After Becoming a Succubus, I Was Offered to My Mortal Enemy - Chapter 36

Chapter 36

Ning Yuan threw herself onto the bed, her body sinking into the soft brocade quilt.

Thinking of Yuchi Jin’s words, she only felt an intense ache in her heart.

Those words were like needles, piercing the softest place in Ning Yuan’s soul.

Was what Yuchi Jin said true, or was it a lie made up just to stop them from getting married?

Did Sikong Xue truly have such deep feelings for her?

If Sikong Xue really liked her, why did Sikong Xue say she was unsightly?

Why was it that when she spitefully intended to marry Yuchi Jin, Sikong Xue didn’t say a single word to ask her to stay?

Yet, if Sikong Xue didn’t like her, why would she do so much for her?

Just for the fact that she took care of her family, Ning Yuan felt she didn’t know how to repay her.

When disaster struck the Ning family, so many people avoided them like the plague, yet Sikong Xue was willing to protect her family…

Outside the Yilan Pavilion, Sikong Xue’s fingertips repeatedly traced the carved wooden door.

She could easily push this door open, yet she worried she could never unravel the heavy knots in Ayuan’s heart.

Sikong Xue was afraid that Ayuan hated her, afraid that Ayuan resented her.

Hearing the sound of crying coming from the room, Sikong Xue’s heart tightened.

Was Ayuan crying like this because she missed her family so much?

If Ayuan knew she was intentionally preventing her from seeing her family, would she blame her?

If Ayuan knew that Old Madame Ning was ill and she had hidden it from her… would Ayuan hate her to the core?

Hearing the crying weaken, Sikong Xue hesitated for a moment but eventually pushed open the door.

Ning Yuan was sitting on the bed, clutching a soft pillow, her shoulders trembling slightly. Tears had stuck stray hairs to her face, and her eyes were red from weeping.

The tears Ning Yuan had just stopped began to roll down again the moment she saw Sikong Xue.

This Sikong Xue was truly wicked—coming in at a time like this, was she going to mock her for being a crybaby just like when they were children?

Sikong Xue stepped forward, pulled Ning Yuan into a tight embrace, and gently patted her back, saying: “Don’t cry anymore; your crying makes my heart ache so much.”

Ning Yuan buried her face in the crook of Sikong Xue’s neck, her tears quickly soaking the collar.

At the thought of what Yuchi Jin said—that Sikong Xue had nearly followed her in death—Ning Yuan couldn’t help but feel miserable.

“Sikong Xue, are you a fool? You have such a good background, how could you want to follow someone in death… You’re a perfectly fine person, how could you disregard your own body for someone who is already dead? Sikong Xue, are you marrying me now just to use me as a substitute… or have you fallen in love with someone else? I won’t be some substitute!”

She hoped Sikong Xue had fallen in love with someone else so she wouldn’t be tortured by the past, yet she also felt sad at the thought of Sikong Xue falling for another.

It was all the fault of this Sikong Xue for making her heart so confused.

Ning Yuan’s words made Sikong Xue’s heart shudder. So Ayuan was crying like this because she couldn’t bear to see her harm her own body?

So Ning Ayuan was sad because she didn’t want her to have fallen in love with someone else?

“Not a substitute.” Sikong Xue’s lips pressed against Ning Yuan’s ear. “You are not a substitute. By my side, in my heart, there has only ever been you.”

Ning Yuan cried even harder. “You liar, you’re still lying to me even now.”

Sikong Xue had clearly fallen in love with someone else.

The one Sikong Xue liked before was “Ning Yuan,” but the one she likes now is this tribute sent by the foreign tribes. In that case, isn’t it falling in love with someone else?

“Sikong Xue, since you like Ning Yuan, why do you want to marry me!”

With Ayuan speaking this way, Sikong Xue only wanted to hold this unreasonable, “bad” girl tighter.

However, thinking that this girl was jealous on her account, Sikong Xue felt as if honey were melting in her heart.

“Ayuan, I have never fallen in love with anyone else. The love in my heart, from beginning to end, has always been you.”

Finally, while both were in a sober state, Sikong Xue called out the name “Ayuan.”

Countless times she had wanted to let it slip, only to force it back down.

Finally, she called her Ayuan.

These two characters had been called out in her dreams countless times.

Finally, the person she longed for day and night was right before her eyes.

Ning Yuan looked up blankly and asked, “What did you call me?”

