The Gilded Cage - CH 102

The Gilded Cage Chapter 102

Comparison – Like an island hidden from the world (2)

The lotus on the veil, the lotus on the robe, and the lotus lantern floating in the hot spring pool, all flashed before his eyes and finally turned into this one in front of him, the one he wanted to pluck, the one he wished he could hold close to his heart and love.

“It’s Your Majesty, Your Majesty!”

Her voice was crying, and her lips were bitten so delicately. She just hoped that he would spare her.

But he seemed to have infinite patience and didn’t give her what he wanted. Additionally, he restrained her and so that she couldn’t escape.

“To be clear, what makes you comfortable and what makes you satisfied?”

The beauty was forced to look ashamed and embarrassed, like a haze. She closed her eyes, and there were more thin crystals on her eyelashes, “Your Majesty, anywhere is fine, anywhere makes A‘Ning comfortable…”

But he was still dissatisfied with what she said. It was obviously perfunctory, and he still insisted on forcing her to say it more clearly, “Make it clear, don’t use this to bluff me.”

She couldn’t, so she had to follow his words seriously and compare them in her heart.

In front of her, Xiao Yu has always been gentle, and even more gloomy. In the bed at night, when he faced her, he was so out of control that he couldn’t help himself, but the more so, the more she could feel the calmness and indifference in her heart. As time went by, when she was with him, she became more and more separated from her own body, and she was like a bystander watching this activity between two people.

Xiao Kezhi was indeed different.

Probably because he grew up in a military camp, he was stronger, more heroic, and more powerful than the others. Although he was stern, he was not sinister, and his momentum revealed invisibly. The care that was inadvertently revealed also made her unable to be distracted, and she can only devote herself to it.

Many details suddenly poured into her mind, intertwined into a circulating picture.

“Your Majesty, if you don’t need A’Ning to serve you, and you don’t need A’Ning to flatter you… and you won’t hurt the people around A’Ning…”

She murmured almost unconsciously, her voice rising from low to high, and she sounded like she was about to cry again, as if she wanted to vent all the grievances she had suppressed in the past. The tears that had been stuck in the corners of her eyes finally rolled down.

His movements stopped, and his rough fingertips rubbed the teardrops from the corner of her eyes until his fingers were all wet.

“Don’t cry.”

The fierceness just now gradually subsided, and he let go of his restraint and wanted to hold her gently in his arms.

But she sat up unexpectedly and pushed him down, blushing with tears on her face. Even the tip of her nose was wet and red, but her tone of voice was vicious, “Don’t force me again, otherwise, I’ll say you aren’t as good as him.”

He was stunned for a moment, looked at her body  hisabove, and smiled all of a sudden. He didn’t forget that she was tough, and even if she was fragile, it passed quickly.

“Good A’Ning.”

For the first time, he was willing to not be so strong, but to lie down obediently and let her lead.

It was more fun than he expected.

…

It was late at night. The wind and snow gradually stopped, and the vast world in the temple was wrapped in silver and picturesquely quiet.

From time to time, snow fell from the eaves and treetops, hitting the snow on the ground, making a muffled pop.

The candles in the wing have been burned out, and the damp and cold air hit from the darkness.

The two hugged each other, their skin touching each other, and they were wrapped in a quilt that was rough but clean, just to keep out the cold.

Chu Ning felt that she was more tired than the previous few times, and Xiao Kezhi even washed her up and carried to bed. Groggily, she felt that she was no longer cold and realized she had to go back.

“Your Majesty, it’s time for A’Ning to go.”

She pressed one hand against his chest and tried to stand up, but he stopped her.

“Don’t go outside, it’s okay to stay.” The situation of being trapped at the foot of the mountain made Xiao Kezhi feel reckless, and he just wanted them to sleep together.

“There are other people in sight…” Chu Ning thought about the Daoist priests, the guards she brought, and even Zhao Yanzhou, so she still didn’t dare to relax too much.

He stared at her eyes full of comfort and leisure. “Good girl, don’t be afraid, no one will come here if I am here.”

He was so sure, which meant that he had already arranged it. She was too tired to move, so she stopped insisting, leaned back into his arms, closed her eyes and almost fell asleep.

But his low voice came again.

“Who was the one who escorted you down the mountain today?”

Her memory was hazy. She thought slowly for a moment, then squinted her eyes and murmured, “It’s Zhao Sizhi.”

“He’s very close to you?” He stared at her sleepy face in the faint moonlight, his expression a little heavy.

In fact, before she came over, he quietly went to see her once, but he didn’t expect to see a young and handsome man standing outside her door, bowing his head and talking to her.

Although there was a threshold between the two, no matter their eyes or expressions, he saw that they were familiar with each other. Especially when they were holding the same handwarmer, they became even more close.

He suddenly felt a pang of displeasure.

Even though he knew that she was not an adulterous woman, he still couldn’t help but want to ask clearly.

It’s just that Chu Ning was still groggy, so she rubbed her face against his chest twice, and muttered, “We’re close, he’s a brother…”

After saying this, she gradually came back to her senses, her mind became clear, and when she opened her eyes, she met his unpleasant expression.

It turned out that he was angry about this before.