Chapter 171: Tooth Marks
The night before leaving, Lu Shuhui specially came to find Lu Chengjing, but not to ask him to keep a secret, rather she gave Lu Chengjing a package of things and asked him to find an opportunity to expose all the disgusting things that Prefect Zhao and his group had done.
At that time, her eyes were filled with hatred and resentment; she wanted to take revenge on the Lu Family and Zhao Family who had harmed her to this point, wanting to drag everyone down to hell together.
“Third brother, if you have the chance, escape, escape far away. Don’t be soft-hearted, don’t get involved with the Lu Family, don’t let them harm you.”
This was the last sentence Lu Shuhui left for Lu Chengjing.
Afterward, Lu Chengjing wrote letters inquiring about Lu Shuhui’s recent situation, but never received a reply.
Shang Wan: “So you’ve been investigating since then?”
“Mm.” Lu Chengjing nodded, “There were some clues in that package of things Lu Shuhui gave me. After I sorted them out, I started investigating secretly, but Lu Chengyuan is extremely vigilant and acts cautiously; he never let me catch any leverage.”
Shang Wan was silent for a moment, then softly asked, “Didn’t you ever think that you are also a Lu Family member? If the matter is really exposed, even if you are the one revealing it, you will definitely be implicated.”
Lu Chengjing didn’t think too much, lowering his voice: “The doctor said I won’t live past twenty. Being able to do a good deed before dying isn’t a wasted trip to this world.”
Shang Wan wasn’t fooled by him, lifting her gaze to look into his eyes, extending her index finger to poke at his chest, “Actually, you want to use this to take revenge on Lu Chengyuan, right?”
Lu Chengjing’s gaze flickered slightly, his pale lips pursing without answering yes or no.
“Just revenge on one person, why drag yourself in?” Shang Wan increased the pressure of her index finger twofold, “If I had come a bit later, would you have already done a buy-one-get-one-free and played jade destruction with Lu Chengyuan?”
Lu Chengjing raised his hand to grab the hand making trouble on his chest, remaining silent.
“Let me guess, if I hadn’t saved you, the pot of poisoning the county magistrate would have been firmly pinned on your head. What would you, the big smart one, do then?”
“Niangzi.” Lu Chengjing’s tone was soft, wanting to stop Shang Wan from continuing.
Shang Wan coldly glanced at him, and Lu Chengjing immediately shut up sensibly.
Her slender white fingers trailed from his chest up to his neck, circling at his Adam’s apple. Shang Wan leaned in closer, her voice slow yet inexplicably cold, “The big smart one would definitely think, anyway I’m going to die, so exposing the matter at the time of death wouldn’t be a wrongful death.”
Cold sweat broke out on Lu Chengjing’s back; he didn’t dare respond.
Shang Wan sneered, “No wonder you investigated Lord An’s matter so thoroughly; turns out you were piling up your own grave, even arranging your aftermath, right?”
Lu Chengjing nervously swallowed, his Adam’s apple moving accordingly.
“Look at how capable you are.” Cold light flashed in Shang Wan’s eyes as she raised her hand to pinch the chin of the person beside her, almost enunciating each word: “I’m really unhappy right now.”
Lu Chengjing decisively said: “Niangzi, I was wrong.”
“And?”
“I won’t dare anymore.”
“And?”
“Cherish life, live forever.”
Shang Wan: “…”
Got a problem with living forever, huh?
Her face cold, “Answer properly.”
Eyes meeting, Lu Chengjing sighed, lowering his head to plant a light kiss on the forehead of the person in his arms, softly promising, “After meeting you, I won’t.”
Shang Wan hehe’d; she still remembered the matter of using himself as bait.
She reached out to embrace that section of fair neck, opened her mouth, and bit down on the side of his neck.
Lu Chengjing let out a muffled grunt of pain but indulgently wrapped his arm around Shang Wan’s lower back to let her get closer.
Sharp canines rubbed left and right on the skin, a sweet bloody taste gradually spreading.
