Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes (Love You Seven Times)

Chapter 9

He also looked at me, saying, “I do, but I also want you.”

It was obviously an indecent sentence, but coming from him, I didn’t hear any indecent meaning. It felt like a child full of positive energy, swearing that he would study hard.

I was silent, so Lu Hai Kong said, “It’s not that I’ve lost my mind, nor is it that nobody had tried to discourage me….”

He paused for a moment. He looked like he was remembering some terrible things. He drooped his eyes slightly and continued, “But when I heard you were kidnapped…”

“Nobody kidnapped me,” I interrupted him. With and cold and clear voice, I said, “I left you a letter. I was willing to come back.”

Lu Hai Kong didn’t look at me and continued to say, “The soldiers at the gate told me that you left on someone’s shoulder, and that you were treated roughly…”

Seeing him with such a helpless look, I couldn’t bring myself to be heartless. I deeply inhaled the cold air and said, “Lu Hai Kong, I left you a letter. You knew that I left willingly.”

His lips trembled as if he wanted to refute me, but for me and for himself, he tried to hide it. In the end, he fell silent. He curved his lips and smiled without a trace of humor in his eyes. He said, “Yun Xiang, you don’t always need to be so honest.”

“Go back. Protect yourself well.”

“Why?”

He stood outside the window and looked at the ground.

“Knowing each other for sixteen years, accompanying each other in life and death for five years…Yun Xiang, I know you must have a reason.”

How could I tell him? What father Song did that year was self-protection? I abandoned him for my father, his father’s murderer?

Living together for five years in the north, we hadn’t mention a word from the past. Because in this lifetime, my blood and his hatred were the most deadly friction between us.

I also curved my lips and smiled. I made a helpless appearance and said, “Lu Hai Kong, you don’t love me as a woman.”

Lu Hai Kong hesitated. Slowly, his face turned green. He gritted his teeth and said, “Song Yun Xiang, even at this moment you don’t want to open yourself to me. You still don’t believe me!”

Outside, I heard many footsteps coming. My heart tightened. I urged Lu Hai Kong to go. Lu Hai Kong looked at me for a moment with a face full of disappointment. Finally, he turned and gathered some internal energy. He disappeared in the darkness.

Just when he left, the imperial guards arrived. They saw the guards lying on the floor. One of them came to the window and asked, “Where is the rebel?”

“Rebel?”

I yawned.

“I didn’t see anyone.”

“Why are all the guards on the ground?”

I raised an eyebrow and grunted. “I was sleeping like a dead man. The sound of fighting woke me up.”

The chief knitted his eyebrows before he barely bowed to me and said, “Miss Song, I beg your pardon, but I was ordered to search for the intruder.”

He finished his sentence without looking at me. He waved at the other guards and yelled, “Search!”

They kicked my door open and turned the place where I slept into a mess.

I looked at them coldly when they left without finding anyone.