The contour of Hershis’s eyes curved with a playful glint.
“To prevent a child from being conceived… How?”
Liz tilted her head as if not fully understanding. Seeing her innocent expression, Hershis couldn’t help but chuckle and replied.
“It’s not like you dislike physical intimacy with me, right?”
“Of course not.”
Liz could answer without hesitation. But she could also proceed to the next question without any hesitation.
“How can you be satisfied with just physical intimacy?”
Certainly, the physical intimacy with him was ecstatic. The touch of his fingertips raised goosebumps, and where his lips lingered, blood rushed fervently.
However, however…
Being satisfied with just that felt too overwhelming for Liz, who had experienced the pinnacle of sensory pleasure that a human could endure.
“If you can be satisfied?”
Hershis’s lustful golden eyes were filled with confidence.
“Would you do it if you could be satisfied?”
“What is this…”
As Liz looked at him with eyes full of doubt, he started unbuttoning his shirt, lifting his upper body. The way the shirt loosened as soon as his hand touched it seemed almost magical.
Through the opened shirt, the gentle contours of chest muscles and perfectly symmetrical abdominal valleys were revealed.
Seeing masculine features after a long time, Liz’s heart pounded.
The desire to surrender was intense. Not succumbing felt like a betrayal to her partner and a deceit to herself.
As he started pulling at one end of the robe, her thoughts grew even stronger.
But…
Liz forced herself… forcibly conjured it up. The moment when a soldier, stabbed with the sentence of a traitor, merged with his body.
“No.”
Liz pushed him away and said.
“Yes.”
He lightly removed that arm, placed a finger under her chin, and pressed down.
“You didn’t dislike physical intimacy.”
“That’s true, but…”
The knot of the robe was completely undone, and, through the wet robe, Liz felt the bare flesh exposed.
“What… what are you trying to do?”
Hershis kissed Liz’s cheek and whispered.
“You’ll find out soon.”
His lips moved from the cheek to the earlobe, from the earlobe to the nape of the neck, whispering again.
“Anticipate it.”
Liz’s senses were consumed by his touch and lips, and her reason was poured into solving the riddle he presented.
‘What is this man trying to do…’
When Liz solved the riddle, Hershis’s lips, which should have stopped at the original place, had already passed it.
At that moment, there was nothing left of sensation resisting reason, and legs were already confined by his strong arms.
The body kept bending backward.
The sunlight engraved the grid pattern of the window frame on the wall.
When a pigeon flew in and perched on the window frame, its shadow also cast clearly on the wall.
Tilting her head, Liz lay on her side with her arms as a pillow, quietly observing the scene. It felt like watching shadow play unfold in a darkened room where wings were fluttering.
Last night, our lascivious amorous activities with Hershis were reflected in such shadows.
Blocking the continuously erupting moans with the back of her hand and turning her head, she could see a pair of shadows wriggling on the wall… no, she could see one shadow.
The shadow of the intricately contoured body, filled with absolute darkness, seemed more peculiar than the actual body revealed in vivid detail.
‘Expect because I will satisfy you.’
He kept his promise.
Despite feeling a bit embarrassed, Liz experienced a different satisfaction. And it was safe.
But, as expected, it was challenging several times.
The sensory cells, repeatedly ascending and descending throughout the night, were now screaming in exhaustion.
Liz averted her gaze from the shadow play and lay flat on her back.
At that moment, following a sharp knock, Rosa entered.
“Your Majesty, shall I bring the meal here?”
“No, I’ll go down and eat.”
Liz struggled to raise her upper body. As the linen blanket flowed down, a body marked with pink traces was exposed. While Seyra, who had entered after Rosa, quickly turned her face away to find something else to do, Rosa brought a court gown and draped it around Liz.
With a seemingly insensitive expression, Rosa dressed Liz in the gown perfectly, tying the knot flawlessly. While Seyra tidied up a slightly skewed flower vase and turned her head on cue to find other tasks, Rosa brought a linen basin for Liz.
Suddenly, Seyra’s eyes widened.
“Your… Your Majesty.”
She pointed at Liz’s leg.
Liz looked down.
“What’s on my leg… ah!”
She could see a streak of blood flowing down her calf.
This time, Rosa was also slightly surprised.
“Quickly, fetch a towel and a basin of water.”
“Yes, Lady Rosa.”
Instructing Seyra and then disappearing into the dressing room to fetch new undergarments and a washbasin, Rosa left.
Left alone, Liz stared at the red line crossing her leg. A sigh of regret naturally escaped her.
“If I knew it would be like this, I should have just allowed it.”
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
