After conquering seven male favorites, the vicious heroine wants to run away

Chapter 169 You Are My Husband
Men are too funny.

Shi Nuanyu suppressed a smile and withdrew her hand. She could imagine the expression on the face of someone who had never tried on the mask without even looking.

His ears were being caressed, and a tingling, itchy sensation spread from his earlobes and penetrated his heart, causing his heart to beat faster involuntarily.

Without even trying to hold his breath, the oxygen in his chest was slowly being drawn out. He tried to inhale oxygen through his nose and spoke with a rather arrogant tone.

"You're the one who wanted to touch me, not the other way around."

Shi Nuanyu lowered her head, biting her lip to suppress a laugh, "You...you're right."

I never realized he was so funny before; he gets all worked up just from being teased.

"Hmph," Wei Zengshi sneered and ordered the maid, "Why haven't you escorted Her Highness back to rest? Do you want her to be seduced by some wild man?"

Just as Duan Jiuyun was about to explain, he was knocked to the ground by someone who could have gone straight but instead took a detour.

Seeing his childish behavior, Shi Nuanyu could no longer hold back her laughter. She looked at the somewhat pitiful Duan Jiuyun and spoke.

"Don't bother sending the pills. It was just a small favor, don't worry about it."

Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, a cold glint flashed in Duan Jiuyun's eyes. It was his carelessness that had caused the situation to fall apart.

"Killing her won't change the tragedy of Divine Healer Valley, so why are you so fixated on it?"

Yan Si'an, who was hiding in the corner, slowly stepped forward and stopped two steps away from him, leisurely enjoying his miserable state.

Duan Jiuyun's eyes revealed resentment, "Killing her would be too easy on her."

He made another choice: to enter her heart and torment her every day, so that he could vent his hatred.

Yan Si'an shook his head and said sarcastically, "To be honest, although you are good-looking, she is surrounded by handsome men, so you have no chance."

Duan Jiuyun retorted, "Why do you always protect her? You know the answer in your heart."

These people, filled with hatred, will stop at nothing to achieve their goals; who among them is truly cleaner than the other?

Yan Si'an remained silent for a long time before slowly speaking, "At least I am upright and honest."

She can distinguish right from wrong, and she knows who is good and who is bad.

"The massacre of the Divine Doctor Valley has nothing to do with her. You should find the real culprit. Just because she was born into the royal family doesn't mean you can blame her for the deaths of countless innocent people."

After saying this, she was about to leave when she stopped after taking two steps and kindly reminded him.

“Princess Nanyue is intelligent. If you don’t stop now, you will end up like the Valley of Divine Physicians.”

Not to mention Princess Nanyue, none of the men around her are easy to mess with, not to mention she has the entire Nanyue behind her.

The resentment in Duan Jiuyun's eyes turned into hatred, and he was determined to try, even if it was like throwing an egg against a rock.

They said they were going back, but they didn't really go back.

He led her through a long corridor, beneath which lay a winding path, until they finally arrived at a dilapidated thatched hut.

Beneath my feet lies barren land, with only a few sparse rapeseed flowers growing on it.

The thatched hut was quite dilapidated, perhaps because it had been abandoned for a long time.

Where is this?
She hadn't asked the question yet, nor had she tried to squat down and carefully pick the rapeseed flowers.

Shi Nuanyu stared at him silently for a while, then lowered her head and followed suit in picking flowers.

In her memory, he was always arrogant, fearless, and unwilling to admit defeat; she had never seen him so sullen before.
He hadn't even picked a bouquet of flowers, but stared blankly at the silent woman with her head down, a hint of helplessness and regret flashing in his eyes.

I don't know if bringing her here suddenly was the right or wrong thing to do.

The man's gaze was so striking that it was hard for Shi Nuanyu not to notice him. Following his example, she found a large piece of leaf to wrap the rapeseed flower and sincerely met his gaze.

