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Su Qingyan shook her head gently, tears streaming down her face.
“What nonsense are you talking about?
I signed the [Soul-Seizing Life-Death Contract].
My soul is already branded with her mark.
If she wants me dead, I won’t live to see tomorrow.
If she wants me to do… that kind of thing… I can’t even bring myself to refuse.”
“I won’t allow it!”
Xiao Yueluo grabbed Su Qingyan’s shoulders tightly in return.
“That contract means nothing!
I’ll find a way to break it!
I’d rather we die together than leave you to that pervert!”
“But Yueluo, you still have a future…” Su Qingyan sobbed, her voice breaking.
“You were the most brilliant prodigy in Qinghe City.
As long as you live, one day you’ll rebuild your spiritual roots.
But I’ve been nothing but a useless mortal from the very start.”
Su Qingyan looked up, forcing a bitter smile.
“You don’t understand… Yueluo, you were the pride of the Xiao family.
But in the Su family, though I was called a legitimate daughter, I was treated worse than a servant.
My mother… she was just a courtesan in a brothel.
My birth was nothing but a drunken mistake by that man.”
She closed her eyes.
Two streams of tears slid down her face, and even her voice grew hollow.
“In this world, I’ve always been superfluous.
Rotten meat trampled into the mud.
A bargaining chip my family could use at any time to trade for resources.
No one ever truly cared whether I lived or died.
Until I met you—”
Su Qingyan’s eyes snapped open.
She gripped Xiao Yueluo’s hand tightly, a desperate, obsessive resolve burning in her gaze.
“For you, I can endure anything—my body, my soul!
As long as you can live on!”
“You’re not useless!
You’re the most important person in my life!”
Xiao Yueluo gritted her teeth, a hint of terrifying madness flashing in her eyes.
“If she wants to play, I’ll play along!
She likes tormenting people?
I’m tough—I can take whatever she dishes out!
I’ll seduce her, provoke her!
As long as all her attention is on me—”
“Stop it!”
Su Qingyan lunged forward, clamping her hand over Xiao Yueluo’s mouth.
Her usually gentle, soft expression was now uncharacteristically stern.
“Mm—!”
Xiao Yueluo struggled desperately.
The two remained locked in a stalemate by the mist-shrouded spiritual spring.
A dead silence fell between them.
***
Meanwhile, in the top cabin.
Bai Yue sat leaning against a chair, arms crossed, her face expressionless.
[Ding!
Xiao Yueluo’s favorability toward the host has decreased by 5.
Current favorability: -75 (Bitter Hatred)]
[Ding!
Xiao Yueluo’s favorability toward the host has decreased by 10.
Current favorability: -85 (Bitter Hatred)]
[Ding!
Su Qingyan’s favorability toward the host has decreased by 5.
Current favorability: -65 (Extreme Fear)]
In her mind, the system’s cold electronic voice spammed notifications like a death warrant.
Bai Yue’s eyelid twitched violently.
“Are you done yet?”
She gritted her teeth and cursed inwardly.
“Here I am, being kind enough to let them soak in the spiritual spring to heal their meridians, even giving them clean clothes to change into, and their favorability still drops?
What the hell are these two ingrates imagining in there?”
Bai Yue was growing impatient.
“What are they even doing in there?
It takes less time to have a baby.”
She released her spiritual sense and casually swept it past the jade door.
One look was all it took—and she nearly had an aneurysm.
By the edge of the spiritual spring, those two fools hadn’t even gotten into the water to bathe and heal.
Instead, they were huddled together, crying and clinging to each other.
And Xiao Yueluo’s life signs, as detected by her spiritual sense, were flickering like a candle in the wind, threatening to snuff out at any moment.
“Damn it.”
Bai Yue couldn’t help but curse under her breath.
If she let them drag this out any longer, Xiao Yueluo would die, the system quest would fail, and she’d be dragged down with them!
BAM—!!!
The tightly shut jade door was blasted open by a surge of brutal, overwhelming spiritual power!
Stone fragments flew everywhere.
Jade dust scattered in the air.
Bai Yue stood in the thick mist, clad in red, her face covered in frost, like a vengeful god of slaughter.
“I told you to wash up and change into clean clothes.
Were you taking too long picking out what to wear, or were you planning to drown yourselves holding hands in there?”
Su Qingyan let out a terrified shriek, instinctively covering her head as her entire body shook like a leaf in a storm.
But Xiao Yueluo spun around, shielding Su Qingyan behind her.