Sikong Xue just called her… Ayuan?

Sikong Xue said she was the love in her heart?

With Ning Yuan crying like this, Sikong Xue also felt her nose sting. She held Ayuan and said: “Ayuan, it was my fault. I should have cleared things up with you earlier; I shouldn’t have let you be sad. It’s all my fault; I knew you missed your family, yet I still treated you this way…”

Listening to Sikong Xue’s words, Ning Yuan felt as if her brain had exploded with a buzz.

Sikong Xue had recognized her long ago?

So Sikong Xue doing that kind of thing with her, and Sikong Xue marrying her, were all because she was Ning Yuan, and not because she was a substitute?

So Sikong Xue hadn’t “fallen in love with someone else”?

So those intimacies and the floral crown prepared for the wedding were all for Ning Yuan? It wasn’t shifting affection; it wasn’t for some foreign woman…

So Sikong Xue, after knowing she was Ayuan, had presented all these things before her.

Thinking about how she had been pointlessly jealous when she saw those beautiful floral crowns, Ning Yuan felt both embarrassed and amused.

It turned out that after all that fuss, she had been being jealous of herself…

Fortunately, Sikong Xue didn’t know what she was thinking, otherwise, Sikong Xue would surely laugh at her.

Wait, no—when she first arrived at the Prime Minister’s manor, Sikong Xue was very nasty to her.

And Sikong Xue had bullied her so much!

Ning Yuan stopped her tears. She pushed Sikong Xue away, looked into her eyes, and asked: “Sikong Xue, tell the truth. When exactly did you start recognizing me!”

If Sikong Xue had recognized her from the start and still treated her so poorly, she would definitely give Sikong Xue a hard bite.

“Sikong Xue, were you trying to be fierce and bully me just because I had nothing left?”

“When you first arrived at the manor, I hadn’t recognized you yet. I brought you back only because I didn’t want Yuchi Jin to bully you. Even though I didn’t know who you were then, I couldn’t just let Yuchi Jin bully someone who looked exactly like Ayuan.”

Sikong Xue’s expression became somewhat unnatural. A suspicious crimson crept onto the tips of her ears. Not daring to look Ning Yuan in the eye, she said guiltily: “As for when I recognized you, it was… that night.”

That night…

Sikong Xue didn’t say which night, but Ning Yuan understood instantly.

Thinking of that absurd night, Ning Yuan’s cheeks flushed.

That night was Sikong Xue’s birthday, and both had been drinking.

Ning Yuan had fallen drunk into Sikong Xue’s arms, and Sikong Xue carried her back to the room.

Later, for some reason, this succubus body’s “heat” rose, and the only two remaining pills were accidentally knocked to the floor by Sikong Xue…

Sikong Xue said: “That night… you called me A-Lin, and I recognized you.”

That night, scorched by the “heat” and the wine, Ning Yuan had forgotten to hide her identity. Seeking relief, she had constantly called her A-Lin.

Originally, after the hangover, Ning Yuan had forgotten everything.

But with Sikong Xue mentioning it again, Ning Yuan remembered it all.

When her consciousness was fading, she had actually been whimpering “A-Lin” and pleading for A-Lin to help her…

Wait—that night she was drunk, but looking at Sikong Xue like that, she clearly wasn’t!

“Sikong Xue, you weren’t drunk, how could you bully me!”

Ning Yuan was both embarrassed and angry. She bit down hard on Sikong Xue’s shoulder, but when she felt Sikong Xue hiss in pain, she let go again, unable to bear it.

Though the bite was painful, Sikong Xue felt very joyful.

“Ayuan, it’s all my fault. It’s all my fault, okay? If you’re still not satisfied, then bite me again.”

Ning Yuan said angrily: “In your dreams!”

Ning Yuan felt that another bite wouldn’t be a punishment for Sikong Xue, but a reward.

Ning Yuan pouted and said: “The name A-Lin might have been told to me by a maid; how could you be so certain it was me?”

Sikong Xue held Ning Yuan’s face and used a handkerchief to carefully wipe away her tears, saying: “This childhood name is known only to you.”

Ning Yuan had cried like a little messy cat, but fortunately, she finally stopped, otherwise, Sikong Xue would have truly panicked.

Ning Yuan’s heart warmed, but she followed it with a light snort: “Don’t expect me to be moved. I worked so hard to think of that childhood name for you, yet you didn’t even use it.”

