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In the pitch-black darkness, Lu Yanxun's hand lifted her skirt from under the covers.

Jiang Zao pressed down on his hand: "What are you doing?"

Lu Yanxun stopped moving his hand: "Lift up your clothes yourself."

His deep, resonant voice sounded especially pleasant in the darkness.

I have no interest in appreciating ginger and jujubes.

She's in a bad mood.

I don't want to hear Lu Yanxun's voice at all.

"No." Jiang Zao pulled his hand away from her stomach. "Get away from me, don't touch me."

"I'm going to see if those two are trying to torture me to death! They might as well torture me to death; if I die, they won't live either. I'll be dragged down with my unborn child!"

Jiang Zao was in excruciating pain and cried out incoherently.

Ignoring her crying and fussing, Lu Yanxun firmly gripped both of her wrists with one hand while continuing to lift her skirt with the other.

Jiang Zao cried out in protest, "No! No! Let me go! Don't touch me!"

He shouted and struggled.

She struggled so fiercely that she almost broke free from Lu Yanxun's grasp.

"Don't move if you don't want to feel pain," Lu Yanxun warned in a deep voice.

Jiang Zao continued to struggle and shout, "Don't lift my clothes!"

Lu Yanxun's deep voice carried an added chill: "Jiang Zao, stop fooling around. It'll be better if you lift up your clothes."

"No!" Jiang Zao denied.

"You tried it yesterday."

"So what if I tried? Your technique is terrible. I don't want you to touch me."

"You'll get better with more practice."

"Fine, I won't let you touch me. Don't ever touch me again!"

No matter what Lu Yanxun said, Jiang Zao absolutely refused to let him touch her.

It's her fault for ignoring her while she was in the bathroom.

She doesn't want to talk to him anymore.

One of them wouldn't let her touch him, while the other insisted on touching him, even lifting his clothes to do so.

The loud argument inside the house could be heard even by people outside.

outside the house.

After chasing her two daughters away, Su Xiufen anxiously tugged at Lu Mingrui's sleeve.

"What...what are they doing?!"

Su Xiufen looked anxious and embarrassed, and her tone was particularly awkward.

“The children are so grown up, how can they behave like this… Dad, go knock on the door.”

Su Xiufen nudged Lu Mingrui's arm, encouraging him.

Lu Mingrui took a big step back with a dark, sullen face.

It was rare for him to make a decision to shirk responsibility in this family: "It's not appropriate for a grown man like me to knock on the door, you should do it."

Su Xiufen felt that Lu Mingrui's words made sense, so she had no choice but to bite the bullet and do it herself.

She gritted her teeth and started banging on the door.

bang bang bang-

Su Xiufen deliberately used a lot of force.

A loud banging on the door echoed throughout the room.

The two people who were making a big fuss inside were immediately silenced by the knocking on the door.

Lu Yanxun stopped lifting her skirt, and Jiang Zao stopped struggling.

"Yan Xun? It's me. Your father and I have something to say to you. Open the door!"

Su Xiufen shouted loudly into the crack of the tightly closed door.

Lu Mingrui's face darkened again, and he said with dissatisfaction, "You can talk to him alone, why bring me up?"

Su Xiufen turned around, giving him a resentful look: "Aren't you his father? Why can't I mention you?"

"I'm a man..."

Su Xiufen coldly interrupted Lu Mingrui, "So what if you're a man? Your son is a man too, but listen to what your son is doing in there right now!"

Lu Mingrui stood with his back to Lu Yanxun's door, speechless.

Su Xiufen gave him a disgruntled look and continued knocking on the door.

"Yan Xun, open the door! If you don't open the door, I'll have your dad kick it down!"

Su Xiufen's tone became stern.

After she finished speaking, she listened carefully, and it seemed that there was no more movement inside the room.

Just as she was about to continue knocking and calling for help, the door in front of her opened.

Lu Yanxun appeared at the door.

The room was dark, with no lights on, and it was pitch black behind him.

When Su Xiufen saw that it was dark, her face turned even more unpleasant.

But she couldn't care less about being embarrassed anymore, and with a stern face, she lectured her son:

"Yan Xun, what were you about to do to Xiao Zao? She's in her late pregnancy, how can you not be careful? Doing that kind of thing at this stage will harm the baby!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Zao, who was lying in bed, knew that Su Xiufen and her mother had both misunderstood the situation, just like last night.

Recalling her conversation with Lu Yanxun, Jiang Zao felt numb all over.

She silently covered her face with the blanket, feeling even more embarrassed than Su Xiufen.

“Lu Mingrui, you tell us about your son!” Su Xiufen grabbed Lu Mingrui’s sleeve.

