Jiang Huai hugged Bai Li all the way back to the courtyard, where she finally let go of him. A moment later, she transformed from her Holy Dragon Lady form back into Little Bai Li, her silver hair shortening to just graze her shoulders. She stood with her hands on her hips, looking at Jiang Huai.
“This form is more comfortable,” she said.
“Then why were you in the big sister form with the Snake Clan?” Jiang Huai asked.
“Because I’d reached adulthood, and they might feel more at ease seeing me like that. As the Grand Princess, I need to act the part.” Bai Li tilted her snow-white face up slightly and then bounced over to a chair by the table, her eyes lighting up at the sight of the lavish meal spread before them.
Jiang Huai had known for a long time that she was a foodie. Instead of sweet nothings, a hearty feast was much more to her liking. Bai Jin and Jiang Huai took their seats, watching Bai Li eat heartily, her cheeks puffed out.
After all, she never had to pay attention to her image around Jiang Huai.
Little Bai Li’s loli form was particularly amusing. Jiang Huai looked at her petite body, finding it hard to believe that such a small frame could devour all the dishes on the table. After eating her fill, Bai Li lay back contentedly on the chair and began to rub her belly. She looked at Jiang Huai. “How long have you been here?”
“A few days. I can stay for another four. Then I have to go to the Fox Clan to find a spirit medicine in the Fan Hua Secret Realm.”
“And then?”
“Then I’ll come back to spend seven or eight days with you. After that, I have to return to the Eastern Region. We’ll see each other again at the Five Regions Grand Competition. Will you come to the Eastern Region to play with me after you’ve received the Ancestral inheritance?”
“Whatever you say,” Bai Li replied lazily. Her qipao hung loosely on her body after her transformation. She lifted the hem of the qipao, revealing her delicate, white ankles resting on the table. Her eyes were languid. After a moment, she let out a soft gasp, as if she had just realized something. She looked at Bai Jin. “The drought is over?”
Bai Jin, sitting beside them, gently recounted the events that had happened to Jiang Huai in the past two days.
It was clear that the mother and daughter had a very good relationship. Jiang Huai could see why; Bai Jin was so gentle and loving that even he almost melted. Having spent so much time with Bai Li, he felt an overwhelming sense of intimacy now. After listening to everything, Bai Li looked at Jiang Huai with surprise. “Then how did she humiliate you?”
Bai Jin had glossed over the part where Jiang Zhi made demands of Jiang Huai.
“She punished my feet more than ten times! Ahhhhh!” Jiang Huai suddenly clutched his head in exasperation.
Bai Li slapped the table and burst into laughter.
Bai Jin, on the other hand, was a little confused. She thought Jiang Huai should have felt wronged. But a moment later, Bai Li was laughing so hard she could barely breathe. She looked at Bai Jin. “It’s okay, it’s okay, mother. She’s just a pervert who likes girls’ white and tender little feet.”
Jiang Huai’s eyes immediately became resentful. “You’re slandering me again.”
Bai Li tilted her head innocently. “Slandering again?”
“I only like the white and tender little feet of girls I like! Others are different! More than ten times! Please, can’t you feel a little heartbroken for me?”
“Oh,” Bai Li said, nodding thoughtfully. “Then I’ll reward you twice tonight? Oh, can it only be with white silk?”
Jiang Huai moved closer and rubbed Bai Li’s face. Bai Li also reached out and rubbed his face. The two began to wrestle playfully in the courtyard, and then… Jiang Huai was pinned down by Bai Li. Bai Li’s petite snow-white buttocks sat on his chest. She tilted her head up proudly, looking at Jiang Huai. “Do you submit?”
“You’re already at the Sixth Realm,” Jiang Huai said in surprise.
“Yes.” Bai Li’s hands pressed firmly on Jiang Huai’s chest, giving him no chance to struggle. She was now at the third layer of Void Refinement, the Sixth Realm, which allowed her to so easily pin Jiang Huai beneath her.
Although Jiang Huai didn’t resist much.
Fortunately, Jiang Huai was a little more shameless. He reached out and gently pinched Bai Li’s slender waist, looking into her eyes. “I’ll wait for you to reach the Seventh Realm.”
“You want good milk, right?” Bai Li’s cheeks finally flushed. She poked his chest a few more times with her finger. “We haven’t seen each other for almost half a year, and you’re still so perverted.”
“Hehehe, I’m only perverted towards the people I like.”
“That’s still perverted.” Bai Li’s petite snow-white buttocks wiggled on his chest, and she reached out to pinch his face again. “But you still seem very weak.”
“Actually, I’m fine being on the bottom. I don’t mind,” Jiang Huai said, blinking innocently. But Bai Li suddenly laughed. “No, you have to beat me before you can sleep with me. Otherwise… you’ll only get white silk and bare feet.”
Jiang Huai’s smile instantly disappeared, and tears welled up inside him. Bai Li, however, was laughing so hard she couldn’t straighten her waist.
Bai Jin watched the two of them from the side, a slight smile on her lips.
Even when Bai Li was with her in the Western Region, she was as relaxed and lively as this. But in front of outsiders from the Snake Clan, she would become cold and silent, focusing only on her cultivation and never making new friends. So Bai Jin always wanted to spend more time with her. Now that Jiang Huai had arrived, she could clearly sense Bai Li’s joy.
After another bout of playful fighting, Bai Li finally got off Jiang Huai. She looked up. “Let me change clothes, then we can go shopping?”
