Last night, heavy rain hit the world with a devastating force.
Washing the ground fiercely and urgently.
Gu Qingyuan felt that she had also been washed into a ball of soft mud by the sudden heavy rain.
When I came out of the clean room, I could vaguely see that the window lattice outside was white.
She didn't have the strength to struggle at all, so she fell into a dark sleep, and was finally woken up by thirst.
Her originally moist lips were dry and peeling, and her voice was hoarse. She shouted in a daze, "Thirsty..."
Pei Jinting sat by the couch, put on a pair of silk trousers on her legs, holding a porcelain bottle in her hand, looking at the red marks all over Gu Qingyuan's body, she felt that she had gone too far.
Hearing Gu Qingyuan ask for a drink of water, he picked up the tea cup on the low cabinet, dragged her waist, and handed it to her lips.
Gu Qingyuan was like a seedling that was short of water, with her head lowered and swallowing a large amount of tea.
One cup bottomed out, but it was still not enough.
Gu Qingyuan was very tired, every part of her body was filled with fatigue, and she was limp and powerless.
"Enough?" Pei Jinting poured another small cup and asked softly after watching Gu Qingyuan pour it in with both hands.
Gu Qingyuan's eyelids were heavy and she couldn't open her eyes. She didn't want to pay attention to him. The strong touch on the back of her neck made her tilt her head and found herself leaning on Pei Jinting's arm.
The man beside him still had a familiar attitude, as if the previous torture didn't exist.
Gu Qingyuan felt a fire rising in her heart and pushed his hand away with all her strength.
Normally, Pei Jinting would push away, but this time, even if Gu Qingyuan tried her best, Pei Jinting's arm was still across the back of her head.
The man's voice is neither salty nor bland,
"Gu Yuanyuan, you still have strength, don't you?"
Hot breath blew in her ears.
Gu Qingyuan trembled, bit her lip lightly, stopped struggling and resisted.
The arms around her tightened again, only forcing her to get closer to him.
"With the heavy rain this night, the late rice seedlings should have absorbed enough water, right?"
The crimson handsome face was full of frivolity and uninhibitedness.
Gu Qingyuan heard the teasing meaning in his words, and she bumped her head against Pei Jinting's chin in shame to vent her anger.
"Pei Jingheng, even if I die, I won't be able to give you a child."
Pei Jinting was unprepared for the blow, and his chin turned red immediately.
He didn't care about the pain at all, but sneered coldly and declared,
"Okay. Then let's give it a try?"
"Then I will take you to stay on this couch. Even if it gets daybreak, don't even think about leaving the couch."
What he originally wanted to say was that you should be angry, and no matter what you want me to do, there is no complaint.
But as soon as the words came to my lips, they unknowingly changed.
Gu Qingyuan was so angry that she sat up with all her strength and said with a cold face,
"You, the third son of the Pei family and the commander of the military and horse departments of the five cities, actually do this kind of thing of forcing people to do something difficult and forcing the women of the people?"
"Yes." Pei Jinting seemed to have returned to his original carefree appearance, admitting that there was no pressure at all on this kind of thing.
His brilliant eyes were locked deeply on Gu Qingyuan.
Usually when he smiles, his eyes are filled with affection.
Now, he has suppressed his smile, and his eyes are only cold,
"Gu Yuanyuan. Don't forget that we are destined to be married by the emperor. Don't work in vain. Don't take risks with your own body."
Gu Qingyuan felt the vague anger gathering in the man again, and thought again of the prescription that Ruan had used to harm her.
I thought of the attitude of the Queen and the entire Duke Chengen's family.
She gathered the clothes that were half hanging on her body and said calmly and calmly,
"Pei Jinting. Are you angry that I used that medicine bag?"
Gu Qingyuan has always been cruel to herself. Even if she injures her enemy by a thousand and loses herself eight hundred, she will never admit defeat.
Otherwise, how could she have survived so peacefully under Ruan's hands?
How could he still make a covenant with Pei Jinting even though he knew that the matter of bride snatching could not be hidden from others forever?
She felt she had done the right thing.
Last night, she remained silent. No matter how much Pei Jinting tried to coax her, she never let go.
Now, she seemed to understand why she persisted like that.
Just waiting for this moment.
She heard her own voice ringing softly.
"Pei Jinting, you are the proud son of heaven. You probably don't understand what people who struggle to survive alone want to have."
She paused and looked at Pei Jinting softly, no longer tense.
Pei Jinting moved his lips, trying to say that he knew.
Because he has struggled alone until today.
"In the past, you always loved to play tricks on me with Prince Jing and the others. As the teasing wasn't enough, it must be new to see me asking you for help, right?"
"To be honest, if Prince Jing had appeared in front of me that day, I would have asked him..."
Such words were cruel enough, and with a snap, the porcelain bottle in Pei Jinting's hand shattered.
Pei Jinting's dark eyes stared deeply at Gu Qingyuan, who had a calm and gentle face.
"I said I would never give birth to a child for you, because it is impossible for me to give birth to a child in my life."
"You probably don't know that I've been taking this prescription for more than ten years."
When Pei Jinting's ice-like eyes blinked dully.
Gu Qingyuan suddenly felt some pity in her heart.
Isn't she a bad person?
She was the one who started everything, and now a strange combination of circumstances is going to end it all.
Gu Qingyuan faintly raised her lips,
"I have uterine cold syndrome, and the doctor said I might not be able to have children."
Pei Jinting's ears cheered.
My heart suddenly hurt.
So that’s it.
That’s how it turns out…
It was like the sound of a blade slowly sliding across the skin.
The veins on Pei Jinting's forehead popped out, and his thin lips pursed tightly.
A blush appeared on his face.
His strong chest was rising and falling, and he could hardly control the expression on his face.
He suddenly understood Gu Qingyuan's intention.
He felt that the unhealed stick wounds on his back were torn open again, and the pain penetrated into his bones.
Lin Feng clearly said that her health was not good.
The prescription he asked Lin Feng to prescribe was also for her health.
What made him so angry?
The room fell into silence and the atmosphere was tense.
Pei Jinting was quiet for a while, and finally made up his mind to speak,
"Yuanyuan..."
"Pei Jinting..."
Gu Qingyuan also spoke at the same time.
The two of them were startled.
If it were normal, Gu Qingyuan would definitely give in and let Pei Jinting speak first.
This time, she didn't give in at all.
Pei Jinting felt cold in her heart, suddenly had an unknown premonition, and wanted to interrupt Gu Qingyuan's words.
It's too late.
Gu Qingyuan spoke out slowly and firmly,
"Perhaps you don't know yet? After I discovered that Ruan's prescription was weird, I followed the same pattern and gave it to Gu Yunniang in the name of Lu Wenze..."
"She must be happily making the medicinal soup every month and eating it now."
"Pei Jinting, I am just such a person. I claim to be a good person, but in fact I have done evil things."
She turned her face sideways and said the last thing,
"Our marriage ends here."
The cause was impure, and there were so many things between the two of them.
This marriage, which they entered into despite the orders of their parents and the advice of a matchmaker, seems to be as fragile as ice in winter.