Shocking! The actress was dragged to the regent's bedchamber every night.

Chapter 199 Submitting to My Throne, Pleading for Another Man

In someone else's dream?

"No—" Su Wuli began to speak.

However, Yu Chen didn't look at her; his gaze fell on Xiao Junyi before shifting back.

The surrounding air seemed to be sucked away instantly, and Su Wuli felt suffocated by his gloomy face.

Then the man spoke in a low voice, "I saw you during the day."

Su Wuli's heart skipped a beat.

"In the alley." Yu Chen stared intently at her. "I thought I was seeing things."

He paused, his fingers gripping the whip. "So I wasn't mistaken."

Su Wuli recalled that when Xiao Junyi pulled her into another alley, Yu Chen's head did indeed tilt slightly.

So he really did see it.

Yu Chen looked at her, something churning in his eyes.

Su Wuli had never seen him like this before; he used to just keep a sullen face and not say a word.

But this time it's different...

"You and he are in a dream," he said coldly, his jaw twitching slightly from the tension in his muscles, "doing the same things as me?"

What he did in his dream?

Su Wuli's face flushed instantly.

It wasn't shyness, it was anger and resentment.

"No!" The voice was louder than she had expected, and unusually clear in the cell.

Yu Chen did not react to her answer.

"He and I didn't—"

She couldn't continue.

She and Xiao Junyi had absolutely nothing going on; they only crossed paths once.

How could he say that about her...?

Su Wuli explained softly, "His hand was injured because of me."

Yu Chen's brow twitched slightly, but he didn't say anything.

The torches in the cell crackled as they burned.

Su Wuli met the man's gaze, only to see the darkness in his eyes growing heavier and heavier, making it hard for her to breathe.

"He meant no harm," she explained.

Xiao Junyi's visit to her was probably without malice.

Yu Chen looked at her, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

Su Wuli couldn't see any smile in him.

But then I saw him clench his teeth and his muscles were twitching.

"You mean...?" Yu Chen's breathing was heavy, his chest heaving erratically, as he retorted, "I have malicious intent?"

Su Wuli shook her head, "That's not what I meant—"

Before she could finish speaking, Yu Chen turned around and threw the whip on the ground.

Without saying a word, he walked to the wall, grabbed the hilt, and drew a knife.

The sound of the blade sliding slowly from the scabbard was deliberate.

Upon seeing this, Su Wuli's mind went completely blank.

He watched helplessly as Yu Chen walked towards Xiao Junyi with a knife in his hand.

Her mind was completely blank.

However, her body moved before her mind could react, and she ran over and hugged him from behind.

Her face was pressed against his back, and her arms were wrapped around his waist, clutching the fabric of his clothes.

Yu Chen stopped in his tracks.

Su Wuli could feel his breathing pause for a moment, and his whole body tense up.

Every muscle was rock hard.

The knife was still held in his hand, not yet brought down.

"Let go," he said coldly.

Su Wuli refused to let go.

The fingers holding him were trembling, from the fingertips all the way to the wrist.

"He can't die." Su Wuli's voice was muffled on his back, with a slight nasal tone.

If the male protagonist in the book dies, then all of this...

Yu Chen's sword was raised in mid-air, and the cell was so quiet that you could hear water seeping down the walls.

Drop after drop, as if it would never end.

"So worried about him?" The man seemed to sneer. "You please me every night, yet now you plead for another man before me."

Upon hearing this, Su Wuli felt a sharp pain in her heart and a tingling sensation in her fingertips.

No, she didn't.

"When I was injured," he said, his voice lowering, "you didn't say this much."

After saying that, he threw the knife on the ground.

The knife struck the stone slab and bounced, the metallic sound echoing back and forth in the cell.

He then turned around.

Before Su Wuli could let go, he pushed her backward.

My back hit the wood; it was the prison cell's bars.

The horizontal wooden strip was digging into her shoulder blade, making her gasp in pain.

Yu Chen placed his hands on either side of her head, trapping her in the middle, and pressed his body against hers.

His face was right in front of her.

The torchlight shone from the side, dividing his face into light and shadow.

Su Wuli could clearly see the veins bulging on his forehead, his clenched teeth, and the raging fury surging in his eyes.

There were other things she couldn't understand.

I felt like I was about to lose control.

"What did he promise you?" he gritted his teeth. "That you'd speak up for him like this? What did he give you?"

Su Wuli saw that his eyes were bloodshot.

His lips were trembling uncontrollably.

My eyes were red-rimmed; I wondered if it was from the pain in my back.

She shook her head and glanced at Xiao Junyi.

A lump formed in his throat. "Let's leave here first, and then I'll tell you, okay?"

It cannot be said in front of Xiao Junyi.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Junyi's voice came through, broken and intermittent.

"It has nothing to do with her... She knows nothing... If you want to kill someone, kill me... Let her go."

He raised his head, sweat trickling down his face.

"She...knows nothing." He repeated it again, as if using all his strength.

However, Yu Chen did not turn around to look at him.

Instead, he stared straight at Su Wuli, his Adam's apple bobbing, and in a hoarse voice made his conclusion, "You're his spy?"

Spy?

Su Wuli's voice was hoarse, "I'm not a spy."

Yu Chen frowned slightly, but his expression remained unchanged.

He didn't believe it.

Su Wuli could tell from his eyes that he didn't believe her.

At that moment, the man looked at her as if she were a complete stranger.

Realizing something, Su Wuli's throat tightened.

Xiao Junyi's voice rang out again, this time even more urgent.

Gasping for breath, she said, "She's not a spy, you—"

He coughed sharply, as if he had choked on something, his chest heaving violently.

The wooden stake binding him even swayed slightly.

"You let her go...come at me."

Yu Chen finally turned his head and glanced at him.

Then his lips twitched, a movement colder than a smile.

"Why are you so protective of her?" Yu Chen's aura grew increasingly sinister. "Who is she to you?"

Xiao Junyi looked at him and replied, "She's nobody, just a pitiful girl..."

"Poor girl," Yu Chen repeated, "poor..."

He looked away and turned his head.

Su Wuli leaned against the fence, meeting his dark eyes. Her back was pressed against the wood, and her eyes were moist.

Something seemed to shatter in his eyes. "Poor girl..."

"You now..." He paused, pressing his thumb against her chin and gently rubbing it, "are you still going to plead for him?"

Su Wuli opened her lips, but there was something stuck in her throat that she couldn't swallow or spit out.

Her eyes were terribly red, and her lips trembled several times before she managed to squeeze out a single sentence.

"It's not for him." She felt like someone was choking her, and her nose stung with tears. "I'm... worried about you."

The man's thumb remained on her chin, motionless.

"Are you afraid I'll kill him?"

Su Wuli's eyes stung, and she nodded.

But then I saw his lips twitch, and he was even colder than before.

"What are you worried about? Are you worried that killing him will give you another life on your hands?"

Yu Chen released her chin and took half a step back.

The anger on his face disappeared, leaving only self-deprecation.

His lips twitched slightly upwards, but there was no smile in his eyes.

"You'd say something like that just to save him."