Indulging in Carnal Desire
chapter-267

Chu Jiao finally realized that the young man before her had already discovered her true identity.

Even though she had been deliberately binding her chest until almost flat these past few years, she was still unable to stop her body from constantly growing, and now that she was at the peak of her budding age, no matter how hard she tried to conceal them, she was still unable to cover up such evident feminine traits.

“Ah Jiao, you are not an eunuch, you are a lady.” Jing Chen stated this as a matter of factly, word for word. The dark pupils that hid under the mask looked straight at Chu Jiao, but Chu Jiao was able to see hurt and sadness within them.

“Master…” She touched her nose in a timid manner as her body started to retreat backwards, but the youth was like a wolf, stealthily pouncing on her and pushing her down the bed.

“Why did you lie to me? Hm?”

Right then and there, Jing Chen didn’t ask her why she was pretending to be a eunuch, why she entered the palace, nor whether she was harboring any schemes by staying by his side. Instead, he asked a relatively unimportant question.

Of course, to him, this question was the most important of all.

“I didn’t intend to keep it from you,” Chu Jiao wanted to raise her hand and swear, but the youth simply pressed down on her shoulders, rendering her unable to move. As such, she could only raise her foot and rub his waist, yielding in defeat, “It was just that, it wasn’t the right time to tell you yet.”

Jing Chen’s waist turned taut from her sudden rubbing movement, but he still didn’t let her out of his clutches and escape, “Is it because I couldn’t help you?”

Chu Jiao sighed. He had always been a smart child ever since he was young.

She had planned to wait another two years for the youth to grow up a little more and find an opportunity to tell him about her secret, but now that he had already discovered it on his own, she no longer needed to hide it anymore. At that moment, Chu Jiao recalled the memories left in her body and simply shared the reason why the original owner had to enter the palace.

“Then, Yun Cong wanted to forcibly take your hand in marriage?”

Sure enough, Jing Chen’s attention was diverted away from her main point, and a murderous intent started to spread across his eyes. Naturally, the sole target of his ire was the heir of Marquis Weiyuan, of whom he had never even seen before.

“Marquis Weiyuan currently holds great power; even Concubine Rong had asked the daughter from Marquis Weiyuan’s family to be the Fifth Princess’s companion. Master, you shouldn’t act rashly on this.” Chu Jiao knew that the youth always had a protective side to him and quickly calmed him down, “Even though I was forced to enter the palace, I still ended up crossing paths with Master, isn’t that a fortunate matter?”

She sincerely curved her eyes, her words clearly coming from the bottom of her heart.

Jing Chen was left stunned as Chu Jiao turned her attention away. Instead of worrying about her misfortunes before entering the palace, she truly felt happy in her heart.

He cleanly tore off Chu Jiao’s eunuch’s hair bun, letting her green silk hair tie fall on the bed.

“Why is it a fortunate matter to meet me?” He asked persistently.

“I have nothing but a terrifying appearance, and nobody thinks I’m worth anything. You followed me, yet still never had one good day.”

“How can you say something like that about yourself?” Chu Jiao quickly raised her neck up and forcefully knocked her forehead against his, rendering the youth shocked, “Master is the best master in the entire world.”

“Moreover,” Chu Jiao looked deeply into the youth’s eyes, perceiving that the atmosphere at this moment was decent, “In my heart, Ah Chen is very good-looking.”

Jing Chen pursed his mouth, he didn’t believe her one bit.

“With this appearance of mine, aside from you, who else wouldn’t be afraid?” His eyes grew dangerously gloomy, “Fourth brother said that when they were my age, he and Third brother had already gotten married, taking their pick among all the desirable daughters of the civil and military officials. What about me? Look at me, do you think anyone is willing to marry me?”

“There will be, in the near future,” Chu Jiao comforted him instinctively, recounting the facts, “You will become the mightest and wealthiest husband of all, making countless women fall in love with you, and you’ll marry the prettiest daughter in the kingdom. All that you desire will be delivered unto you.”

You will become the new emperor and possess everything under the heavens on the palm of your hand.

“What I want…”

Chu Jiao calmly laid on her back, her bright eyes only reflecting the youth’s magnified face.

And in his eyes, there was none other but her.

It was as if they were saying, ‘I don’t want noble daughters, nor do I want to possess the world, I just want you to stay by my side.’

Many years later, when the youngest emperor of the Daye Dynasty ascended the throne and was repeatedly pestered by his civil and military officials to fill his harem, he would always use the same words to rebuff them.

“There will only be one person in Zhen’s harem forever, and that is the queen.”

But right at this moment, the future emperor was pretending to put on a pitiful act in front of her, “No one would want to marry me.”

Chu Jiao couldn’t reveal the plot of the story to him, so she merely comforted him with empty words, “Believe me, someone will. Moreover, there’ll be a lot of them.”

Upon imagining that the male lead’s harem will inevitably be filled with orioles and swallows¹Orioles and swallows refer to concubines. Chu Jiao’s heart started to feel depressed. From the start, she had decided that as soon as she finished the mission, she was going to leave immediately. Otherwise, her heart would only feel stuffed when seeing the situation.

“What about you?” Jing Chen asked.

“What about me?”

Chu Jiao didn’t understand.

“Will you marry me?”

Chu Jiao’s eyes grew wide, “Master, how could a lowly person like me be worthy of you?”

In the previous world, she was a princess, so there wasn’t any pressure to capture a Khan, who was in the same league as her. But in this world, she didn’t feel that she had the right to become the emperor’s legal wife with the identity of the supporting female character.

She used to think that these were just tasks, that the male lead’s entanglement with other women wouldn’t affect her, but after transmigrating through so many worlds, she could no longer view the world with the impartiality of a bystander.

When you like somebody, how could you stand seeing them touch someone else? Even if he was forced to do it under the influence of the plot, Chu Jiao was not willing to see such a scene.

As such, she had already made plans early on. She resolved to stay by the youth’s side and seduce him to become his first woman. Then, once he became emperor and was responsible for expanding the harem, she would quickly finish off her mission and leave this world.

However, before she could even put her plan into motion, why was the youth making the first move?

Since this was the case, she was not going to hold herself back anymore.

Jing Chen was still putting on an act, “I knew it, even you’re not willing to.”

However, he didn’t expect that the moment his back slouched, her two little legs snaked around his waist, taking him by surprise.

“Why wouldn’t I?” Chu Jiao took advantage of his shock state and pushed him down, instantly flipping their positions.

“Looks like Master has learned ‘Mencius’s Wan Zhang.’”

As his personal eunuch, Chu Jiao often grinded ink for Jing Chen, tracking and harboring knowledge about the progress in his studies.

Her hand slowly removed the clothes Jing Chen had just put on, delving her fingers in while quietly saying, “The desire of the child… is towards his mother and father… When he becomes conscious of the attractions of beauty… his desire is towards young and beautiful women… When he obtains office, his desire is towards the sovereign- If he cannot get the regard of his sovereign, he burns within….”²This is one of the prose in Mencius’s Wan Zhang. This translation is taken from https://ctext.org/mengzi/wan-zhang-ii

“Since I have won the regard of your Highness…”

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