Tled by Serena Love

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Chapter 72: You Are Not Her

The wind on the lake blew through his ears and made a whirring sound. It took a few breaths for Jiang Shuyao to understand Xie Xun's question.

"What, what?" She was so surprised that she didn't know how to face this problem.

Xie Xun's eyelashes quivered slightly, his Adam's apple rolled up and down, and he said with difficulty, "I asked, have you ever liked me?"

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If he asked the original owner, the answer is of course yes. Whether it is Xie Xun's talent or looks, she likes it.

But when Jiang Shuyao was asked, she couldn't immediately give a clear answer. Just because Xie Xun's question came so suddenly, and she was not prepared at all. Even when she heard this question, her brain was rumbling, the heat numbed half of her head, and she could not think.

Seeing that she hesitated, Xie Xun sentenced himself to death. The breeze from the lake immediately cooled his impulse, and his cheeks were hot. He felt unwilling and annoyed.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Why?"

His aura was too strong and menacing. Jiang Shuyao was dumbfounded and took a half step back.

"If you didn't really admire me but just attracted to my appearance, why did you have to disregard your reputation, entangle with me in every way, and threaten your life to marry me? That is your life. You even bet on your life, only for a man you didn't care about?"

In the beginning, he spoke fiercely, as if he was questioning her. But later, his voice became lighter and softer, with a sense of grief. The ending melted into the lake breeze.

Seeing him like this, Jiang Shuyao hurriedly said, "No, it's not like what you said. Wait, let me think about it."

Xie Xun rarely vents his emotions like this. He looks cold, but inside, he is a gentle person, even a little bit dull sometimes.

But now, this is his side that Jiang Shuyao had never seen before. He was unfamiliar and strong, and even too strong and make people fearful. She was a little at a loss for a while.

"You're not her, are you?"

She was struggling with her train of thought, but Xie Xun spoke suddenly. His voice was light and fluttering but suddenly struck her like a bolt of lightning.

She raised her head and stared at Xie Xun with wide eyes.

Xie Xun took a step closer to her and looked downward at her, "You're not the one who fell into the water, are you?"

Just these few words made Jiang Shuyao feel like she fell into an ice cave. She never thought that her secret would be exposed, let alone by Xie Xun.

She stepped back a few steps in horror, "What are you talking about?"

"In this way, it's right. Everything can be explained." Xie Xun stared at her and suddenly smiled, "Actually, I only guessed it."

His eyebrows were wrinkled, and he gritted his teeth, his expression was serious and cold, and his eyes were sharp. At this moment, when he suddenly raised the corners of his mouth, half of his face sank into the darkness. She is unable to see his smile and expression, only feels that it is incomparably weird.

Jiang Shuyao's biggest secret had just been revealed, and she was already terrified to the extreme. Now she was startled by his smile, "Ah," she yelled and backed away in a panic.

Seeing her moving backward dangerously, Xie Xun suddenly ran forward and stretched his arms to pull her to safety.

Jiang Shuyao was even more frightened. She hurriedly waved her arm and broke free. She turned and avoided him with a few steps but slipped and fell from the bow of the boat.

"Boom—"

The sound of a person falling into the water sounded, and huge water splashed on the faint blue lake.

Xie Xun didn't have time to grab her and watched her fall into the water. He instantly panicked.

Jiang Shuyao can't swim!

When she fell into the water before, there wasn't enough time to wait for a maid to get into the water, so he dived to rescue her, all because he didn't want to watch a living person drown. But now, when she fell into the water again, his mood turned upside down.

Xie Xun plunged into the lake with a "boom," his mind was blank, and he instinctively dived into the lake to find her figure.

The bright moon hung high, and the lake surface glowed white and fuzzy halo like a mirror, but the lake was dark and silent, like a fierce beast laid dormant in an abyss.

Xie Xun dived deeper and deeper but couldn't see her at all. He couldn't even feel himself struggling in the water.

The undercurrent pulled his robe, trying to pull him towards the middle of the lake.

The oxygen in his lungs was exhausted, and it was burning like fire. Xie Xun resisted forcefully, confronted the undercurrent, and continued to swim forward.

He stayed in the lake long enough, dived deep enough, but still didn't find her.

