Chapter 23: Chapter 23

The more violent Nangong Du was with him, the more hostile the way Zixiu stared at him. Being filled with incisive hatred, Zixiu revealed a stubborn look. After being kidnapped by that damn woman and becoming ‘Princess Liuxu’ for no reason, he was humiliated and abused in every possible way by his perverted ‘husband’, who was kicking him now and might kill him at any time! ‘What have I done wrong? Why am I subjected to such inhuman torture?” Zixiu felt grievously wronged.

However, even if he didn’t want to submit to humiliation, what could he do? Zixiu deeply regretted not having learned Qing Kung from his father. If he had learned it before, he wouldn’t have been cornered like this, and at least, he could take advantage of this pervert’s negligence to escape by leaping onto roofs and vaulting over walls. “Dad must be looking for me everywhere, but under no circumstance would it dawn on him that I’m in Prince Mu’s Mansion. Am I destined to end up dead miserably like this?” At the thought of this, Zixiu couldn’t hold back his tears anymore.

Nangong Du was stunned and immediately withdrew his foot when he suddenly saw a teardrop rolling down Zixiu’s face.

“Are you crying?” He thought that Zixiu would either go for mutual destruction or surrender right away, but to his surprise, that blockhead suddenly burst into tears!

“It hurts so much! Can’t I even shed a few tears?” Zixiu thought angrily, gritting his teeth. He blinked hard with a frown, trying to calm himself down. However, tears continued to break free, like broken strings of bead. He wasn’t a coward, but the sharp pain in his stomach was really killing him!

Seeing the hatred that annoyed him in Zixiu’s eyes had been replaced by grievance, Nangong Du curved his lips up slightly after a moment of thought. “Liu Zixiu, I’d like to offer a deal!”

“A deal?” Zixiu curled up with his hands covering his stomach, having no strength left to speak.

Nangong Du sat down on the side of the bed and continued, “If you agree to my terms, I promise I’ll never find fault with you!”

“You bastard, what you’ve done is far more than finding fault with me!” Zixiu couldn’t help cursing inwardly. This psycho made such an understatement about his brutality, so the terms of this bullshit deal must be unfair!

“You don’t agree?” From Zixiu’s expression, Nangong Du could read his mind. He deliberately parted Zixiu’s folded hands covering his stomach and threatened with a grim look, “Looks like you haven’t had enough of my punches!”

“No! Don’t!” Zixiu shook his head instinctively. With a painful lump in his throat, he was about to cry again. Maybe he was truly a good-for-nothing, but he just didn’t want to be pushed around again. It was too hard to be a brave and unyielding tough man!

“Good!” Nangong Du nodded with satisfaction and rubbed Zixiu’s stomach gently, as if out of concern. “It’s quite simple! As long as you swear allegiance to me and never betray me, I’ll spare you and won’t force you to tell me who’s behind you. What’s more, I can pay you more than he did… ”

“Hm!” Zixiu nodded with his eyes closed. He was aware that it was useless to protest, and now as he was suffering from a terrible stomachache, he was not in the mood to listen to this pervert explain the unequal treaty to him.

Nangong Du continued, seemingly undisturbed by Zixiu’s attitude. “Needless to say, if you’re indeed innocent, I promise you’ll live comfortably in the rest of your life!”

“All right!”

“Darling, you’re such a straightforward person! Come on! Gimme your hand!”

“Hm!” Zixiu nodded in a semiconscious state, yielding Nangong Du to put his index finger on the cinnabar seal-ink and leave his fingerprint on the agreement.

Now that the deal had been settled, Nangong Du put away the agreement and the seal-ink with a quirky smile on his face. When he came back to bed, his attitude towards Zixiu was totally changed, as if he came back as a different person.

He bent over to take off the white embroidered shoes for Zixiu, and then carefully moved him to the middle of the bed before putting a pillow under his head. “Darling, now that you’ve agreed to be loyal to me forever, I won’t pick on you anymore, but you should never forget the agreement between us!”

“Hm!” Zixiu muttered with a nod while beads of perspiration was forming on his forehead.

“Does it really hurt that much?” Nangong Du asked with a trace of anxiety on his grim face. He hesitated for a short moment before he put his hand on Zixiu’s stomach again and began to massage it gently.

Sensing a warm stream running through his stomach, Zixiu felt a little better. In a state of half-consciousness, he moved closer to the source of the heat instinctively while grumbling as if complaining of coldness or pain.

At the sight of Zixiu moving towards him, Nangong Du went stiff in an instant. After quite a while, he reached out his other hand and wrapped Zixiu in his arms.