Chapter 34: The Crippled Young Lady (Thirty-Four)
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Chapter 34: The Disabled Young Miss (Thirty-Four)
One day, as usual, Jun Mo attended to her when she rose from bed. Naturally, he took advantage of the opportunity to be handsy and steal his fill of kisses.
With her waist limp and aching, Su Kui sat in Jun Mo’s arms. Suddenly, she remembered the mockery she had heard from the outside world and could not help asking, “Jun Mo, do you want children?”
He paused, then sighed. Flecks of tenderness glimmered in his ink-dark eyes.
“Why do you ask?”
Su Kui swallowed a mouthful of porridge and answered casually, “Oh, it’s nothing. I keep hearing people say that I’ve been married for three years without bearing a child, so I thought I’d ask you.”
The moment those words left her lips, the small dining room bathed in the pale light of dawn seemed to darken. Even the air appeared to grow still.
Jun Mo felt the little woman in his arms shift uneasily. Only then did he realize what had happened. He relaxed his rigid posture and gently stroked her soft hair.
His voice was mild and unhurried. “Don’t let your thoughts run wild. Why pay attention to idle gossip?”
Yet where Su Kui could not see, his eyes narrowed slightly. His long, phoenix-shaped eyes reflected a dangerous gleam, their depths utterly black and shrouded in darkness.
It seemed certain people had been left unchecked for too long. They had forgotten even their own names.
And he had lain dormant for far too long as well—
Lowering his gaze to the woman eating with complete concentration, he watched her fair, rosy little face grow almost translucent in the dawn light. With a pastry stuffed into her mouth, her cheeks puffed in and out, making her look remarkably like an adorable little hamster.
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Unable to resist, Jun Mo reached out and poked her cheek. Su Kui turned her head and bit him, glaring at him accusingly.
Why are you interrupting my meal?!
The message in her eyes was unmistakable. Jun Mo lowered his head and chuckled, but the faint numbness at his fingertip sent a wave of heat through his lower abdomen, and his gaze grew even darker.
If only there were not so many people with a death wish who insisted on disturbing them. He truly had no interest in that lofty position.
All he wanted was to spend his entire life with one woman. Unfortunately, there were always people who leaped out to make their presence known, unwilling to let the two of them live in peace...
In that case, he had no choice but to kill gods when he met gods, and Buddhas when he met Buddhas.
Su Kui remained completely unaware. She even nestled closer into his arms, utterly oblivious to the calamity she had narrowly escaped.
“Then you really don’t want a child?”
Weren’t people in ancient times especially concerned with having heirs? And this was the Regent Prince’s household, home to one of the most distinguished nobles in the realm. Did he truly not want an heir?
“I don’t.”
Jun Mo’s answer was crisp and decisive.
This time, Su Kui was genuinely curious. She set down her chopsticks and turned to look at him.
“Why?”
His answer immediately made her face flare bright red.
“All my tenderness and patience belong to you. I do not want anyone else to take even the slightest bit of my attention. I neither want nor need a child. I want only you.”
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I want only you—
The words were murmured so softly that every syllable seemed steeped in sweetness. Even this cold-faced man could drown a person when he spoke words of love.
At last, Su Kui stammered through her words, then boldly seized his ear and threatened him beside it, “You said it yourself. If you ever betray me one day, I’ll castrate you! Then I’ll throw you out with nothing but the clothes on your back!”
Jun Mo hurriedly pulled her into a tight embrace and burst out laughing. In a low murmur, he said, “Having you is enough. Too much happiness invites Heaven’s punishment. We are perfectly happy like this.”
Their happiness did not last long.
A month later, news arrived from the frontier: the Jin forces had launched a massive invasion of Yanmen Pass. They burned, slaughtered, and pillaged without restraint, throwing the people of the city into misery while cries of grief and outrage filled the streets.
The imperial court dispatched troops again and again, but they suffered defeat after defeat, and morale sank into a trough.
At that moment, Regent Prince Jun Mo volunteered to lead the campaign. The emperor hesitated for a long while, but in the end he could not withstand the unanimous pleas of the court officials, who all petitioned for Jun Mo to command the army. Reluctantly, he gave his consent.
After returning to the residence, Jun Mo spent the entire night entwined with Su Kui in a desperate farewell. The next day, clad in armor and astride a warhorse, he set out for Yanmen Pass at the head of hundreds of thousands of elite troops, the cold gleam of his unsheathed blade flashing at his side.
On the day the army departed, every citizen of the capital lined the roads to see him off. It was enough to show that Jun Mo’s standing in the hearts of the people far surpassed that of the imperial family.
End of Chapter
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