When Dou Zhao and the other girls saw Wang Yingxue and Wei Tingzhen leave, they naturally didn't try to stop them. After all, they could talk to Dou Ming, but they definitely couldn't get along with these two women.

"Oh dear, I'm tired..." But as soon as she stepped outside, Wei Tingzhen started acting up again. She pretended to rub her forehead and then said to Wang Yingxue, "Madam Dou, I'll go to my room to rest for a bit. I'll come back when the banquet starts!"

Wang Yingxue was secretly delighted. She had been looking for an opportunity to find Wei Tingyu alone and make things clear with him! Now that Wei Tingzhen was planning to go and rest, it was truly a stroke of luck!

……

"I'm going back to my room to rest for a while! Don't call me unless it's important!" Wang Yingxue said to the nanny beside her as she turned around in front of her bedroom.

"Yes!" The nanny, without suspecting anything, quickly nodded, closed the door from the outside after Wang Yingxue entered the room, and then stood guard there.

Hearing the door close behind her, Wang Yingxue quickly turned around. Finding that she was indeed alone in the room, she threw her fan on the table and, abandoning her previous dignified demeanor, began searching the room rapidly.

She searched everywhere—behind the curtains, inside the wardrobe, even under the table—but couldn't find Wei Tingyu anywhere she could hide.

"It doesn't make sense..." After running around for a while, Wang Yingxue walked back to the table, looking somewhat lost, and then slowly sat down in the chair.

She picked up her round fan again, gently fanning herself while frowning and muttering to herself, "Wei Tingyu disappeared so early... Could it be that he came here to wait for me first? Or am I just being presumptuous and overthinking things?"

"That's true! I'm afraid I'm the only one who has kept that night in my heart! For him, it was just an interlude in his life!"

"That Marquis went to the Eastern Capital and actually brought back a beautiful concubine. How could he possibly care about me, a woman from the Dou family?"

"Looking at it this way... I really was overthinking it!"

Wang Yingxue complained to herself as she slowly closed her eyes.

However, the next second, she felt a cool breeze blow onto her neck, instantly raising a thin layer of goosebumps on her originally smooth and white neck!

He shuddered and turned around abruptly, only to see the handsome fox-faced young man standing right behind him.

Wang Yingxue was stunned. Before she could speak, the other person grabbed her body and wrapped his large arm around her waist, pressing them firmly together.

"Ah!" Wang Yingxue exclaimed in fright, and the round fan in her hand fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

"Madam!" The old woman at the door immediately noticed the unusual situation in the room and asked, "What happened?"

"N-nothing...it's nothing!" Wang Yingxue was taken aback, then quickly called out to the nanny outside, "I accidentally knocked the fan off! It's alright!"

At this moment, she was really afraid that the nanny would just push the door open and come in, and then the nanny would definitely be able to see everything in the room!

"Wei Tingyu..." After confirming that the old woman believed her excuse and wouldn't come in, Wang Yingxue breathed a heavy sigh of relief. Then she turned to look at the handsome fox-faced young man who was holding her, and her tense face suddenly turned red.

"Who is Wei Tingyu?" However, the young man in front of him chuckled and asked in return.

"Huh?" Wang Yingxue had originally intended to order Wei Tingyu to let go of her, but she was stunned when she heard his question. However, she understood what he meant in the next second!

When he's not wearing a mask, he's Marquis Wei Tingyu of Jining! But when he's wearing a mask, he's the Jade-Faced Fox Gentleman?!

Thinking about it this way makes me feel a little less guilty! After all, they are two different people!

"Why bother with this pretense..." Wang Yingxue tried to struggle a couple of times, but finding she couldn't escape Wei Tingyu's embrace, she resigned herself to her fate. She simply looked at him and asked, "Now... are you feeling smug?"

"How else can we find out what Madam is really thinking?" Wei Tingyu chuckled, then lowered his head and took the initiative to find Wang Yingxue's red lips, and kissed her directly.

"Hmm..." Wang Yingxue was also surprised that Wei Tingyu would take the initiative to kiss her again after only saying a few words.

However, her body honestly accepted the deep kiss.

Even though he had thought it through before, he decided to treat the events of that night as a dream.

However, she now finds herself completely unable to resist the other person's fatal attraction, which is both dangerous and alluring!

Most importantly, Wang Yingxue's heart was completely captured by the other party, to the point that she willingly plunged into this fire pit!

"..." After the deep kiss ended, Wei Tingyu left Wang Yingxue's red lips.

Seeing the other person's completely intoxicated expression, he bent down and picked her up without saying a word, then turned and walked into the depths of the room!

"This is the last time! Let's just consider this the last time!" Wang Yingxue gradually regained her senses. When she realized what Wei Tingyu wanted to do, she found that she had no intention of resisting at all.

So be it! Resistance is futile anyway! She made another promise to herself in her heart, although she knew in essence that this so-called promise had no binding force whatsoever.

But Wang Yingxue was now caught in a whirlpool; what choice did she have but to accept her fate?

……

The clouds dispersed and the rain stopped! The wind and rain abruptly ceased!

Wang Yingxue leaned quietly against Wei Tingyu's broad shoulders and slowly opened her bewildered eyes.

He looked up at the jade fox mask that the other person was still wearing on their face, hesitated for a few seconds, and then slowly reached out and placed his hand on the mask.

However, after Wang Yingxue touched the mask, she froze in place! Clearly, whether or not to remove the mask had become a struggle within her!

Although she already knew that the face under the mask belonged to Wei Tingyu, Wang Yingxue still hesitated about whether she could face him directly.