He felt a rumbling in his head, and his hands could not help but tremble.

When he was so dizzy from the lack of oxygen, he gritted his teeth and finally gave up, swimming up with his last strength.

As he emerged from the lake, fresh oxygen is filling his lungs, but the burning sensation did not decrease but increased, giving him a soft numb sensation for a moment.

He wiped off the water that blocked his sight and looked at the black lake. It was silent, without any waves.

He didn't want to believe what happened, looking at the lake in a daze.

When the lake breeze blew, he suddenly regained his senses. He took a deep breath and wanted to dive down again.

As soon as he dived, a soft force came from behind him. Before he could react, he had already been lifted to the surface of the lake.

Xie Xun turned around instinctively, and the water splashed on his face, making him unable to open his eyes for a while.

"What are you doing!" Jiang Shuyao slapped the surface of the lake and panting, "Are you looking for death?"

Xie Xun wiped off the water stains on his face, staring blankly at Jiang Shuyao in front of him.

She was gasping for breath, one because she was holding her breath, and also because she is suffocating with anger, "Are you crazy? You dived down and didn't go up for so long, and I can't find you when I went down. How deep were you diving?"

Xie Xun was shocked. His mind was still in a state of numbness. He could only say in a daze, "You can't swim--" After speaking, he realized what happened now. How can it looks like Jiang Shuyao can swim?

He was surprised, "When did you learn to swim?"

Jiang Shuyao was shocked by Xie Xun's revealing her secret and was shocked by his long absence from the surface. Her mood was ups and downs. All her worries and hesitations were gone. Her emotions poured out like a mountain torrent that flowed out from a gap.

"Don't you know already? Didn't you guess it? When did I learn it, of course I can swim! Why!" She snarled out, obviously irritated.

Xie Xun shrank his neck and said in a puzzled way, "I have only heard that sometimes after a dying person is rescued, their temperament will change drastically, and their memory will be missing. I never heard of someone suddenly learning a skill..."

Jiang Shuyao wiped the lake water off her mouth, frowned, and said, "What?" A faint light flashed in her mind, and Jiang Shuyao realized it too late, "Earlier, you said I am not 'her,' you mean my temperament changed and I can't be counted as the same person?"

"Of course, you are not the one who liked me, nor the one who forcibly marry me. You are not the one who molested men and was vulgar. You are a brand-new person, not the same Jiang Shuyao as before."

"Then what's the matter with your smile?" Didn't you know that when a person with a cold face suddenly burst into a smile, it is very strange and terrifying!!

"Because I am very happy."

Xie Xun said and smiled again on his face, "What I once loathed was the one who I rescued but entangled me and force me to marry. She is not you. Between us, we had no misunderstandings, no barriers, no calculation."

He looked at Jiang Shuyao with firm eyes, and his eyes were clearer and brighter than the bright moon, "I am happy, and the one I want to spend the rest of my life with is the current you, the unique you."

His ears were red, his face was bright and lively that she had never seen before, and his eyes and tone were extremely gentle, but he was full of childishness.

"Jiang Shuyao, I like you."

Jiang Shuyao was dumbfounded.

Before her temper came out, she was stunned by the sudden confession, and she never thought that tonight would be so wonderful.

The moment that was supposed to be romantic, but the unexpected direction left nothing but surprise.

"You like me?"

"Yes."

Jiang Shuyao stammered and said, "You...I..." She doesn't know what she wanted to say or what she wanted to do.

Xie Xun said, "I know you have concerns, and I understand them." This is the first time he talked about these things with Jiang Shuyao seriously, "If you like sharing food, I will support you in opening shops and restaurants. You are worried that I would be like my second brother. I'll try my best to prove myself. You don't need to respond to me before you can rest assured. And my mother, she doesn't like that you can't help me or solve my problems. If you think that's not working, then I'll just ask to be released from the court. You like going out, like piers and streets, like liveliness and fireworks, so you will like the wider world after leaving Beijing."

Before Jiang Shuyao said anything, she was gagged by his analysis.

She is indeed worried. She has never fully integrated into this world since she was transmigrated. Modern people's looseness and discretion have always been incompatible with this place, so she did not treat Xie Xun as a potential love interest from the beginning.

