The maid dried Song Nihuan's hair, packed up the towel and was about to leave, but when she looked up, she saw Song Nihuan staring at the coral earrings on the dressing table in a daze under the candlelight.

The woman who had just finished taking a bath had black hair, fair skin, picturesque features, and graceful curves under her loose clothes.

The maid didn't dare to look at it any longer.

"It was lost, did you find it back?" Song Nihuan asked while holding the earring.

"It should be found by someone else. I don't know."

Song Nihuan nodded thoughtfully.

The maid continued to help her wipe her hair. Xie Yunji came over quietly and took the towel from the maid's hand.

After a while, Song Nihuan realized something was wrong. She turned around and found that the person who helped her wipe her hair had become Xie Yunji, and the maid was nowhere to be seen.

Seeing that she had noticed, his brows softened and a faint smile appeared at the corners of his lips.

"It's so late, why are you still coming to the inner courtyard?"

"Come to see you." He said lightly.

Knowing that she had dropped the earrings at the gate of Tanyuan during the day, he has been feeling upset.

Even though I told myself many times that this was a necessary process and that I would be able to win her heart back, only by enduring the anger for a while could I achieve long-term results.

But he overestimated himself after all. An inexplicable anger surged in his heart. He tossed and turned on the bed, and all he could think of was the scene of her and Xie Tan's physical intimacy.

This scene always appeared in his dreams when he first met Song Nihuan many years ago.

Those dreams were either charming or wild and rebellious, but in the end, Xie Tan's face became his own.

At that time, Song Nihuan's family had not yet fallen into poverty, and Xie Tan was an unpopular illegitimate son in the family. Under his suggestion, the servants in the family looked down on Xie Tan, and Xie Tan even did not have enough to eat three meals a day.

Who made that woman take away the love that my father originally gave to my mother?

Who made that woman give birth to Xie Tan again!

Xie Yunji still remembered the unwillingness and hatred in his mother's eyes before she died. She told him not to let the mother and son have an easy time.

His mother was a woman as noble and indifferent as pearls and moonlight. She was the bright moon in the sky and the moonlight in the water. She devoted herself to her husband and Xie family, but in the end she was tortured like those women in the inner house. She was jealous, unwilling, and regretful, and ended up swallowing gold and dying.

No one knows how much pain his mother's departure brought him, and at the same time as the pain his dreams were shattered.

Why would you want to break such a wonderful person?

Fortunately, the woman passed away two years after giving birth to Xie Tan.

He was determined to defeat the son of a young woman.

However, no matter how he tortured Xie Tan, Xie Tan did not feel any pain. He had nothing, yet he seemed to have a lot.

It turned out that it was because he had a sweetheart.

This sweetheart is Song Nihuan.

In that case, take her away.

Later, Song Nihuan's house was searched and she became a prostitute. He watched helplessly, watched Xie Tan helpless, and watched her sink bit by bit.

Just when she was about to fall into the abyss, he would pull her up.

How touched would she be?

Yet she was simply grateful.

Recalling the scene of that year, she and Xie Tan snuggled up to each other on the hillside, affection flowing in their eyes and satisfied smiles on their faces.

Xie Yunji felt the burning pain in his heart getting worse, and the torment from those sleepless nights came back again...

He suddenly hugged Song Nihuan and pressed her against his shoulders, with obvious pain in his eyes.

She seemed to be frightened and her whole body froze, but she did not dare to resist and let him hold her.

"Nihuan, Nihuan..." He stroked her cheek and sighed.

"What's wrong?" she asked puzzled.

Everyone knows that he is the top scholar with extraordinary intelligence, the eldest son of a noble family with a bright and elegant appearance, and the bright moonlight in the hearts of noble ladies.

But he didn't know that under these lights, he had despicable intentions and was plotting something.

He could have forced her to marry him and made her his concubine, without having to be so cautious and calculating. But he always wanted more than just taking her away.

What he wanted was for her to willingly abandon Xie Tan and let him also taste the feeling of being abandoned.

But why, even though he promised her the position of legal wife and made her public, she still refused to give her heart! ?

"What's wrong with you?" Song Nihuan asked again, struggling silently in his arms.

She knew that he was her fiancé and had achieved great success, so no one would say anything if he came to the inner courtyard to find her at night.

