The Princess and Her Rough-Rider Khan
Chapter 426 - 425 Can’t it be dealt with tomorrow? (first update)

Chapter 426: 425 Can’t it be dealt with tomorrow? (first update)

Li Xianyun averted her gaze from Yelu Yan’s burning eyes and looked towards the pastries on the desk,

but she could still feel that Yelu Yan was staring at her with a smile playing on his lips.

When she returned to Khan Palace, she must tell him to restrain himself more in public.

Yaduo watched the couple’s affectionate display and exchanged a knowing smile with her personal maid.

After Li Xianyun and Yelu Yan had finished their meal in Cirui Palace, they just stepped out of the palace gate when Yelu Yan picked her up horizontally in his arms.

The guards and attending palace attendants automatically distanced themselves from the couple.

The bright moon hung high in the sky, stars twinkled, and there was the occasional sound of the wind.

Lanterns were hung all around the palace; their amber glow cast the shadows of the two nestled together onto the ground.

Li Xianyun leaned her head on Yelu Yan’s shoulder, looking at the surroundings, her heart as calm as still water.

"My lord, you must be more mindful in front of Grandmother,"

she said gently, her voice pleasing to the ear, making one feel at ease.

Yelu Yan looked down at Li Xianyun and hummed in response.

He had been very careful already—when they were alone, their intimacy was boundless.

Li Xianyun sighed softly; Yelu Yan always agreed with her, but when the time came, he would do as he pleased all the same.

Li Xianyun was well aware of his good intentions; by doting on her in front of others, no one would dare treat her with disrespect.

From the time she entered the palace, Yelu Yan had always treated her with great respect, and later on, his affection for her was enough to make others envious.

"Tired?"

Yelu Yan asked with a smile.

Li Xianyun looked up at him and hummed a response, smiling, "Well-fed and sleepy."

"You’ve got that right, ’Well-fed and brimming with desire,’ Xianxian, your thoughts are quite accurate," the man said with a mischievous laugh.

Li Xianyun glanced at him; when she mentioned sleep, she didn’t mean that kind of desire.

However, today Yelu Yan would at least let her rest for a day.

The night before had been reckless; he had even personally applied medicine, how could he not know that she was already overwhelmed?

Yelu Yan laughed and said, "Close your eyes, if you fall asleep, I will not wake you."

Li Xianyun yawned, her eyes misting, and she blinked a few times, leaning on Yelu Yan’s sturdy shoulder, "I won’t fall asleep."

When the couple returned to Khan Palace, the palace servants and maids saw the Khan carrying the princess back, and she had her eyes closed, so they conscientiously switched to silent salutations.

Yelu Yan thought Li Xianyun had fallen asleep, but just as they entered the inner chamber, she opened her eyes, struggling to come down.

Seeing Li Xianyun fetching some clothes from the cabinet, Yelu Yan also went to get his own.

Li Xianyun watched him warily, "My lord, not tonight."

"I know, it’s just a bath together, nothing more. What’s there to be afraid of, come on," he said, taking her clothes and holding both of their garments in one hand while encircling his beautiful wife with the other toward the bathroom.

Li Xianyun resisted, moving her body backward, "So many people are watching. It’s embarrassing for us to go in together."

"It’s not the first or second time; they’re used to it. Let’s go," he insisted.

The difference in strength between men and women is indeed too great.

In the end, Li Xianyun was compelled to enter the steam-filled bathroom with Yelu Yan.

...

It took a long while for the two to emerge from the bathroom.

As before, Yelu Yan carried Li Xianyun horizontally to the inner chamber.

Li Xianyun’s face was flushed red, and she looked utterly exhausted.

Yelu Yan, on the other hand, appeared satisfied and content, like a man well-fed.

The sight of the two of them easily sparked the imagination.

And in reality, such imaginings were not far from the truth.

Upon entering the inner chamber, Li Xianyun looked up at Yelu Yan and said, "Husband, I need to go to the Warm Pavilion to handle some business."

