Chapter 4

Chapter 4

What does it feel like when petals fall on your face?

A little tingling. A little itchy…

I woke from the haze, and once again, those pure white petals appeared before my eyes. For a moment, I couldn’t tell dream from reality.

I looked around and realized I was on a… large bed?

A few long, elegant fingers waved in front of me and took away the flowering branch before my eyes. Behind me, Lord Lintian wore only a black robe, one side of his bare chest exposed. He leaned down slightly, his expression exquisitely beautiful.

“You like these flowers too?”

A bewitching, cloyingly sweet scent of wine drilled straight into my nose. Cold sweat ran down my jaw in a string, dripping drop by drop onto my neck.

“…I wouldn’t dare.”

“Heh.”

When I saw him reach out, I instinctively ducked.

But his hand passed over me. All he did was pick up a wine jug, then pluck the flowers from the head of the bed, one branch after another, sticking them all over my hair and temples until I looked like some gaudy pheasant.

Then, with a faint drunkenness about him, he studied me for a long while.

“What an ugly flower holder.”

Me: “…”

As if to make me better acknowledge my own ugliness, Lord Lintian lifted the quilt at the side of the bed, revealing a stunningly beautiful face wrapped in frost.

With just one glance, every hair on my body stood on end.

Did he sleep under the same covers as a corpse every single night?

“Sure enough, I still like her better.”

The man lowered his head tenderly and pressed a gentle kiss to those bloodless lips.

At that moment, two beautiful faces rested close together-one human, one ghost; one alive, one dead. It was pleasing to the eye, yet carried a chilling strangeness. If this were in Cloud Heaven, plenty of fangirls might start shipping this tragic couple.

Though I truly couldn’t appreciate it.

This had nothing to do with me at first. After all, who didn’t have a little unspeakable secret?

Until he tipped his head back, took a huge gulp of wine, then suddenly wrapped an arm around me and sealed my lips with his…

!

In that instant, what he passed to me was not only that burning liquor, but also the icy sensation of the corpse.

When that wanton plundering finally ended, I immediately bent over the edge of the bed and retched again and again. Behind me came his cool, mocking voice. “A woman who escaped from a dark alley doesn’t even know how to serve a man?”

“…”

What could I possibly say?

You win, you animal.

I wiped my lips desperately and said through gritted teeth, “My lord, doing such things, aren’t you afraid she’ll turn into a vengeful ghost and come back for revenge?”

Seeing that I had choked until my eyes were full of tears, Lord Lintian fixed his deep, lush eyes on me. After a long while, the ink-wash curve of his eyes lifted slightly, and his gaze filled with a rare delight. “If I dare to commit evil, then I don’t fear vengeful ghosts coming for me… Even if she dares to seek me out, she’d still have to be alive enough to get off my bed.”

With that, he pressed me down into the pillows with one hand, every inch of him wicked.

“Don’t you think so?”

Before I could answer, I already felt something surging in my throat. It was the wine he’d forced down me acting up.

“Wait, I-”

“Hm?”

His face leaned in again, and I couldn’t hold it back anymore. I opened my mouth and went, “Blargh”…

After one thoroughly satisfying bout of vomiting,

Lord Lintian froze.