Bai Yue’s cold, sharp gaze swept over the two of them.
Su Qingyan’s clothes were half-undone, revealing her fair, rounded shoulders, trembling violently.
Xiao Yueluo, her eyes bloodshot, stood protectively in front of Su Qingyan like a wolf guarding its prey.
“What are you doing?”
Bai Yue’s voice grew even colder.
“Do I need to wash you myself?”
What she meant was: Hurry up, take off your clothes, and get into the water to heal!
But to Xiao Yueluo’s ears, it sounded completely different.
Watching Bai Yue close in step by step, the last frayed thread in Xiao Yueluo’s mind finally snapped.
Just as she thought!
She couldn’t wait any longer!
She didn’t even have the patience to let them finish bathing—she was going to take action right now!
Xiao Yueluo gritted her teeth so hard they nearly cracked.
“No!”
She suddenly shouted, so loudly that even Bai Yue was taken aback.
“You want a body?
Take mine!
Don’t touch her!”
Before Bai Yue’s stunned eyes—
Xiao Yueluo grabbed the collar of her tattered wedding gown with both hands.
Without a moment’s hesitation, she pulled it apart with all her might!
RIIIP—
The sound of tearing fabric rang out sharply in the empty bath chamber.
The crimson wedding gown fell to the ground.
It was as if time itself had frozen at that moment.
“The one you were after from the very beginning was me, wasn’t it?!”
Xiao Yueluo tilted her head up, her silver-white hair cascading over her chest, her eyes burning with reckless, desperate madness.
Su Qingyan was frozen in shock.
Bai Yue was frozen in shock.
The entire world seemed to have pressed pause.
Bai Yue’s pupils dilated slightly.
Her gaze involuntarily fell upon Xiao Yueluo’s petite, slender form.
Confronted with this visually stunning scene, her brain suffered a full three seconds of system failure.
[Warning!
Warning!
Host’s heart rate is abnormally elevated!
Please maintain emotional control!]
[Ding!
Detected that the Heaven’s Chosen Maiden has developed a severe cognitive deviation and is actively offering herself to the host.]
[Current plot trajectory has deviated from the original outline.
The host’s NTR behavior has spawned a hidden branching route—”Forcible Acquisition: The Sisters Route”!]
[System Comment: You’re playing dirty, host.
We recommend you take her down right here and now.]
“Shut up, you glorified toaster!”
Bai Yue roared internally, feeling like she was about to spit blood all the way to the ceiling.
What the hell was all this?!
I graciously offered my spiritual spring to heal you and save your life, and in this little white-haired loli’s eyes, I’ve turned into some desperate, perverted old lecher?!
And “sisters route”?
Screw your sisters!
I’m a Pure Love Warrior, damn it!
Though an internal typhoon of magnitude twelve was raging inside her, Bai Yue kept her facial muscles under iron control, not letting a single crack show.
She narrowed her long, elegant eyes slightly, letting her gaze rove deliberately and brazenly over Xiao Yueluo’s flat, scrawny body.
Then, she let out a supremely contemptuous snicker.
“Heh.”
“With this little bit of dry, scraggly meat?”
Bai Yue stepped forward, extending two pale, slender fingers to pinch Xiao Yueluo’s sharp chin, forcing her head up to meet her gaze.
“Do you think you’re worth that much?
A cripple who can’t even gather a wisp of spiritual energy—and you think getting naked is enough to get you into my bed?”
Bai Yue’s gaze was cold as eternal ice, her voice dripping with malicious mockery.
“You want me to torment you?
In your current sorry state, I’m afraid I’d crush you into a puddle of mud if I so much as pressed too hard—and that would dirty my hands.”
Forced to look up, Xiao Yueluo felt the sharp pain in her jaw, causing tears to well at the corners of her eyes.
But she still bit her lip, staring at Bai Yue with a humiliated, unyielding glare.
“You…”
“Enough talk.”
Bai Yue cut her off impatiently, shoving her chin away like tossing garbage.
She swept her wide flowing sleeves in a grand arc.
“Since you won’t wash yourselves, I’ll wash you myself!”
WHOOSH—!
A violent cyclone of spiritual energy erupted without warning.
Before Xiao Yueluo and Su Qingyan could even react, they felt their bodies grow light as they were flung into the air.
SPLASH!
SPLASH!
With two huge splashes, they were hurled with pinpoint accuracy into the milky, bubbling spiritual spring.
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