A spoonful of medicine was still put into Bai Yu'an's mouth. She endured it and looked at a certain part of Shen Jue's clothes absentmindedly. As soon as the medicine was delivered, she silently opened her lips.
One of her hands was supported on the couch, and her body leaned forward slightly. The hem of her clothes fell from her legs, and the black boots on her feet were looming.
Shen Jue watched quietly until the medicine in his hand was clean, and his eyes fell on Bai Yuan's water-colored lips.
Bai Yu'an looked at the empty medicine bowl and was about to speak, but Shen Jue put the empty bowl aside and said to Bai Yu'an, "Let's talk after Yu'an has a meal with me."
After saying that, Shen Jue stood up and pulled Bai Yu'an outside.
The table in the elegant room was covered with dishes. Bai Yu'an watched Shen Jue sit down opposite, silent in his heart, and sat in front of him.
Bai Yu'an had no appetite at all. He ate very slowly and couldn't finish after a few hasty bites.
Shen Jue looked at it indifferently, and then said casually: "Don't Yu'an want to have a good talk with me? I'll have a good talk with you after finishing the bowl."
Bai Yu'an lowered his head and looked at the bowl in front of him, which was almost full of what Shen Jue had pinched.
She didn't say anything, but took her chopsticks and started eating.
Bai Yu'an had a hard time eating this meal, her stomach was churning, but she still endured the discomfort and finished eating. Only when the tea finally cleared her mouth did she feel relieved.
She looked at Shen Jue: "Shen Shoufu, what are you..."
Before he finished speaking, Shen Jue interrupted again: "Yu'an, this is not the place to talk."
As Shen Jue said this, she walked over to Bai Yu'an, hugged her in his arms, and carried her back to the back room.
Bai Yu'an felt really uncomfortable. Did Shen Jue think she had no legs?
Shen Jue hugged Bai Yu'an back to his lap, and then looked at her calmly and asked, "What does Yu'an want to tell me now?"
Bai Yu'an endured the discomfort of being held by Shen Jue, and she looked at Shen Jue: "How long do Shen Chief Fu plan to keep my matter a secret from me?"
Shen Jue slowly took off Bai Yu'an's hairpin, watched the long hair fall, and looked firmly into Bai Yu'an's eyes: "Let's just see what Yu'an does."
With these frivolous actions again, Bai Yuan only hated himself for having to talk to such a deceitful person.
Clenching his hands tightly, Bai Yu'an lowered his head and said softly: "What exactly does Shen Shouxu want me to do?"
"I don't want to do this again."
Shen Jue held Bai Yu'an's hand, brushed his thumb on the warm and smooth fingertips, and said lightly: "It's very simple. I want to change your identity again. You can't stay in the court anymore."
Bai Yu'an was stunned and quickly looked at Shen Jue in panic: "Shen Jue, don't do this."
Shen Jue looked at Bai Yu'an with deep eyes, pursed her lips for a while and then said: "You are a woman after all, and the court is not your destination."
"And there are men around you. You deal with those men every day. Do you think no one can tell?"
Bai Yu'an pulled Shen Jue's sleeve and shook his head: "No one can find out. As long as Shen Shoufu doesn't tell, no one will know."
Shen Jue looked at Bai Yu'an sarcastically: "Bai Yu'an, who am I and why should I hide it for you?"
"You can handle those men touching you whenever they want, leaning against you, arms around you?"
"Or do you like this too?"
"Do you like letting other men touch you?"
Bai Yu'an was startled and looked at Shen Jue absentmindedly. It took him a long time to find his voice: "Shen Jue, I can only be a man. I cannot become a woman, otherwise my family will not tolerate me."
Shen Jue put his palms against Bai Yuan's back and pressed her into his arms: "Give them enough power and status, and they can be accommodated."
"I promoted your father to the prefect, and in two years he will be promoted to the capital. He will be given a name in the Sixth Department to support his retirement, and then I will also promote your brother-in-law who is working as an errand in the yamen."
"Yu An, do you think your family won't be able to accept it?"
Bai Yu'an began to panic: "Shen Jue, you can't do this..."
"You don't know my father..."
Shen Jue looked at Bai Yu'an and sneered: "Bai Yu'an, you don't understand people's hearts."
