Chapter 64 Demoness (1)
When the carriage stabilized, Li Youde grabbed Chen Hui’s shoulders and pushed her away, only to see that her lips were slightly opened with a bit of red blood on them and her eyes were full of tears as if she wanted to cry but couldn’t cry.
Li Youde felt a bit of heartache and wanted to laugh a bit. In the end, he asked with a stern face, “Does it hurt?”
“Sssh…” Chen Hui hissed from pain and couldn’t even speak clearly.
“Didn’t I tell you to come out less?” Li Youde said with a displeased face, but his gaze looked at Chen Hui’s lips twice.
Chen Hui eased through the most painful moment and then glared at him with anger for not being considerate at all. After a brief gaze on his chin, she pushed away his hand. His attitude was too bad. She wouldn’t tell him that his chin was stained with blood from her mouth!
“Still dare to glare at me?” Li Youde raised an eyebrow.
Chen Hui took out a handkerchief and gently wiped her lips. As she wiped, she hissed from pain and didn’t spare him a glance. He is just a paper tiger now, what was there to be afraid of?!
In addition to the small amount of blood that was wiped off on the handkerchief, there was also a bit of white powder rubbed off Li Youde’s face. She sniffed. The powdery scene she smelled from Li Youde before seemed to come from it. She suddenly thought that she couldn’t kiss him that day; could it be caused by this white powder? If it was a clean face, would she be able to kiss more easily?
Forget it, let’s go with the flow. It was fine like with how things are now.
Seeing that Chen Hui ignored him, Li Youde was so angry that he wanted to smash something, but there was nothing in the carriage that he could smash. He could only reprimand, “Lady Chen, remember your identity!”
Chen Hui felt that the pain on her lips no longer affected her speech. So, she shot him a glance with hidden bitterness and then retrieved her line of sight. She inhaled deeply and said, “Of course, this Lady Chen remembers. Didn’t lord say it before? This Lady Chen is just an object. If lord is happy, you will take a few more glances at this Lady Chen. If lord is unhappy, you can throw this Lady Chen away at will…how can this Lady Chen forget these words?”
Li Youde choked. At that time, he only wanted to stab her with words. He didn’t expect that now they were spoken by her, the one who was stabbed uncomfortably would be him.
Should he tell her that he now considered her as someone to pair food with and that she no longer has to bother with those words anymore?
But when the words reached his lips, he withdrew them. He couldn’t say it. He didn’t say anything yet and she is already so undisciplined and out of control. If he says it, wouldn’t she ride roughshod over him? That won’t do! He couldn’t indulge her all the time!
However, he heard Chen Hui say faintly, “Lord, don’t worry. This Lady Chen has always been very clear about this Lady Chen’s identity and will not go beyond it.” Endless grief seemed to be hidden in those words.
While Li Youde warned himself that these were just pleasing words she said to him, he was in an unquiet state of mind by that kind of grief in her words. In the end, he slapped the wall of the carriage hard and shouted, “How do you drive?!”
Xiao Liu’s fearful voice came from the outside, “Yes, yes lord, this little one would be more careful!”
Conscious that after this interruption the topic has diverged, Li Youde leaned back as if nothing had happened, comfortably occupied Chen Hui’s pillow and closed his eyes.
Chen Hui cast him a sidelong glance. She stared at his chin that got a fancy pattern from the bump. She laughed sneakily. There was a bit of rouge and blood on it. It was extremely eye-catching. Everyone would notice it the moment they look at him.
Nothing was said all the way to Li residence. Chen Hui got out of the carriage first and waited at a side as if nothing has happened. When Li Youde got off the carriage, she secretly observed the expression of the other people. Seeing the redness on Li Youde’s chin and Chen Hui’s red lips, even people with no imagination could “guess” what had happened.
As for Chen Hui, she covered her lips with her handkerchief and followed Li Youde with a shy expression as they walked in.
The servants who saw it didn’t understand and no one dared to show any superfluous expression to make Li Youde become aware of it.
It wasn’t until Li Youde went into his room, changed his clothes and looked in the mirror that he realized what was on his chin. No one reminded him all the way. He knew that Lady Chen must’ve noticed it a long time ago and didn’t tell him.
“Lady Chen!” Li Youde’s angry roar came from the main room.
Chen Hui was behind the screen and preparing to take a bath. She faintly heard Li Youde call her. After guessing the reason for his anger, she just faintly said to Xiao Tiao, “Don’t bother about him. Just say I am asleep.”
Xiao Tiao wondered why Lady Chen had become bolder recently, but she still stood on Lady Chen’s side. She went out of the room and said to Xiao Liu who was standing in front of the main room, “Brother Xiao Liu, Lady Chen said that she is asleep…No, no, Lady Chen is already asleep.”
The corners of Xiao Liu’s mouth twitched. He stepped into the main house resignedly, arching his waist and said, “Lord, Lady Chen is already asleep.”
The moment Li Youde thought that he had entered the door with such a mark, smoke came out of his head from anger. He rarely encountered such an embarrassment anymore.
“I haven’t even slept yet, yet she slept so early!” Li Youde raised his leg angrily and went out.
Xiao Tiao’s face changed when she saw that Li Youde had come out. She wanted to go stop him but she didn’t dare. She wanted to tell the truth but she remembered the lie she had said before. Only a moment of hesitation, Li Youde had already opened the door of the side room and walked straight to the bed.
Naturally, there was no Chen Hui in the bed.
“Where is she?” Li Youde asked Xiao Tiao who had also entered.
Xiao Tiao opened her mouth, but no sound came out of it.
Behind the screen came Chen Hui’s voice that was gentle because of the water vapor, “Lord, this Lady Chen is here.”
Li Youde turned his head and took a step forward but stopped.
She was bathing.
As soon as he realized this, Li Youde felt the urge to leave.
But he couldn’t flee. If he fled, isn’t that a sign of weakness? That won’t do! He was calling the wind and summoning the rain at court now. Who would not give him face when they saw him? Aside from the emperor, to whom was he like this before? She is just a female, what was there to be afraid of?! If he doesn’t let her know his power, she really could behave atrociously over his head.
Li Youde humphed coldly and said, “Get out!”
The sound of water being lifted and dropped came from inside. He heard Chen Hui say, “This Lady Chen is not dressed. Lord, you come in.”
“Then, get dressed and come out!” Li Youde’s eyes on the screen seemed to have been burned and he moved them away quickly.
“This Lady Chen hasn’t finished bathing and won’t come out.” Behind the screen, Chen Hui was playing with the warm water. Amidst the sound of water, her voice seemed to have a touch of enticement.
“If you don’t come out, I will go in!” Li Youde threatened.
Chen Hui said, “This Lady Chen won’t come out. If you the ability, then come in.”
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