Not Your Typical Villianess

The Dule's mansion 

"What mother-in-law! What do you take me for? I don't want nor do I need another wife, you are already high maintenance. Plus I love you, I won't take a concubine and complicate things further".

Su Liya gazed at his eyes wide, her initial expression fell off her face, only Lu Yaozhu's words repeated in her head. She was taken aback by his words, she never expected him to say that. After settling her feelings, this past hour, she had decided to take a risk and tell him how she felt. Maybe it was the Little inkling, she had that he felt the same way for her.

She had made a few plans in her head of what she would say when they met and how she would act but when they were face to face. She began to waver, she didn't know how he would react and was scared that he would be very embarrassing for her. She suddenly decided not to say anything else and just keep her feeling to herself.

She felt revitalized and encouraged to take that risk, as he unknowingly confessed to her. All her initial fear dropped and she decided to go big or go home. She reduced the distance between them and ran up to him, Lu Yaozhu was a tree compared to the petite height of the current body she found herself stuck in. 

She had never understood the blight of petite women until she was placed in this position. Her original height of 170 was pretty tall, it was one of her original body's features that she missed. Luckily she quickly worked out a suitable solution to the height issues in her mind.

She pulled ar the lapels of his outer jacket down resulting in him betting his head. This eliminated the previous distance between them. His head was pulled down to a suitable distance, that both suited her mechanisms and wouldn't end up choking him. She stood at the tip of her toes, pulsed up her lips as she got closer to his cheek. 

Lu Yaozhu turned his face suddenly as she was a breath away and their lip touched, what started as a sudden butterfly kiss on the lips progress further. Her eyes widened as she looked into his eyes, Lu Yaozhu placed his hands on her chin. He coaxed her to open her lip and depended on the kiss.

She felt a slight heat on her back, as a wider muscular hand rested on her back. His hand moved up her back to her waist gradually pulling her closer. His hand on her chin left her chin and moved up to rest on her black silky hair. Her hair gradually came undone as he ran his hand through her hair. He skillfully removed her hairpins from her hair, making each strand fall as he did.

Her heart beat faster and shivers ran through her from her neck down to her toes, making her toes coil. She wrapped her hands around his neck, he held her tighter until they were chest to chest. Her hair was completely undone with her hairpins scattered around the ground. He placed his hands on her waist and carried her up. 

Her legs instinctively wrapped around his marrow hip and she held him thighed. The move made them face to face, He held him tightly and walked forward until they got to the steps leading to his reading table. He led her to the side table by the steps, sat her on the table and kiss his lips down her neck. 

Her brain was in a fog, she didn't pay any attention to her surroundings much less her fallen hairpins. The couple were too absorbed in their hormones and feelings that they didn't hear the multiple knocks on the door. It wasn't until the door was pushed open and his older brother walked in on them, that they were pulled back to reality.

"How come you are not answering A'zhu. It is about your return..... to Ningzhuo_ oh no sorry!" He quickly turned around. He heard his brother call out in an annoyed tone.

"Again" 

"I am sorry once again, you know what ... I will leave while... You two..... You know... Continue what you were up to" the last few words was midfield as he rushed out of the room quickly. Su Liya's two maids who stood outside the sturdy waiting washed him run out in shock. They didn't understand why he was running like there was a Devil on his tail. 

They glanced at each other and shrugged before turning around again to follow him. Rong Rong looked at Baozhai and asked, "didn't his grace just arrive here? How come he is leaving immediately? It can't be that there is something strange going on inside?"

"I am also out here with you, how would I know what happened inside", Baozhai said rolling her eyes. Rong Rong sometimes tempts her to commit murder, she had no idea how Rong Rong brain worked. By now nothing Rong Rong said or did surprise her, she had learned to expect the unexpected. 

Meanwhile, in the study. The fog in Su Liya's head cleared as Lu Yingjie walked in on them. Suddenly, Feeling self-conscious, in her present position. She buried her face in Lu Yaozhu's chest, luckily Lu Yingjie didn't stay long. She unwrapped her hands from around his neck and faintly hit him on his shoulder, she got down from the table as he pulled back slightly. 

"wait_"

Before he could continue his words, she straightened out her clothes and ran out of the room. Lu Yaozhu chuckled as he watched her run out of the room, he walked around the room and picked up her hairpins. He placed them in the box on his table, he would bring them back to her after the family dinner.

Su Liya ignited the looks her maid gave her as she ran out of the study with her hair down. There was no way she looked at this that would not be even a little embarrassing. Luckily her maid was too shocked to say anything else, she never doubted that they had already put one and two together and discovered just what went in the study.

Before leaving the safety of Lu Yaozhu's usually empty courtyard. She now appreciates Lu Yaozhu's strange preference of not keeping any maids in his study. If this was her pavilion, the news of their afternoon dalliance would have spread throughout the mansion that she would be put on the hot seat by madam Lu during the family dinner. 

Madam Lu wasn't one to drag anything out so she was sure that the case won't be moved till tomorrow like it would in other households. She touched her hair and glanced from Baozhai to Ring Rong and asked "do you have a ribbon or any hairpins on you?" 

Baozhai shook her head while Rong Rong put her hand into her sleeve and pulled out a slim white ribbon. "You can you mine your highness" she held it out to Su Liya.

"Thanks" she picked up the ribbon and packed her head into a ponytail. After getting good confirmations from her maid, she returned to her Pavillion.

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Hours later at the family dinner

The entire family were seated on the square-shaped table placed on the open-walled pavilion in the middle of the garden. The table was already set when they all arrived, they all got seated. Lu Yaozhu and Su Liya arrived last, Lu Yaozhu had a late visitor from the training camp which delayed them. Everyone was already seated when they arrived, the two-seat opposite Lu Yingjie and Zhu Fengyin was left for them. 

Su Liya looked away as soon as her gaze fell on Lu Yingjie, her cheeks heated up as she remembered that he had walked in on her in a compromising position. She could not look at him and just focused her eyes on the dishes on the table in front of her. They were barely seated when madam Lu announced, 

"Finally we have good news, Physician Gu came over this afternoon to examine Fengyin. After examining her, he reported that she was three months pregnant!" Madam Lu grinned widely.

A smile broke out of her face and Su Liya looked up at Zhu Fengyin. "Congratulations Jei Jei!" She watched Zhu Fengyin's face brighten up, her eyes were almost opened into slants. Zhu Fengyin's pregnancy was big news for the family, with everything they had all been through these few weeks. They welcomed any good news, everyone congratulated Zhu Fengyin.

Madam Lu had stepped fully into the position of caring mother-in-law. She made sure that Zhu Fengyin's plate was filled with nothing but nutritious dishes. She was so focused on making Zhu Fengyin eat her weight in food that she barely noticed the awkwardness between Lu Yaozhu, Su Liya and Lu Yingjie. 

Su Liya didn't have much of an appetite as she was too embarrassed to look at Lu Yingjie. Their close distance meant that they would share a few dishes. She only ate from the dishes closer to her, to avoid looking up at him. Her actions weren't lost on Lu Yaozhu who put more dishes on her plate while glaring at Lu Yingjie over her head. Lu Yingjie himself felt rather awkward, he mouths apologise at Lu Yaozhu.

Who continued to give him a death stare. Su Liya rushed out without Yaozhu following closer as soon as madam Lu Left.