Hello folks! Pardon our lateness, my laptop sorta died, but now we’re back.
I Won’t Marry
Ye Xiudu didn’t wake up until it was already the middle of the night. The candle over the table had burned out a long time ago and there was no one else inside of the room.
Letting out a chuckle he looked up and stared at the ceiling. After some time, he asked in a low voice: “Where’s she?”
A voice rang from the darkness, its tone respectful: “Answering the Lord, after Miss Yu detoxified the Lord, she went out to look for the Little Lord but was unable to find him yet.”
“Uhm.” Ye Xiudu closed his eyes again. Without finding him, she would be coming back sooner or later.
He didn’t believe that she, who had been living with Nannan for such a long time, would be willing to abandon her small child and leave this courtyard by herself.
As he was thinking so, suddenly, there’s was a banging sound coming from the door as it was slammed open.
Following that, there were the heavy steps of Yu Qingluo entering the room as she walked up to Ye Xiudu’s bed in large strides. When she noticed that he was asleep she directly sat on the chair in front of his bed and stretched a hand to pinch his face: “Ye Xiudu, you bastard! Just where did you hide my son?! Do you really think I don’t dare to kill you? Don’t you believe that I’ll mince you up and feed your flesh to dogs?!”
“I believe.” a dull and muffled voice sounded from up the bed. Since there was no fat in his cheeks, his words sounded strange amidst Yu Qingluo’s merciless pinch.
Yu Qingluo suddenly let go of him and stood up abruptly: “Are you awake?” Why did he wake up so fast? Wasn’t he poisoned so badly that he’d have to sleep at least until tomorrow to recover from it?
Ye Xiudu stretched out a hand to rub his sore cheek then sat up feebly on the bed to look at the woman not even two steps away from him. He couldn’t help but laugh at her: “I thought I wouldn’t be able to wake up any longer. But I couldn’t have imagined that you still can’t bear to see me die.”
(TL: Is that what they call ‘using a short stick to poke at a tiger’? lmao)
“…” she suddenly regretted saving him. Can’t time just rewind?
“Hoh, that was only for Nannan’s sake. I just don’t want him to blame me for killing his biological father.”
Ye Xiudu’s brows twisted in a frown, but he felt secretly relieved. Was she finally going to admit that he was Nannan’s biological father?
“Ye Xiudu, where the hell is my son?!” She had already searched this place inside out. She even searched Mo Xian, Wen Tian and the other’s rooms, even the bathrooms and kitchen weren’t spared, but her son was nowhere in sight.
There was a 100% chance that Nannan had been hidden by Ye Xiudu, but the others were unwilling to let out a single word and looked like they were ready to die if she tried to force them to say something, as they only closed their eyes and readied themselves to be tortured by her.
Ye Xiudu sighed softly and said in a helpless tone: “As long as you give up leaving with Nannan, I’ll naturally let the two of you meet.”
“It isn’t safe staying by your side.” who knew if he’d suddenly grab her son on a whim and throw her out of the house? Wouldn’t she repeat the same mistakes all over and become a ‘woman who was abandoned’ once again?
Ye Xiudu fell silent. Only after a few moments had passed, he said in a lower voice: “But if you take Nannan and leave, I’m afraid that it would be even more unsafe.”
Yu Qingluo was taken aback by him: “What do you mean?”
“Earlier on, I took Nannan to eat at the Linshui Tower and many people saw that he and I have a close relationship and probably…” he only intended to do this to make Yu Qingluo aware of the dangers that lurked outside and that even if she kept her distance from him, those people wouldn’t believe that they were unrelated to him, so naturally they wouldn’t let her off. Knowing that they were on the same boat, she could only stay by his side to guarantee their safety. So that at least those people wouldn’t dare hurt her and Nannan in the open.
But how could he have known that…
Nannan was unexpectedly his biological son. Although, after all… he regretted nothing.
Yu Qingluo suddenly raised her head and stepped forward to grab his neck: “Ye Xiudu! Just what sort of resentment do we have between us that you want to use this strategy to deal with me?!”
He didn’t move and let her grab on his neck to relieve her anger, but things had already been done and said. Even if he hadn’t taken Nannan out today and exposed him to the eyes of others, those people would still find out about their relationship sooner or later.
What happened today was only an accident, but a happy accident at that.
This way was also good. Now that they knew that Nannan was his son, everyone would treat Nannan as their Little Lord and protect him from now on.
“Stay here, by my side. I’ll protect the both of you.” Ye Xiudu turned his head to face her, saying this with a dull voice as she had finally tired herself from pressing on his neck and let go of him.
Yu Qingluo sneered: “Do you think my skills aren’t enough to protect Nannan?” he underestimated her far too much.
Ye Xiudu chuckled: “Isn’t my situation right now a proof of your skills? How dare I look down on you? It’s just that…” he paused and his smile deepened as he went on: “From the very start, weren’t you trying to get away from me in order to not to be involved in more trouble? It’s just that, right now, our relationship has already come to a clear and, even if we don’t mention it and leave, the trouble will still follow you. So, since that’s the case, why don’t you just stay here?”
“You know about how skilful the people in this household are, staying with me will add you an extra layer of protection. Moreover, the food and accommodation are free of charge and there will be maids at your hands and feet so you won’t have to move a finger to do anything. As long as you say a word, there will be others to do your bidding. Besides, Nannan will have both of his parents beside him, won’t he be even happier?”
(TL: There’s a reason I like YXD as the ML a lot. And that is – although his natural disposition is of an ‘overbearing president’ that likes things to go his way he still tries to reason and tries to stop himself from being aggressive with YQL. He is smart and taciturn, but you’ll see that his way of getting along with others is something from his upbringing.)
“And also, from finding Ge momo and retaliating against Yu Zuolin or whoever you want to get back at, I can help you unconditionally with it as well.”
Yu Qingluo secretly told herself over and over that this guy was only trying to tempt her.
But goddamnit! Everything he said just happened to be exactly the right thing to say to her. She was a person who was extremely afraid of trouble and that was happy to see others do things for her.
Moreover, what he said wasn’t wrong. Staying beside him would at least confer Nannan another layer of protection when she was out so that she wouldn’t be afraid of something happening to him.
And there was also the matter of Ge momo that was the top priority. Ye Xiudu should be very familiar with the Capital and could help her find that person faster.
But…
Yu Qingluo gritted her teeth, then raised her eyes to look at him and in a very solemn manner she said: “I won’t marry.”
Ye Xiudu frowned. Did she mean that she agreed with staying but they couldn’t get married?
If they didn’t marry then her identity would be a very awkward one.
However, this woman wasn’t the type that cared about status just for the eyes of outsiders, even if others regarded her as a woman of unclear status, she probably wouldn’t care.
Whatever he couldn’t press her too tightly. This marriage matters, he would just take his time to solve it.
After a moment of silence, Ye Xiudu finally nodded: “Ok.”
“One more thing, except for the people inside of this household, you can’t tell anyone else that Nannan is your son.”
“Ok.” this was also according to his own thoughts, but it wouldn’t probably remain as a secret for much longer.
Yu Qingluo thought for a while before finally nodding and relaxing: “I promised you to stay. Now, where’s Nannan? I want to see him.”
“I’m still a bit tired. Wait for me to wake up then we’ll go.” Ye Xiudu then turned over, yawed and went back to sleep.
“…” Yu Qingluo almost stared a hole at his back.
Translated by C, The Apostle of Coffee
Edited by NoveLeo, Life is a Drama
Obviously Too Busy to Translate 
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