MLIAM Chapter 67

Chapter 67: Unspeakable – I’m Always Worried, Can I Truly Satisfy You…?

Yu Shuli abruptly took a step back, his expression wary: “Settle what score?”

Wei Yan followed with a step forward, smiling slightly. “Don’t remember? Does your husband need to help you recall?” He pulled Yu Shuli into his arms and kissed his face repeatedly, like a chick pecking at rice.

Yu Shuli, unable to withstand his playful antics, pushed him away a few times.

Wei Yan pressed his finger against Yu Shuli’s chin, not letting go, just gently stroking it. “Daring to come and drink at Brothels, you’ve got quite the nerve.”

Yu Shuli shrank his neck back, his voice faltering: “Siwen already explained? It wasn’t Brothels.”

“I don’t listen to her explanation, I listen to yours.” Wei Yan buried his face in the hollow of his neck, his breath tickling his skin. “You explain it to me.”

“I already said! I just came to listen to music…” Yu Shuli’s neck was a little itchy, so he tried to grab his head: “Don’t rub against me like that, my neck is so itchy.”

Wei Yan chuckled softly: “Only your neck is itchy? It seems I’m not working hard enough.” He sighed: “No wonder the Second Prince is biased against me, it’s true that I indulge you too much, leaving you with too much energy.”

Hearing this, Yu Shuli took a few wary steps back, his heels now at the edge of the table, with nowhere left to retreat.

The entire warm pavilion was filled with stifling, heated air, whether from the charcoal fire or the intimate contact, Yu Shuli couldn’t help but get goosebumps. “Don’t mess around, this isn’t home, we’re outside.”

“Is being outside so bad?” Wei Yan raised an eyebrow. “Such a charming activity like listening to music should naturally be paired with even more charming activities to make it meaningful, don’t you think?”

He drew closer again, his fingers hooking onto Yu Shuli’s waistband, his eyelashes lowered: “The effects of Five-Stone Powder relapse multiple times in a month, making it unbearable when it flares up. Ji’an, just indulge me.”

Yu Shuli pursed his lips, studying his expression: “You don’t… seem like you’re relapsing… and this… this isn’t right, is it?” He was tormented half to death last time.

“Isn’t it right?” Wei Yan’s eyebrows drooped with a feigned look of grievance. “Then… then you help me touch it, okay?”

Yu Shuli didn’t answer, but hesitation was already visible in his eyes.

“After we finish with Quzhou, we’ll be returning to The Capital City… and we’ll have to hold a wedding banquet to make things official, we won’t be able to be intimate for a long time…” Wei Yan’s hands restlessly groped towards Yu Shuli’s waist, taking advantage of his inattention to pull off his belt.

Yu Shuli raised his hand to stop him: “Not now! The performance is about to start, everyone will open their windows!”

“We just won’t open ours.”

If everyone else opened their windows and they didn’t, how would that look?! Wouldn’t everyone start imagining things?!

Yu Shuli glared at him, but didn’t stop his advances any further: “Wei Yan, why are you horny all the time?!”

Despite his complaining, Wei Yan knew that he had tacitly agreed.

He smiled, leaned in, and planted a kiss on Yu Shuli’s cheek: “Mm, Ji’an is indulging me.”

Yu Shuli closed his eyes, shutting out the sight, his posture as stiff as a corpse: “Do it yourself.”

Wei Yan chuckled, and directly loosened his outer robe along the waistband, his fingers falling to the youth’s collar, his thin lips approaching the youth’s collarbone, leaving kiss after kiss.

The sensation under his hands was smooth and tender, Wei Yan hunched slightly, pressing Yu Shuli against the table, sucking red marks onto that fair skin.

Yu Shuli’s cheeks flushed red, as if drunk from the kisses, he opened his eyes slightly and looked up at Wei Yan, who was incredibly focused at this moment. “Wei Yan, are you really having a relapse?”

Wei Yan paused slightly, his pale fingers moving up to touch Yu Shuli’s lips. “What does a relapse of Five-Stone Powder look like, Ji’an, you should know very well.” He paused, his voice taking on a fragile quality, “Do you want me to get cured?”

“Of course, you have to get cured.” Yu Shuli’s voice was a little anxious. “That stuff is poison! What are you thinking!”

“But…” Wei Yan’s eyes were full of meaning. “It can enhance pleasure, can’t it? I’m always worried, can I truly satisfy you…?”

His face, originally as cold as snow, was slightly flushed, his appearance of being entangled in desire added a kind of rich and stunning beauty to his entire being.

