Chapter 109: Artificial Respiration

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Maybe because she’s still young, or maybe because she’s been spoiled since childhood, Jiang Xueyin is never polite with her own people. At the company, she never knocks when entering Li Yan’s office. At the Zhang Family home, she doesn’t have the habit of knocking on her cousin’s room either.

Although she knew Li Yan was there, she believed at most he was helping her cousin finish the aromatherapy acupressure oil massage and they wouldn’t be making out in broad daylight. So when she opened the door, she didn’t have much concern. But poking her head in, she saw that it wasn’t Li Yan sitting and helping Yurong with a massage, but rather Yurong pressing Li Yan down on the bed and hitting him. — Yes, Yurong considered this a fierce venting ’beating’, but her strength and resilience were far apart. There wasn’t much threat to begin with, and now she didn’t have much strength left, it looked more like she was giving Li Yan affectionate pats.

"Oh—" Seeing her cousin’s flushed face turned back, Jiang Xueyin didn’t think it was because of the fierce exercise of hitting, she naturally assumed it was from them being caught in an intimate game.

Elongating her "Oh" sound, Jiang Xueyin made a weird laugh and said ambiguously, "You guys continue, I won’t disturb you again! Hitting means affection, scolding means love, got it, hehe..."

Yurong didn’t think in that direction at all. Seeing it was her, she was about to ask why she let the wolf Li Yan in, but before she could speak due to slightly panting, she heard her say this.

"You damn girl! What are you saying!"

"Oh my, I wanted to sneak a peek and learn something, don’t blame me, I’ll hurry and leave!" Jiang Xueyin cheerfully closed the door and locked it. She was considerate, before closing the door with effort, she reached in to lock it, ensuring she wouldn’t disturb them again.

"You damn girl..."

Yurong softly cursed with a helpless smile, then looked at Li Yan beneath her. She prepared to rest a bit before starting another round of beating.

She wasn’t sure if it was due to lack of strength or resentment, but she found her desire to continue beating wasn’t strong. She gave a pat on the bed, "Don’t think because you’re tall and strong you can bully people. If you dare hit me with a pillow, I’ll get back at you. If you hit me with your hand, I’ll... I’ll kill you!"

When Yurong said this, she tried to make herself appear more imposing, but unfortunately, as someone who hasn’t killed a chicken, not even a mosquito, saying ’I’ll kill you’ carried no threat at all.

Li Yan, muffled under the blanket, had already heard Jiang Xueyin visit, and knew Yurong was tired from hitting, just didn’t expect such an elegant lady could make "fierce" threats! Much less did he expect this delicate beauty to threaten to kill him, the King of Assassins! To him, it was undoubtedly funny and cute.

"Did you hear me?" Seeing Li Yan with no reaction, Yurong gave him another pat. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

But he still didn’t react at all, as if he had fallen asleep under the blanket.

She just saw him awake, enduring her rounds of beating, if he could sleep through that, he’d be worse than Lazy Sheep. The only possibility was—he had fainted!

Although Yurong didn’t know much about Li Yan’s background, she had seen him fight and had him carrying her running fast, and knew he almost trained every day, about his stamina being stronger than the average person. She was very aware of her own strength, otherwise, she wouldn’t beat him so freely without restraint. She had every reason to believe she couldn’t have beaten Li Yan down or knocked him out, now he wasn’t reacting, there was only one other possibility!

When she was hitting him, she was just venting and didn’t count the time, but to make herself tired out, she believed it took a few minutes. Hitting him a bit longer wouldn’t be a problem, but a few minutes without breathing...

Yurong’s heart sank, her eyes fell on the blanket. Covering the whole person with it and continuously beating, leaving him no chance to struggle or resist, could very well have led to insufficient air under the blanket, hypoxia-induced fainting!

This is no joke, she had previously seen Li Yan mysteriously faint, that time she couldn’t figure out why, suspected he had health issues, worried he wouldn’t want to get checked, she had to contact Yu Xiaodi to get him to cooperate for a health check. In hindsight, inviting a wolf into the house that time!

But that time, all the checkup reports Yu Xiaodi showed her had no issues. Because of her concern for Li Yan, knowing Yu Xiaodi wasn’t beneath her in caring, there was no reason for her not to be serious nor hide anything. But since the hospital found nothing wrong, she didn’t probe further.

