Chapter 38: Merciful Enough

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

Her plaintive tone, along with the fact that she was a tender mass snuggled in his embrace, made Lord Fourth ignore all affectations.

He could not help himself and patted her back gently.

He even said warmly, “Your Lord is here. Also, your Lord did visit you in the main courtyard a few days ago, when we were still in the residence.”

“How is that the same?” Ruoyin complained.

“How is that not the same, hm?” Lord Fourth asked in a magnetic tone.

“I don’t care. It’s just not the same,” Ruoyin said unmovingly.

He had been coming to see her every other day, and had even stayed over to rest.

How was that the same as seeing her once after half a month had passed and discussing only serious matters with her?

“You’re being willful.” Lord Fourth flipped around and was now looking down at the woman below him.

Ruoyin lifted her head slightly and met his gaze.

At that moment, both their eyes sparkled with a mesmerizing heat.

Their gazes were still locked on each other when Lord Fourth lowered his body on hers…

Today, they did it like they were newlyweds…

When the pair were once again snuggled up against each other, and Lord Fourth was gazing at the little woman’s slightly blushing face, he could not help but pinch her, hard.

He said sternly, “I’ll tolerate it only once—you’re never to drink contraceptive soup ever again!”

“Yes, I daren’t anymore,” Ruoyin said softly.

She was originally in a daze, but Lord Fourth did not pinch her lightly. He had probably felt resentful toward her just then.

Thus, Ruoyin decided to take his words seriously.

The last time she had tried to deviate from history, the benefits of that did not make up for the disadvantages.

Since she could not rebel against history, she would just go with the flow.

If she got pregnant, then so be it. It would be best if she didn’t, though.

Thus, after half a month, the pair were finally considered reconciled and hugged each other to sleep.

Ruoyin woke up when it was evening. She was feeling hungry.

She opened her eyes and thought about her situation. Even though she was the Fujin, she was eating, drinking, and sleeping her life away.

Ruoyin turned around and shook Lord Fourth’s hand, which was wrapped around her waist. In a soft voice, she called, “I’m hungry, my Lord.”

Lord Fourth was a light sleeper. Upon being spoken to, he woke up immediately.

His eyes were no longer cold but radiated a pure beauty.

He caressed her waist. “Alright, your Lord will ask someone to prepare food.”

“I want to eat bullfrog. The bullfrog from the family feast yesterday was very fresh, but they would be even more delicious if they were pickled pepper bullfrog,” Ruoyin requested.

Upon hearing this, Lord Fourth looked at her and could not help but laugh, but he did not shoot her idea down.

Then, Lord Fourth sat up and instructed Su Peicheng outside to go to the kitchen and even specially stated Ruoyin’s request.

Ruoyin thought Lord Fourth was a person of extremes.

When he was in a good mood, he was like cozy sunshine and a man who could give someone warm feelings.

When he was angry, he was like a statue immune to heat, and his eyes could shoot frozen daggers.

He could make one feel as though they were in an icehouse and tremble in fear from the cold even if it was the middle of summer.

Seeing that Lord Fourth had gotten up, she sat up as well.

However, she felt a wave of soreness as she rose.

She could not help but glare at the offending culprit, Lord Fourth.

In the end, Lord Fourth shot back a glance that said “your Lord was already merciful enough.”

Afterward, Lord Fourth was bathed and changed by a group of subordinates.

He even asked Nanny Liu to enter to serve Ruoyin.

Nanny Liu basked in the joy of her Fujin’s reconciliation with Lord Fourth and was smiling widely.

For the subordinates of the main courtyard, the best thing that could happen to them was their masters’ being on good terms with each other.

As for the rest of the subordinates, that was not something they could be certain about.

For example, Consort Li was unbearably angry, for she had thought that Lord Fourth did not like to go to the back courtyard in summer.

She did not imagine that less than a day would pass before the Fujin would have seduced Lord Fourth away, and she did not know how the other woman did it.

She heard that Lord Fourth had gone over there in the afternoon. Since he was still inside even though it was dark, did it mean that he was going to stay the night at the Fujin’s Yi Lan Villa?