Sorry for the late update! I mixed up the second and third Sundays of the month.
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Possessive spouse, mentions of nonconsensual aphrodisiac dosing, mentions of sexOn the way back to Hei Manor, Hei Xuanyi didn’t open his mouth at all.
Actually, this was quite normal; he was the sort that didn’t like to speak much. But Wu Ruo noticed something unusual and observed Hei Xuanyi with the street lights that streamed in through the carriage window. The street lights illuminated the face full of black scales flickeringly and made it look even gloomier and frightening than it usually did.
“You’re angry?” Wu Ruo quietly asked.
Hei Xuanyi didn’t speak but his gaze was tightly fixed on Wu Ruo.
“Before I came, didn’t I already tell you that Wu Sheng and his lot might take the opportunity to try and harm me during the meal? And didn’t you already send someone to discreetly protect me? Why are you still angry?”
Yesterday, when Wu Sheng invited Wu Ruo to Zuiyue Restaurant for a meal, he’d already felt that this person had bad intentions. So, when he went back to Hei Manor, he told Hei Xuanyi about coming to Zuiyue Restaurant tonight for a meal and also told Hei Xuanyi about his thoughts about their motives. At that time, Hei Xuanyi hadn’t objected and had even assigned someone to discreetly protect him.
Everything had gone according to plan, so why was Hei Xuanyi still angry?
Hei Xuanyi’s dark gaze narrowed and in a flash, he pulled Wu Ruo over to him.
Wu Ruo cried out in alarm. In the next moment, he was sprawled against the other’s chest.
He hurriedly raised his head and at the same time, the other party lowered his head. Instantly, their soft lips, one pair hot and the other icy1The context in Chinese isn’t clear but I’m assuming it means that this bit meant that Wu Ruo’s lips were warm and Hei Xuanyi has a lower body temperature than most people, so his lips are icy., pressed together.
Wu Ruo was momentarily stunned. Without moving, he gazed towards those sharp and piercing eyes that were filled with condensed fury. He couldn’t help but relax his body, snuggling up in Hei Xuanyi’s embrace, allowing their hearts to be even closer, so that both of them could feel each other’s frantic heartbeats.
The warm and steady breaths from their noses were akin to two passionate bodies intertwining together, incomparably passionate, sentimental, and endlessly affectionate. Both of them were unwilling to part and even more unwilling to shatter the pleasant atmosphere.
Neither of them moved nor did they make a sound.
Gradually, their breaths became more and more hurried, and more and more ardent. As though they were entering a high tide2高潮 (gao chao): most commonly referring to the ‘high tide’ or an ‘upsurge’, it also refers to a literary ‘climax’ or the sexual sort of climax., there were subtle changes in their bodies as well.
“Idiot.” Hei Xuanyi parted his lips slightly and said. His voice was as husky as a piece of sandpaper rubbing against the surface of a table. His lips which were barely moving seemed to be enticing Wu Ruo, making him unable to resist kissing the other’s thin lips.
Hei Xuanyi’s fury dissipated as he exhaled, and following after was a faintly discernible helpless sigh.
He did already know ahead of time about Wu Ruo’s appointment and he also knew that Wu Sheng bore ill intentions. On top of that, he had already assigned someone to tail Wu Ruo. However, when he heard those people in the room doing those things while intimately calling out his wife’s name, he simply couldn’t resist the desire to kill that person to see if they would still dare to lust over his wife.
Wu Ruo thought that Hei Xuanyi’s anger was worry for him and he explained: “Don’t worry, I’m fine. You saw it too, the person pressed beneath Ba Se was Wu Xia.”
When Wu Ruo received the Yuanxiang wine, he immediately knew that there was something wrong with it. The fragrant scent of an aphrodisiac permeated from the wine. After consuming it, a person would randomly go into heat. He wasn’t sure if it was because Wu Sheng and his lot thought that he was really a regular person without spiritual energy but they put just an average run-of-the-mill aphrodisiac into the wine. As long as one was a physician, they would be able to counter it.
Wu Ruo had already been on guard and had brought along a variety of antidotes with him. Before he drank the wine, he discreetly administered an antidote and an anti-drunkenness pill for himself, which was why there wouldn’t be any problem no matter how much he drank.
Following that, he took the opportunity when everyone was pouring him wine to discreetly feed Wu Xi the antidote. Then, he discreetly infected everyone else with gu parasites. He had learned these gu parasite arts from Nu Mu in his previous lifetime. At that time, he had taken many years to master them unlike the slightly over a month it had taken him in this lifetime.
