He slightly lowered his eyelashes and averted his eyes, pretending not to care. In fact, he had been secretly keeping an eye on Shen Qing's movements.
Shen Qing found it amusing. He clearly wanted her to coax him but still pretended to be completely indifferent.
She had no doubt that if she really didn't coax him, he would truly get angry.
Shen Qing sighed softly in her heart. She stretched out her legs and straddled his lap, facing him. "Will you listen to my explanation first? How could I not care about you?"
The moment she sat on him, Ji Junye instinctively held her waist, but still forced himself not to look at her.
"Didn't I send you a letter? Didn't you receive it?" Shen Qing asked.
If she hadn't mentioned it, it would have been fine. But as soon as she did, Ji Junye got even angrier.
"Just one letter in two years. Were you so afraid that I might find you?"
When he received that letter, he was overjoyed at first. He was glad that she was really still alive, although he had never been willing to believe that she was really gone.
But that letter only told him that she was still alive and recuperating in a very safe place. There was nothing else. He wanted to find her, but the secret guards said that the letter was delivered by a gyrfalcon and they couldn't find her at all.
Shen Qing looked at him seriously, her gaze devout. "So didn't I come to find you as soon as I came down the mountain?"
Ji Junye couldn't help but say, "If I hadn't sent troops to attack the Kingdom of Jiang, would you have come down the mountain so soon?"
"In your heart, I'm just dispensable. You don't care about me at all, and you don't even care about our child. Since that's the case, why did you come back?"
Ji Junye accused her of her "misdeeds" one by one. His eyes couldn't help but turn red, and he didn't want her to see it, so he lowered his eyelashes in a vain attempt to cover it up.
"I'm sorry."
Shen Qing reached out and hugged him, just like when they were together before.
Although she didn't deliberately avoid seeing him or contact him, he had really suffered a lot in these two years. He was so distraught that his hair had turned gray prematurely.
"I thought I could avoid the explosion that day. Who would have thought that the explosion range would be so wide? If my fourth brother's secret guards hadn't rushed over in time and protected me with their bodies, I'm afraid I would really have..."
"Even though two people died, I was still seriously injured. My heart meridian was completely severed. My fourth brother used the best medicine to keep me alive and sent me to the Ghost Valley as quickly as possible."
Ji Junye moved his lips, wanting to say something, but in the end, he didn't say anything.
Shen Qing sighed. "Even with the cold jade bed, I still had to lie on it for a full six months. As soon as I woke up, I saw the Queen of the Kingdom of Jiang, who is my biological mother. She knew I was seriously injured and came to live in the Ghost Valley specially to take care of me."
Ji Junye sneered. "As far as I know, the Ghost Valley doesn't receive royal people, and the cold jade bed is the treasure of the valley."
Shen Qing gave him a reproachful look. "This is also what I want to tell you. My third brother is the direct disciple and son of the master of the Ghost Valley."
"After I woke up, I had been recuperating. You're too eye - catching. If you knew I was in the Ghost Valley, you would definitely come, and it would bring trouble to the Ghost Valley at that time."
Ji Junye pursed his lips and said nothing.
So that was it.
He thought she was tired of him and didn't want him anymore, so she didn't tell him anything.
But he was still angry.
"Even after you came down the mountain, you didn't want to go with me. You were cold to me and even threw things at me."
He looked so heart - broken that Shen Qing felt as if she had done something extremely heinous.
Shen Qing kissed his chin coaxingly. "That was just business before. Now I'm here to apologize to you, aren't I?"
Her kiss seemed to open a valve. Before she could leave, her lips were caught by him, and her breath was swallowed by him.
He kissed her urgently and fiercely, sucking hard. Shen Qing didn't even have time to catch her breath. Her face turned red, and her lips went numb. She could only bear his demands passively.
"Um..."
She couldn't help but beat his chest, but even her hands were caught by him and pressed on the table behind her. Then she was pressed onto the table as well.
Ji Junye let go of her for a moment. Before she could catch her breath, he kissed her again.
Her small struggles were like an aphrodisiac to him. The more she struggled, the fiercer he kissed.
Her waist was aching from being pressed against the edge of the table. Physiological tears involuntarily welled up in the corners of her eyes. Ji Junye felt it, paused for a moment, and then let her go.
"Why are you crying?"
Shen Qing felt that her lips were so numb that she had no feeling. It seemed that he wanted to make up for all the kisses he had missed in the past two years.
"My waist... It hurts from being pressed against the table..."
Ji Junye felt it. The edge of the table was really uncomfortable.
"You're so delicate."
Although he said so, his hand had already been placed between Shen Qing's waist and the table.
With such a good human cushion, Shen Qing no longer felt the pain in her waist. Instead, her legs began to feel uncomfortable.
Shen Qing didn't dare to provoke him at all now. This place was really not suitable. There were still a lot of people waiting for them outside.
"Are you still angry with me?"
"Yes."
She had made him so worried for so long. If he let it go so easily, she would definitely not care about his feelings in the future.
"What should we do then?" Shen Qing sighed softly. As she spoke, her hand involuntarily groped around his waist. She felt something pressing against her when they were kissing just now.
As soon as she finished speaking, she felt out a... gold chain.
There was also a lock on it.
Shen Qing looked at the gold chain in her hand blankly, then at him. "... Is this for locking me up?"
Ji Junye glanced at her.
There was no doubt about it. It was.
Shen Qing swallowed hard and couldn't help but recall some bad memories.
In her previous life, when she tried to escape from him, he also had such a gold chain made and locked her to the head of the bed.
In order to resist, she had tried all kinds of methods, such as going on a hunger strike and self - harming. He let her go soon after.
But it was also because of this incident that their already precarious relationship became even more shaky.
She really didn't expect that she would see this thing again.
"I..."
Ji Junye moved his lips. He originally wanted to say that as long as she obediently went back with him, he wouldn't use this. But he was a little afraid that she would think this thing was an insult to her, and even more afraid that she would think he was a terrible person and thus want to stay away from him.
Just when he didn't know how to explain, he saw Shen Qing present her fair and delicate wrists together with the chain in front of him.
"I was really wrong about this. If this can make you stop being angry, you can lock me up..."
She even compared it carefully. "It's just the right size."
Ji Junye looked at her in shock. After a long while, he said, "Do you know... what this represents?"
"Of course I know."
"It means you've offended my father, mother, and two elder brothers all at once."
"It means my father will never agree to the state letter asking for my hand in marriage. It means I can't marry you as a proper princess of the Kingdom of Jiang. It means Sibaobao's identity can never be made public..."
With every word Shen Qing said, Ji Junye's back became stiffer.
Seeing his strong reaction, Shen Qing smiled lightly. "So, do you still want to lock me up and take me away now?"