Chapter 040: “Promise” (02/12)
“Don’t know how to be polite?” Xie Chenyang abruptly laughed and slapped Liu Yuan across the face with his backhand. “That’s what I call not knowing the rules of etiquette.”
“How dare you, you bastard!” Liu Yuan’s face twisted, and with a swish, he pulled out the soft whip tied around his waist and swung it towards Xie Chenyang.
Xie Chenyang caught the whip with his hand and pulled it against his body, raising his foot and kicking Liu Yan hard in the chest.
You Huang: “……” Again, this move.
Xie Chenyang can be said to be the King of Kicks, which has been practiced in the world of martial arts.
Even though his current body was weakened a bit, he still sent Liu Yuan flying with his kick.
Liu Yuan’s hand subconsciously loosened and a mouthful of blood spurted out as he crumpled to the ground in a sorry state. The piercing pain in his chest made him continuously cough up blood, and he couldn’t get up for a while.
Fan Wenze was a bit stunned. Her guards came forward to protect her without question. The servants of the Liu House were also shocked to the point of losing their voices.
Xie Chenyang dropped his hand, and the whip fell to the ground.
Fan Wenze returned to her senses and stared at the blood dripping from Xie Chenyang’s hand with a frown.
She pushed aside the guards in front of her and stepped forward to grab Xie Chenyang’s hand. “Are you alright?”
Xie Chenyang opened his hand, revealing the blood oozing from his palm. His eyes seductively looked up, and his voice expressed his grievances. “It hurts.”
You Huang: “Pfft.”
[What is the matter with you?]
You Huang: “Sorry, couldn’t hold back.”
Fan Wenze pulled out a clean handkerchief from her pocket and lowered her head to bandage him.
Liu Yuan finally regained his breath, and with one hand over his heart, he angrily shouted, “No one is going to take this bastard down for me?!”
The guards brought by Fan Wenze placed their hands on the hilts of their blades.
Although the situation was a bit complicated, right now Fan Wenze was bandaging up Xie Chenyang, so of course the guards couldn’t let the Liu family’s servants come up to seize him.
One of them went up to pick up Liu Yuan and said in a low voice, “Madam, Lady Fan is protecting our master; we don’t dare to confront her.”
Liu Yuan swallowed the blood in her throat and tried to maintain her composure. “My Lady, my husband really lacks discipline, and he has committed a crime against his wife, deserving of a whipping. Would you please …….”
“Wife?” Xie Chenyang watched Fan Wenze finish wrapping his hand before turning to look at Liu Yuan in disgust. “Do you deserve to be my wife?”
Liu Yuan glanced at him and continued uncaring, “He is a touch wilder due to his family’s passing. I will ask the doctor to properly treat him. Someone …… come help and take him.”
No one expected that Xie Chenyang would suddenly rush over, tear open Liu Yuan’s belt with one hand, and quickly strip him of his clothes, while laughing loudly. “Liu Yuan, say that again, whose wife are you?”
Liu Yuan was so stunned that the blood he swallowed finally couldn’t help but spray out again.
The servants of the Liu House: What? The Madam is actually a male?
Fan Wenze’s guards: Watching a good show.
Fan Wenze’s eyes contracted slightly.
Xie Chenyang turned his back to Fan Wenze and softened his voice. “I heard that Your Excellency has a heart for the people, and that if anyone has any grievances, they can be voiced.”
Fan Wenze: “Yes.”
Xie Chenyang pulled open the front of his robe and let it slide down to his waist, revealing his back, which was crisscrossed with fresh whip marks.
Fan Wenze’s eyes darkened, and his surrounding aura abruptly sank.
The guards spun on their heels.
Seeing that Fan Wenze was no longer gentle, but instead had a cold and stern expression, the servants of the Liu House hurriedly turned away as well.
Liu Yuan stared wide-eyed, his expression ashen.
Although he quickly reacted and pulled up Xie Chenyang’s clothes, what was there to see had already been seen. It was inevitable that the matter of Liu Yuan dressing as a woman would be exposed, and he dared not imagine the consequences of his mother knowing about it ……
It was at this moment that he hated Xie Chenyang.
