"Ah? Well, thank you for bringing me up." Yun Shuniǎn said sincerely, looking at Mu Qí's obvious anger, but not knowing why.
Mu Qí forcibly spread Yun Shuniǎn's legs apart, then thrust his hips in: "Trying to distance yourself from me again?"
"No." The position made Yun Shuniǎn's small face blush as if it were about to bleed, her voice weak.
"No?" Mu Qí turned Yun Shuniǎn's face, his phoenix eyes already growing uncontrollably gloomy.
"Really not. Saying thank you is a very ordinary thing. No matter who is kind to us, we shouldn't take it for granted..." Yun Shuniǎn explained earnestly, her tone still weak due to shyness.
Mu Qí didn't wait for Yun Shuniǎn to finish. He cupped her face with both hands and kissed her directly.
"Mmm." Yun Shuniǎn propped herself up with one hand on the stone beneath her and the other pushing against Mu Qí's chest to shove him away. However, due to shyness, her hands were soft and lacked strength, and Mu Qí immediately captured her wrists.
Soon, Yun Shuniǎn was lost in Mu Qí's kiss, the heat on her cheeks rising higher and higher, her demeanor growing more submissive, and her eyes more dazed.
Mu Qí loosened his grip on Yun Shuniǎn's wrists and reached down. However, as soon as he touched Yun Shuniǎn's still slightly bruised collarbone, Mu Qí seemed to remember something and immediately let go of Yun Shuniǎn.
Yun Shuniǎn turned her face to the side, breathing in the fresh air greedily. She felt that if Mu Qí had held on any longer, she might have completely succumbed.
"I'm sorry." Would he remind her of that night again?
Mu Qí hugged Yun Shuniǎn into his arms, a sense of panic belatedly rising in his heart.
"It's okay." Yun Shuniǎn was sure she loved Mu Qí very much. It just seemed that her feelings were more intense now, a feeling of great affection, and perhaps a hint of ambiguity.
Hearing Yun Shuniǎn's weak three words, Mu Qí felt as if a large stone had been lifted from his chest.
Mu Qí couldn't understand what was happening. The current Yun Shuniǎn neither resisted him as coldly as before their marriage, nor was she as intimate as she had been after their marriage.
Every word and action made him feel as if she treated him like a familiar stranger.
Seeing Mu Qí get up and walk away, Yun Shuniǎn let out a deep breath, her heartbeat finally slowing.
However, just as Yun Shuniǎn leaned back to rest on the relatively flat large stone beneath her, her lower back was suddenly pulled from the opposite direction.
"Hey, Mu Qí. What are you doing?" Mu Qí lifted Yun Shuniǎn onto his shoulder with one arm. Yun Shuniǎn immediately wrapped her arms around Mu Qí's neck, afraid of falling.
Mu Qí did not answer, and directly carried Yun Shuniǎn back to the room.
"Mu Qí, what's wrong?" Yun Shuniǎn was pushed onto the bed by Mu Qí, and then Mu Qí loomed over her.
As soon as Yun Shuniǎn spoke, she turned her face to the side, pressing it against the bed.
Perfect eyebrows, a high-bridged nose. Yun Shuniǎn dared not look more after just one glance.
Mu Qí didn't allow Yun Shuniǎn's action to linger for another second. He turned her head back, and then Yun Shuniǎn's chin was grasped by Mu Qí and pulled down.
Before Yun Shuniǎn could react, there was an intense and deep entanglement.
...
"From now on, you are not allowed to say thank you to me." Mu Qí was now lying beside Yun Shuniǎn, his right arm under her neck and his left arm around her waist, locking her tightly in his embrace.
Yun Shuniǎn felt suffocated, gasping for air, but still not completely clear-headed, her entire body lacking strength.
Yun Shuniǎn didn't have much time to catch her breath before Mu Qí's lips were on hers again. This time, Yun Shuniǎn's lower lip was bitten.
When Yun Shuniǎn was released, she was utterly bewildered.
She was completely lost.
"This is a punishment." Mu Qí stared at Yun Shuniǎn's reddened lower lip, a hint of wickedness seeming to overflow from his phoenix eyes.
Yun Shuniǎn was burned by Mu Qí's gaze, her breath catching involuntarily.
What kind of reaction was this?
"Come here, hug me, kiss me." Mu Qí said with a cold expression and a commanding tone.
"Still... still kiss?" Yun Shuniǎn's tongue felt numb.
"Next time, Mu Qí." Yun Shuniǎn's deer-like eyes involuntarily revealed a hint of pitifulness.
However, Mu Qí acted as if he hadn't heard her plea: "Right now."
Yun Shuniǎn helplessly wrapped her arms around Mu Qí, pouted her lower lip pitifully, and leaned in to peck him lightly.
"Is that enough now?" Yun Shuniǎn wanted to pull back a little further, but the pressure on her lower back remained undiminished, even seeming to increase.
"Not enough." Mu Qí's words were decisive.
"Qí Qí, if you kiss me any longer, I'll be out of breath." Yun Shuniǎn's voice was hoarse to the extreme, and she looked incredibly pathetic.
"Mmm." Listening to Yun Shuniǎn's cooing tone, Mu Qí finally let her go.
Yun Shuniǎn's tense body instantly relaxed, and at the same time, she finally understood what Mu Qí meant.
"Mu Qí, just because I said thank you and it's okay, you're treating me like this?" Thinking of the reason, Yun Shuniǎn felt like biting Mu Qí to death.
"Mmm." Mu Qí responded with a muffled sound into Yun Shuniǎn's neck.
As soon as Mu Qí finished speaking, Yun Shuniǎn immediately bit down hard on Mu Qí's neck.
"Mmm? Didn't you say no more kissing?"
Yun Shuniǎn felt Mu Qí gently stroking her head.
Her jaw, which had not dared to exert much force, now relaxed considerably.
"Can't you ask clearly before kissing?" Yun Shuniǎn was incredibly aggrieved.
"I asked."
"But the result wasn't what I wanted."
Yun Shuniǎn thought about it and found she couldn't refute it.
"This is the most effective method," Mu Qí said, then kissed Yun Shuniǎn's lips again.
"Uh... why can't I say thank you? Don't you want me to thank you?" After such an intense kiss with Mu Qí, Yun Shuniǎn's feverish shyness gradually disappeared, and she naturally thought that what she said was indeed not good.
If Mu Qí said thank you to her, she would also feel that Mu Qí had become distant from her and would overthink things.
But she personally heard Mu Qí say he didn't like it, and she wanted to see more and more sides of Mu Qí.
"Yun Shuniǎn, we are already married. You should naturally be inseparable from me."