Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
After Yun Chunnuan spoke, she could only feel her heart pounding fiercely.
Her soft palms were full of sweat, nervously clenched together.
Suddenly, a warm large hand held hers.
Her shoulders were also drawn into a broad and hot chest.
A strong sense of protection made her heart instantly settle down.
She was never alone. No matter what she did, she had her husband accompanying her, protecting her.
What was there to fear?
If this madman truly dared to harm her, he would be imprisoned forever!
He wouldn’t die; he would have to live well.
Unconsciously, Yun Chunnuan was no longer the naive and innocent young girl she once was.
The old her experienced smooth sailing, never encountering a single setback, nor did she ever understand the frightful depths of human nature.
She was naive and innocent, approaching the world with a kind attitude.
But now, she was not.
Crossing into this world for a year now, she already understood that this was not her peaceful era.
Here the law is survival of the fittest; being too kind to others is cruelty to oneself.
Who knows when one might be devoured without even bones left behind.
She only wanted to live peacefully with her husband, yet someone just didn’t want her to be at ease.
In that case, don’t blame her for being ruthless, turning into a demon...
She stared unblinkingly at the figure under the candlelight, white as the moon.
She studied his face, not missing a single subtle expression.
The panic and helplessness she expected were absent; he stood quietly there, with inexplicable delight in his dark eyes.
Finally, he spoke, and what he said made Yun Chunnuan break into a cold sweat.
"Oh, I know. But she’s dead, what’s it got to do with me?"
Yun Chunnuan’s petite figure wavered in the man’s embrace.
She was stunned, shocked, unable to comprehend, "How is it unrelated? Weren’t you looking for your Xiao Qi..."
The man in white under the candlelight seemed unable to comprehend as well.
Blinking, he explained somewhat eagerly, "No, no, it’s you I’m looking for you."
"Nonsense! You kept yelling to find Xiao Qi, I’m not your Xiao Qi! Do you not believe she’s dead?"
"It’s you who won’t let me call you Nuannuan."
He spoke with a tone of grievance.
Apart from shock, Yun Chunnuan had no other reaction left.
She stood there dazed, completely not knowing how to react.
She had considered many possibilities, even prepared the Heaven-binding Rope for her husband...
But she had never anticipated that he would react this way!
"Why do you know?" A voice tinged with danger came from the man next to her ear.
Yun Chunnuan’s mind went blank, but Yelyu Lie was clear-headed.
He could allow this madman to worry about his beloved Xiao Qi, but he couldn’t accept that his target from the start was his little wife!
Ying Ce blinked innocently with a seeming innocence, "How could I not know someone who isn’t the least bit similar?"
This rhetorical question, as if he was being asked something foolish.
For a moment, the room was silent, the only sounds were breathing and heartbeats.
"Stop playing dumb, dammit, I’ll ask you one last question, why come for my wife from the beginning? You’ve never been in contact with her, how would you know?!"
"How could I not have had contact?" He curled his lips, smiling enigmatically.
His words, if not spoken to a husband with great trust in his wife, could easily be misunderstood.
"Nuannuan."
The trembling Yun Chunnuan was suddenly called by the man holding her.
She raised her anxious little face and then heard him say: "Go find Lian Qiao, they’re worried about you."
"Husband..."
"Go on."
He didn’t say much, just turned her delicate body around, directing her toward the door.
"Xiao Qi."
A hurried call came from behind her.
Yun Chunnuan’s heart trembled a bit, yet she didn’t look back, "Since you don’t want to leave, then stay forever."
She knew what her husband intended to do.
And coincidentally, so did she.
Isn’t he refusing to leave?
Then never leave.
He can’t be allowed back to Great Xia, it’s too dangerous.
As for how to deal with the matter of the original protagonist’s cheap father, it would be discussed with her husband later.
Soon, Yun Chunnuan exited the room, closing the door behind her, sealing everything off.
The courtyard was quiet, not a person in sight.
Yun Chunnuan slowly walked to the stone bench and sat down.
"Madam, let’s go."