"Dad, Mom, you've misunderstood." Lu Yanxun was calmer than anyone else, showing no panic even when facing his parents' displeased expressions. "She had a stomachache, and I massaged her stomach using the method the doctor taught me. Mom, you know that, don't you?"

Su Xiufen felt a little embarrassed.

She knew about it.

So they didn't intend to do *that* in the room?

Su Xiufen felt a little guilty: "I think I just heard Xiaozao tell you not to lift her clothes, or something about technique, could it be..."

"Yes," Lu Yanxun replied truthfully, "Her stomach hurt after she took a shower, so I carried her back to her room to try and rub it for her, but she was in a lot of pain, and simple methods didn't work, so I had to do that..."

Lu Yanxun didn't say what came next.

But needless to say.

Lu Mingrui and Su Xiufen were both experienced mothers of three, so they knew exactly what he was going to say next.

As for why the lights were turned off, the elderly couple understood even better.

Because I'm not familiar with it.

The elderly couple, who knew everything, kept their conversation a secret.

Lu Mingrui grabbed his wife's hand and said to his son, "You two continue."

After saying that, he took Su Xiufen's hand and left.

After taking a few steps, Su Xiufen spoke up again to remind her: "No matter what method you use, you must be careful not to hurt the child. Be gentle with Xiaozao. You have a strong hand, so rub her gently."

Lu Mingrui pulled Su Xiufen along without stopping.

"Don't worry about it, our son knows what he's doing."

Su Xiufen disagreed: "It's his first time being a father, what does he know about boundaries?"

“When I became a father for the first time, I was very sensible. He is my son. I don’t expect him to surpass me, but he won’t be much worse than me.”

Su Xiufen couldn't refute these words, so she had to swallow back what she wanted to say next.

After his parents left, Lu Yanxun closed the door and returned to his bedside.

He noticed that Jiangzao was very quiet at this moment.

"It doesn't hurt anymore?"

Lu Yanxun sat on the edge of the bed, following his memory.

He reached his hand back under the covers in the dark.

The whole movement was very skillful, and even Jiang Zao herself was surprised that he could accurately touch her stomach in one go.

After a brief moment of surprise, Jiang Zao pushed Lu Yanxun's hand away from her stomach.

His tone was indifferent: "It doesn't hurt anymore."

I don't know exactly when the pain stopped, but it seems to have started when Lu Yanxun went to open the door.

With her stomach pain gone, Jiang Zao regained her senses.

He cursed inwardly at how troublesome the brat was, and then asked Lu Yanxun to turn on the light.

The moment the light came on, Jiang Zao covered her face with the blanket to block out the glaring light.

It took a while before the blanket was lifted.

The first thing Jiang Zao saw when she lifted the covers was Lu Yanxun looking at her.

Their eyes met for a moment in the air.

This time, Jiang Zao was the first to look away: "You go out first, I need to get up and dry my hair."

Jiang Zao made a decision: from now on, she would keep her distance from Lu Yanxun.

He'll have to sleep on the floor again tonight.

After Jiang Zao finished speaking, she waited for Lu Yanxun to leave on his own.

Unexpectedly, I heard him say in a nonchalant tone, "I'll wipe it for you."

Jiang Zao bluntly stated, "There's no need to act anymore. It's just the two of us here."

"What are we acting out?" Lu Yanxun asked, puzzled.

I got up and went to get a dry towel.

He turned back and asked, "Do you want to lie down or sit while you wipe?"

Jiangzao: "..."

Does this man not understand human speech?

She told him to leave and stop acting.

He actually asked her what role she was playing.

They even asked her if she wanted to lie down or sit while they wiped her down.

Jiang Zao felt a surge of irritation.

She grabbed the blanket and propped herself up on the bed, moving very quickly.

She questioned him angrily.

"Lu Yanxun, can't you understand what I'm saying? Or are you pretending not to understand even though you do?"

Lu Yanxun stared intently into her eyes, which were brimming with tiny flames, a barely perceptible confusion hidden in his deep gaze.

"What do you want to say?" he asked calmly.

Jiang Zao was furious when she saw his calm and indifferent expression.

She always felt that this man was deliberately trying to annoy her.

"you……"

Jiang Zao wanted to curse.

But she was afraid that if she got excited, her stomach would start hurting again.

Jiang Zao closed her eyes patiently.

These three—father and his two sons—must be working together.

The three of them conspired to harm her.

Okay, since the atmosphere has reached this point, she might as well just confront him now.

Originally, I wanted to wait until Lu Yanxun finished showering so that the two of us could sit down and have a proper talk, feeling refreshed.

Since he wants to hear it now, she can say so.

He might not even feel like taking a shower.

