Jiang Huai suffered from insomnia.
He usually had a habit of getting used to new beds, but when someone was by his side, he could sleep soundly while holding them. These days, he hadn’t been sleeping alone. Suddenly being alone made him feel an indescribable loneliness, and he tossed and turned for a long time without falling asleep.
It wasn’t until his room door was quietly opened again, and Bai Li peeked her head in from outside. The moment Jiang Huai’s eyes met hers, Bai Li playfully asked him, “You’re not asleep yet?”
“I was just about to.”
“Stop pretending. I know you can’t sleep. Hurry over here!”
“This…”
“So indecisive and hesitant! Hmph, you weren’t this hesitant when you were bullying me?”
Jiang Huai threw off the quilt and got up. Bai Li, however, had already trotted to the next room. When Jiang Huai gently walked into the room, Bai Jin was sitting by the bed flipping through a book, and Bai Li had already snuggled up beside her, hugging her arm and burying her body in her embrace.
Compared to Bai Li’s white nightgown, Bai Jin was wearing a simple black sling nightgown, revealing her slender and delicate clavicle. The snow-white legs beneath the hem were long and shapely. To Jiang Huai’s slight surprise, Bai Jin was also wearing black silk stockings, covering her legs completely. It was so lewd.
The lewdness made Jiang Huai unable to look away.
*No, Jiang Huai, you can’t think everything is lewd. She’s going to be your mother in the future!*
“You’re here?” Bai Jin looked up, her eyes gazing at him gently, and patted the empty space beside her. So, Jiang Huai, like a summoned puppy, drowsily came to the bedside, drowsily lay down beside Bai Jin, and drowsily rested his cheek on her snow-white, soft lower abdomen, like an obedient child.
Bai Jin also moved her head closer, and the two looked at each other. After a moment of eye contact, Bai Jin suddenly laughed, “I just complained to Mother!”
“Com-complained about what? I-it wasn’t me who forced you.” Jiang Huai felt so wronged. Seeing his embarrassed appearance, Bai Li, carefree as ever, laughed even more joyfully. She hummed, “Usually, I have to coax you three or four times before you’re willing to stop, but now I don’t have the strength… How about I let Mother coax you instead?”
“You’re fishing, aren’t you? You must be fishing, hey?!”
“No, Mother will definitely agree.” Bai Li blinked innocently at him. Bai Jin, overhearing their conversation, said with a puzzled “Hmm?” “What are you two talking about?”
Bai Li buried her face in Bai Jin’s chest again and began to softly cajole, “He, he just bullied me until my body was soft and I had no strength left, but he seems to have plenty of energy. Mother, why don’t you… help me.”
Bai Jin paused slightly, then her face showed a hint of difficulty.
Jiang Huai, seeing her predicament, breathed a sigh of relief.
But Bai Jin said, “Mother… isn’t very skilled at that.”
“It’s very simple, just use Mother’s black silk little feet to rub him, and he’ll spurt it out.”
Jiang Huai’s face darkened, but Bai Jin gently lowered her head and gently lifted Jiang Huai’s chin with her fingertip, looking at him and asking, “Do you want Aunt Bai to coax you?”
“No, no, no, no, no more coaxing.”
Jiang Huai immediately felt that if this strange atmosphere continued, he would truly become dazed and obediently submit. His head was foggy, and only then did he suddenly realize that Bai Li had only been in the Eastern Region for a few years. Many of the Monster Clan’s viewpoints were still different from his. Naturally, she wouldn’t care much if her mother had intimate contact with Jiang Huai. In fact, for her, lewdness seemed to be just a fun and interesting thing that she could only do with him.
“Really don’t want it?” Bai Jin’s eyes showed a hint of grievance, as if she were quietly blaming Jiang Huai. Her eyes looked pitiful, and she whispered, “Are you worried Aunt Bai won’t do a good job?”
“Of cour-of course not!” Jiang Huai covered his head. “It’s really strange for humans!”
Bai Jin and Bai Li exchanged glances, and then the mother and daughter suddenly laughed together. Bai Li, lying on Bai Jin’s abdomen, laughed until she couldn’t catch her breath, “Mother, see, I told you he would definitely go crazy, hahahahahaha.”
Bai Li was laughing so hard that tears were about to fall. Bai Jin at this moment felt a little amused and exasperated. She reached out and pinched Bai Li’s face, then gently pinched Jiang Huai’s face, pulling them both into her embrace. She said softly, “Alright, alright, you two. Sleep early. Tomorrow is the engagement ceremony at the Snake Clan’s ancestral hall.”
“Engagement?” Jiang Huai was stunned.
Bai Jin lowered her head and said softly, “The Snake Clan doesn’t have many complicated rituals for marriage. Most of the time, they just notify each other, and that’s considered marriage. But since you are human, we should pay attention to some rituals. So, I’ve arranged for an banquet tomorrow in the ancestral hall with the elders of the Snake Clan, also as a declaration of Bai Li’s marriage.”
“As for the real wedding, let’s hold it after the Five Regions Grand Competition ends?”
Jiang Huai nodded gently, of course, he had no objections, just a little startled by the suddenness. After a moment, he quietly asked, “Bai Li is the Grand Princess of the Snake Clan. Marrying me… will the Clan Leader be displeased?”
