Shocking! The actress was dragged to the regent's bedchamber every night.

Su Wuli raised her head.

He secretly thought that no matter how hard he trained, he would never have his strength.

But she didn't dare to refute it.

Yu Chen met her gaze and said calmly, "The little force you use to push me is like a cat scratching me."

Su Wuli was stunned.

Cat scratching...

Certain images suddenly flooded her mind.

When she can't take it anymore, she will subconsciously push his chest with her hand.

If you can't push it, try hitting it, pinching it, or scratching it with your fingernails...

However, he always acted as if he didn't feel any pain.

Things will remain the same.

Her face suddenly flushed.

"...You." She wanted to say something, but the words got stuck in her throat, and she couldn't utter a single word for a long time.

Yu Chen didn't answer, he just looked at her.

His face was expressionless in the moonlight, but the corners of his mouth seemed to be slightly upturned.

Su Wuli's face burned even hotter, and she lowered her head, not daring to look into his eyes again.

Just then, my wrist was grabbed.

Before she could even react, a force pulled her forward.

By the time she came to her senses, she was already sitting in his lap.

My back was pressed against his chest, and I could feel his warmth through his clothes.

His chin rested on the top of her head, and his arm was wrapped around her waist without much force, just resting there.

Su Wuli froze, too afraid to move.

His voice came from above, slightly hoarse as if he had just woken up.

"The force of a cat's scratch is definitely not enough to kill a person."

He paused, then added, "As long as they can escape, that's fine."

Su Wuli leaned against him, without moving.

The warmth of his chest seeped through her clothes, and she finally relaxed after being tense for several days.

She didn't say anything.

He didn't say anything.

A few seconds later, the man behind him suddenly paused in his breathing.

Before Su Wuli could react, he grabbed her chin and lifted her face.

Yu Chen's gaze fell on her cheek.

Last night, Su Yuan applied medicine, and the finger mark from the beating has faded a lot.

The light was dim in the dream, and Su Wuli thought he couldn't see it.

Yu Chen stared at that spot of skin, his expression changing.

"Who hit him?" he asked.

Upon hearing this, Su Wuli instinctively tried to turn her head away, but he gently held her in place with his thumb.

"Speak," he said in a low voice, "was it that man who hit you?"

Su Wuli was stunned for a moment.

Then she realized that Yu Chen was unaware of the kidnapping that followed.

"It wasn't him," she said.

Upon hearing this, Yu Chen frowned and his gaze shifted downwards to her wrist.

The purplish-red marks around his neck looked like indelible brands in the dim light.

His grip on her wrist suddenly tightened. "This isn't him either?"

"...No," she said.

Yu Chen didn't say anything more, clearly waiting for her to finish speaking.

"After you left that day..." she began, "there were other things."

Yu Chen did not interrupt her.

Su Wuli leaned against him and slowly recounted how she had been kidnapped.

The hand around her waist tightened slightly.

After Su Wuli finished speaking, she raised her eyes and met his gaze.

Yu Chen looked down at her.

"That man," he spoke, his voice a few decibels lower than before, as if he were suppressing something, "is he dead or not?"

Su Wuli was stunned for a moment.

She thought that after hearing all this, he would ask her how she escaped.

She answered instinctively, "...She didn't die, she was rescued."

As soon as he finished speaking, the man's face darkened even more. "Why save him? People like that should just be killed."

"Because..." Su Wuli paused for a moment, then explained, "That's how it is where we're from. Even if we're going to be convicted, we have to save our lives first."

He was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly hummed softly before continuing.

"He should have been killed on the spot."

Su Wuli did not refute him, knowing that what he said was true.

In his world, this is how problems are handled.

She lived outside his world.

"Where is that woman?" Yu Chen asked now.

"They've caught him," Su Wuli said. "They caught him last night."

Yu Chen did not ask any further questions about the woman's fate.

He just looked at her, at her face, at her wrist.

Then he slowly spoke, "It's still the same."

Su Wuli was puzzled by what she heard.

"As always." He looked at her. "Naive, soft-hearted, soft-handed, and always leaving room for maneuver."

His words contained neither sarcasm nor blame, "That's why others had an opportunity to take advantage."

Su Wuli didn't speak, but stared down at the patterns on his sleeves.

A long time passed.

"Is the person who bullied you in jail?"

"Hmm." Su Wuli lowered her head and nodded. "He's crippled."

"Very good." Yu Chen rested his chin on the top of her head, and the hand around her waist slowly tightened.

Su Wuli leaned against him, then suddenly remembered something and pretended to look at his arm.

"Is your injury healed?"

Yu Chen looked down at her without saying a word.

Su Wuli wanted to see, but his arms were still wrapped around her waist and hadn't let go.

She struggled, trying to sit up straight from his lap.

"let me see."

She struggled again.

Yu Chen's arm remained completely still.

"It's alright," he said.

Su Wuli didn't believe it; how could she have recovered so quickly?

She twisted her body and reached out to touch his left arm, but as soon as she touched the edge of the sleeve, the man's breath hitched.

The hand that was wrapped around her waist suddenly tightened.

Su Wuli froze, the heat radiating through the thin fabric of her clothes.

She dared not move.

I could hear his breathing, which was a little heavier than before.

His chin was still resting on the top of her head, but his entire demeanor had changed.

After a few seconds of silence, the man's lips were close to her ear, his voice low and slightly hoarse.

Are you feeling any better?

Su Wuli was taken aback, thinking he was asking about the injury on her face.

She instinctively wanted to reply that she felt much better and the pain was gone.

Before she could finish speaking, the hand around her waist suddenly tightened, pulling her backward and causing her to fall deeper into his arms.

She paused, the answer she was about to blurt out caught in her throat.

What he suddenly asked about wasn't her injury at all.

It was the night he was injured and lost control...

Su Wuli realized what he was asking, and her face flushed.

She could feel the rise and fall of his chest behind her...

What does it signify?

She blurted it out as if her mind had gone blank, her voice trembling without her even realizing it.

"It still...it still hurts."

After she finished speaking, Su Wuli was stunned.

My ears were ringing, and my heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of my throat.

She could sense that Yu Chen paused for a moment after hearing those words.

Then, a soft chuckle reached my ears.

It brushed against her earlobe with a little sand and a little itch.

Su Wuli felt completely numb, and her breathing became erratic.

His deep voice carried a hint of amusement, "Still as naive as ever."

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Wuli froze, hearing the exact same words as before.

But the meaning is clearly different now.