"No one can resist a position of power. Even if your father still can't accept it, it can't change the fact. If you don't dare to face it, you don't have to step forward."
"I'll take care of everything in your house for you."
Bai Yu'an's face was pressed against Shen Jue's arms, and the hands behind her kept pressing her, making her feel breathless.
She finally asked: "Why did you do this?"
Above her head came Shen Jue's somewhat cold voice: "Why? Of course I can't tolerate letting other men touch you anymore."
Bai Yu'an felt a little ridiculous. She raised her head and looked at Shen Jue with difficulty, with reluctance in her eyes: "I have been a man for more than ten years, and touching among colleagues is inevitable."
"Even though I am a woman, these are gentlemen's friendships that are limited to etiquette, yet you think so badly of me."
Anger gradually gathered in Shen Jue's eyes: "Bai Yu'an, you are carrying this face and still wishing for the courtesy of a gentleman. Don't you know that the people around you have unreasonable thoughts about you?"
"Those glamorous rumors about you were just suppressed by me in the palace. You actually think that those people will be polite to you."
"You are so naive, have you forgotten that you are still a woman!"
Bai Yu'an gritted her teeth angrily at Shen Jue's words and met Shen Jue's gaze: "Is it possible that you have such dirty thoughts yourself and think that everyone is as dirty as you?"
"If you hadn't forced me, if you hadn't insisted on meddling in my affairs, I would never have been discovered to be a woman."
"It's all your meddling!"
Shen Jue held Bai Yu'an's wrist fiercely, his dark eyes narrowed and he approached her, his eyes like blades trying to cut a gash in Bai Yu'an: "Am I meddling in other people's business?"
"How about you being able to deal with Gu Yiyi if I don't mind my own business?"
"If I don't deal with Gu Yiyi for you, you won't be able to deal with it at all."
"Princess Jianing is still keeping an eye on you. If the Queen Mother finds out about your affairs, she won't be as easy to talk to as me."
Bai Yu'an was so flustered by Shen Jue's oppressive gaze that she leaned back slightly and suddenly asked in a trembling voice, "What happened to Gu Yiyi?"
Shen Jue had cold eyes: "If this secret is not revealed, she will never be able to speak."
Bai Yu'an quickly grabbed Shen Jue's clothes, her body was shaking a little, and her face turned pale: "Did you kill her?"
Shen Jue snorted and raised her eyebrows: "She threatens you like this, doesn't Yu An hate her?"
"It would be best for you if she died."
Bai Yu'an didn't expect that a human life would be so worthless in Shen Jue's eyes. She looked at Shen Jue absentmindedly: "Gu Yiyi hates me because I did something wrong back then, but you actually killed her... "
Bai Yu'an couldn't accept it and pushed Shen Jue's chest away hard: "You might as well kill me, so I don't have to be coerced by you anymore."
However, Bai Yu'an's strength was no match for Shen Jue's, so Shen Jue pulled him back hard.
He pinched Bai Yu'an's chin hard, suppressed his anger and said angrily to Bai Yu'an: "When Gu Yiyi finds out that the question you gave her is fake, do you think she will become angry?"
"You think that because you also have the excuse to take the exam for her, she will not coerce you anymore because she cares about her elder brother."
"But you underestimate human nature. People who are at the end of their rope are the ones who can't be forced the most. She would rather die with you than let you go."
"If you hadn't come that day, she would have died that day."
"Bai Yu'an, you know what happened back then. Even if you went to save her, you couldn't save her!"
Bai Yu'an met Shen Jue's eyes, gritted her teeth, shook her head and said, "Gu Yiyi has always wanted to live, how did you know that she would die with me?"
"Can everything be solved only by killing people?"
"My majestic chief minister, you kill innocent people indiscriminately, how can you deserve to sit in this position!"
After Bai Yu'an finished speaking, the room fell silent for a moment, and an inexplicable coldness enveloped the room for an instant.
Bai Yu'an looked at Shen Jue's increasingly serious face, panicked in her heart, and couldn't help but take a step back.
Shen Jue did not give Bai Yu'an this chance. He grabbed Bai Yu'an's collar tightly and wanted to crush Bai Yu'an into pieces. He gritted his teeth coldly and said: "Bai Yu'an, I advise you not to make me angry again. "
"Otherwise, don't blame me for being merciless to you."
