Chapter 272 — Harp and Lute

But now, the very same things, done by Song Yan, felt sweet to her.

"Song Yantang! Song Yantang..." Dou Yan called to him in confusion.

Song Yan raised his head.

A fire leaped in his dark eyes.

And her rose-like buds, from his licking and nipping, had taken on a delicate, vivid sheen.

Dou Chijin ran her tongue over her full red lips.

Song Yan's eyes suddenly turned deep as midnight.

He abruptly yanked down Dou Zhiwei's undergarments and drove straight into her.

Dou Yan let out a low whimper and clung desperately to Song Zhi's neck.

"Shouyuan, Shouyuan!" Song Yan pressed soft, unending kisses against her ear, his warm breath brushing lightly over her neck, steeped in boundless tenderness. "It'll be better in a moment... just a moment..." His eyes were closed, murmuring reassurances to her, yet his body never paused its thrusting, and it grew faster and faster still.

What a brute of a man!

Dou Yan broke into a cold sweat from the pain, yet she could feel with perfect clarity how he rampaged within her body.

Like a mischievous child exploring some unknown realm of illusion.

She could not help drawing a deep breath and gently stroked Song Zhi's back.

His skin was scorching to the touch, his back slick with a fine sheen of sweat.

Dou Yan's heart softened, her body gradually relaxing, and the pain became bearable.

Her body, in the rhythm of his movements, was slowly opened and grew moist.

Sensing her change, Song Yan slowed, nipping at her ear and crying out "Shouyuan"—but before she could answer, he had already seized her slender waist and thrust sharply, piercing through layer upon layer of tightly clasping petals to strike deep against her very core...

Was this not his first time?

Was not the first time always over quickly?

Why, then, did he seem to have no end?

Dou Chusheng gave a muffled groan; fine beads of sweat seeped from her fair brow, her body aching and swollen, burning hot beyond all restraint.

She could not help clutching Song Yan tighter, and, unable to hold back her moans, wrapped her legs around his waist...

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Morning sunlight streamed in, and Dou Yan's eyes fluttered open in a daze.

Her body ached and felt swollen, as though she had moved several hundred pots of flowers the night before.

Dou Chu gave a start and came fully awake.

The inner chamber was quiet. She wore plain moon-white underclothes, sleeping clean and alone in the great carved bed inlaid with nanmu. The air held the fresh fragrance of jasmine; the yellow chrysanthemum in the sweet white porcelain vase on the table still held yesterday's pose. Only the mandarin-ducks-at-play pillow beside her was slightly dented, as if to tell her that everything from the night before had not been a dream.

She could not help calling out "Sulan."

The door creaked open, and Sulan and Ganlu came in carrying washing utensils.

Joy they could not conceal played about both their brows.

"Madam," Suxin said, treating her like an invalid and moving to help her up, "the heir went to the palace and specially instructed us not to wake you, so we did not call you and have been waiting outside all along."

Ganlu even held the salt water for rinsing her mouth out before her.

That damned Song Yan!

As if he feared the whole world would not know.

Dou Chijin shot the two of them a glare and said, "I am not a child—can I not even wash myself?"

Suxin and Ganlu merely smiled with pursed lips and attended her carefully at her side.

When her toilet was done, Sujuan brought in a bowl of black-boned chicken soup: "The heir ordered it the moment he rose this morning."

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Making up for the update of July 5.

ps: Sisters, brothers, for several days running now, a shot in the morning makes it better, and by midnight the pain starts again. Then the doctor suspected there was something else going on, and because it involves medical insurance, I have to go back to my hometown for treatment. I rushed back early this morning and can only snatch time to write; this chapter came out rather late. I have found a place to post it, so please bear with it for now. Once I am a little better, I will make up all the missed updates.

Sorry!

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