“Enhance my ass!” Yu Shuli gritted his teeth, finally turning his face away, forced to admit: “You’re already good enough! No need to enhance!”

Wei Yan lowered his head and smiled, and after succeeding he leaned down close to him, pinching his kneecap with his fingers, “Then let’s try it here, shall we?”

Yu Shuli kicked him: “Don’t even think about it!”

Wei Yan met his delicate eyebrows and eyes, grasping his ankle with one hand, and moving the other hand up along his leg line. “But right now, you’re in my hands.”

Yu Shuli twisted his waist: “Wei Yan, you’re really shameless.”

“What’s the use of having a face?” Wei Yan leaned down to kiss him, hearing the sound of the pipa tuning outside, he smiled and said: “A good song is about to begin, does the young general want to listen?”

A muffled groan escaped his lips, Yu Shuli raised his hand to cover his face. “Wei Yan, you’re not allowed to say these strange things anymore!”

“Can’t take it already?” Wei Yan scooped him up and placed him horizontally on the soft couch beside him. “Keep your mouth shut, if you make a sound and get discovered, it’s none of my business.”

Yu Shuli pinched his waist with his fingers, vaguely still trying to refuse: “At most, I’ll agree to… just mutually help each other, but definitely not doing it here.”

Wei Yan had always been obedient and indulgent towards him, but at this point, he couldn’t help but smile wryly: “We’re already like this, can you still hold back?”

“I can hold back.” Yu Shuli’s voice was awkward, his almond eyes blinked, looking at Wei Yan pitifully: “Not here.”

Wei Yan’s movements froze, folding the trouser leg that was about to be pulled down back up, and pulled him back into his arms.

Yu Shuli struggled a bit: “I said not here…”

“Not here.” Wei Yan took a deep breath, and bit his neck as if venting his frustration. “Listen to the music properly, we’ll settle the score after we get back.”

Yu Shuli “hissed” and outside, the melodious music began, burying his slight breathing.

“I’ve already accommodated the young general this much, next, shouldn’t the young general accommodate me a little too?” Wei Yan’s eyes seemed to hide a small hook, Yu Shuli glanced at it and felt his heart burning like fire.

Yu Shuli turned his face away, but his hand was taken, and someone was drawing circles in his palm, coaxingly caressing it.

“Just once!” He gritted his teeth, and tentatively reached out to untie Wei Yan’s belt.

Raising his eyes to meet Wei Yan’s face, flushed with a look of lust, as if giving up all hope, he gently kissed him.

“Too careful.” Wei Yan chuckled softly: “You can be more forceful, more fierce, don’t be afraid of hurting me.”

Although Yu Shuli’s kiss was proactive, but he was not very skilled, being criticized like this by Wei Yan, his face immediately turned red: “Prime Minister, I can’t imagine, if you were to go to the Brothels, how many pretty boys would lose their business.”

Wei Yan was stunned for a moment, and laughed: “I’ll take that as the young general complimenting me.”

The sound of fabric rubbing against each other turned into a tempting flirtation under the delicate, profound, and softly murmuring music. The two whispered and lingered for a long time, finally breathing a sigh of relief at the end of the music.

*

After returning to the residence, Yu Shuli locked Wei Yan outside the study door, and discussed with the Second Prince for a long time, and then wrote a letter to communicate with the Tatar King, confirming the time to attack Quzhou.

At this point, everything was almost coming to a close, but Yu Shuli was inexplicably uneasy.

“Your Highness,” he stood in front of Zhao Lan, hesitating to speak, and after thinking for a long time, he still struggled to report what Dong Siwen had said to the Second Prince.

After speaking, he said: “The Third Prince has not made any moves so far… I always feel that he is not being held back by the spring examination, but has other conspiracies.”

Zhao Lan frowned tightly, and did not react for a long time, looking like he was digesting it for a long time.

“If he is not my third brother… then the real third brother…”

Yu Shuli understood what he meant. The real Third Prince was in Xizhao, being held hostage for who knows how many years.

Over the years, they had been guarding against Zhao Lan’s own brothers, but now they realized that it was Xizhao’s trick.

If that was the case, since the Crown Prince had been abandoned, did they need to save the Third Prince who was far away in Xizhao?

“Your Highness…” Yu Shuli looked at Zhao Lan, and said seriously: “Your subject respects all of Your Highness’s decisions. If Your Highness says to save him, your subject will not hesitate to die for it, and will definitely do everything possible to take down Xizhao and save the Third Prince.”

