The next day, at noon.
Jiang Huai hadn’t managed to embrace Chu Xianning. Chu Xianning had even deliberately placed a quilt between them, creating a barrier that couldn’t be easily breached. Jiang Huai, however, was not annoyed in the slightest. He lay on his side, gazing contentedly at Chu Xianning’s sleeping face.
Simply watching her sleep brought him immense satisfaction. He understood that tonight he wouldn’t be able to do anything untoward because Chu Xianning was acting shy. Jiang Huai had realized that Chu Xianning wasn’t incapable of shyness; rather, her shyness was deeply hidden. He had to capture those subtle expressions precisely, or her cold and aloof demeanor would deceive him.
They had both woken up very early and gone to the spirit boat’s deck to enjoy the breeze. Chu Xianning practiced her sword while Jiang Huai watched her quietly. It wasn’t until noon, when Chu Xianning returned to her room to read and take a nap, that Jiang Huai ceased his observation. He was about to take a short nap himself when he heard Jiang Zhi’s summons.
For some reason, he had a premonition of impending trouble.
He arrived at the room and gently pushed open the door. Jiang Zhi was dressed scantily, in a style similar to clothing from the Western Regions. Her slender, luminous waist was exposed beneath a vibrant red bandeau, and below it, she wore a hip-hugging skirt with a slit. She was leaning against the bed. After summoning Jiang Huai, she put down the book in her hands. Jiang Huai, with his sharp eyes, noticed that it was the famous work by A Mumu, “Floating Clouds Flowery Records.”
This book primarily focused on depravity and indecency, indulging in all sorts of erotic fantasies. Jiang Huai’s small face flushed red, but his expression remained gentle and respectful. “Sister, why did you call me here?”
“Is your Master napping?”
“She should go to sleep after reading for a while.” Jiang Huai inwardly felt a sense of dread. Her question implied that it was time for another round of “debt collection.” He had paid twice yesterday, and by his current calculations, he still owed eighty-five times.
The last time he wanted to hug her, it added ten times. It wasn’t that he had lost his senses.
An embrace was a peculiar thing. It felt as if when you held someone, your hearts gradually grew closer. You could rely on touch, scent, even heartbeats and breaths to sense the other person’s mood and guess their thoughts.
“Let’s chat for a while then.” Jiang Zhi set the book aside, tilted her head slightly, and began to curiously ask Jiang Huai what he thought about when he was writing. She found it odd, as he usually acted like a gentleman, yet when writing, he was completely uninhibited, appearing like a total pervert.
“Since no one knows it’s me, what’s wrong with being despicable and evil? Aren’t people always like this? If there were no rules, their true nature would be greedy and selfish. I vent those wicked thoughts from the bottom of my heart through writing, leaving only the pure and upright Jiang Xiaohu.”
Jiang Huai answered righteously and with great passion. Jiang Zhi’s eyes darted back and forth, and she couldn’t think of any retort. After a moment, she covered her mouth and chuckled. She couldn’t figure out what Jiang Huai had said that triggered her laughter so heartily, causing her to shake uncontrollably, her plump curves jiggling incessantly.
After she had laughed enough, Jiang Zhi looked up and sat up a little straighter, facing Jiang Huai. “Your Master should be asleep by now, right?”
“Has Sister really become so considerate of my feelings?” Jiang Huai’s face still showed reluctance as he sat on the chair, already bracing himself to be humiliated again by her white and tender little feet. But Jiang Zhi merely looked at him playfully. “I didn’t call you here to punish you.”
“Then what for?”
Jiang Zhi hesitated for a moment, then her eyes became serious, calm, and curious. She replied, “I want you to help me recreate the content of the thirty-seventh chapter of ‘Floating Clouds Flowery Records’.”
Jiang Huai’s mind went blank, and he couldn’t speak for a long time. It wasn’t until Jiang Zhi playfully kicked his waist with her white and tender little feet that he snapped back to reality. He gently grasped her fair ankle and leisurely rubbed her jade-white feet in his palm, asking, “Why do you suddenly want to try this?”
