So what if she's my sister-in-law? You seduced me first.

Ning Yu was furious with him; he was acting wildly regardless of the place or occasion.

The Grand Princess is still in the courtyard. If she hears any noise, will she even want to live?

Aren't you afraid of being caught by his mother?

The words of cursing him were all stuck in his throat, his clothes hung loosely around his waist, and he was covered in sweat.

The seductive, panting sounds from inside the tent reached his ears, and Xie Xun's eyes were filled with desire as he greedily left his marks on her body.

Ning Yu's body tensed instantly, and she tilted her head back, revealing a charming curve of her chin. She felt that Xie Xun was like a dog, always leaving a mark on her body.

The warm, tingling sensation brought tears to her eyes; her body was already perfectly suited to him.

She hated her own reaction. Thinking of Xie Yan's gaze, she felt both angry and anxious, and impulsively raised her almost powerless arm.

"Snapped!"

A slap, delivered with full force, landed on the man's face, instantly freezing the humid atmosphere inside the tent.

Ning Yu was startled by her own boldness. Her dazed eyes instantly cleared, and her hands lost their strength, falling back onto the bed.

Xie Xun raised his long, narrow eyes to look at her, sweat dripping from his brow bone onto her fair skin.

Ning Yu's heart tightened, but her watery eyes did not flinch. "Your mother is still here. I'm scared."

Xie Xun had been in power for many years, wielding great authority in the council of elders. He held a high position and wielded immense power, and no one had ever dared to do this before.

This is the first time, the first time I've ever been slapped.

He stared at her without saying a word.

Ning Yu turned her face away from his gaze, her bitten, bright red lips tinged with an unnatural, blushing color.

Xie Xun looked at her reddened eyes. Those who dared to hit him had all left, and she—

Why should he argue with her about what happened in bed? He should have killed her in bed.

He ran his long fingers through her hair, held her head, and kissed her lips fiercely.

The rough and fierce kisses, accompanied by sucking and biting, made Ning Yu wince in pain, but he didn't seem so scary anymore.

After the Grand Princess personally fed her son the medicine, she heard the voice of the nanny outside, "Princess, the guards said that the Commander-in-Chief still has to go to court, so he should go and rest for a while."

"Where is that woman?"

"This old servant did not know; he is no longer in the courtyard."

The Grand Princess coldly looked at the sky outside the window, glanced at her still unconscious son out of the corner of her eye, and got up to go to the main house.

Qingfeng, who was guarding the door, saw the Grand Princess approaching aggressively and immediately shouted, "Why has the Princess come here?"

Where is your master?

"The master is changing clothes inside."

"Make him get out here."

Qingfeng bowed and said, "I will go and inform them."

Xie Xun, who was inside the room, naturally heard the commotion. He glanced at the woman beneath him, whose face was flushed but who was unresponsive and at his mercy. He then grabbed the back of her head and lifted her up, forcing her to comply.

Ning Yu didn't hear the Grand Princess's voice. The room was well soundproofed. She only realized the Grand Princess was outside when she heard Qingfeng knocking. A look of panic flashed in her eyes, and she quickly pushed him away.

"Get up quickly, the princess is coming."

Kiss me.

"You---" Ning Yu's eyes were red. How could he force her like this? How could he do this?

Xie Xun didn't want to see her looking so aggrieved, so he impatiently lifted her up a bit. "Big brother's here, and you won't even kiss me?"

Is this the same thing? What's the situation now? Xie Yan is still injured and in the guest room.

"What's the use of thinking about him? Does your brother even know you're like this in bed?"

Ning Yu was so angry at his words that her hands, gripping the quilt, turned white and trembled.

"Should I carry you to the mirror to see what you look like now?"

"Get out, get out---"

He suddenly lifted her into the air and carried her off the bed. Ning Yu was terrified, and tears welled up in her eyes.

She glanced at the shadowy figure at the doorway, then hurriedly grabbed his arm and kissed his lips, pleading, "Please, don't do this—"

Xie Xun looked at her with his bloodshot eyelids lowered. "Continue."

Ning Yu dug her nails into his flesh, then raised her lips tremblingly to kiss him.

The Grand Princess waited in the corridor outside for almost half an hour before the person inside finally came out.

The anger she had been suppressing was about to explode. Her sharp eyes looked at her son, who had changed his clothes and came out. Having experienced the ways of the world, she could easily see his satiation.

Her eyes were fixed on the closed door, her palms trembling with rage. "That bitch! She's made my son so depraved!"

Her mind couldn't help but recall past events in the manor. She remembered seeing the Ning family's maid with a lip injury in Rong'an Hall and asking her about it. The maid said she bit her lip while eating. Was it from then on?

"All of you, get out."

Qingfeng glanced at his master, and seeing that the man didn't speak, he gestured for everyone in the courtyard to leave.

Once everyone had left, the Grand Princess could no longer maintain her composure, her face darkening as she angrily demanded, "Do you even know what you're doing?"

"Don't you have any women left? So desperate for women that you're trying to steal your older brother's?"

"Mother," Xie Xun said calmly, lifting her eyelids to look over. "The two of them have nothing to do with each other anymore."

The Grand Princess was choked by his words and didn't know what to say. She closed her eyes and took a breath.

"I don't care what happened between you, or why she didn't die and ended up in your villa. You should deal with her now and pretend this never happened."

"Once your older brother wakes up, let's get everything back on track."

Xie Xun remained silent.

The Grand Princess looked at her son, who was several heads taller than her. Seeing his cold expression, it was clear that he wouldn't listen to her. She wanted to get angry, but she couldn't vent her suppressed rage.

The two brothers were sent to the Northwest to fight for power when they were seven years old, and they were never close to her from childhood.

She was busy dealing with those wretches in the manor and never paid them any attention. It wasn't until her sons went to the battlefield and made great contributions that she came to her senses and realized that her sons had all grown up.

Later, her youngest son's power was suppressed due to his great achievements, and he was stripped of his military power and forbidden from leading troops. He began to make his mark in the court, while her eldest son went to the border for several years. By the time she wanted to care for him, it was too late.

She had witnessed the power struggles between mothers and sons in the imperial family since childhood, and in the end, her relationship with her child was no different from that of those in the palace.

No matter what, her two sons were her lifeblood. She didn't want them to turn against each other, so she could only suppress all her emotions, and her momentum diminished considerably.

"You and your elder brother grew up together. How can you fight each other over a woman? Your mother never imagined you would be so foolish as to lay a hand on your elder brother for a woman."

"It's just a minor injury, only meant to bring my brother to his senses. Now that things have come to this, neither of them has any other choice."

"you---"

The Grand Princess could not believe that her usually disciplined and powerful son would be so dissolute for the sake of women.

She was so angry she could barely stand, but she couldn't vent her anger on him; she was so frustrated she couldn't breathe.

"If you don't deal with that woman, what will happen to your elder brother? How will you two brothers face each other afterward? Besides, once the clan finds out about this, they will all side with your elder brother. How will you face them then?"

"No need for Mother to worry."