The sun took its rightful place after several hours. Sunlight passed through the tall open window of the third courtyard in the city lord's manor and fell on the bed where two beings slept peacefully in each other's arms.
"Umm." Lin Hua had a unique condition. No matter how much noise a person makes, it wouldn't help much in waking her up. However, sunlight touching her face was enough to wake her up.
The first thing Lin Hua felt after waking up was that the first night of marriage was surprisingly not as scary as what her stepmother and sisters said. She didn't get hurt in any way, and she wasn't bleeding from that place either.
'Maybe they were trying to traumatize me?' Lin Hua innocently thought that her stepmother and stepsisters were making a fool out of her
The second thing she felt was that she was in the warmest place of her life. To define it with her limited vocabulary, she felt like she was in her mother's womb!
The last thing she felt was the thick smell of a man and his gentle breaths that fell on her right ear, making it hot and red.
It was at this moment that Lin Hua realized that her lord husband was hugging her!
Her eyes widened, and she saw that she was nuzzling in his neck. She also realized that she was using him as her warming pillow. Her arms held his entire person as if she was a baby bear hugging her mama. Too embarrassing. She must not let her Lord husband know about this, never!
"Did you sleep well?" Before she could hide the evidence of her bad sleeping habits, a voice too gently, too husky feel on her ears.
Lin Hua blushed hard. Her lord husband was already wide awake. What could she hide anymore? 'My lousy sleeping habit is already exposed to him, ah!' Lin Hua cried without tears as she thought that whatever grace she had left was now gone.
As her mother told her not to keep her sickly lord husband waiting and treat him with the utmost care, Lin Hua stopped blushing madly after a moment and replied, "Yes, my dear, last night, I slept very peacefully." She wasn't lying. It was her best sleep in a while. She felt warm, at peace, and happy.
"How about you?" she asked.
"It's hard to explain, but after embracing you, I feel like a whole new man." Lord Xie Yang said, mixing black with white. He was the best at it, and he was so good that the kings and emperors had declared him the emperor of black and white, the ones who mix truth with lies and lies with truth as easily as breathing.
'Whole new man? Doesn't that only happen when a man and woman consummate their marriage? But I am not feeling any pain?' Poor little lamb, Lin Hua was confused after hearing his words.
Lord Xie Yang saw the bewildered expression on her face and realized what she was thinking. He found it a bit cute and couldn't help but laugh. "What are you thinking?"
"Ah, nothing." Lin Hua was too embarrassed to ask whether they did it last night or not. She was so drunk out of her mind that she didn't know what they did and when she fell asleep.
"Grr!" Her stomach grumbled. She didn't eat last night, and to top it off, she consumed wine on an empty stomach. She was hungry, but her tummy made a call for food at the wrong time and in the worst place. She already felt that she had lost a lot of face for waking up while hugging him but her stomach roaring like a beast shattered the last bit of her fleeting grace.
"What was that sound, hmm?" Lord Xie Yang would never let go of such a rare chance to tease a beauty.
"Umm, i-it is my stomach. It is hungry." Although it was hard for her to admit it, Lin Hua grew up believing that lying wasn't good and that she should always be truthful to her husband.
"I will get some maids to help you freshen up and bring you food, okay?" Xie Yang said gently, and he didn't forget kissing her once on the forehead before standing up and stepping up to the wardrobe.
"Won't you be having breakfast with me?" Lin Hua asked in a low, pitiful voice. It was her dream to wake up every day and eat food with her husband. Even though there was very little between them, she already felt at home with him and wanted to cultivate feelings of love.
Lord Xie Yang wanted to go out bathe in the morning rays of sunlight, check the status of his body, find a good cultivation technique from his memories, and start cultivating.
However, after hearing her words, he immediately changed his mind.
"Since you want it, I will eat with you," Lord Xie Yang said as he took off his thick wedding clothes of mesmerizing red color and many pieces of jewelry made of gold.
He was handsome. He had obsidian black eyes, and when he narrows them, they look no different than two full moons. His lips were pale and his skin somewhat yellowish, making him look sickly and low on vitality. But because his chin was sharp, his face v-shaped, and his facial features were perfectly on point, he seemed pretty good, a lot better than a 7/10.
Lin Hua admired the view of her handsome husband stripping naked with wide-open eyes.
'Gosh, my husband is too damn handsome!'
'No Zhou, Wang, and Xiao can match his handsomeness!'
'I am so lucky! I will be sleeping with this handsome face tonight too.'
'I hope he gets better so that I can admire his handsomeness for the rest of my life, ah!'
While she was admiring his figure and watching him dress up in regal blue attire, he noticed that she was ogling at him.
"Why? Am I handsome?" Lord Xie Yang suddenly turned towards her, caught her off guard, and asked her a teasing question.
"Husband, too handsome!" Lin Hua replied in a daze, and only after she snapped out of it did she place both her hands on her dumb mouth, stopping it from saying another word.
"Hahaha! You're too cute, Hua'er!" Xie Yang laughed happily and left the room to get maids to help her and get breakfast so that they could both fill their empty tummies.