The thirty-seventh chapter of “Floating Clouds Flowery Records” roughly described how the male protagonist, acting as a villain, dealt with the bad women who constantly tried to seduce him but never let him have his way. He subdued them thoroughly through unconventional means.
“You wrote a lot about it, and it seems very interesting.”
“That’s not interesting! That’s evil! Do you understand? It hurts. Sister, it’s best not to be curious.”
“But I want to.” Jiang Zhi’s eyes were resolute.
Jiang Huai felt like crying without tears and gazed at Jiang Zhi. “Sister, why are you so insistent on this?”
“As you said yesterday, it’s for no particular reason, I just want to try.” Jiang Zhi answered frankly, her cheeks showing no trace of shyness. It seemed Jiang Huai had rarely seen her blush.
“Can I refuse?”
“You can, of course.” Jiang Zhi thought for a moment. “You can offset this with thirty-five debts. Do you agree?”
Jiang Huai immediately shook his head.
Jiang Zhi pursed her lips slightly. “You don’t want your Master to know that you still have eighty-five punishments owed to me, do you?”
Jiang Huai couldn’t help but roll his eyes at her. “If that’s the case, why are you feigning to ask if I agree?”
So, the “of course you can” from this wicked woman was just lip service.
“I’m just testing you. If you agreed immediately, wouldn’t that be too boring?” Jiang Zhi’s white and tender little feet slipped out of his hand and lightly tapped his chest. “I just want to try; I don’t mean anything else.”
“It will hurt.” Jiang Huai reminded her cautiously.
“When I was fifteen hundred years old, out of boredom and loneliness, I injured myself all over, leaving no part of my body unmarred. How much pain are you talking about?”
“No wonder you’re also a bit crazy.” Jiang Huai sighed lightly.
Did everyone become crazy after living long enough?
A moment later, Jiang Huai dismissed the thought. Hmph, she clearly had an unstable Dao heart. Her Master had lived for six hundred years and remained pure, cold, and divine.
“How about you reconsider, Sister? If you still want to try in a few months, I’ll accompany you then?” Jiang Huai attempted to use his stalling tactic one last time. Unfortunately, Jiang Zhi crossed her arms and tilted her chin slightly. “If you agree now, you can teach me how to do it, and I’ll do everything you say. If you don’t agree, then I’ll tie you to the chair and do it myself.”
“Then that’s perfect. I like being passive.” Jiang Huai couldn’t help but retort. A moment later, Jiang Zhi glanced at him sideways before turning her face away. “I don’t want to; it would make me look stupid.”
Jiang Huai stared intently at her for a few more seconds before finally, albeit reluctantly, saying, “Then you go lie down obediently first.”
Jiang Zhi hesitated for a moment, then obediently turned around and lay down on the bed with her body facing away from Jiang Huai. Her buttocks were full and perky, like ripe peaches. The proportion of her slender waist to her buttocks was exaggerated. Jiang Huai approached her. The atmosphere was incredibly strange. Jiang Zhi rested her chin on her arm and couldn’t help but look back at him. “How should I do it?”
“You have no defenses against me like this. Aren’t you afraid I’ll take advantage and do something bad?”
“If you tried to enter now, you’d likely explode. Do you think you’d still want to do anything bad after hearing me say that?”
Jiang Huai’s small ‘huai’ chilled, and he calmed down. But he was still confused. “Sister, don’t you find this strange at all?”
“It’s alright,” Jiang Zhi replied calmly. “I haven’t tried it before, so I want to. Perhaps after living for so long, my sense of shame has gradually faded.”
Her voice held a subtle coolness, and within that faint coolness, a thread of melancholy emerged.
“Lift your buttocks up a little higher.” Jiang Huai quietly reminded her.
“Oh.” Jiang Zhi obediently lifted her buttocks. Her snow-white, tender peach buttocks were raised high, forming an exceptionally exaggerated curve with her slender waist. She still looked back at Jiang Huai calmly. At this moment, Jiang Huai, who was being stared at, felt his entire body stiffen slightly.
“Sister, can you please stop staring at me like that?”
“You’ve slept with so many women; are you still shy?”