Shouldn’t have kept him!
“Liu Yuan dressed up as a woman to deceive people and was afraid that I would reveal it. He has bullied and beaten me time and again, and also colluded with the enemy to cause the city of Lanzhou to be overrun… He is truly an insidious person… Honorable Fan, would you say that I made the right choice in fighting him?”
Hearing Xie Chenyang’s words, Fan Wenze came forward to drape him in her uniform jacket and said in a solemn tone, “Yes.”
Xie Chenyang hooked his lips, “My marriage to him is farcical. How is he qualified to be my wife? My marriage to him shouldn’t count, right?”
“Is Your Excellency willing to take me away from the Liu House?”
“Naturally.”
“However, I’m a decent person who has been bullied by him like this; leaving in this condition is really unfair to me.”
Fan Wenze lowered her eyes. “What do you want?”
Xie Chenyang: “Since I’ve been victimized and scarred by him, I want all of his family property as compensation. Is that okay?”
“You do not desire more?” Fan Wenze raised his eyes. “As I wish to rectify Lanzhou, there is no harm in executing such underhanded people in their entirety.”
Xie Chenyang shook his head. “No need. I just want all their properties. Leave their lives as is.”
Fan Wenze: “You are too kind.”
Xie Chenyang let out a light laugh.
Fan Wenze raised his hand. “Go back and gather everyone; come back here and raid the Liu House.”
A guard cupped his hands. “Yes, my lady.”
Liu Yuan’s eyes wanted to burst: “My Lady ……”
Fan Wenze cast a look at him and immediately a guard went up to cover Liu Yuan’s mouth and dragged him away.
When she looked at Xie Chenyang, her voice was gentle. “Is there anything else you want?”
Xie Chenyang turned back to meet her gaze, a smile in his eyes. “Does Your Excellency live in the government office now, or have you acquired another residence?”
Fan Wenze: “I live in the government office.”
“I used to live in the government office, but now my family is gone and it is impossible to stay in the Liu House.” Xie Chenyang came closer to him and tilted his head slightly. “Can I …… live in the government office?”
Fan Wenze stuttered at his words. “I–I didn’t bring my household, and the government office is full of women, which would be inconvenient for …… you.”
Xie Chenyang took on a regretful tone. “Then I can only be left alone and unattended and buy a random house to live in.”
Fan Wenze: “……”
Xie Chenyang touched his face. “Looks like I’m such a person, who has met a bully and is afraid of meeting another, destined to be alone with no one to rely on.”
You Huang: “……” Can not listen to this, retreat first.
Fan Wenze was silent for a while. “I’ll buy you a few young servants; you can live in the government office.”
Xie Chenyang: “Okay, then thank you, my lady.”
[I find it a bit amusing. Should I return the favor next with my body when I have nothing else to offer?]
You Huang: “Your system is on hold. If something happens, don’t open your mouth. There is no message function.”
Xie Chenyang didn’t care what would happen after Liu Yuan was taken away and followed Fan Wenze back to the government office.
In Fan Wenze’s residence at the government office, there were only guards, kitchen ladies, and a few handymen, all of whom were women.
There was only one master, Fan Wenze.
Fan Wenze told the guards who followed him, “Go buy two young male servants.”
Xie Chenyang reached out and pulled his wrist. “No, I can take care of myself. I don’t need attendants to take care of me.”
Fan Wenze frowned slightly.
Xie Chenyang’s thumb reached through her cuff and gently rubbed her wrist, “My Lady, is that okay?”
Fan Wenze’s body stiffened. “…… Alright, please let go.”
Xie Chenyang retracted his hand with reluctance.
[My lover in this world is so bashful, oh.]
Xie Chenyang: “……” Ah-Huang, what happened? Where did you go off to?
Fan Wenze waved off the guards, took Xie Chenyang to the main courtyard, and arranged for him to be in the next room. “My room is next door. If there is anything you need, you can ask me directly.”
She deliberately left the door open to emphasize her honesty.
Xie Chenyang walked over and closed the door behind him.
Fan Wenze: “?”
