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Edited on November 22, 2020

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Chu Zhu Yu thought about her plan again and she noticed that she might have been too naive.

If he was an ordinary man, perhaps getting pregnant would have been an easy task.

But her target was none other than Xiao Zhi Zhi, the person who's strong enough that even his enemies fear him.

That infamous name is hailed as the big general of the country, and many rumours say that the famous general doesn’t like women.

To think about bearing his child, lah~, that seems to be extremely hard to do.

The hardest part is that, even when they're in the same residence, she never got to see the general with her own eyes.

How in the world can anyone expect her to seduce someone she cannot even recognize?!

In truth, there are many maids inside the residence that are more beautiful and youthful when compared to Chu Zhu Yu, so if we really want to talk about seducing, then those maids have a bigger chance than her!

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When the night came, Chu Zhu Yu prepared her bed to sleep. But when she raised her head, she caught a glimpse of a black shadow.

She looked more closely and she saw that it was the beautiful man from yesterday who made her back ache! She didn’t know when he entered her room.

That person was still wearing a black robe, his long hair is pitch black, but unlike yesterday when he was wearing a jade hair pin, he let his hair down today.

His gentle and soft facial features appeared to be sparkling under the light.

“You sexual harasser still dared to come here!”

When they meet face to face, her eyes became red. Chu Zhu Yu couldn't resist it anymore, she grabbed a pillow and threw it at him!

“Sexual harasser?”

Xiao Zhi Zhi catched the pillow without effort, his beautiful eyes shined with confusion.

“You're a woman's enemy!”

“...What does that mean?”

“It means that your beautiful appearance tend to make you look lonely and alone, causing others to lower their guard, but in truth, you are actually a wolf!”

She kept on cursing him, until she ran in front of him and kicked his leg while internally shouting—give me back my innocence!

Xiao Zhi Zhi lowered his head, and after a while, he spoke, “This is the first time someone said something like that to me.”

“...Well, if you admit that you're wrong, I can forg-”

The corners of his mouth lifted, and he laughed in a relaxed way.

In the middle of night, his laughing voice sounded so clear. Chu Zhu Yu was totally dumbstruck. It felt as if an immortal fairy descended from heaven and landed into the human world.

“You're so interesting, very different from other people.” he smiled while staring at her.

The heck! He didn’t look like he was sorry at all!

“You… you…” Chu Zhu Yu took a deep breath, “If you didn’t come here to admit your fault, then why are you here today?”

“To drink tea.” He said as if it was obvious.

Chu Zhu Yu's blood pressure rose, “My room isn’t a tea house!”

“But I want to drink the tea brewed by you.”

He looked so serious when speaking. His sparkling eyes stared at her seductively. Chu Zhu Yu withheld her saliva from drooling down her mouth,

“You can't.”

She tried to not look at his pair of eyes. His eyes actually had the power to make her waver.

“Why?” he stared at her, feeling confused.

Xiao Zhi Zhi looked at the person in front of him. He didn’t understand why she was always angry, while other women would always shower him with affection whenever they saw him.

She was a strange exception.

He moved closer to her, so close that Chu Zhu Yu could count his eyelashes.

Yesterday when he hugged her, she couldn’t see his face properly because her movement was sealed. Now that she can see him clearly, she has nothing to say except that this man has absolutely divine looks.

“That’s because… because…”

She wanted to persevere under his intense staring, but she found it difficult to speak coherently. She quickly stepped back, and firmly said, “To make things short, I can’t.”

He observed her actions for a moment, and he frowned because she rejected him drinking tea in her room.

He sighed, “I've never done this before, but from what that person told me, I think this would suffice.”

Hah?

She couldn't make sense of what he said. All of a sudden, she felt his face getting closer and closer, and then…

Chu!

Their lips touched each other, and her face turned beat red.

He had very soft lips. Chu Zhu Yu felt as if all her blood gathered to her lips. Her lips felt hot, but that hot feeling was actually coming from his cold lips.

Was this the so called....kissing?

She… she… she lived for eighteen years but now she is kissed by someone whose name she didn’t even know!

After a short moment, he separated their lips.

“Now, will you allow me to come here and brew me tea?”

He said with all seriousness, not even looking sorry that he harassed her.

Far from it, he looked like a refined scholar who just entered the tea house and acted as if he had already paid the bill and was waiting for his tea to be served.

Chu Zhu Yu was dazzled, but after a few seconds, she stared sharply at the man who kissed her.

What did he just say? He…

“You kissed me, for tea?” Her voice went a few octaves lower. She was even growling now.

“Are you angry?”

“...I'm ready to beat you up, lah!”

“Someone told me that as long as I did that, girls will do as I said.” He said with confidence.

Who said that! She wanted to catch that person and kill them! Chu Zhu Yu was pissed off.

“Haven’t I kissed you long enough?”

Xiao Zhi Zhi was already trying to bend his body once again, looking as if he would redo that action once more.

Oh no, wasn’t once enough?!

“Wait… Wait… You, do you really, seriously, only want to drink tea?”

He stopped and nodded.

“Fine…I'll brew tea for you, but don't you do anything stupid”.

She walked quickly, rushing to take all of her tea set out.

Time passed by, and Xiao Zhi Zhi could finally enjoy the tea that he wished to drink, while Chu Zhu Yu glared non-stop at him.

