On the Wedding Night, Ms. Cui Realized

Only You

Pei Xuan, the top scholar in Xijing and the chief editor of the Imperial Academy, had a natural tendency to please others.

Cui Ti knew this from her unique treatment as her wife, and seeing the crowds of people with admiring gazes towards them.

As she began wondering, Pei Xuan grabbed her wrist and used her chopsticks to pick up a shelled shrimp, dipping it lightly in the sauce dish.

Feeling her husband's warm touch, Cui Ti's fair face flushed with embarrassment, like a blooming red flower, since Pei Xuan was daring in showing their intimacy at the dining table.

Bai Tang, who sat beside them, couldn't help but stare in amazement, while Mrs. Pei, instead of being displeased, watched the couple with the same enthusiasm as Bai Tang.

She pitied her daughter for having to put on a masculine facade due to societal pressures and for being unable to show any teenage impulsiveness, but now it seems Pei Xuan had taught herself to be courteous and feed her wife shelled shrimps.

Dou Qingyue, feeling lonely, opened her mouth to speak but instead ate dog food instead of shrimp. She smiled and remarked, "My cousin treats his wife very intimately."

(T/L: Dog food usually refers to people who are surrounded by couple(s) who display affection to each other.)

Pei Xuan's countenance remained unfazed at her cousin's remark, while Cui Ti, who was still hesitant to engage with her, pretended not to hear and relished the taste of the shrimp in her mouth.

As a family of officials and eunuchs, the Dou family held themselves to high standards of etiquette and propriety. Besides Dou Qingyue, being a lady of the household, staring intently at the plate of shrimp on the dinner table was not in accordance with proper decorum.

Noticing the desire in Dou Qingyue's eyes, Mrs. Pei playfully teased her, "Xuan'er, peel a shrimp for your cousin too."

"Mother, men and women can't be so casual with each other unless they are in a relationship," Pei Xuan remarked as she wiped her hands with a handkerchief, then took Bait Tang's last peeled shrimp and put them in Dou Qingyue's hand, speaking with a sincere expression: "Cousin, you can eat this."

This is incomprehensible!. Dou Qingyue was so angry that she almost couldn't hold back her pitiful expression—did she really look that greedy for a shelled shrimp!?.

Her mood dropped visibly.

In order to cheer her up, Mrs. Pei offered her half of a plate of peeled shrimp to her, but Dou Qingyue only ate a few before waving her hand and saying that she couldn't eat anymore because she was feeling unwell.

Having expected this outcome, after having dinner, Pei Xuan was asked by her mother to take her cousin to the garden.

In May, the weather was fine, and Cui Ti was taken for a walk in the back garden earlier, and it was refreshing to walk with Pei Xuan, but there was now a sickly woman named Dou Qingyue between the two, and the atmosphere was very strange.

It's not that Pei Xuan deliberately neglected her cousin, it's that she always remembers her "male body" and abides by "masculine virtue", and she doesn't want to be intimate with other women, especially considering she recently got married.

Dou Qingyue, with a playful tone, said to Pei Xuan, "Cousin, you stand out a bit too much. it's not convenient for me to talk with your wife."

Pei Xuan replied, "You can say whatever you want, but I won't listen."

"Husband." Cui Ti shook her hand: "I also want to say a few words to Qingyue."

Pei Xuan looked embarrassed, and finally compromised: "Then, I will come to you later?."