She accidentally flirted with the villain and was fiercely criticized as the regent for forcibly mar

Jiang Ruining tempered his pride by saying, "Above 'Good,' but not quite 'Excellent,' you still need to work harder!"

Xiao Che leaned closer to her, biting her lips and gently tugging at them, his words incredibly seductive: "Okay, I'll work hard in every aspect!"

Jiang Ruining felt a slight sting on her lips: "..."

I always felt that "every aspect" of him was...

It's implying something!

The following days.

Jiang Ruining lived in the Regent's Palace, and the two lived like newlyweds, sharing meals and sleeping together, intimately close.

It snowed in the capital.

Winter has arrived, and the temperature has dropped again.

The Northern Liao people also entered the capital, and as expected, invitations to the palace banquet were sent to the residences of imperial relatives and high-ranking officials.

"Did I receive it too?" Jiang Ruining was weak and had been suffering from a cold for several days, so she still had a cough.

Xiao Che forbade her to go to the palace banquet: "The palace banquet is crowded and the air is stuffy. You're not well yet, and you'll feel uncomfortable if you go."

Jiang Ruining was worried about Zheng Lingyi and wouldn't feel at ease if she didn't go.

Xiao Che rubbed her temples: "All matters in the palace are arranged by me. You can't help much if you go now; you'll just be anxious. Don't you trust me at all?"

Jiang Ruining thought about it and agreed, shaking her head and saying, "Going there will give me a sense of participation."

Xiao Che chuckled and lightly tapped her forehead with his finger: "You're smart, but I'm not bad either. If the marriage alliance can't be resolved properly, I simply won't see you again."

Jiang Ruining grasped his hand, pressed it to her heart, and said in a charmingly coquettish tone, "That won't do!"

Xiao Che was pleased that she relied on him: "Then stay home and rest peacefully, okay?"

"I understand." Jiang Ruining then asked him, "Has Xie Lanheng been released?"

Xiao Che nodded: "The Xie family has already sided with the Empress Dowager, as they were released yesterday."

Jiang Ruining frowned, almost certain: "Did he go and bother Lingyi?"

Xiao Che said dismissively, "He said he loved her, but he just didn't realize it before."

Jiang Ruining slammed her fist on the table in disgust, leaving the teacup standing alone. "Disgusting! Nobody would believe him!"

Xiao Che took her hand and examined it carefully. The fleshy part of her palm was red, and his raised brows showed his heartache: "Don't get angry over people who are unrelated to you."

Jiang Ruining was furious.

Having read so many novels, she knew better than anyone what scheming men who refused to let go would say and do to women!

A belated expression of affection?

Pooh!

He's just unwilling to be dumped, unwilling to stop using his scheming, thinking of coaxing her back, squeezing out all the benefits, and then taking his revenge!

"I'm just taking Lingyi's place!"

Xiao Che kissed her hand and intertwined his fingers with hers: "Everyone has to go through some things in life. With a temperament like Xiao Zheng's, you could call her innocent and pure, or you could call her incompetent. Even though Xie Lanheng was in love with her, once she entered the Xie family's inner garden, she was still troubled by her in-laws and sisters-in-law and servants. She didn't have a good ending."

"It's a good thing to grow through hardship."

"But if she is still deceived, then it can only be said that this is her fate, and no one can save her."

Jiang Ruining understood that he was right.

But that was her first friend after she transmigrated, and the original owner's most cherished best friend. With these two feelings overlapping, reason couldn't prevail.

But she believed in Zheng Lingyi; she wouldn't be so foolish as to jump into a fire pit again.

"Now the Xie family hates me and the Zheng family to the core. With you by my side, they can't scheme against me, so they will definitely scheme against Lingyi to vent their personal anger. In order to make the Northern Liao people target their prey, they must have already met with them in secret and reached an agreement."

"The Liao people's goal is to seek peace and avoid being attacked from both sides, not necessarily to marry the real princess. What if they keep targeting us?"

"The Liao people are arrogant and will not bow down just because they are at a disadvantage, especially since they brought the twelve states that the Great Zhou lost to us when they came to ask for a marriage alliance. If we do not give them what they want, they will definitely hold onto those twelve states and refuse to let go, and then our subjects will also be dissatisfied."