If we don't take it off and just let him wear the mask, will he be able to keep deceiving himself indefinitely?

Wang Yingxue frowned slightly, then sighed inwardly and withdrew her hand.

However, just as she had half-grabbed her hand, Wei Tingyu suddenly grabbed it in his own large hand!

"Lord Marquis..." Wang Yingxue exclaimed in surprise, revealing Wei Tingyu's identity. By then, it was too late for regrets.

Wei Tingyu, who had been resting with his eyes closed, slowly opened them and turned to look at Wang Yingxue in his arms. Their eyes met.

Wang Yingxue's heart pounded even faster! From her perspective, Wei Tingyu's eyes looked like two bottomless whirlpools, capable of pulling her soul directly out of her body and plunging her head into them with no way back!

This is probably the path she'll take in the future! Thinking this, Wang Yingxue felt a pang of melancholy again…

"Why did you stop, Madam?" Wei Tingyu looked at Wang Yingxue's slightly flushed face and actually laughed, then asked.

He closed his eyes to rest, but he wasn't really asleep. His mind remained alert, and he had a full grasp of his surroundings!

He didn't stop Wang Yingxue from putting her hand on her mask, because at that moment Wei Tingyu also knew that whether or not she wore the mask was no longer of any significance.

Although everyone knew the truth before, let's just let this secret disappear completely for now!

“Since Your Excellency is wearing a mask… I certainly wouldn’t dare to act rashly…” Wang Yingxue thought for a moment and then spoke directly.

"People behind masks are always good at pretending, but pretending is too exhausting!" Wei Tingyu shook his head with a smile and said, "Why don't you just take off this mask, Madam? It would be good if we could all be honest with each other!"

“Yes…” Wang Yingxue was taken aback when she heard Wei Tingyu’s words, then nodded.

She put on a determined expression, and then her jade-like hand slowly moved forward and removed the mask from Wei Tingyu's face!

When the mask was removed, Wei Tingyu's face appeared before Wang Yingxue at such close range and without any concealment for the first time.

Although she already knew what the other person's face looked like behind the mask, she still couldn't help but tremble all over at this moment.

"Why is Madam staring at me like that?" Wei Tingyu chuckled and said, "Don't you recognize me?"

"How could I not recognize you?" Wang Yingxue thought to herself, but instead of answering directly, she turned to the side and leaned down, gently resting her head on Wei Tingyu's shoulder.

The two lay there embracing each other for a good quarter of an hour without saying a word. The only sounds in the room were their clear breathing and their vigorous heartbeats.

"My lord... you've caused me so much suffering!" Wang Yingxue finally couldn't hold back anymore. Thinking about what had happened before and how things should develop in the future, her heart was in turmoil. At this moment, she could only confide in Wei Tingyu.

"When did I ever harm you?" Wei Tingyu chuckled softly, patting Wang Yingxue's pink back as he asked in return.

"My lord pretended...to be someone else...and deceived me!" Wang Yingxue felt wronged as she said this, and her lips involuntarily pouted.

"When have I ever lied to you?" Upon hearing Wang Yingxue's words, Wei Tingyu naturally felt wronged!

He looked down at Wang Yingxue's aggrieved face in his arms and asked, "Did I ever say before that I am not Wei Tingyu?"

“…No…” Wang Yingxue was taken aback, then muttered softly.

So, recalling what happened before, it seems that this handsome fox-faced gentleman never emphasized his own identity!

In other words, he neither admitted nor denied being Wei Tingyu!

I was just too stupid. I didn't even recognize that this person was Dou Zhao's son-in-law, the son of the Dou family, when we were so close!

They had even sat at the same table at a family dinner before! And compared to how his daughter Dou Ming recognized Wei Tingyu wearing a mask at a glance today... does that mean his judgment was really too poor?

"I've done everything I promised you!" Wei Tingyu laughed when he saw Wang Yingxue's aggrieved yet helpless look, and said again.

“…Yes! Your Excellency has done it!…” Wang Yingxue was speechless after hearing his words.

The promise the Jade-Faced Fox Gentleman made to him was to take Dou Zhao's virginity! And it seems he has indeed fulfilled that promise!

After all, Wei Tingyu was Dou Zhao's husband! She certainly couldn't deny that!

And upon closer reflection, he not only accomplished the task, but exceeded it! He not only slept with Dou Zhao, but also with all the other wives and concubines in the Marquis's mansion...

Thinking about this, Wang Yingxue felt like she had a splitting headache. The words she originally wanted to use to criticize the other party now seemed to have no basis whatsoever!

To my utter surprise, despite all my scheming, Dou Zhao suffered no loss whatsoever!

She herself lost her virginity to Wei Tingyu!

Is this what they call retribution?

Suddenly, Wang Yingxue had this thought in her mind. This was the first time in her life that she had reflected on her past actions!

If I hadn't been constantly plotting to take crooked paths to dethrone Dou Zhao from her position as the Marquis's principal wife, I wouldn't be in this predicament today...

No! What do you mean by "to this extent"? These two intimate encounters with the Jade-Faced Fox Gentleman were undoubtedly the two happiest days of Wang Yingxue's more than thirty years of womanhood!

Otherwise, she wouldn't miss this handsome fox-faced young man so much every day, and she would even dream of him during a casual afternoon nap, having such a beautiful dream that was neither too long nor too short!

……

Wei Tingyu stood casually by the bed, while Wang Yingxue acted like a submissive wife, obediently dressing and tidying his clothes.

However, Wang Yingxue's technique was very clumsy, just like when Dou Zhao and He Weifang first followed him!

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