Chapter 24: Chapter 24

“Rumble—”

Zixiu suddenly woke up with a start when a burst of thunder broke the silence of midnight. He sat up, his heart pounding as if he had just had a nightmare. However, he hadn’t had any nightmares and was merely scared by the thunder. He learned from his father that his mother and he had fallen into the river in a rainstorm, so even though Zixiou lost all recollection of what had happened that day, he dreaded lightning flashes and thunder rumbles on a stormy day deep down.

Sure enough, in the blink of an eye, he heard the sound of raindrops pounding on the roof. In the wind blowing through the window, the red curtains in the room fluttered, like ghosts wiggling wildly in the air, and the dim candlelight finally went out after flickering violently a few times.

“Ah!” Zixiu let out a scream and burrowed into the quilt.

Nangong Du, who was sleeping next to him, was woken up. “What’s wrong?” he asked grumpily in a daze. He hated being interrupted when he was sleeping!

Zixiu froze for a few seconds before it came to him that he was still in the mansion of this pervert, who had kicked him in the stomach after dinner. “How come I’m sleeping in the same bed with this jerk?” Zi hurriedly fumbled for his underwear and took a sigh of relief when he found it was still on him.

“Why don’t you get some sleep? Why are you trembling…”

Before Nangong Du could finish his lecturing, a dazzling light suddenly flashed in the dark. Zixiu shrieked in a low voice again and grabbed Nangong Du’s clothes desperately, shaking more violently than ever.

“Rumble—”

Even the window was shaking with another sound of deafening thunder.

“This guy is afraid of thunder?” Nangong Du thought, revealing a usual playful smile barely palpable on his lips. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he wrapped Zixiu in his arms tightly and said affectionally on purpose, sounded kind of disgusting, “Honey, relax! You have me to protect you…”

Zixiu was stupefied again. After another few seconds, he suddenly realized what he was doing. He widened his eyes and instantly pushed the pervert away, clenching his teeth. However, as it was pitch-dark in the room, Nangong Du didn’t see the look of shame on his face. Actually, he showed no intent to watch it.

“Go back to sleep!” he said drowsily and then turned his back on Zixiu.

This unexpected episode relieved Zixiu’s fear of the rainstorm. After being in a trance for a while, he suddenly noticed the pain in his stomach was gone. But there was a new problem—he wanted to go to the toilet badly after too much soup!

After wrestling with himself for quite a while, Zixiu couldn’t hold it anymore, but as it was completely dark in the room, he didn’t dare wander about. Finally, he decided to wake that bastard up.

“Your highness!” he poked Nangong Du slightly with his trembling finger. “Hm?” To his surprise, instead of losing his temper, the latter mumbled a reply.

Feeling a little relieved, Zixiu asked cautiously, “Your Highness, could you tell me where the restroom is?”

“Restroom?” Nangong Du was still half asleep, so he didn’t show much emotion. “What are you talking about?” Obviously, he didn’t know what the word meant.

“Er…” Zixiu almost bit his tongue when he opened his mouth again. Realizing that he had said something that made no sense to other people, he immediately corrected himself, “I mean where the outhouse is. Your Highness, I wanna pee!”

“Pee?” As if he had heard something strange, Nangong Du was wide awake at once. Repeating what Zixiu had said, he was amused by his childishness. “This little brat is so funny…”

“Your Highness!” Hearing no response from the pervert, Zixiu was about to cry. “Your Highness…”

Only then did Nangong Du come back to his senses. He clapped his palms and after a short moment, Xing Yi walked in with a lantern in her hand, and the room was again illuminated by the faint light.

“Your Highness, Princess Liuxu, I’m ready for your service.”

“Princess Liuxu needs to answer the call of nature. Take ‘her’ to the outhouse,” Nangong Du said, without feeling anything wrong. However, Zixiu was extremely embarrassed. “How come he asked a girl to escort me to the toilet?”

Although he felt embarrassed, Zixiu’s bladder was about to explode, so he got out of bed in haste.

After relieving, Zixiu walked back to the room under Xingyi’s watch. Actually, it never occurred to him to seize this chance to escape because he knew the odds were against him. Moreover, it was still raining heavily outside. Anyway, he didn’t dare share the same bed with that pervert again.

So as not to disturb their intimacy, Xingyi left after relighting the candle in the room. Zixiu took off his shoes slowly while picking his ears. From his regular breathing, Zixiu could tell Nangong Du had fallen asleep, so he put his shoes back on in a hurry and sneaked to the soft couch.

Unfortunately, when he was about to reach his destination, he suddenly heard the horrible, demonic voice ring from behind. “Darling, you’re not used to sleeping in bed, are you?”

“Yes, I am!” Zixiu shook his head in horror. His day of abuse told him that the pervert was on the verge of rage, so the consequences could be serious if he refused to obey his order.

“Come over then!”

“Hm!” Daring not protest, Zixiu immediately redirected his steps and moved to the bed but still kept looking back at the soft couch. “Get your clothes off!” Nangong Du gave the order again.

“No way!” Thankfully, before Zixiu could blurt it out, his reason overcame his impulse. He was clear that before he was strong enough to resist, he couldn’t say no to this pervert.

“Hurry up!” As he expected, seeing him hesitate, Nangong Du immediately roared impatiently.

“Fine! It’s not a big deal! I’ve already lost my chastity and it will make no difference to be raped one more time!” At the thought of this, Zixiu began to unbutton his clothes with a resolute look.

However, no matter how hard he tugged, he couldn’t get his clothes off, and instead, he was even more tightly wrapped! “Why did they make the clothes so complicated? They are even more complicated than this pervert’s!”

“You dumbass! How come you don’t even know how to take off your clothes!” Nangong Du was lying on his side on the bed when he saw Zixiu almost tie himself up like a sticky rice pudding.  He instantly bounced up and threw Ziuxiu onto the bed angrily.

With a few tearing sounds, Zixiu’s clothes made of find satin turned into rags in an instant.

Though he had prepared mentally, Zixiu was caught dumbfounded and he began to tremble all over. At the thought of what was going to happen next, he couldn’t help gasping nervously, as if he had been suffocated.

“What are you shivering for? I’m not fucking you!” Nangong Du suddenly blurted out something that surprised Zixiu.

Stupified, Zixiu thought he must have heard it wrong. “Take off your clothes on your own before going to bed in the future!” Nangong Du added.

“What did this pervert say? So he didn’t make me get off my clothes to rape me?” Zixiu was confused.

“Who do you think you are? The most charming woman in the world?” With a look of disdain, Nangong Du said coldly, “Don’t worry! I’m not into you at all!”