After that, when Wu Sheng and his lot left the room, Wu Ruo knew that things were about to happen, so he put **3Not a translator or editing error, the Chinese just has it as two asterisks. into the room’s candlelight and put up an illusion. That was how Ba Se fell straight into the illusion the moment that he entered the room. Then, he controlled Wu Xia to return to the room and engage in illicit sexual relations with Ba Se.
Things could proceed so smoothly and successfully because all these people thought that he was a regular person and didn’t hold their guard up against him. Otherwise, it also wouldn’t have been that easy to make Ba Se fall for this trap.
Hei Xuanyi’s gaze flashed with a cold light.
Ba Se, was it?
He would keep that name in mind.
Hei Xuanyi thought about how there was someone incessantly lusting over his wife and the jealousy in his heart instantaneously surged into existence, and he tightened his grip even more.
Wu Ruo was held so tightly by Hei Xuanyi that he was almost out of breath. Just as he was about to say something, he was firmly kissed by the other. The tip of that person’s tongue took the opportunity to slide in and sweep across the inside of Wu Ruo’s mouth before slowing down to a leisurely pace, carefully entangling itself with his smaller tongue. His back and bottom were gently caressed by that person. His body which had consumed wine was already extremely hot. Now, it was even more incomparably hot. Not long after, Wu Ruo’s body had a reaction.
He couldn’t resist reaching out and searching for the sturdy chest within Hei Xuanyi’s robes.
It was at this moment that the horse carriage came to a stop.
“Master, we’ve arrived.” The bodyguard outside the carriage said.
Hei Xuanyi gradually let go of Wu Ruo’s lips. After that, he firmly sucked a mark onto the crook of Wu Ruo’s neck before he let go.
Wu Ruo stroked Hei Xuanyi’s chest, dissatisfied, and whispered: “Why have we arrived so quickly?”
Hei Xuanyi couldn’t suppress a smile and chuckled in low tones: “Continue inside?”
Wu Ruo rolled his eyes at Hei Xuanyi and took his hands out of Hei Xuanyi’s robes, tidying them properly for him.
Hei Xuanyi straight up carried Wu Ruo into his arms and alighted the horse carriage, heading into the bathroom and shedding both of their robes. Facing each other bare and naked, they soaked in the water and continued being intimate. Other than the very last step, Hei Xuanyi had essentially eaten4Literally ‘eaten’ in Chinese too. I am pretty sure it refers to ‘eating sb’s tofu’ and is about having had sex with someone. Usually used by the person in the ‘offensive’ position. Wu Ruo once over.
After washing up and returning to their bedroom, Wu Ruo splayed over the bedding bonelessly and lost his thoughts watching the man who was only wearing his underpants5In that era, undergarments come as a whole set. Nobody is ever really naked for extended periods of time besides soaking in a bath. You are usually wearing inner robes, which split into a top and a bottom and are typically white. If you’re thinking of those guzhuang drama scenes with people in their bedrooms and wearing one thin layer of white robes, you would be right to realize they are in the guzhuang equivalent of boxers or their bra and panties.
Hei Xuanyi is being extra sexy by not putting his inner top robe on..
Just now when they were bathing, Wu Ruo had almost automatically opened the city gates to allow the enemy in, willingly submitting himself and yielding his bottom half as a vassal6Hilarious military euphemism for bottoming to Hei Xuanyi..
Wu Ruo absentmindedly frowned. His views towards Hei Xuanyi this lifetime had changed far too quickly. Even if he considered the fact that Hei Xuanyi from his previous lifetime had come looking for him at the Wu estate the moment before his death, even if Hei Xuanyi from this lifetime had given him a lot of help, even if he had finally uncovered the truth about many things in this lifetime, the utmost hatred and disgust towards Hei Xuanyi that Wu Ruo had brought over from his previous lifetime couldn’t disappear in such a short period of time. On top of that, Wu Ruo even cared about the other party.
Hei Xuanyi felt Wu Ruo’s gaze and looked up questioningly.
Wu Ruo came back to his senses and pointed at the box on the table: “Bring it over for me.”
This box had been given to him by Ba Se. After receiving it, he had never opened it before.
Hei Xuanyi handed the box to him.
Wu Ruo took the box and said: “Stay further away from me, I’m worried that there’s something wrong inside this box.”
“What’s inside?”
“I don’t know, it was given by Ba Se.”
If he hadn’t met Ba Se tonight, he would have already forgotten about the matter of this box.
Hei Xuanyi’s expression instantly darkened.
Wu Ruo carefully opened the box by a crack and confirmed that there was nothing wrong inside before fully opening the box. Inside was a jade pendant the shade of a red gecko.
Hei Xuanyi picked the jade pendant up faster than Wu Ruo by one move.