Now it happened again! And this time, somewhat differently, maybe covering with a blanket, causing breathlessness, was the trigger!

...

The tense Yurong had already lifted the blanket covering Li Yan’s head, then seeing his expressionless closed eyes, reached out to pat his cheek anxiously calling, "Are you okay? Don’t play dead to scare me! Or I’ll drench you with cold water!"

Faking unconsciousness? He’d used that trick once before, originally didn’t want to use it again, it could easily be exposed, but last time he did have quite a few advantages. Now with the two making a fuss, maybe this could momentarily bring some peace.

Yurong ultimately had some experience, so she wasn’t too panicked. Although last time’s experience was useless now, she couldn’t afford to think too much at this moment. She still reached out, feeling Li Yan’s breath with one hand and his heartbeat with the other. The result was discovering that his heart was still beating, but his nose seemed to have stopped breathing.

This startled her a bit. Having a heartbeat meant no problem, but not breathing was also serious. It seemed it was not chest compressions that were needed, but artificial respiration?

She looked down at Li Yan’s face. To give him artificial respiration? He was so detestable; he should have been punished...

But this thought only flashed through her mind. She had already bent down, pinched open Li Yan’s mouth, getting ready to give him artificial respiration. Even if it wasn’t because of her fault, she couldn’t just watch Li Yan shock and do nothing.

"Hmm..."

As his beautiful wife blew into his mouth, Li Yan forced himself to stay still, but felt that not moving at all would scare her like last time, so he slightly moved his body.

"You’re awake? Are you okay?" Zhang Yurong noticed his movement and said excitedly.

But upon looking again, Li Yan still didn’t respond and was the same as before. Was it an illusion? Or was the artificial respiration not enough?

She reached out and felt his nostrils again, discovering there seemed to be a weak breath. Immediately understanding that it must have worked, she once again leaned down to continue giving him artificial respiration.

Li Yan enjoyed the moment, feeling a bit guilty that while she had fresh breath, he had just smoked, and his mouth tasted of smoke. However, at this moment, Yurong probably didn’t have the mind to care about that.

He moved appropriately, encouraging Yurong to continue the artificial respiration.

But she wasn’t foolish. If it continued to be ineffective, she might employ other methods. So Li Yan didn’t continue enjoying it excessively. In fact, artificial respiration and kissing had significant differences and were not the same kind of enjoyment.

The opportunity was right in front; once gone, it would never return!

As she changed air for another breath, his hand reached out, circling from outside to hold onto Zhang Yurong’s neck, pulling her close. His lips opened, ready to receive her cherry-like lips.

As Zhang Yurong was struggling to give him artificial respiration, before she realized what was happening, her lips were enveloped, and her body was held by Li Yan’s hands. Her mouth was sealed as she suddenly understood that this must be a conspiracy. This guy was faking it, waiting for her to give him artificial respiration!

That made her somewhat irritated, though it also meant he was alright, which was reassuring. Meanwhile, she began to doubt, what about last time? Was he faking it then too?

Unfortunately, Li Yan didn’t give her time to think. After holding her, not providing an opportunity for her to resist, he began passionately kissing her, using both hands to hold her neck and waist tightly, not allowing her to escape, kissing her strongly.

"Mmm... Let go of me... Bastard..."

Zhang Yurong tried to scold him angrily, but those words only came out as indistinct murmurs. The surprise attack kiss left her no room to resist, and her lips and brain rapidly showed signs of surrender.

Just before her mind went blank, she thought of a powerful weapon—her teeth!

If she bit Li Yan’s tongue or lip, he would undoubtedly let go because of the pain. However, when he stole her first kiss, she had bitten his lip, leaving him looking like a vampire who had just fed, full of blood. Remembering this, she hesitated and didn’t bite him again.

Should she bite herself to wake up?

This thought flashed through her mind as she realized she no longer had much strength left; her limbs were too weak to struggle, and her lips and teeth lacked the strength to attack. It was due to the initial struggle consuming much of her energy, and the recent stressful artificial respiration effort was exhausting. While trying to save him, she hadn’t considered much. Now that he was okay, she lost the driving force to continue.

Finding herself unable to resist, Li Yan moved, holding her and laying her down on the bed!

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