Often, words spoken in the heat of the moment, fueled by camaraderie or passion, shouldn’t be taken seriously. They’re just accelerants for the atmosphere, carrying no deeper meaning.
Running buddies might often say “I like you” to heat things up while arranging a jog.
You don’t see those buddies later holding those words of “liking” against each other.
Zhu Yuexi didn’t have a concrete concept of such matters in her mind. She just subconsciously chose to ignore these dialogues.
These suggestive words usually didn’t affect her.
She never recalled them late at night. Without some reminder, she probably wouldn’t remember them for a long time. After all, compared to what Xu Sheng had actually done, these lines were nothing.
But Xu Sheng bringing them up now was like those words had signed some kind of contract at the time.
Those words…
How could she have said those things back then?
Right, it was because of the toxin. If she hadn’t been poisoned, this scoundrel would never have had the chance.
“I don’t understand what you’re talking about… get off me now.”
However, even though she now remembered the scene and the dialogue, getting Zhu Yuexi to admit it was absolutely impossi—
“Zhu Yuexi, why does your posture look just like my dog’s?”
“You seem even more excited. Don’t tell me you really want to be my dog?!”
“Is it true? Is it?!”
“Yes…”
The dialogue abruptly echoed between them, stirring up even clearer memories in Zhu Yuexi. How crazy things had been between her and Xu Sheng back then, how she had been… so wanton…
Hearing the sound, Zhu Yuexi froze in place.
Originally planning to play dumb, Zhu Yuexi completely lost the chance to pretend she didn’t remember after hearing Xu Sheng directly play back the scene from that time using a Memory Stone.
“Xu Sheng, you scoundrel! You swore by the Heavenly Dao not to use the Memory Stone to threaten me…”
Xu Sheng put the Memory Stone back into his Qiankun Pouch. He was still pinning Zhu Yuexi down, looking down at her with a raised eyebrow.
“I’m not threatening you. I’m just helping Immortal Maiden Zhu recall things, aren’t I?”
“You…” Zhu Yuexi almost choked on her breath.
But what Xu Sheng said wasn’t wrong. Only the two of them were present now, and Xu Sheng wasn’t using the stone to coerce her. It truly didn’t count as breaking his oath.
Seeing Zhu Yuexi’s frustrated expression, Xu Sheng laughed.
He wasn’t always just calmly indifferent. Xu Sheng would smile whenever his plans proceeded smoothly.
Though Zhu Yuexi rarely noticed such smiles.
Now, facing Zhu Yuexi at such close range, the hint of a mischievous smile at the corner of his mouth made his peach-blossom eyes seem to hold a trace of genuine affection under that expression.
Zhu Yuexi was stunned again.
Xu Sheng let out a light, disdainful chuckle, and his hand finally began to apply real pressure.
Feeling the true onset of suffocation, Zhu Yuexi surprisingly felt a rare sense of security.
It seemed that in a scenario of being completely controlled, she was absolutely safe.
Her mouth fell open, and her eyes grew hazy once more.
But even though her body was enjoying it to this extent, her mouth remained stubbornly hard.
“Scoun… scoundrel.”
Xu Sheng almost lost his composure, but his movements didn’t stop.
With one hand gripping Zhu Yuexi’s neck, his other hand grasped both her ankles and slid downward.
This level of physical contact meant nothing to Zhu Yuexi, who had already been intimate with Xu Sheng. Yet, she felt the change in Xu Sheng’s body.
And the place where she felt it was equally sensitive.
So, Zhu Yuexi’s waist instinctively tensed, making her look like a curled-up shrimp.
“We’ve barely started, Zhu Yuexi. Why are you reacting so much?”
Xu Sheng’s hand released her neck and gently stroked her cheek.
The suffocation with a hint of force just moments ago, now this tender caress—yet Zhu Yuexi’s heart continued to race wildly.
As he spoke, Xu Sheng shifted his body, no longer pressing down on Zhu Yuexi.
Losing that feeling of being “confined,” the first thing Zhu Yuexi felt wasn’t easier breathing, but an indescribable emptiness rising from the depths of her heart.
Reading the trace of craving in Zhu Yuexi’s eyes, Xu Sheng reached out and patted her face.
“Don’t worry. Since you want me to punish you, I won’t let you off so easily.”
He patted her face again.
“Get on your stomach.”
At the same time, Xu Sheng sat on the edge of the bed.
He sat far back, his thighs lying flat like a platform.
Combined with what Xu Sheng had just said, even with her lack of experience, Zhu Yuexi understood he meant for her to lie across his lap.
Would Zhu Yuexi agree so easily?
She propped herself up, opening her mouth to curse at Xu Sheng, but she didn’t expect his slap to come so quickly.
This time, it wasn’t aimed at her face.
Slapping the face was too rude and painful.
At a time like this, clearly slapping elsewhere would be more effective.
Smack!
Zhu Yuexi’s body trembled several times as if electrocuted.
Before meeting someone like Zhu Yuexi, Xu Sheng had always thought people in movies who trembled for several seconds after one hit were just acting.
After meeting someone like Zhu Yuexi, Xu Sheng understood that art truly imitates life.
With that slap, Zhu Yuexi’s body went even more limp. Xu Sheng pulled her by the arm,顺势 laying her across his lap.
At first, Zhu Yuexi squirmed awkwardly. From Xu Sheng’s perspective, that perky rear looked like an invitation.
Xu Sheng placed his hand on it. This time, he didn’t slap. Instead, his fingers gripped with considerable force.
Zhu Yuexi’s body arched backward again, accompanied by a gasp that was utterly captivating.
“Tch…” The corner of Xu Sheng’s mouth curled up. Too bad Zhu Yuexi, with her back to him, couldn’t see his expression. “And you still say you didn’t deliberately act up to make me punish you?”
Zhu Yuexi gritted her teeth. Her mouth had always been the hardest part of her, and she still refused to recognize herself.
“Scoundrel… it’s not like that at all… If I still had my spiritual energy right now…”
Xu Sheng couldn’t be bothered to listen to Zhu Yuexi’s excuses.
He pulled a paddle from his Qiankun Pouch.
The paddle looked simple yet exquisite. At the end of its smooth, slender handle was a small wooden board shaped like a cat’s paw.
“Zhu Yuexi, since you claim you’re not excited by this, let’s play a game.”
“Who wants to play any ga— Ah!”
Xu Sheng’s paddle came down, giving Zhu Yuexi no chance to refuse.
But Zhu Yuexi’s gasp clearly contained more than just pain.
Xu Sheng could hear the excitement and pleasure in it.
“The rules of the game are: I’ll hit you with this paddle five times. If you can endure and not make a sound twice out of those five times, you win. I’ll agree to any one request of yours. How about that?”
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