Jiang Huai slowly opened his eyes.
The sight before him was no longer the auction house. He was stunned for a moment, then looked all around. He was now lying on a soft big bed, a faint fragrance tickling his nose. He turned sideways slightly, and the next moment, he saw Luo Yueguan lying beside him.
Luo Yueguan was still wearing the purple dress she had on during the day. She was lying on her side, and the dress was taut against her body, outlining the curves of her full chest. The curves of her chest and her slender waist rose and fell. Jiang Huai quickly asked, “Did Mu Chenyun bid again at the end?”
“He didn’t bid again. That Cold Soul Snow Spirit is ours,” Luo Yueguan replied softly.
“That’s good.” Jiang Huai let out a long sigh of relief. “We’ll go pay for it later and get it. Where is this now? How long have I slept?”
“The best inn in Ziyun City. I booked two rooms, mine is right next door to yours. You slept for an Shichen.”
“Oh…”
Jiang Huai understood, then he heard Luo Yueguan ask softly, “How do you feel?”
“My soul was overdrawn, it’s just a minor issue. A few days of rest and some soul-nourishing pills will fix it. I often overdraw my soul when I’m figuring out pill formations,” Jiang Huai said, not thinking much of it. However, as he sat up, he suddenly froze. “Where are my pants?”
“No, where’s my shirt?”
Jiang Huai looked down. Not only were his clothes gone, but he suddenly noticed several lip prints on his chest, and even faint bite marks. He widened his eyes and looked at Luo Yueguan beside him. Luo Yueguan just looked at him innocently, “You were sleeping so soundly, so I helped you take them off.”
“Then what are these lip prints and bite marks?”
“I couldn’t resist,” Luo Yueguan said, gently licking her lips with the tip of her tongue.
Jiang Huai was instantly filled with shy annoyance and pulled the quilt tighter around himself, moving a little further away from Luo Yueguan. “Forget it… you should go down then. I’m going to sleep a bit more to recover.”
“I’m not leaving,” Luo Yueguan shook her head. “I want to sleep with you.”
“That’s not allowed.”
“Why not?”
“Anyway… not tonight.”
Jiang Huai looked at Luo Yueguan’s eyes, always feeling as if they held a hint of hidden perversion at this moment, which made him particularly uneasy. If he slept with Luo Yueguan tonight, and she tempted him further, Jiang Huai really couldn’t guarantee that he wouldn’t make a mistake if she pressed him down and rubbed against him.
Since he couldn’t be sure if he would make a mistake, he had to nip the possibility of making a mistake in the bud.
But as soon as Jiang Huai finished speaking, Luo Yueguan had already leaned closer, lifted his quilt, and in an instant, pressed him down. Then she straddled his lower abdomen, lowered her head, and propped her hands on his chest. “Just because you say no, it means no?”
“Of course,” Jiang Huai answered righteously. “I want to sleep alone anyway.”
“I’ll cry for you.”
“My heart is as hard as iron right now. Your crying is useless.”
As soon as Jiang Huai finished speaking, Luo Yueguan’s tears began to fall, ‘daba daba’. In an instant, her eyes turned red, leaving Jiang Huai stunned, not knowing what to do.
Luo Yueguan’s tears flowed like pearls from a broken string. Jiang Huai panicked a little. “No, you’re actually crying?”
“I want to sleep with you,” Luo Yueguan’s voice was choked with sobs.
“No… no,” Jiang Huai refused with difficulty.
He had a strange intuition that if he compromised this time because of Luo Yueguan’s tears, he would compromise like this next time, and then everything would be ruined in the future.
“Stop crying,” Jiang Huai put on a stern face and said seriously.
Luo Yueguan bit her lip and said nothing. Her tears fell on his cheeks, feeling slightly cool.
“Get down quickly,” Jiang Huai warned again.
“No.” Luo Yueguan not only didn’t get down, but her snow-white buttocks moved slightly on his lower abdomen again. The soft and full snow-white buttocks brought a particularly soft and tender touch. At this moment, her buttocks pressed against his calf. Jiang Huai reached out and grabbed her slender jade foot, tickling her lightly. Caught off guard, Luo Yueguan’s body swayed slightly. Jiang Huai flipped over and, with lightning speed, pulled the quilt and wrapped himself tightly again. He said, “Stop fooling around. My head still hurts. Let me sleep alone for a while.”
Luo Yueguan knelt on the bed, staring at him with deep eyes, not blinking.
Jiang Huai reached out and waved in front of her. “Go back, go back. Be good.”
Luo Yueguan pouted, her cheeks still wet with tears. Jiang Huai took out a handkerchief and wiped away her tears, softening his voice. “Be good.”
“Kiss me.”
Jiang Huai hesitated for a moment, his eyes darting away for an instant, but he still leaned in and lightly kissed her forehead.
“Not there.”
“It’s here.” Jiang Huai reached out and pinched her snow-white cheeks. “Be good, I really need to rest.”
Luo Yueguan then reluctantly sat by the bedside and put on her shoes and socks. After her shoes and socks were on, she slowly walked out of the room, looking back at him every few steps, her gaze becoming more resentful each time. Jiang Huai couldn’t bear such resentful eyes, so he simply pulled the quilt over his head. Only when he heard Luo Yueguan’s footsteps fade away and the door gently close behind her did he breathe a sigh of relief and poke his head out of the covers.
At this moment, he felt inexplicably guilty.
