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

It was raining, and the soil on the slope was damp and soft. Ning Yu was afraid of being scratched by falling rocks and vegetation, so she tried her best to hide in his arms and let him be her cushion. Her eyes were dizzy as she looked around at the surrounding environment.

The tumbling was very fast, and Xie Xun tried twice without stopping.

Mud, sand, rocks, and raindrops kept splashing onto the two of them. The dense bushes were messy and overgrown. He grabbed onto the vegetation to steady himself, his arm veins bulging, and the rough mud scraped against his skin, drawing tiny bloodstains.

Before long, Ning Yu felt the force of the roll lessen. Before she could even look up, she felt her body being lifted up by a strong force and placed in a ditch on the slope.

It was raining on the hillside, and the dense, lush forest overhead almost blocked out a large part of the sky. When she looked down, she saw a very steep slope, and below seemed to be a large foothill area.

The rain pounded against the ground with a deafening roar. Xie Xun stood up, looking down at the woman sitting there, too afraid to move. His gloomy eyes were dark and devoid of emotion.

Ning Yu noticed, looked up, and saw the man's expressionless face. Her heart pounded, but her face remained calm. "It's so steep, how are we going to get down?"

"Go back up the same way your sister-in-law came down."

"I think I hurt my leg---" Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly curled up from the cold and sneezed.

The rain washed their faces clean, and her clothes were soaked through. A white hairpin crookedly held her messy black hair back, and her clean and bright face looked up at him, her beautiful fox-like eyes seeming a little pitiful.

Xie Xun laughed in anger, his voice colder than the daytime, "Your leg is broken. Sister-in-law, you can wait here for someone to come and rescue you. I'll go back and find someone."

Ning Yu knew he was cold-hearted and ungrateful, but she didn't expect him to be so direct. She grabbed his leg faster than she could think.

Xie Xun looked down at her. "Can we leave?"

"I'm afraid of thunder. If I wait for someone to come all by myself, I'll faint. I'm so cold right now, I feel like I'm about to pass out. How am I going to climb up in this heavy rain?---"

Perhaps the dense forest was too thick, blocking out almost all the light, and with the rain falling, it would be easy to roll into the ditch if you tried to climb up.

Just as Xie Xun was about to kick her away, she let go, rubbed her red ankle, and complained, "I don't know which bastard sent this assassin, he's a real killer."

Her lips were clean, without any lip rouge. Perhaps because of the pain, her pink lips were bitten until they turned a deep crimson.

Xie Xun glanced at it a few times, then looked away and strode up the hillside.

Ning Yu watched his retreating figure, narrowed her eyes slightly, and followed him with a limp, lifting her skirt.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and some parts of the hillside had collapsed, making it impossible to go up. Ning Yu was finding it increasingly difficult to walk, and one wrong step would send her sliding down.

The people in front had already gone around the hillside to the west. She wiped the rain off her face and followed with difficulty.

In a small cave in a ravine, Xie Xun took off his wet clothes and hung them over a fire to dry. He then took out a porcelain bottle to treat the scrapes he had sustained while rolling down the mountain.

Seeing that he was willing to wait here for the rain to stop, Ning Yu's expression improved, and she sat down by the fire to dry her wet clothes.

Ning Yu had known for a long time that the man had a good physique. Now that the two of them were alone in this cave, the man's aura became stronger, and the sounds of their intertwined breaths gradually amplified in the cave.

He was much more muscular than he looked when he took off his clothes; his muscles were tight and hard. Her eyes unconsciously drifted to the old scars on his back, and she narrowed her eyes slightly.

It is said that Xie Yan has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, while Xie Xun has always been in the imperial court.

She knew that there was fierce competition and assassination attempts in the court, but the scars on his back looked like battlefield wounds. Xie Xun had never been to the battlefield, had he?

"What are you looking at, sister-in-law?"

Caught off guard, he met her gaze. His dark eyes were expressionless. Ning Yu lowered her eyes subtly and moved closer to the fire to warm her hair.

"It seems the Commander-in-Chief has injured his back?"

Xie Xun asked, "Didn't my sister-in-law break her leg?"

She said she seemed to have fallen, but he made it sound like she had broken her leg. Ning Yu didn't shy away from taking off her coat to dry it, and gently lifted her trouser leg in the dim light of the fire.

A section of her calf was exposed, its delicate shape dazzling. Xie Xun didn't even try to look away, just staring at her leg.

"It's just a few bruises, but my sister-in-law is so delicate, she cried from the pain."

Ning Yu blinked her reddened eyes and pressed her ankle. "The Governor is a man with thick skin."

Actually, she could feel that she wasn't seriously injured.

Women are always more delicate.

He seemed to chuckle, but it was unclear whether he was trying to scare her or something else.

"Achoo---"

Ning Yu pinched her nose and looked at Xie Xun with difficulty, "Commander, could you please close your eyes? I want to dry my clothes in the sun."

Her face was flushed, and her eyes seemed somewhat glazed over as if she had a fever. Xie Xun leaned against the stone wall and closed her eyes.

Ning Yu looked at his aloof and ethereal demeanor and inwardly scoffed.

The rustling sound of clothes being undressed reached his ears, and Xie Xun seemed to smell that very faint fragrance on her body again.

His eyes were dark and gloomy. He opened them and looked over.

The person by the fire quickly noticed the commotion, cried out, and hurriedly pulled their clothes to cover their body, looking at him with a mixture of shock and shame.

"What is the governor doing?"

She covered herself up just right; her loose clothing revealed her slender shoulders. Although she practiced martial arts, she had a slender figure, especially her pair of butterfly bones on her back.

The firelight illuminated her body, revealing glimpses of her fair skin beneath. The rising steam obscured her alluring features.

His gaze moved down his clothes, but he didn't see the sachet hanging from his waist.

"My sister-in-law has a very unique fragrance."

Ning Yu's face flushed and felt hot. She seemed not to have heard his words, and she covered her forehead in a daze, her voice sounding weak, "Cold, I feel so cold."

She approached the fire and nearly fell in.

Xie Xun remained unmoved, watching her movements indifferently, but suddenly she tilted her body and fell right towards him.

Her skin was indeed burning hot. She mumbled something under her breath and snuggled closer to him, searching for warmth.

Xie Xun held his breath as he smelled the fragrance emanating from her.

"My lord, farewell—don't go—"

A low, weak voice came from her mouth, and tears welled up in the corners of her eyes; she seemed to be having a nightmare.

Xie Xun grabbed the back of her head and lifted her up, his eyes as black as ink. "Sister-in-law, if you miss Big Brother so much, why didn't you stay with him at the mausoleum today?"

"It hurts, it hurts so much, be gentle---"

"Open your eyes and see clearly who I am."

Ning Yu opened her eyes with difficulty and saw the person on top of her. She paused for a moment, then touched his brow bone with her cool fingers.

"Ning Yu".

The icy voice instantly snapped her back to reality. Ning Yu seemed to see something, and she jerked backward, falling to the ground.

"Commander---"

A strong fragrance wafted into his nostrils. As he got closer, Xie Xun could clearly smell the scent emanating from her, which was even stronger than yesterday's.

He glanced at her meaningfully, put on his almost dried clothes, and looked down at her condescendingly. "Is your sister-in-law delirious with fever?"

Ning Yu rubbed her forehead, lowering her eyes slightly. "It's a little hot. I was half asleep just now."

The two tacitly refrained from mentioning their earlier intimacy, dressed themselves, and quietly waited for the rain to stop outside.