Marrying Gold and Jade

His tone was too natural, as if Xu Jinxuan was just a doctor who sat by someone's bed late at night just to treat patients.

In fact, he had been listening outside the door for a while, and after dinner he remembered the poison. In order not to embarrass Lin Yu, he just waited outside the house. However, not long after Xu Jinxuan came in, he heard a cry for help.

Lin Yu sat wrapped in the quilt, with only a pair of eyes showing outside. He looked at Xu Jinxuan who was sitting on the edge of the bed, and then at Lin Ji who was standing beside the bed.

In the end, she chose to say to Xu Jinxuan: "Go away."

Lin Ji immediately added: "If A Yu's poison attacks, please give me medicine, Your Highness King Wu."

The so-called "medicine" is nothing more than him.

Xu Jinxuan listened to their conversation, and sneered for a moment as they had a tacit understanding of husband and wife following each other even though they were not married yet.

The county lady's mansion, her fiancé, she had arranged everything, and it was obvious that she wanted to draw a line between them.

Xu Jinxuan wasn't even too surprised when she heard the news of the arranged marriage, as if that was what she would do. From beginning to end, she had been weak but never stupid.

If he continues to pester her, it would seem like he would be embarrassed.

Shameful.

Xu Jinxuan didn't know why this word popped up in his mind. He should have treated Lin Yu as his beloved pet, and the pet was just disobedient. Why did he feel ashamed?

"I'm leaving today. The day after tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, don't even think about finding me."

If the love poison does not take effect today, Lin Yu will suffer the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

She bit her lip and hadn't compromised yet, but Lin Ji spoke first: "Then please, Your Highness, stay at your house for a while."

He ignored Lin Ji's words and just stared at Lin Yu.

It's just that you have to beg him, doesn't Lin Yu know that? He is a bad person, it's not enough to take advantage of others, he also wants others to beg him and be convinced before he is satisfied.

"If Fifth Brother is not busy, please stay." She turned her face away and begged, but she did not forget to sneer at him.

Xu Jinxuan was so angry that his finger bones were itching. If there hadn't been other men around, he would have dragged her over long ago.

"Humph."

In the end, he just snorted coldly and walked away.

She and Lin Ji were the only ones left in the room.

Lin Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but lowered his head, looking unhappy no matter how you looked at him.

He should have left her alone to calm down, but when Lin Ji saw her like this, he couldn't move at all.

Lifting his robe, he sat down on the edge of the bed, avoiding the seat where Xu Jinxuan had just sat.

"elder brother……"

Lin Yu didn't care that he was only wearing a vest. The quilt slid down, and her soft silk arms wrapped around his neck and she rested her head on his shoulder.

Lin Ji is engaged to her.

But he had never been so naked with her before. When he raised his hand and touched her soft arm, he felt something was wrong.

He opened his mouth to warn her, but instead said, "Be careful not to catch a cold."

Lin Yu didn't care. It was already March and it wasn't cold at all. Instead, he wrapped his arms around her even tighter.

Then he asked sullenly, "Brother, don't you want me to hold you?"

The sticky voice, right behind his ear, was a test for Yu Linji.

Suppressing his deepening breath, he turned around, without looking away, and pulled the quilt over her again to wrap her up.

Seeing Lin Yu pursed her lips in the dim candlelight, he hugged her into his arms along with the quilt, and put his arm around her back.

"Don't worry, Ayu is going to marry me soon."

Lin Yu rested her head on his chest, heard his deep and powerful heartbeat, and also understood the hidden meaning in his words.

Lin Ji was a polite person. Even if they were engaged and even if she was not innocent with someone else, he would wait until they were married before allowing any intimate behavior.

Thinking of this, Lin Yu felt guilty, and his arms restlessly emerged from the quilt and wrapped around his waist again.

"My brother has been wronged. I should wait until I find a way to cure the poison before I get engaged to him."

"But I have no choice. I can't leave him any hope. I just want him to know that I have made up my mind and will not be with him anymore."

When she was with Xu Jinxuan, she always seemed so weak. Whenever he took a step forward, she would tremblingly give in. She always gave up her bottom line, just to be coaxed by him using different means.

This time she left no room for maneuver and gave no chance for reconciliation.

"I don't feel wronged," Lin Ji heard her words outside the door, and now hugged her and said, "It's my brother who failed to protect you from the wind and rain, and A Yu has to take care of it alone."

Lin Yu arched her back in his arms, and suddenly her head was held by someone. She raised her head and caught a glimpse of the man's lowered eyes.

In the past, he often lowered his eyes. Lin Yu thought he was hiding his coldness and alienation, but today he could see it clearly.

There was clearly a hot and surging emotion in his eyes.

It's love, love for her.

"elder brother."

She called out in a daze, and suddenly felt the atmosphere changed. Her breathing became a little rapid, and her mouth was dry.

Seeing the man's lips getting closer and closer, Lin Yu blinked and then simply closed her eyes.

She had never even kissed anyone before. Perhaps it was the first time between the two of them. Lin Yu was very nervous and even opened her lips slightly, not wanting to appear to be resisting.

As a result, the area between the eyebrows felt hot.

They separated in an instant. She opened her eyes and saw Lin Ji's thin lips tightly pursed. She avoided his gaze slightly before she was sure that he had indeed kissed her between the eyebrows.

Also... it's too light.

"sleep early."

After being touched on the head and having the quilt tucked in, Lin Yu almost suspected that he still treated her as his sister.

Otherwise, with the two of them being so close just now and her heart beating like a drum, how could he have just gently kissed her between the eyebrows!

Lin Ji breathed a sigh of relief only after she left her room.

It seems that his concentration is not as good as he thought.

Lin Yu was just a little disheveled, and she took a little more initiative towards him, so he almost threw away his principles.

That was the person he cherished, and he would never allow himself to have any intimacy with her until their wedding night.

The next day was his day off, and it was also the first day Xu Jinxuan moved into the Lin family.

During breakfast, Lin Yu told others about the guess he had missed last night: "This poison was very effective before, and it would take effect every three days, but now it has been delayed to four or five days."

"I think either the love Gu also has a time limit, or the Gu was not planted properly in the first place..."

She put down her chopsticks and approached the man and said, "Brother, do you think my Gu will be cured if I continue like this?"

That would be best, otherwise I wouldn't feel at ease even if I got married.

Lin Ji also said: "I hope so."

And he hoped that day would come soon. He was already 24 years old and had been waiting for too many years. He also wanted his long-cherished wish to come true soon.

Xu Jinxuan was settled in a separate courtyard. The Lin family had many houses but few people, so the temporary house they cleaned up was quite good.

Today he specially invited Yunniang over just to verify his guess.

A colorful poisonous insect crawled onto his wrist, bit off a piece of skin, and burrowed into his blood vessels.

After a stick of incense had passed, the poisonous insect crawled out from the original hole, its entire body turning dull in color.

"The mother Gu in your body won't live long."