Chapter 739: The Duke’s Perfect Counterattack in the Trial (4)_1
"Mm!" Mo Yan furrowed her brows, biting her lip and answering softly.
Concern creates chaos, ever since Mo Qingze proposed the court challenge, Mo Yan’s heart had been hanging. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust her father’s power, but the matter was so important, she couldn’t help worrying. Now, hearing that Xiao Ruiyuan had another way to prove her father’s innocence, she had wanted to ask, but swallowed the question back.
Seeing that she clearly wanted to know, yet was cautiously not asking more, Xiao Ruiyuan felt a softness in his heart, "No matter what, I won’t let Uncle Mo get into trouble. After the challenge in court and Uncle Mo has proven his innocence, you all can reunite as a family. Trust me, okay?"
His voice, already deep and pleasant, carried a trace of lingering sound that entered Mo Yan’s ears, gradually soothing her somewhat restless heart. She nodded, her eyes filled with trust as she looked at Xiao Ruiyuan.
The way she looked at him made Xiao Ruiyuan’s heart warm, but his gaze unconsciously fell on her lips that she had bitten into a bright red, suddenly feeling his mouth go dry. An indescribable restlessness surged to his head, and he was seized by an impulse to crush the person before him into his arms and kiss her deeply, as if only by doing so could he quench that sudden craving.
As a man in his twenties, he was very clear about where that craving came from. Precisely because of this, he felt extremely ashamed, feeling like he had desecrated the person before him, and it was at such an unsuitable moment – when she was at her most vulnerable.
But when emotions run deep, some things can’t be controlled by will, even if he was once the Great General renowned for his indomitable will on the bloodstained battlefields.
Mo Yan was startled by Xiao Ruiyuan’s intense gaze and hurriedly lowered her head, unconsciously taking two steps back. They were at the busy palace gates; if they really did something inappropriate, a celebrated Great General and a County Lord caught in the midst of controversy would become tomorrow’s talk of Jing City, spreading through every street and alley.