Chapter 297:
Hearing this, Lu Ziyan was stunned, then he also laughed.
“It’s fine,” he held her waist, making the two of them stick even closer, and smiled meaningfully, “There will always be a day when you believe it. Just don’t cry then.”
Xie Wanning: “…”
The young lady in his arms remained silent. Lu Ziyan thought she was really overthinking it, and he frowned involuntarily. “Don’t wrongly accuse me in your heart. One Liu Manrou was enough to make me suffer. How could I dare to have any involvement with other women.”
Over five years, he had lived like a walking dead. Which walking dead would have the interest to touch a woman.
Not to mention touching, he didn’t even glance at other women.
He explained with utmost seriousness, but Xie Wanning seemed completely unmoved.
“Anyway, I don’t believe it,” her tone was indifferent: “You’re the Emperor. In these years, there must have been plenty of young ladies offering themselves to you. I don’t believe you could stay chaste for five years.”
His earlier words, spoken out of jealousy without thinking, were returned to him by her in another form, without any restraint.
Lu Ziyan’s face turned pale. “If I say there wasn’t, there wasn’t.”
“Oh…” Xie Wanning responded slowly, then said: “If I say there wasn’t, would you believe me?”
“…” Lu Ziyan was speechless and choked. The hand holding her lower back slid up along her spine and gripped the back of her neck, lifting her little head up.
Their gazes met, with a sense of sharp confrontation.
After staring for a long time, it was Lu Ziyan’s gaze that softened first.
“I believe it!” He kissed her eyes. “I believe you didn’t have anyone else in these five years.”
As if thinking of something, a smile tugged at his lips. “After all, our Wanwan…”
Xie Wanning’s brow twitched. Knowing he probably had nothing good to say, she reached out and fiercely covered his mouth, blocking the rest of his words.
The young lady, who had regained some strength, pressed her palm over his lips and glared at him fiercely with her gaze: “Then do you still dare to eat vinegar randomly and wrongly accuse me!”
Lu Ziyan wanted to respond to her, but his lips were covered, so he couldn’t make a sound.
Soon, her palm was swept by his tongue tip, and a wet sensation came. Xie Wanning quickly withdrew her hand and continued glaring at him.
“How is this randomly eating vinegar,” Lu Ziyan smiled at her, his smile chilling.
He said: “If there was a young lady by my side for five years, would you believe me?”
“…” Xie Wanning was dumbfounded and speechless.
Lu Ziyan’s smile grew even colder.
Suddenly, he gripped her wrist bone and pinned it above her head, leaning in close. His deep gaze locked onto her facial expression without blinking.
After a long silence, he struggled to part his lips. “Have you fallen for him?”
Those scholars, having read too much of the sages’ books, had ingrained self-restraint and propriety into their bones.
Intimate relationship doesn’t count for anything; they pursued soul resonance.
So, accompanying such a gentle, jade-like scholar who embodied self-restraint and propriety for five years—had she fallen for him?
His gaze was too oppressive. Xie Wanning swallowed and shook her head. “No.”
Lu Ziyan let out a low hum, pressing his forehead against hers, his voice growing even gentler. “If I hadn’t come to find you, were you two going to stay together like this for a lifetime?”
Even if she hadn’t fallen for him now, but constant dripping wears away the stone…
Would she be moved?
Or even, had she already been moved?
Knowing that if she didn’t explain clearly, this man would probably get stuck in a dead end and not let it go.
Xie Wanning reached up to cling to his shoulder and neck. “No matter what, I wouldn’t stay with him for a lifetime.”
“Really,” she kissed his jaw affectionately. “I’ve been thinking of you all along, missing you so much.”
