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

Su Wuli hesitated for a moment, then stepped barefoot onto the sand, her steps faltering slightly as she followed his.

Yu Chen walked up to a magnificent black horse and untied its reins.

Just as Su Wuli walked to the side, before she could react...

Suddenly, a long arm wrapped around her waist, and Yu Chen picked her up horizontally.

"Ah—" Su Wuli exclaimed, instinctively grabbing his shoulders with both hands.

Yu Chen steadily supported her and walked a few steps to the side of the horse.

He effortlessly lifted her with one hand and placed her on the saddle.

"Sit properly." His voice was flat as he straightened her up.

He then bent down and pulled a piece of soft cloth from the wooden frame next to him.

Su Wuli glanced at it; it seemed to be the one he had used to wipe his bow and arrows earlier.

She paused, then watched as the man reached out and grasped her ankle.

His hands were large, easily encircling her slender joints, his fingertips warm and rough.

He didn't say anything more, and even used the cloth to vigorously wipe the sand from the soles of her feet.

My fingertips occasionally brushed against the soles of my feet, sending shivers down my spine.

Su Wuli snapped out of her daze and realized what he was doing, her cheeks burning up.

Her toes curled involuntarily, trying to pull back, but he held them even tighter.

"Don't move." He didn't even look up, his voice low.

His feet were dried, and he casually tossed the cloth aside before straightening up and looking at her again.

"Stand up straight." He stood beside the horse, looking up at her. "Are your bones soft?"

He suddenly stopped speaking, his back teeth clenched slightly, and it was unclear what he was thinking.

Upon hearing this, Su Wuli bit her lip and tried her best to straighten her back.

However, my lower back and buttocks were still sore, and my muscles were stiff from the shock and tension during the day.

Yu Chen took the reins with one hand, and suddenly placed his other hand on her lower back through her pajamas.

With calloused fingertips, he pressed precisely on a certain vertebra, saying, "Sink down here, use your waist to generate power."

The warmth of her fingertips and the sensation of her touch transmitted through the fabric, making Su Wuli's ears burn.

However, she still instinctively wanted to refuse.

"No..." she heard her own voice, trembling uncontrollably, "I...I can't, I'm scared."

"What are you afraid of?" His voice was very close.

"I fell." Su Wuli's voice was even softer, almost choked with sobs. "It hurt so much when I fell during the day."

He remained silent for a few seconds, the only sound in the air being the occasional snorting of horses in the distance.

Just when Su Wuli thought he would break the silence with commands or sarcasm as he had done before.

Yu Chen suddenly spoke.

"With me here," he said, tightening his grip on the reins. "Try falling over."

With his usual domineering nature.

She hadn't had time to process the meaning behind those words.

She felt a slight force from the hand behind her waist, pulling her forward and bringing her close to the horse's neck.

"Hold on tight."

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Wuli felt the saddle beneath her sink.

With one hand supporting him, Yu Chen nimbly flipped onto the horse and landed steadily behind her.

His chest pressed against her back instantly, and the man's body temperature and breath enveloped her completely.

He reached his arms through Su Wuli's sides and took her hand that was holding the reins back.

Her dry, large palm completely enveloped her icy fingers.

"Squeeze your flanks tighter." His breath sprayed behind her ear.

"You don't know?" His voice lowered, and he touched her tense knee with the outside of his leg. "I'll teach you."

This time, Su Wuli didn't say anything.

The words of refusal stuck in her throat, but were strangely suppressed by the heat coming from behind him and her previous words.

The horse began to walk slowly.

The familiar jolts came, and Su Wuli's heart clenched immediately, her shoulders involuntarily hunching.

"Relax." Yu Chen's voice was right above her head.

She tried to relax, but her muscles were too stiff to obey her commands.

"Look up," he commanded.

One hand loosened the reins, pinched her chin, and lifted it slightly upwards.

He forced her to look ahead, saying, "I'm teaching you how to ride a horse, not how to bow your head and confess your sins."

He was pinching her chin, forcing her to look up.

As far as the eye can see, there are open mountains and forests.

The suffocating fear in my chest seemed to be somewhat dispelled by this expansive view.

My mind cleared up a bit.

His broad chest pressed against her back, and as the horse's back rose and fell, their bodies inevitably rubbed against each other.

The fabric of the man's shirt brushed against her back.

Occasionally, the arm holding the reins would tighten, and the firm muscles would press down on the outside of her arm.

With each bump, she sank deeper into his arms.

Her buttocks and thighs were pressed against his firm thighs through the fabric, burning hot.

Her breath was constantly spraying behind her ears and on the side of her neck, making that skin extremely sensitive.

The breath that brushed past brought a subtle tremor, carrying a dizzying sense of aggression.

Su Wuli subconsciously moved forward a little.

However, perhaps Yu Chen felt that she had adapted, the horse suddenly sped up and started trotting.

Caught off guard, Su Wuli instinctively leaned back and crashed solidly into the hard embrace behind her.

"Now you know to rely on it?" His low, husky voice rang out.

It sounded like a mockery, but the arm around Su Wuli's waist tightened instantly, pinning her firmly in front of him.

It was almost embedded in his body. "I was hiding quite far away just now."

Su Wuli's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled down, and she was so stunned that she couldn't utter a single word of rebuttal.

At the edge of the training field, there is a low obstacle consisting of several logs placed side by side.

As the dark horse approached, it leaped up with ease.

Su Wuli was completely unprepared. Her body swayed violently in the instant of weightlessness, and her center of gravity shifted.

A scream escaped her lips, and she instinctively closed her eyes.

Su Wuli heard the black horse let out a long, dissatisfied neigh, and she could feel its front hooves rearing up high.

She leaned back and pressed herself tightly against Yu Chen's chest.

At the same time, the large hand around her waist pressed her hard against his chest.

With his other hand, he protected her head and neck, completely locking her in his arms.

In a dizzying moment, Su Wuli buried her face tightly in the crook of his neck.

My nostrils were filled with his cold yet burning breath.

The black horse landed firmly on its front hooves.

Su Wuli slowly opened her eyes.

Yu Chen loosened the tightly bound reins and slowly lowered the hand that had been protecting her head and neck.

But the arms wrapped around her waist still didn't loosen.

It even tightened a bit more, pressing against her skin through the thin nightgown.

A suffocating silence lasted for a few seconds, broken only by the sound of breathing.

Yu Chen looked down at the person in his arms.

Are you scared already?

If a horse were to trample a mountain of corpses on the battlefield, with blood splattering every five steps, wouldn't that scare you to death?

Thinking of this, he frowned slightly.

Su Wuli was still in shock, leaning against him and trembling uncontrollably, unable to speak.

"What are you trembling about?" His voice came from above, still cold and hard.

But the grip on her arms seemed to loosen a little. "She's not dead yet."

Su Wuli's lips moved, but she couldn't speak. She just buried her face deeper into his neck.

I could feel her Adam's apple bob near her temple.

Suddenly, Yu Chen spoke up, "The more you fear that beast, the more it will bully you."

Upon hearing this, Su Wuli slightly lifted her face from the crook of his neck.

"Stand up straight," he commanded.

The hand on her lower back tightened slightly. "Afraid of falling?"

Su Wuli nodded slightly, a very small gesture.

"Then smash it." He said it simply, almost as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"If you don't remember after falling once, fall twice, until your body remembers how to stay on its back."

Upon hearing this, Su Wuli's face showed astonishment, with a hint of retreat.

Falling once was already this bad, she didn't want to fall a second time.

As Su Wuli pondered, the man's arm tightened around her.

Then he opened his lips slowly, "If you fall, I'll catch you."