"Aren't we leaving?"

Without even trying, I instinctively responded, "Let's go."

After calming down for a while, he mentally prepared himself and reached out to her.

"Would Your Highness be willing to travel with me?"

Too serious!

She was so serious that she realized this trip was not so simple.

This matter seems to be very important to him.

Shi Nuanyu smiled sweetly, her eyes crinkling, and reached out to touch him without any hesitation. "With pleasure."

Wei Zengshi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, held Shi Nuanyu's hand tightly, and led her step by step towards the back mountain.

However, after holding hands for a while, his palms became slightly sweaty.

Shi Nuanyu glanced at their tightly clasped hands, tentatively loosening her fingers. She noticed the man's hand stiffen for a moment, and she understood.

He is nervous.

A gentle breeze carried the fragrance of rapeseed flowers, and the grass and trees rustled with their footsteps.

Under the warm sunlight, the grass was a favorite spot for cold-blooded animals. Shi Nuanyu walked carefully, afraid of stepping on anything soft and tender.

Before I had ever tried, I carefully pulled her up the steep slope. At the top of the slope was a flat patch of land.

The rapeseed flowers were blooming freely all over the ground, the only difference being that there was a mound about half a person's height on this ground.

Without letting go of her hand, he walked to the mound, knelt down, put down the rapeseed flowers he had picked, and carefully cleared away the weeds from the mound.

Shi Nuanyu's heart skipped a beat as she realized what it was.

That was his mother's grave.

Why was the mother, who had never been tested, buried here, even though she was the wife of the leader of the alliance?

There wasn't even a tombstone in front of the grave.

She finally understood why he picked flowers and always brought gifts when he met her mother.

Shi Nuanyu knelt down beside him and together they pulled weeds from the grave.

As she diligently pulled weeds, she did not see the emotion that had not yet been witnessed.

She didn't ask a single question, trusting him unconditionally and going up the mountain with him.

Before I could even choke up, tears fell silently onto the wild grass.

She pulled for as long as he did; the grave, neglected for a long time, was overgrown with weeds, their roots running deep. Shi Nuanyu pulled them out with all her might.

She tripped and fell on her backside, but before the man could react, she had already gotten up from the ground.

Without trying to retract his outstretched hand, he sped up the weeding.

When the tomb was completely bare, beads of sweat were already dripping down Shi Nuanyu's forehead.

Pulling fresh weeds by hand is quite difficult.

I hadn't seen her clothes covered in yellow dust, and she seemed to want to say something but held back, full of apology.

Shi Nuanyu looked up with a smile, trying to soothe his pain.

"When you see your elders, you should help them out more, and don't act like this."

It made her feel a little embarrassed.

Seeing that he didn't make a move, Shi Nuanyu thought for a moment and asked, "Do you want me to leave?"

When mother and son meet, there are some things that shouldn't be said to her.

He didn't shake his head, saying, "My mother is usually a woman of few words."

His memories of his mother are not filled with warm images, but rather with her strictness. His childhood memories are of practicing swordsmanship over and over again under her supervision.

He was very mischievous back then, and he would cheat and slack off after practicing for less than half an hour. Whenever this happened, his mother would always put on a very angry face.

"In that case, I'll stay here."

She always felt that he needed her.

After kowtowing three times without even trying, Shi Nuanyu also got into position and was about to follow suit.

"Your Highness, is it not permissible?"

A voice of protest sounded beside her, and she asked suspiciously, "Why not?"

Under her gaze, he did not attempt to explain, "Your Highness is the Emperor, and my mother is merely a commoner. She is unworthy of Your Highness's kneeling obeisance."

Nan Yue has always been a person of propriety. The Nan Yue royal family holds a high position and must never do anything that would be beneath their royal status.

Shi Nuanyu remained silent. "When did you become so polite? Besides, you are my husband. As your daughter-in-law, wouldn't it be even more impolite of me not to see my mother?"