She noticed that his way of drinking tea was very elegant. She couldn't deny that even though he's a man, he had very beautiful features. As long as she was looking at him, she felt her fatigue go away.

Come to think of it, it seems that only someone like her could tolerate his behavior. If he did that to another high-class missy, they might commit suicide!

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

Xiao Zhi Zhi glanced at Chu Zhu Yu while slightly narrowing his eyes. Chu Zhu Yu suddenly remembered something after watching him.

“Who are you?”

“...Don’t you know who I am?” He was a bit surprised.

She rolled her eyes. He never told her, so how on earth could she know about him.

Frankly speaking, the status and background of a person is identified from the color that they wear. Only monks and guards will wear black clothes lah.

From the time she met him, he always wore black. Thinking about it, he might be a guard. Chu Zhu Yu guessed his status randomly.

He thought for a moment, then glanced at her direction, “Jue Qing, you can call me Jue Qing.”

Geez… She didn’t want to know his name, but she found out anyway. How did the situation turn out to be like this?

This time, when he finished drinking his tea, she directly asked him to go back.

But all of a sudden, Xiao Zhi Zhi hugged her and both of them fell on Chu Zhu Yu's bed. He then said that he can only sleep when he's hugging her.

Does he think she's a pillow?

“Let me go!”

Chu Zhu Yu's eyes and nose flared. Even though he hugged her while they are wearing clothes, still—- “Hey! If you continue to act like this, I will make a report to the court!”

“No one in the court will take the report.” He didn’t even loosen his arms.

“How can you be so sure?”

"...I'm just absolutely sure of it.” Half of his body was already lying on her bed.

“You're the only one who's able to give me this soft feeling when hugging you. With other people, my arms always loosen up. You have a very soft body, compared to other women, yours is different.”

After listening to what he said, she was already on fire, “Did you hug many people before?”

“I didn't hug many. Only a few.”

“…….” Perhaps he was a recidivist before! “You're not allowed to sleep while latching onto me! If someone sees us, what would they think of me? If they drown me and I become a ghost, I won’t let you off!”

Chu Zhu Yu threatened him. But with his soft voice, the fierce atmosphere was destroyed.

“No one will dare to drown you.”

His head came closer to her shoulder, near her clavicle. He desperately wanted to smell the calming tea scent from her body. “This is so weird, as long as I'm hugging you, it eases me to sleep.”

“You can sleep even without hugging me!”

She punched him, pressing her fist to his body, but he felt as if she was giving him a massage.

Xiao Zhi Zhi rested even more comfortably, until he sensed that Chu Zhu Yu's facial expression turned dark.

“I can’t sleep." He tried to close his eyes and placed his head comfortably on her chest.

“For other people, sleeping is nothing. But for me, it's a really hard thing to do. Even when my mind is blank, or when I stay as still as a rock, I can't sleep.”

No one had ever understood his sickness, not even the imperial doctor who came and made a treatment plan for him.

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“Shi Fu, why can others sleep so easily, while I have to make an effort just to sleep?”

When he was fifteen years old, he asked this to his Shi Fu, the famous Zen master, Hui Wu.

(E/R: Shi Fu = teacher/master)

“There is also something you can do, that for others, is very hard to accomplish, but for you, it's a piece of cake.”

Hui Wu calmly said, “Jue Qing, as humans, there are times when we lose something, and there are also times when we gain something, it is a natural process of life.”

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During that time, he had thought about what his Shi Fu said for seven whole days.

"Even though I want to exchange all of my possessions just for a restful sleep, I can’t do it.” Xiao Zhi Zhi reminisced.

Maybe because he sounded a bit sorrowful and spoke with a gentle tone, Chu Zhu Yu gradually stopped struggling to go out of his embrace.

“Did you know? There was once a time I broke my own hand just to see if I faint because of the pain. I thought that if I faint, then I could sleep for a while.”

She felt as if there was something heavy pressing her chest, “And then?”

“I still couldn't sleep. Even when I continuously hit my hand until it broke, I was still conscious.” He hugged her even tighter.

“Which one…of your hands broke?” Chu Zhu Yu asked.

“Do you want to know?” Xiao Zhi Zhi lifted his head, and looked at her.

His black hair slowly slipped to the front of his shoulders, cheeks, and forehead. The strands of hair obscured his eyes. For a short moment, she thoughtlessly wanted to tuck his hair behind and see his eyes.

“I want to know.” She replied.

“It was my left hand.” He smiled.

She looked at his left hand which was blocked by his sleeves, seeing that nothing was unusual, she said,

“Does it still hurt?”

“It doesn’t hurt anymore. It was healed a long time ago.”

He came closer and stuck his face to hers, “Did you know? When I drink your tea and hug you, your scent, along with the scent of the tea that I drink, makes me feel completely relaxed and at ease. When I realized that hugging you can make me drowsy and want to sleep, you had no idea how happy I was.”

No words could describe the happiness he felt. He felt as if he was reborn, or that he had found the most valuable treasure in the world. After searching for it endlessly, he accidentally found it. Now he understood that the treasure was actually easy to obtain.

“Zhu Yu, you should always stay beside me and accompany me sleep, ok?” he murmured softly, his eyes hazy.

The way he spoke sounded like a command, expecting the order to be fulfilled without failure.

This… how could she agree to this!

Chu Zhu Yu wanted to refuse. But, as she was looking at his eyes, no words came out from her mouth.