Chapter 17.1

Substitute Marriage (3) – “Why don’t you bite me.” (1)

The blood-red memories came flooding back and her hands couldn’t stop trembling as she seemed to hear the whimpering wind of that day again and felt the pain of the cold blade slashing across her back.

With trembling eyelashes, Bai Shuang looked at the clean hem of the robe.

This person smiled like a spring breeze, his face was pretty, his thin lips curved slightly in pity, but his eyes that should have been most remarkable were closed, and the eyelashes casting small shadows beneath the eyes.

Even though he had grown up, even though she had not seen his face before, at this moment, she was sure that he was that person.

There was no one else in the world who could blend gentleness and cruelty so well.

Ignoring the curious stares around her, Bai Shuang gritted her teeth and pulled out the dagger from her sleeve. She knew in her heart that this lunatic would not care if anyone was present, and that anyone who displeased him would be eliminated.

No longer able to retreat, Bai Shuang suppressed her instinctive tremor and stabbed him in the eye without hesitation. No one could avoid it at this distance.

The sharp dagger sliced through the flesh, drops of blood fell, and the tip of the blade stopped in front of his eyes, just a point short of stabbing in.

It failed.

Bai Shuang let go of the dagger and covered the wound on her knee absentmindedly.

“Are you mad? Why didn’t you dodge when you could!”

The young girl’s voice was not small, tinged with annoyance and a few trills of pain, recalling Bai Shuang back from the tense disorientation she had felt.

Her eyes focused again, the focus fell on Li Ruo Shui’s bloodied hand and on the corner of Lu Zhi Yao’s lips with a gentle smile.

Someone had actually blocked the knife for this lunatic.

“I’m asking you, why didn’t you dodge?”

Li Ruo Shui threw away the dagger in her hand, her tone suddenly turned worse all of a sudden. No matter how she looked at it, she suspected that this person was doing it on purpose.

Although the distance was very close, he would never be unable to dodge. She had seen this person hold Lu Fei Yue’s knife with his fingers.

“……What are you laughing at?”

Li Ruo Shui looked at his smile, and suddenly felt cold again. She couldn’t help but take a step backwards.

“I’m laughing, you won the match.”

After Lu Zhi Yao replied, he picked up the dagger from the ground and “looked” at Bai Shuang with gentle eyes.

The dagger twirled around his fingertips, staining the pale fingers bright red.

“I should have taken your life for disturbing my pleasure, but now, for the sake of merit, I will only take your arm.”

Memories flooded back, Bai Shuang tried to escape, but her legs refused to obey, so she could only stay there in a daze.

Li Ruo Shui looked at Bai Shuang’s trembling like chaff, her lips turned white, and raised her hand to stop Lu Zhi Yao.

“Wait, go to bandage with me, the blood is running dry.”

Once he heard this, Lu Zhi Yao didn’t understand what she meant, he smiled helplessly and withdrew his hand.

Bai Shuang gave the two of them a look and escaped with her lightness skills, enduring the pain in her knees.

Li Ruo Shui won against Bai Shuang and made it to the final four, where the four of them would draw lots for two more rounds to decide the winner.

However, due to Li Ruo Shui’s unexpected injury, the match had to be suspended.

The Zheng family had chartered the restaurant and hired a doctor on the ground floor in case of emergency, so Li Ruo Shui was here to heal her wounds.

“You didn’t calculate that I would come and block the attack for you, did you?”

The more Li Ruo Shui thought about it, the more it didn’t seem right, and she didn’t beat around the bush, but asked it directly.

“I can’t see.” Lu Zhi Yao raised his hand and pointed at his own eyes, “How can you dodge if you can’t see?”

“You’re talking with your eyes open.”

Couldn’t see but still help her to take so many moves from Bai Shuang?

Lu Zhi Yao chuckled and lifted her hand, clearly in a good mood.

“I’m talking nonsense whether I open my eyes or not.”

Li Ruo Shui: ……

Li Ruo Shui, who had been trapping others and was inexplicably trapped, didn’t reply to him and turned her eyes to the doctor.

“Doctor, why don’t you take a look at his eyes?”

The white-bearded doctor glanced at him and packed up the things on the table, “I can’t cure what is carried from mother’s womb.”

Li Ruo Shui’s eyes widened with a little surprise, “How did you know that?”

“I’ve been practising medicine for decades, and I can tell.” The doctor took the gauze and medicinal wine from the medicine boy and began to treat the blood stains on her hand.

Just when Li Ruo Shui was sighing, the coolness of his grip on her wrist slowly contracted, and the sigh instantly turned into a tremble.

Lu Zhi Yao’s other hand tapped the tabletop, his tone lilting, “And how did you know this?”

Li Ruo Shui’s eyes fluttered and she subconsciously straightened her back: “I’ve lived for more than ten years, I can tell.”

Doctor: “……”

The blood around the injured area was cleaned up, and the doctor began to disinfect the wound with the gauze dipped in medicinal wine.

“It hurts a lot, bear with it.”

The tawny medicinal wine brushed around the wound, bringing a burning stinging sensation that hurt so much that Li Ruo Shui’s eyes burst into tears.

“Girl, don’t shake, the more you shake, the more it hurts.”

Li Ruo Shui held back her tears, her voice trembling, “It’s not that I want to shake, I can’t control it.”

Hearing these words, Lu Zhi Yao immediately pulled her right hand away with both hands, stopping her subconscious movements.

Li Ruo Shui’s wounds were not shallow, and it took some effort to disinfect them. The wounds on her palms and fingers were wiped with medicinal wine, and the pain caused her hand muscles to twitch involuntarily, but she habitually shut her mouth and endured it.

Lu Zhi Yao seemed to have thought of something and leaned in slightly, bringing his shoulder to her mouth and spoke softly.

“Why don’t you bite me.”

Li Ruo Shui’s tooth root had already been bitten by her to the point of soreness, and now that the culprit’s shoulder was right here, it was a waste not to bite.

She wasn’t polite at all and opened her mouth for a bite.

This bite was not just to relieve the pain, but also carried other inexplicable emotions.

Thinking of all that had happened before, Li Ruo Shui bit even harder, trying to release all the emotions that had been pent up for days in this bite.

But for him, the pain in his shoulder was not pain, it was pleasure.

Lu Zhi Yao’s brow arched and his smile grew warmer and warmer as he opened his mouth encouragingly.

“A little harder.”

Blood and flesh were bitten hard, pressing out the pain with force, and he enjoyed it delicately, feeling the pleasure welling up from the bottom of his heart.

Such pleasure from just one bite, if he were to be killed by Li Ruo Shui one day, would it be the so-called ultimate pleasure?