“Okay,” Jiang Huai nodded gently. He waited as Bai Li returned to her room and changed into a shrunken, ink-black qipao. Beneath the qipao, her white and tender feet stepped into a pair of black, hollowed-out metal high heels. Jiang Huai leaned closer. “Even in these shoes, you won’t be much taller, will you?”
“Because someone likes it. I’ve already learned to walk in these shoes.”
“Oh?”
Bai Li’s gait was no longer clumsy, but elegant and graceful. Jiang Huai walked up to her. “But if they’re uncomfortable, there’s no need to wear them, right?”
“It’s fine once I get used to it. Besides, if I get tired, you can carry me back.”
“That’s true.” Jiang Huai gently took Bai Li’s small, tender hand. Bai Li smiled at Bai Jin. “We’re going out to play now, Mother?”
“Go ahead,” Bai Jin said with a gentle smile, watching them leave.
Bai Li hopped and skipped beside Jiang Huai, her slender body as light as a little deer. The heavy rain in the Snake Clan’s Imperial City had just subsided, and the air was moist, no longer scorching hot like before. Although Jiang Huai had walked through the Imperial City with Bai Jin just yesterday, he still felt somewhat unfamiliar with everything. Bai Li quickly led him to a street lined with food stalls. She knew what was delicious and led Jiang Huai on a massive eating spree until they were both full and their legs were too weak to walk. They sat by the moat, where the river, swollen by the downpour, was now just a shallow stream.
The water gurgled. Bai Li sat obediently beside him, her head resting on his shoulder. Jiang Huai gently held her petite body in his arms and heard her say, “You’re still so amazing.”
“Hmm?”
“You just came to the Monster Clan and solved a problem that Mother and I had been worrying about for a very long time.”
“Of course. Who do you think I am? The genius Jiang Xiaohu!”
“Hmph, you’re just living off women,” Bai Li chuckled again. Then she suddenly moved closer, her delicate pink lips brushing against his ear. “Tell me.”
“Tell you what?” Jiang Huai was taken aback.
“Of course, I want to know who else you’ve been entangled with besides Wanwan and Qingyu during this time? And how are things progressing with your Master? Tell me.”
“This…”
“Hurry up and tell me,” Bai Li commanded, her fingers lightly pinching the soft flesh of his waist as a threat. “This will determine whether I reward you with my tongue tonight or punish your feet severely. Only white silk, with no flower dew at all.”
“…” Jiang Huai looked at her ethereally and began to softly recount the events of the recent period.
He had no intention of hiding anything from Bai Li, as there was nothing to hide. Bai Li knew exactly what kind of person he was and had never hidden his flaws or vulnerabilities from her. Bai Li leaned to the side and quietly listened to all his stories. Then she looked at him with playful eyes. “You scoundrel, you’re so outrageous, you even seduced the mother-in-law?”
But Jiang Huai couldn’t refute her for the moment and could only offer a wry smile.
To this day, he still hadn’t figured out his exact relationship with Luo Yueguan, or what the future held. That was why he was hesitant about Dual Cultivation with Luo Yueguan. Whenever he thought about it, his head would ache. If they truly loved each other, then it seemed like nothing else should matter, be it worldly concerns or anything else; it would be just about the two of them. But whenever Jiang Huai thought about it, he was always overwhelmed by a jumble of thoughts, like a tangled ball of yarn, unable to find a way out.
“Does Qingyu know?”
“I suspect Qingyu has sensed something.”
This was indeed a fact. Jiang Huai always felt that Luo Qingyu must have vaguely perceived something. She had hinted at her attitude towards him indirectly. This was also a major reason why Jiang Huai felt slightly more at ease. However, the more obedient Qingyu was, the more guilty Jiang Huai felt. He looked at Bai Li’s profile. “What about you? What have you been doing for the past six months?”
“I’ve been much more bored than you.” Bai Li told him about her experiences over the past six months. Compared to Jiang Huai, after returning to the Snake Clan, Bai Li had spent her time accompanied by Bai Jin, apart from cultivating in the Ancestral Secret Realm. Occasionally, in her capacity as Grand Princess, she had handled some affairs within the Snake Clan that she could manage. Regardless of whether the Snake Clan as a whole truly accepted it, Bai Jin was their current leader, and she was the sole Grand Princess of the Snake Clan.
However, Bai Li had long ago informed several elders that she had no interest in succession. The elders could continue to slowly cultivate and find a true heir to the Dragon Emperor’s throne. She was going to get married.
“There’s really nothing worth mentioning,” Bai Li suddenly reached out and rubbed his head, saying with a smile, “I think… you don’t need to worry so much about it. There’s more than just ten or a hundred years in the future; there are also several thousand, even tens of thousands of years. After ten or a hundred years have passed, do you really worry that they won’t be able to get along harmoniously? Don’t your Human Clan people have a saying… ‘Constant dripping wears away the stone’?”
Jiang Huai was both amused and speechless. “That’s the saying.”
“But tonight, you’re still only getting foot punishment.” Bai Li blinked at him innocently. “Sister’s heart is cold and aloof. I don’t fall for whining or acting spoiled.”
Jiang Huai blinked back at her innocently. “It’s okay, Sister Bai Li’s small and slender feet are soft and warm.”
“I want to wear white silk and no flower dew. I won’t reward you.”
“I’ll cry for you.”
“Hmph hmph hmph. The more you cry, the more excited I get.”
The words spoken by the petite loli before him, the still somewhat childish Bai Li, created a subtle contrast that made Jiang Huai increasingly amused and speechless.
