Song Yinghuai was both amused and enraged by Caiyu's "innocent" words. The way she kept saying "Brother Aili" and "we" made his eyes turn bloodshot.
Suddenly, he grabbed Caiyu's slender arm and yanked her from the bed to face him. One hand tightly grasped her sweaty chin, while the other moved forcefully downward. With a sinister look on his face, he said, "Dare to say that again!"
Caiyu was startled. Before she could react, she was forced to tilt her head back. She glanced down embarrassedly and felt pain all over. Tears welled up in her eyes instantly.
"It'll still be the same if I say it again!" Caiyu was also provoked by Song Yinghuai's words and actions. Choking with sobs, she said angrily, "You failed, while Brother Aili and I succeeded!"
"Although you're an invincible general on the battlefield, you failed this time, just like in the Battle of Nawuerhai!"
"You can't accept your failure. You can't stand being outperformed by us. So you're flying into a rage and now you're coming after me, trying to humiliate me to make up for your embarrassment of failure!"
It should have been a great joy that she could regain her identity as Lan Jinshu and the Lan family could get a retrial. It was Song Yinghuai who was being petty and deliberately picking on her, insisting on interrogating her!
"Hehe! So this is how you see me!" Song Yinghuai's big palm clamped down on her shoulder, pinning her to the bed.
Caiyu's mention of the defeat in the Battle of Nawuerhai and comparing it with what he had done for the Lan family, concluding it as a failure, completely infuriated him.
The rage in Song Yinghuai's eyes vanished instantly. His expression turned cold and stern. In his dark pupils, it seemed as if two clusters of eerie ghost fires were flickering as he stared fixedly at her.
Caiyu was suddenly startled. A shiver ran down her spine.
Before she could say a word, Song Yinghuai casually tore off a piece of the hanging bed curtain. He flipped her over and tied her arms behind her back.
This position!
It made Caiyu recall the humiliating scene of being used as a canvas that day. Her face instantly turned as pale as a sheet.
Tears streamed down her cold cheeks in strings. Her voice trembled as she shouted, "Song Yinghuai! Are you going to do the same thing again? Do you want to humiliate me again?"
The man leaned over, pressing on her back. His face was close to hers, and his thin lips gently licked her earlobe.
Caiyu heard his extremely slow but extremely cold voice ringing in her ear:
"Miss Lan San, how many times is it already? You never learn your lesson. Between me and Sheng Jiangli, you always choose to trust him instead of me. You believe I've failed while he's won. Now that you've regained your identity as Lan Jinshu, you think you're free, so you're going to leave me and throw yourself into his arms?"
"You're crazy!" Caiyu tried her best to turn her head away to avoid the embarrassing reaction caused by his thin lips on her earlobe and neck. Crying, she said, "Do you have to do this every time? Whenever we quarrel, you always drag Brother Aili into it! I've said countless times that I regard him as my elder brother, but you don't believe me! You just don't believe me! What do you want me to do to prove it?"
"I don't want to believe your nonsense!" Song Yinghuai had felt extremely aggrieved these days.
On Qixia Mountain, he watched helplessly as the two of them were very intimate, while no matter what he did, Caiyu always misinterpreted his good intentions.
He and Sheng Jiangli had joined forces to drive Qingqing away, but Sheng Jiangli got Caiyu's sympathy, while he was met with a ruthless interrogation!
He and Sheng Jiangli had both tried to stop her from taking risks to find water and from directly facing the Crown Prince's matter. But Caiyu wasn't at all averse to Sheng Jiangli, while she always spoke harshly to him!
They had clearly done the same thing, but the results were different!
Why!
Just like at tonight's award banquet, Sheng Jiangli was also trying to stop Caiyu from accusing the Crown Prince, but Caiyu was chatting and laughing with him. She even made an appointment with him to meet again tomorrow before leaving.
And what about him?
In Caiyu's heart, he was just a failure!
