Did the third place winner regret it today?

Chapter 56

The limitations of the times just came upon us.
Yin Shi stared at Shen Ti's silhouette in the black backlight. She couldn't see his face at all, but she could imagine that Shen Ti's expression and eyes must be very cold at this moment.
Because she knew so much about sex, he began to question her chastity.

Even if their marriage was arranged, she had to remain chaste.
He may not consummate the marriage with her, but she cannot be unchaste.
The wife in a marriage of convenience cannot be an unchaste woman.

Yin Shi confronted Shen Ti's shadow in the darkness.
She suddenly moved, leaning forward and reaching out her hand. She first touched Shen Ti's shoulder, then slid to his armpit and pulled at his belt.
Shen Ti grabbed her wrist.

"Give me your clothes." Yin Shi said, "Don't think wrongly, I only want your clothes."
Shen Ti let go of her hand and did not resist. She cooperated with Yin Shi and took off her undershirt for her.
Although the process was short and the tent was dark, they were so close that they could feel each other's breath. Her hair brushed his cheek.

He is a man and she is a woman.
At this moment, this feeling is clearer than ever before.
Shen Ti's body was tense.

Fortunately, she got his middle coat and stepped back.
In the darkness, he could vaguely see her turning her back to him.
There was a rustling sound of clothes, and Shen Ti realized what she was doing and turned around quickly.
He heard her gasp of pain.

"for you."
As she spoke, a piece of clothing hit his chest with a sound of wind, and even hit his jaw.
Shen Ti turned her head away.
By the time Yin Shi found the clothes and took them in his hand, he had already fastened his clothes again and crawled off the bed from Shen Ti's side.
Because it was too dark and the action was hasty, he bumped into Shen Ti's shoulder.

Shen Ti watched her put on her slippers, lift the curtain and walk out of the bed. Soon, she came back holding a dim light.
Because she was afraid that the light would alarm the maid on night duty in the next room, she returned to the bed and lowered the curtain before lifting the lampshade. The dim light turned bright, and the curtain suddenly became clear and bright.
Yin Shi said, "Take a look."

Shen Ti looked down.
The shirt in his hand was unfolded, and there was a fresh blood stain on it.
"Here." Yin Shi stretched out his hand, "Look carefully."
She held her hand out to him, showing him the palm and the back of it. Then she changed her hand to hold the light and showed him her other hand.

There were no wounds. Her fingertips were a little bloody, but there were no wounds. She hadn't cheated.
Unlike their wedding night, when they cut their fingertips with a knife to make it look fake.
The blood on his shirt was her virgin blood.
She tested her virginity in front of him.

"Is that all right?" she asked.
Shen Ti raised her eyes.
She held the lamp, the light shone on her face. Her hair was disheveled and her clothes were loose.
But it's beautiful.

Shen Ti felt dry mouth for a moment.
His throat moved, he suppressed his restlessness, and said in a hoarse voice: "I am overthinking, please don't blame me, sister."
A thin-muscled boy. I don't know what kind of exercise he does on weekdays. Although his abdominal muscles are not particularly obvious, they are still there.
He was young, half naked, with a handsome face, and although he tried hard to restrain himself, there was lust in his eyes and voice.

Before yesterday, he was still a clear-minded boy who could sleep in the same bed with her calmly.
Today he has changed.
It turns out that people will be different after they start eating meat.
Yin Shi looked at him and smiled, then covered the lampshade, turned around and walked out of the bed.

What did that smile of hers mean?
What does that look of hers mean?
Shen Ti actually felt pressure from a woman - not from identity, status or age, but from a kind of all-seeing knowledge.
It's embarrassing.

Shen Ti pursed her lips, put on her shoes and got out of bed.
Yin Shi put the lamp back on the table, turned around and brushed past him.
Shen Ti dodged to let her go and didn't bump into her again.
His eyes followed her jawline. But she didn't look at him and went back to bed.

Yin Shi went back to bed and lay down, listening to some noises outside the tent. He seemed to have opened the cabinet.
After a while, Shen Ti also returned to bed and lay down.
Yin Shi didn't look, but knew that he had changed into a new undershirt.

"You can take care of that tomorrow," she said. "You can take care of things more easily than I can."
There were many maids in the inner house. Even if you told them to leave, they would just go to the side room and wait for your orders. It was too difficult to avoid the maids' eyes and ears in the inner house.

That is why we need to cultivate confidants and, when necessary, let people we trust participate so that we can avoid those we do not trust and keep secrets.
But Yin Shi had concealed the fact that he and Shen Ti were pretending to be a couple from even Kui'er.
This matter has too great an impact, so it’s best to keep it secret if possible.

Shen Ti said "hmm" to indicate her agreement.
After a while, he asked, "Are you angry?"
Yin Shi was a little lazy and said, "No."
He was young before and couldn't think of this matter, the matter of testing her virginity, but Yin Shi always knew that it would happen sooner or later.
But she thought she had to wait for a year or two. She still underestimated the maturity of the ancients.
He lost his virginity and transformed from a boy into a man overnight.

Yin Shi suddenly understood all that, and suddenly realized how disappointed his mother was that her lovely and well-behaved son was smoking and swearing behind his parents' backs.
I really feel lost.
funny.

"What are you laughing at, sister?" Shen Ti suddenly asked.
What, did she actually laugh?
Yin Shi told the truth: "I'm laughing at you."
Shen Ti turned her head to look at her. In the dim light, she could only see the outline of her face. She had a beautiful nose and nice lips.
"Tell me." He turned his head and also lay on his back, looking at the dark ceiling of the tent.
Same as her.

