She would never know how furious and anguished he had been when he first saw her and Lord Xijing together.
Everyone praised the Mars Star Lord and Lord Xijing as a match made in heaven, as though the three years they had spent together in the Mortal World had been nothing but an illusion, and his bitter search across four thousand years nothing but a joke.
From beginning to end, he had been the only one performing this one-man show.
"Shall we reminisce about how we used to get along in the Mortal World?"
Qin Ge took Ning Xiang's hand and pressed it to his brow, guiding it down over the bridge of his nose, his lips, and his throat. When it seemed he intended to go farther, Ning Xiang hastily tried to pull her hand away, but Qin Ge would not let her retreat.
"On our wedding night, you pretended to be drunk so you could take liberties with me. You insisted on consummating our marriage."
"You're making that up! I really was drunk! Besides, are you even a man? With a beauty like me right in front of you..." Ning Xiang's confidence faltered briefly. "Fine, I'm not as beautiful as you. But you actually sat there with a woman in your lap and remained unmoved! You didn't even think about doing anything naughty!"
Qin Ge removed Ning Xiang's hairpin and tossed it aside.
"On our first Double Seventh Festival after we married, you said you would make festival pastries for me. But you mistook coarse salt for rock sugar, and the pastries were unbearably salty." Qin Ge pecked Ning Xiang on the lips. "You told me to taste you instead, because you were sweeter than honey."
Mortified, Ning Xiang clumsily covered Qin Ge's mouth and snapped, "Don't say