Shang Wan’s eyes narrowed slightly; when she released, a complete bloody tooth mark strikingly appeared on Lu Chengjing’s originally fair neck.
She licked the blood at the corner of her lips, lightly humming, “My teeth are pretty even.”
Lu Chengjing reached out to lightly touch the tooth mark, hissing coldly in pain.
“Good that you know it hurts.” Shang Wan leaned over and bit again at a nearby spot.
This bite was lighter, only a tooth mark without blood.
Perhaps feeling she had bitten him painfully, Shang Wan leaned over to kiss it, licked away the bloodstains, and looked quite satisfied at the two neat tooth marks.
Lu Chengjing’s tone helpless yet indulgent, “Are you over it now?”
“No.” Shang Wan reached out, her fingertip stroking over the tooth mark, sliding along the neck as if searching for the next spot to bite.
Itchiness persisted on his neck; Lu Chengjing raised his hand to tug open his collar, exposing half of his clear collarbone and shoulder, lips curving up as his narrow eye tails rippled with amusement, “Bite here?”
The low husky ending tone rising, tickling at the heart.
Fox!
Shang Wan decisively lowered her head, teeth nibbling on the collarbone, but ultimately couldn’t bear to bite down, trailing upward instead to kiss the smiling pale lips.
“Mm!”
Breathing disordered, positions swapped, turning guest into host.
Shang Wan: “…”
Gotta be so good at turning the tables?
Still sleeping or not?
Unclear how much time passed before a low husky “Sleep” sounded from the bedroom, followed by no more words.
The next morning, waking to birdsong.
Shang Wan sat up and stretched.
As she moved, Lu Chengjing woke too, long lashes blinking as his dark eyes fixed steadily on the person beside him.
Shang Wan: ?
“Don’t recognize me after one night?”
“Hurts.” Lu Chengjing tilted his neck to reveal the two deep and shallow tooth marks, his tone one-third innocent, seven-parts aggrieved.
Shang Wan: …What’s with the coquetry first thing in the morning? Is this your character setting?
While tying her hair, she absentmindedly cooed, “Good boy, I’ll apply some ointment later and it won’t hurt.”
Lu Chengjing stayed tilted, maintaining the pose exposing the two tooth marks.
Shang Wan tsked, lowered her head to hold him down, planting two loud kisses on the tooth marks, then glanced sideways at the mischief-maker, “Still hurt?”
Lu Chengjing’s ear root flushed red, lashes trembling, gaze shifting as he softly “mm”ed.
Shang Wan: “…I’ll get Yuan Yuan.”
“Doesn’t hurt anymore.” Lu Chengjing immediately sat up, expression extremely calm, showing no desire for wifey’s kisses.
Shang Wan narrowed her eyes at him, deliberately teasing, “You’re a fox, not a seductive ghost; no powers once seeing the light?”
Where did that energy from last night go, pulling open sleep clothes to seduce her?
This guy was the one driving, this same guy slamming the brakes; who knows what he’s thinking.
Anyway, the one suffering wasn’t her.
Lu Chengjing, ears red, pretended not to hear and found a high-necked garment to put on.
“Midsummer and you don’t mind the heat.” Shang Wan grabbed him, reaching to drip spiritual spring water on the two tooth marks to heal them.
Lu Chengjing raised his hand to cover it, “No need, wasteful.”
Shang Wan looked at him suspiciously, “You don’t plan to go out with these two tooth marks, do you?”
Lu Chengjing: “No.”
“You hesitated.” Shang Wan narrowed her eyes, circling him once, softly tsking, “Who would’ve thought, who would’ve thought—you’re actually this kind of Lu Chengjing.”
Lu Chengjing: “…”
He didn’t wear the high neck anymore, haphazardly finding an ointment without spiritual spring water, using the deep green color to cover the tooth marks on his neck, then fleeing like to see his daughter.
Shang Wan shook her head, truly not understanding what her fox was thinking.
