Her body slightly rose, and Gu Lili’s hand landed on the book Long Yubei had just been looking at.
She casually picked it up, glanced at the title, then skimmed through the content, all of which were about treating psychological trauma.
Gu Lili’s eyes narrowed slightly, with an indescribable emotion surging in their depths.
She placed the book on the table beside the bed and stood up to go to the bathroom.
After a comfortable hot shower and just having washed her hair, the door to the bathroom was suddenly flung open. A tall figure entered, shedding clothes along the way.
By the time he reached her, he was already stark naked.
Long Yubei’s hands cradled her face, looking at her with utmost seriousness, "I can’t believe you are standing before me alive again, just like in a dream. If this is indeed a dream, I never want to wake up, Lili. It’s because of you that I truly understand how wonderfully blissful a false alarm can be."
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After speaking, she tiptoed to initiate a kiss with his lips, Long Yubei’s hand tightly clasped around her waist, drawing their bodies even closer.
The two stood under the warm shower, baptized by a ritual of love.
The bath took a long while before Long Yubei finally carried her out of the bathroom, gently placed her on the bed, and used a towel to thoroughly dry and comb her hair.
"How about drying your hair?"
"No, it’ll wake the child. Just leave it to air-dry, it’ll be dry soon enough. I’m not sleeping anyway, are you tired?"
"I’m even less tired." His hand stroked through her hair, gently saying, "I’ve been insomniac many nights. Tell me, what exactly happened that night? Your car fell into the valley, was it Lin Yueer’s doing?"
"Yes, that night when I was descending the mountain, I ran into Lin Yueer’s maid Chuntao. She suspected my identity, otherwise, Lin Yueer wouldn’t have caught up so quickly. Because I had the Jiuquan Sword with me, she couldn’t approach me and had to use a large boulder rolling down from the mountain to push the car into the valley. I thought I’d either be smashed to pieces or die at Lin Yueer’s hand, but just as the car was about to hit the ground, it paused momentarily, then fell again, reducing the impact of inertia, and I miraculously survived. It was Rong Fei who intervened—he even had a brief exchange with Lin Yueer. At that point, Lin Yueer left."
She described it calmly, but Long Yubei listened with his heart in his mouth, "And then?"
"Then..." Gu Lili recalled, "Rong Fei dragged me out of the car and threw me on the ground, taking the Jiuquan Sword from me. Fearing that Lin Yueer would return to seek revenge, I followed him. Little did I know that I was out of the frying pan into the fire. I fainted, and when I woke up, I found myself in a small cabin where he had treated my wounds. But then he transferred me to another yard, and back to his bedroom, making me sleep on his imperial concubine’s couch, and set up a Barrier around me, from which I could not escape."
Speaking of this, Gu Lili still felt those days spent in front of Rong Fei were utterly miserable, "He had a sister who feeds on human blood, she left bite marks all over my arms. If I had stayed there a few more days, I would have been tortured to death."
"How did you manage to escape?"