Why is there a shadow on the page?
Turning her head, she met Chu Yao's handsome face.
Wushuang cried out in surprise, slammed the book shut, and hurriedly stuffed it into the quilt.
"You...you...how did you get here? Don't you know people need to sleep?" She was flustered and confused, and her words were incoherent.
“You clearly didn’t sleep.” Chu Yao bluntly exposed her. “If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have known that our Wushuang was so diligent, studying those kinds of books late into the night.”
He must have seen it!
Caught red-handed doing something wrong, Wushuang's cheeks burned with pain. Without thinking, she retorted, "What do you mean by 'this' and 'that'? I have no idea what those are."
As soon as the words left her mouth, she regretted them immensely.
Chu Yao seized on her slip of the tongue and wouldn't let it go: "It's okay if you don't know, I'll teach you." He then leaned closer to her ear.
"No, no, no, don't listen!" Wushuang covered her ears and whispered. In the middle of the night, whispering sweet nothings, a lone man and woman, and he was even explaining the fire avoidance diagram. The scene was too beautiful for her to bear.
Chu Yao found it increasingly amusing. Wu Shuang had never been married in her previous life, and in this life she was not yet of marriageable age. Logically, she should not have any understanding of matters between men and women. So where did she get the knowledge of something like the Fire Avoidance Diagram, and how dare she look for it?
He thought this, and then asked the question.
Wushuang, wrapped in a blanket, honestly replied, "I picked it up from the ground... I found it on the ground."
Chu Yao burst into laughter upon hearing this: "The Marquis of Runan's family is so unrestrained that they can find fire-avoidance maps just by walking along the road following the list of successful candidates?"
Wushuang was stunned for a long time before she realized the meaning behind his words.
You can laugh at her, but you absolutely cannot laugh at her father or her whole family.
Wushuang, furious, crawled out from under the quilt and punched Chu Yao with her little fists: "You're not allowed to say anything bad about Daddy, or I'll break off all ties with you!"
Her weak touch felt like a tickle to Chu Yao, and he squinted his eyes in enjoyment: "Okay, okay, whatever you say. Use a little more force, up... a little diagonally, that's it."
They actually mistook her for a maidservant with drooping shoulders! Wushuang was so angry that her nose twisted, she snorted and withdrew her small hand, puffed out her cheeks and lay down, pulled the brocade quilt over her face, and refused to say another word.
Chu Yao didn't mind at all. He lay down next to her as naturally as a husband who had come home late and was lying next to his wife. He even grabbed half of the blanket and covered himself with it.
"Ugh, you're wearing your outer clothes in bed! You're so dirty! Get out, get out!" Wushuang pushed him out, muttering complaints under her breath.
"You want me to take off my clothes? That's easy." Chu Yao took them off without hesitation, his outer robe and inner garment falling to the ground, revealing his muscular chest.
Wu Shuang froze, staring at Chu Yao's well-defined chest. She didn't know whether to look at him or scold him; she was completely at a loss for how to react.
A faint fragrance lingers in the air.
Wushuang wrinkled her nose and sniffed again and again, remembering that it was the same scent she had smelled in Chu Yao's tent in her previous life.
However, she didn't know what kind of fragrance it was, and there was no incense in her room...
It must be because of Chu Yao!
That time, he shamelessly undressed in front of her too!
What a wicked thing!
Enraged, Wushuang recklessly bit down on Chu Yao's thick skin, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't break through. Frustrated, Wushuang released her mouth, leaving a small, saliva-stained tooth mark on his broad chest.
"What are you angry about again?" Chu Yao asked, and before Wu Shuang could answer, he coaxed her, "Alright, alright, don't be upset, let's talk about serious matters." As he spoke, he pulled Wu Shuang into his arms.
Wushuang disliked the lip print and lifted the hem of her undergarment to wipe the saliva off it.
Because of this action, a small section of her snow-white and soft belly was exposed. Chu Yao stared at that spot, his eyes somewhat fixed, but he still maintained a serious tone and recounted the story of the Grand Prince Consort.
"I can't figure out why he deliberately befriended Lu An, so I came to ask you how He Yao performed when she was learning to cook with you all," he concluded.
"Nothing special, she just doesn't listen to Mr. Lu. She always does the opposite of what he says. Luckily, Uncle He always comes along to supervise, so she only dares to be mischievous, otherwise who knows what might happen," Wushuang said. "At first, I was worried that the father and daughter had some kind of conspiracy, but later I saw that Uncle He was very strict with He Yao. If she showed any disrespect to Mr. Lu, she would be scolded. It seems like he really wants her to learn cooking skills. Hmm, Uncle He is probably just too bored and idle, so he keeps going to the kitchen for something new."
Having served as the commander of the Lingguang Guard for two lifetimes, Chu Yao was most skilled at extracting key information from seemingly complicated and disordered news. Upon hearing this, he immediately grasped the main points: He Yao was reprimanded for disobeying Lu Zhenniang, and she also deliberately befriended Lu An.
With these two points combined, the Grand Prince Consort's true objective is clearly Lu Zhenniang and her son.
But why did he target them, mother and son?
If they were to harm Wushuang, one of them was a man and could not possibly enter the inner quarters, while the other was only responsible for teaching and was not particularly close to Wushuang. Clearly, neither of them were good candidates.
"Could it be that you're trying to bribe Lu An to harm you?"
Chu Yao cared about Wu Shuang, and Wu Shuang also cared about Chu Yao. After listening to his analysis, she blurted out this sentence.
Wu Shuang made no attempt to hide her worry, which delighted Chu Yao. He patted her soft little face and reassured her, "It's not that easy to harm me. But you should be careful in everything you do. Hmm, just to be on the safe side, I'll choose a female guard to accompany you tomorrow."
"Hmm." Wushuang yawned. "I'm so sleepy, I'm going to sleep. You can go back now."
Since they were already there, Chu Yao was naturally unwilling to leave so soon. He lay down next to Wushuang again and gently patted her back: "I'll lull you to sleep."
A sweet night, but the change came faster than they expected.
The next morning, the old steward of the Marquis of Runan's mansion knocked on the door of Junshu's study, trembling all over.
"My lord, something has happened. Early this morning, a man came to our gate. He was holding... holding..." The steward found it too difficult to finish, his old face turning red, and he stammered several times before he could continue, "He claims to be in love with the Third Miss, and he was making a lot of noise, telling passersby about it. He was also holding the Third Miss's personal belongings as evidence. I have ordered the guards to lock him in the side courtyard. I ask Your lord to decide what to do next."
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Chapter 113:
The drizzle had been falling all day and hadn't stopped by nightfall.