The Cold King Demands Love and Pleasure

"Your Highness, Your Highness! There's no need to lecture me anymore. I have clearly realized my mistake and deeply learned my lesson!" She lowered her head, trying to escape from his embrace.

Unfortunately, Min Youan saw right through her little scheme. "Don't try to escape!"

With that, Min Youan lifted her up by the waist with one hand and placed her on the bed. He held the back of her head with one hand and restrained her hands with the other.

Before she could react, she felt a cool sensation on her lips. Looking up, she saw Min Youan's handsome face magnified before her. For a moment, Xia Tongsheng was captivated.

She didn't even notice when her outer garment was peeled off, while Min Youan's hands began to wander unhappily until her inner garment was unbuttoned and her exposed skin felt a little cool. She immediately snapped out of her daze and pushed him away forcefully.

Unfortunately, her strength was no match for the man in front of her, who was filled with intense desire.

Her husband was tall, handsome, and rich—a "tall, rich, and handsome" man in short. For a moment, Xia Tongsheng wanted to accept her fate. Whatever, she didn't want to resist or struggle anymore; it was too tiring.

But the thought of this man having been with other women sent a chill down her spine. She knew that if she didn't resist now, she would have to share a man with other women in the future, and she couldn't accept that.

As a modern person, she wasn't so old-fashioned. She could tolerate a man having had women, but what she couldn't tolerate was a man having several women at the same time!

She couldn't accept that her husband carried the scent of another woman when he slept with her; the thought alone made her feel utterly disgusted!

As he pinned her down and kissed her neck, Xia Tongsheng asked him, "Your Highness, are you happy now?"

"Hmm?" Min Youan lifted his head from her neck, his dark eyes, as bright as obsidian, staring at her.

She pulled down her open undershirt to cover her exposed skin. "Don't you men feel a special sense of conquest and pleasure when you're on top of a woman?"

"What?" Min Youan didn't understand what she was trying to say.

Xia Tongsheng brushed away the hair that had fallen onto her face from Min You'an's face. "Your Highness, have you asked for my opinion on this matter?"

"Aren't all women shy? Even if I asked you, you'd be too embarrassed to say yes!" This is typical male chauvinism.

Xia Tongsheng sneered sarcastically, "So, you take my rejection for granted as flirting, and my struggle for granted as playing hard to get?"

"What do you mean?" Min Youan frowned, and the slightly ambiguous atmosphere in the air became particularly cold.

At this point, she didn't care about titles anymore. "I told you, I'd help you get my father's connections, and you wouldn't touch me! I kept my promise, what about you?"

"You've been married to me for so long, and I've given you everything you've ever wanted! Don't you trust me now?" His kiss landed on her forehead. Like the warm winter sun shining in the desert, it was full of hope yet shone on the most desperate place.

Xia Tongsheng closed her eyes, shook her head, and after letting out a long sigh, slowly opened her eyes to look at Min Youan, her amber pupils filled with an indescribable sadness.

"I trust you, I trust you more than anyone else. But this trust is only between friends, not between a man and a woman! If I were to become yours today, whether you love me or not, I would have to live my whole life by clinging to you or your name, and I do not want that!"

She trusted that he would be a good general and a good leader, but she didn't trust that he would be a good husband!

He's a prince, and might even become emperor someday. She won't be his only woman. But for Xia Tongsheng, once they've slept together, regardless of public opinion or morality, she can only remain faithful to Min You'an until the end. Whether he loves her or not!

This blunt rejection stung Min Youan's heart. "Even if we haven't had a relationship, since you've already married me, even if you die, you can only be my woman!"

"But at least, my heart is free. If I meet a man I love in the future, I can love him boldly, and I won't have to feel inferior because of my impure body!"

Hearing her mention the man she loved, Min Youan felt a lump in his throat. "Why are you so sure that the man you love isn't me?"

"Because you are a prince, not some saint. I don't want to smell other women's perfume when I'm intimate with my husband."

Born in this era, Xia Tongsheng may never meet a man she can spend her whole life with, but she is willing to stay for this man, even if he never appears in her life!

Fearing that Min Youan would be angry, Xia Tongsheng immediately praised him, "Your Highness, you are a god-like being, while I am just an ordinary person. I'm afraid I am not worthy of Your Highness!"

"You are already my queen, don't you think it's too late to say whether you're worthy of me or not?"

Xia Tongsheng avoided answering his question, and instead asked casually, "Your Highness, ask yourself honestly, do you really love me?"

“Love!” Min Yoo-an blurted out almost without thinking.

Even Xia Tongsheng didn't expect him to confess so easily. But to be able to say "love" so easily, he probably doesn't understand the weight of love!

"What kind of love is the prince talking about?" she asked.

Min Youan lifted her chin, making her meet his burning gaze, "I want you!"

"That's not love, that's lust!"

For Min Yoo-an, love and lust are the same thing; he only wants to possess a woman when he falls in love with her.

So even now, Min Yoo-an is still a pure and innocent young man.

"Aren't the two different?" Min Youan asked in return.

"Of course they're different. One is a physiological need, and the other is a psychological need! The love that Your Highness understands is just the instinctive reaction of a certain part of your body, not true love!"

At this point, the only person still being sarcastic is probably someone as neurotic as Xia Tongsheng!

"Therefore, Your Highness, please do not do anything so out of line. I hope we can still be friends!"

Friend? This word was foreign to Min Youan. He didn't know what a true friend was like. He only knew that those around him were either brothers or enemies!

"I have no friends!"

"What about Feng Yuhan?"

"He's a male concubine. If you want to be my friend, you'll have to be my female concubine first!" Of course, the "male concubine" part was Min You'an's way of deliberately provoking Xia Tongsheng. To Min You'an, Feng Yuhan was a brother he could trust with his back!

At this moment, although Min Youan was angry, he still patiently tried to break down Xia Tongsheng's defenses.

Xia Tongsheng pouted, saying with a hint of disdain, "Accept a bisexual husband? My tastes aren't that extreme!"