‘I drank way too much water…’
Su Mumu wore a pained expression, constantly twisting her body. However, because the restraints were so tight, they only added significant pressure to her lower abdomen.
What should I do?
‘I’ll just endure it. I’ll sleep until dawn and then talk to Jiang Mengxin!’
But when nature calls, one cannot simply ignore it! Her body’s instincts could not be resisted. Before long, Su Mumu’s face turned pale from holding it in, and she felt like she was losing sensation in the lower half of her body.
She had no choice but to wake Jiang Mengxin.
“Jiang Mengxin? Wake up. Can you hear me?”
However, Jiang Mengxin didn’t respond at all.
“Hey? Answer me… It’s urgent!” Su Mumu wanted to cry. “Don’t ignore me, Jiang Mengxin!”
She practically shouted it. With such volume, there was no way Jiang Mengxin didn’t hear her!
Fine, it was impossible to wake someone pretending to be asleep. But she couldn’t care anymore; she was reaching her limit!
“Xin Xin! Quick, wake up… Mmph!?”
Su Mumu’s neck was suddenly seized. Jiang Mengxin had straddled her at some point, her expression dark.
The pressure from her fingertips was intentionally suppressed, like a dam on the verge of collapse, ready to unleash a landslide or tsunami at any moment.
How terrifying…
“Shut your mouth,” Jiang Mengxin said in a tone colder than ever before.
“Ugh… I…” Because her neck was held, Su Mumu couldn’t form a complete sentence.
“Call me that again, and I’ll kill you.” Jiang Mengxin flipped her other hand, and a small flying sword—her exclusive accompanying sword—appeared in her palm. “Understand?”
“I… I understand.” Su Mumu nodded weakly with effort, her body struggling instinctively.
Jiang Mengxin wasn’t heavy, but the reservoir was already full. Even a tiny bit of pressure carried the risk of an explosion at any moment!
Su Mumu’s face turned shades of blue and white. Between her pure yet enchanting features, there was nothing but pain.
Her attitude also appeared much softer than before.
Jiang Mengxin frowned and released her grip but remained straddling her. “What is it?”
Finally able to speak, Su Mumu instinctively coughed a few times, ignoring the saliva at the corner of her mouth. “I need to relieve myself…”
“Relieve yourself?” Caught off guard, Jiang Mengxin froze for a moment. She glanced at the apocalyptic weather outside the cave. “Wait until tomorrow.”
“I can’t!” Su Mumu was about to cry. In fact, she was already crying, her eyes shimmering with tears. “I can’t hold it anymore… Let me go. Even just at the cave entrance is fine, just let me…”
“How troublesome,” Jiang Mengxin interrupted heartlessly.
“Please?” Su Mumu practically begged. “I won’t run. I can’t even go outside anyway…”
“No.” Jiang Mengxin remained expressionless. “Who knows if you’re up to some trick.”
Hearing this, Su Mumu’s face froze. In her heart, the final thread of reason snapped. An unprecedented sense of grievance, or perhaps rage—she couldn’t tell which—rushed to her head.
“You idiot!” Su Mumu bared her teeth.
“You’re just bullying me! Even when I show weakness, you still bully me! Am I really that easy to pick on? You just do whatever you want! If I knew this would happen, I never would have untied your ropes!”
Well, they were fighting now. From Su Mumu’s perspective, this was the first time she had ever yelled at her Bestie in such a rage. To be honest, she still didn’t really want to fight with Jiang Mengxin…
“You’re mistaken.” Jiang Mengxin lowered her eyes, hiding her emotions. “I’m not bullying you.”
“Then why won’t you let me go? I’ve already said all this, and you still won’t let me take care of it,” Su Mumu said.
“Your previous actions invite resentment. You aren’t worth trusting,” Jiang Mengxin recited coldly.
“…You.” Su Mumu’s anger flared up again.
“You’re a blockhead! You can’t be reasoned with! I’ve really had enough… You say you hate me? I hate you even more! I hate you, I hate you, I hate you! You’d better not let me escape, or I’ll make you pay sooner or later!”
She had completely lost control of her emotions.
This was bad. She had let those words slip without thinking…
Next, Su Mumu felt her vision spin. When she opened her eyes again, she realized her position had changed from lying on her back to lying on her stomach. Her legs felt heavy; Jiang Mengxin was likely sitting there.
“That is already the third time. You’ve talked back and even threatened me. What? Do you want to kill me?” Jiang Mengxin’s voice was like frost, drifting from behind her.
It was eerie, even more terrifying than the wind and snow outside the cave.
“Not exactly…” Su Mumu tried to explain. “I…”
*Smack!*
A crisp sound of a slap suddenly echoed, sounding particularly piercing in the cave. This was followed by a burning pain on her buttocks.
Su Mumu’s eyes widened in disbelief, and her mouth fell open. Another sound was about to escape her throat, but she quickly suppressed it, trying to process the pain.
*Smack!*
“Ah!!!” The scream from Su Mumu’s throat could no longer be contained. “What are you doing?”
“If I don’t discipline you now, what will happen later?” Jiang Mengxin’s voice remained devoid of emotion.
From this angle, Su Mumu couldn’t see Jiang Mengxin’s expression behind her.
*Smack!*
Another clear slap landed, harder than the ones before.
“Waaaah!!!” Su Mumu’s tears burst out. The tail behind her instinctively curled up, trying to protect her buttocks.
“This tail… it’s in the way.” Jiang Mengxin used her other hand to grab the tail and press it aside. Her palm rose again.
“You have no cultivation, yet you dare to threaten me. Sometimes I can’t tell if you’re actually stupid or just pretending to be to get sympathy.”
“Stop hitting me, stop hitting me!” Su Mumu quickly said. “I won’t do it again! I was just lightheaded and said whatever came to mind…”
*Smack!*
Damn it, Jiang Mengxin’s slaps were completely unreasonable! She wouldn’t even let her finish a sentence… *Sob.*
“See? Crying again.” Jiang Mengxin felt a bit speechless. “You’re such a weakling. Why can’t you just be obedient?”
“You’re the weakling!” Su Mumu choked out. ” I was being obedient! Dammit…”
“Tsk.” The veins on Jiang Mengxin’s forehead pulsed, and her palm trembled slightly. “Oh, so I’m the weakling.”
“Uh… No! No, no, no!” Su Mumu finally remembered that the word “weakling” was a major trigger for Jiang Mengxin!
But it was too late.
Have you ever heard of the eighteen dragon-subduing palms? The modified version, the eighteen fox-taming palms, was much more useful.
It didn’t do much damage, but it was extremely humiliating—highly effective for disciplining all sorts of rebellious foxes!
As for why there were exactly eighteen palms? It was because right as the eighteenth palm fell, the fox would faint.
That’s right, she fainted again.
It was a very sudden faint. Her tail stiffened, she let out a scream, and then she closed her eyes.
Jiang Mengxin’s lip twitched. At first glance, the little fox girl beneath her looked like a dead fish on a cutting board, looking completely withered.
However, did those fox ears just twitch?
Wow. Is she pretending to be dead?
Jiang Mengxin really started to doubt the little fox’s intelligence. She was so dense! Dense, yet asking for it. If she didn’t deal with her, who would?
Suddenly, an interesting idea seemed to strike her, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. Jiang Mengxin’s slender, supple fingertips caught the fox’s tail.
‘Now, let’s see how long the little fox girl can keep up the act.’