Inlaid With Jade - Chapter 8
Chapter 8
Li Lang and I are in love
T/N: Li Lang is the endearment name for Li Heming.
The man wore a coarse linen shirt, like a woodcutter in the mountains, but Lin Yu was clever enough to know that he wasn’t. She frowned and stared at him, and her voice was hoarse when she spoke: “Are you Mr. Wang’s man?”
The man did not answer but walked towards her while unbuckling his belt impatiently.
Seeing this, Lin Yu was so shocked that she quickly retreated to the corner: “What do you want to do!”
“You are a woman. What do you think I want to do?” He glanced at Lin Yu’s plump chest with an obsc*ne look and reached out to pull her collar directly.
Lin Yu encountered this kind of thing for the first time, and she had just woken up, so her mind was in a mess. She subconsciously grabbed her clothes: “Do you know who I am?!”
The man pulled her hand away and tugged at her skirt: “I don’t care who you are! Even if you are the Emperor’s woman, I will have a taste of you today!”
Lin Yu panicked, and her lips turned pale, but she still tried to calm down and said: “My father is the current Grand Chancellor, and my brother is the Minister of Revenue! If you touch me, you won’t end well.”
The man didn’t listen at all. Instead, he said: “Scream! Scream louder! Let those people who have never touched a woman know that you are awake, and they will come to f*ck you together with me!”
Lin Yu’s mind went blank. As the man was about to tear open her skirt, she suddenly calmed down: “Aren’t you afraid of death?”
These words hit the man’s sore spot. Since Wang Changzhong was imprisoned, this group of rebels fled to the mountains, struggling in difficult situations, living in fear every day because they were afraid of the word “death.” He frowned and glared, “What did you say!?”
Lin Yu didn’t know his identity, but she could roughly guess that he was related to Wang Changzhong, just like that fake monk in the temple. She suppressed her fear: “I think you do. Very few people in the world are not afraid of death. You can’t be one of them.”
“You bitch!” The man was furious and was about to take out a knife.
“Think it through! If you got caught, at most, you’ll die. But if you hurt me, I guarantee that you will not die even if you are cut into pieces!”
The words were too harsh, and the man was stunned momentarily. Lin Yu pulled the skirt from his hand and jumped to the corner away from him.
She met his gaze, “The Imperial Guards are everywhere. You can’t escape from them. You ought to be captured and imprisoned. Once my family finds you…”
She paused for a moment when she said this, remembering that the man was not afraid when she mentioned her father and brother just now, so she changed the topic, “I guess you have heard Li Heming from the Northern Office.”
Lin Yu never considered mentioning Li Heming’s name to protect her safety, but now, she couldn’t care about anything else. She said casually: “Mr. Li from the Northern Office has always admired me. His mother once came to ask for my hand in marriage on his behalf. We are in love and have already decided to marry! He is ruthless. One of the criminals was stabbed more than 700 times but still failed to die. You can humiliate me or even kill me, but he will blame you. When you got caught, can you bear the pain of being tortured to death?”
The name of the Imperial Guards Northern Office intimidated these criminals and rebels. The three words “Li Heming” were like a bloody knife. After hearing this, the man actually took back the dagger with some scruples. But he soon came to his senses again: “I’m going to die anyway. Can I escape the devil if I let you go now!”
Lin Yu said: “If you let me go when my family or Li –Li Lang come to find me, I will ask them to spare your life.”
The man interrupted her with a sneer: “Do you think I have no brains? F*ck your nonsense! When they find me, I will be the first one to bleed to death!”
“Of course, you have to believe it!” Lin Yu said: “A woman’s reputation is the most important. I already have an engagement. During this period of loss of contact, someone must testify to me that I have not been bullied. If you protect me from being bullied by outsiders now, wouldn’t you be the most credible witness? It will be a great achievement, and of course, I will ask my father and brother to save your life!”
She talked so fast that he couldn’t wrap his mind around it. However, Lin Yu wanted him to be confused. She continued, “You don’t need to doubt me. If I don’t protect you later, wouldn’t it prove that your words are unreliable? My Lin family is prestigious. Why would I dare joke with my reputation and Lin’s family’s?”
Lin Yu tried to delay the time as much as possible: “You can think about it carefully. You also said that your brothers are outside this door. If no one protects me, I cannot get out alive. You want to live, and I want to live, too. This is the best way for us both.”
Lin Yu’s words were full of loopholes, but the possibility of survival was enough to shake the man’s heart. He looked at her expression steadily, judging whether her words were credible.
The sound of rain outside the house gradually rose. When the two were in a stalemate, several noises suddenly appeared outside the door. The man took out the dagger vigilantly and said to Lin Yu, “Stay still!” After that, he walked towards the door. But then, someone kicked the door violently, knocking the man to the ground with full force. He San, held the blood-stained embroidered sword, looked into the door fiercely. When he saw Lin Yu in a mess by the wall, he was stunned momentarily. Then, his face turned happy, and he shouted in the misty rain: “Leader! Miss Lin has been found!!”