly came to mind.
She recalled last night—Pei Yuqing had been gentle and meticulous, without any urgency, truly not like someone under the effect of a drug.
Though Lu Ziyan was arrogant and conceited, he wasn’t a fool. Even if he thought Pei Yuqing was a waste, he wouldn’t let a love rival under an aphrodisiac return.
So…
He was telling the truth.
Pei Yuqing truly hadn’t been drugged last night.
He had deceived her.
He had deceived her again.
Xie Wanning blankly recalled the bits and pieces of their time together these past few months.
They had known each other for less than a year, but the time they spent together day and night wasn’t short.
Especially after marriage, there had been many instances of uncontrolled kisses between them.
If he had proposed consummation at any time, she wouldn’t have refused.
Why…
Why did he have to deceive her to do it.
Because this was a blade proactively handed over by Lu Ziyan. He only needed to turn the scheme around to gain both.
In the clash between men, he won thoroughly.
Lu Ziyan had invited him arrogantly, drugged him, used a honey trap on him, and wouldn’t let him leave—indeed overbearing. So he reaped what he sowed and paid the price.
What was she? Just a link in their game.
Or perhaps, a trophy?
The one deceived was her, while the one in regret and pain was Lu Ziyan.
Pei Yuqing was the greatest victor.
Xie Wanning blinked, finally understanding everything.
She slowly raised her eyes to look at the man before her with red-rimmed eyes shimmering with tears, her lips curving slightly as she said indifferently, “Even if he deceived me, so what? We’re a couple. Consummation is perfectly normal.”
“…What do you mean?” His face was already pale, and upon hearing this, it became even uglier. “You’re nitpicky with me, holding a grudge for even a single wrong word for a long time. He deceives you like this, and you’re not even a little angry?”
Xie Wanning didn’t speak, just looked at him indifferently.
That gaze carried a hint of mockery, as if saying he was her legitimate husband, while he, a former fiancé who seized by force, had nothing to compare.
Lu Ziyan’s breathing stalled as he tried to suppress the sourness in his heart.
But that pain had seeped into his bones. Unable to endure any longer, at the peak of pain, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
Some blood splattered onto Xie Wanning’s face. She widened her eyes in alarm, her hand against his chest unconsciously clenching.
Hadn’t his internal injury healed yet?
How…
Lu Ziyan raised his hand to wipe his lips, his gaze falling on her face.
In the girl’s beautiful eyes, besides alarm, there was no trace of worry or urgency.
If she shed a tear, he would be at a loss, willing to beg for mercy.
But he spat blood, and she remained unmoved.
He thought, this was probably retribution.
Retribution for not protecting her well in his past life.
His rough fingertip slowly wiped away the bloodstain on her cheek.
Then, he took her hand and slipped it into his lapel, pressing it against his beating heart.
Xie Wanning’s fingertips trembled slightly as she saw him force a smile at her.
That smile carried despair. She stared blankly and heard him say, “It’s sick. Can you be nicer to it?”
Under her fingertip was his strong, powerful heartbeat, not like it was sick.
But he had indeed spat blood repeatedly.
Xie Wanning swallowed, momentarily at a loss for words.
She had earnestly reasoned with him and cursed him when furious.
To escape him, she had done what she should… and shouldn’t.
Yet it led to this situation.
A situation where both she and he were nearly at a dead end.
If she had known it would come to this, she…
Xie Wanning closed her eyes.
Even if she had known today would come, what could she have done?
“Let go. Consider it me pleading with you.” She was almost pleading. “Let all my past life deeds be a dream. Don’t be obsessed anymore.”
Lu Ziyan lowered his eyes. “I won’t let go even in death.”
“We’ve already consummated,” Xie Wanning said.
“No relationship.”
Hearing “consummated,” he was no longer enraged. His expression became calm, but his gaze carried killing intent as he said word by word, “I will wash away this shame with blood.”
“…” Such stubbornness left Xie Wanning speechless.
But what could she do? She couldn’t beat him, couldn’t hide from him.
She even fully believed that even if she hadn’t gone out today and stayed obediently in the Pei Family, he could still stand before her without any scruples.
“What will it take for you to let me go?” She smiled miserably, nearly in despair. “Why can’t you let me live a peaceful life.”
Lu Ziyan wasn’t feeling any better than her. His face was already pallid after spitting blood, and upon hearing this, turmoil surged in his chest again, only to be suppressed.
“Have you forgotten? That day in the separate courtyard, I gave you a chance.”
He leaned very close, his oppressive presence heavy. Normally, Xie Wanning would have tried hard to dodge, but now she just stood numbly, letting him approach.
“Wanwan, you should keep dreaming,” he rested his chin in the hollow of her shoulder, sniffing lightly. “If you could see what I became after you left, you’d understand I can’t let go.”
No matter what situation they ended up in, he couldn’t let go.
“Do you know what I was thinking during those two hours under the Warm Affection Powder?”
“I was thinking of you the whole time, wanting to go to Duke Pei’s Mansion to find you, wanting to kiss you…”
Lu Ziyan’s adam’s apple bobbed. “…In the end, afraid you’d be angry at me again, so I didn’t go.”
He prided himself on being upright and decisive, never muddling things, but once it involved this young lady, he started hesitating, fearing this and that.
If it were the him from his past life, how could he let things develop to this point.
From the day he awakened his memory, she could only stay by his side, not straying more than three meters.
He couldn’t let her go back to share a bed with another man.
But she threatened him with death!
He had no choice. Her life and death was indeed his fatal weakness. He feared it terribly.
Lu Ziyan laughed, his lips brushing her neck, rubbing slowly. For a moment, he wanted to bite down hard, best to tear her skin and flesh, blood flowing, but in the end, he just took a deep breath.
“I’m enduring it very poorly, really.”
Also under the drug, he had forcibly suppressed his desire, while the young lady he was obsessed with to madness became the antidote for another man.
Such a thing was entirely his own doing.
He couldn’t even blame her.
Just thinking about it made one hate to death.
Xie Wanning stood motionless, letting him lose it.
Until she saw him undoing his own belt, her pupils suddenly contracted.
Lu Ziyan pressed one hand on her wrist, keeping her palm tight against his chest, while his other hand undid his belt.
Soon, he gripped her hand, sliding it down bit by bit to his waist and abdomen.
He let out a low sigh, gripping her stiff wrist bone. “Feel me.”
Under her fingers were his taut abdominal muscles. Xie Wanning’s numb heart took another heavy blow. She moved stiffly, and heard his breathing suddenly hitch, then turn heavy.
“Lu Ziyan,” her lips trembled lightly, “Do you only know how to get aroused?”
Lu Ziyan chuckled lowly. “I know many things, but I only get aroused for you.”
He pressed her wrist, continuing downward, his lips nipping her earlobe. “My remaining poison isn’t cleared. Wanwan, don’t show favoritism. Help me relieve it too.”
“You like that man’s pretentious gentleness, right?”
“No problem. As long as you like it, I can serve you gently too.”
Wait for me~~~