After getting along, she gradually became tempted, and she began to worry about the conflict of thoughts between the ancients and modern people. She was afraid that he was a romantic hypocrite, an old-fashioned scholar-official, but he proved himself that he was not.

He can comfort and guarantee her tenderly and considerately when she is sad because of Lin-shi. He care to comfort her after she was taken away by bandits and not caring about innocence and damaged-good taboos. When she was worried, he can guarantee that he would not treat her like Xie Lang did to Zhou-shi.

He made suggestions for her, accompanied her on trips, comforted her when she was sad, and persuaded her when she was worried... Xie Xun was actually extremely gentle in his bones.

It's normal for her to be tempted by such a person, and she can't find any reason to push him away and reject him.

Xie Xun's smile gradually faded away when he saw her silently looking at him, and he said anxiously, "Sorry, I was so sudden. As I said earlier, you don't have to respond—"

Jiang Shuyao suddenly interrupted him, "Are you sure the two of us should continue to soak in the lake like this?"

Two people are floating on the faint black lake, soaking face to face, which looks really funny.

Xie Xun immediately realized this problem. It wasn't very pleasant. He stretched out his arm and paddled in the water, ready to swim back to the painted boat, "Cough, let's go up."

He just swam a little, but Jiang Shuyao pressed his chest.

Not only can she swim, but she is also very skilled. She was swimming like a fish, getting in front of him and blocking his way.

Her hair bun had long been loose, and her black hair stuck to her porcelain-white face, enchanting and charming. The water droplets are shining, sliding down from her forehead to her eyelashes. When she blinked, the water droplets fall like a broken star, bloom in front of his eyes.

"Me too." She opened her lips.

Xie Xun could not react, "What?"

Jiang Shuyao's entanglement over the past few months has all been dissipated tonight, and suddenly she has been exposed to a hearty rain. She felt free.

Her smile is bright and dazzling, "I said me too. I am equally happy to be with you."

Boom—— boom——

Xie Xun's heart suddenly jumped a few times, very slowly and heavily, and then a rush of ecstasy rushed into his heart, making him feel incredibly lucky.

"You said, you have the same thought as me?" He subconsciously confirmed.

"Yes." Jiang Shuyao smiled happily.

Jiang Shuyao was just a little confused, but Xie Xun was completely surprised. He never thought that Jiang Shuyao would respond in this way, and he didn't even dare to dream of such beauty.

"I... you..." The stumbling man mumbled.

Jiang Shuyao said, "Then what?"

"What, what?"

"According to the standard routine, aren't we missing something?"

"What—"

Before he finished speaking, she had pressed Xie Xun's chest and kissed his chin.

Her lips are soft, with the dampness from the lake.

He felt the warmth of her breathing, and the scent on her face was dreamlike, bringing a burst of numbing electric current, rushing to the scalp and limbs, making him stiff and unable to move.

Jiang Shuyao left him and saw that he blushed so red like his face was about to drip blood. She laughed out loud, turned and plunged into the lake, and quickly swam away.

Xie Xun stretched out his hand to touch the ripples from her body, then touched his chin, frowning and wondering if tonight is a dream.

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"Bo Yuan--" A shout disrupted his thoughts.

The East Palace colleagues ate happily, ordered some wine, and drank them all. Now, they are all drunk, lying on the railing staggeringly, shouting at Xie Xun in the lake.

"What are you doing? How did you go to the lake?"

"I'm so hot too. I really want tea."

"But how can anyone jump to the water in the middle of the lake?"

"That's right, Bo Yuan! Come on up! If you don't come up, we will come down to accompany you!"

They screamed at the lake.

There was an echo on the lake, but before it disappeared, Lin Cheng's energetic shout suddenly came from behind, "I'm—coming—haaa—"

He was like a silly goose just released from the cage, with his arms outstretched, rushing from a distance like crazy.

He took a big step and a big leap.

His body was like a gust of wind, and there was no time for his slow-moving drunk colleagues to react.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom boom boom!"

One by one, they were knocked down to the lake like bowling pins, and they floated up and down like dumplings in the lake, screaming excitedly.

"Who hit me! Ahahaha!"

"So cool!"

"Oh-"

"..."

And the following day, all members of the East Palace's officials caught cold.

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