Du Gu Luanyue tensed up, her breathing rapid and uneven. She gently pushed Huo Wei and said, "Huo Wei, I haven't thanked you yet."
Huo Wei's long eyes paused slightly, and he said in a muffled voice, "Thank me for what?"
Du Gu Luanyue looked into his eyes. For the first time, she spoke to him so sincerely:
"Thank you for pushing yourself out to help me cover up the rumors.
After all, you're a person who can both lead troops and govern the country in Beiyan, and you're a man. It can't feel good to be laughed at by the whole world. So I want to thank you."
These were her heartfelt words, and it was the first time she had spoken to him so seriously.
Huo Wei's smile deepened. He pressed her into the water and leaned over her.
He tore off the last layer of thin gauze on her body. His palm covered the softness on her chest. The obvious scar was still there. His long eyes darkened:
"Does Her Majesty the Queen think I'm the kind of person who likes to listen to nonsense?"
Du Gu Luanyue closed her eyes. Feeling the increasing temperature of the pool water, she said with a somewhat cold smile:
"I'm your father's woman. Aren't you really afraid of being discovered? He's not far away. Think it over, Huo Wei. Don't regret it in the future."
Huo Wei's broad chest with well - defined muscles was now blushing hot from the hot spring. A flush also appeared on his cold and handsome face. He smiled wickedly:
"Regret? One day, even if he finds out, he can only watch the two of us." After saying that, he bit her earlobe hard.
The pink thin gauze on Du Gu Luanyue half slipped off her fair and slender shoulders and was sliding further down.
She admitted defeat in her heart. Well, if one wants to get something, one has to pay something. What does it matter?
For the sake of Nanchu, all she sacrificed was just a body.
Huo Wei said hoarsely, "Du Gu Luanyue, I extremely hate being deceived. If you ever dare to lie to me again, I have the ability to make your life worse than death."
He was talking about the future, not the past. He didn't care about the lies Du Gu Luanyue had told him in the past.
Du Gu Luanyue wanted to test him a bit to see how she could deal with this wolf in the future. She asked softly, "Then, Huo Wei, do you really like me?"
Huo Wei's smile became even more wanton: "It's just a game of pretending, mutual use. How did we start talking about true feelings?"
Du Gu Luanyue felt relieved with a smile: "That's good."
From now on, they would only have a cooperative relationship without any feelings. She didn't have to pretend to say sweet words or care about him all the time, afraid that he would find out that her love wasn't strong enough.
Huo Wei immediately stopped his movements: "Good what?"
Du Gu Luanyue said, "The mutually beneficial relationship between a man and a woman is always much stronger than so - called love. Naturally, it's very good."
Huo Wei lightly pinched her neck. It seemed that only he could say such words. When Du Gu Luanyue said them, a hint of coldness unconsciously appeared in his deep eyebrows.
Du Gu Luanyue wrapped her arms around his neck:
"You can never try to get benefits from a tiger, but I'm really looking forward to dancing with a wolf."
She stretched out her slender and fair fingertips and gently scraped the tip of Huo Wei's straight nose. Her jade - like eyes filled with water stared deeply at him, and her face was enchanting.
Huo Wei grabbed her hand. A hint of danger flashed in his deep eyes: "From taking the knife for you in the past to the birthday banquet later, it was all for this moment, right?"
Du Gu Luanyue took a few steps back in the water. She was almost out of breath under his fierce aura:
"No. I was thinking of luring you to our Nanchu. How could I be willing to give up a war god like you, the Prince of Yuzhang, after just one cooperation?"
Huo Wei chuckled and tightened his fingers on her slender waist:
"What for in Nanchu? To be your Royal Highness the Crown Princess's servant or to warm your bed?"
Before Du Gu Luanyue could say another word, just as he was about to proceed, Meng Tan outside the hot spring pool reported behind the door, "Your Highness, Military Advisor Shen is here."
Huo Wei's black eyes darkened, and his tone was extremely impatient: "Tell him to find a place to stay by himself!"
Meng Tan became a little anxious outside and reported again, "Your Highness, it's bad. Your subordinate can't stop the military advisor!"
Shen Guilan was already standing outside the door. He pulled Meng Tan aside and said, "Captain Meng, please go out first. I'll talk to His Highness myself."
Meng Tan knew that although Shen Guilan was nominally the military advisor and had a superior - subordinate relationship with the Prince of Yuzhang,
in fact, they were like brothers of different genders. When provoked, Shen Guilan would scold even Huo Wei.
Du Gu Luanyue was a little panicked. She lowered her voice and said, "What should we do now?"
Huo Wei hooked his thin lips: "Now you're scared? What's there to be embarrassed about? We haven't finished yet."
He was upset and restless, his whole body hot and tense. The dam of his self - control was about to collapse.
Du Gu Luanyue never realized before that Huo Wei was so crazy. There was someone outside, and he still wouldn't stop. She reminded him again, "Your military advisor is outside!"
Huo Wei pulled her over and pressed her against his chest. He led her into the pool, leaving only her shoulders and above out of the water, with her back to the door.
Du Gu Luanyue's black hair spread out on her shoulders. She was almost suffocated by Huo Wei's embrace.
Shen Guilan pushed the door open. Dressed in a plain white cloth robe, he stood outside the palace hall. There was a semi - transparent thin gauze curtain between the hot spring pool and the palace door. He stared at the people behind the curtain with a gloomy look in his eyes:
"You deliberately leaked the news that you're impotent. It's only been a few days, and you're already having fun in the hot spring palace.
Huo Wei, do you really think your political enemies are blind and deaf?"
Du Gu Luanyue's heart raced. She was a little scared and didn't dare to move in the water. Once her face was exposed, she would lose her life tomorrow.
Huo Wei turned his head and provocatively kissed her long hair in front of Shen Guilan. He smiled and said, "Just an ordinary maid. I'll kill her later."
Shen Guilan threw a dagger into the water: "Kill her. I'll watch."
Huo Wei slightly raised his cold and handsome eyebrows. He picked up the dagger and rubbed it in his hand: "Military Advisor, please leave first. There will be some blood in the pool later."
Shen Guilan sneered. He took out a green jade pendant with a tiger pattern from his sleeve, waved it, and then placed it on the small tea table by the pool. Then he left without saying another word.
After seeing the jade pendant, Huo Wei's face darkened. He let go of Du Gu Luanyue and said, "You can go back."
Du Gu Luanyue said, "How can I go back? Naked? Why did you tear my clothes just now for no reason?"
She looked at Huo Wei complainingly, thinking that this man was like a beast that didn't consider the consequences.
Huo Wei got up and got out of the pool before her. After a while, he brought back a set of women's clothes, the same color as the one she wore when she came: "Put it on."
Du Gu Luanyue was a little surprised: "Why do you have women's clothes here, and the same color as mine?"
Huo Wei said indifferently, "I prepared them when I came. There are all colors. Anyway, they'll come in handy. I also know the size clearly. After all, I've touched them."
Du Gu Luanyue gave him a slight glare. It turned out that Huo Wei was like an angler waiting for her to take the bait. He had already calculated that she would come to seduce him in person.
Without saying more, she took the clothes and put them on, then quickly disappeared from his bedroom. Just as she was about to leave, Huo Wei grabbed her slender waist again.