If you were cold and aloof in your past life, why are you crying in this one?

Chapter 68 Do you really know how to drink?

Xi Lingxian was so angry that she coughed until her cheeks turned red.

"Get out, I don't want to waste my breath on you."

Wang Jue felt inexplicably helpless. "I've told you so much, but you still don't understand. I'm the one who's wasting my breath."

Xi Lingxian's brow twitched, she coughed twice more, and lay back down weakly.

"I am just an ordinary person in this mortal world, and I am not worth Young Master Wang wasting your energy on. Please leave now."

Wang Jue looked solemnly at her side and said, "It's time for you to take your medicine."

"..."

Xi Lingxian found him utterly baffling. "I can drink it myself. You should go."

"Do you really drink it?" He ignored me.

Deep in my memory—

"The medicine is too bitter, you feed it to me."

"I'm looking at official documents."

"Giving you medicine won't take up your time."

"You can drink it yourself."

"I want you to feed me!"

……

The air suddenly became heavy, and an awkward tension filled the space between the two of them.

Xi Lingxian's heart tightened, and she looked away. "If you don't leave now, I'll call the servants to chase you away."

"what ever."

She gritted her teeth, "Are you kidding me?"

"If you really want a marriage alliance between our two families, I'll talk to my elder brother and have him marry a girl from your Wang family. Is that alright?"

Wang Jue gave her a silent, glaring look.

"Don't glare at me. Just tell me how good my idea is. We won't repeat the mistakes of being a miserable couple. Our families can be bound together by mutual interests, maintaining good relations for generations. It's a win-win situation, isn't it?"

Wang Jue's expression froze.

Xi Lingxian couldn't fathom his intentions. "You want a marriage alliance between our two families, but those families aren't just about you and me. My brother is the young master of the Xi family; wouldn't it be better for him to participate in the marriage alliance?"

"Your brother is the future head of the family, but my sister isn't."

"Then neither am I."

"I am, and Xi Gong cherishes you as the apple of his eye, his love for you as his daughter is extraordinary; no other sister in my family holds such a place in my father's heart."

"..."

"This is just your personal opinion. I'm going to talk to Father, and maybe the Grand Commandant will agree."

Wang Jue said coldly, "Even now, you're still being stubborn?"

"Whom have you fallen for this time?"

Every husband is not guilty, and he is guilty of his crime.

She is strikingly beautiful, comes from a wealthy family, and is innocent-minded; there must be many scheming men trying to seduce her.

"What do you mean, 'having feelings for someone'?"

"Didn't you say that if Zhou Shuhuai wasn't going to come up with someone else? Let me hear it, who has caught your eye this time?"

"No!"

"Stop making malicious assumptions about me. It's not like I can't live without a man."

Wang Jue's eyes were fierce, but the corners of his mouth curled up in an upward arc. He lightly stroked her beautiful, fair cheek with two fingers, his tone chilling.

"But this face is one that can make many men dream of it and even be willing to risk their lives for it."

"I heard that someone bravely intervened and drove away the bandits, allowing you to return safely. Who was that person?"

Xi Lingxian disliked his interrogative attitude, as if he had to control everything about her.

He acted as if it were perfectly natural, as if he couldn't distinguish between past and present lives.

"...My elder brother has already sent people to investigate secretly, and we still don't know who it is; I only saw a profile that day, but I could vaguely tell that he was a young man with an extraordinary demeanor."

Wang Jue smiled, "It's quite impressive that you could see so much even in that situation."

These words were quite sarcastic. Xi Lingxian didn't know what she had done to offend him, but now he seemed to find fault with her no matter how she looked at him.

"Of course it's amazing. I'll have to thank that person properly when I find out who it is, after all, it saved my life."

Wang Jue's voice was icy cold, "Last time you saved my life, which led to Zhou Shuhuai. Who is it this time?"

Xi Lingxian was exhausted.

"In this life, I am not your wife, so you don't have to be so possessive."

"You can learn from me in this regard. Look how tolerant and generous I am to you and Xie Wanyi now. Even if you marry her tomorrow and have ten or eight children, I will give each child a longevity lock and sincerely wish you well."

Wang Jue's eye twitched slightly. "Such magnanimous words. Are you hoping I'll reward you?"

"I don't care about your praise. I just want you to stop bothering me. I used to have feelings for you, and that made me suspicious and cynical, but I don't like you anymore. If you let me go, I'll let you go, okay?"

Xi Lingxian really couldn't understand why he was so obsessive.

What could possibly be the reason for them to rekindle their relationship? Aside from the interests of both families, she couldn't think of anything.

She was fed up with the endless arguments, jealousy, and anger.

The immense responsibility that Wang, the matriarch of the Wang clan, bore was also contrary to her personality.

God gave them a chance to start over so they could correct their mistakes, not continue down the wrong path.

"not good!"

He remained stubborn and unmoved, saying, "If you're angry, fine, I'm willing to make it up to you, however you want; but the outside world is eyeing both our families with hostility, so don't talk nonsense if you're not rational or calm."

Xi Lingxian choked up.

After going around in circles, he ended up back where he started.

"The one who's being irrational and impulsive isn't me, it's you!"

"I don't want your compensation, give me back my freedom."

Her tears fell silently, her face filled with sorrow.

Wang Jue cupped her face in his hands and whispered, "This world does not allow you freedom. Even a noble lady like you will encounter bandits if you leave the city. The land outside is already broken and filled with starving people. The Han Dynasty is in decline, and neither you nor I have the right to live for ourselves."

Besides, how are they incompatible?

One was quiet, the other was noisy.

Complementary, just right.

If both of them are quiet, wouldn't the house be desolate?

But if both people talk a lot, it can be noisy.

Just like them, it's perfect.

Wang Jue suddenly thought of his past life again.

During the time she was bedridden, the situation in the court and both inside and outside the court were in complete chaos.

Later Zhao allied with the Jie people and launched an attack on Jiangzhou. Xi Jian led troops to quell the rebellion while he was away.

Inside, the emperor's desire to suppress powerful families remained undiminished, and he frequently promoted those from humble backgrounds while ostracizing Wang family disciples.

The other powerful families, concerned only with their own private interests, completely disregarded the nation's perilous situation.

At that time, her maidservants came to the government office many times to ask him to come.

At that time, the official documents in front of him could fill three long tables, and he also had to deal with the treacherous officials whom the emperor had promoted to deal with him. How could he spare any time?

He didn't think she could have done anything serious; it was probably just another incident because he hadn't returned home for several days and someone had come to urge him to come see her.

Her world was too small; it seemed she couldn't live without him.

He didn't have time to respond and dismissed the maid.

Half an hour later, news came that she was on the verge of death.

To be honest, when he first heard those words, he didn't believe it. He thought it was some daring servant who would stop at nothing to relay a message for his master.

Until he saw her body with his own eyes.

She lay in a pool of blood, her entire body covered in blood.

The maid said she used her last strength to kill Xi Yao.

He was surprised.

What grudge does she hold that makes her want to shed blood herself?

What happened this time that drove his gentle and innocent wife to this state?

At the time, Yu was so shocked by Xi Yao's death that she spoke incoherently and told everything without any interrogation.

Ignoring the pleas of Yu Liang and Empress Yu, he sent Lady Xi to be hanged.

This provoked a complete backlash from the Yu clan, so he took the opportunity to close in and eliminate all of their henchmen in the court.

The once illustrious Yu family declined from then on.

Those who deserved to be killed were killed, but those who had already left would never return.

Wang Jue didn't think he had gone too far at all; daring to murder a woman of the Wang clan was a capital offense.