“Hiss, that… it’s just that you’re staring at me… it’s weird…”
“Oh.” Jiang Zhi turned her head away, no longer looking at Jiang Huai. Her face was buried in her arm, and her buttocks remained raised, like a lamb waiting to be fed.
Wait.
Jiang Huai suddenly paused. There wasn’t just one way to “bully the buttocks.” Why did Xiaohu have to be the one to actively do it? He leaned closer to Jiang Zhi. “Sister, I have some fun little toys. How about we try those first?”
“What?”
Heh. In the past, to counter Qingyu, who liked to devour him until he had nothing left, Jiang Huai had researched a series of excellent treasures.
Jiang Zhi was very well-behaved.
She didn’t cry out in pain, at most she just frowned slightly and bit her lip. That was all.
At this moment, her body trembled slightly, her snow-white legs were pressed together, and she bit her teeth slightly on her side. After a while, her body went limp on the bed, and she panted heavily. A faint blush appeared on her white and tender cheeks, making her seem stunningly beautiful.
Even her body seemed to exude a slight mist at this moment. Jiang Huai had never seen her in such an amorous state before.
Jiang Huai remained silent, simply watching her quietly from behind. He had a feeling that even if he were to truly recreate the unconventional content of the thirty-seventh chapter of “Floating Clouds Flowery Records” with her right now, Jiang Zhi would obediently submit without resistance, rather than being defiant even after being bullied. He could even hear the ‘ding ding ding’ sounds in his ears, but he was too lazy to look at them at the moment.
Although Jiang Huai felt that his threshold for lewdness had already been raised, the scene before him was still extremely erotic, making his ‘Xiaohu’ ache. Jiang Zhi looked back at him. “Aren’t you going to come in?”
“Sister, haven’t you had enough fun? I can endure it and get past this.”
“You fellow… you seem to be afraid of incurring any karma with me…” Jiang Zhi scoffed dismissively. “Does your ‘gentlemanly’ demeanor only satisfy your inner self when I forcefully command you, and then you pretend to be reluctant to fulfill your despicable little desires?”
“Restraining desire is also a virtue.”
Jiang Zhi’s eyes remained disdainful. She sat up slightly, leaning against the bed, crossing her arms. Her delicate pink lips parted, and her tongue flicked slightly before she deliberately pressed it back down. She looked at Jiang Huai and made a sound from her throat. “Come quickly.”
“No, no, this will hurt my body.”
Jiang Huai still clearly remembered the soft, tender, and warm feeling of her delicate pink lips. The guilt from that time had lingered in his heart for a long, long time. But he knew very well that if he naturally used Jiang Zhi’s delicate pink lips this time, then next time, he would naturally and unreservedly have no qualms about doing more bad things.
People’s bottom lines were broken down step by step, and then they fell endlessly into desire.
“If you were truly that tolerant, you wouldn’t have so many Dao Companions right now, would you?” Jiang Zhi crossed her arms, but her eyes were playful. Jiang Huai was unable to refute her. “How about an embrace?”
“What?”
“How about an embrace?” Jiang Huai walked to the bedside and extended his hand towards her. “Come into my arms.”
Jiang Zhi tilted her head, full of confusion. But after a moment of hesitation, she leaned closer, shrinking into his embrace. He gently wrapped his arms around her slender waist and gently stroked her jet-black hair. The smooth, silky touch gradually calmed him. He lowered his head slightly, smelling the faint fragrance on her body and sensing her heartbeat.
Jiang Zhi’s body was initially slightly stiff. It seemed to be the same last time. She didn’t understand why Jiang Huai was so insistent on hugging, but her stiff body gradually softened. She began to sense her accelerating heartbeat, her slightly disordered breathing, and the warmth transmitted to her skin through her thin dress by his fingertips.
Time seemed to slow down. Jiang Zhi hesitated and slowly raised her hand, gently embracing Jiang Huai and leaning her entire body on him, as if relying on a tree. The tree’s shadow fell, dispelling the heat from her body.
Her breathing was no longer rapid, and her heartbeat was no longer frantic. It was as if everything was gradually becoming lighter, yet also as if she were sinking slowly into the water, but not suffocating.