“Your medicinal prescriptions and Pill Formations have saved countless Snake Clan members, and they know that Bai Li has no intention of inheriting the throne in the future. Who would be displeased? Besides, I have now announced to the entire Snake Clan that the Snake Clan will no longer be subject to Heavenly Punishment. They all believe that I managed to resolve everything, and they truly revere me as an eternal emperor, so they naturally wouldn’t dare to have any objections.”
Bai Jin obviously didn’t mention that all of this was thanks to Jiang Huai. This wasn’t because she craved fame, but for Jiang Huai’s protection. Currently, the entire Western Region’s Monster Clan was still suffering from Heavenly Punishment, but only the Snake Clan had successfully broken free. If people knew this was related to Jiang Huai, it was inevitable that some would have ill intentions towards him.
“That’s good.” Jiang Huai nodded gently and looked at Bai Li, “We’re getting married tomorrow. Is there anything you want to say?”
Bai Li reached out and pinched his face, “I told you long ago, our relationship doesn’t need marriage to prove it. Only you humans value these rituals.”
“Then aren’t you even a little bit happy?”
“I am, though.” Bai Li tilted her face up slightly. “Very happy. You’re allowed to hold my ankle and use my little feet to reward yourself this time. Big Sister is tired.”
So shameless!
“No, let’s go to sleep.” Jiang Huai buried his cheek in Bai Jin’s chest. Bai Li, however, puffed out her cheeks. “You don’t want me? Do you want Mother?”
“I didn’t say that!”
“Actually, it’s really fine. I won’t get angry.” Bai Li blinked innocently. “I think it’s quite fun to watch from the side.”
“It’s not fun at all!” Jiang Huai reached out and pinched Bai Li’s soft little face. Bai Li hummed and got up from Bai Jin’s side, lying down beside Jiang Huai, her back to him, her snow-white legs slightly apart. “Then let me rub you? I know you won’t be able to sleep unless you spurt it out.”
“No rubbing.”
“Shy?” Bai Li laughed happily again. She seemed to deliberately want to see Jiang Huai’s exasperated look. Jiang Huai, very displeased, lifted one of her slender, snow-white legs high up, so high that her skirt was forced to slide up to her waist. Jiang Huai looked at the faint watery sheen on the skin of the inner thigh of the girl. “You’re the one who wants to be rubbed, aren’t you? Humph!”
Bai Li pouted and mumbled guiltily, “I savored it a bit. When I was being bullied… besides the pain, it was actually quite interesting. As I was thinking about it… it became like this.”
“Then let me bully you again?”
“No.”
“Eww, then how about I kiss you?”
“You… why don’t you try bullying my Mother like that? I want Mother to see if it hurts that much…”
But as soon as Bai Li finished speaking, Bai Jin, who was beside them, leaned over and gently pinched Bai Li’s snow-white face. “If you tease him again, he’ll faint soon.”
Bai Li smiled charmingly and climbed up again, sitting on Jiang Huai’s chest, her back to him. Before her slender waist could bend down, she looked back at Jiang Huai, “You kiss me, I kiss you. Whoever loses… the first real lewd encounter will be on the bottom.”
Jiang Huai absolutely refused to lose.
…
The next day, early morning.
Jiang Huai woke up groggily.
He had selectively forgotten what happened last night. It was probably because both he and Bai Li were trying their best to endure, but moments later, Jiang Huai belatedly came to his senses. Bai Jin was sitting by the side, lazily turning the pages of a book, and then…
Fortunately, Bai Li and he both felt weak all over. Bai Li was still trembling, much more disheveled than him.
Afterward, Bai Jin, with a helpless expression, gently picked up a handkerchief and cleaned them both up. Then, she picked them up one by one and carried them to the bathhouse. After changing the bedsheets, she hugged one of them in each arm and pressed them both to her sides, forbidding them from making any more trouble. Only then did they finally fall asleep obediently.
Today was the day of his engagement to Bai Li.
The engagement was much simpler than Jiang Huai had imagined. The palace had prepared over a dozen tables for the banquet, inviting many core elders of the Snake Clan. Bai Jin held his hand and introduced Jiang Huai to everyone, explaining his future status. This was considered the engagement.
Jiang Huai didn’t feel it was too simple. He had always been quite afraid of marriage. As long as Bai Li didn’t find it simple, he didn’t really care. After Bai Jin announced everything, Bai Li happily grabbed his wrist, picked up the wine pot, and went to each table to toast. They drank cup after cup.
Bai Li originally harbored resentment towards the Snake Clan.
She hated their expectations of her, and she hated their subservience to the Dragon Clan. But over the past six months since Bai Jin returned to the Snake Clan, she had gradually come to understand many things through Bai Jin’s words.
No matter how much she lamented their misfortune and their lack of ambition, she was still a part of the Snake Clan. The Snake Clan had once wanted to trade her for a hundred years of peace, and in doing so, they could protect many of their clansmen who had died miserably under Heavenly Punishment. The Snake Clan hadn’t always wanted dignity, but before dignity, they had to survive.
To this day, Bai Li still hadn’t forgiven everything, so she had always disliked speaking with those Snake Clan elders or her peers. But today was her engagement day, and she was in a great mood, so she held Jiang Huai’s hand and toasted cup after cup. After drinking a lot, she drunkenly collapsed into Jiang Huai’s arms.