She changed her mind and blurted out, "My husband is in mourning, don't do this."

How many sons of noble families committed shameful deeds during the mourning period? Xie Yunji was successful at a young age and now serves the emperor, so he must be concerned about this.

Xie Yunji noticed her resistance and cunning, and a deep chill appeared in his beautiful eyes.

She could go to Xie Tan eagerly but not let him touch her! ?

He let go of her, and with a normal look on his face, he reached into his bosom and took out something. "This is a pair of earrings I saw during the day. They suit you very well. I couldn't help but give them to you tomorrow."

He placed the earring in her palm and then closed her palm.

"...Thank you, my dear." She breathed a sigh of relief. "It's late, my dear, go back and have a rest."

She wanted to pull her hand back, but Xie Yunji wouldn't let her. He wrapped his hand around her fist tightly.

After a while, he loosened his hand and smiled as brightly as a white flower and a jade tree, "I'm leaving now, Ni Huan, go to bed early."

After Xie Yunji left, Song Nihuan felt uncomfortable all over.

What's wrong with him? This is abnormal.

Look at the pair of earrings he brought with him. They are made of top-quality mermaid pearls and are very exquisite.

It was not until the next day that I discovered that the pair of coral earrings were missing.

*

Xie's roots are in Yunjing, so there is no need for him to completely stay away from officialdom and live at home like officials from other places who return to their hometowns to mourn their fathers. Taking into account that the mourning period has not yet ended, the Hanlin Academy did not assign too much official duties to Xie Yunji.

When the weather was getting warmer but still cold, the willow trees sprouted new buds.

Xie Yunji walked all the way to the upper room of Mr. and Mrs. Xie, and the scenery became more and more elegant.

The upper room was very lively. It turned out that the shopkeeper of the cloth shop brought new cloth for Mrs. Wei to choose from.

Mr. Xie was having a drink in the courtyard. He looked at the young woman, who looked like a peach or plum under the pile of exquisite clothes. He also thought of her graceful appearance when she enjoyed the pleasure last night, and felt very pleased.

The table was piled with all kinds of thin clothing materials, including the finest Jiangnan silk and Shu brocade, and even South China Sea shark silk.

Rich families would choose the fabrics for next season in advance.

As the mourning period has not yet ended, the colors are all very light.

Mrs. Wei was very happy to see Xie Yunji coming over. "Come here and see if there is anything you like. I just saw a piece of cloth that suits you very well."

"He is still in mourning, so he should wear light clothes." Mr. Xie advised, but he felt it was useless because his son never liked bright colors and always dressed very plainly.

Xie Yunji walked over and let her try the fabric in her hand on him.

He was handsome, tall and handsome, like a walking clothes rack. Even the shopkeeper of the cloth pile praised him repeatedly, saying that he was really lucky to have the eldest son Xie from the Yaguanjing come to try on his clothes.

"You can't tell the difference by comparing like this. Why don't you try it on? Here are some samples of the latest styles." The shopkeeper at Buzhuan said with a smile.

"it is good."

He actually agreed for the first time.

The clothes chosen were summer clothes, which were extremely light and thin. Xie Yunji went into the inner room and put on the thin jade-colored silk. She was tall and slender, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. Mrs. Wei's breathing stopped.

"I like this color very much. Madam, please help me measure it." Xie Yunji said.

Madam Wei glanced at Mr. Xie who was drinking nearby, and seeing that he looked normal, she approached Xie Yunji with a ruler in hand.

He stretched out his hands and let her measure him back and forth.

Summer clothes are thin to begin with, and Mrs. Wei's fingertips touched him intentionally or unintentionally. His chest was firm, his waist and abdomen were thin and tight, and his back was very broad... It was the body of a young man, upright, thin but strong.

Tell him to turn around and he turns around; tell him to raise his hand and he raises his hand.

Mrs. Wei moved closer, and her nostrils could smell the faint scent of sandalwood from his body.

It was clearly a spring day, but she was sweating a little and her heart was beating like a drum.

"Measured." She put away the ruler, raised her eyes and met his, her eyes sparkling, accidentally revealing the excitement and shyness of a little girl facing her lover.

Xie Yunji did not avoid her gaze, and looked at her quietly with a pair of glass-like eyes.

Madam Wei quickly lowered her eyes and staggered back.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like