"I thought an elite scholar like you would be different from those mediocre people." Yin Shi said, "You know some men are submissive outside, but when they get home, they yell and beat their wives for no reason."
Shen Ti said: "I won't hit you, not at any time." "But you are as narrow-minded as they are, and you define women as a matter of course."
"An accessory, a weakling, or an ignorant person with no vision."
"Because I'm a woman, you naturally think there are many things I don't understand or even shouldn't understand. If I understand, you'll find it suspicious."
"It's ridiculous that the most outstanding scholars in the country are so narrow-minded."

Shen Ti said: "I don't let women see these things, so as not to change your temperament. Men work hard outside and bear the obligation to settle down and build a career. Women stay at home and keep their chastity, shouldering the responsibility of protecting their bloodline."

In the darkness, Yin Shi seemed to laugh again.
"If a man can't even protect his own bloodline and has to rely on disciplining women to do it, it means he is incompetent."
"Why would an incompetent man leave behind the bloodline of incompetents in the world? Is it to pass on this incompetence from generation to generation?"

"You know, lions in the mountains and forests rely on fighting to protect their bloodlines. Not only will they bite to death the children of other lions, they will even not spare their own children that are too weak. No male lion protects his bloodline by locking up female lions in a cave."

Shen Ti felt that her words carried a cruelty that was not appropriate for the boudoir.
But in this world, he is neither a mediocre person nor a weakling, he is one of the best.
For example, as a Jinshi, others have to pass an exam to become a Shujishi. Shujishi have to study in the Hanlin Academy for three years. Only after graduating with qualification can they get the best starting point for their official career - becoming a Hanlin.
And Shen Ti was the kind of person who took a step forward.
He chewed on her words for a moment and agreed: "You make sense."

Yin Shi turned sideways to face him and said, "I still underestimated you. After all, you are the third place in the imperial examination. I take back what I said."
Shen Ti turned his head to glance at her. Although she couldn't see clearly, she could feel that his approval made her mood better.
"Not angry anymore?" he asked.
Yin Shi said, "I wasn't angry in the first place. Who would bother with you?"

Just don't care about it.
Shen Ti asked, "Then can I ask how you came across "The Great Music of the Intercourse of Yin and Yang of Heaven and Earth"?
Even if he agreed that she could understand some of it, but "The Great Music of the Intercourse of Yin and Yang in Heaven and Earth"? That was really too much!
The bed shook, and it was obvious that Yin Shi was laughing again.
"It was Sanlang," she said. "Sanlang and Dalang from the fifth room. They didn't know I was enjoying the cool air under the rockery. These two fools were sneaking around on the rockery, trying to exchange something for this. I don't know which fool's hand slipped, and this thing fell from the crack in the rockery and is right in front of me."

"As soon as I saw the name I knew it was not a good thing."
"When the two of them came rushing around, I had already run away."
"They must have seen my back, but they didn't know who I was, as there were so many girls in the family. During those days, these two idiots looked at every sister with a timid look in their eyes."

Yin Shi laughed again: "They kept guessing and even asked your third sister if she had picked up anything, which made Sanniang confused. But they just couldn't guess it was me. Do you know why?"
Before Shen Ti could guess, Yin Shi answered herself: "Because I am well-known among the sisters for being honest and dignified. Even if they were beaten to death, they would never think it was me."

The brothers-in-law were so careless that they let their sisters see things of this level. Shen Ti was speechless.
"If you're honest..." He sneered, and there was no need to say the rest, as everyone understood it.
But he suddenly thought of something and asked, "Am I... the only person in the world who knows my sister's true face?"

Yin Shi's eyes flickered.
"Yes." She admitted, turning over and lying on her stomach, hiding half of her face, her eyes dim, "You and I are comrades on the same front. I will not hide what I am like from you."

Because it can't be hidden.
When sleeping in the same bed, one cannot pretend for twelve hours a day, it is too tiring.
In fact, it would be a lot easier to have someone who could understand her true colors and stand on the same side with her.
So Yin Shi revealed so much to Shen Ti.

"Shen Ti." She didn't call him by his courtesy name, but by his given name. "I will abide by the agreement and take good care of Feng Luoyi. Please also abide by the agreement."
What is the agreement he should abide by?
——She took good care of Feng Luoyi, and he took good care of her for the rest of her life.

There is no other way. If there were no main and secondary doors in this world, she could take care of herself. But men use a hanging flower door to block women in. There are many things that must be taken care of by men.
"Shen Ti." She said softly, "I left home and came here from afar. From now on, you are my closest relative."

But even so, she doesn't want to be a real couple with him, right?
Shen Ti looked up at the dark tent ceiling and agreed: "Okay."
He knew her face was turned toward him;
He didn't dare turn his head or body sideways, because if he did, the two of them would be too close.

He still remembered the feeling of dry mouth just now.
A gentleman does not deceive in a dark room, and this is exactly a dark room.
He had high-fived her and made a promise, so he should keep his oath.
Shen Ti closed her eyes: "Go to sleep."

"Yeah." Yin Shi also turned over and lay down.
But after a moment, she spoke again.
"Feng Luoyi," she said, "has gone through a great change, and she must be traumatized. This kind of trauma can only be healed slowly if she is truly loved and cared for. Please be patient with her."

Shen Ti responded: "Okay."
The two stopped talking and prepared to go to sleep.
But Yin Shi did not close her eyes, she looked at the ceiling.

This morning, Feng Luoyi offered her tea, and she had prepared a few words of comfort and encouragement to say to her.
Why didn't you say it in the end?
Because when the little girl raised her head, deep in her eyes, there was... resentment.

After a long time, Shen Ti asked: "Why don't you close your eyes?"
Why are you peeking at me? Yin Shi closed his eyes: "Closed."
"Go to sleep."
"Ah."

(End of this chapter)