“I’m back. Sorry, I forgot to tell you when I went out to handle some things. Don’t worry, it won’t happen again,” Lin Huanhuan said softly.
At those words, Dong Yuner, who had been forcibly holding up her pride, unwilling to show too much dishevelment in front of Lin Huanhuan, crumbled in an instant, like a sandcastle wall meeting a tsunami.
“Miss, I, I…” Dong Yuner choked out, not knowing what to say. Tears burst from her eyes like a floodgate opened, gushing uncontrollably.
“Why? Miss even knows what I’m thinking in my heart. I was trying to hide it, but Miss is so cruel, using this method to tear off my mask. How could I possibly stay calm?”
“Miss is so cruel, always like this. Every time I’m about to break from unbearable pain, you pull me back… How could I ever cut myself off from Miss?” Dong Yuner’s voice was soft and hoarse as she spoke. While saying this, she buried her face in the crook of Lin Huanhuan’s neck, gently rubbing and , as if trying to make up for the scent of Lin Huanhuan she had missed all night, wanting to etch that smell into the depths of her soul forever.
Lin Huanhuan gently stroked her long hair while continuing to soothe her.
“You’ve been with me for so long. Seeing you like this, how could I not understand your sadness? Don’t you underestimate your Miss a little?” Lin Huanhuan said softly.
Seeing Dong Yuner’s reaction, she had been a bit puzzled at first. If she remembered correctly, Dong Yuner’s yandere condition had improved considerably. She had gone out before, and Dong Yuner hadn’t acted like this.
Lin Huanhuan couldn’t help but wonder inwardly: ‘As everyone knows, emotions don’t arise without reason. If I’m not mistaken, Yun’er became like this because of some reason.’
‘What reason? Some person or event? But we see each other every day. I usually know everything she encounters. I shouldn’t be unaware… No, that can’t be right?’
Lin Huanhuan had thought this at first, but then she suddenly recalled her recent frequent visits to You Yuelan, and finally understood a bit. ‘Yes, even people who spend every day together have their own secrets. This kind of thing would naturally be hidden and not spoken of. That’s normal.’
‘To know the truth, I’ll have to investigate myself. So what could it be? That Yun’er, just because she didn’t see me for one night, sat pitifully by the path like a little dog waiting for its owner to come home. What could it be?’
‘It must be related to me, but there are too many things related to me, I can’t count them… There are too few clues. I can’t figure it out.’
Lin Huanhuan couldn’t help but sigh inwardly, once again feeling troubled. Facing such hot and scorching emotions like magma was even harder to handle than a powerful enemy.
Her sensitive neck was brushed by warm breath, ticklish and swelling. Feeling Dong Yuner’s restless movements in her arms, Lin Huanhuan smiled helplessly and patted her back, but didn’t stop her.
Under normal circumstances, she would have pushed the unruly Dong Yuner away out of shyness, but in this situation, she let Dong Yuner do as she pleased. It wasn’t a big deal—just felt a bit strange all over.
On the path, they embraced. The bamboo grove around them seemed to turn into a static background, composing a beautiful painting.
Her body began to heat up, and a faint blush spread over her snow-white neck. Lin Huanhuan exhaled a few warm breaths, her gaze toward Dong Yuner softening into pure tenderness.
‘Because of some special reasons, I know I can never be as single-minded as Dong Yuner. She can devote herself entirely to me, but I can’t respond in kind.’
‘Not to mention the future—at least Ye Jinxi has already become a presence I can’t easily shake off. I don’t even know how to deal with her now. If I accept, it means I’ll face Heaven’s Dao head-on, and then I’ll surely die without a burial.’
‘But if I don’t accept, that damn curiosity of Ye Jinxi’s will keep investigating. If she hadn’t absolutely no understanding of the concept of isekai, I’d really be worried she might figure it out.’
‘Damn it. Luckily, Ye Jinxi is out training now and probably won’t be back soon. Otherwise, my head would really explode.’
‘As for Yun’er, she’s like me—not a main character in the original story. The original doesn’t even describe her fate.’
‘Because of that, her destiny isn’t within the original’s scope. No matter how I treat her, it aligns with the original. So I can almost show my true self without reservation in front of her—except for certain things I can’t disclose. I can practically pour out my heart.’
‘So if it can make Yun’er feel a bit better, selling a little charm doesn’t hurt. It’s not like I’m losing anything.’
Lin Huanhuan smiled inwardly, letting Dong Yuner press against her snowy chest for a while longer. When she clearly felt that Dong Yuner’s unease had diminished greatly, she lightly tapped the back of her head and said softly:
“That’s enough for now. If you keep going, it’ll really be going too far.”
After being fondled by Dong Yuner for so long, even though Dong Yuner didn’t dare go deep for fear of angering her and only stayed on the surface, the sheer duration meant that despite repeatedly reciting a mental clearing mantra, Lin Huanhuan still had to cross her legs tightly to curb the fiery urge inside, to keep from letting out a honey-like viscous fluid from within.
“Alright, Miss.”
Only then did Dong Yuner reluctantly let go of Lin Huanhuan. She lifted her wet eyes and gazed at Lin Huanhuan’s face with infatuation.
She had already clearly felt Lin Huanhuan’s body starting to respond, and was about to press her advantage, trying to see if she could take their relationship a step further and forge an even closer bond, so there would be no worries later.
But unexpectedly, Lin Huanhuan forcibly stopped at the threshold—that was something she hadn’t anticipated.
Lin Huanhuan said softly, “Alright, you should have let out your grievances by now. Now, tell me why you acted like this?”
Dong Yuner paused for a moment, then directly answered the wrong question: “I’m just afraid that Miss will abandon me and leave me. So, Miss really won’t abandon me, will you?”
“Then I’ll answer one more time. Of course not.”
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