Chapter 121
Zheng Xuening obediently lay back, not dodging or evading.
Her hands even considerately supported the girl’s waist, making it convenient for the other to kiss her fiercely.
“Slow down, don’t rush.”
Zheng Xuening whispered softly by the girl’s ear.
Already looking so devastatingly beautiful, and now softening her voice to speak, the fierce momentum Lu Dieqing had just now was instantly melted away.
Sob, sob, sob. Can you just do whatever you want because you’re beautiful, setting off fireworks in people’s hearts?
Lu Dieqing was so captivated she was in a daze, her little face red and steaming.
She held Zheng Xuening’s face with both hands and, word by word, forced a calm demeanor.
“Hmph, you think that’s all there is?”
The girl, whose almond eyes would go round when she glared, had a certain contradictory cuteness no matter what harsh words she said.
Zheng Xuening was “threatened” and had to pretend to be shy or scared, slowly blinking her eyes.
“Otherwise… what else is there?”
Lu Dieqing froze, her long, slender lashes fanning, her lips pressed together, a look of wanting to say something harsh but her mind drawing a blank.
Zheng Xuening held back her laughter, her fingertips holding the girl’s chin.
“Do you want me to teach you?”
“Let’s see what I’m afraid of. I’ll teach you, and next time you’ll know how to punish me.”
Her voice was like that of a great fox spirit beguiling mortal hearts, each word landing precisely where it would sting Lu Dieqing most.
The girl was dizzy. She was captivated by this face, and also by the coaxing in her tone.
“Then… what are you afraid of?”
Clearly knowing that the conversation between the two of them at this moment was akin to flirting, Lu Dieqing spinelessly found that she couldn’t stand it. Sob, sob, sob, I can’t stand it at all.
Zheng Xuening: “I don’t dare to teach you.”
She waved her hand, and the oil lamp on the table by the bed was extinguished.
The room returned to its quiet and dark state.
And so, in the darkness, the two of them seemed to be even closer, so close that there was no distinction between you and I, no clear boundary.
Lu Dieqing’s small hands grabbed Zheng Xuening’s wrist, her voice soft and shy, but firm.
“Why don’t you dare?”
“This… mmm.”
She slowly took off both of their clothes, and gently kissed the girl’s lips.
Like two swans with their necks intertwined, playing in a river, their shadows swayed gently in the gaps where the moonlight fell.
Winter seemed to be passing. The moon hung on the treetops, slowly moving towards the distance, a thin layer of clouds covering its eyes.
Lu Dieqing nuzzled into Zheng Xuening’s embrace like a little kitten.
“So comfortable.”
She kissed Zheng Xuening’s chin, her two almond eyes twinkling. In the night, under the moonlight, one could still see their clarity.
Zheng Xuening sighed and pinched her fair earlobe.
“Then be a good girl and go to sleep.”
“No, I don’t want to. Let me do it. You’re not allowed to move.”
Lu Dieqing was like a mischievous little pixie, wrapping a hair ribbon around Zheng Xuening’s two wrists.
“You have to let me. You have internal energy, and your martial arts are so good. Whatever I do, you have to let me.”
The little girl, who spoke word by word like this, was so cute that it could melt a person’s heart.
Zheng Xuening naturally had no reason not to agree.
“…Alright. I’ll let you.”
…
The next day, it was bright. Lu He went to knock on the door.
“Qingqing, are you not up yet?”
Lu Dieqing, who had overslept with Zheng Xuening, struggled to sit up from the bed.
“I’m up! I’m getting up right now! Mother, you don’t need to come in. I’m getting up right now.”
As she replied, she quickly put on all the clothes on the bed, not forgetting to look at Zheng Xuening with a puffed-up face—you hurry up and get dressed too.
Zheng Xuening rolled over, one hand lazily wrapping around Lu Dieqing.
The girl’s slender figure was set off by her side, as soft and graceful as a willow.
Lu Dieqing looked down at herself, then at Zheng Xuening, and turned her head away with a hmph.
Why was Ningning so much more ample than her?
Seeing her like this, Zheng Xuening couldn’t help but laugh.
“Aren’t you going to get dressed and go out? If your mother gets anxious, will she push the door open?”
Lu Dieqing bit her lip and quickly put on her clothes, one by one, and ran to open the door with a flushed little face.
“Mother.”
Lu He was in the courtyard, sweeping.
The broom in her hand was like a toy, sweeping back and forth. Lu Dieqing poked her little head out and waved at her mother.
Lu He, not understanding, walked over and glanced at the sky.
“Aren’t you going to the academy today? Why did you sleep so soundly?”
Lu Dieqing was a little annoyed and said in a small voice, “I… I have someone in my room. Last night, the Crown Princess and I were discussing the Dao. We weren’t paying attention to the time and slept a little soundly.”
The broom in Lu He’s hand trembled.
“The Crown Princess?”
She looked at her daughter with a complex expression.
Lu Dieqing lowered her head, as well-behaved as a quail, very much like a daughter reporting her beloved to her mother.
Lu He looked at her for a while, wanting to ask a few more questions, but thinking of the person inside, and hearing that the Crown Princess disliked noise and was prone to headaches, she swallowed the words she was about to say.
It was a good thing her mentality was stable. If it had been an ordinary person, knowing that the heir of the Chaoying Kingdom had slept in their daughter’s bed last night, they would probably have screamed their lungs out.
“Mother, don’t ask anymore. I’ll tell you tomorrow. The Crown Princess and I… often discuss the Dao. We would also sleep together in Yunxi Hall before.”
Lu Dieqing lowered her little head, peeking at her mother’s expression as she let out a few words.
Lu He’s face turned pale and then red.
Only then did she remember that in the past, when Matron Li and the others had come to arrange for them to live in Yunxi Hall, she had wanted her daughter to be independent quickly and get used to life without her parents, so she had let Qingqing go on her own.
This… this was simply sending a lamb into a tiger’s den.
And to think that the two of them had been out of the palace together for so many days, had been to the forbidden land, and had experienced so much. She was afraid that the feelings between the two were no longer just a friendship.
Just looking at her daughter’s shy little-girl expression when she mentioned the Crown Princess, Lu He’s heart was complex.
What she had been afraid of had really come true.
She tightened her grip on the broom, hesitating for a moment whether to go in and break up the pair, or to turn a blind eye and not make things awkward for both of them.
Creak.
The door to the side room was opened again from the inside.
The Crown Princess, who was already dressed neatly, walked out from inside with a calm face.
“Auntie,” she said, looking at Lu He and showing a smile, so polite that one couldn’t find a single flaw.
On a deep winter morning, there was a cold frost outside, and the air was also cold. Everything looked as if it were wrapped in snow, a little dull.
But the moment the Crown Princess’s face appeared, the world instantly brightened.
Lu He had almost never had a direct encounter with the Crown Princess before.
It was only today, in such an unexpected opportunity, that she saw the legendary heir of the Chaoying Kingdom walk out leisurely from her daughter’s remote little side room.
She was even a little stunned.
Heavenly beauty was no more than this.
No wonder… no wonder her Qingqing couldn’t pass such a beauty’s test.
Lu He had to hold her broom and admit in her heart.
If she were twenty years younger, she would probably also like the Crown Princess.
It was very hard not to like.
Qingqing has good taste.
“Discussing the Dao” is an incredible way to describe what they were getting up to