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"Heh--brother, I've really missed this long-time man scent of yours as your younger brother." He raised his thumb and pointed into the room, "Still, since it's a man scent, have the guts to spread it on a woman."

"..."

"I've delivered the person to you, and stripped her clothes clean for you. Whether you want to enjoy her or dress her back up, handle it yourself." With that, Longyang shook off Long Ang's tight grip, whistled, and vanished into his courtyard following the moonlight.

A burst of cool night breeze swept past, and the tree leaves rustled. He stood frozen outside the door alone. Inside the room, on his bed, slept a woman—the woman he yearned for day and night, the woman he had never been able to forget even after she married another, yet he only dared stand cowardly outside the door in a daze.

Parted for years, meeting again is hard; letters can be spared, may you be well and I at peace.

He leaned his back against the window, looking at the pitch-black sky outside the eaves. Not knowing how long passed, he took a deep breath, turned to walk into the house, closed the door, and threw the bolt. As he let down his long hair and tossed aside his hair ornaments, he pulled back the curtain-enveloped bed.

Long Ang's index finger slid across Li Danxin's sleeping face. He did not know whether she slept peacefully in his bed, whether she dreamed or not. Leaning down, he lightly inhaled the natural fragrance emanating from her body.

Might as well just indulge himself to possess her like this. Anyway, his harsh words had already been spoken beforehand: if she appeared before him again, he would treat her with a man's posture. Since she had appeared, and appeared