Often, words spoken in the heat of the moment, fueled by camaraderie or passion, shouldn’t be taken seriously. They serve only as accelerants for the atmosphere, carrying no deeper meaning.
Two running buddies might often say “I like you” during a jog to heat things up.
You don’t see those same buddies later holding those words up as a serious matter.
Zhu Yuexi didn’t have a concrete concept of such things in her mind. Subconsciously, she simply chose to ignore these kinds of dialogues.
These lewd words usually didn’t affect her.
She never thought of them late at night. Without some reminder, she probably wouldn’t recall them for a long time. After all, compared to what Xu Sheng had actually done, these words were nothing.
But for Xu Sheng to bring them up again 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 bastard wouldn’t have had the chance.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about… get off me now.”
Even though the scene and the dialogue had resurfaced in her mind, for Zhu Yuexi to admit it was absolutely impossi—
“Zhu Yuexi, looking at your posture, you’re just like my dog, aren’t you?”
“How does it feel like you’re getting even more excited? You don’t really want to be my dog, do you?!”
“Is it true? Is it?!”
“Yes…”
The dialogue abruptly echoed between them, dredging up even clearer memories for 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.
Zhu Yuexi, who had been planning to play dumb, completely lost her chance to pretend she didn’t remember upon hearing Xu Sheng directly play back the scene from that time using a Memory Stone.
“Xu Sheng, you bastard! You swore a Heavenly Oath not to use the Memory Stone to threaten me…”
Xu Sheng put the Memory Stone back into his Qiankun Pouch. He was still on top of Zhu Yuexi, looking down at her with a raised eyebrow.
“I’m not threatening you. I’m just helping Immortal Maiden Zhu recall, aren’t I?”
“You…” Zhu Yuexi nearly choked on her breath.
But what Xu Sheng said wasn’t wrong. Only the two of them were present, and Xu Sheng wasn’t using the stone to coerce her. It truly didn’t count as breaking the oath.
Seeing Zhu Yuexi’s flustered expression, Xu Sheng laughed.
He wasn’t always just aloof. Xu Sheng would smile whenever a plan proceeded smoothly.
Though Zhu Yuexi rarely noticed this kind of smile.
Now, facing Zhu Yuexi at such close range, the faint, mischievous smile at the corner of his mouth made his peach-blossom eyes seem to hold a trace of genuine affection under that smile.
Zhu Yuexi was momentarily stunned again.
Xu Sheng let out a light, disdainful chuckle, and his hand finally began to exert real pressure.
Feeling the genuine sense of suffocation arrive, Zhu Yuexi, surprisingly, felt a rare sense of security.
It seemed that in a scenario where she was completely controlled, she was absolutely safe.
Her mouth hung open, and her eyes grew dazed once more.
But even though her body had reached such a state of pleasure, her mouth remained stubbornly hard.
“Bas… bastard.”
Xu Sheng almost lost his composure, but his movements didn’t stop.
One hand gripping Zhu Yuexi’s neck, the other grasping both her ankles, he moved 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’re just getting started, Zhu Yuexi. Why are you reacting so much?”
Xu Sheng’s hand released her neck, his palm gently caressing her cheek instead.
The suffocating pressure with a hint of force moments ago, now replaced by such a tender touch—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 “imprisoned,” the first thing Zhu Yuexi felt wasn’t the ease of 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.”
Saying this, he patted her face again.
“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 his previous words, even with her lack of experience, Zhu Yuexi understood Xu Sheng 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 so rude, and it hurt more.
At a time like this, obviously 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 a bit 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 equally alluring.
“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’re not deliberately acting up to get me to punish you?”
Zhu Yuexi gritted her teeth. Her mouth had always been the hardest part of her, and she still refused to recognize herself.
“Bastard… it’s not like that at all… If I 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 this: I’ll hit you with this paddle five times. If you can endure and not make a sound for two of those five hits, you win. I’ll agree to any one request of yours. How about it?”
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