Chapter 344: Coercion
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Time seemed to have stopped.
Thud! Thud!
Gu Yanfei could clearly hear her own heartbeat echoing in her ears.
Chu Yi looked at the young girl, who was less than a foot away from him. He stared at the slight blush on her face and the curve of her lips.
How sweet.
He felt a sweetness in his heart, as if the softest part of it had been gently touched by a feather.
There was silence in the private room, and a fragrance wafted in the air.
It was only when the loud sound of fireworks exploded in the sky that Gu Yanfei came back to her senses. The charming atmosphere around her dissipated.
Gu Yanfei lowered her eyes as if nothing had happened. She held the talisman between two fingers and muttered something. With a wave of her hand, the talisman ignited and floated onto Chu Yi’s left shoulder.
After the talisman burned, it turned into countless white spots of light that lingered on his shoulder.
Countless light spots condensed into a ball of light that flashed before disappearing.
A “wound” the size of a copper coin appeared on his originally smooth and flawless left shoulder.
The surface of the “wound” was covered in a layer of dark red scabs.
Chu Yi reached out and touched it. He could even feel the scab under his finger. He smiled and said, “It’s so vivid.”
“Of course!” Gu Yanfei raised her chin proudly and boasted, ‘This ‘wound’ can heal gradually.”
“No one will be able to tell. Isn’t it amazing?!”
She helped him pull up the collar of his inner shirt. Her fingertips brushed past his collarbone inadvertently, and her fingers were warm and delicate.
“Indeed,” Chu Yi said in a low voice, a smile brewing in his eyes.
A faint pink color slowly appeared on his snow-white earlobe, as if it had been dyed with rouge.
At this moment, another dazzling firework bloomed in the night sky. The two people sitting against the railing looked in the direction of the sound. Both pairs of eyes were illuminated by the fireworks.
After that, the night sky quieted down and returned to its usual calm. The night sky was quiet and deep.
Gu Yanfei quietly looked up at the night sky. Her smile was calm and peaceful.
Compared to the two hundred years in the Bright Spirit Realm, her previous life was as short as these fireworks. However, she still existed in the end and must have left behind traces that belonged to her.
It was great to be able to return here again!
In the private room, the atmosphere was quiet.
However, the streets below were in an uproar. Many commoners still felt that they hadn’t had enough. They stood on the spot and reminisced and talked. Some talked about the fireworks, some discussed the lion dance, and some mentioned the sideshows.
“Sideshow?!” Gu Yanfei’s eyes lit up. She pulled Chu Yi up from the chair and said excitedly, “Let’s go watch the sideshows!”
She pulled Chu Yi downstairs and rushed out of the restaurant.
After watching the sideshows, they went to watch the lion dance and the dragon lantern dance. When Gu Yanfei returned to the Marquis Mansion, it was already midnight.
Chu Yi had personally sent her back.
They were still in the same carriage that they had come in, but without An Le. An Le had returned to the palace with the Emperor more than an hour ago.
Gu Yanfei alighted from the carriage and entered the Marquis Mansion from the eastern corner door. She slowly pa.s.sed through the outer and inner doors and walked towards the inner courtyard. As she walked, she kept yawning.
The night was dark and cold.
“Gu Yanfei!”
“Stop right there!”
A few steps away, a tall and thin figure suddenly jumped out from the shadows and blocked Gu Yanfei’s path.
The surroundings were empty. There was no one else but the shadows of trees swaying in the cold wind.
Tonight, the moon was full and the stars were spa.r.s.e. The silver moonlight shone through the gaps in the leaves and onto the person’s face, forming a cold and mottled light and shadow, making the other party look ferocious.
Gu Yanfei raised her eyebrows. “It’s you.”
She casually played with the cat mask in her hand and glanced sideways at Fang Mingfeng, who was dressed in blue.
Fang Mingfeng watched as Gu Yanfei’s eyes shot out two rays of cold light. He was filled with anger.
After the Yu Family’s incident, he found out that his mother was still at the Yu Family’s residence in the capital and immediately rushed over. He wanted to take his mother away, but he was stopped by the Embroidered Uniform Guards.
Even if the Yu Family was convicted, his mother was still trapped in the house.
He had begged his father to beg the Emperor. The Yu Family was guilty, but Emperor Taizu had previously made a law that a family’s crimes wouldn’t affect their married daughters.
However, not only did his father disagree, he even scolded him and grounded him for five days.
Fang Mingfeng escaped with much difficulty and climbed over the wall into the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion.
This was the first time he had come to the Marquis Mansion, not to find Rong Rong, but to find a woman whom he loathed to the extreme..