He was willing to spend a fortune on Luo Yueguan, not because he wanted to gain anything from her. It was simply that he had already solved the problem of refining pills for rebuilding his Qi Sea. Three million spirit stones were waiting at Ziyun Pavilion for them to collect medicinal materials. Spirit stones had become useless to him. Spirit stones were the most basic cultivation resources, but Jiang Huai had always viewed them very lightly. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so poor in the past.
This point was quite similar to Chu Xianning’s personality, going with the flow and never expecting too much.
Since that Cold Soul Snow Spirit could help Luo Yueguan improve her cultivation and purify her origin, this was an opportunity not to be missed. Jiang Huai naturally wanted to buy it if he could. However, after buying it, Jiang Huai suddenly felt a sense of inexplicable guilt.
Should he find a time to talk things over with Luo Yueguan? But what between them could be explained, and what couldn’t? Jiang Huai’s mind was a tangled mess. He recalled Luo Yueguan’s reddened eyes just now.
It was already impossible to explain.
His increasingly chaotic thoughts made his already not-so-clear mind even more muddled. Jiang Huai reached out and tapped his head. A moment later, there was another knock on the door. He was stunned. “Didn’t I tell you to go to bed obediently?”
“Jiang Huai… are you staying here?” The voice that came from outside the door was not Luo Yueguan’s lazy and calm voice, but a soft, girlish voice. Jiang Huai was slightly taken aback. It was Xu Qing.
“Yes, I’m staying here. Why are you here?”
“I haven’t given you the 1.6 million spirit stones yet…” Xu Qing replied softly. Jiang Huai suddenly remembered. He hadn’t paid for the items he bought at the auction yet, so he hadn’t received the goods. Jiang Huai sat up from the bed and said, “Wait for me for a moment.”
“Okay,” Xu Qing agreed obediently.
Jiang Huai then hurriedly started putting on his clothes, deliberately choosing a thick one. The lip prints and bite marks on his body made him uncomfortable. After he was dressed, he went to the door and opened it.
Xu Qing was wearing a white palace dress, its hem as pure as spring snow. Her jet-black hair was not adorned with any complex hair ornaments, only a small white hairpin. Her figure was not particularly girlish; instead, it leaned more towards a mature, ‘big sister’ figure, though not as round and juicy as Luo Yueguan’s. She was the Senior Disciple Sister of Guanxue Sect, usually admired by a group of disciples. Yet, in front of Jiang Huai, she always seemed shy like a young girl.
Jiang Huai didn’t know if the word “shy” was used correctly, but he always had that feeling.
Xu Qing held the 1.6 million spirit stone voucher in her hand and handed it to Jiang Huai before him. Jiang Huai reached out and took it, saying, “I’ll sit for a while, and I’ll get that life fruit for you at Ziyun Pavilion later.”
Xu Qing’s body flinched back slightly, and her voice became timid. “No, no need…”
“No need?” Jiang Huai was stunned. The bad premonition in his heart seemed to be coming true.
“That life fruit was, was originally prepared for you…” Xu Qing’s voice grew softer and softer, until she lowered her head completely, not daring to look Jiang Huai in the eye. The words that followed began to tremble slightly. “I just wanted… to return the favor. Can you, can you not scold me…?”
Jiang Huai was speechless.
He scratched his head. Had he not shown Xu Qing much of a good expression, making her misunderstand him as a fierce and unreasonable person? He found it a little funny, then said helplessly, “Am I very fierce?”
Perhaps because his tone was much gentler, Xu Qing slowly raised her head to look at him and said softly, “No…”
Jiang Huai thought for a moment, and in the end, he didn’t hide it any longer. “Actually, I’ve already found a way to extend my lifespan, so I don’t need that life fruit to extend my life. I’ll go get it and give it to you later.”
“Then, then you can keep it… You’re a body cultivator, it’s, it’s very useful.”
“Ah, even if I don’t use it, I’m still the best among the younger generation in the Eastern Region. It doesn’t make much difference,” Jiang Huai shrugged innocently, his words undeniably arrogant.
“Has your lifespan truly recovered?”
“Ah, yes.” Jiang Huai nodded. “Do you always stutter when you speak?”
“No, no…” Xu Qing’s hand gently clutched her dress, as if she wanted to explain something desperately, but it seemed the more she explained, the weaker her explanation became. Her snow-white face flushed red. “It’s, it’s only in front of you that I’m, I’m like this…”
“Your face is so red,” Jiang Huai pointed out innocently. “If you act like this, it’s easy to give me the illusion that you are a maiden in love with me and secretly have feelings for me.”
Jiang Huai reached out and patted Xu Qing’s shoulder, but Xu Qing froze upon hearing his words, as if steam was about to come out of her forehead.
“You saw it in the cave that day. I’m already married.”
Xu Qing’s body stiffened, as if something had quietly shattered.
Jiang Huai’s eyes twitched slightly. Looking at her dim eyes, he realized that some things were better said earlier. At least giving her a clear answer now was better than letting her harbor illusions. He gently patted her shoulder again. “I was just kidding when I said you liked me. I know you don’t like me, and you don’t need to be grateful to me either. It’s precisely because you wanted to save everyone that day that I wanted to save you. You reached out to me first, so I should have pulled you up.”
“You never need to thank me. Thank yourself. Okay, let me sit for a while longer. I’ll accompany you to get the life fruit later.” Jiang Huai let out a long sigh, walked to the long bench by the tea table in his room, and sat down.
