Chapter 63 - In a Huff (2) (1/2)

Chapter 63: In a Huff (2)

Xue Dongting lay in bed all day reading, paying no attention to Song Yuming’s attentive waiting on her. She didn’t even allow him into bed at night, so he had to take a quilt and go to the woodshed. Big tall man like him sleeping in there with the woodpile, thinking that tomorrow was New Year’s Eve and how vexing everything was right now, it made this Prince Yu who had once commanded 300,000 cavalry and soldiers depressed as could be. Xue Dongting gently pushed the window open a crack. It was pitch-black inside the woodshed and a cold wind was blowing. “Bah!” the little wife spat. She muttered, “I said to leave so you did. How come you never listened so well before!” Actually, it was plain that she was not willing to tell of her history from her past life ten years ago, and Song Yuming, in the dark, just wanted to make things clear, so what was wrong wit that?

But Xue Dongting seemed to think herself in the right as she grumbled in a low voice, “Is it so hard to admit you were wrong? Stubborn ass!” She thought and thought. In the end she still was worried about her husband being out in the woodshed in the cold. She grumbled as she draped a robe over herself and got out of bed and went outside to the woodshed. She gnashed her teeth as she walked, cursing herself for being softhearted, still worried about that blockhead getting cold.

She got to the woodshed but hesitated for a bit without speaking.

Inside, Song Yuming heard movement and got up and pushed the door open. He saw his little wife standing quietly in front of the door and he frowned and reprimanded her, “What are you doing standing there!”

Xue Dongting was taken aback. Alright, I came because I was worried about you, but you want to be that way and act like a big man, talking so mean to me! Angered, she said, “What are you so mean for. Master Song, you have such a bad temper!”

Song Yuming wasn’t being mean, he was just worried she would catch cold out here in the freezing wind. He took hold of her and dragged her back to the nice, warm bedroom.

Xue Dongting wanted to jerk out of his big hand’s grasp, but she was too weak. He didn’t let her go until they were before the bed. He said, “This is just my way, I raise my voice easily. An old habit from my army days. I really wasn’t trying to be mean to you.”

She saw he looked serious and she tried hard to keep a straight face, but she couldn’t help but laugh. She simply turned and lay back down and pulled the quilt over her. She couldn’t lay on her side because of her injury, so she covered her face with a silk handkerchief.

Song Yuming sighed lightly, followed by the rustling of him undressing.

She felt cold under the covers, then a guy was in there with her. She quickly faced the wall and moved over. “Who said you could sleep here, get away, get away!”

Song Yuming took the handkerchief off her face with his big hand. In the dim light of the oil lamp he saw her seductive eyes closed, her long lashes quivering. The man took a deep breath and reach out and pulled her into the crook of his big arm.

Xue Dongting opened her eyes and pushed at him with both hands. “You’re freezing, move away a bit!”

Song Yuming held her little hands and lowered his voice, “Your hands are colder than mine, let me warm them for you.”

She hmphed and rubbed her ice-cold feet on his big legs. He drew his legs back and naughtily clasped her feet between them.

“Ah Dong, don’t leave me.”

She turned around. “I’m not Ah Dong!”

He sighed. “Whatever your name is, you’re my wife.”

She hmphed again and said indifferently. “If that’s so, then what was all that questioning about last night?”

Song Yuming held her face in his hands and said gently, “Even if you were sent by the emperor to kill me, I will happily die under your soft, gentle blade.”

Xue Dongting knit her brows and couldn’t help but say, “Sent by the emperor? Don’t wrongly accuse me!”

Song Yuming stared into her suspicious eyes. He didn’t quite get it. “If you’re not Xue Dongting from Cloudgem Lodge, then who are you if not someone sent from the imperial palace?”

She pouted, “Then just take me as someone sent from the palace then!”