My Enemy Became My Cultivation Companion
Chapter 174 - 154 Trying to Like You

Chapter 174: Chapter 154 Trying to Like You

"Yin Tingxue, what do you mean by this?"

The girl saw it; Chen Yi’s gaze deepened hauntingly. She suppressed her weak knees, took one or two steps forward, and leaned into his embrace.

Yin Tingxue entered his arms and was casually caressed by him. She carefully took a few breaths and said nothing.

"What do you mean, hmm? Can you not like me? Or just not forever?"

Chen Yi looked at the girl in his arms and asked grimly:

"Are you trying to stall for time with procrastination?"

"It’s not like that..."

Yin Tingxue shook her head in his arms, her legs stiff and weak, not daring to speak the words she had long prepared in her heart.

"Then what do you mean?"

Chen Yi’s voice wasn’t gentle, and his fingertips wandered.

Looking at him, a strong sense of fear rose in Yin Tingxue’s heart.

Yin Tingxue trembled lightly, held in Chen Yi’s arms, not resisting, and dared not to struggle, she reached out and gently hugged him.

Her small hands wrapped around his waist, and she nestled fully into his embrace.

Chen Yi lowered his eyes slightly, watching her lift her face and softly ask:

"Are you... happy?"

"What do you mean?" Chen Yi asked.

"You said when I hold you like this... you’ll be happy."

Yin Tingxue still couldn’t stop trembling, her heart pounding, as if holding onto some make-or-break resolve.

She softened her voice, a little trembling, and said:

"Husband... I am your concubine, I can never leave you."

Chen Yi twirled her hair, which was jet-black and tender, and mocked:

"You naturally can’t leave me."

This sentence seemed to seal her fate, whether Yin Tingxue was willing or not, she was cast into an invisible prison.

"I know..."

She mumbled these words, lost in thought for a moment, then turned back, only to hear Chen Yi speak.

"You want to return to Yintai Temple, and I will take you back as we agreed, but we only agreed on three times, right?"

Chen Yi paused, meeting her uneasy gaze, and said with a sneer:

"After three times, I’ll never take you there again."

Yin Tingxue suddenly froze, her whole body filled with coldness, her eyes widened with tears forming, and she suddenly felt a sense of suffocation.

Now everything she had was under his control. She had always known this, but facing it truly, the panic was unavoidable.

Chen Yi smirked, cruel and sinister, and said:

"Moreover, I might take you to watch from afar, but no matter how you beg, you won’t be allowed to go in. If you are satisfied just by looking, then even that won’t be allowed, not even a glimpse, perhaps even a great fire..."

He felt the girl tremble in his arms, but she didn’t retreat. Instead, she silently clung even more tightly.

She seemed to want to make him happier, softer, not to do such things to her.

Chen Yi’s voice softened a little as he said:

"Let’s not talk about this; I believe we don’t need to reach such a point as long as you like me... I’ll take you there every year."

Yin Tingxue’s hand couldn’t help but scrunch his clothing, tears welled up, and she finally made a barely audible sound:

"Do you want... my heart?"

"What else?"

As the words fell, her hand trembled, pressing her face even closer, her face exceptionally pale.

This man, whom she was most afraid of in her life, wanted everything.

"You are already mine, do you even have a choice?"

Chen Yi asked indifferently.

Bitterness filled her lips, she trembled lightly, not looking at him at all, with a face full of despair:

"No, my heart... I cannot give."

The atmosphere suddenly became heavy; in the shadows, Chen Yi stared directly at her.

"If you don’t give your heart to me, who would you give it to?"

His voice was frighteningly calm.

"No one... but the heart is my own..."

Yin Tingxue shivered violently, her face ghostly pale,

"I gave you my body, always obeyed you, tried to make you happy; could you not want my heart?"

Then she noticed that Chen Yi’s gaze had turned completely dark, urgently avoiding his eyes.

But Chen Yi had already forcefully lifted her up.

As her feet left the ground, Yin Tingxue cried out in panic, then was carried to the bedroom, pressed onto the bed, her mind went blank.

"Wait, wait, husband... husband!"

She cried out, pushing Chen Yi; she hadn’t struggled like this for a long time.

Chen Yi slowed his hands a bit and said:

"If you have something to say, just say it, you can’t escape anyway today."

"No escape, no escape, I, I..."

She panted for a while, as Chen Yi noticed she wanted to say something but didn’t dare to, so he slowed his actions.

After a while, Yin Tingxue reached out and gently hooked Chen Yi’s neck, wanting him to lie on the bed.

She faintly sensed that when he lay on the bed holding her, he would be much more reasonable.

As she was so compliant, Chen Yi did not refuse, reclining on the bed to look at her.

"What do you want to say?"

Yin Tingxue took a deep breath and eventually softened her voice, saying:

"Doesn’t someone who likes another person... want to make that person happy?"

"So?"

"Conversely, making someone like you is just to make them happy too, right?"

Yin Tingxue spoke fast, worried that Chen Yi wouldn’t hear her clearly, so she repeated herself.

"Interesting, what are you trying to say?"

Chen Yi raised an eyebrow, asking with a half-smile.

Yin Tingxue squeezed her hands tight, curled up, leaning against his chest, not daring to look at him, and finally spoke the words she had hesitated over:

"Husband... in the future, the future I’ll make you happy, as though I like you, make you happy like one would..."

"And you... don’t force me to have children."

As if making a tremendous proposal, her eyes flickered nervously.

Chen Yi, intrigued by this somewhat whimsical proposal, laughed and asked:

"So you’re saying... you don’t like me, but will act like you do to make me happy?"

"Mm... I’ll think of you, remember your goodness, and even kiss you..."

"Is that all?"

"And... and act, act spoiled."

Her little face turned red to the extreme, she cautiously snuggled into his embrace.

Chen Yi pondered with his eyes half-closed.

Afraid he wasn’t satisfied, she quietly added:

"In the process, I’ll try, okay?"

"Try what?"

"Try to..."

Stammering, she finally spoke out,

"Try to like you..."

Chen Yi was taken aback, his heart subtly stirred; those words seemed to touch his core.

Yin Tingxue feared he wouldn’t agree, so she lifted her eyes to observe:

"Is that... okay? You said you could give me some time..."

Even though he understood that this was likely another one of her soft tactics to stall, Chen Yi was nevertheless touched.

He laughed, kissed her face, and said:

"Since I said it, so be it."

Tears welled in Yin Tingxue’s eyes, and the corners of her mouth lifted slightly; she wiped her tears with a hint of embarrassment:

"Then, then... let’s do it."

"Hmm? Tasting the marrow, insatiable desires now?" Chen Yi’s hands started to wander restlessly.

Hearing his teasing, Yin Tingxue, fearing he’d retract his promise, bit her lip and endured the grievance, saying:

"Mm, I want... it now..."

Seeing her pitiful expression, Chen Yi felt his heart tighten inexplicably.

She had no mother, her family was uprooted, and at the end of it all, she was left alone with nothing but him—the person who took her as a concubine, this enemy.

He gently held her, feeling the fragility of the girl, and softly said:

"So timid and pitiful, little fox."