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Shen Chuwei replied, "Your Highness, sixty percent isn’t too shabby—it’s a pass already."

Xiao Jinyan: "..." You only get a sense of tacit understanding when I feed you~

Shen Chuwei, while eating grilled kangaroo meat, said, "As long as Your Highness maintains this, after ten or twenty years, our mutual understanding will surely exceed eighty percent."

"..." Xiao Jinyan: "After ten or twenty years, it’s only going to be eighty percent?"

Shen Chuwei picked up the tea on her right and took a sip, "Haven’t you heard the saying ’as consistent as if it were a single day over the span of ten years’?"

Xiao Jinyan nodded, "I’ve heard it, but what does it have to do with tacit understanding?"

Shen Chuwei explained, "Being as consistent as if it were a single day over the span of ten years shows that we will remain loving as husband and wife.

By that time, Your Highness will only be thirty years old, with so many temptations in the outside world; maintaining that constancy is extremely difficult.

Twenty years later, Your Highness will be forty, and a forty-year-old man.

.. therefore, having a score of eighty past that age is already quite high. "

Xiao Jinyan asked further, "Then when can we reach a perfect score?"

"A perfect score—I’m afraid Your Highness won’t like it if I say it out loud," Shen Chuwei rolled some kangaroo meat in a thin pancake and offered it to Xiao Jinyan, "Your Highness, try this. It still tastes quite good."

Xiao Jinyan took the rolled pancake meat, took a bite, and chewed slowly, savoring the indeed delicious flavor.

"I would like to hear it," he insisted.

Shen Chuwei enjoyed her grilled meat with a hint of hesitation in her response to Xiao Jinyan’s questioning—some things the future emperor might not want to hear.

The more reticent Chuwei was, the more Xiao Jinyan wanted to know. He continued to press, "We are husband and wife; what could be there that shouldn’t be said?"

Shen Chuwei looked around, leaned in close to Xiao Jinyan’s ear while bracing herself on the table, and whispered, "A perfect score is when we pass away peacefully after living a full life."

All emperors from generations past wanted to live forever, who would want to hear about their own peaceful demise?

Xiao Jinyan was taken aback by her words.

Seeing his expression, Shen Chuwei knew she had struck a nerve, she shrugged, "It was Your Highness who insisted that I speak. You can’t blame me if you’re upset."

Xiao Jinyan said, "I am not upset."

Shen Chuwei breathed a sigh of relief and continued to dip her kangaroo meat wrap in sauce and eat, her head lowered.

Xiao Jinyan could guess what Chuwei meant by her scores of sixty and eighty and upon closer analysis, found them quite reasonable.

Passing away peacefully - it must mean being buried together to be a perfect score!

Xiao Jinyan thought that staying true until the end of life constituted a perfect score.

Later, Xiao Jinyan came to realize that it wasn’t just unwavering affection that made a perfect score but feeding delicious food daily. Skip a day and the harmony immediately fell below passing~

The bottom line was, the freshness of an Emperor and Empress’s affection relied on delicious cuisine.

After the Bonfire Party ended, Xiao Jinyan took Shen Chuwei back to the tent to rest.

Having eaten and drunk her fill, Shen Chuwei lay on the couch, too lazy to move. When she heard Xiao Jinyan asking Qin Xiao to prepare hot water, she gazed at his tall figure, with his slender waist prominent below his waistband.

Shen Chuwei, watching and watching, then lay on her side, assuming a leisurely posture as she waited for the beauty to disrobe and perhaps catch a glimpse of him after his bath.

Xiao Jinyan came to the table, picked up the teapot, and poured himself a cup to cut the grease after a few mouthfuls. His martial arts training made him quickly notice an eager set of eyes watching him.

He raised his eyes and saw the woman on the couch staring at him, unblinkingly, with a craving look that even made him feel desired.

"Chuwei," he called out.

Shen Chuwei, lost in her ogling, was caught red-handed and blinked her beautiful eyes guiltily, "Your Highness, is there something you need?"

Xiao Jinyan set down his teacup and issued a dark command, "Come, help me undress."

Shen Chuwei was so full she didn’t want to move at all, so she replied in a coquettish tone, "Your Highness, I’m feeling quite unwell at the moment. Could you undress yourself, please?"

Xiao Jinyan stepped forward and stood in front of the couch, looking down at Chuwei who was leisurely swinging her legs.

"You seem to be growing bolder and bolder. Are you saying that I can no longer command you?" he posited.

Shen Chuwei blinked her beautiful big eyes twice and began to change the subject, "Your Highness, I miss the babies. I wonder if they’ve gone to sleep already."

Xiao Jinyan: "..."

Shen Chuwei let out a sigh, "Susu is such a little clinger. Is she not used to sleeping without me by her side?"

Xiao Jinyan completely ignored Shen Chuwei’s words, he leaned forward, his hand bracing the couch, his deep phoenix eyes fixated on her, "Unwilling to help me undress?"

"Your Highness, of course, I am more than willing," she affirmed, "it’s just that I’ve eaten too much and can’t get up now." She wanted to watch the beauty strip even more~

Xiao Jinyan nodded thoughtfully, "In that case, I shall help you digest later."

Shen Chuwei agreed without hesitation, "Alright."

With an imperceptible smirk in his eyes, Xiao Jinyan stood up straight, his long fingers easily unfastening his belt and setting it aside on the clothes rack. Then, he untied his outer robe, taking it off and draping it on the rack too.

Next was his inner garment, and the moment he untied it, his firm pectorals were revealed...

As Xiao Jinyan undressed, he kept an eye on Chuwei and saw that her gaze never left him—in fact, it was fixed on his physique.

Her look was even more craving than before.

He hummed softly, and with his lapels carelessly open, he leaned in closer.

Shen Chuwei, captivated by the beauty before her, saw the splendid view in front of her grow increasingly larger until she belatedly lifted her head and met those deep, enchanting phoenix eyes as if falling into them.

They say peach blossom eyes can bewitch, but who can understand the full extent of being beguiled by a pair of phoenix eyes?

Xiao Jinyan asked in a low voice, "Would you like a clearer view?"

As if under a spell, Shen Chuwei nodded absently, "I would."

In a deep, slow motion, Xiao Jinyan took off his inner garment to reveal his perfect figure, then cast it aside onto the floor. Seeing her unblinkingly staring, he continued to ask, "Would you like to touch it as well?"

ps: Second update