Wu Ruo saw that he want to crush it to bits and hurriedly stopped him: “That’s a free passage jade pendant7Essentially a master key of sorts. The jade pendant will allow anyone possessing it to freely enter Kambuja without being questioned or detained. to enter Kambuja. It might be useful if we keep it.”
In his previous lifetime, he had seen quite a few impressive jiangtou masters carrying this jade pendant. At that time, he hadn’t known the purpose of this jade pendant. It was later on that his dad told him; because his dad has gone to Kambuja before so he knew about this. Wu Ruo had never thought that in this lifetime, Ba Se would give this free passage jade pendant to him. This person really did like him a lot…
Hei Xuanyi hesitated for a moment then he kept the jade pendant, not letting Wu Ruo look at it.
Wu Ruo didn’t care either and laid back down on the bed. He started thinking about how the people of the Southern main estate would deal with Ba Se; they probably wouldn’t let him have a good time.
After Ba Se had been arrested by Wu Anqi and the others, he indeed had a horrible time.
When he had just woken up, Ba Se had still been very pleased with himself for finally bedding the beauty. Following after, he realized something wasn’t quite right. Not only was he in pain all over, but it was also pitch black before his eyes. He was unable to muster his spiritual energy and he could only sense that his lower half was submerged in water, and it was cold and dark all around him.
He urgently struggled for a while. His hands and legs immediately emitted the clanking noises of iron chains.
Ba Se simply couldn’t recall what had happened after he had dominated the beauty and could only wait for the person who had tied him up here to come and see him.
After an unknown period of time, the stone door above his head was finally opened by someone. Blinding rays of light shot into the water jail. For a brief moment, Ba Se couldn’t adjust to it and hurriedly closed his eyes.
After that, a voice full of icy anger rang out: “Drag him out.”
“Yes, sir!”
The bodyguards above the water jail dragged Ba Se to the surface level.
When Ba Se was back above ground, he saw Wu Ruo among the crowd of people in one glance and his gaze brightened drastically: “Xiao-Ruo!”
Wu Ruo was preoccupied with chatting with Hei Xuanyi who was by his side and didn’t even spare Ba Se a glance.
Wu Qianqing’s expression was especially ugly. He had already learned about last night’s proceedings from Wu Ruo. At this moment, he really wanted to give Ba Se one tight slap.
Wu Shi, enduring pain and agony all over his body to catch a glimpse of the drama, said sarcastically: “This man is addressing Ruo-ge so intimately, so he must be someone well acquainted with Ruo-ge. Then it probably doesn’t count as a false accusation when we said that Ruo-ge infected us with the gu parasites. Who knows if he was the one who told Ba Se to do it.”
Wu Shi actually didn’t know about what had happened at Zuiyue Restaurant last night. Although someone had informed him, Wu Anyi and Wu Xiao to go to Zuiyue Restaurant together, but because he and Wu Xiao were indisposed, Wu Anyi could only look for Wu Anqi to go together with him.
“Your damned bullshit8放你狗屁 (fang ni gou pi): literally ‘fart your dog ass’. Usually if you exclaim ‘fang pi!’, which just means ‘to fart’, it is the equivalent of yelling ‘bullshit!’ at someone. Adding in the ‘dog’ bit just makes it that much more emphatic.!” Wu Xi was already so grown up, but this was still the first time she had resorted to expletives: “Great-Grandfather already investigated clearly that it was the people of the Northern main estate who did it. Now, you want to claim that it was done by erge, what exactly are you up to? Are you doubting Great-Grandfather’s abilities? Or will you only be satisfied when my erge actually gets a shaman to infect you with gu parasites?”
Wu Shi: “…”
Right now, he had already been fucked over so badly by the gu parasites that he didn’t even resemble a human being. If Wu Ruo found another shaman to infect him with gu parasites, he wouldn’t have a life left to live.
Ba Se heard their conversation and shouted, especially conscientious: “Me infecting you Southern main estate people with gu parasites has nothing to do with Xiao-Ruo! Xiao-Ruo doesn’t even know about this matter. It was the Northern main estate people who instructed me to do it.”
This time, it was the Northern main estate people who wanted to strike Ba Se dead with one slap.
“But, my relations with Xiao-Ruo are good indeed,” Ba Se continued shouting: “Just last night…”
He smiled gently at Wu Ruo: “The two of us consummated our relationship as wives and husbands do in the guest room of the inn. He and I already have a relationship like a married couple…”
Wu Ruo hurried to grab onto Hei Xuanyi’s hands tightly to prevent him from beating Ba Se to death in a single strike, otherwise, that would really be letting him off lightly.
However, Wu Ruo really applauded Ba Se. He was already in a situation like this, yet he was still clinging to last night’s affairs.
When everyone else heard that, they turned to look at Wu Ruo.
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