"It’s too late, settle down early."

Yelu Yan said and then walked toward the bed.

"Husband," Li Xianyun called out to him again.

"Can’t you deal with it tomorrow?"

"I can’t, it’s important."

Yelu Yan had no choice but to carry her to the Warm Pavilion and set her down on the Taishi Chair in front of the desk.

Li Xianyun, with her waist-length, waterfall-like loose hair and her small, smooth, and pale face, was even more stunning under the light.

She opened an envelope on the desk, which contained the banquet guest list that Bater had gotten from the Department Ceremonial Affairs at her request, using reliable people.

Li Xianyun had to make some changes to it.

In a separate purification room of the main hall, Yelu Yan brought two pieces of dry soft cloth from the purification room to wring Li Xianyun’s hair.

Even though her hair was half-dried after being wiped in the bathing room, it still seemed a bit wet for sleeping.

Seeing Yelu Yan approach, Li Xianyun handed him the guest list.

Yelu Yan gathered her hair, lifted it to avoid wetting her thin clothes, and with the other hand took the guest list and looked it over closely.

Li Xianyun repeated the issues she had found.

Yelu Yan handed the guest list back to her and praised, "It should be changed, otherwise it would be laughable and also chill the hearts of the royal relatives and noble families."

As he spoke, he wrapped Li Xianyun’s hair strands and slowly wiped and wrung them, "So, did you find the problems through this guest list?"

"Yes. I’m thinking of arranging a few queen consorts in the front row, and placing two Commandery Princesses from other countries in the middle of the second row, what do you think?"

"Very good."

"Do you truly think it’s good?" Li Xianyun turned to look at him.

Every time she said something, Yelu Yan always agreed with her, always saying "good," and accommodating her in everything, making it difficult for her to know whether Yelu Yan genuinely thought it was good or if he was just saying that to make her happy.

Seeing her look over, Yelu Yan paused in his hair-drying, smiled, and said, "Good means good, this matter concerns the state, I would never deceive you."

"That’s good then."

Li Xianyun, with a smile at her lips, took out a fresh piece of rice paper, dipped her brush in ink, and began writing down the seating order for the honored guests at the banquet. Because she looked down, a long, white, and bare stretch of her neck was revealed.

Yelu Yan saw and his adam’s apple bobbed heavily, his eyes brimming with deep affection.

He never thought of himself as a man driven by lust, yet he could always be easily provoked into losing control by Li Xianyun.

Just now in the bathing room, when they were naked before each other, he couldn’t possibly remain indifferent. He pulled her into his embrace, showering her with kisses and caresses.

Gradually, he began to lose control, and if Li Xianyun hadn’t shivered in fear, he might have gone in again.

Yelu Yan’s adam’s apple moved heavily once more, deliberately ignoring that stretch of white neck, shifting his gaze to her writing.

Li Xianyun’s Khitan writing was excellent, the characters graceful and meticulous, always leaving one feeling both comfortable and pleasantly surprised.

How could she, raised deep inside the women’s quarters, know the Khitan language and script?

Unable to resist, Yelu Yan asked, "Xianxian, who taught you the Khitan language and script?"

Li Xianyun did not conceal it, replying, "I learned from my master. She not only imparted medical knowledge to me but also taught me the Khitan language and script."

Li Xianyun’s medical skills were profound, so her master must certainly be highly skilled in medicine as well.

"Your master must be a famous physician, right?"

Li Xianyun lifted her brush and said, "My master is very low-profile, not many know about her."

After saying this, she continued writing.

Yelu Yan did not ask further, taking it as casual conversation between the couple.

Li Xianyun quickly finished writing the guest list, but Yelu Yan had yet to dry her hair.

"Husband, if you wait until tomorrow evening to remove those traps, will it be too late?"

"It won’t be. There’s plenty of time, and I am already well aware of those curs. They are all within my control."

Li Xianyun fell silent for a moment, then said, "Husband, you must be extremely careful when facing the assassinations of those people."