Chapter 456 - 252: Brother Lu? Uncle Lu?
"I-I wasn’t pulling anything! I was just... petting you... to calm you down, see?~"
After saying that, Gu Ziye buried her head in the blankets, leaving only her two pigtails showing. She was absolutely mortified.
It was the first time Gu Ziye had ever grabbed a man’s... *thing*.
When a child falls, don’t adults help pat the dust off, stroke their head, and give them a soothing pat?
Gu Ziye was just copying what she’d seen. How could she have thought any deeper about it?
Lying beside her, Lu Yuan chuckled. ’This little woman is so innocent,’ he thought. ’Can you really just grab *anything* like that?’
With her head buried in the covers, Gu Ziye had left a small gap between the blanket and the sheet to breathe.
A sliver of bright light shone through the gap.
"Ah!"
Gu Ziye cried out.
’Shouting again? What is it now?’ Lu Yuan thought.
Early in the morning, it was one "Ah!" after another!
Gu Ziye quickly lifted her head, her eyes wide as she glared at Lu Yuan and asked in astonishment, "You’re not wearing any clothes?"
That was right. Lu Yuan wasn’t in the habit of sleeping with clothes on, feeling it was too restrictive.
Besides Yue’Er, who had this question, his wife and the two "aunts" had no objections whatsoever.
Gu Ziye was the Princess of the Current Dynasty. She had studied etiquette and the like since childhood, so sleeping in clothes was as essential as eating three meals a day. That was why she was so shocked.
Lu Yuan gave her a peck and said, "Nope! How else would you have been able to grab it? Is your little brain not working?"
Lu Yuan tapped Gu Ziye’s forehead with his index finger.
Thinking about what just happened, Gu Ziye’s ears turned red. "Yuan~" she said, "could you put some clothes on? I’m not used to this..."
"Alright, alright, whatever you say!"
With that, Lu Yuan sat up to grab his clothes from the side. His pale butt shot out from under the covers, its crack aimed right at Gu Ziye’s face.
Gu Ziye’s face turned even redder. She remembered that night in Taiping City when she’d gone out to use the latrine and, through the paper window, had seen Lu Yuan doing... *that*... with Aunt Song!
Humiliated and angry, Gu Ziye was like an Old Turtle, and she lunged forward and bit down.
Lu Yuan shot up with a WHOOSH. ’What kind of animal is Yue’Er? A biter?’
Lu Yuan turned sideways, pulling at his own butt cheek, and saw two rows of teeth marks left on it.
Lu Yuan said jokingly, "Yue’Er, you’re so cruel! Other people leave hickeys on the neck, but you leave teeth marks on my butt!"
Gu Ziye giggled. "That’s what you get for pointing your butt crack at me, Yuan~!"
Lu Yuan explained, "I was just sitting up to get dressed! Don’t you have any common sense? Don’t tell me you don’t dress yourself?"
Gu Ziye turned away. "I don’t care about any of that. Just hurry up and get dressed. I won’t look!"
At that moment, the image of Yuan’s~ carefree and roguish look from just now was stuck in Gu Ziye’s mind, impossible to shake.
Lu Yuan shook his head, thinking, ’My little ancestor, I really don’t know what to do with you!’
Early that morning, Su Liyan was startled awake by the shrieks coming from Gu Ziye and Lu Yuan.
The sounds weren’t those of two people expressing their love, but more like they’d suddenly stepped on a cockroach, a mouse, or a snake and gotten a fright.
It would be one thing if Gu Ziye was scared, but why had Lu Yuan also cried out just now?
Worried, Su Liyan got dressed, crossed the small courtyard, and walked to Lu Yuan and Yue’Er’s room. Knocking on the door, she said, "Lu Yuan, Yue’Er, are you two alright?"
Hearing Su Liyan’s voice, Gu Ziye, who was still lying in bed, finally turned back around.
Lu Yuan gestured, reminding Yue’Er that he still wasn’t dressed.
Gu Ziye understood immediately. Pouting her little lips, she said, "Sister saw everything when she came in last night, so what’s one more time? Yuan~, hurry and open the door for her!"
Seeing that Yue’Er was being so open about it, Lu Yuan relaxed.
Lu Yuan opened the door and welcomed his wife inside.
After entering, Su Liyan asked, "Lu Yuan, Yue’Er, I heard a noise just now and came to see what happened!"
Lu Yuan said with a smile, "Darling, it was nothing. It’s just that Yue’Er..."
Gu Ziye cut in, "Sister, we were just messing around!"
Lu Yuan added, "That’s right. Yue’Er was being lazy in bed, so I was teaching her a lesson."
Su Liyan understood in her heart. ’So they were just flirting.’ Pretending not to know anything, she said, "Yue’Er, if you want to lie in a little longer, then lie in. It’s actually rare for Lu Yuan to be up this early."
Lu Yuan scratched his head and said with a laugh, "Darling, don’t expose me like that!"
"Prince Consort, a visitor has arrived, saying they are looking for you," a maid said from outside the door.
’Who could possibly be here at this hour? It’s so early,’ Lu Yuan thought.
Lu Yuan patted his wife’s shoulder and said, "You two chat for a bit. I’ll go see who it is."
Su Liyan replied, "Go on, Lu Yuan."
After Lu Yuan left, Su Liyan walked to the side of Yue’Er’s bed and said half-jokingly, "Yue’Er, was it comfortable?"
Gu Ziye blinked and said, "Sis~ don’t tease me. He nearly poked me sore."
How could Gu Ziye have ever experienced such a hardship? She immediately decided she didn’t want Lu Yuan to "poke" her again.
Su Liyan comforted her, "Yue’Er, you’re still young, you don’t understand. This sort of thing is never pleasant the first time, but later on, you’ll find yourself wanting it more and more."
Gu Ziye said, half-convinced, "Really?"
Su Liyan nodded with absolute conviction.
Su Liyan wasn’t lying. It’s the kind of thing that the more you do it, the more you get into it, and the bolder you become.
All it took was a little teasing from Lu Yuan, and her fire would surge right up. It would take a good thousand thrusts or so to put that fire out.
"Alright, Sis. I’ll give it another try tonight," Gu Ziye said, her eyes darting around.
Su Liyan nodded. ’What does it matter if I let you have him for a few days? I get to eat this meal all the time!’
Lu Yuan walked with quick steps. He wanted to get a good look at who would show up so early in the morning. How annoying.