Zhao Lan shook his head slightly: “There’s no need to rush at this moment.” He glanced at Yu Shuli: “Does this prince look like such an unfeeling person who only cares about my siblings? Is your life not a life? Are the lives of the soldiers not lives? Are the lives of the common people not lives?”

Yu Shuli scratched his head: “Then what does Your Highness want to do now?”

Zhao Lan pondered for a moment, and finally clenched his fists with both hands, showing a confident posture. His smile was a little mysterious: “Since they can try to kill two birds with one stone in Quzhou, then we might as well follow their wishes.”

Yu Shuli was puzzled: “Not tell His Majesty about the Third Prince?”

“No need.” Zhao Lan said: “If we say it now, then even if the Crown Prince is rotten, he can’t be deposed.” He sighed: “What a pity, I originally intended to let the Third Son experience the joy of being the Crown Prince, but since he’s not the Third Son at all, there’s no need to be soft-hearted towards him.”

“Wei Yan said earlier that when we go back this time, His Majesty will abdicate.” Yu Shuli was a little worried: “Now he seems to value the Third Prince, even if it is inconvenient for His Majesty to directly make the Third Prince the Crown Prince after the war in Quzhou starts, but if he is equally wary of you after the war ends, and simply gives the throne to the Third Prince, what should we do?”

“It won’t happen.” Zhao Lan smiled: “After the Quzhou matter is stirred up, Father will abandon the idea of letting the Third Son take the throne, as he is a person who is used to weighing the pros and cons. The party of the eldest brother is now defeated like a mountain collapsing, his imperial power is unstable, so how can he find the Third Son who is usually lazy and has an even worse reputation? Even if he keeps the throne for himself first, he will not be in a hurry to abdicate.”

“Then why still let the Third Prince manage the spring examination? With him in that state, what can he manage?” Yu Shuli only felt that these political affairs were too difficult for him, and he couldn’t understand them at all. Moreover, the amount of information about this fake Third Prince was too much, and he was even more confused.

“Are you familiar with the Third Son?” the Second Prince suddenly asked.

“Not familiar.” Yu Shuli felt that the Second Prince’s words were inexplicable, but he still answered seriously: “I only know that he used to seem to be deeply in love with Jiangning, but Jiangning looked down on him.”

Zhao Lan glanced at him: “Just that?”

Yu Shuli “hehe” smiled: “Things from many years ago. That day he confessed to Jiangning, I happened to pass by and heard him say that he always saw her in his dreams, and that they must have had a predestined relationship. I was a smart-ass and said, ‘Someone else is already in her dreams.'”

Zhao Lan was speechless for a while: “So… you also have a feud with Zhao Xuan?”

“Not a feud, just a small grudge.” Yu Shuli pouted and said, “But what’s the point of saying this now? I don’t even know if the Zhao Xuan who had a grudge with me before was the real Zhao Xuan or the fake Zhao Xuan.”

“Then be prepared.” Zhao Lan said: “If nothing unexpected happens, after returning, the follow-up of the spring examination will either fall on you or Wei Yan. You will inevitably have to deal with him, so use this to test him and see when he was replaced.”

Yu Shuli “ah”ed: “Why would you give the spring examination to me and Wei Yan?”

“Can’t you see it now? Father doesn’t want to give up power, but he can only save his life by giving up power now.” Zhao Lan sneered: “So he’s probably going to do something like co-regency, to make me and him compete fairly. And this spring examination is likely to be a trap that His Majesty set for both of us. For the sake of…”

“For the sake of paving the way for the Crown Prince…”

Yu Shuli widened his eyes, very puzzled: “How much does he like this son! So stupid… Your Highness, is it still too late for your mother to remarry? I’m always afraid that he will cause you to have a brother or sister with intellectual problems.”

Zhao Lan took a deep breath, trying to maintain the smile on his face: “Ji’an, I know that being in your twenties is the age to talk nonsense, but… first of all, my mother is not my empress, and secondly, my mother and him have not been in the same room for many years, and later, in order to save her life, she has been living in the temple in the palace for a long time, so it is impossible to have children.”

“How pitiful to be alone in an empty boudoir!” Yu Shuli’s eyes rolled: “Since they are not in the same room, why don’t we think of a way to let the lady move out? This way, it will be convenient for you and your mother to reunite.”

Zhao Lan paused, “But… it’s hard to disobey the imperial decree, I’m afraid I’m powerless.”

Yu Shuli quickly patted his chest: “Don’t be afraid, let’s first seize the military seal and talk about it. By that time, won’t we have the final say?”

Zhao Lan avoided his choice of words, he sighed: “Ji’an, I have found that after you are with Wei Yan, you have become more and more like a traitorous minister…”