"The one attacked from both sides is the prey in the game!"

Xiao Che first acknowledged her concerns, then asked her in return, "Do you think I'm the kind of person who would give away a woman I like?"

He was domineering and arrogant, but Jiang Ruining felt safe listening to him, knowing his capabilities. She reached out, hugged his waist, and pressed her face against his neck: "Xiao Che, Lingyi was the only one who treated me well before, don't let anything happen to her."

Xiao Che learned another phrase, "love me, love my dog": "I know, I will make sure she leaves the palace safely."

Jiang Ruining hugged his waist and rubbed her face against his chest: "It feels so good to have a strong backer. If we were to break up in the future, I would feel very uncomfortable."

Xiao Che gently stroked her face, which had been thin and frail from illness, and his knuckles suddenly tensed: "My bond with you will never be severed."

Jiang Ruining looked up at him, her bright eyes sparkling: "Then you'd better do your best to arrange everything properly. I'm waiting for you to propose to me!"

Hearing this, Xiao Che finally dared to ask, "You're willing to marry me because you like me, like a man and a woman? Don't lie."

Jiang Ruining blinked her innocent big eyes: "Haven't I always told you that I like you? I like you so much!"

Xiao Che wasn't worried about gains and losses, but rather that this guy's sweet words flowed too smoothly, as if he had said them countless times to different people. He couldn't detect much sincerity in them and just thought that she was deceiving him!

"I like him so much, but I can shake my head and say I won't marry him without hesitation."

Jiang Ruining pouted: "Asking me to watch you go to other women's rooms, sleep with them, and have their babies? Of course I wouldn't agree! That would be torture for me! I love myself more than I love you, so I definitely wouldn't want to hurt or be sad myself!"

"My man can only love me. If you're willing to hurt and sadden me, then you don't love me! What use are you to me then? What's there to hesitate about in breaking up with you?"

She spoke with ease and confidence.

She makes no secret of her desire to love herself more than anyone else.

Xiao Che felt gratified upon hearing this.

Having your own opinions is good.

It's good that they won't sacrifice themselves for others.

Unlike his birth mother, who loved him and the late emperor but didn't know how to love herself, she was heartbroken and shed tears even though she knew the late emperor loved the vixen. She had the opportunity to leave the palace with the Empress Dowager, but she insisted on staying in the palace and torturing herself, ultimately ending up with her head severed from her body and being thrown into a den of cannibals...

His body and mind had long been devoured by wolves, leaving him riddled with holes. He had given the last bit of his ability to love to her, so he had no energy left to look at other women.

"I will arrange everything. Just wait for me."

"Okay!" Jiang Ruining nodded in agreement, "As long as you're still clean, I'll wait for you."

"I will definitely continue to keep myself pure and only give myself to you!" Speaking of relationships, Xiao Che told her about the detoxification: "Last night, Madam Wan came to take your pulse and said that the remaining poison in you cannot be cured, but there is a way to control it and prevent it from acting up."

Have you found a way to survive?

Jiang Ruining was excited, her heart pounding: "What method?"

Xiao Che said, word by word, "Have sex with me."

Jiang Ruining poked his cheek: "Is this a threat?"

Xiao Che coughed lightly and said seriously, "It is a method."

Jiang Ruining was speechless: "..."

Method?

What's the connection between sex and detoxification?

"Nonsense!"

Xiao Che explained, "I have the medicinal properties to neutralize the remaining poison in your body."

Jiang Ruining was speechless again: "..."

Are you going to cast her in a fantasy drama?

Even fantasy novels don't go this far!

"real?"

Xiao Che nodded: "Madam Wan will prepare a contraceptive that won't harm your body, so don't worry."

Jiang Ruining is biting her nails.

Although she enjoyed sex with him, she only planned to give him a chance to have his fill before her period each month, and she didn't plan to do it every now and then!

Every three or four days... Putting aside the fact that the frequency is too high, and whether her waist and legs can handle it, men get tired of eating too much or too easily.

Even if they couldn't become husband and wife in the end, she wanted to maintain the relationship for as long as possible.

After all, it won't be easy to find a man who is better looking, has a better physique, and is more muscular than him in the future!

"Do you think you can get your hands on me?"