Cui Chengan was the lover my mother kept.
Gentle and handsome, he was always looking down at the book in his hands.
After my mother disappeared, he helped me take over the family business.
I didn't like business, but I liked him.
What I liked most was looking down on him from above, accusing him of being debauched and chiding him for being wanton.
He was a scholar, incapable of the vulgarity of cursing me out. Whenever he heard such insults from me, he would simply freeze for a long while, his body and the loose robe hanging from it both going still.
There was a faint tremor beneath his stiffness, and sometimes a patch of sweat would darken his back.
Perhaps he had little appetite and disliked meat. The moisture on his tender skin carried the crisp scent of bamboo leaves.
"May I go bathe?" He clutched the hem of his clothes, then loosened his grip. At last, he only lowered his lashes and asked quietly.
"No."
I refused him casually, then pulled him into my arms, breathing in the bamboo-leaf scent at his shoulder and nuzzling his stiff body affectionately.
"Little Father, you don't like this?"
I gave a soft, dismissive laugh and casually brushed aside the silky black hair by his ear. "But I do."
He only stayed silent, his eyes reddening.
"Tsk, always trying to tempt me."
Though Cui Chengan was a man, when faced with my relentless bullying, all he could do was look hurt and dejected. He never even tried to push me away.
I thought scholars were always so frail.
But when an enemy from the business world came to our door that day, he stood alone at my room's entrance against the flashing blades, holding out until the soldiers finally arrived.
If he knew martial arts, why had he let me bully him all this time?
Holding his wound, he was silent for a long while.
"Chengan promised to stay by Niaoniao's side until she grew up."
[Wayward spoiled heiress who reforms x gentle, jade-like husband material]
[Reader's Guide]
1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. Happy ending.
2. The male lead and the heroine's mother are a fake married couple.
Theme: Obey the law