Why!
The more Song Yinghuai thought about it, the more he couldn't control his anger. Biting her small and white earlobe, he said coldly, "Lan Caiyu, you're not Lan Jinshu in front of me. You'll always be my maid. If you dare to mention your childhood fiancé in front of me again, I'll kill him, cut him into pieces. This time, I won't let him live out of the prison!"
Caiyu froze instantly. Recalling the incident when Sheng Jiangli was forced into the Ministry of Justice Prison by Song Yinghuai that day, her small face turned pale.
She knew Song Yinghuai was capable of such a thing.
After all, he had taken many lives. The ghosts on the battlefield had piled up into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood under his feet.
Sheng Jiangli had already been sent in by him once. It wouldn't be difficult for him to send him in again and quietly kill him!
Tears streamed down Caiyu's face like an avalanche. She felt that the man pressing on her back was so strange and terrifying.
She sobbed and shook her head. "I, I've said that you're the only one in my heart... You don't believe me. What can I do... From now on, I'll only look at you. I won't be Lan Jinshu anymore. I'll still be your maid, okay? Don't hurt others because of me... I can't bear it..."
"You said I ruined your great plan... I don't know what plan I ruined, but I'll make it up to you. I'll give you my life!"
She couldn't imagine anyone getting hurt because of her again.
The feeling of guilt was so overwhelming that she could hardly breathe.
She also didn't know whether Song Yinghuai's anger this time was because of the conspiracy between her and Sheng Jiangli that had provoked him, or because of the so - called "great plan" he had mentioned.
Anyway, the Lan family was going to have a retrial, and her wish had been fulfilled.
Even if he wanted her life now, she didn't want to resist.
It didn't matter. Let her elder sister follow up on the matter in the future. She was just too tired.
She was tired of living! She wanted to be a deserter now!
Caiyu's submission didn't ease Song Yinghuai's anger at all. On the contrary, he became even more furious.
When had this girl ever submitted to him?
It was only for Sheng Jiangli that she would plead with him!
With a cold face, regardless of her humiliating position, he forced her to lie prone on the bed. He tied her hands behind her back with the curtain strip, making her back arch up. Then he did something that was both familiar and strange to her.
He really knew Caiyu's body best. Even with just his hands, he could gradually make Caiyu's earlobes turn red uncontrollably.
The girl was lying on the bed, unable to move. Her big eyes were glistening with tears, looking extremely bright and charming.
But she was different from usual.
She bit her pink lips tightly, refusing to make a single sound.
Noticing her difference, the man became even more angry. He didn't say a word but just did his utmost to tease her.
Soon, the absent - minded girl finally let out a sobbing sound with a changed tone. In the end, she couldn't help crying.
Caiyu felt as if she was a defeated enemy general running away in a hurry in the city. Although her defenses were wide open and she was in complete disarray, she still fought desperately. She almost lost half of her poor life.
When it was over, she was turned over. Her wrists were still tied behind her back. With tear - filled eyes, she looked at Song Yinghuai. Her red eyes and pale face were so pitiful that any man would feel sorry for her.
But Song Yinghuai's face was expressionless. He sneered and said, "You've had your fun, but what about me!"
Caiyu looked at the man in panic and humiliation as he slowly approached her lips. He looked down at her from above, his eyes cold and heartless:
"Aren't you going to have a date with Sheng Jiangli tomorrow? I wonder what his reaction will be when he sees your swollen and beautiful cherry - like lips tomorrow!"
Hearing this, Caiyu's face turned pale. She bit her lips tightly and trembled for a long time but couldn't say a word.
It wasn't that she had never done such a thing, nor was she unwilling. But Song Yinghuai's appearance at this moment clearly wasn't about enjoying pleasure. Instead, he was humiliating her and using her to humiliate Sheng Jiangli!
She felt that her dignity had been trampled to pieces by the man. She shivered like a leaf...