Ning Yuan’s crying appearance was lovely and moving, but Sikong Xue didn’t want to see her cry like this.

Sikong Xue saw a single tear still at the corner of Ayuan’s eye. She boldly leaned in and kissed away that tear, saying: “The name you gave me back then. I couldn’t bear to let anyone else call me by it. Since you gave it to me, I only want to hear you call it…”

She wanted to hear Ayuan call her A-Lin when she was happy, and even more, she wanted to hear Ayuan call her A-Lin when she was filled with passion.

Ning Yuan felt her breath hitch. She didn’t know whose heartbeat was so loud it was so noisy she wanted to flee, but she was pulled back into Sikong Xue’s arms again.

Ning Yuan tried to struggle but was held even tighter.

Through the fabric of their clothes, she could feel Sikong Xue’s heart beating very fast too, a rapid pounding that seemed ready to shatter her chest.

Ning Yuan said in a muffled voice: “Since you already recognized me, why did you have to drive me to tears before you’d say it? If I hadn’t run into Yuchi Jin today, were you planning to hide it from me for a lifetime?”

Ning Yuan never expected that Sikong Xue’s feelings for her would actually be revealed through the mouth of Yuchi Jin.

Clearly, in the past, Yuchi Jin always said that someone like Sikong Xue could never like her.

Could it be that in the past, she had actually been deceived by Sikong Xue?

“How could I.” Sikong Xue rested her chin gently on Ning Yuan’s shoulder, lightly inhaling the pleasant fragrance of her hair, and said: “Ayuan, when I recognized you, I thought it was a dream of yellow millet (a dream of fleeting glory). I told Chiyun about it, and she even thought I had gone mad. I thought that if we recognized each other, you would surely clamor for me to take you to Lingnan. Ayuan, Old Madame Ning is of advanced age; I truly didn’t know how to explain to her that you had returned.”

Listening to Sikong Xue’s words, Ning Yuan lowered her lashes.

Yes, such an absurd thing as “corpse-possession,” how was she supposed to explain it to her mother and grandmother?

What if her mother and grandmother refused to recognize her? What then?

Ning Yuan sniffled and said: “Then you should at least tell me, are my mother’s and grandmother’s health good?”

At the mention of Old Madame Ning’s health, Sikong Xue couldn’t help but feel troubled.

If she told Ayuan the truth, Ayuan would surely cry.

But at a time like this, if she hid it from Ayuan, Ayuan would surely be even angrier.

Ning Yuan lightly pinched Sikong Xue’s arm and said: “Sikong Xue, you are not allowed to hide it from me.”

Although she thought of biting Sikong Xue hard when she was angry, at a time like this, Ning Yuan truly couldn’t bear to use much force on her.

Sikong Xue sighed. She gently stroked the back of Ning Yuan’s neck and said: “Ayuan, Old Madame Ning’s health wasn’t very good a few days ago, but I have already arranged for a doctor to treat her. Now her health is slowly recovering. I’ll wait until the weather turns cooler to accompany you to Lingnan. Right now… it’s not the time yet.”

Sikong Xue spoke very earnestly.

She had her own difficulties.

If not for too many concerns, she would also want to take Ayuan to see her family immediately.

At the thought that she had nearly offered herself to Sikong Xue just to reunite with her family, Ning Yuan felt her face turn red.

If she had done those things as a foreign tribute, she wouldn’t have felt so embarrassed. But Sikong Xue already knew she was Ning Yuan how could she have done that?

Wait, no, at that time, Sikong Xue had actually rejected her.

“Sikong Xue, you don’t like me at all!”

That day she had summoned the courage to remove her clothes before Sikong Xue, yet Sikong Xue was not only unmoved but even put her clothes back on for her.

Ayuan’s sudden outburst left Sikong Xue at a loss.

After saying so much, why did Ayuan still feel she didn’t like her?

“Ayuan, where exactly did I not do well enough? Tell me, okay?”

Ning Yuan bit her lip and only spoke after a long time: “That day… when I was like that, you actually rejected me.”

Ning Yuan spoke vaguely, but Sikong Xue understood the meaning behind her words.

It turned out that a few days ago, Ayuan wanted to go to Lingnan to see her family but was unwilling to reveal her true identity, so she thought of using that method to beg her to take her there.

The thought that Ning Yuan had undressed before her just to please her made Sikong Xue feel only heartache.

“Ayuan, if I had agreed to you then, that would have been truly taking advantage of your plight.”

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