The Marquis Is Innocent - 160.2
Chapter 160.2
Xiao Qiao closed her eyes and opened them again.
“That is the last scene of my previous life’s dream. It has also been in my dreams ever since, and it kept recurring, making it impossible for me to get rid of it.” After she finished speaking, she looked at Wei Shao.
Wei Shao’s hands unconsciously squeezed her arm tighter, so tight that she felt pain. The veins crawling along the two sides of his forehead seemed like earthworms rippling, and his gloomy eyes stared at her for a long time.
“So, that’s why you have difficulty sleeping and eating, and from then on, you regard me as a poisonous snake?” Realizing he was hurting her, he hurriedly released his hands and slowly asked.
Xiao Qiao sighed softly.
“At that time, I had yet to see your face. Even in my dreams, I have never met you face to face ……” She raised her hand, her warm fingertips traveling gently along his stiffened face, seemingly soothing him.
Wei Shao’s complexion finally relaxed.
“But this dream was too real. I can not be unaffected by it, but I can not say it to anyone. I can only bury it in my heart, wishing it to be only a dream. It wasn’t until that year when Zhou Qun from Ren City attacked Yanzhou, and my uncle decided to marry my sister to you, attempting to seek your favor, that I truly realized that dream of mine might be true.”
“Something similar happened in my dream, so it looked like it was going to happen.”
“I was afraid, and I knew I had to stop things from going on as they had in my dream. Therefore, I do my utmost to get my sister and Bi Zhi to leave home. At that time, I thought that without my sister, there would be no marriage and that my uncle would accept my father’s advice and ask for a coalition of troops to fight against Zhou Qun. But I never expected that my uncle would be so cowardly and hopeless that he would destroy the marriage contract between me and Liu Yan so that I could marry you instead of my sister. At that time, it was so difficult to overcome. I entered the door of your Wei family by mistake and married you, Husband.”
“Husband, you should remember in our first year of marriage, after the Lu Li conference, Grandmother fell ill, and you’re going on a war. Before your departure, I tried my best to keep you. I’m afraid something will happen to Grandmother, as in my dream. Fortunately, she turned out to be fine. After this incident, I saw the hope of reversing the dream prophecy. However, the shadow that dreams prophecy brought was too deep, and I still dared not relax, which led to your great anger later on when I advised my father to strengthen the army. ……”
Xiao Qiao’s voice quieted down. “Later things, Husband, you know it all ……”
Wei Shao fixed his gaze on her face. The light in the curtain suddenly dimmed. The candle flame fluttered a few final times as the wax torch burned out, and the room plunged into darkness.
“Husband ……” After a long moment of silence, she called out to him.
“You had told me that night that you were fortunate to have married me. But you didn’t know, right, that it was the same for me too?”
In the darkness, Wei Shao remained silent. Suddenly, he embraced her tightly, so strong that he seemed to crush and embed her in his flesh. Xiao Qiao felt his heart beating violently. She closed her eyes and stayed still.
……
The night was deep, not knowing what time it was.
Rumble-
Another thunderclap rolled across the distant sky. Xiao Qiao subconsciously shrank toward the side, but her hands were empty. The damp night breeze seemed to pour in through the window, ruffling the curtain in a burst. She opened her eyes, and through the blue lightning that swept through the night sky, she saw a figure standing before the window against the night wind and rain.
Xiao Qiao slowly sat up, lifted the curtain swept by the night wind, and walked behind Wei Shao. The wind swept a portion of night drizzle into the window, soaking the window sill and spraying on Wei Shao’s body. His clothes were half wet, clinging to his body, and his skin was cold as if soaked in water. It was unknown how long he had been standing here like this.
Xiao Qiao hugged him from behind, pressing her cheek against his broad back.
“Man Man, in that past life in your dream, did Grandmother already gone now? Did Su girl harm her? And I was not only blinded by her and took her in, but also made her the empress?” He suddenly said. His voice was a bit fluttering, like a person in a sleepwalking.
Xiao Qiao was silent.
“You are not my wife either. You married Liu Yan, you are only a stranger to me, and the only relationship with me is that you were forced to die under his sword by me?”
Wei Shao slowly turned around. Darkness concealed his face, and his current expression was unseen. Only a hoarse voice permeated with a strong sense of bitterness was heard.
Xiao Qiao softly sighed, wrapping her arms around his neck, and pressed her warm and dry body against his cold and damp chest. She stood on her tiptoes, pressed her lips onto his cold, rain-soaked lips, and printed a deep kiss.
“Husband, I did not say anything earlier because I did not want to attract your unnecessary annoyance. Even if that was a past life, it has all passed, an illusion only. Everything today is the reality ……”
Another lightning swept through the window, illuminating the two people’s faces. Soaked in rainwater, Wei Shao’s face was pale and creepy. His eyes were ghostly and seemed to emit blue light. He took advantage of the sudden and short-lived bright lightning behind him to stare closely at Xiao Qiao’s face, suddenly cupped her head with both hands and kissed her fiercely.
The blue light of the lightning quickly receded, and once again, the room plunged into darkness. Accompanied by the booming thunder that followed one another, Wei Shao impatiently undid her clothes, kissing greedily and urgently running his palm over every inch of her warm skin that belonged only to him, Wei Shao. Soon, his cold, damp skin’s temperature rose, and his blood boiled. He couldn’t imagine how blind he would be to establish the Su girl as his queen.
Even more, he could not imagine that she had married Liu Yan and that she had been a stranger to him until her death. Furthermore, in her mind, he was nothing more than a horrible, vengeful man with a blurred face.
Even if it was only past life that existed in her dreams, he found it unacceptable.
It is unacceptable at all.
Gripped by resentment, shame, and a deep afterthought, his breath came in sharp gasps. He violently lowered her body to a table by the window, tore away the restraints from himself, and, like a starving gourmand, pressed down upon her.
He was not yet out of his mother’s hundred days of mourning, but at this moment, nothing couldn’t be thrown away. There was only one thought left in his mind: He had to possess her right now!
Only by possessing her, by actually experiencing the true feeling of her body imprisoning him, could he convince himself that all those things he asked tonight were just a nightmare for her!
“Husband – ah…”
Xiao Qiao’s throat overflowed with trembling voices. Before the sound stopped, another burst of thunder rolling overhead covered it.
The wind beat the open window, snapping against the damp window pane. Lightning swept across the night sky now and then, and under unceasing thunder, Wei Shao was almost crazy, grabbing every inch of her body, wantonly and repeatedly possessing her, destroying her heart and liver, eating her blood and marrow, and entering her heart and soul.
After a long night, at dawn, the thunder dispersed, the rain stopped, and the sky cleared.
Xiao Qiao’s cheeks were flushed, and pitiful marks of last night’s loving abuse by her husband covered her whole body. Exhausted, she lay on the bed and forcibly awakened while still asleep.
She opened her eyes in a daze, and through the morning sunlight in the room, she saw that Wei Shao had risen at some point, fully dressed, with a long sword hanging from his waist, in high spirits, and was looking at her.
She was confused for a moment, then hurriedly braced herself to get up, but he gently pressed her back onto the bed.
“Man Man, I’m leaving now. You don’t need to see me off. Just feel at ease at home. When I fetch you next time, the world will return to the land of Great Yan. You are Wei Shao’s empress, the world’s true empress.”
He leaned over, kissed her forehead lightly with compassion, and whispered in her ear. Although the voice was low, every word implied power.