Chapter 244: Tomorrow night, I’ll take you with me (1/2)

Chapter 244: Tomorrow night, I’ll take you with me

Elope? Impossible!

Gu Qishao deserved to die. Escaping was one thing, but he’d actually framed her before he left. Han Yunxi felt her courage from just then shrivel up as she replied with a grin, “Your Highness misunderstood, Gu Qishao’s just joking at most.”

“Joking? Does a joke include getting handsy?” Long Feiye asked coldly.

Getting handsy?

Han Yunxi thought and thought, but didn’t understand where Long Feiye had thought up such a phrase. “Your Highness, is there some misunderstanding somewhere?”

“A joke? Does a joke include feeding him sweets?” Long Feiye asked again.

Only then did Han Yunxi suddenly understood. Surprised, she cried, “You’ve been following us the whole time!” No wonder he’d shown up so quickly and prepared so thoroughly. So he’d been secretly around the whole time and knew everything.

“Answer your lordship’s questions!” Long Feiye’s rage towered to the skies. Even though there was fighting all around them, he didn’t pay it any mind.

“Why are you following me?” Han Yunxi asked instead. She was angry as well.

“Han Yunxi, you actually dared to poison your lordship for Gu Qishao’s sake! What skills!” Long Feiye was even laughing coldly by now, his eyes filled with scorn.

Han Yunxi found the sight grating and hastened to explain. “I really have nothing going on with Gu Qishao. I only found him to help me, I…”

Before she could finish, Long Feiye cut in. “Whatever you have going on with him doesn’t matter to your lordship!”

Urk…

Now Han Yunxi was shocked and confused. If none of this had anything to do with him, then why was he in such a temper now? She suddenly fell quiet and stared at Long Feiye.

This guy…could it be that he’s eating vinegar?

Han Yunxi looked and guessed and suddenly felt less angry than before. After some hesitation, she said, “Long Feiye, what are you so offended about?”

At the same time, Long Feiye opened his mouth and said, “Han Yunxi, since you have the title of Qin Wangfei, I’ll have to trouble you to guard your wifely virtues. Otherwise, bear the consequences yourself!”

After both of them spoke at the same time, they simultaneously fell silent. Neither of them opened their mouths again, but stared at each other while the slaughter continued around them. Assassination weapons flew back and forth through the air, but they became a quiet world unto themselves. Soon enough, Han Yunxi broke the still mood. She figured that she had to be overthinking things. Of course Long Feiye would take offense. He’d always treated her as a woman under his name, but that was all there was. His aggression and offense, even his kiss back then and that phrase, to ‘not exchange for an entire country,’ was only because she was under his name. She was akin to one of his possessions, something that belonged to him. He might be able to act recklessly as he wished, but he’d never let anyone else claim her. That was all.

“Your Highness really has misunderstood. There’s nothing between me and Gu Qishao. I happened to run into trouble and met him by chance, so I found him for help. Your Highness knows too, without an antidote, the crown prince will die and chenqie will be hard-pressed to keep her own life.” Han Yunxi was all logic as she explained. Actually, she had plenty of reasons for finding Gu Qishao. She needed him to take care of Luo Zuishan, didn’t he? But she wouldn’t say such things to Long Feiye because it was one of Gu Qishao’s secrets. Though he’d never sworn her to secrecy, she knew that sharing this now would be a form of betrayal.

Long Feiye still didn’t speak, but Han Yunxi actually made a startling declaration with her next words. “If Your Highness feels that chenqie isn’t qualified for the title of Qin Wangfei, you can always divorce chenqie.” She really couldn’t bear being accused of defying wifely virtues.

When the empress dowager had decreed their marriage, it was impossible to divorce her then. But if Long Feiye did it now, the empress dowager and Emperor Tianhui would both heartily approve. An indistinct pang came from Han Yunxi’s heart at the thought, but she still gazed at Long Feiye calmly without avoiding his gaze. She was someone who could really, really like a person, but not someone who would make herself suffer because of it. Neither would she be so infatuated as to lose her sense of self. Now that things had come to this point, she was waiting for Long Feiye to give her a clear answer.

Unexpectedly, the listless Long Feiye suddenly pulled Han Yunxi over, his arm wrapped tightly around her neck as he lowered his head to give her a fierce kiss.

“Nngh…” Han Yunxi’s first reaction at the unexpected action was to struggle free, but the more she struggled, the more indignant Long Feiye turned and the more strength he used to keep deepening their kiss. It had been the same back then at the Duke of Qin’s estate, but this time was even more sudden, even more intense. Forget about struggling, Han Yunxi even had trouble taking the kiss. This tyrannical man was absolutely forcing it! When she was nearly out of breath, he finally released him, but not completely. Instead, he raised her chin and gasped for breath with her.

“Han Yunxi, since you walked in the gates yourself, you can only die in the Duke of Qin’s estate within this lifetime. There’s no need to joke about things like divorce in the future.” Though he was seductively panting for breath, he still spoke such cruel and heartless words. This man was simply a demon.