GTB Chapter 77

Chapter 77 Sleeping on my bed, soaking in my tub

Chapter 77 Sleeping on my bed, soaking in my tub

Perhaps Jiang Jiuchu was tired from touring the residence today, or perhaps this bed was softer than she imagined, she fell asleep unknowingly while lying prone.

Ever since Jiang Jiuchu entered the room, Luoluo and Luyi had gone down to rest early.

They had heard from the servants in the residence that the Seventh Prince didn’t like servants entering his room, and they also knew that the Seventh Prince’s room had a bathing room, so they didn’t need to fetch water for their young lady to wash up.

The night deepened, and a hint of coolness made Jiang Jiuchu subconsciously reach out to pull the quilt.

As if remembering something, she suddenly opened her eyes and sat up. Seeing that Shi Yan was not in the room, she instantly breathed a sigh of relief.

The bright moonlight shone through the window lattice. She turned her head and looked at the water clock beside her, it was already midnight.

Jiang Jiuchu walked to the table, poured a cup of tea and drank it, thinking that the Seventh Prince probably wouldn’t be back tonight.

If she had known he wouldn’t be back, she would have taken a good bath and gone to bed comfortably, instead of letting herself freeze for half the night.

She suddenly remembered the pool in the bathing room. There was hot water delivered in the morning, so there must be some now.

With this thought, she got up and walked to the closet, took out a set of undergarments from inside, and headed towards the hidden door.

A slight sound of the sliding door instantly startled the person in the pool. Shi Yan’s eyes flickered slightly, and he immediately moved to a different position.

With a wave of his hand, the clothes that were originally draped on the rack instantly fell into an inconspicuous corner.

A pair of phoenix eyes, through the dim candlelight, curved into a smile as he watched the figure walking closer and closer outside the light yarn.

However, as he watched the woman taking off her clothes one by one, the corners of his lips slowly receded, and a deep look gradually floated in his eyes, no longer looking like he was watching a good show.

Perhaps the unfamiliar environment made Jiang Jiuchu feel insecure. She directly wore her dudou and xiekù, then lifted the gauze curtain and walked into the pool.

However, before she could start washing, she caught a glimpse of a figure in the mist beside her.

She screamed in fright and quickly retreated to the farthest point, submerging her entire body in the pool water, looking at the person opposite her in horror.

“Who is it?”

But as soon as she asked, she already had the answer in her heart, and she also saw the person in the water clearly.

“You, you… why are you here?”

Shi Yan chuckled, “How can I not be here in my own place? It’s you who took advantage of my absence…sleeping on my bed, soaking in my tub.”

As he spoke, he got up and walked towards Jiang Jiuchu.

Seeing the man’s movement of getting up, Jiang Jiuchu instantly turned her head, closed her eyes, and reached out to stop him. Both the man’s words and the current situation made her want to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

“You, you, don’t come over, I, I didn’t mean to, I only lay down for a while because you weren’t here.”

As she spoke, she seemed a little angry, “If you hadn’t slept on the ground, you wouldn’t know how hard the ground is. I only lay down for a while because you weren’t here, so what? I haven’t even said you’re indifferent, selfish, and don’t know how to be courteous.”

Hearing the approaching sound of water, Jiang Jiuchu closed her eyes even tighter, her small face turned even further behind her, and her slender white arms were still stretched out, trying to stop the man from getting closer.

“Heh, indifferent? Is the Princess Consort blaming me for not…”

Shi Yan was interrupted by Jiang Jiuchu before he could finish speaking: “No, no, I’m just saying you don’t know how to be courteous, you have no manners.”

Shi Yan stopped, looked at the slender white arm blocking him in front of him, his eyes deepened, and he said with a sneer:

“Courtesy? The woman who can make me, Shi Yan, courteous, besides my parents, there is only one person, and that is… my wife.”

As he spoke, he looked at Jiang Jiuchu, who was still turning her head and dare not open her eyes, and slowly opened his mouth, “Are you, is it?”

Jiang Jiuchu was stunned when she heard this, turned her head, and looked at the person in front of her in surprise.

Is she? Does their current situation count? It doesn’t seem to count! After all, he wasn’t courteous to her.

“So… why should I be courteous to you? Why don’t you tell me a reason.”

Shi Yan’s extremely ruthless words made Jiang Jiuchu feel inexplicably wronged.

It wasn’t her who wanted to marry him. It was clear that he was being urged to marry, so he married her casually without even meeting her, and now he’s asking her if she counts.

“I don’t know, if you say it counts, then it counts, if you say it doesn’t count, then it doesn’t count. Isn’t it you who wanted to marry me?”

She really wanted to add, if you think it doesn’t count, then divorce me, but the words came to her lips, and she stopped.

“You mean… what I say counts?”

As Shi Yan spoke, he grabbed the arm she was blocking in front of him, and his other hand quickly clasped her waist, leaning forward, his voice without much emotion, just slightly low, and asked again: “Is it?”

Suddenly being restrained, Jiang Jiuchu’s face suddenly turned pale, and the scalding temperature from her waist made her tremble all over, looking at the man close at hand in fear, and a fear she had never felt before rose in her heart.

In an instant, she just wanted to stay away from this man, as far away as possible, but no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn’t break free.

“Let me go, let me go.”

Jiang Jiuchu’s words seemed to have not entered Shi Yan’s ears at all. His eyes were swirling with dark colors, and the soft and smooth waist under his palm made his fingers tighten involuntarily.

The woman in front of him had her ink-black hair scattered in the water, and a slender white neck hung with a deep red thin rope. Her misty eyes were full of fear, like a fairy with broken wings, extremely seductive.

Suddenly, a strange feeling rose in Shi Yan’s heart. This feeling drove him to lower his head and kiss her without hesitation.

“Wo…” Jiang Jiuchu’s eyes widened instantly, and intense fear and dread attacked her in an instant.

She didn’t have time to think too much, quickly arched her thighs, and kicked towards Shi Yan, but because she was too close, it was not her knee that hit the man’s crotch, but her thigh.

Shi Yan’s expression changed, and he immediately let go of Jiang Jiuchu and retreated.

He was about to open his mouth with a dark face, but when he saw her about to cry, he endured the pain in his lower body and turned around to leave the pool.

Seeing Shi Yan leave, Jiang Jiuchu’s heart relaxed, and tears fell uncontrollably.

She reached out and washed her face, then began to take a serious bath, but the tightly pursed corners of her mouth looked extremely stubborn.

Half an hour later, Jiang Jiuchu took a bath, put on her middle clothes, and calmed down her emotions. Then, she pushed the door open and returned to the room, but she was stunned by the scene in front of her.

Shi Yan glanced at Jiang Jiuchu, who was looking at him blankly, and said lightly: “I’m a clean freak. I can’t sleep on a bed that you’ve slept on without taking a bath.”

“But, but I…”

Jiang Jiuchu wanted to say that she didn’t take a bath when she slept on the floor! But when she saw Shi Yan’s gaze, she subconsciously closed her mouth.

The next moment, he waved his hand, and all the candles in the room were instantly extinguished.

Jiang Jiuchu was speechless, so she had to grope to the edge of the bed little by little, climbed onto the bed, lifted the quilt and burrowed in, only feeling a faint scent of bamboo after snow penetrating her nose.

Having slept for half the night, she was not sleepy at the moment. Her round eyes used the moonlight outside the window to look at the vague white bedding on the ground.

Did he…take the initiative to give her the bed because of his actions just now?

Or was it because she said he…had never slept on the floor, so he didn’t know how hard the floor was?