This was the second time Jiang Huai had hugged her. She seemed to be gradually understanding this feeling.
Unable to distinguish the passage of time, after a while, she raised her head slightly and brought her delicate pink lips to Jiang Huai’s lips. “You don’t like my body, yet you want to hug me?”
“Things that are easily obtained are boring. What is obtained through effort is interesting.”
“Does that mean you want my heart?”
“If Sister intends to give it to me, that would be quite good. Once I get it, I’ll ruthlessly abandon you and get revenge for your past punishments. Hmph.”
“Revenge? Oh? You finally dare to admit you’re unhappy with me?”
“Wouldn’t anyone be unhappy after being stepped on and trampled by Sister like that?”
“Is that so? But I see a glimpse of liking in your eyes every time, besides dissatisfaction. Am I mistaken?”
“Of course, Sister is mistaken.”
“Hmph, then from now on, instead of foot punishments, how about serving you with my lips and tongue every time?”
“No, how about not punishing me at all?”
“That won’t do; this is what you owe me.” Jiang Zhi’s fingertips dug slightly into the flesh of Jiang Huai’s back. She breathed out fragrant air, her voice soft and tender. “Don’t you really want to do something bad?”
“I wanted to just now, but after hugging you for a while, I don’t anymore.”
“Why?”
“A person’s body language often reveals many emotions. When I was hugging you, Sister, I felt you were a bit uneasy at first.”
“And now?”
“Now you’re like a docile kitten. It’s fun just to pet and hug a kitten.”
“I’m not your cat.” Jiang Zhi lowered her head and bit Jiang Huai’s shoulder lightly. Jiang Huai didn’t get angry; he just poked her slender waist with his finger, hitting her ticklish spot. Jiang Zhi chuckled and trembled in his embrace. Jiang Huai poked her a few more times. After a while, Jiang Zhi leaned close to his ear and acted spoiled. “Accompany me for a nap?”
“Oh…” Jiang Huai agreed. Jiang Zhi finally broke free from his embrace, but a moment later, her clothes vanished without a trace. Her porcelain-white, tender skin was so dazzling that Jiang Huai couldn’t open his eyes. Jiang Huai heard her say, “Hold me.”
Jiang Huai immediately closed his eyes tightly. “Although, I must say, I personally think women look better with clothes on than without.”
“Like a pipa player half-covered?”
“Precisely.”
“Never mind that. You just agreed to hug me for a nap.”
“Then put your clothes back on.”
“Haven’t your desires subsided? Aren’t you a gentleman now?”
“Your way of testing people is called increasing the dosage. If you keep increasing it, eventually someone will take the bait. It’s unfair.” Although Jiang Huai didn’t open his eyes, he was unusually firm this time. His hand groped by memory and found her tender, soft buttocks. A moment later, he flicked his hand, and a clear sound echoed in the room. Jiang Zhi subconsciously gasped, seeming a bit stunned.
“Put your clothes back on.” Jiang Zhi’s tone had a commanding quality. After a while, Jiang Zhi recovered and was about to pounce on him aggressively, ready to fight. But then she felt her body go soft and weak. Moments later, she obediently stood up, put on her light purple sling nightgown, and poked his chest with her hand.
When Jiang Huai opened his eyes, he saw her bright eyes and a smile like a blooming flower. “I’ve put them on. Are you satisfied?”
“That’s more like it.”
Jiang Zhi pulled the quilt over them. A moment later, she snuggled into his embrace again. Her white and tender face rubbed against his cheek. She tilted her head up to look at him. “Does playing the gentleman satisfy you particularly?”
“You know me too well.” Jiang Huai lightly hugged her waist. “Am I amazing?”
“Amazing, amazing.” Jiang Zhi’s cheek rubbed against his chest again. “Older brother is really amazing.”
Jiang Huai couldn’t help but reach out and pat her buttocks again. Jiang Zhi let out a soft gasp but didn’t get angry. She snuggled even closer. After a while, she was still not satisfied. She raised her slender legs and clamped them tightly around him, preventing him from moving, finally feeling content.
