Chu Yuan laughed happily, putting on a bright red male robe. He lit a pair of red candles and pulled Ruan Ning to kneel together under the trees.
“Let heaven and earth bear witness,” he said, looking at her. “I’m sorry to wrong you.”
“With heaven and earth as witnesses, what is there to wrong?” Ruan Ning replied with a laugh. She guessed the emperor had not agreed to Chu Yuan’s request to marry her, but she didn’t mind; she had never cared about formalities, especially since she was not originally from this world.
Thinking this, she felt melancholic. Chu Yuan’s revealed sorrow worried her. She did not know what he would become after she left.
Without parents or relatives, they bowed three times to the two osmanthus trees. Before Ruan Ning could fully rise, Chu Yuan eagerly embraced her, kissing her and saying, “From now on, I am your husband, and you are my only wife.”
“Mm,” she softly responded, feeling a warm current in her heart, realizing she might be falling in love with him.
Kisses fell like a storm, quickly covering her entire body, both passionate and tender. Ruan Ning, even with some discomfort, didn’t care.
She was like a small boat in a raging storm, rising and falling with his wild movements. Reason and clarity had long abandoned her.
In an intense desire, she hugged him tightly, trying to get even closer. Her passion was quickly reciprocated by Chu Yuan. When he finally broke through the forbidden territory, he let out a long sigh and tensed his body.
Ruan Ning bit the bedding in silence, feeling alternating waves of cold and heat, as if roasted in fire and then thrown into icy water. This strange experience made her dizzy, blurring her sense of pain and desire.
Chu Yuan tried his best to restrain himself, kissing her gently to help her relax. However, she clung to him, her arms wrapping around his neck. Her misty eyes were full of passion as she whispered his name: “A Yuan, A Yuan…”
Unable to restrain himself any longer, Chu Yuan cast aside reason. The entire world shrank to a single point—only her existed, and all he wanted was to possess her.
