“Give up. With the immortal binding rope, it’s impossible for anyone below the fifth heaven to escape.” Jiang Mengxin finally revealed a successful smile, her eyes gleaming with cunning.
“You…” Su Mumu said indignantly. “You’re not playing fair!”
“Between humans and demons, there is no such thing as playing fair,” Jiang Mengxin replied.
“Everything you said just now… was it all a lie?” Su Mumu asked.
“What do you think?” Jiang Mengxin countered.
“And here I was, actually believing you.” Su Mumu was so angry she bared her teeth.
“Is that so? Then you really are naive, Miss Fox.” Jiang Mengxin reached out and gently pinched the pair of wide fox ears. They felt soft and squishy, a velvety sensation that wasn’t bad at all.
“Eee… ugh!” Su Mumu let out a ragged gasp. “…Don’t touch my ears.”
However, the jade hand on her fox ears had no intention of sparing her.
Instead, it became increasingly bold, playing with them without restraint.
The technique could be described as very daring; her fingertips even dug slightly into the ear canal, and her nails scraped inside. The stimulation it brought was no small matter.
Su Mumu felt her entire body go numb.
Yes, numb in the literal, physical sense.
It was as if she had been hit by an electric shock; even her teeth were chattering.
“No… don’t! … Let go…!”
“So it really does work.” Jiang Mengxin chuckled, but she had no intention of stopping. “Little fox, does it feel good? The Xianzong textbooks didn’t lie to me.”
One of the most sensitive parts of a fox demon was the ears, and the other was the tail.
“You… ah eee… ugh…” Su Mumu’s speech was slurred. This was bad; it felt as if she couldn’t even control her own saliva anymore.
Jiang Mengxin was truly heartless!
She didn’t treat this fox as one of her own at all!
“Do you want Sister Jiang to spare you?” Jiang Mengxin’s tone was full of seduction, possessing a kind of magic that made it impossible to refuse.
Su Mumu hadn’t intended to refuse in the first place!
“Yes!”
This hellish level of torture was really going to be the death of her!
“Then what should you say?” The corners of Jiang Mengxin’s mouth couldn’t be suppressed.
However upset or resentful she had been before, she was just as happy now.
“Say… what?” Su Mumu’s consciousness was already becoming hazy.
Vaguely, she felt a cramp in her calf. It hurt so much…
Her drool and tears were making a mess of the haystack.
“…Say?” Jiang Mengxin continued to whisper.
To Su Mumu, this faint, lazy voice that suggested everything was under control was like the low growl of a demon from hell!
The demon was greedily devouring her flesh and blood!
She was… about to… lose her hold on reality.
“Spare… spare me…!” Su Mumu screamed, nearly breaking down. That single sentence exhausted all the oxygen in her lungs.
A feeling of suffocation rushed over her.
This was bad… her eyes felt a bit… so…
In her blurred vision, Jiang Mengxin’s cold and beautiful face grew fainter and more distant.
At the very moment the fingertips let go.
Su Mumu’s eyes rolled back, and her brain shut down.
Her tail slumped powerlessly.
She looked just like a salted fish out of water.
Jiang Mengxin couldn’t help but feel startled.
She reached out and poked the tail, but the little fox girl gave no response.
Then, she hurried to check the fox girl’s breathing. It was steady and full; everything was fine.
It seemed she had simply fainted.
“Tsk, what a weakling,” Jiang Mengxin muttered, pursing her lips.
She had so many other methods she hadn’t even started yet, and the girl had already clocked out.
How boring.
Outside the cave, the daylight grew brighter. Jiang Mengxin looked toward the snowy forest.
She took the tracking talisman from her pocket and stuck it onto the little fox girl’s back.
Then, she left the cave.
—
Su Mumu had a dream.
In the dream…
She was lost in that strange Ancient City. The stone walls, which towered into the clouds, were carved with all sorts of patterns, from the stars in the sky to herds of deer running on the ground; everything was there.
She kept running into walls and couldn’t find a way out.
In the darkness, a strange voice seemed to be calling out —
**[After 1,000 years, I have finally waited long enough. The Moon god race… I shall leave it to you.]**
“Waaah!” Su Mumu woke up with a start. Her heart was racing so fast it felt like it would jump out of her throat.
After a long while, she finally began to calm down.
‘I… did I just faint? It hurts, it hurts so much. My calf hurts, and my ears feel awful…’
A pained expression appeared on Su Mumu’s face.
She tried to twist her body, and as expected, her hands and feet couldn’t move at all.
“Jiang Mengxin?” she called out apprehensively.
There was no response in the cave. It was cold and lonely; aside from the rosy light reflecting off the snow outside, Su Mumu couldn’t see anything.
Su Mumu frowned.
At that moment, a feeling of being wronged flooded her heart like a spring gushing out of the ground, impossible to hold back.
Su Mumu felt so miserable she wanted to cry.
‘My good friend, you’re way too cruel!’
‘I’m going to get angry!’
“Stupid Xin Xin… I hate you,” Su Mumu muttered softly, as if seeking revenge.
Perhaps doing so made her feel a little better.
‘Stinky Jiang Mengxin, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!’
Su Mumu slandered her wildly in her heart.
As time passed, the sun gradually set. Su Mumu’s wrists and ankles were aching from being bound, making her extremely uncomfortable.
It looked like it was about to get dark.
The wind and snow outside the cave were becoming more intense. In a little while, it would probably be completely dark.
In this strange world, every night felt like the end of the world. With the howling gales and flying snow, it was impossible for any creature to move around freely.
Jiang Mengxin still hadn’t returned…
Gradually, a sense of unease welled up in Su Mumu’s heart.
‘She couldn’t have just left me here, could she?’
Su Mumu looked anxious, her body constantly twisting, but the immortal binding rope only grew tighter, forcing her to stop struggling.
If she was abandoned in this desolate wilderness, she would starve to death…
‘Please don’t let it be that…’
‘Jiang Mengxin, how could you be so heartless?’
‘I don’t want to starve to death.’
‘I don’t want to freeze to death.’
‘I don’t want to go out in such a pathetic way…’
The sound of the wind outside grew even louder.
It constantly grated on Su Mumu’s nerves. Her mental defenses crumbled bit by bit, and despair enveloped her entire body.
‘It’s so cold…’
‘Everything feels so bad and painful…’
‘I don’t hate you anymore. Just come back, okay?’
Waaaah…
The girl’s faint sobs were mercilessly drowned out by the wind and snow.
In the desolate night, there was only coldness and cruel reality.
Su Mumu didn’t know how long she had been crying.
It wasn’t until she had no strength left and was exhausted.
Slowly, the sound of footsteps echoed in the cave. They were light and gentle — the footsteps of Jiang Mengxin, which she would never forget.
“I… I didn’t…” Su Mumu choked out.
“Oh?” Jiang Mengxin sat down on the haystack while brushing the snow off her clothes. “Is the little fox crying?”
“Worried about being abandoned?” Jiang Mengxin tossed the rabbit in her other hand onto the haystack. The bunny was already dead, so there was no need to worry about it escaping.
Su Mumu’s tear-filled eyes glared fiercely at Jiang Mengxin.
But her tone was very soft. “…I already told you, I wasn’t.”
“Be a good girl, and I won’t abandon you,” Jiang Mengxin said with a smile.
In that smile, there was a sense of relaxed confidence.
Su Mumu understood the meaning behind that smile instantly.
“Are you training me?”
Jiang Mengxin’s smile grew even more arrogant. “It’s called taming.”
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