Xie Chenyang smiled at him. “Your Excellency saved me and took me in. I’m unable to repay you. Can I return the favor with my body?”
Fan Wenze’s face flushed slightly. “You don’t have to be like this.”
Xie Chenyang was unhappy. “You dislike me?”
“It’s not that I dislike you…” Fan Wenze remembered that Liu Yuan had disguised himself as a woman and caused him to be injured to this point, and her voice couldn’t help but fall a few octaves. “It’s just that I also ……”
“It’s good if you don’t mind.” Xie Chenyang took a step towards her.
Fan Wenze’s throat tightened, slowly backing away until she was against the edge of the bed.
Xie Chenyang laughed softly then reached out to press her down to sit on the bed. He lifted her chin and lowered his head towards her.
Fan Wenzhe quickly inclined her head to avoid him. “Yu Chen, listen to me ……”
Xie Chenyang smoothly kissed her on the side of her face. “Call me Ah-Chen.”
“Ah-Chen.” Fan Wenze’s breath tightened. ”I’m a man.”
He was also a man dressed as a woman.
Xie Chenyang hugged him and flopped onto the bed. “It doesn’t matter. I like you; it doesn’t matter to me if you’re a man or a woman.”
Fan Wenze was stunned.
Xie Chenyang touched his face. “However, you’d ideally be a male.”
Please don’t really wear a female body one day.
Fan Wenze’s ears were slightly red, but the expression on his face was rigorously calm. “Since you know that I’m a man, then you should know that it’s treasonous for a man to be with a man, and if it’s known, you’ll be shunned.”
Xie Chenyang sniffed with some irritation. “Could it be that you like women?”
Fan Wenze: “I don’t have anyone I like.”
“You don’t like me?”
This couldn’t be answered. Fan Wenze knew it in his heart. He brought the person back to the government office and arranged for him to be in the next room, and those guards were worried because they all thought that he had a crush on him.
He himself couldn’t say why he was so shaken to the point of sullen anger when he saw the wounds on Xie Chenyang’s back.
He also couldn’t say why he couldn’t feel annoyed even when he was forced into this situation.
“If you don’t want to say it, then let your heart say it.” After Xie Chenyang spoke, he bowed his head and kissed his lips. “Like it?”
Xie Chenyang kissed again. “Like me?”
Fan Wenze lips slightly open: “You get up first ……” The attempt of defense was not enough.
This time, Xie Chenyang kissed him deeply and passionately.
— In the courtyard. —
Two guards stood watch; their eyes couldn’t help but drift towards the closed door of the room.
“Do you think …… that the lady is…?”
“That little man is good-looking; it’s hardly surprising that Her Excellency has taken a fancy to him.”
“But he was married to a man ……”
“He was cheated on. That Liu Yuan, who is also a man–what can be accomplished?”
“…… I heard that some men ……”
“Shut up. The person that Her Excellency has her eye on, how can we be allowed to cheapen him?”
When Fan Wenze came out of the room, his face was still gentle, but his lips were red and his eyes were brimming with indescribable moisture.
The two guards didn’t dare to look at her face, bowing their heads. “My Lady.”
Fan Wenze: “Pass on my order–let Liu Qi lead the troops to confiscate the assets of the Liu family.”
“Yes, my lady.”
Fan Wenze looked back at the tightly closed room. “Also, purchase …… everything for the lord; make it the best.”
After Fan Wenze left, the two guards looked at each other in disbelief.
“Do you hear that?”
“Uh, the lord.”
“The …… lord–is she going to marry him?”
“Quit talking and get to work.”
“But haven’t we already sent people to raid the house earlier? They should be back soon.”
“You’re telling Her Excellency how to do things?”
“Okay, just raid it again.”
“Go.”
—–
In the room, Xie Chenyang touched the lips that were bitten. “He is …… quite sexy in this life.”
Not just kissing so hard that he almost couldn’t breathe. As for biting so hard? It’s all broken skin.
Quite painful.
But, especially satisfying.
Shio: Sorry for the delay, Real Life distracted me with sugar than a stick.
Edit: Krone
Proofread: Choux_choux
