Volume 3, Chapter 273 – Why Are You Humiliating Me Like This

“Don’t…”

Bu Lianshuang twisted restlessly, her legs clamped tight, her hands reaching up to block Lu Zhuxin’s view.

Lu Zhuxin teased, “What are you talking about, Your Highness?”

“You’ve stripped off all your clothes, and now you’re telling me no?”

“Your Highness, are you playing games with me?”

Bu Lianshuang opened her eyes and looked up at Lu Zhuxin through a hazy gaze. “That’s not what I meant. I just feel like this is too… mm…”

Bu Lianshuang stopped herself there, pressing her lips tightly shut without finishing the thought.

Lu Zhuxin just smiled and finished it for her. “Does Your Highness think I’m too easy? Fickle and flirtatious?”

Bu Lianshuang bit her lower lip and hurried to argue back. “I… that’s not…”

Lu Zhuxin laughed and cut her off. “Your Highness, you really do read people well.”

“Hm?” Bu Lianshuang froze.

Lu Zhuxin looked quite satisfied with that reaction. She continued, “Your Highness, you saw what happened between me and Chi Xiyan before, didn’t you?”

“Wasn’t it with full knowledge of what kind of person I am that you came to me on your own?”

“So…” Bu Lianshuang’s hand clenched tight. “What you have with Chi Xiyan. Is that real?”

“Of course.” Lu Zhuxin curved her lips. “What I have with Chi Xiyan is just as real as what I have with Your Highness.”

At those words, Bu Lianshuang’s entire body gave a faint tremor.

Lu Zhuxin’s words were like a bayonet, driving straight into her heart without mercy.

Lu Zhuxin paid no mind to Bu Lianshuang’s reaction and leaned down, giving Bu Lianshuang’s backside a light pat with her palm.

“Your Highness, can you relax a little?”

“Tensing up like this will only make it hurt.”

“Be good. Loosen your legs.”

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Bu Lianshuang lay completely still on the bed, her eyes squeezed shut, giving Lu Zhuxin no response whatsoever.

Only the hands nearly tearing through the bed sheets betrayed the turmoil inside her.

Lu Zhuxin reached out and tried to shift them.

Those long, powerful thighs were stronger than she’d expected.

Bu Lianshuang had her body wound tight, with no intention of relaxing at all.

The sight of her lying there with eyes clamped shut made Lu Zhuxin feel as though she were with a corpse.

“Your Highness, being this tense doesn’t feel good for either of us, and it certainly won’t be pleasant.”

“Ah, right. That’s my fault for not thinking ahead.”

“This is Your Highness’s first time. You have no experience.”

“It’s alright, Your Highness. My first time was the same. Nervous and unsure, not knowing what to do. But once you get used to it, it feels wonderful.”

“Let me teach you. Start by slowly relaxing your body…”

Bu Lianshuang shuddered.

Even with her eyes shut, she could feel what Lu Zhuxin was doing.

Lu Zhuxin had shifted over her, and those soft, boneless little hands were moving across her body.

A warm, cool softness seeped into her skin and dissolved into a current running through her senses.

A strange feeling rose within her.

It was desire. The desire to let go and give in.

The little fox was someone she liked. Doing this with someone she liked should have felt like joy.

But for some reason she couldn’t name, Bu Lianshuang felt no joy at all. Only an ache so thick it couldn’t dissolve.

Lu Zhuxin’s fingers slowly mapped the planes of Bu Lianshuang’s body, taking in every beautiful inch of her.

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“My, my,” she murmured appreciatively. “What a wonderful body.”

Bu Lianshuang’s figure was nothing like those slender, willowy beauties of classical imagery.

She was fair, yes, but her body carried healthy lines of muscle throughout.

The feeling of pressing against her wasn’t purely soft. There was resilience to it instead.

Lu Zhuxin lay against her chest, wondering idly what it would feel like to be held in the arms of a beauty like this.

Warm, surely. And very safe.

“Your Highness, you really are exactly to my liking.” Lu Zhuxin murmured softly against her.

“Ah. What a wonderful thing.”

“Your Highness, I’ve decided. Once things here are settled… I will marry you.”

“How could I bear to give a beauty like you to someone else?”

“How about this. I’ll make you my eighteenth concubine.”

“Your rank will have to sit behind Chi Xiyan’s for now. She did come first, after all.”

“Though really, how could such a fragile little human woman compare to Your Highness?”

A quiet tearing sound.

The bed sheet beneath Bu Lianshuang had been ripped through by her own hands.

Bu Lianshuang. You really are foolish. So, so foolish.

Why haven’t you seen it by now?

The fox lying on top of you. Does she truly like you?

No. No, she doesn’t. You should have known that already. That’s why it hurts so much.

Her kisses were intimate, close as breathing, yet felt like a form of torture.

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Her words were soft and gentle, yet cut like a gale in deepest winter, sharp and stinging.

What the little fox was doing right now was not love.

It was humiliation. It was cruelty.

She had taken Bu Lianshuang’s heart, thrown it to the ground, and trampled over it.

Bu Lianshuang felt a searing pain in her chest.

Every time the little fox’s warm lips touched her skin, it was like a keen blade dragging across her flesh.

Lu Zhuxin shifted upward.

Bu Lianshuang was much taller than her. Lu Zhuxin had to inch herself higher to reach her face.

“Your Highness.” Lu Zhuxin cupped Bu Lianshuang’s face gently. “Open your eyes for me.”

“I want to kiss you.”

At those words, Bu Lianshuang’s body trembled again.

Her eyes cracked open just a sliver.

Those deep blue eyes were clouded with moisture.

Bu Lianshuang’s voice came slowly, laced with the edge of tears. “Why… why are you doing this… little fox?”

“Because I like you, Your Highness. Don’t you like me too?”

Lu Zhuxin cradled Bu Lianshuang’s face and leaned down to kiss her.

Warmth and softness pressed together.

Lu Zhuxin felt Bu Lianshuang’s resistance.

The little wolf had her jaw clenched shut, refusing to yield.

But in matters like this, Lu Zhuxin was well practiced.

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This little princess hadn’t pushed her away. That was consent enough.

A playful fish flicked its tail and swam toward the sweetest part of the spring.

A single tear slipped from the corner of Bu Lianshuang’s eye.

No. This wasn’t right.

This was not what Bu Lianshuang wanted.

Fury surged up inside her. She shoved Lu Zhuxin away with a sudden, sharp push.

Smack.

A crisp sound rang out, and a red mark bloomed across Lu Zhuxin’s cheek.

Lu Zhuxin went still. She pressed her hand to her stinging cheek.

Bu Lianshuang stared at her, her chest heaving.

At the corner of her eye, a wet trail of tears was unmistakable.

“Why… would you do something like this.”

“Why are you humiliating me like this?”

“What did I ever do to deserve this from you?”

With that, Bu Lianshuang snatched up her clothes and ran out.

Lu Zhuxin sat on the bed and watched her go.

She rubbed her sore cheek with her palm.

“ Hiss …”

“That stings.”