In a moment of impulse, I forcibly kissed my brother's best friend.

Let's apologize first.

"Yige, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you clearly."

Cui Yutang lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes trembling slightly, looking guilty.

Xie Yige was so angry she laughed. This person just picks what he likes to listen to.

However… looking at his overly handsome face, with his thick, long eyelashes hanging quietly and fluttering slightly with his breath, her mind suddenly went blank.

She kissed him instantly, the moment her lips touched his eyelashes, like the tip of a butterfly's wing brushing against morning dew.

Instantly separate.

Oh my god, I lost control, how embarrassing!

What if he finds out about my fetish?

She immediately regretted it and buried her head in his chest like a quail, her cheeks burning red.

Cui Yutang was also stunned.

The soft touch of her lips brushing against his eyelashes was like a feather, so light it was almost weightless, yet like a pebble thrown into a deep pool, it rippled back to the night he was driven mad by her at Chaoyi Villa, and his ears instantly turned bright red.

My lower abdomen suddenly tightened, and I even paused for a moment.

He looked down at Xie Yige, who was buried in his arms—she was so tiny.

think……

His Adam's apple bobbed, and he quickly suppressed the thought.

"I heard you liked the fruit that was sent over today?"

After a while, a muffled "hmm" came from her arms. Xie Yige finally raised her head, her face flushed red from the fumes, a few strands of hair sticking to her temples, and her eyes wet.

"I like to eat fish too. How did you come up with the idea of ​​going deep into the mountains to find these?" Her voice was soft and tinged with shyness.

"Whatever you like is fine." Cui Yutang looked at her, his gaze earnest and focused. "I can give you anything you want."

Xie Yige's face turned even redder. What's wrong with this person? He always says the most alluring things with the most sincere tone.

She wanted to glare at him, but her gaze met the deep, unfathomable tenderness in his eyes, and her heart fluttered beyond measure.

"Were you frightened in the Persian Gulf the day before yesterday?" Cui Yutang cupped her face and gently rubbed her rosy cheeks with his thumb, his movements gentle and restrained.

"I wasn't scared," Xie Yige shook her head. "I just felt nauseous; his eyes were dirty."

"Yeah, he's dirty." Cui Yutang's voice trailed off.

Xie Yige suddenly leaned close to his ear, her voice soft and alluring, like a hooked breeze: "In this world, only you are allowed to covet me. No one else is permitted."

Before she could finish speaking, his eager lips sealed hers.

Very fierce.

"Xie Yige, I originally intended to let you go today," Cui Yutang said breathlessly between kisses, his voice hoarse and restrained, "but you always want my life."

The two kissed passionately, inseparable. The air in the carriage seemed to ignite, leaving only their rapid breathing and the soft sounds of their intertwined lips.

"Master, be careful!"

Before Bao Yu's anxious voice could even finish, the spirited horse neighed.

The carriage split open from the side, as if cleaved by a curved blade imbued with internal force. The curtain frame shattered, the wooden planks broke, and the entire carriage was torn apart like a ripped cardboard box.

Cui Yutang carried Xie Yige and instantly soared into the sky. The two of them shot into the sky like a white streak of light, their black hair flowing like a waterfall, tangling in the wind and drawing a beautiful arc in the sunset.

"Cui Yutang, I feel like I'm flying!" Xie Yige's voice was filled with excitement, showing no fear whatsoever.

"If you like it, I'll take you flying next time." Cui Yutang's voice rang in her ear, deep and tinged with laughter.

"Let's deal with them first."

"Um."

Cui Yutang held her and brought them to a steady stop on the rooftop. The evening breeze rustled their clothes.

He looked down to observe the scene below—he saw Baoyu, Zhixia, and several shadow guards already engaged in combat with a group of men in black. The clash of swords and the metallic clang of metal echoed in the twilight.

One look at their martial arts moves and you could tell they were the same group from the reed beds.

"Cui Yutang, release my brothers, or I'll fight you to the death!" A hoarse, unpleasant voice rang out; it belonged to the leader in black.

"What do you mean by this? What brother?" Cui Yutang looked down at him, his voice calm.

"Damn it, stop pretending with me!" The black-clad leader grew increasingly enraged. "Your father arrested my brothers and tortured them every day! Your father is a monster! We've already explained the rules of the cabinet that we can't reveal the buyer's identity. What kind of skill is this, using torture to extract a confession? No official is a good person after all!"

Cui Yutang finally understood—it turned out that his father had arrested his people, probably to force him to reveal the mastermind behind his assassination attempt.

He looked down at Xie Yige in his arms: "Are you scared? Let's go down and talk business with him."

She smiled, her eyes crinkling. "With you here, I'm not afraid." There was a hint of mischief in her voice. "Are you planning to buy instead?"

"My Yige is the smartest." Cui Yutang's lips curled up.

"Let me talk to him?"

"Okay." Cui Yutang looked at her with doting eyes, his gaze full of indulgence.

"Aren't you two done being all lovey-dovey? I'm still fighting with you!" The black-clad leader was furious, his voice filled with the frustration of being ignored.

Xie Yige lost her balance slightly and was then safely brought to the ground by Cui Yutang, stopping at a safe distance from the leader in black.

"How about we discuss a business deal?" Xie Yige's big eyes were very sincere, her pupils like two clear black grapes.

"What kind of business? Can you make that decision?" The leader in black looked at Cui Yutang suspiciously.

"In our family, she's in charge." Cui Yutang's tone was very calm, but his gaze towards Xie Yige was tender and affectionate.

Xie Yige felt her heart skip a beat.

The leader of the men in black seemed to choke for a moment before turning to Xie Yige with a serious expression: "Speak, what do you want to talk about?"

"Make your men stop first."

"Stop!" He suddenly turned around and shouted behind him.

The scene, which had just been filled with the clash of swords, instantly fell silent.

Everyone stopped moving, with only the lingering buzzing of the weapons vibrating slightly in the air.

"Since your organization has a rule against revealing the buyer's identity—" Xie Yige's voice was unhurried, "then I'll take on a new assassination commission, double the price. Go and kill that person."

"Huh?" The leader of the men in black was stunned. "You can do it like this?"

"This doesn't violate your department's rules, does it?" Xie Yige tilted her head. "What? You're afraid?"

"Who says I wouldn't dare!" The black-clad leader retorted, "I accept! But you can't torture my brothers anymore!"

"Okay," Xie Yige nodded, "but my request comes with conditions."

"Women are such a hassle, they have so many demands. Go ahead and say it."

But Xie Yige didn't reply to him directly. Instead, she turned around and whispered intimately in Cui Yutang's ear.

He obediently lowered his head slightly.

"If we keep them alive to extract information, what percentage of them would be better off dead?" Her big eyes were full of question marks.

"Fifty percent or seventy percent?"

Cui Yutang smiled slightly, instantly charmed by her cuteness.

He composed himself, leaned close to her ear, and whispered, "He's probably dead. Just keep him alive as long as he's barely clinging to life."

"Are you two ever going to stop?!" The leader in black finally snapped, throwing his curved sword to the ground, the tip of which sank an inch into the stone slab.

"Are they torturing single people?!"

"Shut up." Cui Yutang's expression turned cold. "If you dare to yell at her again, I'll go back and beat up your people."