The moment his lips touched the young lady’s vermilion lips, the young general sighed with complete satisfaction.

He was probably beyond saving now.

The man extended his bandage-wrapped hands, clumsily embracing the young lady’s shoulders. He kissed her lips again and again, and when she parted her lips slightly in surprise, he smoothly slipped inside.

The faint, bitter medicinal fragrance instantly invaded all of Qiao Zhao’s senses.

She instinctively struggled, but found herself tightly confined by the man with no way to break free. Then, while she was at a complete loss, that intruding thing dominantly swept up her tongue, rampaging wildly.

Qiao Zhao felt her mind explode with a thunderous crash, the explosion making her legs go weak. She could only grasp onto his waist to keep from sliding down.

The gasping sounds of intertwined lips and tongues filled the small room – impossible to tell whose they were, just as impossible to distinguish were the thunderous heartbeats.

The man held the person in his arms even tightly. His palms transmitted piercing pain, but he didn’t care at all. Right now, he only wanted to meld the person in his arms into his bones and blood, never to be separated again, and never again to hear her say things about not wanting to marry or walk the old path.

In this lifetime, Zhaozhao had only one path: to marry him and become his person.

If she were unwilling, then he would marry her and become her person.

The man kissed the young lady in his arms like a madman. He was clumsy, but after the initial rampaging, he quickly grasped the technique. His tongue tip gently swept across every inch inside the young lady’s mouth, and each sweep brought waves of trembling to both of them.

Listening to her rapid breathing and feeling her soft hands weakly encircling his waist, the man’s usually superior self-control crumbled completely. His hands moved down to embrace her slender waist, acting almost purely on instinct as he pressed her toward his burning heat.

The moment she was pressed against it, Qiao Zhao awakened as if from a dream. She bit down hard on Shao Mingyuan’s tongue, and taking advantage of his pained loosening, finally escaped this reckless kiss, shouting in shame and anger: “Shao Mingyuan, have you gone mad?”

But the man holding her seemed not to hear, lowering his head to kiss her fiercely again.

The now-conscious Qiao Zhao no longer wanted to consider his hand injuries. She lifted her foot and kicked hard at this audaciously bold man.

The man caught the young lady’s kicking foot and smoothly hooked her leg around his waist.

Her back pressed against the wall, the cold sensation transmitted through, and Qiao Zhao was beside herself with shame and fury. She opened her mouth and bit down hard on his arm.

Shao Mingyuan froze, looking blankly at their current position.

Mm, this position…

The young general instantly had a nosebleed that splattered all over the young lady’s dress.

The young lady’s dress had been plain and simple, but now it looked like scattered red plum blossoms brilliantly blooming on white fabric.

Qiao Zhao angrily raised her hand.

The young general blushed and lowered his eyes: “Zhaozhao, my head is dizzy. Could you hit a little lighter?”

Qiao Zhao clenched her fist, then dejectedly lowered it, saying angrily: “Shao Mingyuan, put me down.”

Shao Mingyuan obediently put Qiao Zhao down.

Qiao Zhao bit her lip hard.

This bastard was taking advantage of being injured – did he want to reach heaven? What was he trying to do just now? Did he think she didn’t understand? She wasn’t a teenage girl!

This shameless, despicable lecher!

How dare he, how could he!

Miss Qiao was so angry her chest heaved unsteadily, showing none of her usual composed demeanor in front of others.

General Shao’s heart was equally unable to calm down at this moment.

He seemed to have, appeared to have, gone too far just now.

However, Chen Guang was right, being bold and thick-skinned was important. He had done something he wouldn’t even dare do in dreams, and Zhaozhao didn’t hit him!

Shao Mingyuan’s heart pounded like drums.

Zhaozhao couldn’t bear to hit him – did this mean Zhaozhao had feelings for him in her heart?

“Extend your hands.” The young lady’s cold voice sounded.

Shao Mingyuan obediently extended his hands.

The white bandages were seeping with blood stains, obviously because of his earlier recklessness, the wounds on his palms had split open again.

Qiao Zhao kept a stern face as she unwrapped the bandages. Sure enough, blood was seeping from the wounds.

“Wipe your nosebleed clean quickly!” Qiao Zhao pulled out a handkerchief and threw it into Shao Mingyuan’s lap.

Shao Mingyuan clumsily used his fingers to press the handkerchief, and because it pulled at his wounds, he winced slightly in pain.

Seeing this, Qiao Zhao secretly took a deep breath.

She must have owed this man something in her previous life. Being shot dead by his hand in her last life wasn’t enough – in this life, she still had to be endlessly pestered by him.

Worst of all, wanting to avoid him was even harder than she had imagined.

Qiao Zhao silently took the handkerchief and wiped Shao Mingyuan’s nosebleed clean, then, with a dark expression, threw the handkerchief to the ground and called out loudly: “A’Zhu, go back to the room and bring bandages.”

“Yes.” A’Zhu’s response came from outside the door.

Soon A’Zhu brought bandages over, standing at the doorway saying: “Miss, this servant is coming in.”

Hearing A’Zhu say this, Qiao Zhao’s face grew hot with waves of heat, and she couldn’t help but glare fiercely at Shao Mingyuan.

Just now, he had been like a hungry wolf – heaven knows whether A’Zhu and Ye Luo had heard the commotion.

“Come in.” Qiao Zhao tried her best to appear nonchalant.

Unfortunately, the scattered red plum blossoms on her dress were too conspicuous. Even the usually steady A’Zhu couldn’t help but widen her eyes, looking at Shao Mingyuan in surprise.

Qiao Zhao’s face heated up, and she coughed lightly: “The bandages.”

A’Zhu withdrew her gaze and handed the bandages to Qiao Zhao. Without waiting for her miss’s instructions, she consciously turned and walked out the door.

Qiao Zhao looked at Shao Mingyuan.

Shao Mingyuan extended his large hand in front of her, grinning foolishly.

Qiao Zhao no longer looked at him, efficiently applying medicine and bandaging, then turned to leave immediately.

“Zhaozhao—” In his urgency, Shao Mingyuan reached out and grabbed her sleeve.

Qiao Zhao turned around and said coldly, “Shao Mingyuan, I just finished bandaging you. Don’t you want your hand anymore?”

“I do.”

“Then why don’t you let go?”

“I won’t let go. If I let go, you’ll leave angry.”

“Shao Mingyuan!” Qiao Zhao called out these three characters one by one, biting her lip: “Just how thick is your skin?”

“I don’t know either.” The young general replied with an honest expression.

His skin could be as thick as needed, as long as he could marry Zhaozhao and bring her home.

Qiao Zhao closed her eyes and said expressionlessly: “Shao Mingyuan, are you going to let go or not?”

Shao Mingyuan read her expression and decisively let go.

When the enemy advances, I retreat; know when to stop; retreat to advance – these tactical principles were still necessary to apply.

“Shao Mingyuan, you went too far today.”

The young general lowered his head: “Yes, I know what I did just now was wrong.”

Qiao Zhao bit her lip.

The swelling of her lips kept reminding her of the embarrassing incident just now. However, seeing the man in front of her bow his head and admit his mistake without any defense made her anger feel like a punch thrown at cotton, with nowhere to vent.

When she told him to admit his mistake, he admitted it, but then he would turn around and kiss her whenever he wanted. What was she supposed to do with this kind of man? Her grandparents had never taught her how to handle such a man.

No, that wasn’t right. If it were any other man, she would not hesitate to use a needle to disable half his body.

But this man was Shao Mingyuan.

She admitted it – she couldn’t bring herself to do it.