So Jiangzao cleared his throat and began:

“Lu Yanxun, I won’t stop you from continuing your relationship with Su Xinyue. I have no objection to you writing to her or meeting her. You can date her however you want. But if you want to marry her… you’ll have to divorce me first.”

“I, Jiang Zao, am not an ungrateful person. As long as you agree to my conditions, I agree to a peaceful divorce with you, and we can part ways amicably.”

Jiang Zao straightened her back, her expression serious, and her tone official.

They made it look like they were having serious negotiations.

Lu Yanxun's already deep eyes darkened after hearing Jiang Zao's words.

He slowly raised his handsome eyebrows and looked at Jiang Zao without making a sound.

Jiang Zao's face, which had regained its color, was puffed up with anger, and her delicate pink lips pursed tightly during the pause.

Then I saw her pout her lips and chatter on and on.

"My conditions are very simple. With my current belly, it's impossible for me to abort the child. I can only give birth to it. If your Lu family wants the child, I can give it to you, as long as you give me a divorce settlement and allow me to see the child whenever I want. I promise you I won't come to see the child often."

"Don't think that I'm using the child to make money. If that's what you think, you can choose not to have the child. I can support them on my own. But the child must take my surname, Jiang. My child and I will try our best not to appear in front of you in the future."

"Also, if your family decides to keep the child, then you must take good care of me, from now until I finish my postpartum confinement. After that, I need at least two more months of proper recuperation before we can officially divorce. During this period..."

Jiang Zao recited a long string of words like she was reciting a text, only realizing after a while that she had forgotten to watch Lu Yanxun's reaction.

She looked up at Lu Yanxun and found that the man was staring at her expressionlessly.

His deep black eyes were unfathomable.

Jiang Zao bravely met his gaze, "If you have any opinions, you can say them."

Lu Yanxun coldly uttered only two words: "Continue."

Why not stop him from dating Su Xinyue?

divorce?

Can he not have children?

She still has to raise her child on her own?

Rather than offering his opinion, he was more interested in hearing what other outrageous things Jiang Zao might say.

“Okay, then I’ll continue.” Jiang Zao nodded very seriously.

Then, in a very official tone, he continued, "During this time, you should handle your own feelings well. As long as you are not caught by your great-grandmother, parents, or sisters, even if I catch you in the act, I will turn a blind eye."

"You can make me close both eyes, but you'll have to pay more during the divorce. Every time I catch you in the act, I'll add a thousand to the original divorce fee. Don't blame me for being outrageous. This also includes the cost of me pleading with your family on your behalf. If you don't want to pay, you'd better watch out."

"As for the amount of the divorce settlement... I haven't decided yet, but it won't be less than the dowry my family originally asked for, considering we have two children. Let's leave it at that for now, and I'll add more later if I think of anything else."

"Heh, don't blame me for being so direct about money. We're getting a divorce anyway, so it's best to clarify the terms beforehand to avoid any future disputes."

Jiang Zao rambled on for a long time, and finally finished speaking just before Lu Yanxun was about to laugh in exasperation.

"I've finished speaking, now it's your turn," Jiang Zao said, passing the words to Lu Yanxun.

"Who told you I was going to date Su Xinyue?"

Lu Yanxun stared coldly into Jiang Zao's eyes, his tone sharp as he questioned her.

Jiang Zao's heart skipped a beat, feeling suffocated by his suddenly surging, fierce aura.

For the first time, I experienced what fear truly meant in front of Lu Yanxun.

My mind went blank for several seconds.

I was stunned for a long time, not knowing how to react.

Seeing Jiang Zao's stunned expression, Lu Yanxun realized that his emotions were not right.

He immediately adjusted his tone, and his next sentence was not as fierce as before: "I am not dating her, and I don't need you to make things happen for me."

However, it's not much better for ginger and jujubes either.

It's just not as fierce as before, but it's still very fierce.

Lu Yanxun probably doesn't realize how fierce his words were just now.

Jiang Zao took a shallow breath, her heart trembling twice with each breath.

She was still very afraid of him.

They were too scared to speak.

Jiang Zao hugged the blanket tighter and shrank into the innermost corner of the bed.

The bed in the bridal chamber was newly made and much larger than the bed Lu Yanxun slept in before the wedding.

Jiang Zao hid at the very back, immediately creating a large distance between herself and Lu Yanxun.

Jiang Zao estimated that it was within arm's reach of the man beside the bed.

Lu Yanxun frowned, his face still cold.

The atmosphere became even more somber because of Jiang Zao's action of keeping his distance.

"What are you hiding from?"

Jiang Zao covered half of her face with the blanket, only revealing the upper half.

A pair of large, fearful eyes looked at Lu Yanxun with trepidation.

Trembling with fear, I silently replied: If I don't dodge, I'm afraid you'll hit me.